Chapter 523 Jennifer's Crisis
A few hours later, the bright starry sky illuminated the return route.
Since the Imperial delegation had already returned many days later than expected, Menia declined the Federation's request to stay and immediately decided to lead the delegation back.
On the Imperial airship flagship "Queen".
Reginald still looked at Menia with a smile on his face in disbelief, and asked: "Your Highness Menia, are you and Mr. Ryan really in a relationship?"
It's not that he was gossiping or asking this question, but Menia had just specifically told Reginald that her relationship with Ryan should not be announced for the time being.
After all, her identity is more sensitive. Once it is announced, there will be a lot of criticism in a short period of time.
Of course, she has discussed this with Ryan, and Ryan has no objection to it.
After all, for him, as long as he and Menia both recognize this relationship, it doesn't matter to him whether it is public or not.
His status is based on his own strength and strength, not on currying favor with the powerful.
"Well, although there are some accidental factors in this, I found that Ryan is kind-hearted and considerate to me."
Listening to Menia's words, Reginald felt that the person next to him was not the empire's 'Red Queen', but a passionate girl who had just fallen in love.
For a moment, Reginald's heart seemed to be trampled by ten thousand wild bulls .
'Kind-hearted and considerate? There are probably tens of millions of such men in the empire! Is this the reason? ! '
Reginald was speechless. He really wanted to say one sentence. 'In fact, I can do these two points. But for so many years. '
"Okay! Your Highness Menia, I will naturally agree to your request. I will keep this matter confidential. "
"Thank you, Your Highness Reginald.
" "By the way, are Elder Ivan and the others on the way?"
"Yes, we should be able to meet them on the road in a few hours."
"Well."
Since Ryan promised Menia not to reveal their relationship, it was naturally impossible for him to stay in Menia's room for too long.
So, after leaving the ancient mermaid girl in Menia's room, he returned to his cabin.
At the same time.
Dragun Empire, Munster.
In a luxurious mansion close to the Axon Auction House.
The beautiful lady Jennifer was still working overtime in the study on the second floor, calculating the accounts. Next to her was the barbarian girl Lagre, who was studying business, and Georgia from the Ice Claw Bear Mercenary Group.
Georgia was initially Jennifer's personal bodyguard, but later, after discovering the beautiful lady's business strategy, she could not help but admire her.
So, in addition to guarding, Georgia followed Jennifer to learn some basic business transaction methods.
As for Lagre, she originally planned to follow the beautiful lady to learn business for two to three months, and after understanding some of the key links, she would return to the Norton tribe to help Chief Darius and High Priest Rom improve the tribe's foreign trade.
The ultimate goal, of course, is to improve the difficult living conditions of the tribesmen.
Although Ryan had contacted Luther's Snyder family to help the Norton tribe sell furs, there are other rare products in the Frost Tundra that are also valuable. If they can be directly supplied to Jennifer, the profit will be quite lucrative.
At the same time, the auction house can purchase some rare ores. Once they can be purchased and transported back to the tribe for forging, the protection and combat capabilities of the high-level warriors in the tribe can be greatly improved.
In other words, the trade profits can be used directly to purchase rare ores. This back and forth saves the middle link and can greatly improve the efficiency of the use of funds.
"Madam, these few days, several of our main caravans outside have been attacked by unknown forces. Do you think it's true that Lord Luther sent someone to inform us before?" Georgia asked with a worried look on her face.
His brother Fandral, the leader of the Ice Claw Bear Mercenary Group, volunteered to go and check the situation. Although she was very confident in her brother's strength, she didn't know why she always felt a little uneasy.
"No matter what, we must leave Munster tomorrow morning. Since someone wants to threaten Ryan through us, it must be a big force." This morning, Jennifer received a secret letter from the Duke of Munster.
The general idea is that it involves a high-level struggle, and she is expected to return to the imperial capital immediately to ensure her own safety.
But the problem is that Jennifer has many direct caravans, and some trades with other caravans need to be negotiated, plus some things about the auction house, even if she wants to withdraw to the imperial capital, she can't leave immediately.
Of course, the most important thing is that in Jennifer's view, the matter is not urgent to this extent. After all, this is Munster, not other places.
So, she plans to deal with the things at hand a little bit before leaving.
In addition, the beautiful woman is also confused.
Because it stands to reason that with Ryan's current thriving status in the empire, plus his strength is advancing by leaps and bounds, there should not be a big force so unwise as to threaten Ryan by controlling or abducting them.
