Age of Mysticism

"Traitors! Have you forgotten His Highness's kindness to you and the oath you swore?"

In the narrow alley between the two buildings, Nightingale, wearing a lady's trench coat, questioned loudly the man in a worker's uniform. A newspaper was blown to her feet, and the upper page was printed with a striking headline: "Dreadnought-class battleship launched, the Raging City fleet once again left the world's navies behind an era."

The man spread his hands and said helplessly: "Of course we remember His Highness's kindness, and we blame ourselves for making this decision. But...Miss Nightingale...please understand us."

How could Nightingale understand these assassins?

She brought assassins to Rage City to assassinate Meteor. Who would have thought that these people had been workers in the potion workshop for a period of time, and they would betray Prince Alec, whom they swore allegiance to.

"Why! Could it be that a potion factory gave you more and better things than what His Royal Highness gave you?"

"This..." The man said in a tone that did not hurt Nightingale as much as possible: "The potion factory of the Yanyang Group... really gave more than the second prince. Do you know that we have a foundation in magic because we are quick learners?" , have all been converted to regular employees of the group.

Not only salary increases, the group also provides us with a lot of welfare guarantees. Do you know? We can retire at the age of sixty, and we can get a pension that is rich enough to retire. The group allocated a dormitory for us, and we can bring our family members to live together, and our children can also go to the school run by the group, and after graduation, we can get a stable job in the group.

And we can also buy a house at a very cheap price, this is the City of Raging Waves!

Nightingale, you used to be a young lady of a noble family, and you were also a ranger who was always in danger. You know what kind of home people like us want most.

Your Highness cannot give us the future we want. "

"Why can't I give you a future!" Nightingale said bitterly, "When Your Highness ascends the throne and becomes the emperor of the empire, you are all nobles. You will definitely have much more in the future than you have now!"

"Wake up, Nightingale!" The man couldn't help shouting loudly: "Look at this city, look at these tall buildings that can block the sky, look at the cars on the street, and..."

The man picked up the newspaper from the ground, and pointed to the magical image of the giant ship on it: "A 10,000-ton steel warship! Without the nod of Governor Meteor, how could His Highness be enthroned?"

"Yes! Meteor is the biggest obstacle for Your Highness to ascend the throne. We came to Raging City for this purpose. If you kill Meteor, everything here will belong to His Highness."

"No!" Seeing that he couldn't convince Nightingale, the man backed away slowly: "In the past we wanted to fight for wealth with our lives, but now we don't need to work hard to get everything we want.

Miss Nightingale, His Royal Highness the Second Prince cannot give you the future you want, you will not become a concubine, let alone become the Empress of the Empire. Cut off the idea of ​​assassinating the Governor of Meteor, and you will definitely be able to find the life you like in this city. "

Nightingale pulled out the dagger from under the windbreaker, and stared at the retreating man with murderous eyes: "Cowards! I will not let you go."

"Miss Nightingale, we hope that your threat is just an angry one." Several people wearing the same work clothes appeared at both ends of the alley, and the man continued to retreat cautiously, and said: "For safety, we should kill you, but two His Royal Highness is very kind to us, and you are also very kind to us. We all hope that this friendship can be preserved for a long time.

Please apologize to Your Highness on our behalf.

If you give up on assassinating Governor Meteor, you are always welcome to come and meet with us. "

"Go away! Traitors!" Knowing that she was no match for these people, Nightingale put away her dagger, "Don't think I'm as cowardly and fearful of death as you are, even if I'm alone, I will sweep away the throne for His Highness." Clear the obstacles!"

"Good luck..." The assassins saluted Nightingale together, then turned and walked into the crowd outside the alley.

A thunderous sound resounded from the sky, and the clear sky became dark clouds in an instant.

The heavy rain poured down and poured on Nightingale.

She walked out of the alley like a walking dead, walked into the street, and walked aimlessly in the heavy rain.

She didn't expect things to turn out like this. She confidently led a team of assassins from New Moon Oasis to Saint Lun City, and then from Saint Lun City to Raging Waves City.

As a result, he couldn't even find the meteorite anywhere, so he became a lonely family.

what do I do?

Your Highness Alec...

