Mystery: The arrival of the new Black Emperor

After completely killing Eris, Hobert stopped in front of Selina's grave for a while, and then entered the spirit world again.

Hobert did not go back to Backlund, but went to Longtail Island.

Forsi and April were having afternoon tea, and Hobert smiled and said, "It seems I came at the right time."

Forsi, who was wearing a thin long skirt, was slightly startled when she saw Hobert with a smile on his face: "You..."

Hobert sat across from them: "What's wrong with me?"

"Nothing." Forsi felt the warmth from Hobert's body again.

Aprile said with a bit of criticism: "You should have come long ago!"

She should have come to comfort Forsi long ago. After all, she had contributed a lot in the previous war.

"I've been a little busy lately." Hobert lied casually, took a sip of the tea handed over by the servant, and then asked Forsi: "Have the Lord's Mansion and the Governor's Mansion rehired servants?"

Forsi smiled and said, "We have re-signed the contract."

Appleli said: "In my opinion, what Changwei Island did made no difference at all. Even though they signed an employment contract, some employers with bad behavior still won't respect their servants.

"Do you still expect servants to accuse their employers?"

Hobert patiently explained: “Mother, some things are difficult to change at once.

“Furthermore, the law is inherently slow to work. It has to wait until someone commits a crime to impose punishment before it can play its role.

"But we have to take this step. Only with corresponding laws can servants have a basis to sue their employers. As long as there is the first case, there will be more and more cases like this, and servants will gradually know what to do. Protect yourself."

Having said this, He leaned back in his chair and said: "What the government should do is to give them basic justice, not to decide their lives."

April thought for a moment, then took a sip of tea and said, "Fortunately, I'm not in politics, otherwise it might have been a disaster."

She did not continue this topic, but said: "I am preparing to be promoted to Sequence 2. It may be a bit dangerous when I am promoted. You have to help 'tamper' with my status and 'give' some negative status."

"No problem." Hobert agreed first, and then asked: "Are you going to be promoted without fully digesting the potion?"

April replied: "No, the magic potion of 'Summoning Master' is digested very quickly."

To be precise, I almost digested it without taking any active role.

Hobert was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Weren't you well prepared for your promotion ceremony?"

"The ceremony is also ready." April explained: "The reason why there is danger is because of my own reasons and the special extraordinary characteristics I use for promotion."

Hobert thought for a while and then said: "I can help you get a copy of the 'creator' characteristics without too much mental residue."

Smash the "0-70" Creation Bracelet and you'll have it.

But April shook her head: "For now, the extraordinary characteristics I use for promotion are the best choice."

Hobert knew there was something special about his mother, so he nodded: "Okay, I'll be here when you call."

Aipuli drank all the tea in her cup and stood up and said, "I've been here for several days and it's time to go back."

She took Forsi's hand and said, "Thank you for your hospitality these days."

The two of them exchanged a few polite words, and April opened two hazy doors, entered the spiritual world, and left.

Hobert and Forsi drank tea and chatted for half the afternoon. A smile kept filling Forsi's face because Hobert explained to her in detail the curse on him, the promotion process, and what he was facing now. problem.

Forsi had been waiting for Hobert to take the initiative to talk about these things, and now she finally heard Hobert's description.

In the evening, the two had a pleasant dinner together and took a walk on the beach.

At night, after some intimacy, they talked about business as usual.

Fors told Hobert about the recent changes in Longtail Island. The factories in the industrial zone have been fully activated, and industrial products from South Colson and Longtail Island have begun to be sold in large quantities to the southern continent.

The Principality of South Balam is a huge market that can absorb excess production capacity.

In addition, with the beginning of the war, merchant ships and passenger ships decreased significantly, and Longtail Island's transactions with pirates decreased a lot.

However, the income of Tutuga Port has not decreased, because the pirates who made money before basically live in this port, waiting for the end of the war so that they can continue to "work".

There is another thing that Forsi feels is quite special: "Manager Todd of 'Earl's Light' and Mr. Dophis both came to me and said that a group of Loen Air Force officers wanted to visit Long Tail Island."

"Let them come." Hobert stroked Forsi's smooth back and said, "And entertain them well."

He took a deep breath: "It's time to show the results of the reforms on Longtail Island and South Colson to the world."

This made Hobert think: "Let the kitchen prepare in advance the day after tomorrow. I want to entertain Gehrman Sparrow again."

Forsi agreed: "Okay."

