Dorothy's father York was drinking tea at the Earl of Orsenburg.
Old York held the tea in the cup with some trepidation. Judging from the color and fragrance, it should be the finest jasmine tea from Farosi.
But he is not in the mood to taste the tea in the cup now.
"Master Lars, are you sure that is really the Sage of Rusk?"
Count Cruz paced back and forth in the hall of the manor, and the spellcaster who had just returned from Nolan and his eldest son Etek stood respectfully aside.
"Even if I'm blind, it's impossible to mistake my mentor, Lord Count, my mentor really took action to protect the little girl named Dorothy." The spellcaster named Lars reported truthfully in the Everything that happened to Nolan.
"Dorothy, Dorothy..."
Earl Cruz repeated the name, and then turned his eyes to the old York who was standing on the other side. The old businessman almost couldn't hold his tea cup at this moment.
"Why is an ordinary businessman's daughter being sheltered by the man in gray? When did the Seven Sages of Nolan be so kind?"
"This... My lord, I collected information on Nolan's emerging spell 'Magic Web' before I came here. It is said that the little girl named Dorothy won a runner-up in the Hearthstone Open, and was in the Beat my mentor in a match," said the spellcaster.
"Defeat the Sage?" Count Cruz's eyes widened. "Wait... What is the Nolan Open?"
"It is said to be... a card game called Hearthstone, which is very popular among Nolan dwarves, and my mentor seems to be very interested in it."
"card game."
Count Cruz didn't know what to say when he heard this. There were also some "points" card games popular in Osenburg, but this game was always the same as gambling and those shady activities in the underground. No.
No nobleman on the surface would be tainted by the things that mice play with.
But a certain card game in Nolan is sought after? The competition was held openly, and even the sages participated!
All of this seems to challenge Count Cruz's three views, making Count Cruz want to find someone to ask, "What happened to Nolan recently?!"
"Father, they are just a group of spellcasters, do we need to be so afraid...?" Atek looked at his father pacing back and forth before, and expressed his undecided look.
"Just a group of spellcasters?" Count Cruz sighed at the ignorance of his sons: "Listen, Aitek! Now our great emperor, His Majesty Beskring, is one of the students of the Grey Clothed! Including me in When I was young, I also listened to a class or two on the introduction to magic of the gray-clothed man in Nolan. At least one-tenth of the inscriptions of order in this world were discovered by the gray-clothed man. Do you still think he is just a spellcaster? ?"
"..." Aitek opened his mouth and didn't know how to answer, so he could only choose to fall into silence.
"Lord Count!"
Before this report was over, a spy in leather armor walked quickly into the hall of the manor.
"We found the trail of the little girl named Dorothy."
"where!"
"The headquarters of the Silver Pattern Chamber of Commerce."
Count Cruz walked out of the manor without hesitation, and everyone around followed.
At the news of Dorothy's return, her father York's heart froze.
He wasn't sure if Lord Earl would completely demolish his Chamber of Commerce headquarters and kidnap his daughter.
With fear and anxiety, the manager of the Silver Stripe Chamber of Commerce immediately followed Count Cruz.
With the earl's acquiescence, he got into a magic car.
The magic car galloped through the streets of Osenburg for ten minutes before arriving at the familiar street of Old York.
Now he can only pray that his daughter has already learned the news that the earl brought people here, and then hurried back to Nolan!
But when he got out of the car, he saw Dorothy standing at the door of the Chamber of Commerce.
His waist-length burgundy hair was so striking no matter where he stood.
"You don't need these anymore, move them out! And the glass windows in the hall are also removed!"
Dorothy carried a pile of boxes full of sundries and placed them outside the Chamber of Commerce, and the few remaining servants in the Chamber of Commerce kept moving things in and out.
What... is this going to do
York stared blankly at his daughter not only ordering the servants to move the interior decoration of the firm to the outside, but also starting to "demolition" the house himself.
"Father! You are back!"
Dorothy saw her father standing on the side of the street, and managed to pull in a monster-level "investor", which made Dorothy feel so good.
When she walked up to her father, she suddenly found that the city's top administrator, Count Cruz, was standing by.
"Lord Count Cruz." Dorothy had long expected this day to come, and she wanted to bow her skirt to the person in front of her without being humble or arrogant.
But Dorothy suddenly realized that in order to carry the sundries, she was still wearing that simple men's clothes, and there was no skirt for her at all...
"No, you are Dorothy?" Count Cruz looked at the girl in front of him, and just by looking at it, he understood why his eldest son was so fascinated by her.
This kind of pretty girl who can roll up her sleeves and work is indeed very popular with men in the country of steel.
But Count Cruz is not here for a blind date.
"Yes," Dorothy replied.
"I have a question for you." Count Cruz asked the doubts in his heart very bluntly. "What is your relationship with the man in gray, one of Nolan's seven sages?"
"Grey... Clothes?" Dorothy thought that the earl had "smashed the place", so she was suddenly asked this strange question, and she didn't know how to answer it.
"My friend, are you satisfied with this answer Cruz?"
The man in gray walked out of the shop slowly with a cane, and Count Cruz quickly recognized the old man's identity.
"I didn't expect you to visit Osenburg in person, Sage Rusk." After Count Cruz saw the man in gray, he was in no mood to worry about the relationship between the girl and the man in gray.
"I was asked to come to this chamber of commerce." The man in gray shook his head and rejected Count Cruz's invitation in advance. "I will return to Nolan soon."
"This firm? Grey Clothes If you're interested in Orsenburg's magic machinery, I can show you more."
Count Cruz glanced at the Silver Stripe Chamber of Commerce behind him. This Chamber of Commerce was mainly selling magic machinery a long time ago.
The most powerful means for the country of steel to attract spellcasters from other countries is to use various advanced magic machinery, so Count Cruz also guessed that the gray-clothed ones came specially for this.
"Magic machinery?" The man in gray also looked back at the Kelia Chamber of Commerce. "This chamber of commerce is not a chamber of commerce that sells magic machinery."
"The man in gray is... my lord."
At this moment, as the manager of the Chamber of Commerce, York finally couldn't help but want to stand up.
It could also be a powerful propaganda tool if the sage visited his chamber of commerce, but his daughter interrupted what he was about to say.
"Father, a businessman from Nolan wants to acquire our chamber of commerce."
Dorothy relentlessly stated the fact that she not only demolished the house, but also sold it directly.
After all, the transaction proposed by Joshua would enable the Silver Vessel Merchant Association to enter a new period of prosperity, and Dorothy didn't think there was anything to hide or inappropriate about this transaction.