Mystery: The arrival of the new Black Emperor

Hobert looked at the 17 extraordinary materials on the altar: The harvest season is here!

He put away the materials, sacrificed the "War Hammer of Provocation" to "The Fool", and then waited for the other 15 extraordinary materials.

At this moment, Hobert thought of a very serious problem. These 17 pieces of five different materials were difficult for him to distinguish between their names and where they belonged!

His first thought was, who can he ask for advice?

At this moment, the messenger suddenly appeared in Hobert's room, and a letter flew accurately into Hobert's raised hand.

Hobert looked at the seal on the envelope. It was an abstract pattern of a book and eyes, which was relatively unfamiliar.

When I opened it, it turned out to be a letter from "Lieutenant General Iceberg" Edwina.

The content of the letter was very short, simply telling Hobert that pirates had discovered the flagship of "Vice Admiral Dusk" in the southwest of the Raging Sea. Edwina promised that she would continue to send people to investigate the specific location of "Lieutenant General Twilight".

There is also a page of drawings in the letter. It is a very neat hand-drawn chart that is no less good than the printed version.

The beautiful font on it simply marked the locations of several islands, and also marked the location where "Vice Admiral Dusk" was found.

Hobert compared it with the chart he had bought from Feneport City before and easily got the approximate location of "Vice Admiral Dusk".

Putting down the chart, Hobert suddenly thought, isn't there a ready-made teacher?

So he began to write a reply, first thanking Edwina for the information she provided, and then asking with pictures and texts what the five extraordinary materials he had obtained this time were.

…

"The Land Abandoned by God", Silver City!

Chad, the old man in charge of logistics, took Derrick to the top of the round tower and the chief's room: "Sir, look, Derrick was lucky enough to get an extraordinary weapon while he was out collecting materials!"

Chad handed over an extraordinary weapon that had some blood and stains and looked very old.

Chief Colin took the "Provocation Warhammer" and looked at it. As a former "Weapon Master", he roughly knew the capabilities of this weapon as soon as he touched it with his hands.

Finally came to the conclusion: very suitable for use when facing monsters!

Colin, who was always strict, had a slight smile on his face. He asked Derrick casually: "How did you get it?"

Derrick, who has grown up over this period of time, has already prepared a response: "Your Excellency, because in a transaction with a companion, I owe him a pair of 'Mirror Dragon Eyes', so I will go there today. Try hunting a mirror dragon, on the way there..."

Derrick described vividly how he met a powerful monster and how he restrained it with his own abilities. After a fierce fight, he accidentally obtained this war hammer.

"Very good." Colin said to Chad: "Exchange more merits for him!"

As he spoke, he winked at Chad.

Chad understood and caught the "Provocation Warhammer" returned by the chief with both hands: "Yes!"

Derrick secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He had originally planned to tell Chad the reason he just said, but he didn't expect to report it to the chief.

After the two of them left the round tower together, Chad indeed exchanged some more merit for Derrick.

Derrick received the meritorious service, exchanged the materials, and went back happily.

Because he had met the chief, Derrick was more cautious this time. He did not immediately redeem the extraordinary materials that needed to be paid to the "Emperor" as planned, but only exchanged them for a main material of the "Sun Priest".

After Derrick left, Chad took the "Provocation Warhammer" and went to the chief's room again.

Colin picked up the "Provocation Warhammer" from the wooden box: "What did Derrick exchange for his merits?"

"A main material of the 'Sun Priest'." Chad Hui reported: "After returning from this exploration operation, he has exchanged a piece of the main material of the 'Sun Priest'. I heard that he also exchanged some on the black market. Unused main materials.”

Colin was stunned: "Unused main material?"

"Yes, the magic potion methods we have mastered do not require the main materials, and can be exchanged for a lot with a small amount of merit."

Colin thought for a while and asked: "Isn't the 'Mirror Dragon's Eyes' among the ones he redeemed?"

"I don't know about this either." Chad said, "But I heard that what he redeemed were all the main materials at the Sequence 8 level."

He recalled for a while and then said: "About twenty days ago, he did come to redeem the 'Mirror Dragon's Eyes', but there happened to be no stock."

Colin nodded. In other words, except for some abnormalities in the main materials that could not be used for redemption, there was nothing too suspicious about Derrick.

He stared at the "Provocation Warhammer" for more than ten seconds. Suddenly, he found a wet rag and wiped the old-looking parts of the weapon. He wiped it repeatedly several times, and it turned out to be clean.

It was the same when he wiped it elsewhere, and soon the weapon in Colin's hand became as new as ever.

Chad also saw something was wrong, because the weapons seized from the monsters had never been so clean, and the stains on them could not be wiped away: "Chief, do you want someone to keep an eye on..."

Colin raised his hand: "No, give Derrick some freedom, maybe he can bring us some surprises."

