The Emerald City where the Emerald Harbor is located is one of the most prosperous cities in the entire continent.

This mega-city, which covers an area of more than ten Cohenas, is as crowded and bustling as all the commercial cities on the continent of Kaios.

But in the middle of the city, a small area of the inner city, is a different story.

Even in winter, the grass is still green, the brook is babbling, the canopy of the purple mullion tree that has grown for thousands of years covers hundreds of meters, and five or six children are laughing and playing under the tree.

Lady Marina, smiling, looked at the children, and her two children were in the midst of it.

In the first few years after marrying into the Medici family, her life was not easy, and her husband Alex barely spoke to her.

She understands that she is only a victim of the marriage of two families for the sake of profit, and the same is true of her husband, who has never smiled at her. When I first married him, I even heard that he had an elf mistress outside the bread.

Like all aristocratic wives who have fallen out of favor, Marlena has also found lovers, more than one.

But six or seven years ago, her husband Alex didn't know why, but he actually started to pay attention to her.

Marlena quickly found out the reason, more than ten years ago, when she first got married, her husband's elf mistress disappeared, Alex spent countless energy, a full seven or eight years of searching, still found nothing, presumably dead.

After that, Marlena was very competitive and gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl. The boy among them will be the rightful heir of the Medici family in the future.

Alex is also very fond of these two children, and will spend a moment with them every day, no matter how busy they are.

But recently, that has changed, and he hasn't been home for five days.

"Ma'am. ”

One is slightly chubby. The middle-aged man in the green silk robe was already standing beside Lady Marina at some point.

Lum was nominally Madame's attendant and attendant, but in fact he was a magician, and he was a confidant brought from her mother's family when Madame got married. When Alex was on the other hand, he was also one of Marina's lovers.

"Something for you to inquire about. How's it going?" asked Madame.

"There are joys and sorrows. Rum replied.

The lady glanced at him, then turned her gaze to the child under the tree, and said, "Say." ”

Rum was a little dissatisfied with her attitude and didn't dare to show it on his face. Since Mrs. Marlena gave birth to a boy for Alex, her status has risen in both the Medici family and the Prinz family, and she is no longer the little sweetheart she was back then.

"Alex has found the elf. ”

"What!"

Lady Marlena soon realized her gaffe. Try to pretend to be calm.

Seeing her appearance, Lum secretly sighed in his heart, and paused for a moment before continuing, "But the elf is dead. ”

The corners of Madame's mouth unconsciously curved, and even the crow's feet on her eyes were exposed, although she paid great attention to maintenance, and even still called her attractiveness, but the years still ruthlessly shed marks on her face. Marlena has no talent for magic. He also did not have knightly training and was an ordinary person.

"But her child is still alive. Seventeen years old. ”

As he spoke, he observed Marina's expression, and sure enough, her smile disappeared immediately. Although they are in a very different position now, they can still manipulate the other person's emotional changes, and Rum likes this feeling.

"They have children?!" Marlena screamed. She didn't know that.

"It's a girl. ”

Madame's face returned to calm, and not only that, but she also looked at Rum fiercely, and after a few moments of joy and sorrow, she seemed to see the other man's thoughts.

Lum panicked. Hurriedly said: "That girl has boarded a magic boat under the name of the family, and is coming in the direction of Kaios, you see, should we ......?"

He stretched out his right hand, put his fingers together, and with a slight wave, made a downward cutting motion.

"You go and arrange it now, I don't want to see her appear in Emerald Harbor!"

Rum nodded and was about to step back, but Marlena added, "Alex must not be allowed to know about this." ”

"Madame, don't worry, I will find the right person. ”

On 6 February, the Esther arrived at the port of Ormano, where Gernada disembarked at night and handed over Donner's letter to Wesley to the right people.

Early the next morning, a handsome young man boarded the ship.

This young man with the pseudonym Ocelot is in a very good mood at the moment, he has received a blue crystal level mission this time, and once he completes it, he can immediately be promoted from a silver killer to a gold medal.

With such an important mission, he would not have been found, but it just so happened that he was the only Western-speaking killer of Shadowblade near the port of Ormano.

According to the information given by the mysterious patron, the target of this assassination is a half-elf girl who has lived in the Doron Continent since she was a child.

However, although Oslot can speak Western, he doesn't know anything about the Doron Continent, so the identity he uses to disguise at the moment is a minor nobleman in the Silver Finchflower Federation in the eastern part of the Huls Continent.

The day after he got on the boat, he found the half-elf girl.

Donner was in a coma for a day and a night, and when he awoke, the Esther was about to depart from the port of Ormano, when Gernada told him that the letter had been handed over to the right person.

"It seems that you can't play with your life like this unless you have to. This is the lesson he has learned, but fortunately, the price to pay for it is not too great.

On the first day of his awakening, his body was still a little weak, and the dwarf gave him a day off. All day, Donner leaned back in bed and looked out the porthole at the endless sea.

In the evening, he was so bored that he decided to go out for a walk.

He went into the dining room, ate something, had already finished the meal, there were few people in the restaurant, a few young people sat in the corner, as if exchanging feelings about the journey, but what they said, Donner did not understand.

If they knew that they were being raised and enslaved by the Magic Continent, would they still be so comfortable?

Coming out of the restaurant, he wanted to go to the casino, but when he came to the door, he gave up again, it was too noisy inside.

In the ballroom, the music is still beautiful, and the smell of hormones is still permeating, but for some reason, since knowing the possible secrets of the Magic Continent, Donner has always felt that the prosperity of Middle-earth seems a little fake. Like a bubble that can burst at any moment.

"Hey, why didn't you come down yesterday? Hmm, why are you so ugly?"

"Sick. Donner casually responded, and the half-elf girl didn't look so annoying.

"You look depressed. "The girl saw it very accurately.

"Is it so obvious?" Donner smiled helplessly.

"What happened, the Countess rejected you?" Rikko teased.

Donner gave the girl a blank look and turned to leave.

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Some of the things to be said, because they are more important, are placed in the main text:

At this point, book lovers will probably be able to discover that the Magic Continent is plundering the resources of Middle-earth through technological monopoly, and the Far North is also a victim.

It is the strategy of the Magic Continent to suppress the development of Middle-earth in a planned way, so the magical civilization of Middle-earth has not developed for so many years.

Some people may say that skilled immigration is impossible to be thorough, and there may still be geniuses who, in some corner of Middle-earth, discovered the secrets of the primitive, just like Donner.

Yes, there is such a possibility, which is why the Shadow Blade exists.

So, what role does the Knights' Federation play in this activity of plundering between civilizations?

The answer is actually quite simple, and such examples can be found in the history of the earth.

The Wall of Desperation is a natural condition for the gap between civilizations in the Wizarding Continent and Middle-earth, and in fact, cliffs like this exist on Earth as well.

At this point, there are still a lot of unresolved suspense in this book, so there will still be things that don't seem right, so please be patient. (To be continued.) )