Chapter 142: The People Who Come and Go to Velon
Although the old butler of the Alcott family was only a servant in terms of status, he was a servant with a noble status, and served the rulers of Seventh Lake Town for three generations, and his position in the Alcott family was not weaker than those high-level family members, and even far above those family members in some aspects, and won the trust of the rulers of Seventh Lake Town in the past generations.
For a long time, the attitude of the old butler almost represented the attitude of Andrei XIII, so the old butler's every move naturally attracted the attention of the nobles here.
At this time, some nobles recognized that Leo had sold a batch of healing potions a few days ago, and now the old butler's attitude made them think about it, coupled with some rumors in recent times, they couldn't help but connect the two and began to have some interesting ideas.
Before entering the moon period, the health of Andrei XIII had already become the focus of attention of the nobles in the city. Because at that time, Andrei XIII suddenly handed over the management of several factories to his two adult sons, apparently wanting to choose an heir from among them.
For the other eight noble families in the city, each change of heir to the Seventh Olcott family meant a change of power within the eight noble families, and the relationship between the eight noble families and the heir of the Olcott also meant the status of the noble family in the town of Seventh Lake for decades to come.
This time, the Alcott family held a silver moon banquet according to the custom, and the invited nobles not only wanted to use this banquet to hit the prestige of some people and improve their status, but also wanted to try to see if they could find out a little about Andre XIII's health, so these people were very sensitive to everything related to Andre XIII's health.
Leo appeared as a merchant in the town of the seventh lake, and he was so amazing as soon as he made a move, ten healing potions that were very rare in the town of the first lake, which made many people wonder at the time whether there was an apothecary or wizard standing behind Leo who could make wizard potions in batches.
The Alcotts bought four of the ten, and Wickmere gave three potions as gifts to the Alcotts, thus gaining the right to purchase a batch of special springs, all of which were seen by the nobles of the city, who all speculated that the potions were probably prepared for Andre XIII.
And now, Sir Westczek, the butler of the Seventh Alcott Family, actually came out to greet this foreigner who claimed to be a merchant, and seemed to allow the other party to carry contraband including weapons into the manor, all kinds of extraordinary treatment made the onlookers feel that the Seventh Olcott family attached extraordinary importance and respect to this person.
This can't help but make people suspect that Andre XIII is probably trying to find this merchant with a mysterious origin, such as asking the wizard or pharmacist behind the merchant to order a special healing potion, and this speculation can't help but make people feel that Andre XIII's body is probably already very bad.
Because of their special status, the Alcott family in the Ten Towns has a special pharmacist in the Apothecary Association of Silvermoon City to regulate their bodies. It was only when these apothecaries were helpless that they would turn to others for help, especially the wizards of the Wizarding Association, so the old butler's unintentional actions made those nobles with a heart think a lot.
However, Sir Westczek, the old butler who was the person concerned, did not know that his unintentional actions had caused many self-righteous nobles to think too much and even make some wrong judgments. However, even if he knew that his actions had caused a bad impact, I am afraid that he would not change it, and might even contribute to it, after all, a peaceful aristocratic circle is not in the interests of the Alcott family.
Therefore, in the old butler's opinion, as long as the Alcott family is standing, it doesn't matter what will become of the other so-called nine noble families in the city, even if they all die.
Under the deliberate guidance of the old butler, Leo and Witzmere staggered the path that the other servants had led the merchant to, and instead walked directly through a path to the manor house not far away.
Witzmere had no sense of the garden path, but Leo could feel that as he walked along the path, a distracting force field disabling his psychic web, and a psionic wave similar to a psychic web swept over him, checking the situation on his body and in his backpack.
Leo didn't resist this psionic wave, and let it sweep over his body, but the animal skin in his backpack automatically blocked it after touching this psionic wave, making the opponent's psionic wave useless this time.
After walking through the garden path, the psionic wave also disappeared, and the scene ahead suddenly opened up, all kinds of gorgeous lamps and lanterns spread throughout the villa courtyard, and the people who arrived first had already gathered around the dining table in groups of three or five, eating the food on the table and talking quietly.
Leo was surprised that he could hear every word spoken by the nobles he was talking to, but he was at a loss as to what they meant, as if the language they were using had another set of rules of meaning. For example, the content of the conversation between several nobles is obviously praising the deliciousness of the food, but from their demeanor and tone, you can feel that these words are definitely not what they sound on the surface, as if they are arguing about some kind of life and death matter.
In the courtyard, there were still many people like Leo who were at a loss as much as what these nobles were talking about, and it was not difficult to guess from their fierce breath and fully ancestral bodies that had not yet completely dissipated that these people were probably the new nobles who had accumulated enough merit from guarding the castle in the fog area to obtain the title of nobility.
If he had a choice, Leo would have stayed in the banquet courtyard and talked to the new nobles, trying to extract the mysterious fog area and the castle guarding from them.
Unfortunately, after entering the courtyard, the old butler did not take Leo and Vitzmere to the main place of the banquet, but bypassed the main building from another fork in the road, and walked towards the annex on one side, and the people who were also taken by the servants to the annex were other merchants who had been invited to the banquet.
"It seems that the person who gave us the invitation was not the adult. When Vitzmere found out about this, he frowned slightly, leaned over to Leo, and whispered.
"Who do you think it will be?" Leo asked with a thoughtful nod.
