City of Sin: One four two ambitions

A four-story old red brick building in the north of the town is the Mage Association ’s deliberative body and the seat of the council of elders. This building is not large, but it has a history of more than 500 years. Although it has been repaired and decorated many times during the period, the appearance still retains the simplicity of the town when it was first built. I do n’t know how many ultimately affected the decision of the entire kingdom. Make it here.

In Fourth Layer, each of the sixteen Archmage class elders has a separate office. There are thirty offices on this floor, and now it is naturally half empty. But in the heyday of Mage Association, Fourth Layer not only occupied, but also Archmage who could not apply to the office.

From the number of Archmage, it can be seen that the Sequoia Kingdom Master's power is no longer there.

Another corroboration is that with more than 100 years of Mage Association's growing power, the number of wizards has decreased year by year. There are currently fewer than 600 registered Level 8 Masters in the Kingdom.

The decline of Mage Association is just a superficial phenomenon. In fact, the income of the association has not decreased. Although the number of masters is less and the number of enchanted equipment and other commodities provided is also less, the association has successfully tripled the price of enchanted equipment in the past few years, while the price of Kingdom wheat has only increased by 5%. Therefore, the interest of the elders in the association has increased several times, because the cake is not small, but there is less to cut the cake.

Many Archmages do not like to work in this building, and almost never appear except for meetings. But some people like it, prefer to sit here and enjoy the power of history.

Ryan sits in the office almost every day.

As the most outstanding magical genius of Sequoia Kingdom in recent years, Ryan has become the youngest elder in the association, and became the vice president of the association last year. The robe was also replaced by the elder Red Robe with a special meaning. Dark golden robe.

On the whole Mage Association, there are only three Dark Gold Mage. That is the president of the association, Ryan, and a Archmage of Level 18. That Archmage is the strongest Archmage in the association, but has not been in Lausanne for many years. His Magic Tower was built on the northern border. It is said that he guarded a huge magic crystal stone mine, and dwarf slaves from the entire tribe were mining for him.

Ryan is sitting in his office, holding a cup of black coffee, looking attentively at the report in his hand. At his desk, a pretty middle-aged mage stood in the pen, and his golden robe showed that his status in the association was not low.

"A total of ten sets of enchanted equipment have been seized?" Ryan asked.

"Yes! Your Excellency President. And here are ten sets of equipment that can arm an Warrior from head to toe! Your Excellency."

"What about things, show me."

Gold Robe Master said: "It has been placed downstairs, please follow me."

A moment later, in a dark warehouse, Master Gold Robe opened two magic seal box personally to show the equipment inside. Ryan first picked up a long sword and used Mana as an excitement. The magic light of Water-Blue immediately rose on the sword.

"Yes, the good Superior Level long sword is impeccable from technique, material and workmanship. In your opinion, what is the quality of this long sword?"

"It should be similar to the fine products exported by the association." Master Gold Robe said cautiously.

Ryan laughed, threw the sword back into enchanted box, and said, "Boutique? Only those Low Level masters can make this level of boutique? It was just that I personally used enchantment, but I can only achieve this level! According to me Look, only the work of the old Banker who studies enchantment every day in the whole association can exceed it. But how many enchantment products can Bank produce in a month? The two boxes are enough for him to make a year. "

Master Gold Robe was taken aback by the words of Ryan, watching magic seal box's gaze became a little strange.

Ryan asked again: "These things flowed out of that Richard's hand?"

"Yes! I have traced it in detail. These equipments are all sent back from Chuckert Baron, and are said to be used for the Personal Guards of Burr Earl. Chuckert Baron is an active member of North-South Line Plan and is still in Bloodstained Lands. Needless to say, this batch of equipment The source must be Richard. "

After a pause, Master Gold Robe said anxiously again: "Your Excellency, I heard that in Bloodstained Lands, Richard sells magic equipment at a price lower than the cost of the association! This is not a good thing. In this way, nobles will buy Richard Something. "

But the Gold Robe mage did not expect this comment to be appreciated by Ryan.

Ryan sneered and said, "The cost is lower than that produced by the association. Isn't it really weird? It's not that the price of Richard is low, but our cost is too high! Think about it, a magical equipment produced by the association. What is the cost? For a kilogram of Lafite Refined Iron, the purchase price of the association is three times higher than the outside market price. In addition, how about the labor cost with Mage? How is it calculated? For example, the sharp nature of Mosey master, Magic Array is ready-made, as long as he spends a Mana equivalent to Level 6 magic, it takes three minutes before and after, and it can be completed. And this will bring him an income of 500 gold coins. Well, earn 500 gold coins in three minutes. Things, even I am willing to do it! This is the cost of our association! "

Master Gold Robe was shocked in his heart. He did not expect that Ryan would be so thorough and so ruthless. He didn't know how to answer for a while. Past experience tells him that such a dialogue is full of opportunities and may be fatal traps.

