There are two types of family banquets in the wizarding world.
One is a party-type banquet with a large number of participants, in the form of a buffet, which is very similar to the "salon activities" in Li Nuo's cognition, with socialization and interaction as the core.
Another kind of banquet is the one Li Nuo is attending now. Only the master, servants and specific guests appear, and no one else comes to interfere. This kind of banquet is called a secret conversation banquet, which is relatively private, and the content of the banquet is kept secret by default.
In a confidential banquet, there will be no chatting while eating. The master, servant, and guests ate first, and then moved to the reception room, where the secret conversation officially began.
"Thank you for purchasing Miss's five islands, Mr. Jarvis." Keda temporarily acted as the host of the secret conversation, explaining for his master the purpose of inviting Li Nuo.
As the owner of Keda, the little girl named Xi'an sat upright, nodding from time to time to cooperate with Keda's words.
The two of them had obviously discussed it before the meeting, with Keda leading the secret conversation, while Xi'an nodded in agreement, giving Keda's words the authority of the heir to the family branch.
Li Nuo accepted the thanks from the other two with a faint smile.
It's quite a coincidence. In the transaction deed, the name written in the column of the island seller is "Pangula Family", without specifying which person in charge is within the family.
It was only then that Li Nuo knew that the five islands he bought that had been mined for resources were all under Qian'an's name.
If you ask him why he is focusing on buying an island like this that has been mined for resources... then Li Nuo can only answer "cheap".
The price of an island like this is only about half of that of an island of the same type and size.
Li Nuo's arrangement in the island accumulation plan was to purchase the islands in order from small to large.
Then, a cheap small island like this will naturally be at the top of the purchase list.
Keda did not ask Li Nuo thoroughly why he bought five islands in a row. He knew that doing so would be inappropriate.
He wisely avoided the topic and instead took out a document and handed it to Li Nuo.
"Mr. Jarvis, the list of islands on the Island Exchange does not indicate which family owner owns the island. You may know that the Pangola family has two owners in the Suman Islands. Manager. Miss Si'an is one of them. The other is Miss Si'an's cousin, the fifth heir to the family, Dickla Fagan. I have a list here of the islands under Miss Si'an's name. Information. If you plan to continue buying islands, we hope you will give priority to our islands. After the transaction is completed, we will return 2% of the transaction amount as our thank you gift."
Li Nuo took the list and read it over.
There are 12 islands recorded on the list.
Five of them have been bought by Li Nuo.
The remaining seven are still listed for sale.
These 12 islands have all been mined for resources, and they are all owned by Qian'an. Thinking of the family inheritance system revealed by Keda before, Li Nuo had many speculations in his mind.
"Kaida, why have all the 12 islands under Miss Xi'an's name been mined for resources?" Li Nuo asked straight to the point.
Qian'an sat aside and pursed her lips, obviously a little uneasy. She was probably worried that Li Nuo would no longer buy her island.
Keda smiled helplessly at first, and then slowly explained the cause and effect.
After family members obtain inheritance rights, they need to undergo regular family assessments.
After passing each assessment, family members can receive resource support.
If you fail one assessment, you will lose resource support until you pass the next regular assessment.
After Qian'an became the twenty-fifth heir, the first regular assessment she faced was to sell the island.
The family owner carved out 12 small islands from the islands under Dikla Fagan's name and gave them to Xi'an for sale.
Dikla Fagan played a careful trick and extracted all the proven resources on the 12 small islands in advance, and then handed them over to Xi'an like trash.
Why is Dikla Fagan making things difficult for Xi'an?
Hey, this is another story.
Keda patiently continued to explain, in order to prevent Li Nuo from becoming impatient because of his concealed behavior, which would affect the sale of the island.
Xi'an's magic talent is not of the metal or earth type. According to family rules, she can only inherit one-fifth of the inheritance.
Among her inheritance, only the island where the three of them were at this time and a small amount of money to survive on.
This island is the family territory she inherited from her father.
She moved to the island from Cahir mainland. She will be the head of the family here in the Suman Islands until the island is sold.
This resulted in the emergence of two Pangola family leaders in the Suman Islands.
In order for Qian'an to lose her status as a manager, she must be forced to sell her family's territory.
The first step to force Qian'an to give up her family's territory is to destroy her first regular assessment and deprive her of resources and support.
Only in this way will Qian'an have to sell her family territory due to financial constraints. Of course, the land will not be sold to the public, and members of the Pangola family will have first dibs on buying it.
As long as Dikla Fagan gets Xi'an's family territory, he will be the only person in charge of the Suman Islands.
