There was silence in the room. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Sass drank the wine glass in his hand, and then shook his finger to his little grandson in satisfaction,

"No, it's not just Mogedin and Lagerph. ”

"And us!"

Fleming, the blind old man who had just broken Eleven's astral signs, walked up to Eleven's side at some point, slapped him on the head, and exclaimed,

"It's really worthy of what Sass said, you kid, it's really amazing!"

"Hey... Old, old."

Human pinched the blade of the dagger and handed the handle to Eleven,

"The old man's ten years of calculations can't even hide an eight-year-old doll. ”

Elivan took the dagger but didn't put it back in his boots, and he asked, with some disbelief,

"Why? Obviously you and my grandfather both have official seats in the Council of the Nine Towers, and... ”

"I ask you a question, kid. ”

Eleven's words were interrupted by Old Man Stephen, who stretched out a finger and shook it in front of Eleven's eyes, and asked slowly,

"Do you know the contents of the Northern Covenant?"

Elevenn nodded, Sass had been talking about this covenant that was born forty-five years ago since he was born, and he was almost going to recite it backwards,

"Forty-five years ago, the orc alliance broke through the Dragon Canyon, and it took three days to break through the capital of the Duchy of Moras, and the entire northern kingdoms were in chaos, and at the most critical time, thirteen countries, large and small, such as the Holy Del Empire, the Malbo Strait Alliance State, and the Principality of House, jointly issued the Northern Covenant with the Council of the Nine Towers , announced that any force that joined the Northern Alliance could get the gratitude of the Thirteen Kingdoms after the war, and did not hesitate to give a huge reward, including the title, and therefore gathered an army composed of up to 150,000 mercenaries, adventurers, and wild mages, and finally drove the orcs back to the barren stone plateau after five years of fighting, and afterwards the Thirteen Kingdoms also gave the surviving almost 70,000 veterans the wealth and glory they deserved according to the covenant, and thousands of them received knighthoods. ”

Elavin paused, then continued,

It was also thanks to those five years of fighting that the families of Mogedin and Lagelph, who were extremely prominent, were able to officially join the Council of the Nine Towers after the war and obtain the corresponding seats. ”

"Yes, you remember it well, kid. ”

Human closed his eyes, first complimented Eleven, then shook his head again,

"But what you're talking about is only the surface of the Northern Covenant, ordinary soldiers don't talk about it first, have you ever thought about this question: the Council of the Nine Towers forty-five years ago was not the current prominent mage organization of the entire continent, it was just a local mage organization with a little bit of power, how could it command more than 20,000 mages in the entire campaign?"

Eleven's fingers tapped unconsciously on the smooth tabletop, and after a moment, a bold idea came to his mind, and he asked tentatively,

"The Council of the Nine Towers made a deal with you in exchange for the status of the representative of the coalition mage forces?hh, and now it has broken this agreement, so you are leaving the council?"

"Yes, you guessed it right, kid"

The blind old man standing behind Elivan walked around to the wine table, picked up a bottle of crystal dripping wine, and said as he twisted it,

"You can call me Fleming, child, when the Council of the Nine Towers promised our group of seven mage families that as long as we were willing to support the Council of the Nine Towers to become the leader of the mages in the Northlands, we would be able to get equal status with the Council after the war, and every mage in the family could be treated as a full councilor, and the benefits obtained by our family did not need to pay half a cent to the Council of the Nine Towers, and it was completely able to guarantee autonomy and independence, so we chose to retreat in the coalition and fight in the name of the Council of the Nine Towers, which won the current status for the Council and our family after the war。 ”

Sas's deep voice picked up Fleming's words, and his voice was filled with sadness,

"But no one thought those damn green-skinned mongrels would be so strong! The witch doctors among them are also capable of using elemental powers, as well as those more mysterious shamans, almost every duel between mages and witch doctors is extremely bloody and desperate, not to mention the Mogedin family, the Lagerph family has sent a total of four archmages, twelve mages, twenty-five high-level mages, almost poured out, but in the end, there were only ten people left, including Human, and Reilly's only son remained in that desolate land forever, which is no worse than Rhys, and Mosley's husband, Joel's brother...... The seven families have sprinkled almost their best forces on that damn battlefield, and we who are left after the war have won glory only become weaker. ”

"They... How dare they do that!!

Elivan almost instantly constructed the complete process of the subsequent events in his mind, and the seven mage families who had lost most of their strength had no way to resist the Nine Towers Council, which had become even more powerful because of the honor and spoils of war, and the original contract was naturally annulled by the other party.

"Hmph, break the contract? No, they didn't, they just threw us seats in the four councils like a dead dog, and then took the land that originally belonged to the seven families as their own, and brutally siphoned out thirty percent of the business income of the seven families, little Elivan, do you know that the current Sam City was the common property of our seven families at the beginning!"

The thin Mosley's sharp voice was full of resentment and unwillingness,

"Even so, those bastards still refuse to stop there, since the death of Gregory of Thunder, the old tower master of the Tower of Glory who still adheres to the bottom line of the covenant, the turnover of the Chamber of Commerce under the Council of the Nine Towers has increased fivefold, but the income of our seven major families has plummeted by forty percent, those bastards are simply using our blood to feed themselves, those bloodsucking miscellaneous!"

