229. The wounded
First block, Babington Family Manor.
The Babington family ruled the city of San Carlos for generations, which was the largest industrial city of the Green Empire. At the same time, the Babington family also controlled the Amcherado plane. The five large mitrilite mines in this plane were currently concentrated. Amcherado was once occupied by the Nakma people in the Abyss, resulting in a shortage of Miksilver mines in the Green Empire. The Babington family's private army could not face the Nakma people in the Abyss. In order to stabilize the Miksilver market, the royal family sent His Highness Charlie to fight the Amcherado plane.
Nowadays, more than 70% of the magic rune boards are sent from San Carlos City to all over the country. For magic rune boards, the Babington family has enough voice and dominance. Therefore, the rune board supplier conference will be held in the Babington manor.
Whenever this traditional magic manufacturing industry is mentioned, the Babington family comes first.
This year's Magic Rune Board Supplier Conference actually invited me to attend, which was somewhat beyond my expectations.
First of all, the grudge between me and the Babington family can be reversed to last summer. Because of Alia's relationship, I had some conflicts with Duke Ryan Boothman. Finally, with the help of all aspects, Duke Ryan Boothman returned to the Warsaw plane in disgrace, and Alia regained her freedom. In this matter, there were more or less shadows of the Babington family fueling the fire.
Alia's deceased husband Colin Babington was once the first heir to the Babington family. As Colin Babington's widow, Alia should have a high status in the Babington family, but this is not the case. The person who made the power in Alia's hands was Billy Babington's heir to the current Babington family, the Marquis of Billy Babington, worried that Alia's reputation in the Babington family would affect his future domination of the Babington family, so she tried every means to drive Alia out of the Babington family.
More than a dozen auxiliary planes of the Babington family encountered plane wars at the same time, which directly led to the shortage of mitral silver ore in the Kohling Empire. More than half of the magic rune board workshops in San Carlos City fell into a state of suspension. The blank mitral rune board was sold out in the imperial capital. By chance, the refined gold solution was obtained from the Francis scholars and successfully created the refined gold magic pattern rune board. This refined gold magic pattern rune board was mainly for the production of miniature tornado rune boards.
After the rebellion of two down-and-out nobles, Nick and Brennan, my rune board workshop grew into the largest supplier of primary magic rune boards in the imperial capital, namely "fire gathering technique", "miniature tornado", and "continuous frost". Perhaps this is why I have a place at this rune board supplier conference.
The day before attending the Runeboard Supplier Conference, I successfully advanced to the second-class Marquis of the Green Empire at the Logistics and Military Control Department of the Imperial Capital.
I think it is somewhat not enough to attend this Rune Bar Supplier Conference as an earl, so I took out all the achievements I had obtained in the Jero plane and promoted to a second-class marquis on the imperial capital. However, I still need to have a large area of territory corresponding to the marquis within the specified period to truly become a marquis.
The territory of the town of Trum is obviously a little smaller, so I decided to attend this rune board supplier conference and return to the Yero plane and discuss with the ancient war tree Weisman to make me the nominal owner of the Green Valley Jungle, so that my title of marquis can be justified. For me, this marquis identity is just a shiny badge on my chest.
The magic caravan was parked at the gate of the Babington family manor. I saw some gorgeous magic caravans parked on the side of the road one after another. From time to time, some nobles and merchants would walk into the manor. I saw that there was still a little time. I sat in the soft leather sofa in the car, and I didn't rush to walk out of the car.
At this moment, Alia leaned against me, leaned against the window and pointed at the nobles who walked out of the magic caravan, introducing their identities in detail. Some of the nobles Alia could even accurately express their preferences.
Taking advantage of a gap, Alia finally couldn't help but look at the Marquis badge on my chest. The badge was made of a red crystal, which was particularly eye-catching when worn on my chest.
Although Alia has been providing a large amount of urgently needed materials to the Imperial Capital, she does not understand the specific situation of the Imperial Plane.
She also seemed quite curious about this, staring at me with charming eyes and asked, "How many Nebru Spider-Man have you killed in the plane of Jero?"
"Guess... I have the ten Knights of the North Wind Legion in my hand, so don't underestimate my strength." I said with a smile.
Alia has experienced the battle life of the Jero plane and knows what our advantages are. She did not guess the specific numbers. She said to me with a smile: "With the selfless help of the Duke Jingyue, all your nobles dream of a big step the most. What's next? What's your plan? It's not easy to become the Duke of the Green Empire. This is not something you can get by accumulating merits. The Green Empire has only officially enthroned 100 dukes. If you want to be among them, you must squeeze out the 100th one to have your place."
After hearing Alia say this, I realized that the Duke of the Green Empire is ranked.
"Squeeze out?" I asked.
Alia held her pointed chin with her hands, squinted her eyes and said, "When the power you hold is almost as powerful as those dukes, then you have to challenge any duke in the Green Empire. This kind of power war between dukes is to speak with your own strength and the army."
So I asked, "You mean, as long as I defeat a certain Duke of the Green Empire, I can replace him as the new Duke of the Green Empire?"
Alia nodded, and a bright light flashed in her eyes, as if she was yearning for something she was pursuing, and murmured: "It's almost that's it, but the regulations of the Green Empire contain many protection strategies for the original Duke of the Shoule, such as the Duke of the Shoule can avoid the war. In addition, the Duke of the Shoule can borrow troops from the Duke of the Allied in private, so it is not easy to replace the existing Duke. There are many other factors involved. The attackers often face the forces formed by the united forces of several dukes."