This is the heir war within a large wizarding family. It is not bloody but full of calculations.
If you think carefully, it is not difficult to find more secrets.
For example, why did one-fifth of Qian'an's inheritance happen to include such a piece of territory in the Suman Islands?
You should know that the task of distributing inheritance is done by the head of the family, and the head of the family is usually the first heir of the wizard family.
Going deeper, when Xi'an is desperate and forced to sell her territory, the person who will buy her land may not necessarily be Dikla Fagan.
Li Nuo thought of many things at once. There was no doubt that Keda and Xi'an were in a carefully woven web.
The ignorant Qian'an may not necessarily know her situation, but Keda, who is over fifty, should be aware of it.
In other words, Li Nuo's purchase of the other seven islands under Qian'an's name not only helped the other party complete the first regular assessment, but also interfered with the secret plans of many people.
After Kaida introduced the cause and effect, he said nothing and left the time for Li Nuo to think.
Silence fell in the living room.
Qian'an's two little hands held the hem of her skirt tangledly.
Keda shook his head slightly at her to signal for silence.
Qian'an's body stiffened and her little hands paused, but she still held the corner of her skirt tightly.
Li Nuo thought for a moment and asked a question:
"Kaida, after completing the first regular assessment, does Miss Qian'an have any plans? Should she continue to stay in the Suman Islands or change her residence?"
Keda responded:
"Miss Qian'an plans to move to the Moon Bay Peninsula in Cahir Continent and has been living there since then."
"Hmph..." Qian'an hummed slightly as if she was dissatisfied, pouted her mouth, looked down at the ground, and muttered her first sentence tonight:
"This is where my father grew up..."
"Cough." Keda coughed lightly.
Xi'an closed her mouth.
"Yuewan Peninsula..." Li Nuo recalled that it was the territory of another wizard family, with lush foliage and a prosperous population.
The decision to move to Yuewan Peninsula was obviously made by Keda. If you send Qian to a place like that...oh, I understand.
Li Nuo had played many P Club games before traveling through time, and he immediately understood Kaida's intentions.
If the prediction is correct, Keda is going to use marriage to arrange a marriage for Qian'an when she becomes an adult in the future.
According to the family inheritance system, Xi'an will change the surname of the family branch after getting married, and then break away from the Pangola family. From then on, she was able to stay away from most family disputes and become a noblewoman dedicated to assisting her husband.
Keda really took great pains to ensure that Qian could live her life safely. It's a pity that Xi'an is still young now, so it is probably difficult to understand the other party asking her to give up her father's inheritance.
Li Nuo had something in mind, nodded to Keda and said:
"It's a wise choice, Keda. Your arrangement is the best home for Xi'an. But just a 2% rebate is not enough for me to buy the remaining seven islands. What I have to bear The risk is much greater than this 2% rebate.”
Why should you take risks when buying an island? Qian'an was confused and looked at her housekeeper in confusion.
Keda was mentally prepared for Li Nuo's answer. He stretched out four fingers:
"4% rebate, no more."
Li Nuo shook his head slightly:
"No, Kedar. Coins don't mean much to me. I want something else."
Keda's expression changed slightly, and he knew very well that these words were a sign that the lion was opening its mouth. The "asking for something else" and the "money is meaningless" are nothing more than not giving enough money.
Li Nuo faced the confused Qian'an and Keda whose eyes were filled with vigilance. He raised his hand and shook it:
"Don't get me wrong. Let's do this, Keda. It's getting late, and I think Miss Qian'an is a little tired today. You might as well settle down with Miss Qian'an first, and then we can talk in detail."
Keda thought for a few seconds, stood up and took Xi'an out of the reception room, asking the magic servant to take her to the bedroom.
Only Li Nuo and Keda were left in the reception room.
Without Qian'an present, the two can talk openly.
"What do you want? Mr. Jarvis. Ask for a loan from Wuling Pavilion in the name of the family heir? Or use Qian'an's name to open a workshop?" Keda thought about many things in his mind, most of which were the same as when he served Qian'an's father in the past. related to what they saw and heard.
Li Nuo waved his hand:
"No, Kedar. I am not interested in these speculations. I want to discuss the way of chivalry with you."
Keda was stunned for a moment, and the vigilance in his eyes became more intense:
"You know who I am..."
"Yes, I know who you are. No one would have thought that the famous "Quiet Knight" 30 years ago would now become the butler of a descendant of a down-and-out family branch. It seems that a lot of things happened between you and Qian'an's parents. You are willing to remain anonymous and serve them and their descendants until now. "
Li Nuo's expression remained normal, while he was reading the decomposition results in his mind while answering fluent questions with Keda.