Ryan slowed down some of the tone, saying: "In fact, the quality of the enchanted equipment produced by the association was much better than now, not even worse than those in front of us. And the selling price at that time was also better than Richard. The selling price in Bloodstained Lands is lower. However, it was more than a hundred years ago. "

Master Gold Robe did n’t know how to answer, so he had to answer yes vaguely, and then asked: "Your Excellency, how to deal with these goods Burr Earl?"

"Did you find out the details of Richard?"

Master Gold Robe said daringly: "Checking now! There are clues that Richard seems to have some contact with Whiterock Dukedom. But you know that the relationship between Mage Association on the side of Whiterock Dukedom and us is not pleasant. So it can only be done in secret, this ... It will take time. "

Ryan nodded and said, "This thing is slow, he can't run there anyway. But Burr Earl can't be the case! I remember that the association has regulations for large-scale magic within the kingdom. Must the equipment be bought and sold through the association? "

"It is true."

The voice of Ryan turned cold: "Then, you bring a group of people and secretly take Burr Earl to Lausanne for trial in the name of the association, the crime is smuggling magic equipment!"

Master Gold Robe was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "President, it ’s a big deal to catch the nobles on the ground!"

Ryan rhetorical question: "Is there not a precedent just a few years ago?"

"That's different! This time was just a small Baron, and this time it was Earl! One is not good, this matter is likely to arouse the royal family and other Great Noble to intervene."

Ryan sneered: "No, Burr is a neutral aristocracy. The neutral aristocracy has no factions, but no asylum-seekers. We just have to catch him. Others can only protest at most. Do they really dare to be with Mage Association Confrontation? Now is the time for the association to show its power! "

Gold Robe Master heart trembled, finally knowing that Ryan ’s ambitions are by no means limited to Mage Association.

Richard spent a rare half month of calm time.

His daily life is to draw Rune and Meditation to restore Mana. The quiet life state has also accelerated the speed of Richard drawing Rune. Fifteen days later, Richard has created eight Rune, and Mana has also been restored to Level 12.

The situation of Bloodstained Lands was stable, and the followers of Richard split their heads and attacked the bandits who traversed the Shanglu. This trade route is almost full of gold, and a large number of horsemen stole the smell of gold coins and swarmed. They dare not move the super-large caravans formed by the nobles, but salivate the various small caravans that pass on the commercial road. And there are many ulterior motives hidden in the horse bandits, such as the remnants of Red Cossack.

The huge benefits of Shanglu are enough to make people crazy. Bloodstained Lands horsemen are fierce and cruel. Persuasion is certainly useless and intimidation has no effect. Therefore, the order issued by Richard is within 50 kilometers on both sides of Shanglu. As long as the horse bandits are found, there is no amnesty. After killing a lot, the surviving horse bandits will naturally become smarter, knowing that they cannot move the cheese of Richard.

And Iron Triangle Empire was extremely angry that all the strongholds in Bloodstained Lands had been removed by Richard. They had sent envoys and asked Sequoia Kingdom to hand over Richard. Sequoia Kingdom is of course impossible to agree. On Bloodstained Lands, the interests of half of the kingdom ’s nobles have been bundled with Richard. Although the growth of these nobles may affect the domestic balance of power slowly, on the whole, it is still conducive to the growth of national strength How can the kingdom break its arms. Iron Triangle Empire actually knew the result long ago, but in order to appease the nobles in the country, they must also do what they know is useless.

This is politics, this is diplomacy.

The Empire and Richard have actually fought two wars. During the battle of the blue water meat grinder, the power of the Salenville's heirs was severely lost. In the battle between two fronts and backs, the powerful Lambert Earl of the empire was vulnerable in front of Richard. Blue Side Camp and caravan guards were the elite of Earl, and they were wiped out. In addition, of the eight strongholds that Richard was removed, three belonged to Lambert Earl. Before and after, Lambert has already lost more than 4,000 elites under Richard, and also lost two Saint Realm strong. Not to mention Earl, even for a Duke, this kind of loss will cause insomnia for several nights.

But now Iron Triangle Empire itself has a lot of trouble. Rislant fell into the quagmire of Giant Dragon believers, and the battle to open the estuary in the east was not smooth. In this situation, it is really difficult for the empire to officially start a war with Sequoia Kingdom. The consequence of the third-line operations is that Iron Triangle Empire is also unbearable. Moreover, although the economic benefits of Bloodstained Lands Shanglu are huge, it is more important for the future of the empire to seize Haikou.

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