Xia Lin, you really deceived a lot of people this time! I'll see how you end up when you get back!

Seeing these sad-faced employees of the industrial park, Harper smiled slightly on the corner of his mouth, and followed the man's guidance through the dense crowd into the church.

The Church churches in the Sassen Empire usually did not carry out missionary activities and other activities, and their sources of income were composed of several aspects: first, the small tuition fees obtained by the literacy classes opened by the churches, second, the income received by the priests from funeral weddings and child delivery, third, donations from all walks of life, and fourth, various crops produced by the teaching fields near the churches.

The second and third incomes were generous but unstable, and the clergy in Hurgana were required to turn over a portion of their income to the headquarters of the Church Church, which was located in the Mid-District.

In this case, the church of the Church in the West Quarter is not large, with only a main church building, and a stone longhouse where the monks and priests lived, surrounded by the monks' fields, lawns, and a cemetery at the back.

And the size of this church is also very different from the palace of the nobles, even if it is stuffed with people, it can only accommodate about a hundred people.

At Charlem Carr's funeral, the number of people who came to the church was clearly far more than that, the employees of the industrial park were waiting outside, and the representatives of the nobles who came to pay their respects from the alliance had to take turns in and out of the church.

The lawn near the church was filled with waiting nobles, and Harper saw Abbot Manan Amos in black mage robes talking to some other mages in mage robes under a cherry tree that had lost its leaves.

"Your Excellency, I can only send you here!"

The man stopped outside the church and said apologetically to Harper.

"Thank you for showing the way, that's enough to get here, please go get busy first!"

Harper nodded gratefully at him, and walked first into the church, where two acquaintances of Harper's acquaintances were registering for the entrance to the church, but the main work was apparently carried out by the young man in the aristocratic dress.

"Long time no see, Master Ellen Greg, are you and Anthony in charge of registering guests today?"

Harper approached the two and questioned Ellen Greg.

"Excuse me, are you?"

Ellen Greg was a little puzzled when he saw this figure in a mage robe, although Harper and Old John had been in charge of transporting sugar to the Greg Chamber of Commerce, but Ellen had never met him, so it was still Harper's one-sided understanding of Ellen.

"Your Excellency Viscount Ellen, this is Master Harper Cole, my brother's friend!"

Anthony hurriedly introduced aloud. Although Anthony learned to forge and smelt with Bessie's father, Buck Sr., he didn't know much about the text, and he was here to introduce Ellen to some of the Carl's relatives and friends.

"Harper Cole? Since you're Charin's friend, you're also my Ellen's friend.

It's a pity that Xia Lin actually died at the hands of a mage because of some conspiracy, and I wanted to invite him to my father's funeral yesterday, but when my father was rarely sober, he always wanted to see him, but unfortunately, ......

When Ellen Greg heard Harper's identity as a mage, and the two were close in age, he couldn't help but feel a little good, and said eagerly, but when it came to Xia Lin, he showed a sad and regretful look.

Stopping the conversation, Ellen dipped the pen in the inkwell, wrote Harper's name in the guest booklet, and then asked Harper:

"So now are you going to go in and mourn Xia Lin? If you need it, take these cypress leaves! Although the coffin is only a mage robe, I think our nostalgia for Xia Lin will always convey the past."

"Of course!"

Harper nodded, took the cypress leaf that Anthony handed him, and followed the nobles in front of him towards the church.

"Excuse me, Mr. John!"

Soon Harper saw him in front of the coffin

Old John, who came to mourn the guests, seemed quite uncomfortable with the polite attitude of these noble lords.

The term "sir" was reserved in the Empire for scholars, physicians, teachers, and other professions, so their attitude terrified Old John, but he did his duty as a father and stood by the coffin to see off his son on his last journey.

The rest of the Carl family sat silently on a brown bench beside them, and Hurley and Bessie didn't have their usual energy.

"Uncle John......"

Harper walked along the procession, and when he saw Old John's much older face, he opened his mouth and hesitated for a moment, but still did not utter those hypocritical comforting words to deceive the old man.

"Harper, Xia Lin would be very happy to know that you are here!"

Old John patted Harper on the shoulder disapprovingly, sighed, and said.

「…… Well, I know."

Harper looked at the mage robe that Xia Lin used to wear in the rudimentary pine coffin, placed the few cypress leaves that symbolized eternal peace in the culture of the Sassen Empire, and then ended the simple mourning process and walked outside the church.