…

Kingdom of Feneport, Jeffrey Territory.

Hobert learned that Little Sun would take several days to pay for the weapons in order to avoid being suspected by the Chief.

Hobert first sacrificed the 17 extraordinary materials he obtained to the "Land of Disorder" and waited until the evening when he finally received a reply from Edwina.

As expected by Hobert, Edwina knew all the five main materials and gave a relatively detailed explanation of the monsters that obtained the five materials.

This way, Hobert will have a good count, and it will be easier to set prices when ordering takeout in the future.

Then Hobert thought about what gift to give Edwina in return for her answer.

Although Hobert knew that the other party was a good teacher, he still had to express his gratitude so that he could ask her questions next time.

After thinking for a while, Hobert remembered that he had a notebook written by the Duke of Seville during the Fourth Age, which recorded many interesting humanistic events in the middle and late Fourth Age.

For Hobert, there were only a few passages in the notebook that were important, and Kress had excerpted them all.

In fact, for people who don't know "0-05" and "The God of the Djinn", those conversations that are more important to Hobert are just some interesting anecdotes about the Night Emperor.

Hobert came to the "State of Disorder" and rummaged for a long time, finally found the notebook, looked through it again, and simply tore out some places that might contain important information, preparing to lie and claim that he only had a part of the notebook. .

This kind of ancient books are just ashes here in Hobert, so they might as well be given to Edwina, who has such a hobby.

After the second batch of donuts was ready in the kitchen, Hobert wrapped the reply and notes full of interesting things about the Fourth Age people into a package and gave them to the courier.

In the evening, it was time to wash the feet again.

After Dennis put down the foot-washing water, he rushed to answer: "Sir, you asked me to fetch the foot-washing water for you because you want me to exercise my arm strength and waist while fetching the water, right?"

Hobert looked at Dennis, whose eyes were shining: "If you think I am so superficial, I think you will have to wait for another 50 years."

Dennis was stunned for a moment and began to think again.

Before falling asleep, Hobert received another reply from Edwina. She expressed that she liked the notebook very much and read it in one sitting.

Hobert smiled: "As long as you like it."

While thinking about how to hunt "Twilight Admiral", Hobert fell into sleep.

Early the next morning, while Hobert was sleeping soundly, a letter floated on his face.

When he took the letter away, the messenger was already entering the spirit world, as if to express his dissatisfaction with starting work so early.

Hobert yawned: "Who wrote to me so early?"

To his surprise, it turned out to be Leonard's letter.

In the letter, Leonard briefly described the process of taking the tourists away from the Bocklon Mountain Villa. They also found two or three trapped Marionettes on the mountain.

However, the pollution on those marionettes didn't seem to be serious anymore, and they solved the problem relatively soberly.

Then Leonard reminded Hobert that the person who solved the secret existence of those marionettes should be a certain big figure in the Fourth Age who was not dead. He told Hobert to deal with it carefully and not to completely trust this situation. This situation is not good. of gods.

Hobert smiled helplessly: Should I remind him to pay attention to the old man inside him?

But thinking that Leonard had good intentions, he wrote back a letter to express his gratitude.

The kitchen of the Lord's Mansion had no choice but to start making donuts at dawn.

The messenger was called again, and while receiving the letter, the messenger said: "You have been very busy recently. You have sent letters so frequently that I don't have much time to rest."

Hobert immediately said: "I'll give you three more donuts this time!"

"It's better to be busy!" After getting six donuts, the messenger quickly disappeared into the spirit world.

Hobert smiled, took the remaining donuts to the restaurant, and shared them with Donna and Forsi.

After breakfast, Hobert started today's work. First, the week-long land subdivision work was basically completed. Conrad came to report to Hobert on the progress of the work.

At the same time, in the past two days, Hobert's potion has indeed been digested again, but the degree of digestion is not as obvious as last time.

Such formal official business must of course be discussed in the main hall. Hobert knew exactly how much arable land there was in the territory, how much orchard land there was, etc., and had a clear understanding of the work Conrad reported.

The arable land in the territory is very abundant. After all the land is divided, there is still a large part of the arable land belonging to the lord.

After reporting on the land allocation, Conrad said again: "Sir, I discovered a phenomenon during the land allocation. Each village has a lot more people!"

Hobert was stunned: "When we did household registration before, did we lie about the population?"

"That's not true," Conrad smiled and said, "I have done some research. The extra people are residents of the surrounding territories. After hearing that we don't collect taxes here, they came to seek refuge with relatives and friends."

Hobert nodded and asked, "How many more people are there?"

"According to my preliminary understanding, there are more than 300 people who have relatives and friends who can take refuge." Conrad said: "There are about 800 people who have no relatives or friends and just want to rent fields here."