Because once Ryan knows that even if he is temporarily at a disadvantage, he will inevitably retaliate against the other party when he becomes stronger.
Could it be that something happened to Ryan?
Otherwise, this matter is hard to explain.
However, these are just Jennifer's thoughts in her mind and she will not say them out loud.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, the door of the room was violently blown open!
A familiar figure slammed heavily on the bookcase at the door, accompanied by a familiar groan.
"Lord Vieri!" Georgia exclaimed!
The one who was blasted into the door was Ryan's follower Vieri.
"Don't go over there!"
Lagre grabbed Georgia who was about to rush over and shook her head at her. At the same time, she quickly picked up the one-handed axe and large shield beside her, and stood guard in front of the beautiful woman Jennifer with a solemn face.
After years of business experience, Jennifer did not panic in the face of the situation in front of her, but her pretty face was also serious, because after receiving the secret letter from the Duke of Munster, Jennifer mobilized all the guards around the mansion.
In addition, she also specially notified Vieri, a follower of Ryan who worked in the Munster Sword Bearer Branch.
But what Jennifer did not expect was that the other party came to the door so quickly and was so strong.
At this moment, the guards around the mansion did not move. Obviously, except for Vieri's strength that could resist a little, the others had been killed silently by the other party.
"Quick! Take the wife and go first!" Vieri said while vomiting blood and struggling to get up.
"Tsk tsk, so you are Vieri, you are quite capable, but it's a pity that you met us." A tall armored man wearing a black hood and holding a knight's sword walked in and said.
But the other party was not just one person, three black hooded men appeared one after another behind him.
Two of them were wearing wizard robes, emitting obscure mental fluctuations, and the other was wearing a cloak, but the faint gap revealed the complex patterns of gold and silver threads, which seemed to be the custom-made clothing commonly worn by high-ranking nobles.
"Title Knight, Crystalized Wizard!"
Lagre's beautiful eyes shrank slightly, and she immediately knew that the other party should be from a major imperial force.
No wonder, the dozen elite guards arranged around the mansion were quietly solved by the other party. If Vieri hadn't been there, they would have had no time to react. Those
who can send such a powerful team to act at once are at least top nobles who can compete with the Bavarian family of Münster.
"Huh? What a rare beauty! The barbarian girl is here too, great." The man in the cloak who looked like a noble looked at the beautiful women Jennifer and Lagre and said happily.
"Sure enough, you are coming for us. Do you want to threaten Lord Ryan through us?" Jennifer immediately understood something from the other party's words.
"Oh, you are very calm. Why, are you counting on your Lord Ryan to come and rescue you, or are you counting on the Duke of Minster to send people to support you?" The other party looked at the few people with a smile, and said quite easily.
"Unfortunately, let's not talk about whether the Duke of Minster will take the risk to send people to rescue. Even if he does, he will be stopped by our people."
"As for your Ryan, he is already in danger. Perhaps you don't know this yet. Let me give you a secret of the empire for free. Your Lord Ryan was defeated and imprisoned by the incarnation of the goddess of the underworld. I'm afraid he will never come back."
The other party stretched out a finger and shook it in front of him, with an indescribably frivolous tone.
Hearing this, both Jennifer and Lagre were shocked and their faces changed.
Did something really happen?
In addition, the enemy is not only powerful, but also knows them very well. They know that Ryan has a close relationship with the Bavarian family, the strongest family in the province of Munster.
"What? Do you still want to resist?"
"Here, this is the head of a stubborn resister. He is quite powerful. He should be someone you know." One of the crystal wizards took out a completely petrified head from his arms.
The head's face was not horrified, but only angry and unwilling.
"Brother!" Georgia exclaimed, tears flowing down involuntarily.
If Georgia hadn't been held tightly by Lagre, she would have rushed over.
"Oh? So this is your brother, what a pity."
"Three beautiful women, if you surrender immediately, the Marquis may give you a way out, otherwise, you can only become beautiful statues and put them in my garden."
The crystal wizard holding Fandral's petrified head said frivolously.
"Let's go!"
At this time, Jennifer seemed to press a device under the mahogany table, and a translucent barrier suddenly appeared in the middle of the room, separating the few people from each other.
At the same time, the wall behind Jennifer moved a layer away, and a passage appeared.
"Want to escape? What an overconfident woman."
One of the crystal wizards raised his hand, and a sharp conical stone pillar several meters long appeared in front of him, and shot towards the translucent wall.
"Boom!"
The translucent curtain wall shook violently. Although it did not break, it seemed to have reached a certain limit.
