Soul of Burning Steel

"interesting."

Joshua's eyes swept up and down, and after reading the letter from Alfonso, his low voice echoed in the study. The soldier found that the letter sent by the merchant had nothing to do with the auction, but it did not. It's important...At least, let him know some things that are happening in the imperial capital today.

Something about his family business.

"Someone targeted me? It's really interesting."

After watching it a second time, leaning back, Joshua sat in a chair with comfortable leather cushions, lost in thought.

As we all know, whether it is a commoner or aristocrat, a merchant or a craftsman, for most people in this world, money is always the top priority, and the Radcliffe family where Joshua belongs is no exception.

For this border military family rooted in the Northland, due to the need to maintain an army of more than two thousand people and maintain the huge Black Forest fortress defense line all year round, the tax revenue of the territory is completely beyond its means, even if it is a hypothetical checkpoint. It is meaningless for adventurers and caravans to levy tolls. What really allows the entire territory to function normally is the ore industry of the Radcliffe family that spreads throughout the central and northern parts of the empire.

Due to the cooperation with the rune dwarves of the Northland to mine the precious mineral veins in the Greater Aas Mountains, the refined ore of the Radcliffe family has always been very good in quality and the amount is not small, and has always been the first choice of major weapons and builders. The goal is basically that you can sell as much as you have. Coupled with the empire’s intentional or unintentional support, the Radcliffe family has even become one of the main raw material suppliers for the empire’s five major army-standard weapons, Joshua It is for this reason that once you enter the Black Crow Legion, you will be the deputy commander.

With these stable sales channels, at least there is no need to worry about the sudden decline of the family, and you can even look forward to a brighter future-while Joshua’s father was still alive, the old earl was no longer satisfied with the meager profit of selling raw materials. Is planning to enter the finished weapons industry.

With the entire Northland Rune dwarves as a technical backing, and with excellent volcanic veins, the Radcliffe family definitely has this ability to forge excellent swords and armors-with swords under the orders of the old earl The hand of the article, the ore shops all over the empire suddenly began to sell weapons and armor part-time.

And this matter will naturally infringe on the interests of other people, especially the original weapon merchants.

This is the source of targeting.

"Think about it carefully. The Wilson family's attempt to support my cheap uncle on stage seems to be precisely for this reason."

Whispering to himself, Joshua shook his head: "Indeed, the raw material merchants plan to produce and sell themselves. I don't know how many enemies will be erected. It is no wonder that this group of people intends to take advantage of the situation in Moldavia. When it's stable, I embezzled my property."

This is what Alfonso, who is in the imperial capital, said in the letter sent to Joshua-probably because of the war with the orcs, a large number of shopkeepers assigned by the family were not optimistic about Joshua before crossing. Being able to survive this battle, Dan Liya had successfully won the favor of many people before returning to the North to fight for the title.

Therefore, after Joshua easily killed his cheap uncle and formally inherited the title of earl, those shopkeepers who had already taken refuge in Danlia were afraid of revenge, and immediately sold the shop to a competitor of the Radcliffe family. And the other party naturally took over without hesitation.

In addition, not long after Joshua inherited the title, he went to Moldova to assist the Scarante family and did not discover this in time. Now there are only two of the Radcliffe family’s five stores in the Imperial Capital. Fortunately, other places are fortunate. There has not been such a large-scale resale incident. Generally speaking, the loss is not large, but it is a major blow to reputation.

"Short-sighted and ignorant. It is not a big deal to seek refuge in Danlia. In the final analysis, I am still serving the family. I am not a devil. If I am willing to continue to work hard, the ghost will replace an experienced and well-connected shopkeeper for this kind of thing. "

Shaking his head, looking at the letter, Joshua narrowed his eyes slightly, and he sneered: "As for now...this is betrayal."

And the betrayer never ends well.

The soldier stood up from the chair. He picked up the pen and jotted a few notes in a notebook: "It's time to find some time and go to the Imperial Capital to have a look... By the way, let me see which families dare to oppose me. "

After memorizing the names of several families who dared to blatantly purchase their own family properties, and writing them in a notebook, Joshua looked at the last paragraph of Alfonso's letter.

[...Therefore, I hope that Lord Earl will grant me the corresponding rights to preside over your property in the Imperial Capital. I am confident to stabilize the situation and even regain the two shops that have been transferred.

In order to gain your trust, I would like to testify to the glory of the surname Carlos, and lead the whole family to swear allegiance to the Radcliffe family.

Yours faithfully, Alfonso Carlos. 】

"This guy will really seize the opportunity. You must know that the owner who can manage a store in a place like the Imperial Capital must be cultivated from an early age, or even close relatives with blood ties... an outsider, a local caravan. The president of, he intends to rely on a few words to win an industry in a place like the imperial capital."

The image of the middle-aged man with a scar on his throat appeared in his mind, and a smile appeared on Joshua’s face: "Although it is clear that I do need someone who understands business at this time to stabilize the situation, I also deliberately pledged allegiance to this kind of Things are guaranteed, but I like this straightforwardness."

Warriors don’t hate this simple and direct approach. It’s human nature to want to climb up. A person must have desire in his heart to fight hard. Since Alfonso is optimistic about himself and is willing to get on his own boat, then Why not give him a chance? He is willing to buy strange things for himself, and he will naturally do his best to work for the fighters.

"call……"

Suddenly, a gentle breathing sound came from one side of the study.

The soldier turned his head and looked to the rear. As expected, the silver-haired girl lay on her side on the sofa by the wall and fell asleep again.

Stepping closer, Joshua looked down. Hotaru lay sideways on the animal skin sofa, her eyes closed tightly, her long eyelashes quivered with her breathing, Miss Shenji breathed smoothly, her expression on her face was soothing and she looked asleep. It's very comfortable.

"...If you want to rest, you should go to the room."

Shaking his head and sighing, Joshua didn't know what to do. He smiled bitterly, "I don't need to fight now. What are you doing next to me? It would be great to have a good sleep."

Without intending to disturb the rest of his weapon, Joshua put away the letters in his hand, and sat back in the seat in front of the desk, continuing to deal with the remaining letters.

Firefly, who was sleeping, frowned slightly.

She is dreaming.

——A weird nightmare.

The sky is gloomy, the sun disappears without a trace, and the earth, which is dim due to the cloud cover, spreads towards the end of the world, and the almost extinguished red dim light forms a small dot on it, flashing on the edge of the sky .

When Ying opened her eyes in her dream, she saw this scene.

Below him, there is a deadly earth, the black soil exudes a rancid smell, and there is no vitality in it.

Above the sky, a twisted and weird cloud covering the sky, it slowly changes its shape, making the patterns it transforms into more and more weird~www.novelmtl.com~ exuding some kind of evil power.

The silver-haired girl in the dream looked at everything around her blankly.

In this dream, Hotaru's perspective is in the air, and she can clearly see the whole surroundings-from the end of the sky to the other side of the earth, whether it is mountains, hills, woods, rivers or the ruins of the city, they are all covered in dense gray The mist is shrouded in fog, which is so thick that people cannot breathe, mixed with black dust, gradually enveloping everything on the earth with a turbid crystal shell like a stone, while the twisted cloud layer drops viscous rain, which will The power of chaos spread to the whole world.

The power of chaos envelops the entire world, making everything tend to be in absolute chaos.

The water no longer flows, the wind no longer blows, the trees no longer grow, the sun and moon no longer rise and fall...

——Naturally, the fire will no longer burn.

The fire in this world has been extinguished... (to be continued)). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote, your support is my greatest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to read. )