Hobert thought about it for a moment: "Didn't you just say that there is still a lot of land that belongs to the lord's mansion? If those lands are divided, how many people can it be distributed to?"

"About four hundred people."

"Then divide it!" Hobert smiled and said: "But please note that the land allocated to these people is slightly less than that of the original residents. Priority will be given to the relatives and friends of the original residents to reflect the preferential treatment of the original residents, and Create a little sense of superiority for them!

"I suggest that the extra land can be distributed to about five hundred people. It's up to you to decide the specific situation!"

Conrad immediately opened his notebook and wrote: "Yes."

"Since these people want to live in this territory, they must do three things. The first is household registration! The second is to divide households into households! The third is to obey the arrangements of the lord's palace."

Conrad immediately said: "I will do a good job in publicity."

“As for the housing problem for this group of people,” Hobert added, “The Lord’s Mansion rented them tents for free and gave them building materials on credit at low prices.

“They can return building materials in the form of kinriso, or they can return building materials in the form of crops.

"The tents rented to them are only free for one year. The building materials given to them on credit are repaid at a reasonable price within one year, and part of the interest will be paid after one year!"

Those tents were captured by "Jeffrey's Army" from Dockyard Island, and they were also piled up moldy in the warehouse of the Lord's Mansion.

As for building materials, in the future, Jeffrey will have no shortage of building materials.

Conrad, who wrote shorthand, lamented that the lord was an expert in government affairs that he had never seen before. He always had a way to "turn waste into treasure". No matter what problem he had, it was not a problem!

"As for the remaining 600 people, we can't give up!" Hobert said: "Their housing problem can also be solved by renting tents and giving them building materials on credit.

“The food problem can be solved by construction sites that are currently in urgent need of manpower. If one person in the family works on the construction site, they can provide food for other family members.

"But the food is deducted from the salary of the person working. If the salary is not enough to pay for the food of the family members, one more person in the family must work on the construction site!"

Hobert paused and then said: "This will bring a lot of burden to the accounting work in the territory. Go call Phillip and Roy, and we will discuss a standard."

This discussion lasted for more than two hours. Now there are more and more writing tasks in the territory. As long as the residents in the territory have a little bit of grammar skills, they are assigned to the corresponding writing work.

Hobert asked teachers from schools in the territory to hold a night class to provide supplementary lessons for these copywriters.

It also stipulates that only those who have taken extra classes at night school and passed the corresponding exams and graduated can receive full wages.

At the end of the meeting, Hobert made another important appointment: "I'm going to make Conrad the mayor of Jeffrey Town!"

In the main hall, these three people, who have been trained to a certain level of governance and politics, were slightly startled. With the lord here, does Jeffrey Town still need a mayor?

"After the town government is built, Conrad will take your team there to work." Hobert was explaining and making arrangements:

"You recommend a few candidates to me from your subordinates, and I will re-appoint a 'Knight of Household Registration', who will be under the control of the mayor in the future.

"Roy will be the 'Construction Knight' from now on and will be under the supervision of the mayor.

“When Albert comes back, he will also be under the jurisdiction of the town mayor as a ‘justice knight’.

"Also, Wayne, the 'Shipping Knight' who has just been canonized, and Donna, the 'Tax Knight' who is about to be canonized, are all under your control.

“In the future, after hospitals and schools are built, there will also be ‘medical education knights’.

"After the tourism industry in the territory develops, there will also be 'tourism and culture knights', 'agriculture and animal husbandry knights', etc., all of which will be under the jurisdiction of the town mayor."

Conrad felt a burst of joy in his heart, this was equivalent to being the number two person in Jeffrey's territory!

At this time, he also understood the significance of Sir Alex setting up the mayor, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: What a blessing! I seized this opportunity, otherwise my life would have been wasted in mediocrity.

Hobert glanced at Phillip: "From now on, you will be the 'Financial Knight' and will be under my control.

"When Kerwin comes back from overseas, he will be the 'Human Resources Knight', responsible for the introduction of talents and the promotion of staff. I will directly inspect and be responsible for promotions to the knight level. From now on, Kerwin will also be under my control!"

Phillip smiled and bowed slightly: "Yes! Do I take on the job of housekeeper concurrently, or..."

Of course he was happy. Although the father and son were not as high-ranking as Conrad, both father and son were in charge of key departments, especially the "Financial Knight" who was obviously the lord's crony.

This arrangement is obviously more important to the Lord than Albert and Kerwin, the original knight father and son.

"Alan is very attentive. You can leave the housekeeper's job to him!" Hobert has already thought about the future arrangements.

Allen at the door suddenly smiled. Although he has not become a "knight", as a butler, he must be trusted by the lord.

Finally, Hobert said: "These personnel arrangements are kept secret for the time being. After the town government is established, we will reach such arrangements step by step."

