Blood of Mercury

After the top of the White Tower announced Orlando's crimes to everyone, the White Tower, which had calmed down, boiled again.

Leaking the key defense information of the White Tower and blowing up the defensive barrier of the White Tower are enough for the White Tower to execute Orlando. So far, Orlando has only been imprisoned but not executed. It is said that it is only because the top of the White Tower wants to know who revealed the defense map of Orlando's White Tower.

Although nearly four-figure wizards died in the first wave of the gods' raids, in fact, the huge amount of money that was cheated out of Orlando was what really made the wizards furious.

You know, there are not a few wizards who have handed over their entire family property to Orlando.

Because Orlando's financing plan is too tempting. There are even wizards selling real estate, borrowing, etc. to invest more money in Orlando. Now Orlando has been arrested, but the White Tower executives have not found the huge amount of money he defrauded from Orlando's temporary residence.

To say it is huge is not an exaggeration. Although theoretically, the money is less than half of Baita's total assets, it is already more than one-third. As long as Orlando can escape the White Tower, with this money, he can buy a marquis title and a large piece of land in Suze, or buy a small island in Titan, and it is more than enough to build an overseas principality.

According to preliminary estimates by the wizards, Orlando defrauded about 300,000 Elcate gold coins, which is close to 4 million in silver coins. If the nearly 20,000 pounds of silver were melted into silver ingots, the piles would be stacked together. The weight has exceeded eight tons.

Even if all this money was converted into gold coins, it would be enough to fill a house. But this huge sum of money that is enough to make everyone tempted seems to evaporate out of thin air. No matter how many spirit formation wizards have searched the entire White Tower, they can't find where the money is hidden. Neither "finding fortune", "finding lost property" or "detecting metal" yielded any useful information.

Because this huge sum of money evaporated out of thin air, Baita's economic system collapsed almost instantly. The wildly fluctuating and extremely chaotic prices, coupled with the troubled external market due to ineffective turnover, made even the White Tower wizards who usually have no shopping habits completely panicked.

No merchant will have mercy on the White Tower. On the contrary, they all fell in love with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and desperately squeezed oil and water from the white pagoda. The chaos inside the White Tower continued to intensify.

The entire White Tower gradually fell into a frenzy. Intense restlessness, anger, despair, and paranoia plagued their moods, and most wizards gradually lost their scholarly cloak. Trapped in confusion, trying to get advice and help from others.

At this time, I do not know where to start, came the saying: In fact, when Orlando was arrested. The top of the White Tower has already got all of Orlando's assets - it's just that they don't want to give it back to the wizards.

Indeed, this is a huge sum of money that anyone will be tempted by. It's the same even if you change the queen of Su Ze or the emperor of Titan.

Wizards do have the right to suspect that someone has stolen the money. At first it was just suspicion, and then I don't know when it started, when the wizards were talking about this problem. It has already begun to tell with certainty how a certain department hides this large sum of money - although most of their remarks are "I heard", "I think", "Who said that" and so on. if.

Because in the initial version of the notice, it did not indicate which department was interrogating Orlando, and the department that issued the notice did not brand its own label at the end of the notice. Therefore, in the rumors that gradually fermented, there is almost nothing to say.

Some say that the medical department melted the gold and silver and put it into a medicine bottle and hid it in the ice cellar; some said that the waste bureau hid a large amount of gold and silver in the waste; The location where Orlando hid the money was not announced, so he continued to hide the money there. Some people even said that the two adults, Scott and Anvilia, saw the situation wrong, and were going to abandon the White Tower and run away with the money, trying to rebuild the White Tower elsewhere.

Not to mention, each version has a very complete storyline. As if they had watched these people do it in the first place, there are even texts of the so-called "Orlando Confession" as evidence in several versions.

Because of such a sum of money, disputes gradually arose within the White Tower. Usually the contradictions between several factions are exposed immediately, and some more radical members have already had physical conflicts.

