Augustus didn't speak, and those unfortunate childhood experiences may also be an important reason for Elija's complex personality, but so what? In this world full of sin, there are countless encounters like Illya, such as Sophia, Constantine's nightmares are not terrible? If there is no protection and companionship of Mass, even with the protection of the old duke, I believe that Sophia will be difficult to grow up healthily, so just silently looking at the tears on Illya's beautiful face, Augustus did not even have a trace of change in expression, he was not an emotional person in the first place, not to mention that Illya did not even have anything to do with him except for the current preliminary cooperation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It seems that the reopened scar did indeed plunge Illya into pain.

Augustus sensed that Illya's emotions could not be calmed down for a short time, and after thinking about it, he motioned for Elizabeth to stay in the study with her, and he left the desk and walked to the door of the study.

Elizabeth showed her displeasure with her eyes, but helplessly.

Outside the study, Illya's personal butler Murphy obviously wouldn't know that his young lady was immersed in grief in the study, and he was a little strange when he saw Augustus walk out, but he still saluted Augustus respectfully and decently, Augustus had already passed by him, but when he walked down the steps, he suddenly retracted his steps and stood in front of Murphy, thoughtful.

He looked at Illya's personal butler, who he was very interested in from the beginning, there is no doubt that this is a very good-looking man, this kind of good-looking does not refer to the handsome appearance, but the unique temperament of a mature man, Augustus is no stranger to this temperament, just like Sophia's personal butler Nicholas will also give him this feeling, subtle and proud, low-key but wise, is the type that Augustus has always admired.

He suddenly said, "I'm going to Saiyan City to have a look, are you interested in going together?"

Murphy was stunned.

It would not have occurred to Alfred that the helmsman did not talk to his young lady, but inexplicably invited him to come along?

He looked at the study with some hesitation, and signaled that his young lady was still inside, and did not directly reject Augustus, but that was what he meant—but what was even more unexpected was that although he implicitly refused, Augustus still stood in front of him as if he could not understand his refusal at all, waiting for his answer.

That is, this invitation was not to ask for his opinion, but to force?

Murphy made a gesture of invitation and smiled, "That's my pleasure." ”

......

It didn't take long to get from Alfred Castle to Saiyan City, and outside the city, Augustus handed over the horse he and Murphy were riding to Baron Marshall, who greeted him, and then did not let Baron Marshall accompany him, just him and Eliya, the personal butler, and they walked in the newly built Saiyan City.

On the way, Augustus said casually: "Although the idea you gave to Illya at the beginning was dishonorable, it worked, otherwise I might never have seen your young lady." ”

Murphy, who still didn't know the young man's intentions for him to go with him, smiled, didn't explain, and didn't speak.

Augustus didn't continue to talk about this topic, pointing to a new tall building on Saiyan City Road, and introduced Murphy very unreasonably: " This is a casino, the infrastructure has been completed, the rest is the interior decoration, according to my ideas, I will not pay attention to what art and style, just two words, gorgeous, how gorgeous how to decorate it, and wait until the day of real business, in addition to the current popular dice in the empire, playing cards, I will add some interesting games, now I can't say, but on the playing cards I can at least figure out dozens of different ways to play, believe me, that will make the rich and aristocratic willing to take out a lot of gold to try their luck。 And there, it's an arena, and the only attraction of the Empire's most coveted arena is violence and blood, but after all these years, won't people find it boring?

"As for the brothel, I'd love to find it hard to come up with any tricks, I once tried to think of catching a few legendary female elves in the misty forest east of Diago to use as the finale of the brothel, but the current conditions are limited, and the time is limited, so I can only temporarily focus on the lich in the north, the female shaman should be a good idea, but alas, I owe it to the shaman, then there are only orcs, Murphy, do you think there will be nobles willing to pay for the orcs?"

Murphy felt the seriousness of the young man beside him, and his expression was complicated.

Augustus didn't mind his silence, pointed to the tall buildings on both sides, and continued: "All the buildings here will be shops in the future, except for hotels, Restaurants, more will be shopping places, you may also know, the Siberian taiga has many things that are very popular with the nobles of the empire, such as fox fur, such as sable fur, and many indispensable materials in the cultivation process of magicians, all of which have raised countless adventurers to seek wealth in the wasteland, this is of course a huge business opportunity, when my territory and Donald's territory have been repaired, I will start to buy the inventory in the hands of adventurers, and in the future, I will also divide the Siberian taiga as Alfred's private property, they can seek wealth in the taiga, but whether it is prey, gems, magic materials, etcIt has to be sold to Alfred, and Alfred will buy and sell, what do you think of this idea?"

