Under the moonlit night, Count Gophilo stood on top of the manor tower, looking out at the aristocratic district of Bena City, where the exquisite manor houses were surrounded by large woodlands, which were even more precious in this city where land was at a premium.

As a member of the oldest aristocratic and wealthy families in Bena Province, the Gophilo family ranks low among the wealthy families, but the style of the aristocratic and wealthy families is vividly reflected everywhere, whether it is a silver gorgeous carriage or a simple manor garden, the style and taste of the family members are almost all in pursuit of luxury that only the wealthy nobles have.

It's just that this is the Gophilo family 200 years ago, when the Gophilo family had the top constructed swordsman regiment in Bena Province, and the brave and good Gophilo swordsmen were almost everywhere on the battlefield in Bena Province, and they used the most unique broad-bladed swords to lay down the glory days of the Gophilo family.

Today's Gophilo family, in the absence of the blessing of the legendary powerhouse, the decline of the family covers almost all aspects.

In the last 100 years, there have been few outstanding leaders in the Gophilo family.

In this generation, Count Gophilo is almost the worst patriarch.

Before his accession to the throne, Count Gophilo was a very active and prominent young nobleman in the province of Pena, and he put forward many new ideas, only to realize in the process of practice that his ideas could only be described as too idealistic.

As a result, repeated family reforms, territorial expansion, and business operations have all ended in failure.

Count Gophilo has always been stubborn in his belief that he is only one step away from success, and that if Lady Luck is a little better to him, these things may succeed.

But the reality is very slap in the face, and Lady Luck never seems to be on his side.

Now with the overexploitation of resources in some private planes, some planes are depleted of energy, so the united nobles have to abandon these planes.

The plundering of resources on the plane has always been the main economic pillar supporting the private armies of the noble lords, and since the Gophilo family's constructed swordsman group withdrew from the name of the Bednar Legion, the Gophilo constructed swordsman group has gradually disappeared in this nearly 100-year history.

The dimensional resources shrank little by little, dragging down the giant chariot of the Gophilo family little by little.

In addition to this seemingly vast city manor, the Gophilo family has very limited assets at present, almost all of which have fallen into the hands of family members, although the Gophilo family looks very down, but some family members are richer than expected.

This time Harvey. Gophilo wanted to do a wheat milling business, and for this purpose Harvey also invited the spokesman of the Kennelly family's wheat flour business, the southern noble lord. Baron Kennelli, in order to raise the down payment for this business, Count Gophilo not only allocated the last amount of money in the family coffers to Harvey, Harvey also borrowed some money from other family members, which can be regarded as nearly 5,000 magic crystals.

Count Gophilo remembered Harvey's rambling about plans to build a business empire at the dinner table, about the expected profit of wheat flour shipped from the south, and encouraging many family members to participate in the shares.

The money was in Harvey's hands, and before it was even warmed up, it was sent to Jack like Harvey's treasure. Kennelly's hands.

In just one afternoon, rumors were circulating throughout the city of Bena that a gang of crooks had Harvey Brown. Baron Gophilo played a lot of games.

Count Gophilo I. He grew a lot older in the night, and he was even a little hunchbacked, and his originally sharp gaze became a little dark.

He stood alone on the tower blowing the cold wind, the last batch of magic crystals in the family vault was emptied by his son Harvey, and the savings of other family members were also buried here.

He could feel that the crisis facing the Gophilo family was more serious than before.

In fact, Harvey also consumed the last vestige of trust that the Gophilo family members had in the head of the family.

No one even ran to Gopphil's manor to ask Count Gophilo for those crystals, because they knew that even if they asked Count Gophilo for it now, Count Gophilo might not be able to get it.

In fact, he really couldn't take out that many magic crystals.

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Harvey. At first, Baron Gophilo hid outside and did not dare to return home.

When Count Gophilo heard the news, although he did not scold him, he just looked at him with a numb and cold face, and then ignored him, which was obviously more uncomfortable than scolding him.

He went crazy all over the world looking for Jack. Kennelly even went so far as to mobilize his connections in Bednar City, but unfortunately no good news came back.

He initially thought that Jack. Baron Kennelly may be playing a joke on him, and he doesn't have to look for it seriously, he will show up when he loses patience.

Later, he hoped that Jack. Halfway through Baron Kennelly's absconding with the money, he suddenly realized that the magic airships loaded with wheat were about to arrive in Pena City, and he felt that absconding with the money was just the rudest exchange of resources, and he would run back to continue this similar resource swap transaction.

In fact, he was just hoping for a miracle.

His horse was tired of running, and stood in the street panting, its hooves digging at the snow on the ground, refusing to take another step.

Harvey grabbed the reins of the horse with one hand, raised his whip and whipped the horse a few times.

The horse immediately stood on its feet, nearly knocking Baron Harvey off his horse.

Baron Harvey put his body around the neck of the war horse, and his body was tightly attached to the body of the war horse, but the war horse's temper was very irritable, and the body then fell heavily and trampled on the ground, and the huge reaction force immediately made Baron Harvey rise upside down from the horse, Harvey lost control of his body, and then was slammed by the back of the war horse, and fell off the horse fiercely.

He was ashamed and angry, limping up from the ground, and he felt that he was really careless, not only by Jack. Kennelly was deceived, and he was even bullied by his own warhorse.

In a fit of rage, he pulled out his long sword at his waist and pierced it through the ribs of the war horse into the heart of his abdomen, and a fat and sturdy war horse fell to the snow in a painful wail, a large amount of blood splattered from the wound, and it was not long before the war horse died in the street.

Harvey planned to borrow some money from a friend to tide over the situation, but he didn't expect to visit several friends on weekdays one after another, and these usual friends rejected his requests to borrow money, and no one was willing to lend him the rest of the money in his hand.

After visiting six friends in quick succession, Harvey returned to the Gophilo family estate disheartened.

As soon as he entered the manor, he looked up to see the desolate Count Gophilo standing alone on top of the tower.

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Surdak rode over the moat drawbridge of the city of Bena and watched the gates close again, with an indescribable sense of joy......