Chapter 269: The Imperial Capital of Odan

In a palatial building in Litan City, a retired official of the Treasury of the Odan Empire lives here, and the title is Earl, which can be regarded as a family - Steyr, but obviously this surname is scarce, and now only the old earl is left, and the door of the mansion is usually extremely deserted, and there are no visitors.

Today, however, there was a slight difference in front of the door, the servants of Steyr's house had changed their usual habit of living in seclusion, and sat outside the door in twos and threes, and a blue carriage was parked at the door of the earl's house, although there was no decoration, but the color and shell of the whole body seemed to know that it was not ordinary.

The coachmen in the carriage and the knights who followed the carriage were all very idle, and they were also chatting there, and there was no difference.

In the vicinity of Steyr's house, there were originally few people in front of the door, so many birds and small animals in the neighborhood were often infested. At this time, they all disappeared completely, presumably because the animals consciously and instinctively felt something.

The coachmen and knights around the carriage chatted as if no one was around, and from time to time they changed the direction of their bodies, obviously standing a little tired, and the servants of the idle Steyr family around them also changed their positions, and naturally changed with the movement of the sun, so they had to move with it.

If you look closer, you will see that although everyone has a relaxed expression, their eyes are cold, and everyone is staring at each other with the corner of their eyes, moving with each other's movements.

The format of the mansion is similar to that of a traditional Odan aristocratic mansion, with the tallest building in the middle often used by the host's house to entertain guests, where the curtains are now drawn.

In that room, a tall old nobleman reached out to open the curtain through a small gap, and looked out at the strange confrontation in front of the door.

Then he lowered the curtains and held a glass of red wine in his hand. Although the wrinkles on his forehead and the corners of his eyes and his silver hair all indicate that he has experienced the vicissitudes of time, the contours of his eyebrows can still see that he must have been an outstanding beautiful man when he was young, even if his face is full of masculinity now, and he looks very good.

This old man was the Marquis of Steyr, and the Marquis of Steyr laughed a few times, and raised it to the inside of the room, as a courtesy, as if jokingly:

"My good boys are very nervous about your arrival, but even the adults of the Interior Department will be surprised to see you here!"

In the chair in the room sat a middle-aged man who looked forty years old, it turned out to be Claude, who was often with Archbishop Odin, and the sword saint sat there, his expression remained the same as usual, and there was no change at all, and when he heard the words of the Marquis of Steyr, he responded coldly:

"The adults of the Home Affairs Department don't usually get a second allowance from you, they won't be surprised. ”

Steyr laughed, his voice was very warm and soft, and he raised the glass in his hand, took a sip of it to his lips, and replied:

"In addition to eating insects themselves, spiders always have to give some benefits to their neighbors, otherwise they don't even have a web, but I'm really surprised that you're here, Lord Swordmaster. After all, it would not be an ordinary thing for the Knight Leader of the Church of Light to come to the home of the Spider Guild President. ”

Count Steyr is actually the head of the Spider, the thief guild of the Ordan Empire, many people will not believe it, even the officials who have received a lot of benefits here, and some of them have even been friends with Steyr for many years.

Sword Saint Claude didn't pay attention to the ridicule in the other party's words, and still said to the other party calmly:

"Archbishop Odin asked me to come over and say that this is the end of this matter, I hope it will not be the case next time, we still have a cooperative relationship now, and we will not violate some forbidden areas without permission. “

Earl Steyr's smile did not diminish in the slightest, and he took a sip of the red wine in the glass, stared at the sword master there and asked rhetorically:

"You think I'm going to kill a group of light mages who are fighting against Muni alone, and such and such special forces, all defeated by that incredible young man, what am I going to do to cause that trouble. ”

The old earl suddenly put his hand to his mouth very childishly, as if he wanted to speak quietly, and whispered to the Sword Master:

"I heard that the inexplicable commotion in the Endless Mountains was also done by him......"

