"So, when will we be let out?" asked Ask.
Inside the prison, Queen Maya sat on a chair nearby and answered Ask's question through the iron bars:
"Not yet. The city's security is not stable. If we let you go, it will easily cause unnecessary trouble. You should understand that this is for your protection."
Having said that, she calmly drank a sip of tea and continued:
"Of course, if our contract is implemented smoothly, then the conservatives will soon lose the power to stir up trouble, and then I can publicly issue you a pardon."
The meaning is very clear. Tools are there to squeeze out all the value, and they will not let you out until all the value is squeezed out.
"But." Maya put down the teacup and asked curiously, "Aren't you the leader of the Blue Sword? Why do you stay here and let your subordinates go out to work?"
"They are not my subordinates," Ask explained. "Strictly speaking, we are closer to colleagues and master-disciple relationships. They obey my orders, and I am responsible for teaching them to improve their strength."
"I see. I originally thought that you used your power to build a harem and forced them to work for you to earn money. It seems that I misunderstood." Maya nodded.
Ask:
"You have a huge misunderstanding." He said helplessly, "Not all groups with more boys than girls are harem groups."
"Even if all the girls like you, it doesn't count?" Maya blinked.
"Not all girls..." Ask said weakly.
"Okay, then most of the girls." Maya smiled, "Don't you have any crush on any of them?"
"This involves a private matter. Didn't you come here to discuss the political situation with me?" Ask tried to change the subject again and reminded the other party, "You said that there is external interference in the upper elves, or the upper elves of the Kingdom of Aragon-Castia. What is going on?"
"Ah, speaking of this." Maya's attention was successfully diverted. She sighed and said, "Captain Ask, do you know the Wizard Stone?"
"Wizard Stone?" Ask was stunned for a moment, then immediately asked, "Is there a mine of Wizard Stone in Lusitania?"
The so-called wizard stone is a mineral that can restore the spiritual power of extraordinary people when it is crushed. Even the magic tide surrounding the entire planet is essentially a large number of wizard stones in the mantle layer, which produces periodic changes in the magnetic field.
Because of this, the Wizard Stone has extraordinary strategic significance for the extraordinary forces. The two largest mineral veins in the world, one in the Peloponnese region of the Siris Peninsula, and the other in the Cairo Plain of the southern continent, did not expect that Lusitania also has it.
"Our mineral reserves are not as large as those of Sirius and the southern continent, and they are buried deeper, so they have been kept strictly secret." Queen Maya continued, "Except for a few high-ranking half-elves, only the royal family of Aragon-Castia knows about it."
"Wait, why is it the royal family of Aragon and Castilla..." Ask said this and immediately understood.