If Augustus's dark business was only to Murphy's admiration, then the concept he proposed must be shocking anyway.

Although he was still puzzled why Augustus introduced him in such detail, he finally asked curiously: "In the long run, this is indeed a good thing for the group of adventurers, after all, some of them will never have to worry about selling things in the future and not receiving gold, but there should be many adventurers who protest, you know, adventurers are lonely and free, and if you impose restraints on them, they will inevitably suffer resistance." ”

"It's okay to rebel, I allow it, but whoever resists will never be allowed to set foot in the taiga, and forever lose the opportunity to seek wealth from the wasteland. ”

Murphy frowned: "Do you mean iron-fisted suppression? Are you underestimating those adventurers? If they join forces, I believe you will not have an easy time dealing with it." ”

Augustus stopped suddenly: "This is one of the reasons why the Knights Cathar are stationed in the wasteland, what Alfred can't do, can't the Knights Cathar do either?"

Murphy's eyes widened: "It turns out that all this you have done is actually supported by a certain big figure in the Holy See! No wonder you are unscrupulous, and you have no extra worries at all!"

Augustus ignored Murphy's surprise.

Standing in the middle of the tall building, he looked at the black capital that was built by him and may not necessarily belong to him completely, and said softly: "Monopoly makes huge profits, you come from the empire, you should know very well that the empire and the Holy See are currently cracking down on the black industry on a large scale, for example, what happened to Douglas now is his bloody business, so that the empire must make a gesture - However, existence is reasonable, since these black industries can bring the most rolling profits, indicating that his market is quite large, then in this case, it is not the best outcome for the wasteland to take over all this? As long as there is gold, in the wasteland, you can do whatever you want, and you can buy anything you like, even life, even soul. What I am doing now is to make the wasteland a sinful and thriving trading capital, which may be hell for the good and compassionate, but will also be an eternal paradise for the rich. ”

One must marvel at the insane but by no means absurd magnitude of this young man's work.

He is indeed quite possible to do things that no one would even think of at all!

Murphy exclaimed, "You are the greatest of all the nobles I have ever met. ”

Augustus suddenly stared at Murphy's eyes, which made Murphy surprised and flustered, and after a long time, he said slowly: "It's a pity, these are just ideas, and I don't know if I have time to complete my ideas." ”

"Why do you have such concerns? Aren't there a big man in the Holy See behind you?" Murphy couldn't figure it out, and wondered, "Is it because you're worried that Rodrian, Herman, behind Douglas, will destroy your plan?"

Augustus shook his head and did not speak again.

......

They continued to walk deeper into Saiyan City, and the newly built road under their feet had basically connected to the Donald Territory, and the final step was to build it from the Donald Territory all the way to the Albassan and then to the Alpine Grand Canyon.

Murphy, who was following behind Augustus, noticed that Augustus didn't mean to speak again, and couldn't help but say: "I still don't understand the reason why you are telling me this, I am just Miss Eliya's personal butler, no matter how you think about it, I don't think you need to tell me this." ”

Augustus didn't look back, and said calmly: "I know where you came from, and maybe even Illya doesn't know about those things. ”

Murphy stopped.

Although his expression was still calm and gentle.

Augustus continued: "By chance, my people know that you were once Vanessa's fiancé, the future husband of Cromoa, the jewel of Cromoa's family, before the demise of Illya's mother's family. No one knows where you were when Cromoa fell, and no one noticed that Miss Cromoa had a fiancé, probably because your family was neither prominent nor powerful, and it was difficult to get the eye on others, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that many years later, you suddenly came back and became Vanessa's daughter's personal butler, or for revenge? or for some other reason, in short, you came back. ”

This is something that even Illya doesn't know.

Murphy wondered how the young man knew about it.

His eyes were complicated, and his tone was still steady: "It seems that you do know a lot. ”

"Of course. Augustus turned to look at the middle-aged man, whose experience was comparable to that of a troubadour's novel, and said, "I even know what kind of people you met and what you went through during the many years you disappeared. ”

Murphy was indifferent, apparently waiting for Augustus to continue.

Augustus tilted his head and asked casually, "You are now a full member of the Retreat?"

......

...... (To be continued.) )