Old Gods, Rapid-Fire Guns, and Prohibition

Chapter 177 [The Art of Deception]

The most important thing at the main event of the school anniversary is naturally the speech on the centenary celebration.

This is what El is looking forward to the most.

Because this will be done by him, as long as he stands on the stage and says those words, he will be the real president of Winchester University.

This is truly a historic moment.

After taking deep breaths for a long time backstage, El finally managed to steady his breathing and slowly walked to the front of the stage.

There was a huge crowd of people below, and there were too many unexpected people sitting there.

A year ago, no, a few months ago, he could hardly imagine himself standing here speaking.

"Everyone..."

Offstage, Ethan was chatting with Osvaldo.

"Sir Osvaldo, the land reclamation project seems to have encountered a lot of resistance recently. When I went out today, I saw that all the people in Victor were repairing the sewers. Do you need any help?"

"No, maybe it will be fine in a few days. Or maybe... it will be fine after today?"

"Oh?"

"But you, Ethan, what paintings have you prepared today? If there is another masterpiece like "The Orphans of San Quanti", please tell me, it will be a favor to me."

"Then please look forward to it, Your Excellency. There will indeed be works that will surprise you."

As El completed his speech without any trouble, the audience applauded loudly. He also took the opportunity to invite Osvaldo to the stage to give a speech.

Ethan and Ned looked at each other.

"He seemed to sense something."

This is their common thought.

But it's normal. During this period, they are the only ones in the entire Winster who are at odds with each other.

Both sides have been quiet for a long time, but what is supposed to break out will eventually break out.

"It's okay. We're well prepared. Even the current evidence is enough to bring him down, not to mention the more core information."

Ledger.

This is what completely broke Osvaldo.

Today, Hrosh will go to get this thing.

Helosh did not come to the school celebration today, but Osvaldo actually invited him.

But Hrosh's excuse was that he had to quickly finish reporting on Osvaldo.

He had already produced a part in advance and showed it to Osvaldo.

Osvaldo was very satisfied after reading it. His term of office was indeed less than a year. If he had the help of such reports and became famous in the royal capital first, the probability of him going to the royal capital at the end of his term would be even greater.

So he didn't force Hrosh to come.

At this time, Heluoshi was standing in his room and quietly observing the entire mansion.

There are still people in the mansion today.

In addition to servants, there are also several guards.

Logically speaking, today is definitely not a good day to take action.

But, we can’t care about that anymore. Ethan is going to complete the final blow today, so everyone should stop pretending.

It's eleven o'clock and time to have lunch.

The servant prepared lunch and came to call Hrosh to go to the dining room to eat.

As a result, just as he was on his way to the restaurant, a dark shadow that was difficult to see flashed by, and the servant fell to the ground.

Then, a person slowly walked out from the shadows.

"Everyone in the house has been sorted out, where is the study?"

This man looked ordinary, with a strong dark aura. He was Ethan's ace assassin, Shadow.

Herosh looked at the servant who suddenly fell down, seemed a little frightened, swallowed his saliva, and said, "That... over there."

"Don't worry, he's not dead, he just fainted. He'll be fine after a day of sleep."

Shadow seemed to see what he was thinking and said slowly, "That's good." Helosh breathed a sigh of relief.

Herosh came to the door of the study with ease, opened the lock with the alchemical tool, entered the study, opened the mechanism directly, and entered the secret room.

Nothing happened unexpectedly.

This means Osvaldo didn't notice it.

After finding the account book in the secret room, Herosh said, "Or... forget it, this is what you want anyway."

"Give me the thing, you wait here." said the shadow.

"I...are we really going down?" Helosh resisted.

"The young master said, you can refuse, but the two million is gone."

"Okay! I'll go down!" Helosh said loudly, then immediately whispered, "But you have to come with me."

"Wait."

Shadow took the account book and left, and came back after a while.

Looking at the deep underground entrance, Shadow jumped down directly.

Helosh hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and followed.

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At Winster University.

The anniversary speech has ended.

After Osvaldo, Ethan went up and spoke for a while. After all, he is now a celebrity.

After the speech, the school anniversary performance began.

Although the students were well prepared, it was obvious that no one was paying attention to this at the moment.

Everyone is now thinking about going to see Ethan's personal art exhibition and then starting the auction.

So after the performance for a while, most people left quietly.

Because Ethan and the others had already left and went to Ethan's personal painting exhibition today.

In order to hold Ethan's personal art exhibition, Winchester University directly allocated an entire building as the venue, which shows how much importance they attach to Ethan.

The scene in the building has been set up and various works have been displayed.

In fact, Ethan's original idea was to collect a bunch of unknown paintings to represent his own works. After all, he didn't have much time to paint.

But later he gave up the idea.

It’s not that he has any reverence for art, but he feels that if anything happens to these paintings later, it will affect his reputation.

So he took an extremely tricky approach, which was to draw a bunch of simple lines that made no sense, or simply blocks of color.

Anyway, just abstract it however you want.

If others accuse him that this is not a painting at all, it is disrespectful to art.

He could also use his own surrealism to refute it.

But what he never expected was that in the face of these inexplicable and perfunctory works, the people who came to the exhibition were all intoxicated, as if they had understood the deep meaning behind them.

His fame is so great that people no longer dare to question it.

Even if he moved a toilet there and put a label on it, I guess everyone would praise it as a good work.

“So, art is deception and self-deception.”

Ethan couldn't help but talk to Ned.

Ned laughed at this.

As people entered the venue and went deeper, they became more and more excited about the final painting.

Because Ethan said that in addition to some casual paintings today, there are also two major masterpieces.

One of the paintings is naturally the "Last Justice" that was originally agreed upon, so what will the other one be?

(End of this chapter)