First Block, Babington Family Estate.

The Babington family has ruled the city of San Carlos for generations, which is the largest industrial city in the Green Empire, and at the same time, the Babington family also controls the Angela Plane, which is currently concentrated in five large Mithril mines, and Angelado was once occupied by the Nakma people in the Hell, resulting in a shortage of Grin Empire's Mithril mines, and the private army of the Babington family could not independently face the Nakma people in the Hell, and the royal family sent His Royal Highness Prince Charles to attack the Angela Faces in order to stabilize the Mithril market.

Today, more than 70% of the magic rune boards are sent from San Carlos City to all parts of the country, and the Babington family has enough say and dominance over the magic rune boards. That's why the Rune Board Suppliers' Conference was held in Babington's manor.

Whenever this traditional magic-making industry is mentioned, the Babington family comes to mind.

I was invited to participate in this year's Magic Rune Board Supplier Conference, which was somewhat unexpected.

First of all, the feud between me and the Babington family can be reversed to last summer, because of Arya's relationship I had some conflicts with Duke Ryan Bussmann, and finally with the help of all parties, Duke Ryan Bussmann returned to Warsaw in disgrace, and Arya regained her freedom. In this matter, there are more or less shadows of the Babington family who are fueling the troubles.

Arya's deceased husband Colin Babington was the first heir to the Babington family, as the widow of Colin Babington, Arya should have a high status in the Babington family, but in fact this is not the case, and the person who overthrew Arya's power is the current heir of the Babington family, Billy Babington. The Marquis of Billy Babington feared that Arya's reputation with the Babington family would affect his future rule over the Babington family, so he tried to drive Arya out of the Babington family.

More than a dozen subordinate planes of the Babington family suffered a plane war at the same time, which directly led to the shortage of Mithril ore in the Kelin Empire, and more than half of the magic rune board workshops in San Carlos City fell into a state of suspension, and the blank Mithril rune board was sold out of stock in the imperial capital.

After the subsequent rebellion of Nick and Brennan, two down-and-out nobles, my rune board workshop grew into the largest supplier of the three primary magic rune boards in the imperial capital: 'Gathering Fire', 'Micro Tornado', and 'Continuous Frost', and probably because of this, I have a place at this rune board supplier conference.

The day before I attended the Rune Plate Supplier Conference, I was successfully promoted to the second-class Marquis of the Green Empire at the Meritorious Exchange Office of the Logistics and Munitions Department of the Imperial Capital.

I think it's a bit unseemly enough to participate in this rune bar supplier conference as an earl, so I took out all the merits obtained in the Hiero plane and was promoted to a second-class marquis in the imperial capital, but I still need to have a large territory corresponding to the marquis's status within the specified period before I can truly become a marquis.

The territory of Trum Town is obviously still a little smaller, so I decided to return to the Hierro Plane after attending this Rune Board Supplier Conference to discuss with the War Ancient Tree Weisman, and let me become the nominal owner of the Green Valley Forest, so that my title of Marquis can be justified, and now this Marquis status is just an extra shiny badge on my chest.

The magic caravan was parked at the gate of the Babington family manor, and I saw that there were some gorgeous magic caravans parked on the side of the road one after another, and from time to time some nobles and merchants would walk into the manor, and seeing that there was still a little time to spare, I sat in the soft leather sofa of the carriage and did not rush out of the carriage.

At this moment, Arya leaned against me, leaning against the window and pointing to the nobles who had stepped out of the magic caravan, explaining their identities in detail, and even some nobles Arya could accurately state their preferences.

After a gap in time, Arya finally couldn't help but look at the marquis's badge on my chest, which was made entirely of a red hedron and stood out when worn on my chest.

Although Arya has been providing a large number of urgently needed supplies to the Hiero Plane on the Imperial Capital's side, she does not know the specific battle situation of the Hiero Plane.

She was also quite curious about this, and her charming eyes stared at me and asked, "How many Nibru spider-men did you kill in the Hiero plane?"

"Guess what...... I'm the one who has mastered the ten Constructed Knights of the North Wind Legion, so don't underestimate my strength. I said with a smile.

Arya had experienced the battle life of the Hiero plane, and knew where our advantages were, she didn't guess the specific number, she said to me with a smile: "With the selfless help of that Duke Jingyue, all your nobles dream of taking a big step, what next?" What are the plans, it is not easy to become the Duke of the Green Empire, this is not something that can be obtained by accumulating merits, the Green Empire is currently only officially canonized a hundred dukes, if you want to be among them, then you must squeeze out the hundredth ranked, and you will have a place. ”

Hearing Arya say this, she knew that the Duke of the Green Empire was ranked.

"Squeeze out?" I asked.

Arya held her pointed chin in her hands, squinted at me and said, "When the power in your hands is almost equal to the strength of those dukes, then you have the right to challenge any duke in the Grimm Empire, this power war between dukes is to talk about your own strength and the army." ”

So I asked, "Are you saying that as long as I defeat a certain Duke of the Grimm Empire, I can replace him as the new Duke of the Grimm Empire?"

Arya nodded, her eyes flashed with brilliance, as if she was yearning for something she was pursuing, and muttered, "That's pretty much it, but there are many protection strategies in the laws of the Green Empire against the original guarding dukes, such as the dukes who are caught in the plane war can be exempted from war." In addition, the defending duke can privately borrow troops from the dukes of the alliance, so it is not easy to replace the existing duke, which involves many other factors, and the attacker often has to face the power formed by the combination of several dukes. ”

It turned out that the new duke was not canonized by Charles the Great, nor did he rely on military exploits, but relied on personal strength to replace the existing wealthy nobles of the Green Empire. However, even among the nobles, few people know about this kind of thing, probably only in the small circle of the upper nobles, after all, if too many people know about this matter, there may be a big turmoil in the Green Empire.