Hobert consumed a lot of energy in this meeting at noon, which made him catch up on his sleep at noon, and then taught Freya vocabulary in the afternoon.

…

Bayam, Rhoad Islands.

Rafter Pound passed the final round of assessment and finally became the tutor of Tony Manor.

It is said that Towne Manor is one of the largest manors in the entire colony. Some people say that it is one-third the size of Marseille. After observing it for the past few days, Rafter feels that this statement is a bit exaggerated.

However, one-fifth of the mountainous area in the central part of Blue Mountain Island belongs to Tony Manor; nearly one-quarter of the most fertile land on Blue Mountain Island belongs to Tony Manor.

It also includes a large number of rainforests, beaches, lakes, etc., and the Tony Manor even built a railway to transport the products of the manor.

As for the background of Tony Manor, there are many speculations. Some people think that this is the king's estate, because the largest manor in the Rhoad Islands is actually the "King's Manor".

It was not easy for the royal family to purchase another manor of similar size, so they simply called it Tony Manor.

Others believe that the power behind the Towne Manor is the family of Valentine Towne, the first governor of the Rhoad Islands.

Although Governor Valentine has made great military exploits, the Tony family currently has little influence in Backlund. Some people say that Governor Valentine exchanged all his military exploits for land in the colony.

No matter what force is behind it, ordinary people cannot afford to offend it.

Now that Tony Manor is looking for a tutor, Rafter plans to use his identity as a tutor to cover up some of his illegal activities in Byam.

Yes, he plans to establish his own gang force in Bayam, and then obtain certain development by bribing the Governor's Palace, thereby digesting the "briber's" potion.

But doing so is very risky, as it can easily be targeted by official Extraordinaries or other Extraordinary organizations that come to hunt for gold, so you need an identity that can stay out of trouble at any time.

At the same time, we have to prepare for the future "Corrupted Baron". If we can do well in Tony Manor and become the manager of a certain area in the manor, we can take the opportunity to digest the Sequence 6 potion.

If things don't go well, Rafter will be ready to take the power he has built to the Southern Continent to look for opportunities.

The powers of the countries in the northern continent are even weaker there, and there are warlords everywhere.

He had the same idea as Hobert, that he could raise a team by himself, and with his Sequence 6 strength, he could occupy a territory and become a small warlord.

It's not surprising that Rafter passed the assessment, because he has a pure Backlund accent, understands aristocratic etiquette and aristocratic dance, and most importantly, he also knows a lot of real-time aristocratic information.

In addition, Rafter never forgot to play the role of "briber" and bribed the examiner of this assessment, adding another layer of insurance to this assessment.

In this way, Rafter rode a carriage to the Tony Manor, which was like a small palace.

This manor is actually not far from Bayam. You can drive from here to Bayam's port in an hour.

Under the guidance of the housekeeper, Rafter met Mr. Tony, who had blood-colored hair, a beard and black pupils.

For some reason, Rafter always felt that this Mr. Tony looked familiar. Mr. Tony also smiled and said, "You look very much like one of my nephews."

Rafter immediately climbed up the "pole" and directly called Mr. Tony, who was seven or eight years older than him, his uncle.

After leaving Backlund, Rafter completely let go. His original aristocratic etiquette and dignity were long forgotten. He now wants to be promoted quickly and become a "Chaos Mentor"!

This is the first step in restoring the family's glory.

After getting Master Tony's approval, Rafter finally settled in this huge manor. The treatment here was very good. He had his own room with a study and living room, which gave him enough freedom. .

However, the housekeeper specifically warned that after 8 p.m., Rafter's activities were limited to the yard of his residence.

Rafter seemed to solemnly agree, but in fact he didn't take it seriously.

I met five school-age students in the afternoon, and they all looked well-educated.

He is not the only tutor in the entire manor, but the Tony family has five children of school age, so they need to find a new tutor. The other tutors also have their own students.

At night, Rafter secretly got up and prepared to return to Bayam to find a suitable gangster force that could be secretly recovered.

After carefully observing the situation outside, there was no one patrolling! He jumped on the wall and suddenly froze: "I don't sleep well at night, why would I jump on the wall?"

So he went back to his room and put on his pajamas, when Rafter suddenly realized: Why am I back?

He put on neat clothes again and just jumped on the wall: "The moon is so beautiful today!"

After admiring the moon, Rafter returned to his room again, put on his pajamas and lay on the bed: Why the hell am I back?

Really, I have to change my clothes again.

He always felt like something was wrong. He could think about it for a long time, but he still couldn't remember what was wrong!

Rafter came to the wall again: "Byam is so beautiful at night!"

He returned to his room again, put on his pajamas and lay on the bed, his eyes wide open and not at all sleepy.

Although he still couldn't remember what was wrong, he was sure that something was wrong tonight.