There are more and more visitors to the Garden Palace, but judging from the reception records at the door, there are still many guests who failed to arrive on time. Especially the Night Owl agents who were mixed in with the reception all had a special list, and

But no one from above showed up.

These people are all important figures related to the black market, and there are even some secretly actual controllers of the black market trade and people with deep connections. At the same time, these people are also the focus of the Night Owl agents here, but it is a pity that they

No one showed up.

However, relatively speaking, the Lion Guards who are also among the reception staff also have a special list, but the names recorded on it are all nobles and officials in the city, and their statuses vary, and the number is larger than that of Night Owl.

There are far fewer businessmen. These people are powerful people who are involved in the black market in some way, and unlike businessmen, they have no reason or excuse not to come to this banquet. After all, most people know the actual origin of this banquet.

The person who arrived was not Argasburg, who had just arrived, but Duke Michael himself. The dignitaries had some spies in the city, so they knew something about the large-scale mobilization of the Lion Guard and Night Owl, and everyone was aware of it.

There was an air of uneasiness, so naturally no fool would be willing to contradict the Grand Duke at this time.

After Baroness Legar's carriage entered the palace gate, a following Lion Guard quietly crossed out Baron Legar's name on the list, and then turned his attention to another carriage approaching the palace gate.

At the same time, at the main venue for tonight's banquet, which is the upper floor of the main palace of the Garden Palace, Arubag is standing in front of the huge one-way floor-to-ceiling window, watching the people who are constantly entering the palace entrance, and at the same time, he is very vigilant.

He watched every person or carriage entering the garden palace, and also slowly compared in his mind whether the people on the two lists appeared.

Tonight's banquet is not a "Hongmen Banquet". Although it does have the effect of containing and deceiving some people, it does not mean that they will use knives and guns here. However, Alubeg did think so before, but

Now, after looking at the people who came to the banquet, he really felt the intention to kill some of them.

After all, Arubag, as the commanding heights of the principality's rights, has not been recognized by everyone in the country. After all, when the Michael family fought the independence war with the Solis Kingdom, it was not their own family that was confronting a country. In fact

He also had many allies. Many of them were marquises of the kingdom whose status was almost the same as his, as well as wealthy merchants or other civil forces. After the war, these allies began to alienate each other, and began to alienate each other.

In addition to the intrigues of gangs, some people even have undue greed for Alubeg's status.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, due to various reasons, these could not be completely eliminated, and the remaining ones became corrupt nobles rooted in the central region of the principality. In addition, because of the complicated relationships between them and the unity of interests, they

Alubeg could not eliminate it at will, and could only slowly make some preparations behind the scenes.

But now these people are no longer a threat, because this time Aledo's sudden attack caused an accident, which resulted in the corrupt nobles in the central region being wiped out. Albeg would like to thank Aledo for this.

Thank you for your highness's help, but the price is a bit too high. Even if you look at this matter from a long-term perspective, the loss to the principality is still very serious.

After all, along with those corrupt nobles, hundreds of thousands of civilians and nearly half of the wealth in the principality's finances disappeared. Although the principality is now barely able to resist with decades of reserves, there are still no plans for the future development of the principality.

This is really a real hindrance.

This war, which was unexpected and worrying beyond expectation, completely disrupted the plans of the principality. Fortunately, the principality has a good foundation and can barely bear this loss. At the same time, although the principality looks like this time

Suffered a big loss, but sometimes when people are unlucky, they are often more favored by the God of Luck. Of course, Alubeg does not know whether there is this god in the world who is constantly praised by many gamblers, but now

Judging from some of the experiences of the principality after the war, this sentence does seem to have some truth.

The arrival of the Chosen One has brought too many unexpected changes to the principality, and based on the analysis of various current events, it is very obvious that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and they are still quite long-term benefits. Some things are even good enough for Aru.

Berg has a dream-like delusion.

Merylgil's introduction to peace negotiations and trade agreements contributed to the explosive development of the southern border town of Wilsk. In terms of politics, it also allowed Duke Michael's direct jurisdiction to directly penetrate into the southern region, which has maintained a high degree of autonomy since the founding of the country.

And the geographical location is also extremely advantageous. Even if the North-South Highway is blocked due to problems in the central region, it does not hinder the east side road from Trikla to there. After all, Meryl Gil is no longer hostile to the principality.

This backup road, with less than one-third of it built, will only take a month to be connected. By then, there will be no problems in the northern and southern territories of the principality caused by the blocked government orders.

