"I'm sorry, madam, we were counting the tribesmen living in the Kingdom of Maxi, and we immediately returned here from Winston after receiving your news."
Dorian Gray, who was of medium height but had exaggerated arms, took off his half-silk top hat and bowed to Alicia with a somewhat reserved attitude.
Behind him, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, he looked a bit like university professor Verdu Garcia, who also saluted, but his eyes were full of fire and hope, and he looked quite excited.
"It doesn't matter, you are doing this for our cooperation to continue better, sit down!"
Alicia shook her head indifferently. She was wearing a long skirt and a woolen coat. Paired with her always expressionless face and the indifferent majesty she exuded, she looked quite cold and glamorous, giving people an unbelievable impression.
A feeling of closeness.
Because of her identity as a researcher, she has a special status in the Tamara family and has few friends and partners. As a result, she does not have much experience in communication and is not suitable for this kind of cooperation negotiation.
But as a demigod and the dominant party in the cooperation between the two parties, under the majesty of the "arbiter", there was no problem in dealing with Abraham's two "astrologers".
Previously, after the Tamara family members in the Marsi Kingdom discovered that the country's backbone and top leaders came from experts and scholars with high status in the academic circle, Rawls's interest in the Abraham family weakened a lot. Even this cooperation
He didn't even come over personally to negotiate, but left it to Alicia.
Hearing Alicia's words, the excitement on Verdu's face increased a bit. Dorian frowned. He was different from the former. He had been in the Fishermen's Association for many years and had rich experience in this kind of situation.
It can be clearly felt. Compared with before, the other party's enthusiasm for working together seems to have diminished.
After the two sat down one after another, Dorian said first:
"Madam, regarding our cooperation, we have communicated through letters before. There may be some problems in some places, and we also have some questions. Can we get some answers?"
"Okay, but now I want to know how much power the Abraham family has in the Kingdom of Marsi. I don't mean the extraordinary ones."
Alicia, who is not good at negotiating, remembered Rawls's words before coming, to take the initiative and always ask questions first.
"In fact, our problem is also related to this. In the previous letter, the cooperation content required us to move some tribesmen to Ma Xi. We want to know whether..."
When Dorian saw this request for cooperation, his first thought was fear and worry, wondering whether the situation of the Abraham family was completely controlled by the Tamara family, but he later ruled out this possibility.
The reason for this idea is because of the development of the Abraham family for thousands of years after the "War of the Four Emperors".
After the Church of the Seven Gods shifted its focus from hunting them down to the Church of Witches and the Church of Death, the Abrahams who had temporarily escaped the disaster were divided into small families due to the deaths of high-sequence extraordinary beings. Some were located in Loen, and some returned.
The most familiar area is southern Intis, which once belonged to the Tudor Empire.
Later, due to the characteristics of their own paths and changes in world affairs, this part of the tribe gradually moved to Lemburg and Segar Loon, which are located at the junction of Intis and Feneport. This part of the tribe also moved to the west, and even some of them moved to
The Kingdom of Maxi.
For example, Verdu Garcia is an associate professor of history at Madan University in the Kingdom of Marseille, specializing in Quaternary History.
In the past few years, the Abraham family was in internal turmoil, and the upper class who led the change were almost completely wiped out. Those clan members who did not participate in this change survived because they had given up on becoming extraordinary and chose a more stable life.
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Some of those tribesmen who were lucky enough to survive the turmoil also moved to countries such as Masi, Lomborg, and Segar, using the Knowledge Church's extreme hatred for the Aurora Society to avoid subsequent pursuits.
Therefore, after receiving Tamara's request for cooperation, Dorian became afraid and worried, afraid of dragging the people who had already lived a peaceful life into a dangerous whirlpool again.
"Wait until March and you will know the reason."
Regarding this question, Rawls had already explained it, but he only gave this answer. Alicia simply closed her mouth after speaking.
Dorian, who didn't know much about Alicia, was startled and worried that he had asked too many questions, so he winked at Verdu.
