In the past few days, the capital of the Kingdom of Li Yestije has been very peaceful...
According to common sense, a security officer of the Kingdom of Li Yestije, that is, the obese envoy responsible for guarding the security of the royal capital, was thrown out of a civilian mansion like garbage in front of everyone. , and suffered severe injuries that resulted in paralysis. Such a shocking case would definitely shock the royal capital, and it is only reasonable that the suspects who committed such a major case would be arrested and brought to justice as soon as possible?
Or, at least, the relevant departments of the kingdom should investigate and seal off the scene?
but……
What makes people feel very strange is that in the past few days from the paralysis of the security patrol to today, the civilian mansion where a certain little girl temporarily lived has never had any officials or soldiers from the royal capital. To pay attention to or investigate, this is like a fat official who was thrown out from inside. Although he is not dead, he is not much different from a dead person. He is not at all a member of the bureaucracy of the Kingdom of Li Yestije. A member of the general public?
However, although it is very puzzling why the Kingdom of Li Yestije has not made any reasonable response to this, but a certain underground organization member named "Eight Fingers" has not just sat idly by. , they had actually been secretly deploying their troops and launching certain retaliatory actions as early as the first night when the incident occurred.
But it is a pity that none of their people who were ordered to break into the mansion, regardless of their strength or number, could stand out... Of course, to be more precise, it should be: with some sinister intentions Those who wanted to sneak in or attack at night, once they entered, they never showed up again! !
There were more than a hundred masters in total, and some were even equivalent to gold-level or even stronger adventurer-level thugs. They just 'disappeared' silently, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive. , and no one knows where they went.
This strange situation finally made an organization called "Eight Fingers" panic... Then, after they had calmed down for two or three days, and they failed to come up with a better way, they discovered that secretly When his actions failed to work and he was preparing to put pressure on certain nobles and violent organizations in the kingdom, and plan to retaliate openly against a certain house and the people in the house, the third princess of the kingdom, Rambosa III's favorite His youngest daughter, Lana Thiel Chardonnay Lyle Verseph, unexpectedly came to visit her formally at this time with several guards, attendants, maids, and a certain warrior captain known as the strongest in the kingdom. Got here.
'Owner! '
'The guests have been brought...'
Not long after entering the courtyard of this exquisite mansion, under the leadership of an old housekeeper, the third princess of the kingdom and others were finally able to see the true form of a legendary little girl face to face.
"..."
(?_?).．
However, compared to the smiling faces of the guests, a certain little guy who was the host was not happy at all!
"???"
(???.???)????
Anne, who thought that the other party was another bad guy who came to trouble her, just sat in her seat without saying a word, blinking her eyes, watching the other party and his group walking towards her, and then, she didn't say anything at all. He didn't mean to stand up to show politeness, and just continued to sit on his sofa blankly.
Because Annie doesn't like these guys and doesn't know them!
Moreover, the arrival of these guys has seriously disrupted her plans for today. She originally planned to continue to hang out and have fun, while looking for opportunities to make the nearest one refuse to admit defeat and think about sending someone to assassinate or kidnap her all day long. Those bad guys called "Eight Fingers" took action, and then her plan to retaliate and have fun with those bad guys in the name of self-defense came to nothing.
"Hello!"
"Dear the 'Brilliant Diamond' adventurer and the powerful dragon mage Anne Hastur, I am the third princess of the Kingdom of Li Yestije, Lana Tielle Chardon Lyle Van. Seph, I came here specially to visit you today!"
"Before we officially start the meeting, let me introduce you to your Excellency first..."
"Um……"
"This is my friend. She is a steel-level adventurer. She is also the captain of 'Blue Rose', a noble of the kingdom, a descendant of the 'Thirteen Heroes' more than a hundred years ago, and a faith-based magic chanter. , a powerful warrior who can use fifth-level resurrection magic and has already entered the realm of 'heroes' - Lax Elbein Drew Aindora!!"
"This is the warrior captain of our Yestije Kingdom, the one who is known as the strongest warrior in the kingdom - His Excellency Gazef Stronov!"
