Soon, time passed and entered night.
The village also seemed very lively at night, the noisy sounds never subsided, and the lights lit up from the south to the north of the village. The "plague" in the royal capital has brought a considerable flow of people here, and there may not be many people who have actually settled here, but until they confirm that the "plague" has been truly resolved, the excitement will not subside.
among the crowd.
With a bored expression on his face, Dick walked straight ahead and walked into a house similar to a holiday villa in the north of the village.
"Master, you are back." The servant at the door bowed to him. As he said this, he picked up a chamber pot from the ground and handed it to Dick.
Dick hummed a few times, took the chamber pot and held it in his hands, lazily returned to his room along the corridor.
He closed the room, walked to the desk and sat down. He looked at the account books on the table. He sighed and was in a daze for a while. Then he picked up one of the books, opened it, and looked at it. , couldn't help but start to feel dazed again.
After being in a daze for a while, he finally regained his composure. Looking at the densely packed words on the account book, he felt tired.
"Doing business is really troublesome..."
To be honest, he had begun to feel that the reason his father sent him here had nothing to do with any bullshit "plague". This was to lock him up in a remote village and force him to read the account books here every day.
Thinking of what his father often said, all the Foer family's properties would be handed over to him in the future, Dick couldn't help but feel a headache.
Why do we need to read the books when doing business
In the future, when he really becomes the master of the Foer family, he must set up a special position... No! It is a profession that requires specialized training, and it is best to pass strict examinations to obtain qualifications. He can ask those people to help him calculate the money and look at the account books, and he can live happily outside.
As he thought about it, Dick's mind wandered away again...
"Master, there is someone outside who wants to see you."
Suddenly, along with a knock on the door, the servant's voice came in, interrupting Dick's daze in front of the ledger.
"Who is it? Do I know him?" Dick didn't even bother to turn his head, sitting on the chair helplessly, shouting in a long voice.
"I don't know," the servant replied, "but that man said he is from the west and is an old friend of the master. He has something very important to tell you."
Hearing this, Dick frowned.
From the west? Father's old friend
He didn't know what was going on, and therefore, he didn't want to pay attention to it at first. However, after looking at the account books piled on the table, he began to think again, why not meet
No matter who he is, he is more interesting than these ledgers.
"Okay, let him in." So he turned his head and shouted.
The servant responded and quickly brought in the man who wanted to see Dick. Dick also put down the chamber pot, stood up from the chair, turned around, watched the strange guy come in, closed the door, and looked at him with a smile.
Dick looked confused again.
The guy who calls himself his father's "old friend" looks very young. He was wearing a shabby-looking robe, with his messy hair hanging down, almost half covering his face. However, this man's face looked sickly pale, and his hair was frighteningly light, giving him the feeling of an undead from a legend.
Dick had never seen this man. But for some reason, looking at this pale face, he felt inexplicably familiar.
Something is weird...
"Who are you? Do you have something important to tell me? Tell me." However, he still didn't pay much attention, crossed his hands, and looked at the man indifferently.
"It doesn't matter who I am." The man spoke in a low voice, sounding mysterious, "But... I don't know if you know that your father once had a transaction with my organization. A transaction. It didn’t go well and we suffered heavy losses, so I wanted to talk to you.”
Dick was puzzled: "Deal? Then you should go to my father. You go to me... Forget it, you can just tell me. What's the name of your organization?"
Hearing this, the man suddenly put away his smile and said, "Silent Academy."
Dick's expression suddenly changed.
Before the theater incident, he had never heard of this name. But one day after the theater incident, Aix called him to the study and told him the relevant content in an extremely solemn manner.
Academy of Silence—a mage organization hidden in the kingdom.
Akers has always been in contact with this organization in private. However, he was accidentally caught and brought to the church. Ax had no choice but to gather all the mages he had attracted from the Silent Academy to the theater and then dedicated them to the church.
Since then, they have lost contact with the Silent Academy.
There is no doubt that this move was seen as a betrayal by the Silent Academy. With so many mages being killed by the church like this, the Silent Academy must be very angry, and may even take revenge on the Foer family. Therefore, Aix also warned Dick to be cautious. This time he hid near Pearl Lake. In fact, the news was not spread at all.
how come? How did the people from Silent Academy find him here
Dick instinctively wanted to call for help, but looking at the strange stranger in front of him, he swallowed his words for help.
Is it useful to call for help when facing a mage
"I, I see, it's my honor to meet you today." He managed to calm down his emotions, showed a polite smile, and said in a panic, "What happened that day at the theater was caused by other people, so you can't blame it. We. Actually... In fact, these days, we have been trying to seek your forgiveness. We even tried to sneak a peek into the church's hidden classics. It said... It said that the location of the Valley of God's Abandonment is most likely hidden in Deeper in the mountains to the west!”
Hearing this, the man suddenly fell silent, as if Dick's words surprised him.
Seeing this, Dick grabbed a floating board like a drowning man, and immediately started talking again: "Don't kill me, I still have many things to tell you! For example... For example, Grant! Grant has become a mage, They also summoned a water balloon that was as huge as that day. The church said they had caught Grant, but in fact they didn't. They were still secretly looking for Grant! How about it, is this news valuable enough? I also have some ports in the south. A ship came one day, claiming to be the apostle of the god of the sea, and the church killed them all on the spot! And... Also, it is said that Her Royal Highness the Queen has been having sex with the Knight Commander, but His Majesty the King has not discovered it yet... "
"okay!"
Suddenly, the man impatiently interrupted Dick's urgent medical treatment. For some reason, there seemed to be a hint of... a touch of helplessness in his voice
At that moment, Dick came back to his senses. He looked at the other party's strange expression, and for some reason, he felt a faint feeling that something was wrong.
Did you talk too much
"Ahem... that." The man cleared his throat and continued, "Do you have any extra food here?"
Dick froze.
… What
The scene was very embarrassing.
"If you don't have food, gold coins will do. I know your family is very rich. Give me a hundred gold coins and I'll... or something, spare your life!" I saw that the man had a serious face and said with He said viciously in an unskilled tone.