Albeg didn't know much about the Envar ruins. After all, most of the information had been blocked. However, this did not prevent Albeg from treating it as a new source of wealth for the principality. Although this place still exists

There are a large number of monsters nesting in the underground ruins, but the corresponding official or unofficial hunting teams and expeditions have also contributed to some relatively alternative sources of business. In more than a month so far at the Envar ruins, dispatched

In the past, tax collectors and official merchants have added about 2,000 gold coins in net income to the principality. Even if the business in this place will not last long or remain so popular, at least for now, it has shared too much financial pressure on the principality.

As for the previous war, the Chosen Ones did not play a big role in it. Perhaps this was just because the matter itself had nothing to do with them. But although the two Chosen Ones

They did not play much role in the war, but every time they appeared, they became a decisive factor in the war situation, and even privately provided a lot of help to Adrian. Of course, Aru was most impressed

What Berg cared about was not the war itself, but the various monsters and dangerous people with evil intentions hidden behind the war.

Records about the large and small monsters that appeared in various parts of the country during the war have already been collected on Arubeg's desk through Night Owl's on-site investigation and intelligence. Naturally, this information is completely confidential to the outside world, and some of the contents are even mentioned in it.

There were almost no witnesses to the monsters that arrived. They were only informed by Ye Xiao through some special channels or from the dictation of the Jin Yuxiao agent who followed the Chosen One. Moreover, this new agent also revealed that

Learned more unknown and dangerous information from the Chosen One.

Alubeg feels that this matter has nothing to do with the principality. After all, in the eyes of him or others, this should be the job of the chosen one. The principality has only been implicated from the beginning to now.

That's all, but this concept made Aruberg make some changes this afternoon. In today's meeting in Algasburg, they clearly mentioned the duties that the principality needs to perform as an ally after the alliance is formed, although there are no details.

explanation of the meaning behind it, but it is obvious that Arubag feels that the enemies they are talking about should be those bloody monsters and those crazy cultists.

The Algasburg Covenant is not the same thing as the Meligil Covenant. After all, the former is obviously a military alliance, but the latter can only be regarded as a trade alliance at best. Therefore, although they are both alliances, the attitudes and methods of dealing with them are completely different.

It’s different. And so far, Arrüberg’s understanding of Algasburg is not thorough enough, so he dare not draw premature conclusions. At the same time, fortunately, the other side has not decided to form an alliance immediately. The current meeting

It's just a negotiation, but in the final analysis Aliberg is still more inclined to form an alliance with the other party.

Alubeg naturally knows that the pros and cons will be obvious after forming an alliance, especially the battle part of the covenant agreement. Taking into account the large monsters and those individuals in the previous report that caused the principality to be in chaos and even become smokeless.

The cultists lurking behind the scenes, Albeg feels that the pressure caused by these threats and hidden dangers is no less than those directly dealing with the seven human kingdoms. To some extent, Albeg feels that these individuals

The strength of the monsters is much stronger than that of all human beings, and the only ones who can compete with them may be the great magicians of Algasburg and the two apostles of the gods.

In short, this proposal has always made Arrubberg feel a little impetuous. This is not directed at Algasburg, but the anxiety caused by his own inability to make what he considers appropriate judgments for a long time. Because in his eyes, the principality is very weak at the moment.

, it would be great to be able to quickly obtain a more powerful ally, but obtaining such an ally naturally requires paying a price, just like when the Michael family gave away part of the rich territory in the south before independence.

It’s like getting Venetia’s strategic support.

Alubeg, who was in a state of impatience because of this incident, was frowning as he looked down at the crowd passing by. None of the big businessmen with black market backgrounds that were originally invited tonight have appeared so far, while another group of people with black market backgrounds have not shown up yet.

Some related nobles came as promised. However, it was not difficult to tell from their faces that these guys with their own evil intentions were not on the same line as him after all. At least a few idiots must have

The news about the black market operation tonight was revealed to those businessmen. Although Alubeg ordered Hugo and Cassius to deploy as secretly as possible, such a large-scale personnel transfer must not be hidden from some high-ranking people.

Noble officials, and these things are not something that mere businessmen can know, so since they did not show up tonight, it is not difficult to see that there are still traitors under his command.

Facing these people, Alubeg really couldn't hold back the boiling murderous intention in his heart. In his opinion, these guys who were involved with the black market businessmen were betraying him, and the price of betrayal was only some gold and silver.

It's just property, and he actually sold his honor and identity for this metal stone. This is really unacceptable to Alubeg.

Of course, those businessmen Alubeg are not willing to stay. After all, they have crossed the line. In the past long period of business, they have simply forgotten all the conveniences and support given to them by the Principality of Michael. They have even forgotten the Principality of Michael.

It is a martial country that takes fighting as its glory. Of course, there are also reasons why this group of businessmen have threatened its dominance, especially because they have used money to corrupt so many of their subordinates, which makes Alubeg furious.

