Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

As soon as he sat down, the mysterious man said in a hoarse and trembling voice:

"Count Spark Island, the Emperor is very disappointed in you."

The middle-aged red-haired earl bowed his head and said, "Sir, this is indeed my inconsiderateness. I am willing to accept the punishment."

"Punishment? You've hindered the Emperor's cause, and you want to offset it with your punishment? You're truly arrogant."

The Count lowered his head and said nothing.

The messenger sneered, "Spark Island isn't the only island near the shipping lane. Your prosperous city wouldn't even be worth a straw hut before the Empire's Annihilation Knights. They could be razed to the ground in one night."

The imperial envoy was right. Ordinary towns were different from those cities of ancient civilizations that were reinforced by magic. It was as easy as blowing a breath for the Annihilation Knight's Thunder Blade to destroy these buildings in Spark Harbor.

"It is the Finat family that has failed the Emperor!" the Count said hurriedly. "From now on, all revenue from the territory will be invested in the 'construction' of the great cause, until the Emperor's glory shines throughout the sky!"

The messenger snorted coldly, "Because of your and your son's failure, two precious Annihilation Knights are being sent here to clean up the mess!"

Two knights? Leon pinched his chin in thought.

One of them came to hunt down Leon and Lancelot, while the other one was probably going to block the waterway for Winds. No wonder they had been fighting for so long without seeing any incoming ships.

"As a local lord, your soldiers haven't found their whereabouts yet. You are truly incompetent."

The messenger continued to scold the earl, who could only lower his head and listen to the lecture. However, Winders next to him had a slightly indignant look on his face, but he was trying his best to restrain himself.

Leon could understand Winders. With the combat power of the pinnacle of soul, not to mention the arrival of twenty main forces, even if it was just a team of five, through mutual cooperation, it would be easy to deal with the same five Annihilation Knights.

However, generally speaking, the group will never leave the Demonic Disaster Domain. They have legitimate business to do there, and the resources they obtain are incomparable to the four major airspaces.

Having seen the scenery at the top of the world, Winders must be dissatisfied with the current situation, but he did not dare to speak nonsense when it came to the survival of his own territory.

Li Ang used the system to observe the Dark Gold Eye Messenger.

[Name: Clement, Apostle of the Eye of God]

[Race: Unknown [Transformed]]

[Occupation: Star Puller, Level 7. Spellcaster, Level 6]

[Summoned Beast: Shadow of the Annihilator, Level 7]

[Energy Source: Primordial Star Core, Level 8]

[Equipment: Ancient Priest's Full Clothes, Rank 6. Divine Eye Robe, Rank 7. Star-Pulling Instrument, Rank 7.]

[Secret Technique: Imitation Star Soul Secret Technique - Tribulation and Annihilation Lightning Beam]

[Skills: Star Puller [Pulling the Light of the Star Soul, Simulator Link, Annihilator Flesh and Blood Reconstruction], Spellcaster [Spiritual Manipulation]]

Li Ang carefully looked at the specific contents of his panel again. This mysterious person was indeed related to Star Soul.

So far, the Empire, Zoe, and Star Soul are closely related, and they may all point to the same ancient clue.

Newbis is ancient and vast, and sometimes widely separated ruins are discovered by scholars to belong to the same civilization. By connecting clues together, information gained from simpler ruins can be used to conquer more difficult ruins.

Now Leon also knew that the sky blue ring given by the mysterious girl was not a warning to the Annihilation Knight himself, but to the dark golden "Eye of God".

This should be the fourth element in the main plot that Zoe has to face.

Dorothy asked softly, "You have two knights who are so difficult to deal with? What will we do tomorrow?"

"Let's hear what else they have to say first."

After being scolded by the envoy, Count Finat glared at Winders.

"If it weren't for your failure, why would the Empire send the Apostles and Blades? Incompetent!"

Wenders kept his head down and said nothing. Leon guessed that he was trying to hide the discontent on his face.

"I will not participate in your family meeting. After the Annihilation Knight eliminates those two, you need to return as soon as possible to participate in suppressing the Order Group and get your son back to the channel entrance as soon as possible."

The messenger finished speaking and left with the Annihilation Knight.

"For the glory of the empire!"

The three of them, the Finat father and son and Dorothy's second brother, shouted in unison.

Leon guessed that Windus was captured by him and Lancelot. The Earl realized that he had made trouble and quickly sought support from the empire.

The two Annihilation Knights are also very critical to the current empire, and the apostle who seems to be in charge of controlling them is very angry about this.

After the count went out to see the apostle off, he came back soon and criticized Winders harshly as soon as he entered the door.

"Winds, you've almost ruined all my efforts over the past two years! Ever since our family conquered Spark Island, we've spent countless years defending it. That emperor is different from the previous ones, and his methods are extremely ruthless! If our status as a trade hub is abolished, we will drag down the Campbell family as well!"

After cursing, the Earl looked at Elton Campbell beside him.

This young man has the same outstanding appearance as his sister. His handsome appearance and long light golden hair naturally exude a sense of nobility.

