quicksilver blood

Chapter 282 The Predecessor of the Peace Council

After the White Tower executives announced Orlando's crimes to everyone, the White Tower, which had calmed down, boiled again.

Leaking the key defense information of the White Tower and blowing up the defensive barrier of the White Tower, these two crimes are enough for the White Tower to execute Orlando.So far, Orlando has only been imprisoned but he has not been executed. It is said that it is only because the top officials of the White Tower want to know who revealed the defense map of the Orlando White Tower.

Although nearly four figures of wizards died in the first wave of raids by the gods, in fact, the huge amount of money cheated by Orlando was the reason that really made the wizards furious.

You know, there are not a few wizards who have given all their property to Orlando.

Because Orlando's fundraising plan is too tempting. There are even wizards who sell real estate, borrow money, etc. to invest more money in Orlando.Now Orlando has been arrested, but the White Tower executives have not found the huge amount of money he defrauded from Orlando's temporary residence.

To say it is a huge amount is by no means an exaggeration.Although theoretically speaking, this money is less than half of the total assets of the White Tower, but it has already exceeded one-third.As long as Orlando can escape from the White Tower, he can buy a marquis title and a large piece of land in Suze with the money, or buy a small island of Titan, and it is more than enough to build an overseas principality.

According to the preliminary estimates of the wizards, the amount of money Orlando defrauded was nearly 30 Elcate gold coins, which is close to 400 million if converted into silver coins. More than eight tons.

Even if all the money was exchanged for gold coins, it would be enough to fill a room.But this huge sum of money, which was enough to tempt everyone, seemed to evaporate out of thin air. No matter how many enchantment wizards searched the entire White Tower, they couldn't find where the money was hidden.Whether it is "finding fortune", "finding lost property" or "detecting metal", there is no useful information.

Because this huge sum of money evaporated out of thin air, the economic system of the White Tower collapsed almost instantly.The violently fluctuating and extremely chaotic prices, coupled with the troubled external market due to poor turnover, even made the wizards of the White Tower who had no shopping habits usually completely panic.

No merchant will have mercy on the White Tower.On the contrary, they all fell in love with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and desperately squeezed oil and water from the bewildered Baita.The chaos inside the White Tower continued to intensify.

The entire White Tower gradually fell into a mania.Severe uneasiness, anger, despair and suspicion invaded their emotions. Most of the wizards gradually took off the coat of scholars and fell into a state of confusion, trying to get guidance and help from others.

At this time, I don't know where to start, and there is such a saying: In fact, when Orlando was arrested, the White Tower executives had already obtained all of Orlando's assets-it was just that they didn't want to return them to the wizards.

Indeed, this is a huge sum of money that anyone would be tempted by.It's the same even if it's Su Ze's queen, or Titan's emperor.

Wizards are indeed qualified to suspect that someone has embezzled the money.At the beginning, it was just suspicion, and then I don’t know when, when the wizards talked about this issue, they had already started to talk about how a certain department hid this large sum of money—although in their remarks , Most of them are words like "I heard", "I think", "who said that".

Because in the initial version of the notice, it did not indicate which department was interrogating Orlando, and the department that issued the notice did not brand its own mark at the end of the notice.So in the rumors that gradually fermented later, there was almost something to say.

Some said that the medical department melted the gold and silver and put them into medicine bottles and hid them in the ice cellar; some said that the waste bureau hid a large amount of gold and silver among discarded items; The location where the money was hidden in Orlando was not announced, and the money continued to be hidden there.Some people even said that the two adults, Scott and Anvilia, saw something wrong and planned to abandon the White Tower and flee with the money, trying to rebuild the White Tower elsewhere.

Not to mention, every version has a very complete storyline, as if they watched these people do it in the first place, and there are even texts of the so-called "Orlando Confession" in several versions as evidence.

Because of such a sum of money, disputes gradually arose within the White Tower.Usually, the contradictions between several factions were suddenly exposed, and some more radical members had already had physical conflicts.