At this time, an umbrella blocked the rain for her. Nightingale recovered and turned her head to look, and saw a beautiful woman looking at her with a smile on her face.

Nightingale asked alertly, "Who are you?"

The woman is wearing a very ordinary work clothes and a bowler hat, like a passerby offering help to a person who is drenched in the rain.

The woman took out a work card and showed it to Nightingale: "Second-level agent of the Raging City Headquarters of the Imperial Secret Service... Ed Daly. Miss Nightingale, our Chief Detective Thomas invites you to the headquarter for coffee."

Secret Bureau!

Realizing that her identity had been exposed, Nightingale wanted to pull out her dagger to break through, but she immediately felt that the atmosphere was not right.

During a thunderstorm, pedestrians should all seek shelter from the rain nearby, but there were more than a dozen people standing scattered around him. They wore clothes of different occupations, and there were even hawkers who insisted on operating in the heavy rain. And none of them opened an umbrella, letting the rain wash away, like cheetahs ready to go, just waiting for an order to pounce on their prey.

"Agent Eddie..." The resistance was meaningless, and it was impossible to break through. Nightingale gave up the resistance, raised her head and said in the posture of a noble lady: "Did the group of traitors report me?"

Eddie held an umbrella for Nightingale, regardless of the rain pouring on her shoulders: "No, they are trustworthy friends for you. In fact, you just entered Raging City, and the General Administration noticed you.

We are very relieved that your friends finally gave up on assassinating our governor, but you...you should think about what your friends said. "

Nightingale didn't expect to expose herself early: "What are you going to do with me?"

"It's not up to me to decide. You are the lover of His Royal Highness the Second Prince, and you have not put your thoughts into action. Perhaps the chief inspector will arrange for you to meet with the governor, and our governor will decide your fate."

"Very well, I want to see him too."

Eddie waved her hand, and a black car came out of the rain curtain and stopped beside the two of them.

Eddie opened the car door and invited Nightingale to sit in. At this time, the sound of dragons came through the sky.

Everyone couldn't help but look up.

I saw a group of giant dragons flying over the city under the thunderstorm and torrential rain. They blew loudly, as if they were promoting the power of the dragon clan to this huge city.

Immediately afterwards, portals flashed continuously on the buildings high in the city, and the battle mages of Oulu Academy appeared. Dozens of armed airships scrambled into the sky to deal with possible attacks.

However, the giant dragons didn't stop, they screamed and flew over the city, and soon disappeared in the torrential rain, heading towards the city of Saint Lun in the empire.

Eddie, who was protecting Nightingale with her body, breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at the direction where the dragon disappeared and said, "After the Shuojin people and the angels visited the imperial capital, a group of angels suddenly descended on the imperial capital and set up a temple. Now even the dragon is Come, I really don’t know what the future world will look like?”

Nightingale was also shocked and couldn't calm down for a long time under the might of the dragon: "What happened?"

"This is not something we need to consider. Miss Nightingale, get in the car."

Nightingale withdrew her gaze and lowered her head to get into the car.

Raging Waves City Governor's Mansion.

Naco stood behind the glass window, and the stormy tide outside hit the reef on the shore again and again. She has been in Raging Waves City for three days, and she still can't believe what she saw and heard.

I actually came to Raging Waves City!

Mr. Luke turned out to be the meteorite who owns this city!

And just now a dragon flew out of the storm.

"Sir, no... Your Excellency Governor. Is it really a giant dragon that flew over just now?"

Coconut, who was frightened by the dragon, ran to Luke's desk in a hurry. This was the first time she saw the dragon and heard the roar of the dragon for the first time.

Luke was instructing the documents. He was not in Raging Waves City these days, and there were too many squeezed things. I have been busy with work since I came back from the Tedgar Hills, and there is still no sign of work reduction after three days.

The expansion of Raging Waves City, the overall planning of the coastal economic belt, the Northern War, the launching of new ships, and the research and development of science and technology...

Even if the city government affairs department shared most of the workload, there were still many sent to Luke.

Even Dragon Crossing didn't stop Luke for long.

"According to the time, they should have arrived. It's just that they chose to enter the empire from Raging Waves City. This should be regarded as Xuanwei... The more closed the ancient civilization is, the more it feels great."

"My lord, you already knew that the dragon would come? Will they attack us?"

