The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Two days ago, Sylvia established her own intelligence network, and today she has gained something. She looked at the intelligence data collected by her subordinates, handed the part of the lumberjack family to Leo, and asked : "Do you need to help them?"

Sylvia attaches great importance to intelligence gathering, so on the first day she came to the manor, she began to build an intelligence network in nearby towns.

If it was normal times, she might take the high-level route like Beruk City and build a complete intelligence system from top to bottom, but this doesn't work in the towns around Truber Mountain, which are all small towns In addition to a few department officials who are directly under the capital, the highest status are only some village chiefs and town chiefs, and there is no high-level route for her to go.

So she can only choose to start with the small forces at the bottom and spread out a market intelligence network.

If it was before, she might still need to spend some time and experience to complete this matter, but now her ability can easily solve some key problems, such as loyalty and ability.

Through the abyss spell inherited from the abyss dragon, she easily corroded and controlled the leaders of several small forces in the surrounding towns with her own power, and then used these low-level bosses to control all kinds of things that others would not care about. All kinds of intelligence information are collected, and she can easily find out the intelligence information she wants from these trivial information.

For example, the information that other lumberjack families plan to take advantage of the internal instability of the Luffy family comes from the kitchen purchases of a lumberjack family that has a hostile relationship with the Luffy family. Judging from the contents of the purchase list , it is obvious that this family is having a banquet, and coupled with the carriage travel records of other lumberjack families, it is not difficult to guess what these lumberjack families are going to do.

Leo glanced at the information and said, "No need, they probably won't really attack the Luffy family, at most they will only weaken the strength of the Luffy family, if they can really destroy other family, if they come to obtain the other party's Karita magic contract, there will not be so many lumberjack families now. Moreover, a Luffy family whose strength has been greatly reduced and internally unstable is more suitable to be our partner. Only Then he will be willing to trade all the secrets of the lumberjack family."

Sylvia nodded, she also had the same idea as Leo, and she even thought more radically than Leo.

In her plan, she intends to find an opportunity to encourage those lumberjack families to kill the Luffy family. Even if the agitation is unsuccessful, she can use the power of the abyss to influence the minds of these people when necessary and make them make wrong decisions. .

At that time, she and Leo only need to rescue and protect Bain when only Bain is left in the Roof family. The secret of the Gong family, even the Kalita magic contract belonging to the Lufu family will be offered with both hands.

However, after serious thinking, she still felt that Leo's bystander approach was safer, because she didn't know whether her actions would trigger the taboo rules of the Carita Devil's contract. Things got a bit more troublesome when the Luffy family's Kalita magic contract was touched and she became the target of attack.

Although she believes that her current strength will definitely not be harmed by the normal Karita magic contract, but the current Karita magic contract is an abnormal contract, who can guarantee that it has no more dangerous and deadly things? Strength, now that she and Leo have plenty of time, they can take their time and don't rush for a while.

Sylvia put the information about the lumberjack family aside, and then quickly flipped through the information. Suddenly, she found an interesting thing in one piece of information, so she picked it out and handed it to Leo. Said: "Look at this information, I think it is very interesting!"

Leo took the information and looked at it, with a thoughtful look on his face.

The content of the intelligence is very simple, that is, when the two alcoholics were drinking in the tavern, they bragged about how great their ancestors were and how glorious their family was in the past.

If it was just this kind of drunken bragging, it would not attract the attention of Leo and Silvia. What really attracted their interest was that one of the alcoholics boasted about his ancestors. He mentioned that his ancestors came from A powerful empire of the famous Falim. Under the leadership of a monarch named Knight King, this empire unified the entire continent and became the only country on that continent.

After the drunkard said these words, he was naturally ridiculed by his fellow drunkards and other people in the tavern, because as we all know, no matter whether it is the old continent or the new continent, there has never been an empire that can unify the entire continent.

Although there have been several powerful empires in the history of the Old Continent, those empires were only the empires of a region, not the empire of the entire continent.

As for the New World, there was indeed a unified regime in the early days of migration, but that regime was not an empire, but an alliance, and it fell apart within a year.

The drunkard who was ridiculed was still not convinced, and then said a lot about the empire, as if the empire really existed in this world, but no one in the tavern took it seriously, just regarded it as a drunkard Just crazy talk.

But these contents were overheard by a little gangster in the tavern at the time. He thought it was interesting, so he collected it, handed it to his head, and finally came to Sylvia's desk.

These drunken words that others see as crazy, but to Leo and Sylvia, it is a completely different matter, because the word Falim is pronounced in the local Tevez language of the Ott Federation, if Translating this pronunciation into another language that both Leo and Sylvia are familiar with, the pronunciation of the word Falim becomes Fran.

If it was just a similar word, Leo and Sylvia would not need to pay too much attention to it, but none of the subsequent empire that unified the entire continent, the knight king who accomplished this great feat, and the various details of the imperial society It is to show that the Falim mentioned by the crazy drunk man is Fran, which means that the ancestor of the drunk is from the Fran Empire in the world of Velen.

"Investigate his origin." Leo also became interested and said.

Although the area around Truber Mountain is very large, there are not many people living there, and there are few towns. It is very easy to inquire about a person.

After Sylvia's order was issued, the relevant information was handed over that afternoon.

"This person is not simple." Sylvia said in surprise after reading the information.

Leo also took the information over and looked at it. The content of the information was not very large. It only showed that the alcoholic lived in the Travert Manor at the foot of Truber Mountain, and there were very strict guards around the manor. It seemed that the alcoholic Has a high status.

