Chapter 212: Black hand

Although Xia Duo had already finished watching the intermediate level and had advanced preparations, but even the intermediate part is not complete, it is too shameful!
Looking at Xing's head, he was suddenly interrupted, really annoyed, Xia Duo closed the book indiscriminately, took a few deep breaths, and calmed down.
Then he reopened the "Intermediate Arcane Geometry". This time, Xia Duo read a lot slower, swatching, savouring, and enjoying the mystery of magic.
There is no calendar in the mage tower. If there is no reminder from the tower, Xia Duo doesn't know that the time has passed, it will be dusk.
After getting up and moving his body a few times, Xia Duo secretly annoyed after the arcane competition, he left the physical training behind. A strong physique is not capital that can be wasted.
Fortunately, it had only been off for three days, and it was not difficult to continue. Just as the dinner had not yet been served, Xia Duo started activities in the reception room.
When the dinner was served, Xia Duo had completed a set of basic actions, but what Xia Duo didn't expect was that Edridge delivered him food today.
"How could it be you? Walter?" Chateau opened the door and signaled Edridge to come in and talk. Walter was an ordinary apprentice who had delivered meals to Chateau recently.
"Walter was tricked by a foreign wizard and injured his foot. I saw him on the road and knew it was for you, so I took it along the way."
Edridge put the lunch box on the table and stood there, seeming a little restrained, unlike before, he had to find a place to sit down.
"Sit down first, don't stand." Xia Duo gave Edridge a little, picked up the lunch box on the table, and opened it. The food was still the same, nothing new.
Chateau asked Edridge as he ate, "You just said on the way, what's the matter?"
Speaking of the topic, Edridge was a little embarrassed, and he was a little embarrassed to see Xia Duo. "If you want to tell me anything, what else can't you say?"
"My father wants to invite you to a dinner at home."
"Dinner? Your house?" Chateau thought carefully. Edridge's father was Derrick, the lord's business director, and he was in charge of several chambers of commerce.
Xia Duo instantly thought of Daxia Ling's development. He only came back from Mrs. Patty yesterday, and today he was invited by Derrick again, so he had to think about it.
But Chateau also knows that the real communication between him and Derrick is probably Edridge. After all, Daxia's development does need the support of the Chamber of Commerce, but Savile does not need it?
I wouldn't even ignore my own family and come here to help him. This is impossible.
Thinking about it, Xia Duo gradually had an idea in her heart, "Well, tomorrow I will pass on time."
In addition to his status as a mage, he also has the status of a pioneer. Perhaps this is the reason Derrick invited him.
"Great!" Edridge heard Chateau agree and smiled immediately, "Tomorrow I will go home with you."
Then Edridge talked to Chateau about the situation in his family, which he rarely mentioned before, such as the sternness of his father, the love of his mother, and the grudge between brothers.
Chateau listened while eating, and had a more intuitive and three-dimensional understanding of Edridge's family and the situation at home.
At the same time, he probably guessed the purpose of Derrick inviting him.
Soon, Xia Duo settled the dinner, and Edridge also left in due course, Xia Duo began the evening work again.
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At the same time, the top of the Tower of Time, the Lord's Study.
Sitting behind the desk at the moment is not Lord Epps, but Niya. She is now gradually taking over the affairs of the territory. Many orders seem to be issued from the lord, but Niya is actually handling it.
Lord Epps and Ebbock were drinking tea and chatting in a corner of the study, seemingly leisurely, but their eyes turned to Niya from time to time.
"You've been so lazy these days?" Abbock snorted in Niya's direction and smiled, "Do you know what Thain was talking about lately? He said you should have let Niya take over."
"Hehe, this old guy, didn't he blame me for launching Niya so early before, but now—hehe, the Saville family is the most incompetent for me."
He said that he was the most incompetent, but Epps had a hint of pride in his eyes. Niya was indeed much better than him, whether it was magical talent or ruling ability.
The Savile family has a successor!
"By the way, what are you going to do with the people who have stayed recently?" Ebbke suddenly mentioned the foreign mages recruited by Eps, "They have destroyed the atmosphere in the mage tower recently!"
Regarding this, Lord Epps didn't care, "Don't worry, they will be busy when the development plan starts!"
What he didn't say was that he was also planning to use these foreign mages as pathfinders to test the elven mages. These people's hearts were not in Saville at all, and they stayed only to get a higher salary than in the core area of ​​the empire.
Once Savile can't satisfy them anymore, they will leave here without nostalgia.
Therefore, for these people, Lord Epps is going to die, and now let them feel comfortable for a few days, and after a few days, they will know why the mage never signs the sacred contract easily.
There are too many loopholes to be drilled, and they are well-founded, especially if there is a high-ranking priest who is his own.
Thinking of those people's expressions, Epps couldn't help showing a sympathetic expression, but then he laughed~EbookFREE.me~ Abbock was a little inexplicable by the laughter, "Eps, laugh what?"
"It's nothing, just thinking of something funny." Epps didn't want to show his low-level interest in front of this old friend, so he hurriedly changed the subject, "Does the black hand behind the Gorse Chamber of Commerce have a clue?"
This was after Felbers of the Leaton Chamber of Commerce died, and Epps personally confessed to Abbock to do it. Various circumstances indicated that a pair of black hands was secretly peeping at the Savile collar.
From destroying the olive grove, to killing Felbers, to transporting grain to the city of Conifer, this is no longer a temptation, but a blatant malice.
According to the Archmage Olong, someone is eyeing the territory, but there is no more specific news. At present, the only clue that Epps has is the Gorse Chamber of Commerce.
Those who destroy the olive groves cannot be found, and those who kill Felbers cannot be found, but it is the Gorse Chamber of Commerce that transports the grain.
"According to the steward named Harvey, the person who controlled Felbers came by a cargo ship from the Gorse Chamber of Commerce, but he didn't know the news afterwards."
With that said, Abbock took out a stack of parchment from the dimension bag he carried and handed it to Lord Epps, and then said:
"The food transferred was brought in from Angli. The Archmage of Angli has been contacting me some time ago to release all the people from the Gorse Chamber of Commerce and compensate for the loss, but since the day before yesterday, he has not contacted me again. Up."
Epps casually ignored the torture records on the parchment, and there was nothing of value, and it was very simple for the Archmage Unley to not contact.
Three days ago, at the celebration led by Savile, several archmages appeared. Behind them was the Great Arcanist, and even came directly on behalf of the Great Arcanist.