While chatting, Forsi fell into a deep sleep.

Hobert looked at the ceiling quietly, habitually thinking about the next plan. The most important thing for him at the moment was digesting the potion, preparing the Sequence 1 ritual, and secretly building nine secret tombs.

In recent days, the potion has been receiving feedback, and Hobert plans to spend the next period of time in the South Balam Principality focusing on the next step of land reform and institutional reform.

After the economic model and political model of the South Balam Principality begin to operate normally, it is estimated that the magic potion will be able to absorb most of it.

So there is no need to actively create opportunities to digest the magic potion for the time being.

As for the Sequence 1 ritual, it was not difficult for Hobert.

The ceremony to be promoted to "Prince Killer" is to subvert the rule of a country or establish a country through rebellion. Create a system in the established country that goes against the common sense of the world, and establish a culture and order that is unacceptable to everyone in the territory.

The point of "subverting the rule of a country" can be used to attack the Highland Kingdom with all its strength after completing the internal reform of the South Balam Principality.

In its current form, Hobart is certain to destroy the country before the end of the "World War."

This is subverting the rule of a country through force.

Even if the Highland Kingdom cannot be destroyed, Hobert can immediately declare the independence of the South Balam Principality and complete the "foundation of the country through rebellion."

As for the process of "creating" a system that goes against the world's common sense, establishing an unacceptable culture and order, and digesting the "Duke of Entropy" potion, it is equivalent to completing a ritual in this regard.

To be on the safe side, Hobert would also force the local aborigines and aborigines of the South Balam Principality to abandon their primitive way of life, just like he did to the residents of Longtail Island, and prohibit the worship of the "bound gods" or some wild gods. Belief.

This will definitely cause huge chaos again. At this time, Hobert needs to come forward to create some miracles and focus all the belief in evil gods and wild gods on himself.

This approach has many benefits. It can use the direct influence on their mental and spiritual bodies to help them master the Rune language and Rune writing as quickly as possible, as well as the unique values ​​​​of the South Balam Principality.

In addition, this allows them to know who their king is, which is equivalent to preparing for the promotion ceremony of the "Black Emperor" in advance.

Finally, Hobert began to think about building a mausoleum. This sounds difficult, but the size of the mausoleum is not specified in the ceremony, and it may not necessarily be built into a pyramid or a building on the scale of an emperor's mausoleum.

This reminded Hobert of what he had seen, heard, and read in his previous work. He still had some experience in building tombs. After all, he had often dug before.

The difficulty with the nine tombs is actually the "secret construction" aspect.

First of all, anti-divination arrangements need to be made there, and you can ask Klein for help.

The second thing is not to be noticed intuitively. After all, it is a large construction site and it is easy to be discovered.

Regarding this point, Hobert has two ideas. One is to use some abilities of the "door" path to hide the construction site in the "secret realm".

The second idea is to use the uniqueness of the "Black Emperor" approach to forcibly "tamper" and "distort" the space around the construction site to achieve a hidden effect.

At present, Hobert can do both of these things. The first idea can be achieved by using the power of the "0-71" box of the past.

But in the end, Hobert decided to use the second idea, which was safer.

Thinking about it, Hobert still couldn't sleep until late at night.

Listening to Forsi's even breathing, Hobert kissed her forehead, "twisting" the air and blanket, allowing them to continue to surround Forsi like himself.

Hobert took the opportunity to pull away and "tampered" with the position and form of the clothes, changing their position from being piled on hangers and clothes stools to being worn on Him in an instant.

Then Hobert "distorted" space and entered the spiritual world, arriving in the South Balam Principality. He shuttled freely through his own country at night, looking for a location to build a mausoleum.

Until daybreak, Hobert came to Angelou City to take a rest.

As soon as he entered the command room, he found Archibald drinking tea and waiting for him.

Hobert smiled unconsciously and said: "Dealing with the fortune teller will save a lot of time. I was about to send guards to find you, but I didn't expect that you had already divined my actions."

Archibald stood up and said: "My spirituality just suddenly told me that if I come to the command room at this time, I will encounter good things."

"Your spiritual perception is very accurate." Hobert sat down and said, "I'm going to talk to you about promotion."

Archibald first poured Hobert a cup of tea before sitting back in his original position.

Hobert asked: "Do you know the ceremony for promotion to 'ancient scholar'?"

"heard about it."