Coconut listened carefully, fearing that the dragon's breath would suddenly fall down.

Seeing the appearance of the coconut, Luke couldn't help laughing: "I think you should be the least afraid of the dragon here. Your ancestors fought against them in order to defend the Tedgar Hills?"

"Really?" Ye Guo became interested when he heard that his ancestors were so powerful: "Tell me, how did the Valkyrie fight against the dragons?"

At this time, Karina walked in with a stack of documents.

"Your Excellency... The Governor's Mansion has entered a state of first-level alert, and the city has entered a second-level alert. The Oulu Academy sent a battle mage immediately, and we are closely monitoring the movement of the dragon.

At present, the giant dragon has left from the northwest direction of the city, and the target should be the imperial capital. "

"I see." Luke simply flipped through the documents that Karina put down, and then said: "Cooperating with the merchants of the Tedgar Hills, you let the Secret Service put the top priority on the task sequence.

Is the charity project plan ready? "

"It's done..." Karina pulled out a folder and put it in front of Luke: "The charity organization under the Innovation Society will undertake all the aid projects related to the Tedgar Hills, as long as the holy mountain issues a pass, visit Teams and census teams are ready to go.

The priority of charitable aid is hospitals, schools, roads and power grids, and water conservancy, agriculture... and assistance to the disabled and orphans will be gradually added later. "

Luke looks at the plan that Karina made.

Raging Waves City already had a charity system, and after being guided, it would not be difficult to aid in the construction of the Tedgar Hills and bring in some private goods.

Luke has no major opinions on the overall plan, but puts forward higher requirements on the hospital, increasing the scale and investment of the hospital. The Tedgar Hills has a wide variety of races and is a natural treasure trove of species research. Therefore, the purpose of this charitable investment cannot be limited to the "Valkyrie bloodline".

Cast the net widely, and there may be unexpected harvests.

After Luke finished his opinion, he asked Karina to make a new plan.

"Sir..." Storm Cato has been depressed since he knew Luke's identity. This time he took the initiative to speak to Luke: "You are the enemy of Tedgar Hills, why do you spend so much money on investment?" on your enemies.

Your money won't make a barbarian betray a Celtic duke. "

Regarding the doubts of Storm Cato, Luke patiently explained: "I have never regarded the Tedgar Hills as my enemy, whether you are humans, barbarians, or other races, you are all citizens of the empire.

These investments need not be appreciated, as this is the obligation of the empire to its citizens. "

Storm Cato obviously disagreed with Luke's statement: "We are the subjects of the Celtic Duke, at least all barbarians have this perception."

Luke knew that if he could not change the thinking of Storm Cato, he would not be able to change the thinking of the barbarians, so the attack on the Tedgar Hills would be out of the question.

"Do you know why the Duke of Celtic issued the factory restriction before?"

"Because factories and machines will cost us jobs, and without jobs we will starve."

"It's as if you are not hungry now." Luke couldn't help laughing: "You have been in Raging City for three days. How many people in my city are starving?"

this……

Storm Cato couldn't answer.

There are a lot of people in Raging Waves City, dozens or hundreds of times that of Sacred Mountain. With so many people living in one city, the life of each family is better than that of most nobles in the Holy Mountain.

"I, I don't understand..."

"You don't understand, this is the favorite subject of the Celtic Duke. Yes, factories and machinery have taken many people's jobs, but they have also created many more jobs.

Instead of being poorer because of factories and machines, people are richer. Art, knowledge, magic, and science are no longer monopolized by the upper class, and the old methods of governance will become less and less effective when the lower class people's minds are enlightened.

The barbarians should have sworn an oath of loyalty to the Celtic Duke, and regarded dying for the Celtic Duke as the glory of the family and tribe. But have you ever thought that the Duke of Celtic is worthy of your loyalty?

How many of the beating hearts on the altar of the Abyss Temple belong to barbarians? Without the permission of the Duke of Celtic, could the Temple of the Abyss kill so many people silently?

Do you know that even the emperor of the empire would not dare to do such a thing, he knew that his people would not allow him to do such a thing. But the Duke of Celtic dares, because you are all confined in a small circle, you know nothing but loyalty, and you have nothing but loyalty! "