"How do you know that?" I asked Arya curiously.

Although she is the most famous courtesan in the imperial capital, no one should take the initiative to say this kind of thing to her.

Arya said very calmly: "Colin has always wanted to become the second duke of the Babington family, but unfortunately this wish was not fulfilled and he died in Angela. ”

After speaking, she sighed slightly, as if she was some kind of sigh from her previous life.

"It's too early to tell me this!" I said.

Thinking that all of my private armies combined are less than a thousand, and in the face of those dukes who have hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, this amount of strength is not enough for people to stuff their teeth, and when I think of this, my mind gradually clears up.

Arya turned her head out of the window, and at this time a gust of wind blew the bangs on her forehead, and her lips were painted with a layer of red lip gloss, which looked very attractive, and she pursed her lips slightly and said, "Anyway, these things must be understood sooner or later." ”

Seeing that the magic caravan that stopped at the gate of Babington Manor was decreasing one after another, I knew that it was almost time for me to appear, and glanced at Betty and Caterina sitting opposite, Betty still always wore an apricot yellow gauze skirt, and her graceful figure was faintly visible under the gauze skirt, this kind of long skirt was almost the most common skirt worn by the maids of aristocratic families here in the imperial capital, but when worn on Betty's body, it would have another taste.

Caterina, on the other hand, was wearing a crusty cuirass with the 'Shield of the Earth' on top of her tight wurm leather armor, which wrapped her tightly, with two short daggers tied to her thighs, and she had been sitting in her seat with her eyes closed.

Before getting out of the car, I asked Alya, "Are you really not going with me?"

Arya leaned over, held my face in both hands, pecked me lightly on the lips, and said, "I'm still waiting for you in the caravan, if I show up, not only will it not help you, but it will even add some trouble to you." ”

Seeing that Arya insisted on not getting out of the car, I nodded, pushed open the door of the carriage, and walked out of the magic caravan with Caterina and Betty, and walked towards Babington Manor.

......

He showed the manor's doorman his pass to the rune board vendors' meeting and walked into the manor.

Betty had lived here for about six years, and was very familiar with the manor, and along the way, she kept whispering anecdotes about the garden lawn, the fountain, the stables, and the warehouse, and soon Betty was recognized by the maids in the Babington Manor, but these maids and servants did not come together to say hello, but only pointed and exchanged something from a distance.

A tall auction table was erected on the lawn of the manor's garden, and below the auction table was a field of white chairs, where the nobles and merchants had gathered, and they sat on the chairs in groups and whispered about each other, making the rune board vendors' meeting seem lively.

I went to the corner of the last row and sat down, Betty and Caterina sat on my right and left, I put my arms around her shoulders, Betty rested her head on mine, and I looked like a young aristocrat who was not very good in public.

Betty whispered to the big guys sitting in the front seats, and her voice was glutinous and sounded very comfortable.

Caterina sat in her chair with her hands folded on her chest, never even looking at the field.

Just as Betty and I were whispering, a young nobleman sitting in front of me suddenly turned his head and nodded to me in a friendly manner, and then looked at Betty carefully, and his eyes seemed to be able to pass through Betty's apricot yellow gauze skirt, and fell directly on her body, his mouth let out a sigh of admiration, and then looked at Caterina on the other side unscrupulously, but Caterina sensed it, raised her head and opened a pair of ruby eyes, and glared at the young nobleman fiercely.

The faint killing intent brought out from the battlefield instantly frightened the young nobleman's face a little pale, and the young nobleman immediately withdrew his gaze, but did not turn his head back, but smiled at me cordially, glanced at the marquis badge on my chest, and said: "Your family is really enough, the marquis medal was prepared for you so quickly, and you also have to do the business of rune boards?"

Then, he squinted his eyes and smiled and said to Betty, "I was rude just now, I think you are a little familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it." ”

Betty just blinked and didn't speak.

The young nobleman was born with a natural familiarity and asked me kindly, "Are you a senior or a junior?"

I paused for a moment to understand what he was asking, and replied, "My workshop only makes rudimentary rune boards. ”

"Recently, the business of the primary rune board has not been very easy to do, the profit margin of the primary magic rune board is too small, and there is nothing left after removing the piece allocated to the inscription master, is the rune board workshop over there okay?"

"It's ok. I replied.

At this moment, some pot-bellied aristocrats walked up to the front desk of the venue, and Betty pointed to one of the middle-aged men and whispered to me, "That is the Marquis Billy Babington, the next successor of the Babington family." ”

The young nobleman showed a hint of melancholy and said, "This time, those mines on the Babington family plane have been recaptured, and I don't know how much market share they want to recover." ”

Seeing that I didn't speak, he said to me with an exaggerated expression, "Have you heard, this time Billy invited that guy over." ”

"Who?" I asked him, looking up and smiling.

The young nobleman cautiously looked to the left and right, and then said to me: "It is said that he is a magic student in the Royal Academy of Magic, that kid is also a character, with his handsome face and rhetoric, he hooked up with His Royal Highness Princess Yingli at the same time, this guy opened a somewhat special rune board workshop in the imperial capital, and basically completely monopolized those three magic rune boards...... I heard that he has a recipe for a magical metal solution in his hand, which His Highness helped to find with the help of His Highness Qige, and whoever can have that recipe can make that special rune tablet......"

"Well, if that's all you can tell that magician, I want to tell you something!"

“...... I'm the magician......"