Because the manor was tightly guarded, and the local police station directly went to the leader of the local gangsters to issue a warning, those low-level gangsters could not investigate any more information.

Seeing this, Leo thought for a while, then shook the bell on the table. After a while, he saw the butler walk in from the outside and said, "Do you have any orders, sir?"

Leo asked, "Do you know Travert Manor?"

"Yes, sir." The butler replied.

Leo asked again: "Who is the owner of that manor?"

The butler thought for a while and said, "The owner of that manor is Duke Perrin of the Kingdom of Teresa, but the second son of Duke Perrin lives there now."

"Kingdom of Teresa?" Leo was stunned, thought for a while, and confirmed, "Is it the Kingdom of Teresa in the old continent?"

"Yes." The butler nodded.

Sylvia was puzzled: "Why would the Duke of the Old World Kingdom have a manor property in the Otter Federation in the New World?"

The steward is also knowledgeable and talented, and quickly explained: "When the Federation was founded, the Kingdom of Teresa gave the Federation a lot of help, so after the founding of the Federation, the Federation gave back a lot of things to the Kingdom of Theresa, including There is land, and the land of Travert Manor was one of the lands donated to the Kingdom of Teresa. Later, the land was given to the Duke of Perrin by Queen Teresa, and the Duke of Perrin built a manor there for Serve as a place of exile for the members of the Duke family."

Leo muttered, "It means that the second son of the Duke of Perrin who lives there is an exiled person."

Sylvia asked, "For what reason was he exiled?"

The butler shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, but you can ask Mr. Cardy, he may know some news from working in the Secret Service."

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Leo signaled the steward to leave, and then he called Kadi again, but obviously the steward overestimated Kadi's knowledge reserve, let alone what happened in the Kingdom of Teresa , even the owner of Travert Manor is a foreigner.

Leo could only ask the steward to find as much information as possible about the Kingdom of Teresa, because he and Sylvia suspected that the Belmont family might have moved to the Kingdom of Teresa, otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why So the distant Kingdom of Teresa would care about political changes in the hinterland of the New World, and it was difficult to explain why the Duke of Perrin wanted to build a manor at the foot of Mount Truber as a place of exile for family members.

Because the Kingdom of Teresa played a great role in helping the Otter Federation at the beginning of its establishment, so even though the Kingdom of Teresa and the Federation of Outer have no trade and political contacts, the Kingdom of Theresa is still very popular within the Federation of Otter. Kindly, there are a lot of books about the Kingdom of Teresa in the Federation, so the process of collecting information by the steward is also very smooth.

Regarding the information about the Kingdom of Teresa, Leo had only read some miscellaneous books before, and those miscellaneous books were some books related to philosophy handed down from the Kingdom of Teresa. Judging from the contents of the books, the Kingdom of Teresa should be A country with a strong cultural and academic atmosphere.

However, when Leo looked through the various materials of Theresa Kingdom collected by the steward, he realized that his speculation was not complete. Theresa Kingdom is indeed a country with a strong humanistic and academic atmosphere. The most famous academic city is located in the Kingdom of Teresa, but the Kingdom of Teresa is actually very martial. Except for a few nobles in the country who were finally conferred with certain academic achievements, all other nobles They are all military nobles.

There is even a very strict title inheritance law in the country, that is, only descendants of nobles with certain merits are eligible to inherit the title. Once there is no suitable heir, the title will be cancelled, even if it is a duke. exception.

However, the Kingdom of Teresa itself has no wars to fight, and the surrounding countries are all subordinate countries that have surrendered. Therefore, to solve this problem, the Kingdom of Teresa has formed a very unique mercenary military merit exchange system.

The most indispensable thing in the Old World is war, so mercenaries are always the most scarce resources. The Kingdom of Teresa allows domestic nobles without military exploits to privately raise a certain number of mercenaries, and then accept employment from other countries, join the war, and recognize The military exploits made during his employment period can also be exchanged for the military merits of the Kingdom of Teresa according to a certain percentage. Once the military exploits are exchanged, the nobleman will automatically become a military nobleman, and his private mercenary must be disbanded. , ending his status as a mercenary forever.

This approach has made up for the loopholes in the Theresa Kingdom's title succession bill, and it has also made the nobles in the kingdom always elite, and those descendants of nobles who have not received the right of inheritance also have an extra way out. After confirming, leave the Kingdom of Teresa, choose to take the path of mercenary military service, and obtain noble status in other countries. Of course, there are some who are unwilling to suffer, and most of them will be sent to some remote places to prevent them from making trouble in the noble succession ceremony. .

Therefore, the person in the Travert Manor is likely to be a dismissed person who failed to compete for the inheritance and is unwilling to take risks.

In addition, the royal badge of the Kingdom of Teresa is very interesting. Unlike the royal badges of many countries, the royal badge of the Kingdom of Teresa is not some kind of legendary beast or mythical beast, but a flower called holy, and this The holy flower has never been seen before, as if it does not belong to the plant of this world.

However, whether it was Leo or Sylvia, after seeing the flower on the royal emblem of Teresa, they recognized the flower at first sight as the common seven-petal flower in the Faran Empire, although it was not a French flower. It is the national flower, but it is no different from the national flower of France.

"When we have time, maybe we can send him an invitation." Leo suggested.

Sylvia nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, I also want to see if he is related to the Belmont family, or if they are just ordinary people who came to this world with the tower wizards."

Leo smiled and said, "If it's what we think, then we may have to travel a long way."