At eight o'clock in the evening on the 9th day, Haiyan City, the capital of Hills Commercial Federation.
The Hills Mercantile Federation is essentially a loose confederation of six large business families.
The six major families form a parliament to engage in parliamentary politics, and the heads of the six major families take turns serving as the federal speaker.
The current Speaker of the Hills Federation is Derek Gesang. He is the patriarch of the Gesang Family, the most powerful family among the six major families. His strength is at the fifth level.
That night, an extremely fragrant dance was being held in the banquet hall of the Gesang family's castle, Sea Serpent Castle.
The ladies and girls with delicate makeup on their faces were dressed in rags, drinking and twisting their beautiful figures on the dance floor.
A sexy and beautiful bunny maid in black stockings met the leering gazes of the surrounding male animals and sent all kinds of fine wines to the dance floor. She was inevitably licked by all kinds of dirty hands along the way.
Derek Gesang also mingled on the dance floor, dancing to the rhythm of the music with his dance partner, an innocent-looking aristocratic lady.
Derek's face turned red because he drank too much wine.
At this time, he took advantage of the drunkenness and kept touching his dance partner.
The noble lady did not refuse at all, and the two of them danced to the edge of the dance floor.
At this point, normal people know what to do next.
Derek took this beautiful aristocratic lady and prepared to go to his room to talk about life and ideals.
At this moment, an old butler wearing a black butler uniform suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Sir, there is a very important matter that you must handle." The butler lowered his head and said respectfully.
"Don't you see what I'm busy with right now?" Derek drunkenly hugged the aristocratic lady next to him and tried to walk away, not wanting to pay attention to his old butler at all.
But the old housekeeper took a step sideways, blocked his master's path, and said seriously: "Master, the level of importance is the 'highest level'. If you don't go now, tomorrow you will no longer be the patriarch of the family."
Derek: "..."
...
Five minutes later, Derek was sitting in a secluded conference room unhappily after being stopped urgently.
Directly opposite was his guest—a fifth-level assassin shrouded in black mist.
Seeing this guest, he suddenly became even more unhappy.
Because he knew this guest, a high-level strongman from the gangster force [Light Traveler] in the city, named Zachary. To a certain extent, they were old acquaintances.
Zachary smelled the smell of alcohol on Derek's body and couldn't help but smile softly: "Sir Speaker, if I guess correctly, you must have been with Miss Julia Hayden just now, right?"
"Why, are you spying on me?" Derek's eyes became particularly evil. The light traveler is getting more and more courageous! How dare he even spy on him?
"Of course not, how could we spy on the respected Speaker?" Zachary smiled calmly:
"You smell like Miss Julia Hayden. The two of us spent a wonderful night together last night, so we are very familiar with this smell."
Derek: "..."
He didn't know why, but he suddenly felt sick.
Fortunately, the housekeeper called him over, otherwise...
He didn't want to continue this topic and waved his hand: "Let's get down to business, Zachary. Why did you come to see me in the middle of the night?"
"It's for a letter." Zachary was shrouded in layers of black mist and couldn't see his expression, but his tone gradually became solemn: "This letter is from the Emperor of the Lion Empire - Sean Violet."
"Oh?!" Derek immediately sat up straight when he heard it was a letter from this person: "A letter from Emperor Ryan?"
Zachary nodded slightly, tossed it lightly, and a lavender letter flew directly to his desk.
Derek did not directly touch the letter on the table, but winked to the side of the conference room.
A few seconds later, a spell floated over from the side of the conference room and landed on the letter.
A few seconds later, a dull voice came from the side of the conference room: "Sir, there is no trap in this letter, and I have lifted the magic seal on it."
"Yeah." Derek nodded slightly, took out the letter from the envelope and read it carefully.
The general content of the letter is as follows: The Lane Empire and the Wind Chime Empire are preparing to launch a war against the Plantagenet Empire, asking the Hills Federation to choose a side, and promising that "if it sides with the two empires, it will give him a lot of benefits."
Derek was not surprised after seeing the content of the letter, but felt reassured.
"finally come!"
The Gesang family had long predicted that the Lion Empire would recruit them, and they had already decided to betray the suzerain country.
Emperor Ryan's personal letter, this is sincerity enough!
"Wait a moment." Derek stabilized Zachary first, then ordered the waiter to bring a pen and paper, and wrote a reply eloquently.
In the letter, he stated: As long as the Lane Empire is willing to give up enough benefits to their satisfaction and expand economic and trade exchanges between the two sides, the Hills Federation is willing to work with the Lane Empire to conquer the evil Plantagenet Empire and turn the evil empire in the east into free trade.
fertile soil...
After writing the reply, he wrapped the letter in a beautiful envelope, put a magic seal on it, and handed the letter to Zachary: "Zachary, this is my reply to Emperor Ryan, please help me put the letter...
....”
At this moment, the letter in his hand suddenly floated upward and escaped his control.
Derek hasn't fully reacted yet.
The cold light of a dagger lit up, and the mysterious Zachary, who was hidden in the black mist, was cut in half at the waist in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, his eyes flashed. The fifth-level mage hiding on the side of the conference room had his throat cut and died silently.
Then, the figure of a half-elf female assassin appeared in the open space in front of him.
This half-elf assassin is Su Yu’s subordinate—Cecilia Nightblade.
She was sent out by Su Yu to spy on intelligence last night and followed Zachary all the way to the Sea Serpent Castle. Unexpectedly, she encountered a big fish!
Cecilia blew the blood stains on the dagger and raised the letter in her hand: "Very good, Derek, do you want to betray the suzerain country and join the enemy country?"
"You are... Lady Cecilia Nightblade?!"
Derek's face turned pale, and his eyes showed extreme despair.
There are only about 20 seventh-level strong men in the human world, and Cecilia did not hide her appearance, so he could recognize who it was at a glance.
But just because he recognized who she was, he became even more desperate.
Why did Cecilia appear here? Did Her Highness Alijie send her here?
"Lady Cecilia, please listen to my explanation..." Derek racked his brains to make excuses.
"No need to explain, you can explain it to Lord Nemesis yourself!"
Cecilia couldn't help but lift up his collar and drag him from the window into the sky.