Throne Steps

In fact, at the very beginning, Saenz did not intend to use a church-like building to inflate Wiggins' status.

But I have to say that Wiggins' emotional intelligence and political awareness are really worrying.He entered Pesa with a talent worthy of the exemption quota, and studied in this leading institution in Retia for seven years. It can be said that the innate conditions and the acquired environment are equally well matched.However, with such a good hand, he was able to play a mixed result.Not to mention the fame he gained in the aristocratic circle, even in Pesari, it was difficult for him to create momentum by himself.Even if Saenz wanted to use him as a flagpole, he was really helpless with the wood that couldn't stand up.

And Wiggins' refusal to participate in the last "Dawn" trip to Samir that year was the fuse that caused Saenz to completely give up supporting him positively.

Suppressing the Northern Lands and combating the lone wolf, these are the two major achievements of Saenz that the people of Raetia have talked about in recent years.Wiggins only knew to accompany Saenz on the "Grace of Sunshine" for a few laps, and he didn't get any of these two major events that would allow people to gain a firm foothold in Saenz's camp.Li Chen and Fudexi said frankly that if Wiggins hadn't given up on Samir's trip, Xia Luo's achievements would have been replaced by Wiggins.

Today's Xia Luo, although still has no remarkable ability, and has even been abolished as a source of magic power, but on the face of it, the credit for the lone wolf intelligence back then is credited to him, the younger brother of the deputy head of Rock Eagle can be regarded as a hero. People are familiar with it.

Wiggins still guards his "one-acre three-point field". Seeing that everyone around Saenz is familiar with him, he mistakenly thinks that he does have some status in Saenz's camp.He doesn't doubt that he is Saenz's "confidant", but he always doesn't know the reason why Saenz is going to do it. He just feels that he was young and inexperienced before, and now he has graduated for two years and can only help a little. .Saenz announced that he would be in charge of the temple as a priest, which seemed to confirm this conjecture. He thought he had touched Saenz's psychology, and he couldn't help but feel confident.

Especially when he knew from nowhere that the funds for the construction of the temple were all supported by the mine veins of the original lone wolf, which made him have a kind of rock eagle and Sharo that were only used by Saenz, but Saenz used their hard work to make money. The illusion of building a temple for yourself.

In fact, Saenz really felt that Wiggins was unreliable and could not leave this "flagpole" alone, so he "made this bad move". On the one hand, the "temple" gave Wiggins a position, and on the other hand, it gave Wiggins a "job", which made people feel that his talent was not wasted, and his "grace" was not in vain.Moreover, Wiggins' "peeping" ability is also very erratic in description.How long and how large a geographical area can be seen, even Wiggins himself is not very clear.Saenz used the temple to pretend that he valued this, which is also a kind of delusion that makes other people jealous.

Anyway, there are countless churches, luminous magic associations, and shrines funded by Lellier, who stands in "good name", and Fujelal has also funded and assisted in the establishment of similar buildings.The extremely talented people around Saenz are going to be priests, and it is normal for Saenz to contribute money to help, and it is right to donate to build public facilities.

Unlike Fujalal and Lailier, who are supported by family funds, Saenz has the Samuel vein under his name, and it is not difficult to support the rise of a temple by himself.The economic power is mastered by oneself, and the address is also determined by oneself.Combined with Li Chen's suggestion that "it's better to set the style a little higher anyway", Saenz waved his hand and positioned the temple on the top of the mountain.

It is not accurate to say that it is the top of the mountain.This mountain is actually in the form of twin peaks, but one side is steep and strange, and the other side is low and flat in contrast, only a little higher than the col.The designer of the building agreed with Saenz to flatten the convex part of the lower mountain and prop up the concave part with towering stone pillars, so that a large flat land was erected on the mountain to stand the temple.The temple faces south from north, backed by steep peaks, facing cliffs, and some of them stand on stilts.Only one road winds up from the bottom of the mountain, twists and turns, and reaches a large platform in front of the temple, from which the front of the temple can be seen.

This kind of condescending posture is really bluffing—you know that even the "Pure White Temple" stands on the top of the mountain—if it weren't for the population of the nearby towns not being densely populated, maybe Saenz wouldn't be able to take it in his own name. down this place.However, thanks to the low population density nearby, no one from the Church or the Light Magic Association was willing to set up a site here, and Saenz also picked up a loophole.

Zhuoya Qiumen is the closest city to the new temple.There are many hills and mountains nearby, and the root of the mountain where Zhuoya Qiuming is located is connected with the temple mountain range. It is said that the temple can be seen outside the city.Not counting the sea level, but just looking up from the ground, Zhuoya Tyumen can be regarded as the highest terrain on which the city can be located, so it is called "the city in the sky".Although its administrative level is "city", its actual scale is not as large as some big towns.Except for the local residents, most of the tourists who will walk around here are tourists who come to play nearby. The overall atmosphere is quite peaceful - which can be regarded as meeting the requirements of the "shrine" for the environment.

