I Am the God of Games

Crooks is a mining city located in the hinterland of the Walla Empire. The name Crooks means "rich mountain capital" in the ancient language. Backed by the Meredith Mine, they can not only mine high-quality Crystal, and many high-quality open-pit iron mines.

This place was originally a wasteland. After the Valla Empire was established, Taylor Meredith, a great nobleman who was entrusted here and liked to explore, discovered rich mineral deposits on the unnamed barren hills, so he organized manpower to start mining.

The nameless barren mountain was also named by Taylor after himself, and it became one of the largest mines in the Valla Empire.

Crooks was originally just a shack gathering place for miners. As the reputation of the Meredith Mine became more and more popular, more and more people came here after hearing the news. Gold works well—in less than two hundred years, the shack area at the foot of the nameless barren mountain was rapidly expanded and refurbished, and a new city was finally born.

Although in terms of prosperity, Crooks is far inferior to Lancaster as a commercial city, but in terms of wealth created, Crooks is far superior to the latter.

And as the ruler of Crooks, the Meredith family is naturally wealthy.

Old Meredith is a staunch royalist, and he also believes in Grimon, the god of travel and art inherited from Taylor Meredith. church faction.

It is precisely because of this that the royal family also has a lot of trust in the Meredith family, and the old Meredith's reputation is not bad, Crooks City can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai in every sense.

But under this stability, there is a surging undercurrent.

The reason is simple, old Meredith had no heirs, he had only one daughter, and died of illness very early.

In addition, the Meredith family is afraid of being feared by the royal family, so they never form cliques to marry, so there is no complicated relationship. The family is almost a single lineage. A large number of shining crystals are exchanged for blessings from the gods and the royal family. I am afraid that this family has long since ceased to exist.

But old Meredith is just a mortal after all, and his lifespan is limited. Even if he has the favor of a god, his life is like a candle in the wind, which is about to come to an end.

If this continues, when he dies, 80% of the property of the Meredith family and the territorial rights of Crooks City will be taken by the royal family.

Faced with such huge benefits, some people naturally couldn't sit still and wanted to take advantage of it.

As long as the old Meredith made a will under the witness of the gods before he died, and donated all his wealth to others, even if the other party could not fully inherit the family property of the Meredith family and Crooks City (the royal family can Reasonable circumvention of God-witnessed wills through reasons such as taxation),

But at least it can be divided into more than half!

Crooks City, the master bedroom in the City Lord's Mansion.

"Mr. Meredith, your physical condition hasn't changed much." A Miao Zhu from the Temple of Life took off his stethoscope-like magic guide, and lay helplessly on the bed, his body so emaciated. Just like a mummy-like old man said: "As I said last time, the 'Elf Stone' embedded in your heart when you were young has the power to delay aging. But it seems to be a failure. Almost lost all of my strength..."

When it came to this, Miao Zhu was a little uncertain, and hesitated to speak.

"Don't worry about it, just tell me how much time I have left." The old man said.

"Your body is aging quite seriously. Judging from the current situation, the spirit stone can probably last for about a year."

Old Meredith has a good reputation and is not the kind of cruel nobleman. Miao Zhu was not afraid that the other party would take his anger out on him, so he replied honestly: "If you can find a good spirit stone within a year, replace it with the The one in your heart may live longer..."

"You don't need to comfort me for such an impossible thing." The old man smiled, but the smile on his haggard face was not only not kind at all, but also a bit permeable: "Is there still one year left... ..."

Miao Zhu also fell silent, and he also understood that what he said just now had no comforting effect at all.

After all, like the "philosopher's stone" and "philosopher's stone", the fairy stone is a treasure that only exists in legends. It is said that only the royal family of the high elves can make it. Each stone has the power to bring the dead back to life, and it can also extend the life of human beings. , Even ordinary people can be transformed into extraordinary race 'blood elves'.

It's just that the high elves are extinct, and even the so-called orthodox forest elves have not inherited one-tenth of the elf technology of the high elves, let alone other elves.

As a result, the once-prominent elf stone in the legend disappeared into history together with the annihilation of the high elf civilization.

Even though Miao Zhu himself had read similar content in ancient books, if he hadn't actually found one in the old lord's heart, he would have thought it was just a myth...

"I want to be alone for a while, you go out first, just ask the housekeeper for the consultation fee."

The old man said in a deep voice.

Miao Zhu tried his best to control himself from showing a happy expression—the old lord was generous, and each consultation fee was equivalent to his salary for several years—he became dizzy after saluting respectfully to the old man left.

After Miao Zhu left, the whole room became quiet again, except for the crackling of the flames in the fireplace.

The old man lay on the bed, and after a long silence, he let out a long sigh.

In fact, he is very clear that the elf stone in his heart is not a defective product, but a real elf stone.

The reason why the power inside has been exhausted is very simple, because he is the nobleman who found the Meredith Mine two hundred years ago, Taylor Meredith!

With the help of the power of the spirit stone, he has lived with a mortal body until now. In order to prevent unnecessary suspicion, he even learned makeup, making the original Meredith die of old age, and replacing it with a new generation of Meredith The illusion of continued dominance.

But the power of the spirit stone is limited after all, and he still has to face death in the end.

To be honest, Taylor Meredith had already lived enough, and her fear of death was not as strong as she originally thought.

It's just a little reconciled in his heart.

Having seen the vicissitudes of the world for two hundred years, he is very clear about what the nobles are like now, and he knows that after his death, Crooks City will definitely be ruined into a mess.

It's the same even if the royal family takes over. After all, it is impossible for them to move the imperial capital here, and they will eventually send people to manage the place, and the people who are sent need to turn in the income regularly, but people are profit-seeking, so apart from turning in the normal In addition to income, they will definitely find ways to benefit themselves, and the result will undoubtedly be desperately searching for civilians to squeeze miners...

The cub sells Ye Tian's heart.

What I cherished, what I spent a lifetime building, was abandoned by others, and even almost destroyed, just to be able to grab a drop of profit from it, how could this allow Taylor Meredith to die in peace ?

"Fortunately... there is still hope."

The old man took out a compass from under the pillow, which was an artifact he had begged from the god Grimon he believed in. It had only one function, that is, it could point in the direction of people related to him by blood.

Tyler Meredith has spent his entire life on running Crooks City, until Crooks City was on the right track and he didn't need to worry about it, then he put his mind on himself a little bit, Experienced the love of ordinary people, and even had a daughter.

It's a pity that his wife died of dystocia when giving birth to her daughter. Because of lack of company, her daughter was stubborn and rebellious since she was a child, and even eloped with a commoner when she grew up a little.

Although he was finally caught by the people he hired, he fell ill and died of depression not long after, which made Taylor regret it.

It wasn't until not long ago that Taylor suddenly got a revelation from Grimon, knowing that he still has a blood relative living in this world—his daughter already had the crystallization of love during her elopement, just to protect her husband And the child, she was deliberately caught by someone hired by Taylor.

This gave Taylor new hope.

Regardless of whether it is my grandson or granddaughter, I have to take him back and teach him for a year, let him inherit his will, and continue to manage Crooks City well!