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In the past, the underground streets were like small sparks under a pile of dry firewood to me. If he was not careful, he would instantly ignite the entire firewood pile and make this principality that he worked so hard to build up.

The foundation collapsed. The existence of underground streets is also a hidden danger. After all, Trikla City is a capital, and hidden areas beyond the rule of rights are never allowed here. The existence of areas that are not controlled by rights means that nothing there will be.

Under his control, whether it is population, taxation, public security or even the infiltration of external forces, in short, the underground dark streets themselves have exceeded the limit that a lord can tolerate, and even the tens of thousands of sets of weapons in the dark streets can directly ignite

This strengthened Arubaig’s determination to eradicate the dark streets.

Time passed like this minute by minute, and when the sun was about to set, the door of the palace slowly closed. Until now, Alubeg did see two businessmen who were written on a certain list enter.

The palace gate, but unfortunately those two are just minor characters, one guy is even a brother-in-law who is related to a certain noble.

However, these two people are not deeply involved in the black market, and they are even somewhat irrelevant. Perhaps it is for this reason that they appear at the banquet venue. In other words, these two people do not need to be dealt with, even

It can also be used as a special case for some publicity. After all, there will be a lot of "missing" businessmen in the city tomorrow morning. For this reason, Alubage also very calmly believes that some of them need to be reserved to maintain the commercial operations in the city, even if it is coercion.

It doesn't matter if it's forced or forced. If you don't have enough manpower, you can borrow some from Chris and you can make do.

Alubeg left his position by the floor-to-ceiling window and prepared to go downstairs to start the banquet. Previously, diplomatic envoys from Algasburg had already given public relations speeches in the venue, although Alubeg had originally planned to invite Aurora to do so.

After all, she is the main envoy of the mission and the privileged ambassador for this visit. However, the other party is obviously very resistant to this kind of thing, so she has no choice but to give up. Fortunately, the mission in Algasburg

There happens to be a public relations person who is good at this, and is surprisingly familiar with the social rules of the Principality of Michael, so it seems more appropriate to leave this matter to them.

It was estimated that the meeting was almost over. After making some preparations, Arubag walked down the stairs in ceremonial uniform. With the appearance of the Grand Duke, the atmosphere of the banquet became a little noisy.

He stood up, and Alubeg held a wine glass and signaled to the people who had gathered in the hall. At the same time, he also took the opportunity to recite his speech and winked at some of the guards present. Most of these people were now wearing ordinary makeup.

guests, and the reason why they were scattered throughout the banquet was because Alubeg asked these people to take the opportunity to put the nobles who had dealings with the black market into other rooms for house arrest, because he would need to go over and talk to them later.

Once the talks are held, it all depends on how well they perform.

"Everyone!" After a very polite speech, Alubage raised his wine glass and said to everyone: "I hope you can have a happy memory tonight, then the banquet begins, let's play music!"

As the band on the side of the venue began to play the banquet music, the guards who were mixed in the crowd of guests also began to take action. For this reason, just before the prelude of the music was completed, among the guests present

A dozen people disappeared quietly and silently.

At the same moment at the black market auction site, Galeni and Thea had just received some elf relics they had just taken from the on-site staff. At the same time, a group of lion warriors wearing heavy armor and wielding battle axes appeared.

They bypassed and forced their way into the mansion. Although the guards on the scene tried to resist, they simply surrendered after seeing several colleagues being easily cut into pieces by each other. Various guests, buyers and even

The attendants were also forcibly guarded and awaited screening, and the same scene as here was being staged in various places in the city at this moment.

The raid on the black market has officially begun. Although these things are of little interest to Jialaini, the black market took two less complete hunting hunter swords today. This makes Jialaini unhappy.

, for this reason, she very rarely agreed to Diana's previous request and joined the battle to annihilate the black market. Of course, she had been told by Diana before to not be too harsh. After all, she was not like Diana.

Because he has been wandering in human society for a long time, he has already mastered how to control his various powers.

On the distant horizon, the dusk sun has completely sunk into the western horizon, and the moment the sun's rays disappear, the ceremony in the Alor Theater officially begins.

With the altar on the theater stage as the center, all the members of the Judah Order gathered around the altar and performed strange prayers. Sometimes their prayers were sung in straightforward Anno language, and sometimes they were completely incomprehensible.

I understand but for some reason there are some chilling unknown words. As they chanted longer and longer, the strange black stone tablet in the altar suddenly emitted a light green halo, and I don’t know if it was

It was an illusion, but Erica felt as if she heard an uncomfortable tinnitus while the stone tablet was shining brightly.

Erica didn't have time to confirm what was going on, because after the stone tablet glowed, something happened to the two wooden barrels in the altar. Therefore, Erica quickly turned the camera to focus on one of the wooden barrels.

The inside of the barrel.
Chapter completed!