Because Wiggins wanted to "see the construction process of the temple nearby", he almost regarded Zhuoya Qiumen as the residence before the completion of the temple.The funding from Saenz and Meloyer enabled him to buy the largest compound in the area to accommodate refugees who had fled nearby.In fact, he didn't concentrate all the people he took in in Zhuoya Qiumen, but diverted 30 to 40 people in nearby villages and towns, leaving only about [-] people in the mansion.But even if only this half of the people were left, plus the maids and guards, there would be close to [-] people, which could definitely be regarded as a big family in Zhuoya Qiuming.Coupled with the ostentation when the new female official arrives and the rising temple visible to the naked eye, the people of Zhuoya Qiumen will naturally think that the people living in the largest courtyard in the area are either rich or noble.

However, even such an outstanding status cannot support Wiggins' self-confidence.Most of his maids and guards here are of ordinary background, and it took only more than two months for the female officers to train them before they started to see results.Not to mention those displaced refugees, although they will be grateful for the relief, but the etiquette and exquisiteness lost in the upheaval cannot be regained overnight.

And no matter how fierce and surly the "Black Swan" reputation is, they are also a team that came out of Saenz.

After thinking for a long time, Wiggins finally decided to meet for the first time at the largest and high-end restaurant in Zhuoya Tyumen.

"Black Swan" arrived as scheduled.

Wiggins originally thought that if the "Black Swan" wanted to use ostentation to defeat him, he would call out all the people in the yard to support the ostentation, at least increase the momentum in terms of numbers, so that he would not lose to a team from afar. coming squad.However, "Black Swan" didn't seem to intend to play this game with him. It is said that a team of only six people came, and on the day of the meeting, only four people showed up.

Among the four, we had to exclude two who were waiting in the outer hall.

"Black Swan" was so "light-packed" that Wiggins had no use for the scene formation, so he had to order two maids and two guards, and then called Noah and Ye Lian to go to the appointment.

In the end, only Wiggins, Noah, Ye Lian, Li Chen, and Akye were in the same compartment.

This kind of personnel composition made Li Chen very happy.Slap five people, except yourself, the other four really know everything.

As I said before, as long as there is nothing wrong with Akeye, he will always be by Li Chen's side.Therefore, this time, there was no need for two responsible people to come forward at the same time, and Fudexi was removed from the team and stayed in the "Black Swan" to handle affairs.But this kind of personnel decision-making will inevitably cause a problem, that is, the actual person in charge who wants to really speak is inconvenient to speak, while the pseudo-president who is convenient to speak does not like to speak.As one of the people in charge of the "Black Swan" on the bright side, Akye is also the one who offered to meet with Wiggins in his cognition, but this big man looks like "I have nothing to say to you" , It really made Wiggins, who had been preparing for several days, choke and panic.

However, in Wiggins' mind, Akye is still the bloody image of "cutting the remnants without mercy".

Fortunately, Noah and Ye Lian's emotional intelligence is much higher than that of Wiggins, and they are characters who know how to ease the atmosphere. One interrupts and the other serves the guest of honor without too much trouble.Ye Lian was originally Li Chen's personal female officer, and she was transferred to Wiggins' side more than two months ago, so she naturally had a tacit understanding with Li Chen; Chen has an old friendship, and Li Chen is also willing to give him some favors.And Akeye saw Li Chen's actions, although he would not take the initiative to show his favor, but he began to cooperate to some extent.

The conversation began to advance, and Li Chen, as "Sarn's envoy stationed in the 'Black Swan'", was finally able to cut into the topic normally.

"A maid who takes care of our daily life?" Li Chen was stunned when he heard Noah's question whether he needed to assign a maid to the "Black Swan". Delicate."

Wiggins, who was eating Ye Lianbu's dishes, had a meal, not sure if he was alluding to himself.

Li Chen also turned his head to ask Akeye's opinion: "But I don't care what I said. What do you think, Clement?"

"No need." Akeye replied in a deep voice, and gave him half a bowl of the fish that the children in the distance liked to eat, "But you need it."

"...I don't need to match it anymore." Li Chen took the fish and slowly picked the fish with the bowl, "You can use it yourself, don't worry about the manpower here."

Ye Lian knew this. After all, Khorkina and the others had four of them around this one, so there was no need for ordinary maids.But Wiggins saw that Akye took care of Li Chen inside and outside every meal, and couldn't help but wonder "could it be the two people in charge who took care of him".

It has to be said that Wiggins' intuition is also accurate sometimes.

Noah would not be as absent-minded as Wiggins at this time, and continued with a smile: "The safety of the temple depends on you, but you are the first to doubt our sincerity. A few maids can still be with you a few old men Can't we destroy it?"

Wiggins was taken aback, when did the topic change here?

Li Chen was a little funny.To directly pick out everyone's taboos and say clearly, Noah's offensive method is really refreshing.Li Chen himself didn't answer, he just poured half of the fish he picked out into the bowl, and handed the other half back to Akye.

Akeye directly put two mouthfuls of fish into his mouth with the bowl, chewed and swallowed, then looked at Noah: "Waste."

It is really stressful to be stared at by such a figure walking on the tip of a knife. Noah chuckled and stopped his offensive: "Well, I really like to worry about it."

Li Chen had just swallowed his own fish, and said with a smile: "You are thoughtful, we should thank you."

Noah looked at the young man who changed the key topic from time to time, and his gentle eyes seemed to be able to convey some information: "Okay, let's change the topic to something lighter - I just introduced myself briefly, Now, how about some fun things that happened to each other in the past?"