A strange world

Chapter 263 Chapter 116. On our side

Annan recalled the name of the goddess of beauty and confirmed that this androgynous deity was not called this. Originally he was not interested in Liliana Lore, but now...

"Lilliana Lore? Never heard of it." Olmedo said strangely: "Is this what you want?"

"Um."

"who is he?"

"I know so I won't ask you."

Annan was about to close the portal when Olmedo stopped him: "The knights from the royal capital arrived in Breeze City this morning."

"...They're going much faster than I thought."

"Yeah, they said arresting you is a 'very important matter'"

"Is it too late to say that I have nothing to do with the second prince?"

Apart from the pioneering order given when he was acting as the Minister of the Interior and the letter recording the Skaven clan's northward movement, Annan and Vitalig had no interaction whatsoever.

"Whether it has anything to do with it or not, you have to go to the Royal Capital... Once you get to the Royal Capital, it won't matter if you say so." Olmedo's words were full of meaning. There are many doubts about the internal strife in the royal family. The second prince happened to rebel when he learned about the rat plague, but he committed suicide by taking poison. Annan, who was thousands of miles away, became the only wanted person...

"Then let them do it."

Annan's words interrupted Olmedo's thinking, and she said easily: "No, I have already expelled the knight."

"This will get you into trouble too..."

"The eldest prince is only the acting king, and the rat plague is raging in the south. How stupid does he have to be to offend a king of the north, a powerful frontier lord, for something that doesn't exist?"

Olmedo's pride made Annan suddenly realize why the Reeves family had sacrificed everything for the position of city lord - a city-state with hundreds of thousands of people with a mage tower, even the royal capital had to treat it with courtesy.

The rat plague alone was enough to make them anxious.

Moreover, the Northland was remote, and it would take at least a month for the capital to react, and then they would argue according to noble tradition for a month before sending out troops. By then it was already winter.

It's not a good idea to fight the Northerners in winter.

The portal disappeared into the office, and soon after the silence returned, there was a knock on the door.

"City Lord, several nobles heard that you drove away the knights from the royal capital, and they expressed concern and dissatisfaction." The assistant said standing in front of the table.

"Who are they?"

"Hector Melis, Ike Tarantino, and the Braden Family."

"I remember that Héctor Melis was a cement businessman? I can understand Ike Tarantino. Half of his building materials business was taken away by Xingyue Bay. The Braden family... relied on Xingyue Bay to purchase food. What right do they have to be dissatisfied?"

"Tell them that Xingyue Bay is the only port town in the North and will be the most prosperous city-state in the North in the future. If they want to continue making money, they can stand with us."

After finishing speaking, Olmedo found that his assistant had not left yet: "Is there anything else?"

"Isn't our relationship with Master Annan too close..."

Olmedo's mind pictured the restless Annan sitting at his desk handling government affairs, and he smiled:

"A hardworking person deserves help."

…

"Mr. Victor, do you know Liliana Lore?"

With doubts in mind, Annan ran out of the Lord's Mansion and went to the library with Ingrid.

"Where did you know this name?" The old eyes stared at Annan.

"A magic tool that can answer questions." Annan answered honestly: "It says Liliana Lore is the most handsome and beautiful person in the world."

"This is a legendary name..."

Rumor has it that Liliana Lore is an elf, and her beauty makes even the God of Beauty jealous, so he cursed her and turned Liliana Lore into a monster that is both a man and a woman.

But Liliana Lore's father was a powerful ancient wizard, and he angrily turned the beauty into a monster that was neither a man nor a woman.

"This is just the mudblood's imagination of spellcasters. The power of ancient wizards does not lie in individuals, but in the rudiments of knowledge they mastered."

Mudblood, a scornful term given by a spellcaster to someone who cannot cast spells. The caster said this out of arrogance, and Mr. Victor was mocking himself.

So the magic mirror chose this rumor?

Apart from the fact that he likes word games as much as the devil, the magic mirror still has some uses.

When she was about to go back, Lindy stopped Annan and said, "My aunt sent some wine."

Annan was still wondering why he told himself, but it turned out that the wine was given to him by the wine lady: to thank him for his advertisement in "Xingyue Bay News".

After several consecutive advertisements, the wine lady's red wine has become the new favorite among the nobles. There is an endless stream of wine buyers, and the winery's wine cellar has long been empty.

Annan asked for the red wine in vain, but Ingrid said that the Lord's Mansion should have some private reserves to entertain guests - he could not always ask guests to bring their own wine or even food to the banquet.

He had no choice but to ask the guards to move the wine barrels to the wine cellar, and at the same time tell the second sister about Olmedo driving away the knights from the royal capital.

"He owes us." Leila snorted coldly.

"But he's trying to make up for the mistakes his father made."

Leila suddenly approached Annan, her black jewel-like eyes staring at Annan suspiciously: "Why are you looking at that guy like this..."

"Well... I just think Olmedo is innocent."

"Forget it, you are the lord, it is not my turn to teach you." Leila deliberately curled her lips and said something else: "Where are those bad guys who want to arrest you?"

"Olmedo said they were heading south."

…

On the outskirts of Breeze City, lonely knights gathered in a forest glade.

"We failed to complete the mission assigned by the prince." The knight captain held his helmet, his tired and determined face filled with self-blame.

"Captain, we should go back and tell His Highness the Prince that the Lord of Breeze City disobeyed the King's order and asked the Prince to send troops to attack!"

"Then the ratmen from the south killed our civilians?" For the sake of his subordinates, the knight captain just accused him. "And going back won't change the fact that our mission failed..."

"Then what do we do?"

"My family is in the City of Plenty..." A flash of hesitation flashed across the face of the knight captain, and then the family's glory was replaced by loyalty to the royal family. "Let's go to Plenty City!"

The knights mounted their horses and returned along the way they came, passing by a caravan.

The leader of the caravan watched the knights they saw for the second time stir up the sand and fly away. He withdrew his gaze, looked at the city-state standing in the distance, and accelerated the caravan into Breeze City.

"Lord Agarwal's mage tower!" The girl looking at the mage tower exclaimed.

"Lord Agarwal?" the apprentice next to him asked curiously.

"He is the owner of this mage tower!"

The caravan sails into the caravan camp. They will rest in Breeze City until the next morning before setting off.

"Do you want to take a walk around Breeze City?" the caravan leader asked the girl respectfully.

She shook her head. The teacher only asked her to go to Xingyue Bay and did not ask for help from Lord Agarwal.