Antoine II leaned back on the back of his chair and enjoyed the girl's massage.

After a long time, Antoine II gently patted the girl's hand and said, "I'm much better, Linda." ”

The maiden, standing behind Antoine II, whispered, "Father, take a rest." ”

Antoine II laughed out loud, "I haven't been working for half an hour." ”

"I'm going to make you a cup of nutritious tea. After saying that, the girl ran to the pantry next to the office, took out a paper bag from a large paper bag with a bust of Halka, and poured all kinds of flowers and plants into the teapot.

Antoine II looked at the back of his youngest daughter making tea, and a kind smile appeared on his face.

If his sons are the source of his headaches, then this only well-behaved, sensible, beautiful and lovely daughter is a haven for his soul.

Eleven years ago, the queen died of illness shortly after giving birth to Linda, and Antoine II transferred his love for his beloved wife to the princess.

On that day, Antoine II ordered: "Spoil me, spoil me, and the whole country will do everything in its power to spoil me!"

At the same time, this daughter is also the existence that Antoine II fears the most. Like a vegetable farmer who grows many kinds of cabbage, he is afraid that his daughter will not find an excellent home, and that his daughter will be bullied by her husband after he leaves, but he will not be able to climb out of the coffin and smash his son-in-law's dog head.

Antoine II's thoughts were interrupted by three knocks on the door, and a civil servant brought a roll of parchment.

After letting the civil officials step aside, Antoine II opened the parchment. What happened in the temple of the forge last night was recorded on paper, and Antoine II read it several times before putting down the parchment.

Picking up the nutritious tea that had already been placed at his desk, Antoine II walked to the balcony of his office.

Linda knew that her father was thinking about something important, so she didn't bother him.

What should come will come, Antoine II spoke deeply.

After receiving reports from his youngest son, Alan, that the Maccaden family had almost died, he knew that day would come.

The income brought by adventurers who are active in the deep mountains and old forests of the Bischberg Kingdom is one of the important incomes of the royal family. Among the adventurers, the elves from the south are the most powerful. If an adventurer squad has an elven warrior as the backbone, then the strength of the squad will be much higher than that of other teams without elves.

And now, the elven adventurers who were originally active in the kingdom of Bischberg have either left the kingdom or are on their way to leave the kingdom.

Some adventurer captains tried their best to keep the top pillars of the team, but those elves took out the labor contract and pointed to the article "When the orders of the elven court, the elven king, and the elven princess are contrary to Party A's requirements, Party B can unconditionally terminate the contract", indicating that the elven princess has ordered that all elves are prohibited from engaging in any commercial activities and staying in the territory of the Bischberg Kingdom.

So these squads of adventurers either let the elves leave or leave with the elves, there is no third option.

It is difficult for the adventurer team to sign an elf, so the vast majority of the adventurer team chooses to leave the kingdom of Bischberg with the elf. Those who do their business will have food everywhere.

At the same time, the dwarves and other believers of the Forge God in various workshops received a holiday notice from the Forge Temple. In celebration of this year's Great Prayer Ceremony, all believers of the God of Forging began to take an indefinite holiday, waiting for the temple to announce the resumption of work.

As scarce technicians, these believers in the god of forging are the technical backbone of each workshop, and their usual salary is very high, so they are not short of money.

Now they have all given themselves long vacations to celebrate the holidays, and you can't object to them yet, their labor contracts all say that the instructions of the forging temple are put in the first place.

As a result, those workshops were semi-suspended, and there was no technical backbone, and many core tasks were not done.

The harder blow came from business.

To the north, the tribal senate of the orcs let out the wind that it would not trade with caravans from the kingdom of Bischberg this year.

The caravans that owned the shares of the Elven Court in the south all bypassed the Bischberg Kingdom, making the Duke of Redkin of the Rebach Kingdom, whose territory was adjacent to the Bischberg Kingdom, almost dislocated his jaw with a smile.

To the south of the Bischberg Kingdom across the river, the rising Kingdom of Visma, a small country that is almost not a kingdom, has also ordered that the merchant ships of the Bischberg Kingdom are forbidden to dock.

The most serious threat came from the east of the kingdom of Bischberg.

Duke Redkin, who was originally hoarding troops on the eastern front of the territory and waiting for the current king of the Rybach kingdom to burp and march eastward as the king, suddenly ran to the royal capital alone to drink and catch up with the king, and then transferred all the elite troops on the eastern front to the west to a place only two kilometers away from the border to "escape the summer".

When Antoine II received the news from the marquises guarding the border, he couldn't find a reason to blame the Duke of Redkin, so he had to transfer the army just in case. In this way, more money is spent.

Now the most important thing Antoine II wanted to do was to take Eren back, strip him naked, hang him upside down from a tree, and whip him with thorns.

The boy himself told him before he went north that there were two things to be messed with in the north, one was Grandma St. Angel, and the other was the House of Maccaden. Both of these are extremely face-slick and can't be provoked.

As a result, the conceited boy thought that he could fight the heavens and the earth, and not only did he disobey, but he also caused such a disaster.

Fortunately, that kid didn't mess with St. Angel's mother, otherwise the Sister Control Maniac of the Pope of the Temple of Light and the old guys in the Cardinal Order and the Knights of Light who pursued the Holy Maiden would have the guys a long time ago.

Antoine II knew that the efforts of these forces to seek justice for the House of Maccaden were only superficial. Troubled times are coming, and the era of heroes is coming. These forces have seized the opportunity of this Allen catastrophe to show their muscles to the world in various ways.

If it was just one of them, Antoine II could have pushed it back. But in the face of this kind of mass attack, the kingdom of Bischberg is being slowly bled by a small knife, and the king, who is unable to resist, cannot but make some compromises.

Having drunk the last sip of nutritious tea from the teacup in his hand, Antoine II made his final decision.

He beckoned, and a figure appeared behind him, kneeling on one knee.

"Where is Eren and what is he doing?" asked Antoine II.

"The fourth prince has completed the trial of the Flame Temple, obtained the scabbard of the Flame Divine Sword, and is now on his way to Kototou Mountain. The Flame Excalibur is likely to be in the lava hell beneath Mt. Kobold. The person reported.

"Tell him to immediately stop all actions and let him go to the Temple of Light to undergo labor reform for five years. Antoine II ordered.

"Yes!"

The figure disappeared as quietly as he had appeared.

After giving the order, Antoine II returned to his office.

Linda was sitting on the couch by the window looking at a sheet music, and the morning sun shone on her like a beautiful picture.

Antoine II sat down next to Linda and said to her, "Linda, have you thought about what you want to do in the future?"

Linda closed the book in her hand, put it on the table, looked down and thought for a moment, and then said, "I want to go to the knowledge city, I want to study music and painting." ”

Antoine II nodded with satisfaction, "It's good for girls to study these. ”

He continued: "I heard that Professor Remus Wolff, the director of Wisteria College, the best comprehensive college in Knowledge City, is traveling in the north. I thought you'd be working hard for two days, flying to Avalon with the Griffin Knight, and going to him with the letter of recommendation I wrote. ”

"If he is willing to take you, you travel around the continent with him, and then return to Wisteria Academy with him. ”

"Whether it's music or painting, you need to travel on the mainland to increase your knowledge. ”

"No problem, Father. Linda replied with a smile.

"It's not as convenient to be away from home as it is at home, I'll be ready for you. Antoine II said to his daughter, "But when you get to Avalon, please do something for me." ”