Ash Mido's words were like a bolt of lightning to the slightly plump Willow Gowen. He walked out of the crowd with a pale face and knelt down, with cold sweat all over his body.

"Count, this... this was that Varyan who bewitched me. He asked me to be the middleman between the Code family and the Council of Thirteen, saying... that this way I could get the support of the Council of Thirteen. I didn't take it seriously and just wrote a letter casually. I didn't... I didn't expect..."

"I never thought the Council of Thirteen would really do as Varyan Code said, and promise you the same thing they did to Tone Soutine, giving you a dock castle like the one on Brownsea Island."

Ashe Mido was imposing and looked at the people in the room. He just said a few calm words, and then made several nobles come out and kneel down, speaking with tears in their eyes.

"Count, we have not betrayed you, nor have we betrayed the South. It was... it was Willow Gowen who came to us..."

"Yes... yes... it's him..."

"Count...it's all Willow Gowen's fault..."

Watching these people blaming each other and passing the buck, Ai Xi Mido felt a pang of frustration. Didn't they know that only by sticking together could the southern Baltic region avoid being wantonly plundered and trampled upon by the Thirteen Councils? Couldn't they see the tragic state of the central and northern regions mired in war?

These guys kneeling down were all sent by Zilaner to the Baltic Sea to reclaim land for them. Only after they united under the banner of Ash Mido did they have the confidence to resist the main line. Without the united South, would they still be of any use? I'm afraid they would have to vomit out everything they had eaten.

In the end, Ash Mido did not punish them, but just scolded them a few words. There would be plenty of opportunities to settle scores later, and he did not have the power to deal with these idiots. Once they broke the rules, they would only be bitten back by the rules.

These traitors are all feudal lords, and only the king has the right to punish the feudal nobles. Therefore, the Thirteen Councils cannot launch an army to attack the troublesome Ashe Mido, and can only use assassination and poisoning for this reason. Recently, he has secretly supported a group of pirates.

However, these guys were just exceptions after all. The lords of other Zilaner factions glared at these guys and expressed their intention to draw a clear line between them. The lords of the mainland faction also listened to Ash Mido's wishes and did not take the opportunity to add insult to injury.

Although there are many factions within the party, it is still relatively united.

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Varyan knocked on the door and entered Shallan's room, only to find that the king had a sallow complexion, dark circles under his eyes, and was writing something. There were already more than a dozen written parchment books on the table.

He didn't hesitate and picked up a book and began to flip through it. The more he flipped through it, the more restless he became. Finally, he carefully touched Xia Lan's pale face and said, "Are you really not some down-and-out prince?"

"Don't be ridiculous, Master Varyan."

Pushing away Varean's hand, Xia Lan continued to write with a pen, but Varean took Xia Lan's "Runes and Spiritual Construction" and remembered that Xia Lan used to live in Blackwater City and was also a citizen under his leadership.

Could it be that he learned from a sorcerer?

But then he looked at the books on the table: "One Hundred Martial Arts - Deep Development of Fighting Spirit", "Research on the Relationship between the Mage and the Philosopher's Stone", "Mage and the Magic Web", "Basic Arcane Theory", "The Path of Alchemy", "..." Varean swallowed his saliva and didn't know what to say at all.

"What's up?"

Seeing Varyan staring at the book he had written, Xia Lan asked.

"Aishe Mido agreed to our missionary conditions. Furthermore...Aishe Mido arrested Willow Goven and several nobles he was in contact with right in front of our messenger. These nobles are more united than we imagined."

After arriving at White Wave Island, Varean followed the plan given to him by Xia Lan and united with the mainland faction to suppress the Purple Laner faction. However, he did not expect that Ash Mido was more capable than he imagined, and the underwater man was unmoved. Varean could only retreat and provoke Willow Gowen and other weak-willed members of the Purple Laner faction.

"Marcus Ster is just bait used by Ash Midor to lure out the unstable elements within. Don't contact him anymore.

You should help me make a price list for these books first, pick out a few and put them together with the copied textbooks, and exchange them for the list left by Ash Middaugh, and let them pay more for the rest.

I refunded so many gold coins, not only to spread the word, but also to lower the price offered by Ash Mido, so that he can buy a trial version at a preferential price. The remaining money is the big profit."

Looking at the cunning look on Xia Lan's face, Varean said with a stiff upper lip: "Will Ash Midor turn against me if I do this?"

But Xia Lan had no choice. The power of truth offered too much knowledge this time, and it was not enough for Ash Mido to pay. After deducting 8,000 gold coins, the knowledge that Faaudis had stolen...borrowed before, plus the several books of core knowledge equivalent to top nobles transformed by the power this time, it was enough to pay the price offered by Ash Mido, but Xia Lan still had a lot of knowledge left.

As for the fact that after deducting 8,000 gold coins, what Ash Mido bought is still worth this price, isn’t the price reduction in vain?

Xia Lan said it was not her fault, because the Earl was so pretentious that she didn't ask the price and just threw the check over and asked how much she could buy.

The preferential treatment was equivalent to no treatment. Pope Xia Lan was not worried about whether the nobles would stop the Church of Truth from preaching, because the doctrines of truth were all "science" and "materialism", which were the hard goods of Xia Lan's previous life in modern society and were also a kind of knowledge in themselves.

Now the Church of Truth only has him as its pope, without even a single clergy member. Giving Ash Midoti the conditions to preach the gospel is just to prove the Church of Truth, to prevent them from thinking it is a cult like the Church of Storms, and to make it easier for them to kill people in the name of truth in the future...

Seeing Varyan's worry, Shallan didn't care.

"Don't worry, the nobles' private army on White Wave Island is just like the Silver Deer Legion, all just for show. Their real elite troops are out there waiting for Blackbeard to take the bait. There's not even a hint of inherited knowledge. With so many nobles leaving their homes and coming to White Wave Island, it's a miracle they're doing well."

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