Quadruple split.

Chapter 2472 Galaxy Avenue No. 17

fifteen minutes later

Futaba said goodbye to Xiu and Emilyne in front of the canal south of the Saramoon Mages Guild, and walked briskly into a residential area where the house plans were generally very good, but they were only good ones.

This place is only separated from the aristocratic district, which is the core of the imperial capital, by a canal. Most of the residents are people in the upper class who have not obtained a title, such as the regional managers of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce and the Steam Consortium, the heads of the direct caravans under the command of the major lords, the captain-level members of the Purple Thorn Guard, the branches of [Female Bee], and the offices rented long-term by the Holy Church Union.

These people generally live in the buildings outside the aristocratic district. Their status and purchasing power are comparable to those who are geographically closer to the center of the imperial capital. In fact, a few months ago, many residents of the aristocratic district who only have noble titles and family original accumulation but are not in the same boat with the Bressen family have gradually fallen into panic.

The reason was simple. These people had realized that their value to Xiu Blaysen was very limited. From a certain perspective, the Regent had never been a patient person. No matter how noble a person was, once he labeled them as "incompetent", they would become unfamiliar with the city and everything else at a terrifying speed, and eventually live like the walking dead.

It is obvious that all of the above are exaggerated to the extreme, and the main victims are those nobles and aristocratic families who are obsessed with money and luxury, uneducated, and have nothing good to offer except the contributions their ancestors made to the country. As for why the rumors are spreading more and more widely and intensifying, on the one hand, it is because in the area ruled by the Violet Family centered on Saramoon, the proportion of idiots with noble status completely crushes the other families, and on the other hand, it is because the members of the [Female Bee] deliberately manipulate intelligence in secret to cause panic.

Obviously, although Xiu Bracen never intended to kill all those nobles who were useless to him and the entire Violet Empire, he also had no intention of continuing the methods of the previous generations of leaders of the Violet Family, including his father. While controlling the allocation of resources as much as possible, he tried his best to maintain the dignity of those useless nobles in order to reduce the sense of crisis of the overall superstructure.

The Griffin Dynasty is an excellent negative example. Whether it is its extremely bloated power structure or the deep-rooted corruption and darkness, it always reminds many countries on the continent that they must never allow the nobles to expand and grow wildly.

However, compared to his ancestors who either lacked ambition or skills, or simply had neither ambition nor skills, this incredible regent who now has all the say in the Violet Family is obviously a ruler from another dimension. He knows very well how to create panic, generate expectations, and knows how to manipulate people's hearts and know how to measure things.

In the eyes of other great lords, as well as Mo Tan, Shuang Ye and even Tal Rasha, who were always paying attention to the situation in the Violet Empire, Xiu Bressen completed the "centralization" in Saramoon and the surrounding areas controlled by the Violet Family in just a few months.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to their special status, they were at the core of the coup that overthrew the Cang Yue Empire, and eventually even made the family emblem "Violet" become the symbol of the new empire, and the entire family became the royal family of the Bressen family. The lords who were also the founders of the empire had successfully achieved this a long time ago.

Even Emmeline's Crystal Wolf family had already achieved absolute centralization in the territory. If the same situation had happened to the Violet Family, Emmeline, who lost her parents at a young age and had no brothers or sisters around her, would have been betrayed by the great nobles of Saramoon.

Of course, in the same situation, if Emmeline was replaced by Xiu... Saramoon's power consolidation would probably have been completed more than a decade ago.

All in all, although the Violet Family was the last to complete 'centralization', considering that other families generally took centuries, while Xiu Bresne only took a few months, this achievement was still enough to surprise countless people who were paying attention to the Regent's every move.

However, Futaba and her [Joker Card] had no time to be surprised. After all, for the good citizens and charity organizations, no matter how sharp the Regent's tactics were, making such a big fuss in a short period of time would definitely make the water muddy, which would lead to disturbing situations such as a decrease in people's happiness index and an increase in crime rate. Therefore, the good citizens and charity organizations who were concerned about the country and the people decided immediately after noticing this - to fish in troubled waters!