When he was talking to the other party before, out of curiosity, he spent 2,200 energy points deconstructing the other party.
If you don't deconstruct it, you won't know that the white-haired old man in front of you is actually the Calm Knight recorded in many wizard textbooks such as "The Foundation of Magic" and "The Way of the Wizard".
In this world dominated by wizards, a knight can be recorded in wizard textbooks, which is enough to show how outstanding this knight's personal strength is.
Knights in the wizarding world are also wizards in a sense. The difference between the two is a broad and narrow sense.
A wizard in a narrow sense refers specifically to a spellcaster who extracts magic power from natural phenomena, uses the spiritual ocean to store magic power, and then uses spell blueprints to release the magic power.
In a broad sense, all extraordinary people who use magic can be called wizards.
The difference between the broad sense and the narrow sense lies only in how to use magic power.
Knights in this world can also use magic.
Their thinking is different from that of wizards.
Soul energy, life force and physical strength, these three innate original powers of human beings, can all be used to drive magic power.
Wizards use their souls to power their magic.
Knights use physical power to drive magic.
Wizards use spell blueprints to channel magic, knights use martial arts.
The wizard uses the spiritual ocean to contain magic power, while the knight uses the internal organs.
Different from the wizard's spiritual ocean, which can only accommodate one or a few types of magic, the knight's internal organs can each accommodate one type of magic after a long period of training.
The magic power in the body is mixed, and the internal organs are eroded by magic power from time to time. These two factors are intertwined, and it is destined that the knight will bear a greater physical burden in the process of becoming stronger.
Generally speaking, the young and middle-aged stage is the peak period of knights. After that, even if all the supplements and supplements are arranged, it is still difficult to resist the traces left by time and magic on the body.
For this reason, there are no knights who have entered the outer space yet.
At present, the way of chivalry is almost withdrawn from the stage of history.
The only knighthood that can still maintain a collective form is a subordinate force of the Pure Light Tribunal called "Pale Justice".
All other knights, no matter how long they have been inherited and how glorious they were, have all entered a state of withering.
The situation of the knights in this world is somewhat similar to the situation of the witchers in the "Witcher" series of games, but it is not the same.
In the "Witcher" series of games, witchers are an extraordinary race created by powerful spellcasters.
But in this world, knights, like wizards, are extraordinary beings born from natural evolution.
At a time when knighthood is declining, the skills mastered by knights have not actually disappeared, but have been absorbed and transformed into magic by wizards.
In a sense, the way of chivalry was continued by wizards in the name of magic.
The most typical one is the "Silent Girl" where Li Nuo is now.
The creative professor Erica was originally a princess of a certain kingdom who mastered the knight martial arts called "White Spirit Swordsmanship".
After the establishment of "Silent Girls", "White Spirit Swordsmanship" was transformed by Erica into the exclusive magic sword skills of "Silent Girls", which is the set of swords that Comini used when Li Nuo challenged Comini. Skills.
The old butler with the title of "Knight of Calm" in front of him must be far different from his youth in appearance, body shape and temperament.
In this case, almost no one can recognize him.
Li Nuo revealed his past in one sentence, which gave Keda an illusion:
The other party is buying cheap islands to show favor to himself, a person who has been anonymous for a long time, and then obtain his own cultivation secrets.
But the question is, how did the other party know his identity?
Could it be that an enemy from the past has come to visit?
Keda tightened his waist and abdomen and curled up his body slightly, faintly gathering strength.
He looked directly at Li Nuo's face and locked the opponent's hands and feet firmly with his peripheral vision.
Li Nuo once again experienced the feeling of fighting against Comini, as if there was a thought covering him in the dark.
Whenever he makes a move, he will be struck by a violent storm.
Li Nuo looked calm, and he probably guessed Keda's psychological activities:
"Relax, Kedar. I'm not your enemy."
"But why can you recognize me at a glance..." Keda said.
"I don't have to explain this to you, just like I don't have to explain to you why I bought those five islands."
Li Nuo smiled lightly and said:
"Your reputation was brilliant 30 years ago. Now you are followed by a young noble descendant. If I have evil thoughts towards you and Qian, you may have the power to resist. But have you forgotten one thing? Yes, I am a law enforcement wizard. A law enforcer appointed by Deep Sea Academy to help prevent wizards."
Keda's body shook. Apparently, the title of "Wizard Law Enforcer" made him less wary of Li Nuo, but that was all.
"I think we have talked enough today, Mr. Jarvis. Let me take you out." Keda stood up slowly and said at the same time.
