A strange world

Chapter 1405 39. Choose One

As usual, Idilia sat in the office, dealing with various matters in the city, busy and fulfilling.

The Imperial delegation came and left, but the news was widely reported by the Voice of Freedom. With the Imperial platform, the bank was already very popular, and it would have to consider expanding the vault and spending money.

Near noon, Luo Xi knocked on the door and said that there were suspicious people near the City Lord's Mansion.

"Have you investigated?"

"No, they are girls, and they look either rich or noble..."

Idilia raised her head, turned her wheelchair to the window, and soon found two girls standing under the eaves, looking at the City Lord's Mansion.

"Xana?"

"Do you know him?"

"A friend that Annan met in Silstovis."

"Oh~"

Luo Xi suddenly realized that the only thing he needed to do was to write the word "lover" on his face.

Idilia Pelosi brought the people over and asked Abby to tell Annan.

Annan, who was applying fertilizer in the garden with Irilanze, received the news, put down his rolled-up sleeves, put on his wizard robe, and returned to the city lord's mansion.

He arrived at the lounge and saw the beautiful girl standing there. He walked over quickly and gave her a big hug.

Xianna, who was caught off guard and hugged, was dazed and her cheeks quickly turned red as if she was drunk.

"Why, why suddenly..."

"Sorry, I'm a little excited after not seeing you for a long time."

Annan let go of Xianna, and was too embarrassed to say that it was because he was always touched and hugged by the elf mentor that his threshold became higher -

He looked at Suni - she took a half step back and hid behind Xianna.

"Uh... didn't you get enough rest?" Annan saw the dark circles under her eyes.

"Um."

She even nodded as if she was dozing off.

Xianna tried to free herself from the hug and complained, "Don't mention it. She slept in the car, in the theater, at the beach, and even while walking. It's so annoying..."

"Not feeling well?"

Annan asked with concern. He remembered that Suni was very lazy when they were in college, but she was not so sleepy as this.

"It's just that I can never get enough sleep..."

As Suni spoke, she walked to a corner of the sofa that was exposed to the sunlight from the window, sat down, curled up, and took a nap.

Compared to Xiana, who inherited the handsome and beautiful looks of the Golden Family, Suni is not that pretty, but in the sun, her skin is so bright that it seems to be glowing.

Annan asked Abby to prepare some drinks and sat down opposite him.

I remember that the last time we met, Xianna and Suni were still girls, but now they look a little older, which is really touching.

Xianna was also very emotional. After not seeing Annan for more than a year, she was already taller than Annan...

"Why are you here?"

"The magic train is now open, so we wanted to give you a surprise..."

"Surprise? But I remember the first train was three days ago..."

The delay of Xianna's surprise is a bit high.

Xina was reluctant to say anything, so Suni said vaguely: "On the first day, I was afraid that you were busy. On the second day, I was afraid that I would disturb you. On the third day, I was afraid that you would hate me..."

"Sleep!"

Annan smiled: "Just the two of you?"

"Well, big sister and the others still have to go to class."

"Dean Blechheim is willing to give you a holiday?" Annan thought of a possibility: "You didn't sneak out..."

"No way!"

Xianna said that the professor of the college was very interested in the magic energy train and agreed to let the two of them practice it outside of class. The price was that they had to explain the principles of the magic energy train to their classmates after returning.

"Annan, you must help us!" Xianna pleaded.

"Help you?"

"We don't know the principles of the magic train, but we are very good at riding the train..."

"All right……"

This is not a difficult task. Just ask the students from the School of Life Studies to write your homework for you.

I'm just doing this for Xiana. What if she can't graduate from the academy? What? Xiana is a branch of the royal family? That's fine.

After chatting with Xianna for a while and taking her for a walk in the City Lord's Mansion, Annan gave the task of accompanying the two of them to Abby.

After all, Annan was a mature lord, and the fun and entertainment that belonged to ordinary people had nothing to do with him anymore.

…

"What a bullshit savings bank."

In Palafos, one of the 376 main cities of the empire, wealthy businessman Gabriel Hines threw the newspaper aside.

The servant next to it quickly picked it up, smoothed out the wrinkles, and carefully placed it on a shelf nearby.

On the shelf are every issue of the Empire from its first issue to the present.

As the Imperial Gazette was directly controlled by the Privy Council and conveyed the imperial decrees, the imperial nobles and officials had to read every issue. Even if it was just for show, they had to buy every issue.

Others can't see it, but he can't see it? The empire is just using the savings bank to make money.

Want to pay for it yourself? No way. Money is not as safe as your own treasury!

As he was thinking this, the guards rushed in.

"Master Hines, the imperial officials are here!"

Before Gabriel Hines could go out to greet him, the imperial official stepped in and put a blank deposit slip on the table.

"Your Excellency, I just used the money to buy a batch of goods..."

The imperial official also placed a dagger next to it, and the meaning was obvious: you have to choose between saving money and using it.

Gabriel Heins immediately patted his chest and assured: "...But we can definitely sell the goods before the bank is built!"

The official said nothing, left the deposit slip and the dagger and walked out of the manor.

This is not borrowing, it's clearly robbery!

Gabriel Hines looked at the official's back with a gloomy expression.

Outside the manor, the official took out the list, took a look at it, and set off to visit the second noble.

The list contained a long list of names.

The same scene occurred throughout the empire. The Ministry of Finance only sent officials to walk around the city and collected millions of kinnars in advance.

Some city lords even expressed their loyalty by holding auctions to sell off blank certificates of deposit. The rich could only pretend to scramble for them, but in reality they had to pay with a pinch of their noses.

Look at it in a positive way. This is the Empire "borrowing" from them. It's not like they won't return it, right...?

In addition, the empire also included but was not limited to ordering soldiers on leave to return to the camp, purchasing food and minerals, and announcing a shift to wartime laws starting January 1 next year.

The huge machine called Empire had been silent for so long that when it suddenly started up, everyone around it was at a loss.

If the border guards make any move, the lords of the nearby duchies will be wary.

If the Royal Guards were deployed, other kingdoms would have to be on guard, but if the entire empire was mobilizing for war… everyone breathed a sigh of relief, then raised their concerns again.

What kind of enemy could make these barbarians move?

They all turned their attention to the rat people in the north.