"Miss Lily?" Lin An had a look of confusion on his face. He didn't know who this so-called Miss Lily was, and he didn't know why the other party wanted to see him.

The maid glanced at Lin An, and then said: "Miss Lily is Lord Karl's daughter. She has something to ask you..."

After listening to the maid's words, Lin An became even more confused. He didn't know the Bretton family at all. This time he was just here to deliver something on Kelly's behalf, but Lily had questions to ask him. It was really... Something weird.

In fact, Lin An didn't want to have anything to do with the Bretton family. After delivering the things, he would leave, so he shook his head and said, "Sorry, you'd better go back. I can't help Miss Lily."

When the maid heard this, her expression changed slightly and she said coldly: "Do you know what it means to reject Miss Lily?!"

She seemed not to have expected that Lin An would dare to refuse, with strong surprise and dissatisfaction in her tone.

Lin An glanced at her lightly and said calmly: "If I remember correctly, I am Mr. Karl's guest now. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can talk to Mr. Karl, not me."

Lin An is not afraid of the Breton family. He is also a metamorphosis totem master now. If nothing else, he can at least protect himself.

Besides, that Lily was just Karl's daughter and could not affect the entire Bretton family at all, and Lin An didn't feel that her rejection would cause a rift between the two parties.

When the maid heard this, her face became much gloomier. She stared at Lin An for a long time, then suddenly laughed and said, "I will tell Miss Lily truthfully, and I hope you won't regret it then."

"Please." Lin An shrugged.

The maid took a deep look at Lin An, then turned and walked towards the stairs.

After the maid left, Lin An closed the door and sat on the sofa to think. Although the maid's attitude was very arrogant and even threatening him, he could feel that the other party did not have much malice. She should have been given to her by Lily. Sent to test.

Lin An didn't know what purpose Lily had in looking for him.

However, since the other party has made his attitude clear and he has rejected the other party, I believe that the other party will not give up easily and it will not take long for him to take action.

Lin An plans to remain unchanged in response to all changes and wait and see what the other party is prepared to do.

...............

While Lin An was thinking, he was in a remote garden of the manor.

A man and a woman were standing there, looking at the pool in front of them. The woman was wearing a red and white plaid dress. She had a delicate appearance and a noble look between her eyebrows. It was obvious that her status was very noble.

The man next to her was Karl.

At this moment, Karl looked at the woman beside him and asked gently: "Emily, are you sure you want to do this?"

The woman known as Emily raised her head, with determination in her beautiful eyes, and said: "Karl, I have no choice anymore. The fate of the family rests on me alone. I can't make a wrong choice or be indecisive. Only in this way will the family not perish in this war."

Hearing her words, Karl smiled bitterly and said, "So is this why you chose the side of the emerging nobles?"

Emily was silent for a moment, nodded slightly, and sighed: "Yes, our family can only be regarded as a lower-class noble in the empire. There are too many nobles stronger than us. We must choose powerful nobles to attach to, and the royal family You can’t win this battle.”

Upon hearing this, Karl asked: "Are you really going to betray the empire?!"

Emily shook her head and said: "We only need to be a small supporter of the emerging aristocratic group and will not participate in the specific power struggle..."

"Is there any difference?" Karl smiled bitterly.

Emily whispered: "Of course, the emerging aristocratic groups are far more powerful than the royal family. We only need to rely on the emerging aristocratic groups to obtain resources, and all we need to do is to add fuel to the flames at the right time."

She paused and continued: "Besides, the royal family will perish sooner or later, and the emerging aristocratic group will also become the new master of the empire."

"Sure enough, a traitor is a traitor. Traitors like you should not live at all. You will only destroy the empire!" At this time, a cold voice suddenly came.

Immediately afterwards, a group of heavily armed soldiers ran out of the woods, holding muskets and other weapons, and surrounded the two Karl.

The leader of this group of soldiers was a man wearing platinum armor. He had a handsome face and ice-blue eyes. He exuded a sharp and murderous aura that made the surrounding air seem to freeze.

"Alex Belphegos?" The moment she saw this man, Emily's expression suddenly changed.

Alex is a well-known totem master in the empire. He not only has excellent command ability, but also has extremely powerful strength. He is now a high-level totem master of the metamorphosis level. It is said that when he just broke through to the metamorphosis level, He once defeated three veteran totem masters of the same level, shocking the entire empire.

Not only that, he is also the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, responsible only to the emperor, and even some upper-level officials are afraid of him.

Alex's appearance makes Emily despair. She is just a mortal totem master and there is no way she can be Alex's opponent.

Alex looked at Emily coldly, slowly raised the knight's sword in his right hand, and said in a deep voice: "You deserve to die for surrendering to the rebels!"

"Karl, you betrayed me!" Emily looked at Karl, her face full of resentment.

She and Karl were friends who had known each other since childhood. Their friendship had been more than thirty years. She never thought that Karl would betray her.

Karl frowned, looked at Emily, and said apologetically: "Emily, I'm sorry, from the moment you made your choice, we were enemies."

Emily bit her silver teeth gently, leaving a light mark on her pink lips. She slowly closed her beautiful eyes, seeming to have made a difficult decision. After opening her eyes, she looked at Alex and said: " Lord Alex, I am willing to tell you everything I know, but I have a few conditions."

"Tell me about it." Alex put down the knight sword in his hand and said calmly.

Emily said solemnly: "First, you have to promise me that you will let me go afterwards and not take action against me in any form; second, you are not allowed to take action against my family."

Hearing the two conditions she proposed, Alex's lips raised a cold arc and said: "Yes, but the prerequisite for these two conditions to be realized is that you can tell useful information! Otherwise, even if you know Even after everything has been said, we will not forgive you."