Li Nuo was thoughtful, squinting at Keda, sitting motionless on his chair:
"Knight of Calm, it seems that you have caused a lot of trouble in the past. Just a slight disturbance made you jump like a frightened grasshopper. You are no longer the loyal and honest housekeeper you were before. Is it because after I left, you Are you planning to take Qian’an and leave the Suman Islands secretly?”
Li Nuo had to admit that what happened now was different from what he expected.
He did discover the true identity of Keda through deconstructing the results and learned some of the other party's panel information.
However, Li Nuo cannot use deconstruction to learn about things that happened in the distant past.
Judging from Keda's reaction as if he was facing a formidable enemy, the troubles he had caused in the past were probably extraordinary, which is why he was so hostile to those who discovered his true origins.
This was something Li Nuo had not expected.
However, everything is under control.
Li Nuo always maintained a calm and calm state.
Seeing that Li Nuo refused to move his buttocks, Kaida stared at Li Nuo and said word by word:
"Mr. Jarvis, it's time for you to leave. That concludes today's meeting."
Li Nuo sat back on the chair and looked at each other calmly:
"Knight of Calm, your current state is not calm at all. Please sit down. I am here to make a deal with you, not to seek revenge."
"Deal. Huh. Anyone who can recognize me at a glance is either my best friend or my enemy. My friend is no longer alive, so you must be my enemy." Keda is still struggling with whether he is How was it exposed?
Facing the stubborn old man, Li Nuo ignored the other party's stubborn attitude and said to himself:
"Listen up, Keda. I use magical things to exchange you for the training secrets of the Serenity Knight. The transaction between us is witnessed by the soul contract. If either party leaks the transaction, his soul will be hurt. I know you are such a stubborn knight. There is no need for magical things, so I will give the magical things Xi'an wants. It's that simple. If you are worried that I will reveal your whereabouts, then I can sign another soul contract with you alone."
"But how do you explain that you can recognize me..."
"It's enough to say these things once, Kaida." Li Nuo emphasized his tone and interrupted the other party's words:
"I only give you one last chance. Deal or not. Don't let me use other methods to obtain your cultivation secrets."
After speaking, Li Nuo calmly picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip.
Keda clenched his fists and stared at Li Nuo, "Don't even think about getting my..."
"Your end is coming, Kaida." Li Nuo put down the teacup:
"Your internal organs are almost exhausted, and you can still use martial arts two or three times at most. After that, you will explode and die due to out-of-control magic power, and Qian'an will also lose the housekeeper she relies on for survival. Don't let it go This precious opportunity to display martial arts is wasted on me, so I’d better save it to protect Qian’an on the way to Yuewan Peninsula.”
Keda fell into a daze.
He looked down at his robe, then looked at Li Nuo carefully, but he didn't see any energy fluctuations caused by the spell.
At this time, Keda was completely confused:
"How do you know my physical condition..."
Li Nuo didn't speak, just looked at the other person.
Keda's body swayed like a dead leaf hanging on a branch in autumn.
He held the edge of the table and sat down, his body stooped and no longer as strong as before.
After Li Nuo saw his true nature, he no longer needed to maintain his strong side, which would only make him as ridiculous as a tough-talking duck.
After a long time, Keda said with difficulty in depression:
"Okay, let's trade. But I have to remind you that my enemies can recognize the martial arts of the Serenity Knight at a glance. If you learn my martial arts, you'd better not use them, otherwise..."
"You don't need to worry about this, Keda. There will be confidentiality clauses related to this in the soul contract we are about to sign."
Li Nuo knocked on the table:
"Let's complete the deal tonight. Please call Qian'an, and it's best to bring her magic teaching materials. I have to decide what magic things to teach her based on her courses and her needs. Don't worry, I I won’t ask you to remove the magic lock on the magic textbooks, I just want to look at the covers of those textbooks to prevent misunderstandings due to oral differences."
Keda nodded silently and walked towards the door.
Li Nuo reminded him from behind:
"Don't even think about taking Qian'an and escaping. I have no obligation to keep your identity secret before signing the soul contract."
Keda trembled slightly, turned his head, looked deeply at Li Nuo, opened the door and walked out.
The door opens and closes.
In Li Nuo's "Life and Death Tracking" magic vision, Kevin slowly walked towards the bedroom where Qian'an was.
Keda worked hard to adjust his body posture along the way, and finally returned to his proper butler appearance before knocking on Xi'an's door.
Li Nuo used "Life and Death Tracking" to see through Keda and watched as the other party led Qian'an to where he was.
(End of chapter)
