Compared to the dramatic return of the Dragon King on my sister’s side, with her mouth all twitching, Lind here was much calmer.
As for the cooperation with the Royal Capital, no one from the Northern Border had any objections. After all, for the Northern Border, it was just a matter of earning more or earning less. The Lord Governor must have his reasons for acting this way.
However, for some reason, after talking with the Queen, the Lord Governor seemed a bit gloomy. It wasn’t that he was in a bad mood, but he appeared to be very conflicted.
At this moment, Lena had already gone to finalize the last adjustments for Obelisk 2.0 with Lysha, while Lind was writing and sketching on paper in the mansion.
“Ever since you came back, you’ve been sighing. What’s going on?”
Tia curiously watched Lind while eating chips from this world.
“Well, these are definitely much better than those hard biscuits. Remember to have the kitchen make more next time.”
Looking at this elven princess who was always mooching food from his office, Lind said with annoyance, “Eating too much of this will make you gain weight.”
But Tia replied nonchalantly, “It’s fine. Our elven metabolism is different from yours humans. Gaining weight doesn’t show.”
It was evident that Tia had done some homework on this issue, even having an understanding of the concept of metabolism.
Seeing Tia lounging on the couch, Lind sighed, “There’s been a small twist, and we need to reevaluate our relationship with the Royal Capital. The strategies we set earlier need to be modified.”
“What small twist? What happened in the Royal Capital?”
While there were elves in the Royal Capital, Tia really didn’t know what could have happened to cause such a big change in Lind’s attitude.
In front of Lilith, Lind seemed to transform back into that resolute Northern Border Governor, with no trace of a soft heart.
“There’s just someone new on the side of the Royal Capital. I don’t know if that’s good or bad.”
Seeing that Lind didn’t want to elaborate, Tia obediently shrank back into the couch.
Once Lind had finished rearranging plans, he opened a letter from An Zhu.
In the letter, Alberto was still pulling strings, stating that Lind’s asking price for the Obelisk was indeed too high, and that An Zhu didn’t allow for credit, so Alberto hoped Lind could sell some production equipment first, and An Zhu would use magic stones for production.
Alberto actually understood that the Obelisk was a central functional device; although it had many uses, as far as energy supplies, it could be solved with simple methods, honestly using magic stones for functionality.
As for compatibility issues, Alberto was confident he could resolve them later by backtracking from the production equipment.
This was something that the Royal Capital of Cape simply could not achieve; after all, the magic association there had become half a joke, while An Zhu’s professionals were on a completely different level academically.
Considering this request, Lind pondered for a moment and then proposed some new conditions: besides money, he also needed a training framework from An Zhu’s professionals.
Lind needed a reference.
And to deduce the Obelisk from the production equipment was too far-fetched. If the other side truly had such talents, Lind would accept it.
This was originally a very normal exchange, but in the end, Alberto mentioned the Queen of Cape in the last part of his letter.
This was already a routine, but this time it made Lind feel a bit heated.
Alberto wrote in the letter that he still hadn’t married a proper wife to leave room for the woman he truly loved in the future. As for the Queen of Cape, if she wanted the position of the main wife, she had to keep working hard, at least improve her height.
Not only did he express his attitude, hinting that the Queen of Cape was unworthy of the King of An Zhu, even the title of Queen was too much for her, but he also mocked the Queen of Cape’s height. Alberto’s tone in the letter was smug; wouldn’t that make those people from Cape blush?
Whether those from Cape blushed or not, Lind felt flushed. Even though he often complained about his sister not being able to get married, such words could only come from Lind himself. Who did this blonde think he was to criticize his own sister for not being suitable as the main wife?
He might not even be worthy in his eyes.
Although he quickly calmed down, during the reply he was writing to Alberto, Lind couldn’t help but start mocking him, and he was scolded in return by Lilith.
After finishing the letter, Lind handed it to Lucanus and asked, “What’s the situation at the Royal Capital?”
There really were quite a few traps in the treaty, many of which were aimed at allowing bards to enter the Royal Capital without hindrance.
And Lucanus indeed succeeded. Now, without even speaking of news inside the Palace, the outer districts were thoroughly infiltrated.
“The response from the nobles and the public over there is quite enthusiastic. The reputation of the Queen of Cape has reached an unprecedented height, even surpassing the previous trend of the Augustus family.”
Upon hearing Lucanus’s response, Lind frowned. How could the effect be better than he had imagined? Wouldn’t this provoke the Augustus family too much?
It shouldn’t, although Lilith’s reputation was very high, the Augustus family shouldn’t be that impulsive, after all, they had no strength to counter now. As long as the attitudes at the southwestern border and the Northern Border maintained high pressure, they wouldn’t dare to act rashly.
Unless one day the Augustus family planned to cooperate with An Zhu or other forces, then Lind would unhesitatingly let Lilith flee to the Northern Border.
But as things stood, it seemed the Augustus family hadn’t thought of that yet. After all, in their eyes, while Lilith was immensely powerful, the Lind family hadn’t risen because of that, but rather had remained very low-key. Lilith had neither a lover nor remarried, and had no offspring. No matter how high she jumped now, ultimately the kingdom would still return to the Augustus’s hands.
Although it was still not completely secure, with the power Lind granted Lilith, self-preservation should be no problem. If one already had the power to control a large portion of nobility but couldn’t even protect themselves, that would indeed be a bit too incompetent, as long as his sister didn’t get carried away…
Just as Lind was contemplating the situation in the Royal Capital for Lilith, Lucanus suddenly used a secret language only Lind could hear to say, “My King, I don’t care about your origins, nor do I care from which era you come. Undoubtedly, you are also human. I hope you do not forget our agreement to restore the glory of the Old Empire.”
Although he didn’t know when he made this agreement with Lucanus, Lind still replied, “Of course, even if you hadn’t mentioned it, I would do so, just as we have done all along.”
At that time, only Lind and Lilith were present. Lind had actually asked Lucanus to shadow him to prevent unforeseen events. Perhaps the dialogue between the siblings leaked some information, combined with Lind’s subsequent policies for the Royal Capital, led Lucanus to have some speculations.
Lind didn’t mind this; after having been together for so long, Lind had a rough understanding of what kind of person Lucanus was. It was more accurate to say he was loyal to the vision of the old empire in his mind rather than loyal to Lind. As long as Lind kept moving forward, Lucanus would never betray him.
Seeing Lind say this, Lucanus realized that everyone had secrets. He had not fully revealed himself to his king, so what right did he have to test the other party? Once he understood this, Lucanus continued to retreat into the shadows.
Not long after at the An Zhu Royal Palace, Alberto was reading the letter sent from Cape Northern Border with a perplexed expression, constantly flipping through the copies of the letters he had previously sent to the Northern Border Governor of Cape.
Where exactly did he offend the other party? Alberto couldn’t figure it out.
