Age of Arcane

Chapter 550 Further

Office of the First and Second Office of the Imperial Cabinet.

Luke, who was busy late at night, asked his subordinates to take a blanket, and prepared to spend the night on the sofa bed in the lounge of the side room. After a few hours of dawn, he could go to the palace to meet Queen Christina.

Agatha should also go to the palace, and report the results of today's arrest.

Luke, who was lying down wrapped in a blanket, snapped his fingers, the magic lamp went out, and the room darkened.In the silence, you can hear the footsteps of the guards patrolling outside, as well as the ticking of the pendulum of the clock.

Fatigue made Luke quickly fall into a daze before falling asleep, and he heard some voices vaguely like a dream but not a dream.

"long……"

"Hush...it's already very late at night, don't make such a loud noise. Is Master Shoufu resting?"

"Master Shoufu just fell asleep. Do you need me to report?"

"No! Since Shoufu is asleep, don't disturb him. I... I'll just go in and see him."

"Please, Your Highness the Princess."

With the sound of the door opening, slight footsteps came in.

Luke felt the blanket on his body being pulled, and then a person got in.Luke didn't open his eyes, he knew who was coming just by the familiar scent.He hugged the person in his arms, feeling some tears on his face.

"Are you crying?"

Agatha finally couldn't hold back her emotions. She hugged Luke tightly, buried her head in tears, and didn't dare to make a sound, for fear that the guards outside the door would hear.The guards stood just outside the door of the side room, and the side room and the office were not soundproofed.

"Me, I just killed a lot of people, more people than I have killed before combined. I tried my best to appear strong on the outside, but I am not as strong as I thought... I don't know who to talk to, just Thinking of you."

Luke touched Agatha's hair: "With me, you don't need to pretend. When you need to rely on, I am always by your side."

Agatha hugged even tighter, she raised her head and kissed Luke on the lips, groping to unbutton his clothes.The narrow sofa bed made her cautious, and at the same time, she had to hold back her breath and dare not make a sound.

Luke responded to Agatha. He threw aside the blanket that was obstructing him, turned over and pressed the person in his arms under him.

Outside the door, Kailinna approached with sleepy eyes in her coat, and asked the two guards: "Did someone come just now?"

The guard replied in a low voice: "It's Her Royal Highness, she is here to visit Lord Shoufu."

"His Highness came so late? It seems that he has been busy all night. But Mr. Shoufu has already rested, so His Highness came here for nothing. Tomorrow morning, don't forget to inform your Highness about the visit from His Highness the Eldest Princess..."

The two guards glanced at each other, and said with strange expressions: "His Royal Highness has gone in."

"His Highness is inside?" Kailinna, who was still a little sleepy, woke up instantly.

And when she was about to ask something more, she heard something knocked down in the room.

Kailinna approached gently, put her ear on the door and listened quietly, then immediately took a step back in shock.

She reprimanded in a low voice: "Master Shoufu and the eldest princess are discussing state affairs, are you here to listen? You all step back... Don't talk nonsense outside."

The two guards were relieved and ran away immediately.

The sound in the room grew louder, making Karina blush.She wanted to leave, but this place couldn't be left unguarded.

The helpless Kailinna could only sit down behind the chief assistant's desk, resting her chin, waiting for the night to pass.

After a night of comfort from Luke, Agatha's mood finally recovered from the gloom.But when she got up and looked at the mess in the room, the broken sofa, and the missing clothes, she seemed to have just woken up from a drunk.

"Me, how do I get out?"

"Go out, of course." Luke picked up the shirt from the ground and put it on, and knocked on the door: "Karina, go and prepare a set of clothes for Her Royal Highness, we are going to the palace to meet Her Royal Highness the Queen."

Kailinna's panicked voice came from outside: "Of order, Mr. Shoufu! I, I'm going to prepare now."

Luke turned around and couldn't help but stare at the man in front of him.

The morning sun shines in from the window, shining on the woman lying on the sofa.Golden curly hair hangs over her creamy skin, and under the sun's sand, the gold and white jade match each other.

Agatha unloaded all the burdens in front of the person in her heart. She lost the majesty and sharpness of being the eldest princess and the head of the Secret Love Bureau, and all her eyes were full of tenderness like the curves of her body. She just looked at Lu Ke, his eyes gradually became blurred again.