"What do you think?" Hobert took a sip of tea: "After all, it would be too troublesome to be separated from reality for at least 300 years and make yourself history."

Archibald: "I hope you can help me pray to the Creator for help."

He then explained: "First of all, for a half-Sequence 3 like me who has been doing it for more than a hundred years, the rituals of the 'ancient scholars' are not as important as those of human Extraordinaries, and can be completed in some tricky ways.

“My idea is to ask the ‘creator’ to distort and tamper with the information that corresponds to me in the spiritual world, in order to defraud my own spirituality and potion.

"After the promotion is completed and the relevant information in the spirit world is restored, I will only be in poor condition for a few days at most. I just need to spend those days cautiously."

Based on Archibald's induction and observation of the "Creator" in the previous decisive battle, he believed that the "Creator" could completely accomplish this with its current strength.

Hobert nodded slowly. It was a good experience to have a smart subordinate. There was no need to help him solve problems. He only needed to help him with his own ideas and provide help when necessary.

Then he thought about it and realized that the "creator" could do this while wearing the uniqueness.

At the same time, he thinks Archibald's idea is very good. In many cases, a person's information on mysticism almost comes from feedback from the spiritual world.

This is the theoretical basis of divination. For example, to divine a person's location is to use relevant extraordinary power to "query" relevant information about that person in the spiritual world, thereby obtaining that person's location.

But because there is no normal concept of time and space in the spiritual world, sometimes it is possible to divine the future location or past location of that person.

The higher the level of the "divineer", the stronger the ability to avoid this kind of information interference, and the more accurate the divination results will be.

Using this theory, Archibald was only over a hundred years old when he was promoted, and he was not separated from the real world. After he took the potion, the relevant information from the spiritual world could not produce correct feedback with the potion, so Promotions are likely to fail.

But if the information about him from the spiritual world is tampered with, correct feedback can be formed with the potion.

After completing the promotion, such correct feedback will immediately collapse, but Archibald was born half an "ancient scholar", just like he had already digested half of the "ancient scholar"'s potion.

This can be used to offset most of the damage caused to him by magic potions after promotion.

These thoughts instantly appeared in Hobert's mind, and he just thought about it for a moment and said: "I can help you pray for the power of the 'Creator'.

"You can make some preparations for promotion."

The implication is that He is quite confident that he can ask the "Creator" to help.

Archibald immediately stood up and thanked Hobert, who drank all the tea in his cup and stood up to leave.

Returning to the Governor's Mansion on Longwei Island, Forsi had not gotten up yet.

Hobert lay back down in his original position and rested for a while before waking Forsi up.

After making sure that the other party wanted to sleep for a while longer, Hobert went to finish breakfast alone and returned to Backlund.

He did not go back to the Earl's Mansion, but went directly to the financial director's office of "Earl's Light".

Audrey, who was wearing a simple long skirt but still showed off her good figure, had just arrived at the office and was about to hand a document to Susie when Hobert knocked on the door and came in.

Susie immediately retracted the paw that she stretched out to pick up the document, and Audrey put the document back on the desk: "Hobert, why are you here?"

Hobert smiled and said: "Despite our beautiful financial director for a while, let's go out together."

Audrey looked Hobert up and down: "Okay."

She took a step forward and took Hobert's arm, and the next second the two of them entered the spirit world.

In the office, Susie looked at the place where the person disappeared: "Going out to play again, just leave me here to work."

As he spoke, he stood up, used his paws to "take down" the document, and came to the small desk specially prepared for him by Audrey to start working.

The relevant content in this document is exactly the part of the work it has been responsible for.

If an employee comes in at this time, they will only see the golden retriever sitting there in a daze, completely ignoring the documents in front of it and what it is doing.

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In the spirit world at this time, Hobert said to Audrey: "Close your eyes, I have a surprise for you!"

"What's the surprise?" Audrey asked while obediently closing her eyes.

The next second, the two people left the spirit world, and Hobert smiled and said: "The surprise is right in front of you, open your eyes, general will be general!"

Audrey opened her eyes and found herself among flowers, surrounded by birds and flowers, and bees buzzing at work.

Because it was already winter in the Northern Continent, and Audrey didn't like going to the greenhouse, it had been a while since she'd seen so many bright flowers.

She exclaimed: "It's so beautiful!"

Hobert took her hand and came to the end of this corridor made of flowers. There was a not very high pavilion. After going up a dozen steps, Audrey's entire sight was completely occupied by the sea.

