"My dear, how do you think I treat you?"

Inside the luxurious palace, Queen Aundair leaned on her throne and met with the ministers she had promoted.

The report from the Kingdom's Eye was almost delivered together with the Minister of Finance. After reading the simple intelligence about Tonglu City, the Queen asked the Minister a question in return.

"Your Majesty has shown great kindness to me and others, and I have no way to repay you."

Kneeling in the main hall, the finance minister, who is only in his fifties, was trembling.

"Nothing to repay? Then why are you doing all this?"

Maintaining her graceful demeanor, Queen Aundair dropped the information about the Eye of the Kingdom.

The minister, who was crawling on the ground, reached out quickly to grab it, but his fat body had lost its former agility. After trying twice, the minister finally got the information in his hands.

But before the Chancellor of the Exchequer finished reading the letter, the Queen continued, "I thought the old nobles were corrupt, so I promoted new nobles like you who could contribute to the development of the country. Ten years ago, you did just as I expected."

Hearing this, the minister's body trembled even more severely.

He knew that Her Majesty the Queen had a grudge against him and the new nobles behind him.

The grudge is not because of their incompetence, but because their "loyalty" has been questioned.

Loyalty, this invisible and intangible illusory thing, has a solid guarantee among the old nobles of Andel.

Because hundreds of years ago, King Andel used the power of the Supreme Elf to sign a contract with the ancestors of those nobles.

The old nobles of Andel and the heirs of their bloodlines cannot betray the royal family of Andel. This oath was witnessed by the Supreme Elf and cannot be circumvented by any form of trickery.

The only way to break this oath is to kill the Supreme Fairy.

But if someone could do this, maybe they could unify Khorvaire directly by force of their own.

After all, the Giant King back then had to risk his life to sever the connection between the dream world and the main plane by taking advantage of the main plane’s home advantage.

The Supreme Fairy is in the fairy plane, and killing Him is as difficult as killing the Gods of Destiny or the Six Gods of Darkness.

You can't even find out his true identity!

"Your Majesty, I have failed to discipline my subordinates and have become stupid. I beg Your Majesty to punish me."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave up all resistance, almost pressing his body completely to the ground.

Not all ministers of various countries are powerful professionals. For example, the minister of Andel is just a level 4 mage and a level 4 warrior.

Governing a country is not something that can be done by just talking, and the complicated government work cannot allow professionals to gain spiritual feedback from it.

There are not many countries like the Eludin Fields that are governed by druids. After all, the lifespan of druids is there.

In ordinary human countries, the political lifespan of ministers is unlikely to exceed 80 years.

Because even if there is a elixir of rejuvenation to help prolong your life, those younger generations who are eager to get promoted will try their best to help you look "decent".

It is possible that the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s current situation is due to being betrayed by his juniors who want to take over the position, but the outbreak of this crisis of trust is actually a matter of time.

Because the emergence of the new aristocracy is the rise of capital power, this naturally puts the new aristocracy and the Financial Power Association in a similar camp.

With Breland's deeds as an example, no matter how tolerant Queen Andel is, she cannot just stand by and watch this group of people mess around.

…

'Catching shrimp households~'

On the streets of Tonglu City, Carl held the steering wheel with both hands and completed a drift of five consecutive hairpin turns with the assistance of V.

The BGM of "Initial D" echoed in his mind, and the adrenaline rush drove him to increase the speed even higher.

“Too fast! You’re driving too fast! Those mechanical soldiers can’t keep up! Slow down a little bit, ahhh—”

In the passenger seat, Nia grabbed the seat belt and screamed at the top of her lungs.

This reminded her of the time when she and Carl were racing on the ice field at the last level of the Ninefold Path.

"Slow down? Are you kidding! Those guys are outflanking us! We must rush out of the city gate as quickly as possible!"

After taking a look at the remaining energy of the car, Carl wiped the sweat from his forehead and took the time to respond.

V, who temporarily merged with the car, observed the mechanical soldiers running wildly on the houses in the distance, and the opponent's route was very dangerous for Carl and his friends.

The adventurers and residents of Tonglu City have already started fighting with the mechanical soldiers, and the people of the Tonglu Dragon Mark Family have also been dispatched.

Things seem to be moving in the right direction.

But Carl, who already had a bit of paranoia, felt that the Tongxing Dragon Mark Family might be involved in this matter, and he didn't believe it.

"It would be great if I could reach level 9 as an artificer."

After fantasizing about this in his mind, Carl shook his head and continued to concentrate on driving.

Level 4 to 8 artificer is always in the most awkward stage of strength, with the improvement of spells and professional characteristics being neither up nor down, and the growth of actual combat power is more dependent on props such as artificer equipment.