So, Futaba managed to use a roundabout way and went through many twists and turns to let a person who had nothing to do with "Joker" buy "No. 17 Galaxy Avenue", and due to some coincidence, the seller would never be able to come to inspect the house again.

……

"It's a pity that I couldn't escape that [female bee] in the end."

In front of the central round table in the main hall of No. 17 Xinghe Avenue, a girl with long hair in a slightly non-mainstream color scheme, but whose appearance is definitely superior in the mainstream aesthetics, and whose makeup is a smoky villain style, [Plum Blossom Q] shook her head and pulled hard on the iron chain wrapped around her right wrist, directly pulling out a succubus with a very devilish figure and temperament, who was a beauty in the world except that she was almost strangled to the point of rolling her eyes, from the void, and stomped down hard on her with her long boots with soles at least ten centimeters thick.

“Ugh!!!!”

The succubus whose mammary glands were hit hard screamed immediately, and quickly and skillfully curled up into a ball, desperately trying to reduce the area of ​​her body exposed to the trampling range of her 'master'. The moment she succeeded in making the latter feel that there was nowhere to step, she was ignited by a burst of purple evil flames.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

Suddenly, the succubus let out an even more shrill scream, and succeeded in making the [Ace], who had entered the room less than two minutes ago, frown.

As a result, everything above the succubus' neck, including the delicate and tempting cherry mouth that was making an exploding sound, was turned into stone, and the heart-wrenching scream came to an abrupt end.

"Medusa's gaze?"

The Queen of Clubs looked at the short Ace in front of her with some surprise, and asked curiously, "If I remember correctly, this should be a secret technique that only epic druids can use skillfully, right? Aren't you a mage?"

"That's not the Medusa gaze."

At this moment, accompanied by a bright flame lighting up from the fireplace, an electric wave girl wearing a casual wizard robe with a black background and red stripes and a wizard hat walked out of the fireplace slowly and said calmly: "If I'm not mistaken, it should be a means of element transformation."

"very smart."

[Ace] chuckled and asked curiously, "So dear Jack of Diamonds, why is your head so pointy?"

“Proof of soot.”

Taking off the pointed wizard hat on his head, [Jack of Diamonds] gave a brief explanation and then continued the previous topic, asking: "So, you have already completed the means to freely 'project' the [Inherent Barrier] within a certain range?"

"Yes, if I had mastered this little trick earlier, your explosion magic would have been torn into more than 300 pieces and sent back the same way before it landed."

"really?"

"It must be fake. It's ok to turn this bitch, whose brain is already not working well, into stone. But anything more troublesome cannot be dealt with through 'projection'."

"I understand this."

"Yeah, I knew you understood."

"The word 'stone' just mentioned can be expanded to mean 'a head made of stone', which makes people laugh." "6."

[Ace] pulled the corner of his mouth, and then climbed onto the table in a less aesthetically pleasing posture that was infinitely close to the "getting on the bed" outside the game. He squatted on it like a spirited little girl, holding his cheek and said, "I remember that this should be the first time you two meet, right? Introduce yourselves?"

"Hello, I'm the Jack of Diamonds."

The electric wave-style beauty in a robe stretched out her right hand to the colleague in front of her who had a unique hair color and an overall rebellious style: "The name in the game is Lucy Ai Yuke. Personally, I think it would be very stupid to call each other by a code name in an occasion like this where only you are together. What do you think?"

"I totally agree."

The warlock girl, wearing a tight black leather sleeveless outfit that showed off her figure, white tight pants with a lot of holes, and red and black boots, grinned and stretched out her right hand to shake hands with Lucy. "I'm the Queen of Clubs. My game name is Bad Hottie, but I'm actually an introverted girl with excellent character and academic performance."

Lucy looked up and down at the girl in front of her who had just been admiringly trampling on the succubus servants. After a while, she nodded and said, "Yeah, I can see that."

"Great, I'm really glad to see you two get along so well."

Futaba interrupted them lazily, and then went straight to the point: "Well, as I said in the message before, I hope that the two of you can use Saramun, the imperial capital of the Violet Empire, as the core, and let [Harlequin Brand] gradually radiate outwards and do your best to develop the business here."