At such a critical moment, those great wizards are still busy repairing the big barrier, and they can't get in touch at all.

Later, this news somehow spread to the outside of the White Tower, which was supposed to be completely sealed.After smelling the fishy smell, many desperate wild dogs began to gather near the White Tower regardless of the army assembled by the gods, trying to find the legendary "wealth enough to build a country".

Leaving aside the matter outside the distortion barrier.The contradictions inside the White Tower have intensified to the verge of getting out of control, and only one spark is enough to cause great turmoil.

However, as the figure at the center of the incident, "Orlando" is surprisingly gentle.

"In this way, except for your eyes and hair, the other parts will be almost the same."

Esther threw away the ponytail covered in herbs, and looked at someone in front of him.

Except for the length of the hair and the silver-white pupils, the rest is exactly the same as Esther.

But no one would think it was a mirror - after all, the person sitting in front of Esther was a full head shorter than Esther even if he stood up.Moreover, his hands were tied to the cross behind him, and his ankles were bound several times with iron chains, which formed a sharp contrast with Este standing in front of him.

"...Oh, yes, and your height."

"Height doesn't matter."

Roland shook his head: "In order to prevent someone from dropping the bag, no one will be able to touch me, and no witchcraft will work on me...Anyway, Scott, who is in charge of verifying the authenticity in the end, you just need to let those who have seen you look like you. Look from afar and make sure that I am you. Of course, in order to achieve this goal, you need to prepare some small-scale instruments of torture. Speaking of which, I really didn’t expect you to be a master of make-up..."

"……What did you say?"

"I mean, I didn't expect you to know the make-up skills of an assassin."

Roland had no fear of being sent to the execution ground at all, but said with a smile: "To be honest, did you ever use makeup to deceive people in the beginning?"

Esther just shrugged.

"I don't use that kind of thing myself, and people who can see through my lies will not be fooled by my half-baked makeup skills. Generally speaking, this is for dead people. You are the first one to be put on by me The one who can still breathe when you're in."

While saying this, Esther walked around to the side of the cross: "What about your hair and eyes?"

"For the color of the pupils, I just need to close my eyes. As for the hair..."

Roland thought for a while, and then said casually: "...Sure enough, I should cut it."

"Anyway, you and I both have black hair, but the length is different. You can cut my hair to the same length as yours."

"It's best if you agree," Scott said as he gathered Roland's long hair that was scattered on the ground, and suddenly pulled it hard, "Okay, it's over."

In an instant, Roland's long hair broke neatly from his shoulders, as if it had been carefully cut.

"I'll just accept your hair. Fairy hair should fetch a good price in Su Ze..."

"Whatever you want, just keep it if you want. Speaking of which, your origin ability is really useful..."

Suddenly, Roland's expression became serious: "By the way, Esther—"

Almost simultaneously, Esther interrupted Roland softly with a blank face: "If it is to recruit me to believe in the Eternal Sleeping Mentor, it goes without saying, of course Elucado failed to convince me. I owe you I will leave after I pay back.”

"No, that's not what I'm talking about."

Unexpectedly, Roland shook his head and rejected Esther's guess.

"Oh?"

Immediately, Esther became interested: "What is that? Let's hear it."

"Have you... heard of Yali?"

As if the situation was reversed when the two met for the first time, Roland's words made Esther startled.

"...what are you trying to say?"

Naturally, he wouldn't think that Roland was so stupid that he forgot that he was the one who pulled Roland into Yali.

Rather, Roland still remembered that the fact that he had a name in Yali was beyond Esther's expectations.

"Just a little bit of 'I have a dream' cliché."

Roland said softly to the shadow below him: "Elucardo too, come out and listen together."

About ten seconds later, when Elucard emerged from Roland's shadow, Roland's voice sounded in the basement with dim candlelight: "The beginning of the matter probably starts from here..."

(End of this chapter)