It turned out that the new Duke was not enthroned by Emperor Charles, nor was it built up by military merits, but relied on personal strength to replace the existing wealthy nobles of the Green Empire. However, even among the nobles, few people know this, probably only limited to the small circle of the upper nobles. After all, if too many people know this, there may be a great turmoil in the Green Empire.
"How do you know this?" I asked Alia curiously.
Although she is the most famous socialite in the imperial capital, no one should take the initiative to tell her about this kind of thing.
Alia said very calmly: "Colin has always wanted to be the second duke of the Babington family, but unfortunately this wish has been saved in the Amcherado plane before it has been achieved."
After saying that, she sighed slightly, as if she was a sigh of her previous life.
"It's too early to tell me this now!" I said.
Thinking about the fact that all my private troops were less than 1,000. When facing the dukes who often had hundreds of thousands of troops, this amount of military strength was not enough for people to get stuck in their teeth. Thinking of this, my mind gradually became clear.
Alia turned her head out the window. At this time, a gust of wind blew, blowing away the bangs on her forehead. Her lips were covered with a layer of red lip gloss, which looked particularly attractive. She pursed her lips slightly and said, "Anyway, you must understand these things sooner or later."
Seeing the magic caravans stopping at the entrance of Babington Manor, I knew it was almost time for me to debut. I looked at Betty and Caterina sitting opposite. Betty was still wearing an apricot yellow gauze dress, and her graceful figure was vaguely visible under the gauze dress. This long skirt with texture is almost the most commonly worn skirt for noble families in the imperial capital. If worn on Betty, it will have another flavor.
Katerina is wearing a tight sub-dragon leather armor with a hard-skinned breastplate magic pattern structure with the "Earth Shield" outside. This magic pattern structure wraps her tightly, with two short daggers tied on both sides of her thighs. She kept her eyes closed in her seat to rest.
Before getting off the car, I asked Alia: "You really don't go with me?"
Alia leaned over, held my face in both hands, pecked my lips gently, and said, "I'll wait for you in a caravan. If I show up, it will not only not help you, but it will even cause you some trouble."
Seeing that Alia insisted on not getting out of the car, I nodded, then pushed open the car door, took Caterina and Betty out of the magic caravan, and walked towards Babington Manor.
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He showed the pass to the manor's doorman to attend the rune board supplier conference and walked into the manor.
Betty lived here for about six years and was particularly familiar with this manor. Along the way, she kept whispering some interesting stories about the garden lawn, fountains, stables and warehouses. Soon Betty was recognized by the maids in Babington Manor, but the maids and servants did not come over to say hello, but they just pointed and exchanged something from a distance.
A tall auction table was built on the lawn of the manor garden, and there were white chairs placed below the auction table. The nobles and merchants gathered there. They sat in the chairs in groups of three or three and whispered, making the rune board supplier conference very lively.
I walked to the corner of the last row and sat down. Betty and Katerina sat on my left and right sides respectively. I hugged her shoulders, and Betty leaned her head against my shoulders. I looked like a young nobleman who was not very careful in public.
Betty whispered to the big guys sitting in the front seats. Her voice was very soft and she sounded very comfortable.
Katerina sat on the chair with her hands wrapped around her chest and looked indifferent, and she never even looked at the field.
Just as Betty and I were whispering, a young nobleman sitting in front of me suddenly turned around and nodded friendly to me. Then he looked at Betty carefully. His eyes seemed to be able to pass through Betty's apricot yellow gauze skirt and fell directly on her. His mouth made a squeak of praise, and then he looked at Caterina on the other side without restraint. However, after Caterina sensed it, she raised her head and opened a pair of ruby-like eyes, and glared at the young nobleman fiercely.
The faint murderous intent brought from the battlefield instantly scared the young nobleman's face a little pale. The young nobleman immediately withdrew his gaze, but did not turn his head back, but smiled cordially at me, glanced at the marquis badge on my chest, and said, "Your family is really good enough. I will prepare the marquis medal for you so soon. Do you also want to do the runeboard business? Why have I never seen you before?"
Then, he narrowed his eyes and smiled at Betty, "I just rude. I think you look familiar, but I can't remember where you have seen it."
Betty just blinked and didn't say anything.
The young nobleman was born with a natural familiarity and asked me affectionately: "Are you doing advanced or primary?"
I stayed for a while before I understood what he was asking, so I replied, "My workshop only makes some elementary rune boards."
"The business of the primary rune board is not easy to do recently. The profit margin of the primary magic rune board is too small. If you dial the piece to the inscription master, there is nothing left. Is the rune board workshop on your side okay?" The young nobleman probably came to Tan Xing, so he turned around and said to me.
"It's OK." I replied.
At this moment, some big-bellied nobles walked up to the front desk of the venue. Betty pointed to one of the middle-aged men and whispered to me: "That is Marquis Billy Babington, the next successor of the Babington family."
The young nobleman showed a hint of worry and said, "This time the mines on the Babington family plane have been reclaimed. I don't know how much market share they want to regain."
Seeing that I didn't say anything, he said to me with an exaggerated expression: "Did you hear that? This time Billy invited that guy too."
"Who?" I raised my head and asked him with a smile.
The young nobleman looked carefully at the left and right sides, and then said to me: "It is said that he is a magic student in the Royal Magic Academy. The boy is also a character. With his handsome face and sweet words, he hooked up Princess Yingli at the same time. This guy opened a special rune board workshop in the imperial capital, which basically completely monopolized the three magic rune boards... I heard that he had a magic metal solution recipe in his hand, which was found by His Highness Qige. Whoever could have that recipe could make that special rune board..."
"Well, if you only describe this to that magic student, I want to tell you one thing!"
Chapter completed!