Those who do not know me, the years leave no trace

——The God of Time

Aegean Islands,

Lisa Barbaro looked at her subordinates kneeling on the ground and threw the documents in her hand in their faces.

"Can't you even handle such a small matter?"

A middle-aged man in a suit below said carefully

"Sir, we tried our best, but Xialan Auglos left behind a monster..."

"Monster... then kill this monster!"

Lisa Barbaro had never felt so powerless. Compared with that man, the nobles in the kingdom who were fighting for power with the queen were nothing but pure little lambs.

"But to kill this monster, we need at least one million gold coins, otherwise we have no other options."

Among the half-kneeling crowd, a man with somewhat gray hair spoke.

"What do you mean?"

Lisa Barbaro turned around and asked.

"All the money in the Nineteen Islands is gone. Now the islands are run on something called work points.

The Thorn Chamber of Commerce, the Silver Deer Legion, the Commune... These things are like puppet parts developed by the goblins. If one of them moves, the whole building block will collapse!

We are... we are on a volcano right now."

"Is there no other way?"

"Yes, let the kingdom increase its army and abolish the work point ticket system. However, this way we can only get more than 900,000 bankrupt slaves."

The man glanced at the hesitant Lisa Barbaro and added, “It’s the slaves who hate us.

Currently, the Nineteen Islands implement a distribution-according-to-work system, but the drawbacks of this system are obvious. If it weren't for the Silver Deer Legion and the Truth Society in the commune, the order of the Nineteen Islands would have collapsed..."

Lisa Barbaro listened to his words and suddenly remembered something.

"What about the merchants from the Thorn Merchants Guild? If you don't have money, won't you ask them for it?"

Another skinny man reported:

"They keep all their gold coins in a place called the Far Oaks Bank, but that's on Brownsea Island."

Lisa Barbaro's face began to look ugly. She finally understood why Xia Lan Auglos went north.

What he wanted was not land and population, but something that could directly monetize the war.

Are you waiting for us by leaving this mess behind?

Lisa Barbaro bent down and picked up the document she had just dropped. The paper was bought from Brownsea Island. It was thinner and easier to use than parchment, but at this moment it seemed like a mockery of Ciaran Auglos to her.

This was the report from the Thorn Chamber of Commerce. She rejected their order to buy southern keels and it was brought up again.

A note was also attached: Work point tickets are only accepted on Bailang Island. We hope that you will consider the overall situation and not disrupt the economic operations on the island.

What Xialan Augulus wanted was not land and population, but to cash in the profits and leave the mess to them.

Are those illegitimate children undercover agents?

Perhaps whether they betrayed him or not, Xia Lan Augulus didn't care at all. He never tested human nature, he just controlled human nature.

Before leaving, the man set up a barrier on the Nineteen Islands, turning Tudor into an outsider and excluding him from the system.

…

Xia Lan arrived at Hanyue Island in his loyal city on the Silver Deer, followed by a large number of sailboats.

At the dock, the nobles who had fled to the Baltic Sea gave them a warm welcome, and there were several thorny book flags waving in the crowd. It seemed that the believers of truth were quite devout to their Lord.

Xia Lan took Zi Xi's hand and walked off the boat amid the cheers of the crowd, waving to them.

"Long time no see, Cleven Epic."

Xia Lan saluted the leader, Cleven, but the old woman's eyes were fixed on Zi Xi's face beside Xia Lan, and it took her a while to come back to her senses.

"It's been a long time."

Seeing the old man's absent-minded look, Xia Lan pushed his wife in front of her and said, "You two can chat. I also want to see my new territory."

He left his wife and walked towards the castle surrounded by nobles.

Cleven looked at "Zi Xi" who always kept her head down, then looked at Qiong Xi standing on the boat and Countess Hanyue Karen hiding behind him, and his face gradually became ugly.

"Kaylene, you are already a mother of four children, why do you still play tricks like this!"

Kailin got off the boat, walked carefully to Cliven and said, "Teacher, I was wrong."

"You want to get rid of Ciaran Auglos, why do you use this method?"

Cleven tried her best to suppress her anger, and her eyes seemed to want to devour the pitiful woman in front of her.

"Teacher, you can tell what happened right away. You should know this wasn't my idea."

Seeing that Kailin still felt a little aggrieved, Cliven became even angrier. She had watched Zi Xi grow up since she was a child. No matter how well she hid it, how could she hide it from her eyes?

She was a strong-willed girl who would not hide behind her father and brother and watch them fight, but as an elder, her own disciple actually condoned everything that happened.

Cleven gnashed his teeth and said, "Ashe married her to Xialan Ogulos just to leave a way out for the Mido family and the Zilan family. Why are you so stupid?"

Kailin also put away her disguise and met Cleven's eyes without giving in: "Isn't one artifact enough?"

"Then why did he bring you to Hanyue Island? It was to let you stay here for a few days, and let me, an old woman, take care of you.

It was a good plan. I gave him this broken island, and I wanted to bring an epic gatekeeper.

Zilaner Island is short of people, do you want me to stay here and take care of your family?"

Cleven laughed out of anger, and when they were the only four left at the dock, she even wanted to slap the stupid woman.

"Xia Lan Auglos will be in trouble because Zi Xi is pregnant with his child."

Kesven's eyes widened, he took a few steps back in disbelief, pointing at her, speechless.

"You...you...you are really a good wife to Ash Midor. Does Zi Xi know that?"

Kailin looked far into the north, a trace of regret and heartache flashed in her eyes. Zi Xi was also the one who grew up under her care, and she already regarded her as her own daughter.

“She doesn’t know…

If anything happens, I will personally apologize to Qiong and Lan. They entrusted their daughter to me, and I let her fall into danger."

"You did something stupid. Ashe said that Shallan Augros was a lunatic..."