At such a critical moment, those great wizards are still busy repairing the great enchantment, and they can't get in touch at all.

Later, the news somehow reached the outside of the White Pagoda, which was supposed to be completely sealed. After a lot of desperate wild dogs smelled the fishy smell, they began to gather near the White Pagoda regardless of the army assembled by the gods. Try to find the legendary "rich enough to build a country".

Forget about distorting the outside of the barrier. The contradictions within the White Tower have intensified to the brink of being out of control, and only one spark is enough to cause a major turmoil.

However, as the character at the center of the event, "Orlando" is surprisingly mild.

"In that case, except for your eyes and hair. The rest of it is pretty much the same."

Esther threw away the ponytail covered in herbs and looked at someone in front of him.

Except for the length of the hair and the silver-white pupils, the rest is exactly the same as Esther.

But no one would think it was a mirror - after all, the person standing in front of Esther was much shorter than Esther. And he was sitting on the ground, his hands were tied to the cross behind him, and his ankles were bound with chains several times. In stark contrast to Esther standing in front of him.

"...Oh, yes, and your height."

"Height doesn't matter."

Roland shook his head: "In order to prevent someone from dropping the bag, no one will be able to touch me, and no witchcraft can work on me... Anyway, Scott, who is in charge of verifying his identity in the end, just let those who have seen you look like you. A good looking person can take a look from a distance and be sure that I am you. Of course, in order to achieve this goal, you need to prepare some small-sized torture instruments. In other words, I really didn't expect you to be a makeup master..."

"……What did you say?"

"I mean, I didn't expect you to have an assassin's makeup skills."

Roland had no fear of being sent to the execution ground at all, and just said with a smile: "To be honest, did you deceive people with makeup at the beginning?"

Esther just shrugged.

"I can't use that stuff myself, and people who can see through my lies won't be fooled by my half-ass makeup skills. Generally, it's for dead people. You're the first to be made up by me. People who can breathe when they’re not.”

While saying this, Esther went around to the side of the cross: "What about your hair and eyes?"

"As for the pupil color, I just close my eyes. As for the hair..."

Roland thought for a while, and then said casually: "...It really should be cut."

"Anyway, you and I both have black hair, but the length is different. Cut my hair to the same length as yours."

"It's best if you agree," Scott said, bringing together Roland's long hair that was scattered on the ground, and suddenly tugged hard, "Okay, it's done."

In an instant, Roland's long hair was neatly broken from his shoulders, as if it had been carefully cut.

"I'll take your hair. The goblin's hair should be able to sell for a good price in Su Ze..."

"Whatever, just keep it if you want. Speaking of which, your origin ability is really useful..."

Suddenly, Roland's expression became serious: "By the way, Esther—"

Almost in sync, Esther interrupted Roland with a blank face and a soft voice: "If it is to recruit me to believe in the long-sleeping mentor, it goes without saying, of course, Elucado failed to convince me. I owe you They will leave when they are paid back.”

"No, that's not what I'm talking about."

Unexpectedly, Roland shook his head and rejected Esther's guess.

"Oh?"

Immediately, Esther became interested: "What is that? Let's listen to it~www.NovelMTL.com~ You...have you heard of Yali?"

As if the situation when the two met for the first time was reversed, Roland's words made Esther startled.

"...what do you want to say?"

He naturally wouldn't think that Roland was so stupid that he forgot that he was the one who pulled Roland into Yali.

Rather, Roland still remembered that the fact that he had made a name for himself in Yali was beyond Esther's expectations.

"Just a little bit of cliché about 'I have a dream.'"

Roland said softly to the shadow under him: "Alukado too, come out and listen together."

After about ten seconds, when Elucado emerged from Roland's shadow, Roland's voice sounded in the basement, which was shaking with dim candlelight: "The beginning of the matter is about to start from here..." (Unfinished to be continued.)