"Everyone, everyone!" cried out 79-year-old Henikos Fernando dryly, but he was too old and his strength seemed to be running out for a long time, so his voice was so small that none of the thirty or so people in the room could hear him.

This is the imperial capital of Birmingham - a mansion of Fernando, to be precise, an outer mansion of Birmingham, because Birmingham and the mansions of more than thirty nobles and officials present already belong to Luke, this is the exchange they made when the orcs attacked, in exchange for these properties that are likely to be destroyed in the war in exchange for the right to leave the imperial capital and go to Seabreeze City, so Birmingham can only barely live in this not a gorgeous residence.

When these royalty, nobles and officials who fled to the Southern Seabreeze City learned that the defense of the imperial capital was over, they quickly returned to the imperial capital through the magic teleportation array, but they found that they had lost the right to inherit the throne, and Catherine's ascension to the queen's throne made them lose the possibility of running for the king, and Catherine's coronation was done in accordance with the laws of the empire, and they were powerless to change this established fact.

Catherine's ascension to the throne alone was not enough, and now that the entire imperial capital was in Luke's hands, the wealth of these royal residences was completely emptied, and a large number of commoners were inhabited, how could the Fernando royal family, who had always prided itself on nobility, endure it?

"Be quiet!" Birmingham, as the master, looked at the chaos and his face was immediately full of displeasure, but his aristocratic recuperation quickly diluted this negative emotion and became calm. In order not to want the discussion to be spent in chaos, Birmingham decided to preside over the whole meeting himself, and he shouted a few words to finally bring the chaos under control.

When calm had gradually regained in the room, Birmingham said, "We are all descendants of Fernando, and we have noble blood. But now that Luke is in power, our royal family of Fernando is about to fall, which is absolutely not allowed. ”

"Nonsense, aren't we sitting here just to discuss some countermeasures?" said a man from the royal family, who was about thirty years old, disdainfully.

"Shut up!" Birmingham yelled, slapping the table in front of him hard, "I'll say it again, don't talk, listen to me first, and if anyone messes around again, don't blame me for being rude." ”

"Cut, you Birmingham are no more noble than anyone, by ......" The man said nonchalantly, and watched as Birmingham pulled out a magic scroll from his body and tore it open to himself. The man, who was about thirty years old, watched as a light blue lightning bolt shot out of the broken magic scroll and slashed directly at himself, and then he didn't know anything.

"Ahh Birmingham looked at the frightened eyes of the people in front of him, and without saying anything, he took out the second magic scroll directly from his arms. His action immediately shocked everyone present, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

"No one talks anymore now, right?" Birmingham said lightly: "If you have something, please speak, don't quarrel randomly, we are superior people!"

After Birmingham's words were finished, no one dared to answer, which made Birmingham's heart very satisfied, and he said with great ambition: "We are here today to discuss a countermeasure against Luke, but everyone knows that Luke has a monopoly on power, and we don't have many subordinates, so it is not advantageous to confront it head-on." ”

"In order to better integrate our forces, I propose to form an organization, put all our forces under the management of this organization, and then work together to deal with Luke. For the sake of secrecy, we will not have such a big gathering in the future, but will have a small, highly confidential meeting. ”

With that, Birmingham put away the magic scroll in his hand and motioned for everyone to express their opinions. Henikos, who was almost 80 years old, stood up tremblingly, leaned on crutches and said, "I agree! Everything we have comes from this empire, and if the empire does not exist, we will not exist." It is wisest to concentrate all your forces now, and as for the future, I believe that the victor can be rewarded well enough. ”

"Very well, Henikos' opinion is my opinion!"

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!"

"So be it. ”

Everyone present expressed their attitudes one after another, and they had everything to say for a while. However, a childish voice sounded suddenly: "Then who will be the leader of this organization?"

Everyone looked at it and saw that it was Hubble's half-brother, thirteen-year-old Harry Fernando. Birmingham nodded and said, "Yes, it's a difficult question, but I think if we think about it, we can get the answer." ”

"Yes, yes. Cough...... Ahem......" Henikos coughed continuously, and he said slowly, "I have the best candidate. ”

"Your person must be the best fit. Birmingham thought that Henikos would recommend himself to do the same thing as he had just agreed with his opinion, so he complimented him a few words, but Henikos changed his tone and said: "Queen Catherine, the widow of Fernando XIII, is the best candidate!"