The bad girl shrugged and spread her hands, saying, "I thought so too, but you just mentioned that the little bees raised by His Royal Highness the Regent have already locked onto us. In this case..."

She didn't finish her words, but her meaning was clear, that is, whether it was too reckless to blatantly run a gray organization under the noses of the regent and his lackeys.

Of course, Bad Hottie was well aware that Futaba was quite familiar with and even had a close relationship with the actual ruler of this imperial capital, but in his opinion, a qualified ruler would not allow an organization like Harlequin to take root and thrive in his backyard for such a reason, and the regent was obviously a very qualified ruler.

"In this case, you can let go and do your best."

Futaba, who knew very well what the other party was worried about, smiled and said in a brisk tone: "Don't forget, in a place like Saramoon, the world under the table will be full of people, and Xiu Bracen, who once lived in the darkness and associated with filth, but now has become the helmsman of this country, does not have enough energy to maintain his position as the 'King of the Night'. Therefore, rather than letting the spies of [Female Bee] fight against the old gray organizations such as the Thieves Guild and the Wanderer Inn, he certainly hopes to have a 'agent' he can trust to occupy a place under the table in Saramoon."

Lucy said casually while flipping through a book called "The Waltz of the Cockroach: An Existentialist Study of the Sewers," "So we can understand that you have a high opinion of the Regent named Hugh Blaysne, and believe that he has enough confidence and ability to work hand in hand with the Harlequin without posing a threat to us, nor will we backfire on him?"

"You can understand that."

Futaba snapped her fingers and looked at the book with a rather strange style in Lucy's hand with some curiosity: "So what are you reading?"

"As you can see, it's The Cockroach Waltz: An Existential Study of Sewers. I bought the book from the Green Apple Chamber of Commerce. Taking the exchange rate into account, the price is more than thirty dollars cheaper than the refined edition sold in bookstores outside the game."

Lucy lowered her eyes as she read the lines of nonsense that were too advanced for most people. Without even looking up, she said, "This work won the [2048 Absurd Literature Award·Best Opening Sentence]. The content is 'When the sixth limb stepped on the F major accent, I realized that this dance of death would never stop.' Oh, by the way, if you also want to buy a copy from the Green Apple Chamber of Commerce, you can use my member recommendation code, and they will give you a copy of 'Twenty-three Experimental Steps to Prove the Existence of the Soul Using Photographic Crystals·Limited Manuscript Fragments'. I really want it."

"Okay, you can send me the referral code later, but let's get down to business first."

Futaba nodded decisively, and then brought the topic back on track: "In short, since the [Female Bee] has wiped out the fruits of that stone-headed man's labor during this period, a new tacit understanding will emerge between us and the regent. In the early stages of this tacit understanding, Saramoon's [Clown Card] is likely to receive a series of blushing, unrequited support and cooperation."

The bad girl casually banished the succubus at the end of the chain out of reality, and chuckled, "It sounds like a pretty easy job. I'm already worried that I'll slack off because the subsequent work is going too smoothly."

"Then you will have to do an extra task. I will give you two months to prove your worth to the Regent King. At the same time, you must ensure that the Harlequin Card in the Violet Empire and the 'Headquarters' in the Free City are independent of each other."

"Small group?"

"How is that possible? We are just following the original intention of the organization. In order to ensure that we will not lose our ability to respond in any situation, our structure must be a 'network'. Under this premise, isn't it normal for the nodes on it to be independent of each other?"

"I don't think it's a big problem, Lucy, what about you?"

"I plan to do more work that doesn't require me to do it myself, unless I can be reimbursed for my high-frequency transmission fees."

"I know you usually act with those women. Okay, report it."

"What is the maximum you can report?"

"One round trip every day."

"I understand. Then I will..."

"Submit a report to the branch in the Free City or Academy City and apply for a loan directly."

"Well, but didn't you just say that we should be independent of each other?"

"Just now."

"it is good."

Chapter 2463: The End