"Your Highness, we are going to the palace."

"Your Highness, Kailina will bring your clothes soon."

"Your Highness, we cannot keep Her Highness the Queen waiting."

"Okay, Your Highness...we can go to the palace after breakfast..."

Luke walked towards Agatha, and he finally understood at this moment why "the king did not go to court early".

After breakfast, Agatha changed into the clothes sent by Kailina, walked out of the chief assistant's office with Luke without hesitation, and then took the same carriage to the palace.

After entering the palace and seeing Queen Christina, the two finally returned to their respective responsibilities, and discussed with the queen what to do next with a correct work attitude.

Yesterday's raid and arrest can be said to have wiped out all the opposition in the imperial capital.

Agatha put a thick stack of lists on the table between the three of them: "Yesterday, the Imperial Secret Service arrested 564 main criminals and 3569 accomplices. The main criminals have all completed their convictions and closed their cases. 436 people committed suicide in fear of crime, and the rest signed a confession. These people are not core members, and some of them were deceived into making mistakes. I suggest that they should be given lighter sentences.

As for the coercion, the Bureau of Secret Intelligence needs to do more detailed screening and interrogation. "

Queen Christina originally wanted to pick up the list to read, but when she heard so many people committing suicide in fear of crime, she paused and took it back: "Oh... the blood-stained throne and crown! These should be the last resistance ?”

Agatha replied: "Yes! We should be grateful to the World Bank. If it hadn't been for their funding, it would have been really difficult for the Bureau of Secret Intelligence to gather them together and arrest them accurately. We should also thank the chief assistant of Meteor Star. If he hadn't suggested that the Bureau of Secret Intelligence Check the accounts of the World Bank and the Imperial Bank, and we can't find them along the capital chain."

"Yes, we all see the merits of Meteor's first assistant." Queen Christina said to Luke: "If you come earlier, you can see Alec. Before dawn, he will come to see him early, He also had breakfast with me.

This time he personally expressed his position to me, willing to support me as the emperor of the empire.

It can be seen that the secret intelligence bureau's actions yesterday frightened him. "

Luke said with a smile: "His Royal Highness Alec has been living in seclusion since he returned to the imperial capital, and has cut off contact with the former court officials and ministers. This time, the investigation by the Bureau of Secrets did not include His Royal Highness Alec, Gabriel, and the world. Evidence of bank collusion.

Regardless of whether he sincerely supports us or forbears, it proves his maturity.

This is a good thing for the empire. "

"Yes, it's a good thing!" Queen Christina agreed with Luke's point of view: "You have time to visit Alec and explain our purpose to him. I am determined not to marry for life. The empire will eventually be returned to Augustine Family."

Luke nodded and agreed, "I'm going to visit Alec today."

Queen Christina said with a smile: "After the celebration, it will be your wedding. Have you made an appointment yet?"

Agatha looked at Luke.

Instead, Luke said embarrassedly: "I plan to propose to Her Royal Highness the Princess after you ascend the throne. As for the time of the wedding, I want to wait until I return from hell."

Hearing that Luke was going to hell, Agatha couldn't help asking nervously, "What happened to hell? You need to go there yourself!"

Luke replied: "Raging City has always secretly had an arms trade with hell. With the help of our agent demon, Raging City can obtain high-quality minerals from hell at a very low price. This is why Raging City's industrial products can keep costs down very much. one of the reasons for the low.

It's just that I just got the news from hell that another force is also supplying weapons to hell, and the price of shipment is very low.If Raging Waves City does not respond as soon as possible, it will affect the acquisition of hell minerals.

Hell demons are very difficult to deal with, I don't feel relieved to send others to deal with them. "

Agatha stopped and said, "But that's hell, and you also know that demons are difficult to deal with and fickle. It's too dangerous, and I can't let you take such a big risk."

Luke comforted Agatha: "Hell is not as dangerous as you imagined, and this time there is a demon tyrant following me, and the demon Red Flame is on the other side of hell to respond. I have a weapon that all demons want in my hand, and they dare not take it lightly." what to do to me."

"But..." Agatha was still reluctant.