Witzmere was silent for a moment, then quickly thought of something and said, "Steam car." ”
"Andre XIII's youngest son?" Leo remembered what Vitzmere had said before, and although he didn't understand why Vitzmir thought so, he knew very well that he didn't have to say anything in this situation, just nod his head in agreement.
Vitzmere obviously didn't see Leo's details, and simply thought that Leo was the same as he thought, and when he was about to say something more, he seemed to have scruples about the old butler, closed his mouth that had just opened, and cast a look at Leo that he thought Leo would understand, and then silently followed behind the old butler.
The three Leo, along with the other merchants and the servants who led the way, quickly walked from the neatly laid stone path to the annex of the villa, and when they saw the shape of the annex, they couldn't help frowning, because the style of the annex was really not in line with their aesthetics, and they felt that this supposed luxurious villa building looked as simple and rigid as the ordinary buildings in the outer city.
It's just that Leo is an exception, after he saw this villa building, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, his face could not hide the expression of surprise, and in addition to the surprise, there was also a hint of smile.
The reason why Leo showed a completely different expression and mood from the others was that the building that appeared in front of him was exactly the same as the appearance of 9 Golden Oak Street in the world of Velon, the only difference was that some of the decorations on the façade and the statues on the eaves were different.
"What's the shape of this house...... Why is it so weird?" Seeing this, Leo deliberately looked puzzled, as if talking to himself, and asked.
The old butler who led the way in front did not answer, but Vitzmir on the side took the initiative to respond: "You also think this house is very strange, don't you? This is the masterpiece of the young master, I heard that in order to build this house, the young master also had a very unpleasant quarrel with the other members of the Alcott family. ”
"That's him. Leo said in a deep voice, at this moment he was very sure that this youngest son of Andre XIII should be the one who could enter the world of Veron, which also made him look forward to meeting him even more.
As he spoke, Leo and Witzmerere entered the building and were taken to the living room on the side, which happened to be the side hall where Leo, the Wasteland Shaman Trampled, and the rest of the people from the dark world of Viren entered the dream world.
At this moment, there were about a dozen merchants from different places gathered in the room, and these merchants seemed to know Witzmir and took the initiative to greet him. Although there were some people who wanted to befriend Leo, they were deterred by Leo's skin color, and simply said hello and turned their attention to Vitzmir.
For Leo, he was more relaxed, which left him with more energy for other things, such as observing the large and small paintings hanging in the room.
These paintings are very interesting, they are all landscapes of mountains, rivers and so on, although the trees and flowers in the paintings are different from this dream world, but they are not a big problem, and what really makes Leo interesting is that the painter uses a lot of gold, yellow and red paints to outline the scene of the sun.
These paintings are so absurd to the inhabitants of Dream World, who have lived in the dark of the night, only seen the moonlight, and never seen the sun, that no one who comes to this room would have looked at them if it had not been for the name of the artist written below the paintings.
"Peter Alcott. Although the signature was in a distorted floral font, Leo was still recognizable.
Seeing this signature, Leo felt very interesting, according to a book that records the study of surnames, ordinary people in the dream world are like free people in the world of Veron, they only have a name, no surname, only nobles have their own surnames, even if they have a power like Vitsmir that is not weaker than the nobles, they are still not eligible for a surname.
All descendants of hereditary nobility, including the Alcott family, are not considered nobles until they reach adulthood, and after they reach adulthood, they will be placed in a certain position in the town watch, and only after a certain number of years of service can they obtain nobility and bear the family's surname.
Although this practice has so far been a formality, and almost all of the descendants of the nobility held positions in the town guard were clerical and did not pose any danger, for some mental reasons, they regarded this experience as a disgrace in their lives.
So, before taking up their positions, most of them would give themselves a false name, and after acquiring a noble surname, they would revert back to their original name, which would be carved into a tombstone and sunk into the lake along with all the clothing they used to serve as guards.
Because it is a fake name, these nobles will not put too much thought into this kind of name that is destined to be discarded, and most of them will randomly choose one of the fake names used by the previous nobles, which also makes the phenomenon of duplicate names a lot.
Of these commonly used fake names, the name Peter is the one most used by the nobles of the Ten Towns. According to the statistics of a boring scholar in Silvermoon City, the nobles who have used the fake name Peter account for more than seventy percent of all the nobles in the various towns of the entire Lake District Alliance, so in the aristocratic circle, the name Peter has become a symbol of filth over time.
However, it is surprising that a member of the Alcott family, and a member of the direct line, would give himself such a name. I'm afraid that this matter is also considered taboo within the Alcott family, even if Vitzmere has only mentioned Peter Alcott when he has mentioned him before, he is only referring to him as the youngest son of André XIII, rather than calling him by his name and title.
A little more time passed, and one after another seven or eight merchants were brought here, and more than forty merchants had gathered in the room, and it could be said that almost all the foreign merchants that could be found in the town of the Seventh Lake.
Interestingly, the merchants all seemed to know each other, and it was not difficult to tell from their conversations that they all had a master behind them, and that the purpose of coming to Seventh Lake was not just to buy and sell, but to find a way for the master behind them, just for the sake of the master behind them.
As for the purpose of the pathfinder, although none of them explicitly mentioned it, Leo could vaguely tell from some of Witzmereir's attitudes that all the people present seemed to be here for something mysterious that he did not yet know.
Just as the dance music sounded in the main hall of the nobles' banquet, indicating the official start of the nobles' ball, the door of the room was pushed open again, and a young man who looked very thin was pushed in a wheelchair by a maid dressed in a nun's suit.