"It's a reward......"

Annan was so excited that he had the treasure chest carried to the office.

Olmedo put down her business and walked around to her desk to open the chest, her blonde hair reflected in the light of the magical heart.

"It's ......"

"The Heart of Magic, placed in the Mage Tower, will increase the affinity of all mages to magic...... There's nothing I'm going to keep busy. ”

Annan is like a busy husband who has just returned home from his salary and is about to continue to go out to work.

"Wait a minute."

Ormedo called Annan and told Abby, the maid, to bring things in.

"Aunt Susan made you some gingerbread."

Abby, the maid, walked in with a plate, and the portions piled up into a small mountain were in the style of Aunt Susan.

"Why doesn't Aunt Susan make apple pie?"

"She said that the rainy season is here, you are prone to getting sick outside, and gingerbread strengthens the resistance."

"Thank you, Aunt Susan, for me." Annan took the gingerbread and looked at Olmedo's blonde hair that was not as bright as before, "By the way, give yourself a vacation." ”

"No, I like the feeling of being busy." Olmedo shook his head, "It makes me feel fulfilled to watch Liberty City get better day by day with our efforts. ”

"If you want me to lighten the burden, trick me back into bringing back a deputy city lord."

"I try to ...... as much as I can"

casually told Olmedo about the situation of the Great Wall of the North, and the portal disappeared.

Annan took a small portion to eat for himself, and took the rest to the Black Watch Station next door.

"Commander, Mr. Albek, my family has made some gingerbread, and I'll bring you some."

The empire and the Black Watch are willing to treat Annan as a junior, so he will play the role of a junior.

However, the Legion Commander fell silent, and Albek looked surprised.

"What's wrong with the Legion Commander?" Annan looked at Archmage Albek.

Archmage Albek let out a sigh: "His family lives in the ...... of Pleasant Water Bay"

Annan looked at him and blinked.

"Pleasant Inlet ...... in the Principality of Greenwillows"

Annan tilted his head in confusion.

"The Duchy of Greenwillow is next to—"

"They were killed by the nezumi." The Legion Commander interrupted Archmage Albek's euphemism, "The McCain clan poured into the Duchy of Greenwillow and left in three days, leaving nothing left. ”

With a mixture of hatred, sighs, and sadness, the Legion Commander pinched a cookie.

"I love gingerbread, thank you for me, your family."

Annan didn't think that the truth was so cruel, so he was embarrassed to speak again.

However, Archmage Albek guessed something and smiled, "What else is going on?" ”

"Uh...... There is no ......"

"Really?"

Facing the smiling gaze of Archmage Albek, Annan said cautiously, "I want to ask...... The essence of that mountain...... You guys...... It is...... Do you want more? ”

The legion commander looked at the plate of gingerbread, and then at Annan, who was open to the lion, laughed angrily, and feigned anger: "You took the first, and now you don't even let go of the second reward?" ”

"I'm actually apologizing......," Annan apologized, "and I used some dishonorable means...... Stealing the first place and the Heart of Magic, but I really need ...... again"

Archmage Albek didn't care, and comforted Annan in turn: "It's not your fault. The rule enacted by the Empire was to win by the number of rat ears. We knew it was a loophole, but we still didn't do anything. Black Watch lost to Arrogance, and we conceded defeat. ”

Otherwise, how could the empire be the supreme thirteen kings. But there were ten of the Thirteen Most High kings...... No, with such a responsible king as the Five Empires, the nezumi have long become a scarce race.

"It doesn't matter who the champion of the hunt is."

As soon as the Legion Commander spoke, his muffled whisper echoed in the room: "Anyone can be a champion, and the purpose of the reward is to let Middle-earth know the determination of the Empire." ”

It's not even the first effect of the empire - the determination to inspire other forces to resist the invasion. To some extent, Annan's careful thinking coincided with the Empire.

As for the Legion Commander's stubborn mouth or the Empire's intentions......

It should be somewhere in between: to other forces, or to be stolen by other forces using Annan's methods, maybe the Imperial Inquisition will break into the bedroom early the next morning and drag it away from the territory on the grounds that "you talked in your sleep last night".

As a small follower of the empire, the first place was given to Annan, and Montreal Mountain was not so difficult to accept. After all, neither cement nor newspaper was worth less than the Heart of Magic, and the Fastcoat, the quartermaster and the Procurement Department loved the sturdy and hard-wearing garment, and they finally didn't have to prepare a new set of clothes for the cattle of the legions every week.

"How do you want to make up for it?" The Legion Commander asked with interest.

"It shouldn't be of much use for you to hold the mountain essence, I can exchange it for 20,000 gold coins for you."

Annan was sincere, after all, he also needed 20,000 gold coins to purchase ten mountain essences from Wilhelm.

The Legion Commander shook his head.

Annan was not surprised, he just thought that the commander of the army had other uses.

As a result, the legion commander said: "It's not worth so much, fifteen hundred gold coins, take it if you want." ”

Annan followed Archmage Albek to receive the mountain essence, and then returned directly to the station.

After a while, Archmage Albek returned to the big house and reported to the legion commander who was eating gingerbread piece by piece: "Annan has left us with 20,000 gold coins. ”

Twenty thousand gold coins are barely enough for Black Watch to spend a month. If you stay on the Great Wall in the north, you might be able to save a little more.

The eight Praetorian Guard legions of the Empire, it took hundreds of years of accumulation and hundreds of millions of gold coins for the empire to build them, and the monthly maintenance and expenses alone will not be less than 200,000 gold coins.

A smile squeezed out of the Legion's meaty face:

"Nice boy, huh? There is no disgusting disgusting taste of the aristocracy at all. ”

Archmage Albek nodded, a boy who looked like a junior was hard to hate.

"Report the money to the quartermaster." The Legion Commander patted the residue on his hands and pushed the gingerbread to Archmage Albek: "You want to taste it too?" ”

"I don't have a sweet tooth."

……

Annan didn't ask about the Bone Blade. There were no stupid people in the big house, especially Archmage Albek. Although he is only a master, he is not as smart as he is, and he guesses something without saying anything, no wonder he will become a staff officer of the corps commander...... If they asked Bone Blade, they would have guessed that the Executive had been in contact with them...... That could get him in trouble.

In any case, the Heart of Magic should have been installed on the base of the Mage Tower, I wonder how much magic affinity can be improved?

Speaking of which, since it's to increase the affinity of magic, I wonder if Mr. Victor can change from a "squib" to a spellcaster?

Annan still remembers that he asked Mr. Victor to play Filch, the janitor in "Annan Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and when it came time to introduce the characters, he beat him out with a cane......

(End of chapter)