Warlord: King of All Clans

Facing Denise's praise, Leo was very modest, "How can you be as successful as you are? You are a new noble in the imperial capital. I can even see your books in the princess's bedroom."

Denise chuckled and said, "It's all thanks to you. Her Royal Highness the Princess has met with me twice and said that my handwriting is good, but I doubt that Her Royal Highness the Princess has even read it."

Denise was also one of the participants in the princess's return to the royal family. If she hadn't brought the news to Noreen, Noreen would not have found the river bend so quickly.

Although the subsequent process was quite tortuous, it had nothing to do with Denise, and she was still a meritorious contributor.

Not only did the little mouse receive her twice, but His Majesty the Emperor also personally gave her rewards.

Leo thought to himself, the little mouse is working so hard right now, how can he have time to read your idle book.

But he didn't want to be criticized, so he smiled and asked, "That's impossible. Your Highness Princess really likes reading, so why did you come here this time?"

"An old friend has come from afar, so I have to come and visit him, right?"

After some polite conversation, Denise said seriously, "It's like this. I'm currently working at the Imperial Capital Research Institute, and I'm still in charge of the study of elf culture. Unfortunately, the information about elves in the Imperial Capital is very scarce, and there has never been any breakthrough. The Elf Queen's visit to the Imperial Capital is a once-in-a-millennium opportunity for researchers like us."

"So you came to me and wanted me to introduce you to someone?"

Denise stared at Leo with hope. The River Bay delegation appeared as attendants of the Elf Queen, and Leo and Olivia accompanied the Elf Queen throughout the whole process. Even if they said it had no relationship, no one would believe it.

If she could meet the Elf Queen through Leo's connections, even asking her a few simple questions would benefit her greatly, and her research progress bar would soar.

She had commissioned Knight Norin to deliver a letter to Hewan, in which she complained that in order to conceal the findings of the atrium, she had to delete a large amount of data from her graduation thesis, which led to a huge drop in the quality of the thesis and it could not pass the review of the professional platform at all.

If she hadn't become famous for writing books and her mentor Herod hadn't been very supportive of her decision and continued to provide a lot of support, she would probably still be repeating a grade to finish her graduation thesis.

Leo had to accept this favor. After all, if the atrium was exposed, the one that would suffer the most would not be the atrium, but the nearby river bay.

Of course, it is actually a good thing that it has been exposed. Due to the war, the adventure service industry and tourism industry in River Bay have not yet been able to form a scale. This is one of the pillar industries in River Bay that Rio originally planned.

However, he now has a large family and business, so he must be careful with his budget and cannot work for free. So he pondered and said, "It's not impossible to introduce someone, but... it is said that the Elf Queen is very interested in the Alchemical Musket!"

Denise couldn't help but roll her eyes at him and ruthlessly said, "You are interested in the alchemical musket, right? If you can introduce me to the Elf Queen, I will give you my alchemical musket."

Leo had other ideas. "Your musket is good, but I'd like to meet the maker."

Denise thought about it and nodded, "Master Alchemist Freeman is not easy to meet, but he is a good friend of my teacher. I can go and ask my teacher for help."

"Deal!" Leo turned around and asked Xiya who was standing at the door, "Where is the Elf Queen?"

The two Rose Knights, Xia and Gwen, not only served as Leo's guards but also as part-time secretaries. Upon hearing this, they immediately replied, "I took Feisa to the palace early in the morning."

"To find the princess?"

"Yes, but it seems... that he is planning to go back to the river bend."

Leo jumped up, "Isn't the portal closed?"

Xiya looked at him speechlessly, too lazy to explain.

The Elf Queen is leading the team personally. Will the portal reopen after it is closed?

Leo also fell into a misconception. Based on his understanding of the portal, this thing would burn as much money as building an aircraft carrier.

The opening and maintenance of a portal requires a large amount of magic power. For a human holy-level wizard to open a portal like the Elf Queen's, he would need at least a month to prepare, and the amount of spell materials consumed in drawing the space magic array would be countless.

Moreover, after spending a huge amount of money to open the portal, maintaining it will also consume a lot of resources.

During the heyday of the Orlantis Empire, there were portals connecting the main cities of the Three Realms and the Free State of the Islands.

A portal consumes energy from at least four magic crystals every day, and requires a dedicated team of high-level mages to carry out daily maintenance. If major problems arise, holy-level mages will be called upon to take action.

The daily maintenance cost of a portal is at least 500 gold coins, and as magic crystal resources become scarce, the operating cost is increasing year by year.

At its peak, the Orlantis Empire was able to maintain four portals in operation. Now, there is only one portal leading to the Free State of the Islands. The portals leading to the main cities of the West and North were closed hundreds of years ago due to political and financial pressures.

Even if we want to open it again now, I'm afraid no one has mastered the relevant technology.

Based on this understanding, Leo guessed that it would not be difficult for the Elf Queen to open the portal, but there must be a price to pay, and she would not use it casually.

But he underestimated the Elf Queen's extravagance and eccentricity. As long as she had fun, nothing else mattered to her.

The demigod Bobak usually has to transform into a giant eagle and fly when he wants to travel, but the Elf Queen only knows how to open doors.

The portal was closed, and Leo was embarrassed to ask the Elf Queen to open it again, but now that the portal is reopened, of course Leo wants to take advantage of the opportunity.

Leo immediately waved his hand, "Come on, follow me to the palace."

The Hewan convoy left the embassy and headed straight for the palace square. Olivia sat in the carriage with Denise and chatted, asking about some of the customs of the imperial capital, but she was more eager to go back to Hewan.

Olivia was already satisfied to be able to come to the imperial capital and see the little mouse. Now she was more concerned about the river bend, which was her home.

The registered population of River Bay Territory has exceeded 15,000, and the registered population of United Knights Territory has 10,000. In addition, tens of thousands of refugees have poured into the two major areas and are in urgent need of resettlement.

This foundation of tens of thousands of people and thousands of square kilometers of territory is at least the foundation of a powerful viscount in the southern border.

If the unreformed Isenbol is also included, it would not be a problem to confer him the title of Earl.

Such a huge family business is basically managed by Olivia. Compared with other noble ladies who are obsessed with competing for gorgeous clothes and jewelry, Olivia prefers the feeling of being respected by the people.

In her opinion, supporting a village and watching the village chief come to the Riverbend House to express his sincere gratitude was much more exciting than showing off her newly purchased jewelry necklace at a noble dinner.

Now that Uliyang has difficulty walking, he can only handle social activities with the nobles of the previous generation in the lord's mansion.

Olivia and Leo left the River Bay at the same time. Because the portal was closed, the information of the entire River Bay was suddenly cut off.

Leo, a carefree man, didn't care, but Olivia couldn't sleep well at night.

After walking for half an hour, the convoy arrived at the gate of the palace. After being allowed to pass by the gate guards, they finally arrived at the palace square.

At this time, the green teleportation light gate in the palace square was reopened, and groups of alien cubs poured out of the portal.

Freya leads her army of cubs to capture the palace!