"As for this...he is my constant companion Climb!"
Under the somewhat rude and restless gaze of a little girl, the third princess of the kingdom introduced herself and the people she brought with her in a smooth and generous manner. After thinking about it for a while, she smiled and walked in without waiting for the other party's invitation. He sat on the sofa opposite the little girl and began to stare strangely at the male and female servants standing behind him.
Does she know that it is said that these servants are all powerful warriors or magic casters?
Especially the old man and the head maid who is about the same age as himself - Arturia Heliliar. Not only is the other person very good-looking, but she is also very powerful? At least, spies from their kingdom had spied on the other party in the courtyard of this mansion. With a wave of his hand, he easily froze several Eight Finger members who had sneaked in into icicles instantly. Just hearing about that scene was amazing. Very scary!
"Hello!"
"Your Excellency Anne Hastur! May I pay tribute to you on behalf of the 'Steel' level adventurer team 'Cang Rose'?"
After Her Royal Highness the Princess finished the introduction and took her seat, the captain of Blue Rose, the adamantite-level adventurer Lax Elbein Drew Aindora, stared at her with a smile. A certain little girl who looked very suspicious to her looked at it for a while, and then emphatically bitten the words about her title of 'Adamantine Steel' level adventurer, and then slowly sat down next to Princess Nina.
Obviously, she was very confused and disdainful of the other party's inexplicable 'Brilliant Diamond' level adventurer level!
Because, so far, the Adventurer's Guild has not come forward to acknowledge or announce the establishment and registration of that inexplicable 'Brilliant Diamond' level! Therefore, she was really disdainful and dissatisfied with the other party's approach that seemed to be an adventurer level made up by the other party and was still controlling the head of her 'Blue Rose' team.
Although she admitted that the other party did have considerable power, at the same time, she also had doubts about the other party's power! After all, no one here has actually seen the other party cast any overly powerful spells. Even the warrior chief only listened to the verbal descriptions of the ignorant villagers. She didn't seem to take it seriously.
And if it weren't for the big operation they were about to launch in the next period of time, which might require the strength of the other party, and she also needed to protect Lana's personal safety, she would definitely not have come so easily. here.
"Your Excellency Master Anne..."
"I'm glad to see you. I went to visit you last time when I was in E-Rantel City, but I was delayed due to some things. Now I can finally come to visit you. I feel extremely honored!"
Different from the sarcastic tone of the 'Blue Rose' Laisi, Warrior Captain Gazef bowed humbly to her, then stood calmly behind Her Royal Highness the Third Princess of the Kingdom, and Don't plan to squeeze into the sofa which is not very big.
'...'
As for the little follower Clem, who had no role to speak at all, he had already understood the situation and stood aside honestly!
However, judging from his very rude way of staring at the owner of the house and a little girl, it seems that he has powerful power over other people's little girls, and has continuous power over them. The warrior captain can only bow politely, and even Her Royal Highness the Princess can only come to visit her. Do you feel a little psychologically unbalanced or very dissatisfied?
But it's a pity that his sense of existence is so low that no one cares about what she thinks.
"that……"
(?~?)
"What's the matter with you guys coming to someone's house?"
(^～^;)ゞ
Anne said that the names of these individuals are longer than the last, and they are smelly and long anyway, and she was a little confused just now... Except for the little man named Clem just now, except for that one... She knew why she could barely remember the guy who looked vaguely annoying because his name was too short, but she couldn't remember who the other people were at all.
However, it doesn't matter what their names are. Anne just wants to know what these princesses want to do when they come to her home today and bring so many powerful helpers with them. ? !
"snort!"
"Does that need to be said? Of course I'm here to help deal with the big troubles you've caused! You should know about this dragon mage, Your Excellency Anne Hastur, right?"
Now that he saw that the other party was asking questions, the captain of 'Blue Rose', Lax Elbein Drew Aindora, who was already a little dissatisfied with certain things, said straight to the point.