Emily nodded slightly and said, "Of course, I know more information than you expected, and it's more important."

"Very good, take her away." Alex waved his hand, and two soldiers immediately stepped forward, held Emily's arms, and took her away.

Looking at this scene, Karl looked complicated and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Emily has been his best friend since childhood, but now, he has betrayed Emily.

However, Karl was a man who had experienced strong winds and waves, and he quickly calmed down. Then he saluted Alex and said respectfully: "Sir Alex, I still have things to deal with, so I will leave first."

"Karl, the empire will remember your contribution!" Alex nodded, turned and left without saying anything else.

After Karl left the garden, he asked the housekeeper to come to Lin An's bedroom door, knocked on the door, and said respectfully: "Mr. Lin An." "Come in." Lin An's calm voice sounded in the room.

The housekeeper pushed the door open and walked into Lin An's bedroom and found Lin An sitting on the sofa reading a book.

Seeing this, the butler showed a smile on his face and said: "Mr. Lin An, Mr. Karl has finished handling the matter and is waiting for you in the study. Please come over as soon as possible."

Hearing this, Lin An closed the book in his hand and nodded slightly.

Then, the housekeeper took Lin An towards Karl's study.

In front of the study, the housekeeper knocked on the door and then said: "Sir Carl, Mr. Lin An is here."

"Come in." Karl's voice sounded.

The housekeeper reached out and opened the study door, then stepped aside and made an invitation to Lin An: "Mr. Lin An, please come in."

Lin An nodded to the housekeeper, and then stepped into Karl's study.

In the study room, Karl was standing in front of the desk reading something. When he heard the footsteps, he stopped what he was doing, raised his head, his eyes fell on Lin An, and said in a gentle tone: "Lin An, you are here. Please take a seat."

Lin An nodded, walked to the chair in front of Karl and sat down, took out the letter from his arms, put it on the desk, and then said: "Mr. Karl, this is what Teacher Kelly asked me to give you."

Karl nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Immediately, he reached out to open the envelope and took out the letter.

"Huh? This is..." After seeing the contents of the letter, Karl's originally plain expression suddenly froze on his face, his pupils shrank violently, his whole person was stunned, and his expression changed.

"What's wrong? What's the problem?" Lin An asked doubtfully.

Karl took a deep breath, tried hard to suppress the excitement in his heart, and said: "It's nothing. You can go out first. No one is allowed to tell anyone what happened today. Do you understand?"

Although Lin An felt a little weird, he still nodded and said, "Okay, then I'm going out."

After Lin An closed the door, Karl looked at the contents on the letter carefully again, and after confirming that it was correct, he took a long breath, his face frighteningly gloomy.

...............

After leaving the study, Lin An walked outside the manor under the leadership of the housekeeper.

Although the housekeeper tried his best to persuade Lin An to stay here for one night, Lin An still refused. He didn't want to get involved with the Bretton family, so he naturally wanted to leave as soon as possible.

But unfortunately, when Lin An walked to the gate of the manor, a voice rang: "Mr. Lin An, please wait, I have something to talk to you."

Hearing the voice from behind, Lin An paused. He turned around and saw a girl standing behind him. The girl had snow-white skin and was wearing a green dress. She looked pure and cute.

The person coming was none other than Lily Brayton.

Seeing Lin An turn around, Lily smiled brightly and said, "Mr. Lin An, I am Lily Brayton."

Looking at Lily, Lin An looked slightly stunned, obviously not expecting Lily to come to her door.

"Miss Lily, what's the matter?" Lin An looked confused on the surface, but he was on guard in his heart.

"Haha." Lily smiled and said, "Mr. Lin An, I would like to ask, did you encounter anything strange on the way here?"

"Something strange?" Hearing Lily's question, Lin An narrowed his eyes slightly, shook his head and said, "I didn't encounter anything strange."

"Really?" Lily's eyes flashed. She looked at Lin An and said with a smile: "That's strange. I thought you encountered danger on the road. After all, the situation in the empire is not stable now."

"Thank you, Miss Lily, for worrying. In fact, the road to Kingston was very safe this time, and we didn't encounter any danger." Lin Fang said with a look of surprise.

Lily blinked and said, "That's good, then I wish you smooth sailing when you leave."

Lin An smiled and said, "I hope so."

"Mr. Lin An, goodbye." Lily said to Lin An.

"Goodbye." Lin An said politely.

After saying that, Lin An turned around and left without stopping.

On the way back, Lin An's face was gloomy. From the conversation with Lily just now, he knew that the other party was a rebel.

The Breton family is an old noble and die-hard loyalist to the royal family. It is really unbelievable that such a family has members of its direct lineage joining the rebels.

"We can't delay it any longer, leave today!" Lin An secretly gritted his teeth and decided to leave as soon as possible to avoid long nights and nightmares.

Lily's last words clearly showed that she would not just give up and would definitely send someone to hunt her down.

Thinking of this, Lin An became more and more anxious, and quickly returned to the hotel with very fast feet.

After packing his luggage, Lin An bought a carriage and drove out of the city.

Because time was tight, Lin An rented an ordinary carriage. The carriage did not travel very fast, but the rental price was relatively cheap.

After leaving the city, Lin An went straight out of the city, choosing small roads as much as possible to avoid pedestrians and patrols, and then left the city quietly.

The carriage was not slow, and it didn't take long to get away from Kingston.

Looking at the gradually disappearing outline of the city, Lin An breathed a sigh of relief and finally left.

"There are still about five kilometers left, and we should be able to reach the Mysterious Forest." Lin An murmured to himself. Suddenly he seemed to notice something. He suddenly pulled the reins and looked behind him.

I saw several horses appearing on the road behind him. Each of them was huge, with shiny white hair. (End of chapter)

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