In comparison, professions with a long history like the mage are much better. Every improvement in the spell level will make them noticeably stronger.

As they chased each other, the car and the pursuing mechanical soldiers had arrived at the city gate.

Thank God, Tonglu City did not have the habit of closing the city gates at night.

Carrying a lot of dust, Carl's car sped through the city gate.

After "digesting" almost the entire city, there are now less than sixty mechanical soldiers chasing after Carl and his men.

After a little thought in his mind, Carl parked the car about 100 meters away from the city gate tower.

"Get out of the car! Get ready to meet the enemy!"

Ying and No. 18, who had been prepared for a long time, opened the car door and jumped out.

V peeled his body out of the car and reunited it with Carl's power armor.

Transforming the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid into a shield, Carl stood at the front of the team, ready to face the impending attack.

The car's energy can only run for a few more kilometers at most. Instead of fighting these guys in the wilderness farther away, it is better to rely on the guards of Tonglu City to fight these mechanical soldiers.

Even if everyone in Tonglu City was involved in this incident and the guards tried to kill them to silence them, Carl and his men would still have time to escape.

"Why does it look so much like the Skynet invasion war in the Terminator?"

Looking at the mechanical soldiers who broke through the city gate, Carl muttered softly.

Then the first enemy ran into him head-on.

The sharp blade stabbed straight at him from a tricky angle, aiming at the two positions on Carl's helmet that represented his eyes.

Before Carl could react, the sword had already pierced one of the crystal pieces.

The combat skills of this mechanical soldier were unexpectedly strong.

Carl leaned back and did a backflip using the opponent's force.

He had less than half a second to react before losing an eye.

Behind him, Nia's attack was late but arrived. The dragon's breath in the form of fire spewed out and burned the upper body of the mechanical soldier black.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Carl controlled V to slap out with his palm.

In an instant, the alchemical solution spread all over the earth.

The death of the first mechanical soldier was like a clarion call for counterattack.

Everyone was fighting hard against the mechanical soldiers.

Ying and No. 18 swung their weapons so hard that afterimages appeared.

The dense sound of metal knocking almost became one continuous sound.

The enemies they engaged soon suffered casualties.

At this moment, a flaming arrow fell from the sky.

It fell to the ground almost sticking to the body of a mechanical soldier.

But Carl felt that he could not blame the guard who launched the attack. After all, there was a distance between the two sides.

But as the flaming arrow fell, more attacks rose from the direction of the city gate and fell towards the combat group of mechanical soldiers.

Most of these attacks were fire arrows. Nia seized the opportunity and immediately launched the fire control technique.

In just a moment, the energy on the flaming arrow expanded.

The blazing fire dragon circled among the mechanical soldiers for about ten seconds.

The mechanical soldier at the center of the fire dragon couldn't withstand this wave of attacks and actually caught fire.

Seeing this, Carl was overjoyed.

The long-sealed floating cannon was reactivated, and flaming arrows flew out.

Nia quickly understood Carl's intention.

The skilled fire control technique was used again, and another flame engulfed countless enemies.

It is no wonder that the later stages of the Final War were mainly fought by low-level wizards. When the spells were combined with each other, the lethality of the spellcaster should not be underestimated.

Soon, nearly sixty mechanical soldiers were wiped out with the joint efforts of everyone.

Carl and Nia used healing magic to simply treat the injured, and then planned to drive away.

However, what was unexpected was that No. 1 suddenly became energetic at this time.

"Master Karl! The master is coming!"

Subconsciously, Carl looked up at Tonglu City.

Sure enough, there was a small dot in the sky that was expanding rapidly.

Soon, everyone saw the appearance of the person who came. It was the fully armed Mooreban.

Although he had gained weight, he was still wearing a set of rugged arcane armor.

The armor emitted pulses of magic that allowed him to float in the air.

Seeing that Carl and Nia were safe and sound, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"My dear disciple, don't run around lately. According to the words of those guys from the Prophecy School, you are in Mercury retrograde recently!"

Mooreban glanced at the wreckage of the mechanical soldier on the ground with a complicated tone.

Although it was a good thing for Andel to be able to bring out these hidden crises, he did not want to use his beloved apprentice as the price.

The tower master can even delay his own legendary promotion for Queen Andel, but he, the Moore class, will not do so to Andel.

If he wasn't a member of the old noble family of Andel, he really wouldn't want to get involved in some muddy waters.

"Well done. I will help you with the subsequent upgrades after we return. You will stay here to help my apprentice for the time being."

After saying this to Mitris, Mooreband waved his hand and took out several whistles and handed them to everyone.

As Carl took the lead and blew a sound, a mount created by the three-ring illusion phantom horse appeared in front of him.

"Use this and follow me back to the city. Oh, and put away the thing you made!"

(End of this chapter)