Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 962 959. Condolences and Visitors

On the afternoon of February 2th, Duke Lant Benma of Yeqi City, Duke Li Qi Honglong of Longya City, Marquis Duma Feilong of the East, and Marquis of the South appeared outside the gate of the Temple of Life in Longtai Mountain.

The lively crowds and vigilant knights had already surrounded several blocks around the temple. It was not until the Griffin Knights were dispatched to set up a cordon outside the main entrance of the temple that more than a dozen carriages of nobles were allowed to enter. Nearby.

At about 2:30 in the afternoon, the carriage with the red dragon emblem entered the temple courtyard. Lant and Duma welcomed Li Qi out of the carriage like stars holding the moon, and then surrounded the future king to fight for their lives. Various tributes were offered to the statue of the goddess Lucia.

Since last summer, the temple has taken over several surrounding courtyards and established an orphanage to adopt orphans who had no one to care for after several gang wars.

After December last year, the number of children in the orphanage reached its peak. More than a dozen clergy, including Priest Ona, took care of the children while raising funds for the orphanage.

However, unlike the orphanages run by knights in various regions, the children in Priest Ona's orphanage all come from gangs, including humans, half-orcs and even demons.

Many families did not dare to donate for fear of damaging their reputation. Even the nobles who often came to the temple to donate and pray chose to go to the temple alliance's cathedral instead of coming specifically to this temple.

So today Li Qi came in person with Lant and Duma. Not only did they bring a large amount of gold coins and food, they also announced to the nobles of the entire royal capital that last year's noble struggle has changed with the new year. The arrival is completely over, and now Longya City is extremely united.

After paying tribute to the statue, Li Qi and a group of nobles, led by High Priest Ona, walked from a side door to the orphanage and distributed food to many orphans.

"Come, come, children, Your Highness Li Qi is giving out food to everyone," Priest Ona asked a group of orphans to line up and walked in front of the nobles one by one.

Li Qi, along with his new first lady Emily Lanyuan, took over various fruit snacks from Lant and Duma and distributed them to the children.

Since it was a declaration, Li Qi invited a particularly rich audience. In addition to officials from the Duke's Gate of Dragon Tooth City and nobles from all over the kingdom, he also invited representatives from the Temple Alliance, Magic Guild, and various countries.

A group of spectators watched the embarrassing performances, pretentious speeches and seemingly incoherent interactions of several nobles. Although they knew the truth in their hearts, they still burst into bursts of applause to express their support for the Red Dragon royal family.

It was getting dark at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Duke Li Qi, who had been busy for more than an hour, returned to the Duke's Palace under the escort of many palace nobles and knights. Most of the audience and guests left enough for the great priest Ona before leaving. Donations keep the orphanage running for three years.

But Lant and Duma Feilong were still in a lounge in the orphanage. Regarding the previous assassination, the two nobles were not sure. It was obviously a fishing operation targeting the southeastern nobles. How could it last nearly 20 days without ending? .

"Duke Lant, where do you think the assassin will be?" Duma asked first, "Will she be protected by a big shot in the city?"

"Definitely!" Lant said categorically, "But the forces in Dragon Tooth City are so intricate that it is not difficult to hide such a high-level professional. I think we should sort out the source, where is it in the southeast? The noble family sent such an assassin to openly assassinate on Longtai Mountain!"

"This..." Duma kept pursuing the hiding matter, just to confirm whether the assassin was in Lant's hands, but he turned to the sensitive topic of the source of the assassination.

Suddenly a girl's voice appeared outside the door: "Two...Two adults, there are several nobles outside who want to see you..." "Your Majesty the Duke, Your Majesty the Marquis, the special envoy of the Marquis of Southeast Fiat wants to see you." Du stood guard outside the door. Gen Blue Dragon added.

Lant and Duma looked at each other and sneered: "I'm afraid that the answers we want can be obtained from this special envoy."

Duma nodded quickly: "Yes, it must be them."

After saying that, the two people ordered their attendants to open the door. No one paid any attention to the assassin Ioni they were looking for. Instead, they went straight to the backyard of the orphanage, where they met the envoy of the Southeast Galloping Horse family - Tony Donner. Viscount Galloping Horse.

"Duke Lant and Marquis Duma, as the envoy of Marquis Fiat, I send my greetings to both of you," Tony looked very humble. There were more than a dozen magic pattern boxes beside him, and with Tony's entourage After opening it continuously, various seafood in the magic pattern box were presented in front of the two nobles.

"Your Majesty the Duke, Your Majesty the Marquis, I am here on behalf of my Marquis this time. I want to confirm with you the whereabouts of a knight - the former head of the Griffin Knights, the Grand Knight Susie Lanyuan."

"What do you want from her?" Lant asked with a smile.

"I have only met Grand Knight Susie a few times, how can I have anything to do with her!" Tony said with a smile, "It was Marquis Fiat who heard that Grand Knight Susie was sent to another city not long ago because of improper performance of her duties. .

The Marquis had heard about Susie's name for a long time, so he wanted to arrange a position for her as the head of the knights in Solandel City, so he specially discussed it with two adults. "

"I'm afraid you have some misunderstandings about the appointment of Knight Susie," Lant said with a smile. "At that time, the Great Council did not make clear arrangements for Knight Susie. She resigned as the leader of the Griffin Knights due to personal reasons."

"Really?" Tony looked at Dugan with some suspicion. After all, the situation in the parliament on the night of the 11th was not a secret. It was even known to everyone that Susie had been appointed as the Marquis of the South and was embarrassed by the Feilong family mage in the teleportation hall. things.

What Tony didn't expect was that Duma nodded hurriedly and even found an excuse, "Of course it's true! Knight Susie... um... her mount fell in time and space at that time."

"It seems like this happened, and I even broke my arm!" Lant nodded quickly.

"Yes, the death of her mount hit her hard, so she resigned from the position of head of the Knights. Where she serves now depends on her personal wishes."

Duma played the trick of causing and causing, and he was obviously the one who took the lead in removing Suzy from her post, and then his magister attacked her griffon.

However, recently, the Feilong family has heard that Susie has made great contributions in the battle against the mermaid tribe and was appreciated by the legend of the Red Dragon Rock. Therefore, the entire Feilong family's evaluation of Susie is changing rapidly, fearing that the great knight will break through to high-level in the future. After killing each other, the two sides have old hatred and new hatred.

(End of this chapter)