Struggle in the Steam Age

Just when Lawrence thought he had found a good place where he could take a good rest for a while, on the other side of the city, a young man in gorgeous clothes stood in a study room decorated with velvet carpets imported from Aurora, with an expression on his face. Walking back and forth nervously on the carpet in front of the desk.

Just as he walked from the door to the desk again, there were two short knocks and three long knocks on the door. Upon hearing such a knock, the young man rushed to the door and opened the heavy mahogany door.

"I salute you, Your Highness." After the door opened, a middle-aged man with messy and greasy hair walked in. But when he was about to bow and salute, he was stopped by this eager young Highness.

"Now is not the time to salute." The young man made a gesture to signal the middle-aged man at the door to come in, then probed outside the door to look left and right, and closed the wooden door of the study after finding no one.

"How is the preparation for the magic ceremony in the basement?" The young His Highness asked eagerly after confirming that there were only two people in the room, "Can we start now?"

"I'm sorry, Your Highness." The middle-aged man suddenly lowered his head and said, "Other things have been prepared, and the ceremony can start at any time. But now because the key casting medium is not in place, I think we just The next best thing is to use your blood. In fact, using your blood will not cause any harm to you, but more materials are needed to make up for the lack of precision of the spell after casting—"

"We'll talk about this later." The young man who looked like a superior interrupted the middle-aged man's suggestion with a violent wave of his hand. "For me, losing 600ml of blood will not affect my body, but you should know that the difficulty of casting spells on that person's son is completely different from that of casting spells on that person himself. Once he is the target, we have prepared The magic ritual will be discovered by the other party before it takes effect."

"I think that we can use those peripheral organizations that we control." The middle-aged man, who seemed a bit sloppy, put forward his point of view. "Using peripheral organizations to buy us enough time, even if we have to pay a lot of money for this, once the spell is successfully cast, we can skip almost all intermediate steps and directly win the final victory."

"You're thinking too simply. This is not the same thing as seizing a certain factory owner's factory. That person's power is much stronger than ours now." The young man raised his right index finger and shook it lightly. , At the same time, there was an expression on his face that I understood everything, but he didn't see a trace of disdain in the eyes of the middle-aged man who had been bowing down in front of him respectfully.

It may be because the two of them have discussed this kind of topic many times, so the young man feels that he should explain his thoughts clearly to his subordinates at this time, so as to avoid being considered a cowardly person by his subordinates. Not to mention that this subordinate is not his real subordinate, but the person sent by his collaborators to contact him.

"It's not because I'm too timid to do it, Mr. Baelish." The young man took a deep breath to calm his agitated heart just now, and then explained in what he thought was the most patient tone. "That person not only has his own powerful power, but also can mobilize most of the power in this land. Only relying on the little power in our hands can do something in the dark. Once we show up It shouldn’t take a week for the opponent to destroy us.”

"Your Highness, you are too cautious." The middle-aged man shook his head, but he also knew that the power involved in this major event is not small, and it can even be said that it is on the same level as the power in that person's hands . The only problem is that these forces are scattered in the hands of countless people, so that mobilizing them is much more troublesome than imagined, and it is easy to make various mistakes.

It's just that the more people you contact and the stronger your strength, the more difficult it will be to hide. That's why this middle-aged man named Baelish keeps proposing to act quickly: because once there are more people gathered, the difficulty of keeping secrets will increase exponentially. For example, just keeping secrets is enough now. It made people feel overwhelmed, and he felt that someone might discover his secret at any time.

"Careful? I think not only are we not cautious, but we also don't take the things we imagined to heart." Baelish's words not only had no effect, but also aroused the anger of the young people. "Manipulating key people was originally the most important part of our plan, but accidents happened one after another. So much so that the churches and referees directly focused their attention."

"It was just an accident, Your Highness," Baelish argued. "The limit period of that spell is not the same for everyone, and at the same time, the people who cast magic on those two people are also different. It is completely accidental that they died one after another within the time. Traces of manipulative magic are also difficult to be found, who knew that Master Yoda, who is proficient in soul-type magic, would suddenly go to the banquet of the nobles, and the inspection turned out to be a problem."

"Fortunately, just to be on the safe side, your grandfather controlled his two sons under our control and destroyed the evidence before the earl was killed. He wanted to put them back after the calm, but who would have thought of the later The baron's death has sparked a thorough investigation into the matter."

"So much so that we had to kill them to avoid being tracked down by those guys with sharper noses than dogs. You must know that the two sons of the earl's family usually walk closer to you. Once they are found If there are traces of being manipulated, your secret will definitely not be kept. After all, you have not been liked by that person..."

"Shut up!" Baelish's words seemed to hit the young man's sore spot, and he yelled at the middle-aged man in front of him, "These are all the reasons for your flaws in the plan, don't look for all kinds of mistakes. excuses. I think you should have figured out what to do if something goes wrong—”

Just as the young man was venting his inner anger, there was another knock on the door. But this time, there was a very panicked knock on the door.

"I said, I'm not allowed when I'm talking—" The young man immediately stopped the three angrily reprimanded and took two steps to the door, opened it, and yelled loudly at the same time. It's just that the white-haired butler in a tuxedo at the door handed him a note directly.

"Master, this is delivered by Lieutenant Ball just now." The butler's words made the young man stop yelling immediately, took the note, and motioned the butler to leave.

After closing the door and opening the note, the young man's face immediately became very ugly. Then he held the note and waved it in front of the middle-aged man. "Tell me, why did you mobilize people to besiege and kill the adopted son of the August family without telling me?"

"This is the second time." Baelish told a fact that a young man didn't know before. "I sent people to the New World to hunt down and kill them once before, but they failed in the end."

"You—" The young man pointed at Baelish's nose tremblingly, and it took him a long time to ask. "Why do you want to do this?"

"Because he is probably the illegitimate son of the August family, but he just obtained the inheritance right in the name of the adopted son." The middle-aged man looked up at the young man in front of him and said, "Don't forget August The first patriarch of the family was the illegitimate son of the emperor and a half-elf warlock with unicorn blood. The news we got is that this so-called adopted son is also a warlock, and it is very likely that he also has unicorn blood. Can become our key spellcasting medium."