Speaking of which, before they came here, they had investigated and made plans in advance for possible conversations, etc., and they had already known that the little girl in front of them was also straight-tempered and relied on strength. Let's go to the little guy who does whatever he wants unscrupulously. Then, when they come here, there is no need to say so many roundabout words to each other, so as not to waste time and annoy each other but it is not beautiful.
"trouble?"
∑(′△｀)? !
"But, there doesn't seem to be any trouble here..."
く(＾_?)ゝ?
Anne was a little baffled by what she heard, and she had no idea that it was true!
Yes, from Annie's point of view, she had a lot of fun these days. From time to time, some bad guys would jump out to relieve her boredom. Not to mention how comfortable her life was, where could there be any trouble?
"that……"
"Can I call you Annie?"
After seeing that the little girl in front of her no longer had the strong hostility that she had at the beginning, Lana, the third princess of the kingdom, felt that she should take the opportunity to get close to her, so she quickly asked, and continued talking before the other party could say anything. :
"Annie, that's it!"
"actually……"
"What we want to talk about when we come to you this time is about that 'Eight Fingers' who has caused trouble for you many times, about that criminal organization..."
Immediately afterwards, Princess Lana told the reason why she and others suddenly came here, and planned to invite the other party to help, and work together to deal with the 'worm' that was gradually eroding the kingdom and killing the people, and deal with and eliminate the 'eight-fingered' 'The matter and a plan that has not yet fully matured were explained in detail.
Of course, she also talked a lot about the various evil things that the evil force "Eight Fingers" had done, such as human trafficking, forcing girls into prostitution, killing people, planting black powder, opening casinos, and every one of the other parties they investigated. The strongholds in the royal capital were all briefly explained.
This lasted for more than ten minutes. It was not until Princess Lana felt a little dry that she breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the cup of strong tea brought by the maid and drank it. Small mouth.
"so……"
"In the face of the powerful 'Eight Fingers' and our common enemy, we believe that Annie, you should not continue to fight them by yourself like this. We should work together and then launch the attack at an appropriate time." Strike with thunder and eradicate them all in one fell swoop!!”
Holding her white and tender fists, the third princess Lana said excitedly.
They observed the little girl in front of them for several days. They saw that the conflict between the other party and the Eight Fingers became more and more intense. They saw that the other party killed at least hundreds of members of the Eight Fingers organization. They saw that the other party and the Eight Fingers After the all-out confrontation was inevitable and the conflicts were irreconcilable, we deliberately chose this appropriate time to come to the house for negotiation.
For this reason, she even deliberately suppressed the case in which the security officer was seriously injured and paralyzed by the other party. After all, it is a very cost-effective thing to sacrifice such a dispensable and cruel official for the sake of the kingdom, and to sacrifice such a security patrol with a bad reputation!
"Is that so?"
ヾ(^▽^*)))
"But why do people want to help you?"
(°ー°〃)
After hearing the other party talk a lot, Annie felt like her head was getting big...
Then, after a while, she straightened things out with the help of her little bear. It was probably: these guys in front of her wanted to deal with the 'Eight Fingers' organization, but they didn't have the confidence to win, so when they saw After she bullied those bad guys hard and efficiently recently, she hurriedly came to find herself, wanting to help them and help them deal with those bad guys?
(…)
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"!!"
"No! Your Excellency may be mistaken. Let me make it clear here: This is not about you helping us, but about us helping each other. Because we have a common enemy, we need to temporarily unite together to improve our winning rate, right? ?”
Hearing that a bad little girl actually said such sarcastic words, the 'Steel' level heroic powerhouse Lassie on the side became very dissatisfied and solemnly added.
"Okay, I understand, it turns out this is what you are thinking..."
o(′▽｀)o
"But, it seems that they don't need your help? And those Eight Fingers are not my enemies, they are just a group of dispensable toys!"
(????-)?
What kind of joke are you kidding about cosmic planes, what kind of messy enemies, those useless bad guys are worthy of being enemies of her Lady Queen Anne? !