"Madam, our family has tribesmen distributed in the Maxi Kingdom itself. The number is about four to five hundred people. There are also some tribesmen in Lundborg and Segar. Most of these tribesmen are teachers and scholars, and their influence is still strong.
of."
In fact, there are far more people in the Abraham family than these. What Verdu is talking about is the people of his branch and the Dorian branch, and does not include the other branches. Even the people he is talking about are not them.
What these two groups are all about is the number of clan members they can influence.
Abraham itself is a large family. Even after thousands of years of reproduction, with the support of huge wealth, it can still maintain the level of a middle-class family.
After their respective development, some have developed well, while others have declined. The former are naturally difficult to be governed by family elders like Dorian, while the latter have to stay close to the Presbyterian Church if they want to maintain their lives.
so many people?
A little surprise flashed through Alicia's dark gray eyes. She would sort out the news sent back by her people from Masi, Lomborg, Sehgal and other countries to Rawls, so she naturally knew the basic news about these three countries.
For example, the area of the Maxi Kingdom is about ten times that of Backlund, but its population is not as large as that of the latter.
With this population base, four to five hundred people equals more than one hundred families. If, as Verdu said, more than one hundred teachers and scholars, plus their friends, teachers, students, and practitioners in their respective fields, have an impact of ten
There is still no problem with the attitude of tens of thousands of people.
Coupled with Lundborg and Sehgal, this is not what Rawls expected.
Alicia, who knew that things had changed, was silent for a while and said:
"Tomorrow, we will continue to discuss cooperation."
Dorian and Verdu glanced at each other, thinking something had gone wrong. The latter was about to speak, but was interrupted by Alicia.
"This is a good thing for you."
Since the other party said this, Dorian and Verdu had no choice but to put aside their worries and watch Alicia disappear into the room.
After a few minutes, the silence was broken.
"Dorian, what do you think?" Verdu asked, adjusting his glasses.
Dorian pinched his brows and thought for a while before replying:
"The Tamara family doesn't know our situation. They should have some big move or plan in Ma Xi and need our cooperation, but our strength there exceeds their expectations. It is estimated that they will make corresponding changes.
."
His tone was mixed with heaviness and expectation. The former was because this change might be dangerous to the family, and the latter was because the family could take some initiative in cooperating with Tamara.
"I'm going to Backlund."
Looking at the dock workers outside the window, Dorian stood up.
Fors is very valued by Alicia, and this is one of the links that maintains the relationship between Tamara and Abraham.
What's more, excluding these factors, Forsi is also a good disciple, but a bit lazy. However, that's fine, he has already taught too many disciples who are too ambitious!
…
Forsi, who had been praised, was lying drowsily on the easy chair in front of the fireplace, curled up under a thick blanket.
Recently, Backlund has finally begun to come out of the influence of the Great Smog, and the circle of Extraordinaries has begun to resume its former activity, and Forsi also found a suitable place to play yesterday.
Well, it's still a circus... Only in this way can she avoid the attention of the three major churches and MI9. Although she got the news from Xio, the church and MI9 have not focused on it recently.
After resting for a few days, Xio finally found his own place. He served as the deputy captain of an Extraordinary team, specifically cooperating with some actions of the Extraordinary teams of the three major churches. It was a relatively leisurely job.
As the time came to two fifty-eight, Forsi finally lifted up the blanket and returned to his bedroom in his slippers.
Not long after, deep red light surged out from her eyes like water, drowning everything.
In the ancient and mysterious palace, Forsi was about to look at Mr. Fool when he suddenly saw a figure beside him.
That position has been vacant before!
The new member? A lady? "Magician" Forsi's eyes moved slightly, and she half-turned her body pretending not to care.
There is another new member? Or a lady... Miss Justice was about to stand up to greet Mr. Fool, when she suddenly saw a strange figure.
Rawls also glanced at the new member, and after confirming that the other member was "Star Admiral" Cattleya, he withdrew his gaze.
During the round of greetings from Miss Justice, the newly joined Ms. Hermit was also cautiously and seriously examining the members of the Tarot Club according to the order of greetings.