At this moment, there was a commotion outside, and Harper followed the sound out of the church in confusion, and found that it was actually Queen Dorothea and several nobles who had come to the small church, and the pastor of the church and Ellen Greg were coming forward to receive these distinguished guests for the Carl family.

"Your Highness, Great Princess, please have mercy on your people and tell us what to do in the future?"

Seeing the dignity of the princess, the workers and employees who stayed near the church told her their worries with worried expressions.

Even children in the slums know that the development and growth of Xinglan Industrial Park is indispensable to the support of the royal daughter and many big nobles.

"Don't worry! Sons of the Empire! Although Sir Charlin died in a terrible assassination, I promise you that the Starblue Industrial Park will still operate as it was before, and the person in charge will still be Wyatt Jays, the vice president of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce!

Now, let us go first and pay our respects to the venerable Sir Charrain!"

Princess Dorothea was reluctant to let her attendants forcibly disperse the group of employees who had come to mourn Xia Lin, and promised loudly.

After receiving the promise of the princess Dorothea, many employees who were uneasy in their hearts breathed a sigh of relief and made a wide way for the princess Dorothea and the nobles around her in an orderly manner.

Seeing the noble princess and several big nobles walking towards him, Harper quickly got out of the way, and watched these big nobles enter the church, and couldn't help but feel some emotion and envy in his heart.

For someone like Xia Lin to be able to get the condolences of so many high-status people "after death" can be regarded as a success.

Ellen Greg was busy helping the Carl family with a few distinguished guests, and Harper simply took his place and began to register the guests who had come to pay their respects.

According to the funeral customs of the Sassen Empire, the family holding the funeral was required to send a letter of thanks to the guests after the funeral.

This was usually a custom adopted by merchants or aristocratic families, and at first the Karl family was completely unprepared, but planned to hold a simple funeral in this church, and bury Charlin's clothes as a body.

But Ellen Greg, who came to the church early to mourn, realized that this was inappropriate, and personally began to organize a funeral for Xia Lin in line with his identity.

Although there is no way to change the location, the form must at least match his status as an honorary knight.

Harper received more than a dozen guests, and just as Old John and the others were sending Queen Dorothea and several nobles out of the church with worried faces, they saw from a distance that there was a sudden commotion outside the courtyard gate of the church.

It turned out to be a well-armed palace guard with a clear flag staff and a palace attendant wearing a squire uniform who came to Xia Lin's funeral.

"It seems that my father takes Sir Charlin very seriously."

Seeing the guards and the court attendant who had squeezed a path through the crowd, the princess Dorothea said thoughtfully.

When the other nobles saw this court attendant, they also showed surprised expressions and temporarily stopped talking.

"His Majesty Plitt decrees that Sir Charlem Carr Honoris be promoted to the rank of Imperial Baron, and that the Barony will be given a hundred arls, which cannot be hereditary! Who is Mr. John Carr? I beg you to accept this decree on behalf of Baron Charin!"

"No, Squire Straw, I'll just accept this decree!"

Queen Dorothea took a few steps forward from the crowd, let the squire see her figure, and said in a loud voice.

"So Her Royal Highness is also there? Then please ask Her Royal Highness!"

The attendant named Straw unexpectedly looked at the Dorothea princess in the crowd, and hurriedly obediently handed over the special decree in his hand to the Dorothea princess, and the other nobles around were immediately surprised and talked about the princess's move.

"Your Excellency Ellen, is there anything surprising about Her Royal Highness's move?"

Harper, who didn't know what to say about Dorothea's actions, asked Ellen Greg on the side with some strange questions.

"According to the tradition of our empire, only the sovereign can accept the will of His Majesty the Emperor on behalf of a vassal.

Her Royal Highness's acceptance of His Majesty's will on behalf of Mr. John Carr means that she informs everyone that she is the lord of Charlin, and that Charin will enjoy her protection, so I don't think anyone will trouble the Karl family!"

Ellen Greg explained with some emotion.

This statement suddenly made Harper's heart a little surprised, originally he thought that the relationship between Princess Dorothea and Xia Lin was only a partnership, but now it seems that the relationship between the two sides is much deeper than he guessed.

However, in this way, he did not have to worry about the life of the Carl family being disturbed, and Harper couldn't help but feel a little fond of this noble and beautiful royal daughter.