Suddenly, his tone became serious again, and the wine glass was placed on the table beside him:

"This young man named Fleet, who sometimes calls himself a "Pinsheng" (poor monk), already knew the news as soon as he entered Audan, and I would not provoke inexplicable dangers, but you also know that there are some people in the history of the Spider Guild that I cannot control. ”

Steyr's tone became as if he were joking again, and he wagged the wine glass in his hand mischievously, and said with a smile:

"Anyway, those people won't follow my orders, so why don't I send them to our future paladins to reduce some trouble for themselves, those guys from the underground are too fond of blood and killing, we just want to make money now, and we just want to make money for a long time. ”

After Claude had finished speaking with Steyr's grinning and scolding, he was silent there for a long time, then he was quiet, then he stood up, turned and walked outside, and replied:

"If you want to continue to make money and continue to save, next time there are such subordinates who don't obey orders, let them come to me. ”

Earl Steyr took a sip of the wine from the glass and replied to Juggernaut with a laugh.

The resumption of Baron Fleet's cloth business was no longer news, because at noon on that day, the Doge's Palace ordered the city guards to begin a manhunt throughout the city. No one was pardoned, and many of the officials' homes were stormed by heavily armed city guards.

The nobles, who originally thought that they would have privileges to shelter, were naturally furious at this offense and refused to cooperate. But anyone who ordered his personal guard or family samurai to resist was mercilessly slashed and killed by the high-ranking samurai who suddenly appeared in the city guard.

Of course, not all officials and nobles were searched in this way, and the targets were all people related to the Thieves' Guild, such as the captain who had illegally mobilized the city guard yesterday, and his home was broken into by a dozen or so Holy Guard knights of the Church of Light.

All those who resisted were killed, and the captain had already prepared a carriage to take the family out of Matter, but he didn't expect things to change so much, and he was blocked in his home before he could escape.

On this day, half of the merchants in the Mattertown Chamber of Commerce were imprisoned, and the money-making system of the thriving thieves' guild, which Vincent had been running for five years, collapsed in an instant.

In the Odan Empire, the Spider Thieves Guild has been operating for an unknown number of years, and naturally there are some such and such relationships, but the nobles and high-ranking officials who usually speak up are all silent at this time, because Count Steyr has released the news through various channels that the Thieves Guild of Escal Province has all been abandoned.

There are many places in Escal that can be called savage places, an important source of force for the thieves' guild in Matt City, according to common sense, the vacuum of the underground society in the city is often the best opportunity for these murderous and bloodthirsty horse thieves, but these horse thieves are also facing destruction.

The Frontier Legion, which had turned a blind eye to them, began to send a large number of cavalry to chase and kill, no matter how strong those horse bandits were, they were still vulnerable and vulnerable in front of the state apparatus, and they disappeared in an instant.

Henry, with a sharp pen in his hand, wrote on a thin scroll of paper, "All the unrest around Matt City is now fully understood, and Mr. Fleet has agreed to cooperate with this operation" and stuffed it into the woodpipe, while a squire next to him took an electric falcon from the wooden shelf. Put the woodpole at his feet and let it fly.

After Hui had just agreed to attend the ball, the Doge's Palace and the Marquis of Bastia seemed to know that he had torn up the previous invitation, so the Governor's butler personally came to Baron Fleet's mansion and gave the monk another completely new one, who was still looking at some dusty texts at the scroll management at this time.

The Doge's Mansion must have done a very detailed investigation, and it stands to reason that such balls are usually for the heads of the invitees' family, as well as their partners and immediate children, and this is the usual case, and only those about blind dates or pure carnival banquets will invite some other people.

The monk has been in this world for a few years, and he has a certain understanding of these things, but the invitation in front of him looks strange even if he is not familiar with it, the invitation above does not mention the old Baroness Fleet, but the list of invited characters is a long list.

Huigang, Fei'er, Alina, Ness, the names of these four people were fairly written on the gilded invitation card in Juanxiu's font, and the next thing was naturally the time and place, as well as the name of the inviter, there was nothing special about the name of the Governor Earl Austin, and next to the name of the governor, there was also Bastia's handwriting.