And the fact is that Anne has never looked at the so-called "eight fingers". She even planned to run out today and let them ambush and assassinate her...if these strange guys didn't suddenly come to disturb her. If so, she would probably be on the street now, playing an interesting little game of cat and mouse with the bad guys in a deserted alley.
"!!"
"But, Eight Fingers is very strong!"
"They even secretly control the kingdom, with thousands of people serving them! If we cooperate, we will be able to successfully defeat them! But if we act separately, we will probably fail due to the dispersion of power! "
"ah!!"
"Hug, sorry, I'm rude..."
Hearing that the little girl in front of her despised the 'eight fingers', Lana, the third princess of the kingdom, hurriedly spoke loudly and anxiously again, even spilling some of the tea she had just picked up in her hand, making her I had to quickly endure the hot pain and put it on the table while exclaiming.
"Tens of thousands, how many exactly are there?"
?(ψ｀▽′)o
"Well……"
"Probably hundreds of thousands! But their core members will be fewer, so we only need to deal with those core members!"
Princess Lana once asked Laisi's team to conduct a secret investigation. Excluding those outsiders, the core members of the Eight Fingers in the royal capital of Yestije are only one to two thousand people. They are distributed in In more than a dozen different strongholds, those guys are the targets they need to eradicate!
"Hundreds of thousands...that's not much, so there's nothing to be afraid of!"
(ˉ▽￣~)Cut~~
It would be quite troublesome to fight hundreds of thousands of bad guys one by one... However, Annie felt that if she could improvise some powerful equipment for the maid behind her, the silly dragon, she would be able to The Hairy Dragon alone, if she spends a little more time, she can easily eliminate the enemies in this city in about half a night, right?
The bad guys scattered in other places can be eliminated just as easily. Come to think of it, it's just a little more troublesome to find them!
"..."
"Annie, tell me, we can give you whatever you want, as long as you can help us when the time comes!"
Thinking that the other party saw no benefit, Princess Lana, who was trying to push the envelope and didn't want to take action, thought for a moment, frowned and asked tentatively.
"what do you want?"
!(;?o?)o
"Well... I don't seem to have anything in particular that I want..."
(lll￢ω￢)
All Annie wants is good food and fun!
But she will find that kind of thing herself. When the time comes, she only needs to take a look to know whether it is what she wants. And if she has to say it now, she will not be able to get it herself. clearly.
"..."
"Let's do this. We, the Kingdom of Yestije, can give you a piece of territory and the corresponding title, the town of Ye-Rantel. That piece of land is the territory of our royal family. What do you think?"
The princess thought for a while and then suddenly said slyly.
Since the other party is highly praised by the warrior captain, and since her father has left this matter to her, she feels that it is better to just lock the other party directly, because as long as the other party becomes a lord of the kingdom and becomes one of them, everything will happen in the future. Everything will be easier to handle.
And the town of E-Rantel, which is located in the center of the Three Kingdoms and is often invaded by the empire, is undoubtedly a good choice. As long as the other party shows enough power in the next actions to be as powerful as the other party's reputation, then, she I believe her father will support her idea.
"don't want!"
(￢д￢.)
Anne's face was full of disgust, because, territory and title, etc., and those kinds of things are inedible, she wouldn't care about them!
"ah......"
"Then we hire you and give you money, a lot of money, countless gold coins, what do you think?!"
Hearing that the other party didn't want the title or territory, Princess Lana couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, and then soon, thinking that the royal family had plenty of funds recently and had unexpectedly made a fortune, she quickly changed a condition that she thought the other party might accept. .
She had heard that the other party had been hired by a pharmacist together with another newly emerged 'Adamantine' level adventurer team. So, the other party must have some kind of need for money, right?
"not so good......"
(?~?)
"The big piece of gold you got from E-Rantel City was actually thrown there by someone else. They have plenty of gold, so they don't want your gold coins!!"
?(′?`*)
Anne also heard that the piece of gold she accidentally dropped caused quite a stir, and she also knew that the piece of gold was finally collected by a certain king. At the same time, it is said that the incident also caused a lot of trouble in the country. Many nobles are secretly gritting their teeth!