The mysterious purple in her eyes flowed slowly and imperceptibly. Although she couldn't really see through the mold and cover-up, she could still identify the details of other people's clothing.
The first person to observe was naturally the man code-named "Emperor" sitting first on the right side of "The Fool".
"Emperor" is a young man in his early twenties, with neatly styled black hair. He should have received good etiquette training. Although the clothes look ordinary, you can still tell in the details that they are customized... aristocrat.
, the superior one.
Cattleya summarized the "Emperor" from various details. Just when she was about to look at the "Hanged Man" next to him, her eyes suddenly became sour and uncomfortable, and a strong sense of danger spread throughout her body, making her freeze immediately.
Once there, I didn't dare to make the slightest move.
Fortunately, this feeling only lasted for a moment, allowing her to break away from the shock and fear.
This is even scarier than when she faced the Queen!
Could it be that the "Emperor" is an angel?
Why would you invite me to such a party?
In fact, this was really not Rawls' intention to scare Cattleya. He discovered something was wrong after entering Source Castle, and there was an invisible force that was repelling him. If it weren't for the fact that his spirit body had not been further strengthened after being promoted to demigod, I'm afraid that
He will be kicked out of Origin Castle directly.
To be more precise, if he had not been promoted to demigod, he would not have encountered such a thing.
Fortunately, Klein should have discovered something was wrong and restrained his strength in time. However, if this was the case, he should have doubts.
Just as he guessed, Klein was also startled. He felt a change in the gray fog space. The change was stronger than the previous one, which made him almost think that the truth that he was only a Sequence 6 was exposed.
However, he did not find that the gray fog space was rejecting Rawls, because he now discovered another problem, that is, his spiritual consumption was far faster than he expected.
I obviously only pulled one person, so it shouldn't be like this... "The Fool" Klein glanced at the "Hermit" with a hidden gaze, and noticed something abnormal about her.
Is it related to her?
Is it the "Hidden Sage"?
No, then it can only be "Emperor"? Has he been promoted again?
Well, from the changes in the "Emperor's" astral body, he confirmed his guess, and he could also confirm that Mr. "Emperor" might have really been promoted to a demigod.
Sequence 4 of the "Lawyer" path is the "Fallen Earl"!
Cattleya, who had just recovered from the huge fear, squinted her eyes. She did not believe that every member was so powerful, and they were all demigods and angels. Otherwise, she would not be qualified to participate at all, and Ms. Justice was obviously not like
Be the strong one.
But when she was still hesitating whether to continue observing others, "Justice"'s words shocked her again.
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"Mr. Fool, I was out in the field and only collected one page of Russell's diary."
Not to mention the shock of the "hermit", after Rawls felt that the power to repel him disappeared, he noticed Klein's hidden gaze, and immediately followed behind and said:
"Mr. Fool, I did not collect any diaries this week."
Well, I am mentally prepared, you are busy promoting to demigod... Klein nodded with a complicated mood, pretending not to care.
That’s fine, our Tarot Club can be considered a demigod, but they may not obey my orders!
Then Klein put aside the complicated emotions and began to read Russell's diary in his hand. At the same time, he also noticed that the new member Ms. "Hermit" seemed to react a little too violently. He didn't have time to think too much.
Focusing on the first page of Russell's diary
This part of the diary involves the history of the Fourth Age. The "True Creator" supports the Solomon Empire. This is roughly consistent with the history he has mastered and the situation occasionally revealed by Mr. "Emperor".
He leaned back, let the information in his hand disappear, and said with a smile:
"You guys start."
"Mr. Emperor, I have prepared the information you need for you, about the Fourth Age Steam Church, Moss Ascetic Order and other information."
"Moon" Emlyn seemed to be suppressing his voice, but in fact he couldn't hide his excitement when he spoke:
"Mr. 'The Hanged Man', I'm ready. When can you get the inheritance of the Blood Baron? You mentioned last time that it is in the hands of a big pirate?"