"Count, calm down. The Empire has always been taking risky actions. Both our families know how much effort each of us has put in to ride on the wave of its rise."

As soon as the apostle left, Winders no longer concealed the expression on his face. He laughed strangely, "Empire? An old thing from hundreds of years ago. Why don't you go to the Demonic Disaster Zone and take a look at the airspace border? See what the Heaven Group is fighting against?

"You want to unify the Ignis airspace, dare to challenge the guild, and bring in one or two extraordinary realm warriors, and you think you're so awesome?"

The Earl said, “Since you believe that the power of the Sky Knights is superior to that of the local lords, why haven’t you established reliable relationships among them?

The middle-aged lord pointed toward the harbor. "While I was building up momentum for you, you were trampled from the sky to the ground. And then, after being captured by the Order Flame Squad, I kept hearing you berate the Sky Knight involved. His name is Leon, right? Since you're former comrades, why didn't you make friends with him?"

After the Earl finished speaking, Dorothy grabbed Leon's arm, her watery eyes widened, and she pointed at him while keeping her mouth shut, not daring to make a sound for fear of alarming the people in the room.

"You, you were also in the first group. You kept it a secret because you wanted to make fun of me?"

"Not anymore. Even if I've been there, there's no need to talk about it all the time. I'm more concerned about the future."

"The future." Dorothy looked thoughtfully at her palms and gradually tightened them.

It was normal that the Soul Apex rose to the first place, but Dorothy didn't know its members.

Guild rules state that each group can choose whether to disclose their membership, but leaders like Ramsay definitely don't. It wasn't until he became number one that he decided to disclose his membership in order to expand his group's reputation.

For most residents of Newbis, Sky Knights are people far away from them. They don’t care whether you are a high-level group or a low-level group.

For ordinary Sky Knights, the truth about what happens between the groups is not as interesting as the gossip that has been passed around for many times.

Only those with a reasonable level of skill would pay attention to which individuals and groups were on the list, and combine this with the anecdotes they heard to judge the true situation in the sky, because this overlapped with their own social circles.

Dorothy repeated the paperwork day after day, or hid in her room, and she usually didn't see any news.

Winders let out a sigh of displeasure. "Of course I have to please the captain. Isn't that what you said? Leon and the captain don't get along. Who knew that bastard... who knew he actually had something? Everything he did in the group before was just right. I really didn't notice it."

The Earl said, "This is the result of being too young. You don't know how to leave a way out. You offend people before you even understand their background. Because you don't know how to maintain interpersonal relationships, you are now in an awkward situation."

"Oh, Count Finat, calm down. No one wants this kind of thing." Dorothy's second brother spoke up.

"Don't be so pretentious."

Winders raised his chin and looked down at Elton. After all, he was a level 6 warrior and was much taller than Elton.

"The old man deliberately scolded me, mainly to show you. He was worried that because of me, the Campbell family, who originally needed our help, would take advantage of us.

"I suggest you don't get too hung up on clinging to the Empire. Cooperation between the two isn't as important as cultivating one or two high-level Sky Knights, or forming a partnership with a powerful team. You don't even know that when high-level Sky Knights work together, their power is many times greater!

"As for me, Campbell sent your sister here because he needed our help. Yes, she's very beautiful, but she always has a sullen face and no sense of humor. I might not be interested in her."

Leon heard Dorothy beside him humph, and she now had the same proud aristocratic lady demeanor as when they first met.

"Don't misunderstand me, Brother Winders." Elton raised his hand to appear non-aggressive. "I definitely wouldn't have any thoughts about an accident."

Elton nodded to Count Finat. "As the rulers of the island, both of us are aware of the power and troublesome nature of the Sky Knights. We originally sought cooperation so that we wouldn't have to rely on them."

The Earl said, "Wenders, if you could really find the power of a top-tier air cavalry regiment, then everything in the Finat family would be yours to decide, and your eldest brother would have to stand aside. But obviously, you can't do that."

"The legends of the Demonic Calamity Realm are too far away for us who have ruled over mortals for generations. I also don't know how the top-level air cavalry regiments fight, so we must cultivate ourselves."

Leon thought the earl was right. Winders thought he had seen the best and was superior to the rest of his family, but he did not understand the leader of the Soul Summit.

Ramsay has a clear idea of who is useful to him and who is useless to him. But he has a principle - if a useful person is useless to him, then he is useless; if a useless person is useful to him, then he is useful.

In the past, Wenders could bring him money, but Leon restricted him from using the team for personal gain.

Now, Windus's situation would bring trouble to Ramus. Therefore, it is a very sound mindset for the older generation like the Earl to attach more importance to their own foundation.

The reason why Leon felt that personal gain was not that important was that in this world, although an individual could not bring the world's power to himself, the power exerted by a group of strong people who cooperated well could completely free him from the constraints of the mortal world.

Count Finat looked directly at his son.

"Wenders, do you think that we, as rulers, don't understand the power of the Sky Knights?