"Your Majesty, please reappoint Victor as the Chief Wizard of the Crown, we need to borrow his power now. Luke said to Catherine, who was sitting on the throne, "Now those old guys in the imperial capital are starting to be restless again, these people are really a headache, can't they stay at home honestly?"

Catherine listened to Luke's complaints, smiled and said, "Lord Luke, you don't have to ask me about these things, you can handle them all." ”

"No, Your Majesty!" retorted Luke, "it is a matter of royal majesty, and it must be written by you yourself, otherwise it will be invalid and counterproductive." ”

"No problem, I agree, please draw up the text, I will sign it. ”

"Thank you very much, Her Majesty. Luke expressed his heartfelt gratitude, in his opinion, the current Queen Catherine is really too competent, she fully understands what she should and should not do, and never pointed fingers at Luke and Orlando's behavior, and it is Catherine's practice that makes the reconstruction of the entire imperial capital go quite smoothly, and there are almost no problems.

Luke excitedly took the letter of appointment written by Catherine himself, and came to the courtyard where Victor lived, and he couldn't even wait to enter Victor's study and shouted loudly: "Victor, look what this is!" Unexpectedly, no one answered Luke even shouted a few times, he felt a little strange in his heart, and pushed open the door and walked into Victor's study.

It was a room large enough to accommodate dozens of people, and in fact, this room was Victor's magic laboratory at Luke's mansion. Now, the room was empty, except for a letter quietly placed on the table in the middle of the room.

Luke suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and he hurriedly walked over, took the letter in his hand, then tore it open, pulled out the letter inside, and read it line by line. There was only one sentence in the letter: "Old friend, I'm going back to the Magic Tower." The name of Victor is written on the end of the letter, and with Luke's eyes, he can naturally recognize that this is Victor's handwritten letter.

"Damn, why did you go back to the Magic Tower at this time?" Luke complained in a low voice, and continued to whisper, "His magic tower is also only accessible to him, and it seems that even Faraz has never been there, oh, I remember, when he was in the Royal Athletic Tournament, Ryan also went in with him." ”

"Alas, Ryan and they are not in the Imperial Capital, and I don't know how they are now, I hope they can attract Senat's attention and let my envoy complete his mission successfully. ”

Luke thought about it for a long time, and then regained his senses, he was about to put the letter in his hand back on the table, but found that there seemed to be words written on the back of the letter, Luke quickly turned over the letterhead, but found that it read: "Royal Chief Magician, I'm really not interested, I've been bound to this position for so many years, and now I just regain my freedom, you find someone else, it's really not good, Ryan's kid can do it, haha!"

"This Victor, it's really ......" Luke put the letter on the table with a wry smile, he shook his head slightly, bitter about Victor's choice. Victor had apparently guessed Luke's next move, so he left early, as long as Victor was unwilling, no one on this continent could forcibly open Victor's magic tower, which meant that Victor was now isolated from the world.

"It's still a bit troublesome now, at least without Victor's deterrence, those guys who don't know whether to live or die are going to jump out again. Luke thought to himself, "But it's okay, when they start, I'll let Orlando defeat them completely, but throw all these parasites to Seabreeze City, where the province will get in the way." ”

"As for Ryan, I don't know where they are now......" Luke was thinking about it when he heard a sound of footsteps outside, and when the footsteps came to the door, a man's deep voice said, "My lord, Southern Emergency!"

Luke pushed open the door and walked out, seeing a messenger standing there accompanied by his two guards, Luke nodded slightly, motioning for the messenger to continue: "My lord, the first booking goal has been completed, and Chiraviv of Free Heaven has declared permanent neutrality. ”

"Oh, yes, let's talk about the specifics. ”

"Yes, sir. On that day, our group disguised as a convoy of chambers of commerce crossed the defense line of Senat and arrived directly at the Paradise of Liberty, where we passed through the ......"