"Huh? It didn't break?"
Just as the crystal wizard was about to attack again, suddenly, Vieri dragged his injured body, swung the greatsword in his hand, and slashed down with a leap.
"Dang!!!"
However, his attack was easily blocked by the armored man with the sword, and he was kicked hard in the lower abdomen by the other party, flying backwards, breaking through the wall, and sliding directly onto the lawn in the front yard of the mansion.
"You really don't know how to live or die!"
At this time, the curtain wall of light had been broken, and the man in the cloak said: "Wait, let's chase those women first."
"They are in that servant room." Another crystal wizard closed his eyes and sensed it, then opened his eyes again and said.
Sure enough, Jennifer and the other two girls ran out of the servant room in the front yard and rushed to the gate.
"Hehe, interesting, can you run away?" The armored man sneered.
He flashed and came to the front lawn, but then he stopped immediately because two men and one woman appeared at the gate to protect the three women, namely Angus, Evelyn and Neoro.
"This is the former team member of Ryan. He is so weak." At this time, two crystal wizards and the cloaked man also came over and said.
Angus and Neoro were facing a formidable enemy. Although they improved at an extraordinary speed, they were still far behind the enemy in strength.
At this time, a knight holding a bright silver two-handed warhammer came to the door with a team of silver-armored knights.
"Ms. Jennifer, I'm sorry, I'm a little late."
"Goddess Church? Punishment Knight?" This time, the expression under the hood of the cloaked man was a little more solemn.
Obviously, they didn't expect that the Goddess Church of Munster Province also had a very good relationship with the target person, no, to be precise, it should be with that Lord Ryan. The Goddess
Church, which has never intervened in the internal struggles of the imperial nobles, would rarely take action.
"Sir, I hope you don't get involved in this matter. It won't do you any good."
"Sir Ryan has made outstanding contributions to the church and is a recipient of the second-level goddess medal. His family and relatives will be protected by the church if they have not violated the laws of the empire."
Branduer also realized the difficulty of the enemy in front of him.
There are three people with similar strength to him. This is definitely not a team that ordinary imperial nobles can send. Imperial
capital Tamriel.
Duke Drum's mansion.
"What! This Ryan is back? He and His Highness Menia were not imprisoned by the incarnation of the goddess of the underworld, but defeated each other? Did he disappear during that period just to heal his wounds?"
Duke Drum stood up behind the mahogany desk with a cry.
"Yes, Your Highness, I can't believe it, but this is the news just sent by the family confidant who works in the Senate. It is said that His Majesty Reginald has received His Highness Menia and Ryan."
After Duke Drum confirmed again, his eyes were a little dazed, and the whole person seemed to have his spine pulled out, and he sat back on the wide chair.
After a while, Duke Drum said in a deep voice: "All actions should be stopped immediately!"
"Let the team heading to the Frost Tundra to seize the gold mine return immediately."
"Inform the Orenz family to stop their actions in the Munster province immediately."
"Yes! After receiving the news the day before yesterday, Marquis Orenz went to Munster in person, accompanied by two masters from the Isolde School. I think they have already started the action." The butler said with a little embarrassment.
"As for the Frost Tundra, there is still time, because the journey is long and the team is still halfway."
Hearing what the butler said, Duke Drum's expression became more serious.
"Quickly complete the cut-off with the Orenz family, and eliminate the traces of the Drum family's involvement in this matter!"
The housekeeper couldn't help but feel cold in his heart when he heard the words of Duke Drum!
You know, the Orenz family has always followed the lead of the Drum family for so many years. Unexpectedly, Duke Drum was so ruthless that he gave up just like that. Is this the trick of the top old nobles in the empire?
"Yes! However, my Lord Duke, the Orenz family may still have one or two secret letters from us."
"It's okay, the secret letters are all specially coded, and there is no conclusive evidence to prove that our Drum family is involved."
"As long as we are removed from it, Mr. Ryan will not choose to attack us without real evidence. After all, we have the guardian of the empire, the ancestor Pantos Kirk, who is named 'Storm Cloud'."
When mentioning this guardian of the empire, the expression on Duke Drum's face was much more relaxed.
The Drum family has been able to stand as the top nobles of the empire for so many years without falling, and 'Storm Cloud' Pantos Kirk has made an indelible contribution.
"Indeed, with His Majesty Pentoskirk here, even if Lord Ryan has any objections to this matter, he can only stop here." The butler smiled and complimented.
(End of this chapter)
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