"Their guild pretends to do this 'for the sake of order, for the sake of Newbis', and demands that we treat our subjects well and not resort to force without authorization. You dare not disobey their rules, and this is a form of oppression for us.

"In the three hundred years since the guild was founded, the average strength of the Sky Knights has grown steadily, and they've been able to freely roam the islands of Ignis's airspace like a backyard.

"The name of Knight sounds nice, but before the guild, they were just a bunch of homeless adventurers fighting for food like wild dogs!"

The half-elf youth said, "We in Campbell can use the climate of the Elf Island to tame monsters and build a monster cavalry army, but the main monster trade is still controlled by the Giant Garden.

"The Finat family is located on a major transportation route. Due to their insufficient military strength and the increasingly powerful Aerial Knights, they are now overly restricted by the rules set by the guild. They are even restricted in who they want to favor or who they want to restrict.

"The Empire now possesses a completely different power than before. Leveraging the Empire's rise, we can make up for each other's shortcomings and it will definitely allow mortal nations like ours to reach new heights."

Elton nodded to the Earl and said, "Let's talk about the duration of our cooperation and tomorrow's engagement ceremony."

69. Please give me love

As Elton said, the cooperation between the two companies is a win-win situation.

They discussed various cooperation matters and finally came to the issue of the time limit for the cooperation.

"Elton, as you said, Spark Harbor will provide you with great convenience in the early stages of our cooperation, but it will take another three years for your monster training to reach the required quota. This is hardly an equal transaction."

The Earl calmly objected: "Your sister is a rare beauty and will give birth to excellent children."

"Who wants to give birth to a child for your family?" Dorothy muttered softly. She glanced at Leon's reaction out of the corner of her eye and found that he was concentrating on eavesdropping, then looked back into the room.

"However, there are several problems here," Count Finat said. "Although I originally didn't intend for the third son to inherit the family, he now possesses considerable power."

There is no need to elaborate on the drama of the nobles fighting for the right of inheritance. The count also knows that if Winders really wants to kill his two brothers, he can't stop him, so there is a possibility that the woman who marries him will become the mistress of the Finat family in the future.

Even if he has no intention of fighting for power, as the strongest person in the family, when a child becomes a bond between husband and wife, the wife can use this opportunity to interfere with her husband and thus influence the family.

"And then, you siblings are half-elves."

The elves of Newbis also have a long lifespan, and while half-elves cannot compare to them, they can still live for over two hundred years.

So even though the Finat family is friendly and respectful to each other, their peers cannot survive the half-elf mistress and her quarter-elf child, and the family power may eventually fall into the hands of the Campbell family.

Elton knew what the Earl was talking about. He smiled gently and said, "You are right, but our family is different. My sister has advantages that other noble ladies don't have."

Leon turned to look at Dorothy, and she looked back. The half-elf girl's eyes dimmed, "Second brother, he finally said it out loud."

The half-elf youth in the house said, "Dorothy can only live to be thirty."

The Earl raised his fiery red eyebrows. Before he could say anything, Windus started cursing, "Are you kidding me?! I heard your sister is a monster, and she's also short-lived? What are you doing here?"

Winders's shouting was a bit noisy even in the secret passage. Leon asked the girl in front of him: "Is it because of the magic flower?"

Dorothy nodded and leaned gently against the wall beside her.

"Third brother, stop making noise." The count stopped Winders.

"Oh?" Elton laughed. "We didn't seem to have mentioned my little sister's situation. How did Lord Winders hear about it?"

"We both know we have spies in each other's homes, so stop pretending. I'll definitely check out your marriage partner! I thought it was weird because she looks beautiful on the outside, but when she takes her clothes off, she's covered in scabies, which is why she dresses so tightly every day! How can living to 30 be considered an advantage?"

Elton shook his head. "That thing doesn't affect her body. She inherited her mother's enchanting beauty. Even dolls created by top artists might not be as beautiful as her. She still has a vibrant life and will definitely satisfy you."

Winders was about to speak again, but the Count raised his hand to stop him: "Yes, this is indeed an advantage."

"Advantage?" Dorothy was incredulous. "What is Second Brother talking about? What is the Count talking about?"

Li Ang patted her shoulder: "Don't listen, I'll do it, they won't say anything good."

Hearing this, the girl immediately raised her foot, but just after taking half a step, she glanced at Li Ang again and finally did not take a step forward.

"I'm about to run away. I'm afraid I'll mind even more if I hear the beginning but don't know the details."

Facing his surprised son, the earl shook his head, seemingly speechless.

Elton took over the topic: "Your father was worried that our family would seize the Finat family through my sister. Isn't her short life a good thing? If she is gone, the situation will not be out of your control with only the children."

Winders pondered the other party's words and said, "That seems to be the case."

"Don't worry about this. I don't have much time left, so I want to truly live my life."

The half-elf girl gently took Leon's sleeve.

The people in the room were casually judging the benefits of her life and death. Li Ang knew that she was very vulnerable now, so he didn't move and let her lead him.