Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 266: The beginning of the conspiracy
Just when Lawrence felt that he had found a good place to take a good rest for a while, on the other side of the city, a young man in gorgeous clothes was standing in a study room decorated with imported Aurora velvet carpets, Walking nervously on the carpet in front of the desk.
Just as he walked from the door to the desk again, two short and three long knocks came from the door. After hearing such a knock on the door, the young man rushed to the door and opened the heavy mahogany door.
"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 the eager young majesty.
"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 looked outside the door and looked around and found that there was no one before closing the wooden door of the study.
"How are the preparations for the magic ritual in the basement?" The young Highness asked eagerly after confirming that there were only two people in the room, "Can it start now?"
"I'm sorry, Your Highness." The middle-aged man said with a sharp bow, "Everything else is ready, and the ceremony can begin at any time. But now because the key casting medium is not in place, I think we only You can use your blood as the second best thing. In fact, using your blood will not cause you any harm, but after the spell is cast, more materials are needed to make up for the lack of precision in the spell—"
"I'll talk about this later." The young man who appeared to be a superior waved his hand to interrupt the middle-aged man's suggestion. "For me, losing 600ml of blood will not affect my body, but you should know that the difficulty of casting a spell on that person’s son and that on that person himself are completely two kinds. Once he is listed as the target, we will prepare beforehand. The magic ritual of "will be discovered by the opponent before it takes effect."
"Xiaxia believes that we can use the peripheral organizations we control." The middle-aged man who seemed a little sloppy put forward his own point of view. "Using peripheral organizations to buy us enough time, even if it costs a lot of money, but once the spell is successfully cast, we can skip almost all the intermediate steps and get the final victory directly."
"What you think is too simple. This is not the same as taking a factory owner's factory. That person now possesses much more power than ours." The young man raised the index finger of his right hand and shook it gently. At the same time, there was an expression on his face that I knew everything, but he didn't see a trace of disdain in the eyes of the middle-aged man who had been bending down in front of him respectfully.
It may be because the two people have discussed this topic many times, so the young man feels that he should really explain his thoughts to his subordinates at this time, so as to avoid being considered by his subordinates as a cowardly person. Not to mention that this subordinate is not his real subordinate, but the people sent by the collaborators to contact him.
"It's not because I'm too courageous to do it, Mr. Berishy." The young man took a deep breath and calmed down his excitement, and then explained in a tone that he thought was the most patient. "That person not only holds his own powerful power, but can also mobilize most of the power on this land. With just a little bit of strength in our hands, he can do something in the dark, once it shows up. It shouldn’t take a week for the other party to destroy us."
"His Royal Highness, you are too cautious." The middle-aged man shook his head, but he also knows that the power involved in this major event is not small, and it can even be said as a whole that is equal to the power held by that person. . The only problem is that these forces are scattered in the hands of countless people, so that it is more troublesome to mobilize than expected, and it is easy to make various mistakes.
It's just that the more people you contact, the stronger your strength, and the more difficult it is to hide it. This is why the middle-aged man named Berishi keeps asking for quick action: once more people gather together, the difficulty of trying to keep secret will increase exponentially. For example, it is enough to keep secret now. It was so distressing, he felt that he might be discovered his secret at any time.
"Caution? I think we are not only not cautious, but we also don't take the things we imagined to heart." Not only did Berishi's words fail to work, they also aroused the anger of the young people. "Manipulating key people was originally the most important part of our plan, but as a result, there were still one after another. So that the churches and courts directly focused their attention."
"That was just an accident, Your Highness," Bailishi defended. "The limit period of that spell is different for everyone, and the people we use to perform magic on those two people are also different. It is completely accidental that they die one after another within time. Not to mention that even after the death of the controlled person, it is used for The traces of manipulative magic are also hard to be found. Who knew that Master Yoda who was proficient in soul magic would suddenly rush to the nobles' banquet, but something went wrong."
"Fortunately, for the sake of safety, your grandfather controlled his two sons under our control to destroy the evidence when the earl was killed. I thought of putting them back after the calm and the waves, but who could think of the latter? The death of that baron completely triggered an investigation into this matter."
"So that we have to kill them to avoid being pursued by the guys whose noses are better than dogs. You know that the two sons of the earl's family usually walk closer to you. Once they are found, they are the same. If there are traces of manipulation, your secret will definitely not be kept. After all, you have never been liked by that person..."
"Shut up!" Bailixi's words seemed to poke the young man’s sore spot, he yelled at the middle-aged man in front of him, "These are all the reasons for your omissions in your plans. Excuses. I think you should figure out in advance what to do if something goes wrong—"
As the young man vented his inner anger, the door was knocked once again. Only this time there was a very flustered knock on the door.
"I said, I don't allow it when talking--" The young man immediately stopped the three steps of angry reprimand and took two steps to the door and opened the door, while shouting loudly from his mouth. It's just that the white-haired butler in a tuxedo at the door directly handed him a note~lightnovelpub.net~Master, this was just delivered by Lieutenant Boll himself. "The butler's words made the young man immediately stop scolding and took the note, and then signaled the butler to leave here.
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 siege and kill August's adopted son without telling me."
"This is the second time." Bellish told a fact that a young man didn't know before. "I sent someone to the New World to hunt down once, but it failed in the end."
"You--" the young man tremblingly pointed out Belishi's nose, and asked for a long time. "Why do you do this?"
"Because he is likely to be the illegitimate child of the August family, but it is only natural to obtain the right of inheritance in the name of the adopted son." The middle-aged man raised his head and looked 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 was that this so-called adopted son was also a warlock, and he probably also had unicorn blood. Can be our key medium for casting spells."