"!!"
"What?!"
"Your Excellency Master Anne, you are saying... that the gold ingot was thrown away by you? But why did you do that, why did you throw it away?!"
At this time, the warrior commander on the side finally couldn't help but interrupt and exclaimed.
He never imagined that this 'unsolvable mystery' that had troubled the kingdom for a long time and shocked many people would be solved by him inadvertently? !
"There's no reason..."
(^～^;)ゞ
"It's just that at that time, there were two bad guys who wanted to rob someone. They also said they wanted gold, and the bigger the better? Then, they took out the largest piece of gold and threw it to them! But no idea, They are so useless that they can’t even connect!”
ヾ(⌒?⌒*)hehe?
In fact, Annie had told this matter once before in the Adventurer's Guild, but those guys didn't believe her, which made her angry for a long time! And now, when I say this here, these guys in front of me actually believe it...
Sure enough, there are some things that cannot be said to some idiots who don't believe her, because even if Queen Anne is telling the truth, those idiots will selectively ignore it, and it will be in vain. You might even make yourself angry or something!
(…)
(●￣(?)￣●)
"!!"
"It's like this, no wonder..."
It’s hard to catch such heavy gold!
However, after what the other party said, Warrior Captain Gazef finally understood some things, and finally understood why there was such a big gold brick that crushed two unknown adventurers to death. Got it! Now, all the original mysteries, all the original irrationality and incomprehensible logic, suddenly became clear at this moment.
'...'
'...'
Princess Lana and her friend Lax looked at each other in shock and didn't know what to say.
In fact, in their opinion, even the ten most powerful people in the kingdom would not be able to catch such a big pile of gold, right? Anyway, they felt that even if they were ten warrior captains, they would definitely end up being crushed into pieces?
"It turned out to be like this..."
"But! Annie, I don't understand, then why do you just throw it away and don't want it anymore?!"
Princess Lana was very surprised about this. After all, such a huge fortune, equivalent to the kingdom's tax revenue for decades, could the other party just throw it away just like that? And if the other party suddenly says that they want to take it back, do they want the Yestije Kingdom to be returned? !
"Because it's dirty!"
(?ˇεˇ??)))
"Those two bad guys were crushed into meat patties, with blood everywhere and their intestines coming out... And there are so many people with that kind of gold that they can get as much as they want, so how can they still want it?"
(ˉ▽￣~)Cut~~
Anne had a look of contempt on her face, a little disdainful of the nervous attitude of the guys in front of her.
After all, these guys are rare for that kind of golden metal, and she, Queen Anne, and the people in her Keprulu sector are not rare at all! Because there is so much gold in the galaxy. It’s basically the same as soil and rock. It’s just a little troublesome to purify it?
Anyway, most of the time that kind of stuff is used as industrial materials, and there is no need to look for it at all. Those federal mining companies can get extra when they find a few asteroids to refine metals. How could she be so rare about something with hundreds of millions of tons of by-products that no one would steal even if it was left on the roadside?
'! ! '
'Because, because it's dirty? '
'How much more? ! '
'How many do you want? This, how is this possible! ! ! '
After hearing the little girl's casual words, the kingdom's third princess Lana, the strongest warrior captain Gazef, the kingdom's only three teams of 'steel' level adventurers, the captain of Blue Rose, and a certain The little follower Clem and the four others were instantly stunned, with looks of disbelief on their faces!
I never expected it...
The unsolved mystery that has plagued the kingdom and neighboring countries for a long time, the 'Golden Brick Gate' incident, and the bounty investigation tasks and commissions in the Adventurer's Guild may have accumulated dozens of copies, and the amount is almost thousands of gold coins. The biggest event of the year was revealed directly in their not-so-smooth conversation like this? !
"???"
(???.???)????
"Hey! What's wrong with you guys? Is there any problem with this?!"
? (?Д?≡?д?)!?
Anne looked left and right in confusion, wondering why these guys had such dumbfounded expressions.
(...)
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