Luke grabbed Agatha's hand: "You have to trust me, trust me as before."

Agatha looked at Luke: "Okay, okay..."

"Cough, cough!" Queen Christina reminded what the occasion was here: "Let's talk about the next stage of the war against Yate County United. It has always been Yate County United's offense and the Empire's defense. This time the opponent is even stronger. It went deep into the mainland of the empire.

Intelligence shows that the World Bank is rapidly arming the Attorney General.I think the empire can no longer wait for the enemy to attack, it should take the initiative and put the battlefield on Attorney United territory. "

Luke and Agatha withdrew their hands at the same time, and their eyes were glued together.

"I'm sorry, Your Royal Highness." Luke apologized and regained his position in this meeting: "I agree to take the initiative to attack, but I still need to control the scale of the war. I plan to rectify the grassroots official system of the empire after you ascend the throne , Eliminate corrupt and incompetent officials, and improve the efficiency of grassroots government affairs.

Bring out the potential of the empire's long coastline, speed up exchanges with the Emerald Forest and Dragon Kingdom, and continue to accumulate the empire's war potential.

The war against the Yate County League should continue to follow our previously specified strategy, taking advantage of the empire's national strength to consume the County League's war potential and economic system.This can force the World Bank to continue to provide blood transfusions to Attorney United, thereby reducing the ability and energy to threaten the empire from other places. "

Queen Christina heard that Luke planned to rectify the grassroots officials of the empire, and could feel his ambition.

The bottom layer of the empire was a mess, and even an iron-blooded emperor like Augustine the Great could not do anything to local officials and gentry.

Now that the protective umbrella of the upper echelon of the empire has been taken away in one pot, it is the best time to clean up the local silt.

Queen Christina said: "You are the chief minister of the empire, do what you want, the court will support you without reservation. If necessary, I allow you to mobilize the city guards of the city of St. Lun to carry out local military missions of suppression .”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust."

Queen Christina said to Agatha again: "The Bureau of Secrets can take back all the finances of the local branch bureaus this time. In the past, the empire had no money, and the local branch bureaus needed to obtain subsidies from local government affairs. Now the empire has lost a lot of rats. Financial resources brought all the spies under control.

In this way, the Bureau of Secret Information can wholeheartedly serve the first and auxiliary rectification of the local area. "

"I understand, Your Royal Highness. I promise that after this time, the Secret Intelligence Bureau will no longer have any interest in the local government."

In the past, the secret intelligence bureau was really short of money, so it had to turn a blind eye to the extra income of the local branch bureau.What Agatha can control is the most elite part, and the control of the local branch can only rely on the anonymously appointed branch inspector.

Now that the Bureau of Secret Affairs has really paid a lot of money, Queen Christina also knows that the Bureau of Secret Affairs will never be used by herself, so she simply throws this financial burden on Meteor.

Are you ashamed that Nutao City won't give you the money that is lacking for secret agents?
In this way, the three giants of the empire determined the direction of the empire's governance for a period of time to come.

Next, the first thing is to do a good job in this celebration.

The much-anticipated day finally arrived.

The outer mirror barrier was removed from the imperial palace, and the real majestic palace appeared in front of the people.This time the palace did not fly, and the royal knights in gorgeous armor rode out from the gate of the palace on horseback and lined up along the avenue outside the palace.

The Empress of the Empire led the imperial officials to the viewing tower.Upstairs to watch the ceremony, the invited representatives from abroad have been waiting here for a long time.

Teresia led the angels to fly to the right side of the palace, indistinguishable from the celebration venue.

The golden dragon King Tai Lun and the dragons who came to watch the ceremony all climbed on a towering tower on the left side of the palace. Luke specially asked people to set up multi-layer brackets on the tower for the dragons to watch the ceremony comfortably.

The square opposite the palace was full of citizens of the imperial capital, and the magicians kept firing magic fireworks into the sky to show their joy.

Hundreds of steam airships of various types are suspended in the air, providing magical protection for the smooth progress of the whole celebration.

The flags spread everywhere in sight, and cheers like waves hit everyone's eardrums over and over again.

Such a powerful empire infects everyone in the audience building. No matter what their purpose is, they are all shocked in front of this high-spirited and powerful civilization.

(End of this chapter)