On an unknown island in the Kolin Islands, the city of the Moonlight Rats is being built little by little, and 100,000 Moonlight Rats are working day and night to have their own city as soon as possible.

And in the Marquis of Terry's Mansion in Waterdeep, Archbishop Valcy is also working hard to make people aware of the existence of the Wisdom Moonlight Mouse as soon as possible.

At the beneficence of the Marquis of Terry, he became the teacher of the Marquis of Terry's youngest son, Sevigny Terry, and his youngest daughter, Salina Terry, teaching them history and language.

Moreover, the Marquis of Terry was very kind to send Archbishop Valcy many books on history and language, so that he could call on the children while studying.

And this is exactly what Archbishop Valcy needed, so he did not hesitate to accept it, and worked harder to teach the children - he even taught Severny Terry a little about engineering, so that he understood that there were other kinds of power in the world besides magic, magic, and vindictiveness.

The nobles of Waterdeep also knew that there was a knowledgeable and peculiar man in the mansion of Marquis Terry, and they were curious, so they often went to place Marquis Terry and communicate with Valcy.

This inadvertently achieved a win-win situation - Archbishop Valcy made a deep impression on the minds of the nobles of Waterdeep, laying the groundwork for the emergence of a large number of intelligent moonlight rats in the future, while Marquis Terry gained popularity and connections, and in recent times, his waist in the Council of Waterdeep has been significantly tougher than in the past, and he even dared to question the issue of the Speaker.

Quietly, under the flashing wings of Archbishop Valcy, a small cycle has been formed, so that Marquis Terry has to sigh the importance of luck - because he wants to eat seafood, he bought a shark, because he bought a shark, saved Archbishop Valcy of the moonlight mouse, because he saved Archbishop Valcy of the moonlight mouse, other nobles came to the door, because the nobles came to the door, increased his connections, because of the increase of contacts, increased power!

However, the cake in Waterdeep is so big, and Marquis Terry has risen, and if you want to cut a relatively large piece of cake, the cake of others will naturally be smaller - and the first to bear the brunt is the speaker Marquis Carter, whose issue is questioned by Marquis Terry.

In terms of noble titles, there is no difference between Marquis Carter and Marquis Terry, but compared to the actual power, the two are heaven and earth.

Marquis Terry has no real power and territory, only owns a vineyard outside the city, and the most important thing is that you have recently become close to many nobles, which has led to an increase in power, but still does not have much right to speak.

Marquis Carter is a powerful faction, he owns a merchant fleet, more than ten estates, the area of the mansion alone is ten times that of Marquis Terry, and the daily turnover is enough for Marquis Terry's mansion to eat for a month.

At this moment, in the living room of his estate, Marquis Carter was talking to an old man in a dark coat and a turban, and the target of the conversation was Archbishop Valcy.

"It can't be any more, a thousand gold coins, the same price as before. ”

"No, I have to add 50 percent, 1,500 gold coins before I can take this order. My sons are not meant to die. ”

"It's just a mouse, a very smart mouse, I don't know where Terry got it!"

"That's not an ordinary mouse, it's a wise moonlight mouse, I bought off the servants of the Marquis Terry's mansion, and a month ago, an unquenchable flame lit up the roof of the side hall for more than one night!"

“......”

Marquis Carter and the old man in black haggled with each other, and the final result was that the old man in black won—of course, Marquis Carter didn't pay much, and the final transaction price was 1,300 gold coins of Waterdeep.

As one of the large cities in the Jianwan region, the currency of Waterdeep City has excellent circulation throughout the Northlands, and an ordinary family can only eat a dozen silver coins in a month, and one gold coin is enough to buy a somewhat old two-story cottage.

Even the cost of Marquis Carter's mansion was only twenty gold coins a day—and that included the pocket money of Marquis Carter's sons.

It is conceivable that Marquis Carter was full of such hostility to the rise of Marquis Terry.

As for the old man in black, he is the leader of a local assassination organization in Waterdeep, named Dark Dagger, although he is not well-known, he still has enough power and has served the nobles of Marquis Carter's faction for many years.

And after the bargaining was over, the old man in black took the deposit of a thousand gold coins and quietly disappeared outside the Marquis Carter Manor - the previous business was paid in full, but this time because he was not facing a human being, the old man decided to charge a thousand gold coins, and if the task could be completed, then he could collect the rest of the fee.

Of course, if it is not completed, the deposit is non-refundable - and according to the rules of the dagger, there will be three assassinations, and the assassin will become stronger and stronger.

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

"Say it aloud to me, I love you, Mom!"

"I love you, Mom!"

The two children of Marquis Terry are quite intelligent, and in just one month, the knowledge in the books sent by Marquis Terry was taught to the two children by Archbishop Valcy, and after evaluation, the two children did master this knowledge.

This made the Marquis of Terry praise, before Archbishop Valcy, the Marquis of Terry also invited several teachers, many of them were high-paid university scholars, archmages, but under the attack of the two children, these teachers could stay too long, and often personally asked the Marquis of Terry to resign in one to two weeks, saying that he could not bear the obligation of teaching.

As for Archbishop Valcy, in fact, it was just a little trick, in order to stimulate Sevigny and Salina's enthusiasm for learning, Archbishop Valcy taught Sevigny some engineering gadgets, and promised that as long as Sevigny studied hard, he would just make him a small engineering toy for each period of study, such as a machine tank, a small slingshot or something.

For Salina, Archbishop Valcy promised a free supply of holy water - in the continent of Torreel, in addition to cleaning up the undead and removing curses, holy water also has the effect of beautifying and whitening the skin.

At a young age, Sarina already understood the importance of beauty, and as long as she studied hard, she would be supplied with holy water every week - you must know that this was the holy water made by the archbishop himself, which was much purer and more powerful than that made by the shops and low-ranking priests.

Even because of Archbishop Valcy's toys and holy water, Sevigny and Salina have each formed a small circle of nobles, and their power is so powerful that they are not much more than their father, Marquis Terry.