"Damn it!"

Elivan's fist hidden in his cuffs suddenly tightened, he could endure poverty and suffering, but it didn't mean that he was willing to watch what belonged to him be stolen by a group of treacherous villains, and he could fully imagine that the grievances in the hearts of these old people in front of him, although they were different, but their tempers were the same as their grandfather's, were definitely several times more aggrieved than his own.

"But it's all gone!"

Fleming quietly poured the last glass of wine into his mouth, and then slammed the glass to the floor, and the splinters flew everywhere.

"Forty years of recuperation have rejuvenated the Seven Great Families, and although we still can't immediately take back what we have been taken from, at least, we don't have to endure the humiliation of the Nine Towers Council anymore! The Tower of Star and Moon in the southern hills has agreed to the request of the Seven Great Families to join, and the Elves of the Shuruth Alliance, the Elves of the World Island, and the Dwarven Kingdom of the Danmo Snow Mountain also welcome the clansmen of the Seven Great Families to settle down, and we will lie dormant in the south until we are strong enough to take back what belongs to us from the Nine Towers Council!"

"And let them bleed!"

Elivan shouted through gritted teeth.

"Yes, and let them bleed!"

A group of old men and old ladies immediately cheered, fortunately the soundproofing effect of this room is outstanding, otherwise if outsiders see the appearance of the well-dressed big men on weekdays, Sam City will be a sensation tomorrow.

"Grandpa, the Butler Naborg and those servants ......"

Elevenn asked Sass in a whisper, who smiled and nodded,

"They're going to the front station, a few years ago, your father and I have bought a large piece of real estate and enough land for the family to live in Duru, the capital of the Shuruth Alliance, in fact, just this afternoon, when we set off, your parents and Rhys had already set off for the southern hills, and you, you have to stay with us old men for one more night, and tomorrow morning, we will leave here together. ”

"In other words, Rees's promotion ceremony is just a cover?"

"Of course, Mogedin has never been unfamiliar with the position of the Council of the Nine Towers, and we are only here to appease the hearts of those fools. ”

Sass filled himself with another glass of wine, and he didn't know where the old man had found so many good wines, and the sweet botanical aroma in the fragrance made Elevenn swallow himself.

At this moment, Fleming took a sip of his wine and suddenly said, "Why do I feel that the taste of this wine is mellow and a little abnormal?

Hearing Fleming's words, a flash flashed in Elivan's mind, a fragrant aroma, this is not at all the level that the terrible winemaking technology of the current era can reach, in fact, even the best red wine in Mogedin Manor, Elivan, is not good, but the wine that these old men drink today seems to be a little too mellow, and these aromas seem to have been heard somewhere.

"Where the hell is it?"

Elivan sat on the sofa and pondered, his subconscious told him that this matter was very important, and except for the painful memory when his soul traveled from the earth to the endless void, his subconscious never made a mistake, in fact, the painful memory of that period of time Eleven's own face was a little unclear, as if it was covered with a layer of gauze, although it really existed, but it was vague and people didn't want to remember.

By this time, the other old man, Reilly, was already a little drunk, and he asked loudly while shaking the empty wine bottle in his hand,

"Speaking of which, Xiuman, why didn't I know you still had such a good wine here?

"Oh, these wines, these are the old wines that I specially ordered Hawkes to take out of the cellar, and let me think about it, alas, it seems that when we came back from the battlefield, we bought them from the treasure merchants who traveled in the eastern mountains, and it is said that the nobles of the eastern mountains made good wine with the most delicious grain, and it is different from the fruit wine of ours. ”

While touching his forehead, Human said perfunctorily,

"It's so old, I only drank a few drinks and I got a little dizzy. ”

"Wait, don't drink, everyone, there's something wrong with these wines!"

Human's words crossed Eleven's mind like a bolt of lightning, and he jumped up from the couch almost like a spring, snatched the bottle from Reilly's hand, and shouted,

"My mother is from the eastern mountains, and I have heard her say more than once that the nobles there make a fragrant grain wine, but it is a spicy taste, not the fragrance of this plant at all!

And Fleming, who is a high-level alchemist, also screamed,

"I remember, it's the extract of the Black Mamba Tree, and during the Northern War, we used this extract to make mana dissipation potions to trap those captured witch doctors and shamans!

"What! Black Mamba Tree! Damn!"

Mosley was the first to react, she grabbed the white bone staff on the side of the sofa, and said something in her mouth, wanting to perform a poison detection technique, but it was okay not to use magic power, and when the magic vortex on her body just lit up, the old lady's eyes widened, and she opened her mouth to spit out a mouthful of black blood, and her thin body also fell backwards, and the light blue magic vortex that lit up dissipated almost immediately.

"No... That's right... It's really a mana dissipation potion, this feeling... Ah!!h

Mosley let out a painful wail, her whole body twitching, but after a few seconds, the pain stopped forever, and in an instant, the whole room was plunged into an indescribably strange atmosphere.