In the distance, the horizon merges with the sky, and you can see ships entering the harbor and many seabirds hunting for food.

Outside the stone pavilion is a wide beach. The waves lap slowly on the beach, making people slow down and feel the wonderful side of the sea.

"I like the design of this pavilion very much." Hobert smiled: "You can't see the sea in the garden, but when you come to this pavilion, your view suddenly becomes clearer."

Audrey sat on the stone bench, looked in the direction of the sea and said, "I feel like I can sit here all day."

Hobert sat next to her: "Then sit here all day."

In the next two or three minutes, Audrey enjoyed the inner peace. She took a deep breath and asked with a smile: "Is this the beachfront villa given to me?"

Because on the other side of the garden, there is also a three-story villa, as well as a huge front yard and some supporting bungalow buildings.

"Yes." Hobert smiled: "This is a trophy."

This is located in Puerto Lanagua, the capital of Milhe State. It took a warlord eight years to build this villa.

In the capital of another state, a large number of villas and mansions were also seized. Hobert selected two seaside villas among the spoils and gave them to Audrey and Forsi respectively.

All other buildings were confiscated and became the offices of government departments.

Audrey did not refuse: "This is the happiest gift I have ever received."

Hobert pointed to the front and gave a brief introduction to the villa. After spending some time with Audrey looking at it, he took the initiative to chat about another topic: "You should form your own work team."

At present, Forsi already has his own team, some of whose members are recruited from the territory, and some from the Traveler Research Society.

Some of the team members help her observe the implementation of some government policies, some are responsible for the finances of Longtail Island and South Colson, some are responsible for material transportation, some are responsible for agriculture and industry, and some help her manage Green Villa and other Huo... The private property that Bert had previously given to her.

They do not have any administrative power, but when Forsi encounters certain problems, she will ask the relevant people for the information she needs.

While at work, Forsi already looked like a queen.

It's just that the queen goes to work a little late.

Hobert continued: "After the engagement, you will help me take care of some affairs of the principality as my fiancée. At the same time, you will continue to be the financial director of 'Earl's Light'."

Such a request made Audrey very happy. Taking care of some affairs of the principality meant that Hobert took the initiative to bind her politically and profitably.

She doesn't care much about this herself, but it will make her parents and family members feel Hobert's sincerity.

Audrey asked curiously: "Which part of the work do you plan to put me in charge of? I'll have a direction when I build the team."

Under the influence of her aristocratic family education, she knew very well that it didn't matter if she lacked understanding in a certain field. She could consult more relevant experts and hire professionals in that field to provide her with advice.

"Diplomacy!" Hobert has already had this plan: "In the future, you will be the foreign minister of the principality. I will assign you a right-hand assistant, and you can recruit other members yourself."

In His vision, one of the two queens was domestic and the other was external.

Because Forsi doesn't have many relatives, if she is asked to help observe the domestic governance situation, there is no need to worry about the "foreign relatives" becoming more powerful.

Audrey has too many noble relatives. In order to prevent these nobles from affecting the South Balam Principality, and to avoid making Audrey too embarrassed, she was put in charge of external affairs.

Audrey was not as far-reaching as Hobert. She smiled and said, "I have imagined myself negotiating with representatives from other countries and easily guessing their true intentions."

Hobert followed Audrey's words and said, "I think so too. This job can maximize your abilities."

Then he said: "After we get engaged, you will be ready to get into work. The South Balam Principality will be negotiating with the Eternal Sun Church in the near future.

"Helen is in charge of this negotiation. When the time comes, you can go with her and get a feel for the working atmosphere."

Audrey nodded: "Okay."

She planned to ask her father, Earl Hall, what issues she should pay attention to when forming her team this afternoon.

Next, Hobert talked to Audrey about the civil war and the appearance of Extraordinaries from the Eternal Sun Church on the battlefield in Rocklear City.

Hobert guessed that this should be a test of the Eternal Sun Church's bottom line, but generally speaking, both parties have the interests of "Earl's Light" as a bond, and will cooperate around the principle of "fight without breaking."

After chatting for more than an hour, the two returned to Backlund and went back to prepare for the engagement ceremony to be held at noon.

Because this engagement ceremony was held during the war, in order to show that we share the hardships with the kingdom, everything was kept simple and was only conducted according to the normal specifications of a duke-level reception.

Hobert couldn't wait to chat with the nobles about the civil war in South Balam.