before he was crowned king

Sean packed the small bowls on the table into wooden boxes, and Mars leaned back on the soft cushion, flipping through an untitled file, which contained detailed information on the ministers at all levels in the capital. Age, experience, family background, and even hobbies will be recorded one by one.The two of them acted as if nothing had happened before.

"Are you ready? