Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 257

The moon is setting and the stars are sinking, and it is already dawn the next day.

One day later, the St. Augustus Festival celebration will officially begin, and as the final warm-up before the grand ceremony, the imperial capital this morning has also held a festive market authorized by His Majesty the Emperor. Numerous vendors and stalls have been set up in the alleys—these vendors are all manpower brought by the major territories, and they specialize in selling some territorial specialties in the imperial capital, not for making money, but for publicity.

The Land of Cracking Souls, where birds don’t lay eggs, really didn’t produce much. Xia Houyan casually asked a few clerks to sell a few novels from the studio, and the sales probably weren’t very good.

However, the lord also learned a piece of important news from the clerk who set up the stall:
In the festival bazaar, the most popular stalls are not merchants selling special products, but bookmakers who set up gambling games!
As we all know, the highlight of the St. Augustus Festival will always be a series of events in which each territory will show off its glory and compete;

And historical experience tells us that the relationship between competitions and the gaming industry is like cakes and flies, where there are competitions, there are gambling dogs.

So the festive competition has not yet officially opened, and all the major casinos and small dealers in the imperial capital have already opened their markets. The betting items range from guessing the champion and runner-up to guessing the deputy squad leader, and guessing how many points the Rose City representative team won. From the competition to the number of noble territories that accompanied the race all the way and lost nothing, there were so many varieties that even Xiahou Daguan, an earth traveler, was dazzled.

The clerk's next sentence shocked the lord even more:

"You can ask Master Laurie about these markets—as far as I know, he seems to bet a lot on them."

"Is there such a thing?" The lord turned his head to look at the embarrassing chief mage, and sneered again and again.

"I just invested a little bit!" Master Laurie shrank his neck, pinched his thumb and index finger to make a gesture, "My salary is so low, I definitely want to gamble, how can I live without gambling..."

"Reading pornographic books, placing bets..." Xia Houyan clapped his hands mockingly, "Master Laurie, don't let me know that one day you will be contaminated with shadow dust again, and collect all the pornography, gambling and drugs..."

"Damn! How is that possible! We magicians are all ethical!" Master Laurie seriously defended his dignity.

In fact, Master Laurie also had something to say in his heart:
Your lord, you seem to be no less addicted to pornography than this chief mage, right?
At most, I just play around with a few gold coins, but you are awesome. You take Shuangfengling all day to launch those high-risk military operations that gamble on territorial luck. You are better at gambling than me, okay?
As for Huang... Yes, you don't read pornographic novels, but you look at Miss Katerina who lived next to you last night. She probably couldn't fall asleep all night because of you and Miss Sandria. She also has a grumpy face and two dark circles under her eyes...

——Of course these words cannot be said clearly, Master Laurie can only give the Lord the middle finger in his heart.

"Speaking of..." Xia Houyan frowned, "Master Laurie, you only earn one gold coin a month, where did you get the principal for betting?"

Master Laurie knew he couldn't hide it, so he could only falter and say:

"Collect a little here, a little there... I made a little gadget in Adrian's magic laboratory, and I received a little red envelope from the Southern Army on the arcane spire defense line, plus I usually help the people and earn a little reward..."

Xia Houyan gave a thumbs up:

"As a civil servant, corruption and gambling, I can only say that it is you! Master Laurie, if the lord finds out that you are doing these nonsense things again, I will deduct your salary in order to promote your character!"

Master Laurie said in his heart that you can deduct the monthly salary of one gold coin if you like, and he made it clear.

In addition to discovering that his chief mage is really a lump of mud that cannot support the wall, Xia Houyan also further realized through the gambling handicap that the major competition units of the St. Augustus Festival are undoubtedly this human grand ceremony The most important thing of all--everything else about St. Augustus's Day is just this vinegar-wrapped dumpling for the territorial contest.

So early in the morning, the Igor family's investigation team to Beijing assembled all members on the training ground on the outskirts of the imperial capital, full of murderous intent.

Seeing that after the opening ceremony of the celebration tomorrow, the most important hunting competition will begin. Shuangfengling, like other imperial territories, must seize the last day to train and mobilize chicken blood.

And on the training ground, at the forefront of the team are the [-] warriors carefully selected by Shuangfengling to participate in the hunting competition.

Although the Igor family with a shallow family background is destined to be unable to send a luxurious all-star lineup of [-] magicians and [-] honored knights like those well-known territories, in order to gather this team, Frost Maple Ridge can be regarded as The wife, the coffin, the account, and the account book are exhausted, and I try my best to select the elite:

In addition to Alice Comstock, Lena Leslie and other contestants who have already signed up in other competition units, as well as Juan Clemente, a secret fighter who is not easy to show up, this 30 The human team can be called the limit of combat power that Shuangfengling can produce:
The captain is Chris Mann, the deputy commander of Igor's pioneering army and superb archery skills. Master Victor Laurie and his apprentice Wilson also joined the lineup as rare magical combat forces, and the rest of the regular combat forces are formed by Ace Mann. Led by Aldrich, they are all composed of the most elite riders and shooters in Frost Maple Ridge, a considerable number of them are from the [-] eastern infantry sent to Frost Maple Ridge by Grand Duke Rosario.

Regarding this situation, the high-level leaders of the territory did not have no arguments:

Quite a few people think that with so many naturalized players from the Eastern Army mixed into the participating teams, even if our Igor family can get the results, wouldn't it also become the second team of Rose City?
However, the witty remarks made by Master Laurie at the high-level meeting quickly resolved the regional conflicts within the territory——

The master's point of view is actually very simple:
Do you fucking really think that our territory will be able to "get results" by naturalizing members of the Eastern Army?Wash and sleep!
In any case, this messy 30-man team was sorted out like this.

In fact, Frost Maple Ridge kindly invited Master Beglad, an elf mage, to come over to help: According to the lord, even if you live in Phoenix Terrace, even if you are a member of Frost Maple Ridge, there is an extra junior magister to help, Igor The family's chances of winning will definitely be much higher——

——Of course, the "chance" here does not refer to the "chance of winning the championship", "the chance of not returning empty-handed, and don't lose face to the imperial capital"...

However, although Master Begrade, who has received the kindness of the lord, agreed, there are many things to do in the Consulate of the Elven Protectorate, and everything depends on whether Master Begrade is free tomorrow;
At least for now, the Igor family's participating teams are like this.

Facing the [-] participating fighters and other family members, Xiahou Daguan, in an official tone, delivered an old-fashioned mobilization speech that began with "It's sunny today" and ended with "Thank you everyone", and then the team members went to Under the command of Rees, he returned to training.

The lord who finished his speech sneaked in to Isa Sandria's side.

The lord's fiancée and countess of the stigmata had been busy with Xia Houyan last night, but she was still in good spirits today, and insisted on following the lord to the suburban training ground to watch the training together;
However, along the way, the atmosphere between Isa Sandria and Katerina, who also came with the team, can only be described as ready to shoot.

Obviously, Katerina is still having a hard time letting go of the fact that Isa stayed in her brother's room last night;

Even this morning, this young lady didn't even show the lord a good face.

Now that the family members are starting to train, Katerina and Isa Sandria are standing at both ends of the training field in a tacit understanding, making up their minds to never communicate with each other.

The lord, who is difficult to be a man in the middle, can only take care of one side first.

"Isa?" Xia Houyan moved closer to his fiancée, stretched his neck and was fed a cherry tomato by her, and asked vaguely, "What do you think of our family's lineup?"

"Do you want to listen to lies or the truth?" Isa fluttered her long eyelashes.

"False?" The lord asked after thinking about it.

"A champion is like picking something out of a bag!" Isa giggled, "Your family's participating team is even braver than you were last night!"

"What about the truth?"

"Better than the representative team of our Sandria family." Isa shrugged.

"Your Sandria family also sent a representative team?" Xia Houyan asked.

"No, we don't have enough manpower." Isa reached out and put her arms around the lord's neck, whispering in his ear, "That's why I say your family representative team is better than us!"

Xia Houyan cursed silently, extremely frustrated.

"If you really want to win, Elliott, I can send some Boburians to help!" Isa tilted her head and thought for a while, then happily suggested, "How about Baishuang and Xuanbing? They are all fighters. The invincible magic swordsman of all sects!"

"Forget it..." The lord sighed, "Those two girls seem to have some intellectual problems... and your sect is all necromancers, and being caught by someone at that time will not only be a matter of losing the game It's..."

"Actually, I also want to catch you." Isa whispered with a chuckle, and in exchange for the lord's eyes.

Knight Commander Cousins ​​cleared his throat loudly, interrupting the flirting between the couple.

"My lord, I have already found an acquaintance to take care of the things you entrusted to me with the City Defense Army." Aaron Cousins' bald head was shining in the sun.

"What's the matter?" Isa asked curiously, putting her arms around her fiancé's neck.

"Safety." Xia Houyan said casually, "Our Igor family has made many enemies before, and everything must be prepared in advance."

Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​nodded solemnly in agreement.

"Speaking of which, Aaron, you really don't plan to participate in the hunting competition?" Xia Houyan thought for a while, then looked at his knight commander with some regret, "After all, you are also the top combat power of our Igor family. There are unrivaled masters like you who once confronted the 'Brontosaurus' Samuel and made Dwarf Berserker Lester Frosthammer feel moved, not everywhere on the continent..."

Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​shook his head sadly, and wiped his eyes with his hand:

"My lord, those are all dusty past events when I was young... The old wound I got cut by the 'Knife God' Hoffenheim, still hurts every night of heavy rain, and keeps telling me, Aaron · Cousins ​​is no longer the indomitable green young man he used to be... old people are not able to use their muscles and bones, and fighting and killing are already the things of young people..."

Xia Houyan sighed: "You suffered because of the family affairs..."

Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​shook his head and let out a long sigh:
"My lord, more importantly, the life-and-death confrontation with those top masters, every minute and every second of walking on the blade when I was young, made me realize the true meaning of life and martial arts-the ultimate battle is The world is peaceful, and the essence of martial arts is not to fight and not to fight! Today, I may be able to draw the knife in my waist, but I cannot draw the knife in my heart!"

"Knight Commander Cousins!" Xia Houyan was completely shocked by Lily Knight's martial arts realm, "You are the real master!"

Not far away, Master Laurie sneezed for no reason.

Knight Commander Cousins ​​and Lord Lord exchanged affectionate glances that Yu Boya would only have when he met Zhong Ziqi, and then blinked slyly:

"However, my lord, even though I have decided to seal the knife and never shoot again, I am still willing to do my best for our boys in Frost Maple Ridge! In order to help our family delegation win, I, Alan Cousins, are not without Do your homework!"

Cousins ​​said so, took out a roll of parchment from behind, and proudly handed it to the lord.

Xia Houyan took the scroll and said curiously:
"what is this?"

"This is the detailed information about our opponents that I entrusted various acquaintances to collect after we entered the imperial capital!" Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​patted his chest, "From Rose City to Rock Creek City, from Yongri City to Sanshuiwan ——The list of players sent by each noble territory to participate in the hunting competition is in it!"

"Awesome!" Xia Houyan gave a thumbs up, and then he was a little disappointed, "However, the difference in hard power between us and our opponents is there, and knowing their names doesn't seem to help..."

"It's not just the name!" Cousins ​​hurriedly said, "There's also the dark history and small tricks of these people! For example, the second shooter of the Sanshuiwan team, he raised a child on Guangming Street, Bucks District, the imperial capital behind his wife's back." Lover; another example is the captain of the Beiwang County team, his father is obsessed with horse racing and owes a lot of debt; another example is the vice-captain of the Rose City team..."

"Crap!" Xia Houyan was startled, "Where did you get these secrets?!"

"The social circle in the imperial capital is very chaotic, and the news is flying all over the sky! In addition to my acquaintances in the imperial capital, there may be a little bit more..." Knight Commander Cousins ​​pinched his fingers modestly.

Xia Houyan felt that he would no longer be able to believe any "a little bit" of rhetoric.

"There are other things!" Knight Commander Cousins ​​seemed to be not enjoying himself, and whispered in the ear of the lord, "Didn't we help Halla Deen solve the forest troll's rebellion in Spring Leaf Town? Well... Before Chief Bloodfang left, I specifically asked him for a few bottles of Jian Shan Chuang Poison! You see, if we want to shoot arrows in the forest to assassinate members of other delegations, can we paint the arrowheads according to the situation? Up a little bit..."

——Knight Commander Cousins ​​pinched his fingers again and made a gesture.

"This is so fucking unqualified! They came to compete with us in hunting, but you, Commander Cousins, want someone else's life?!" Xia Houyan yelled angrily, "Give me the order of my lord, you poisoned me!" Be careful not to be discovered by anyone!"

Isa Sandria just felt shocked.

(End of this chapter)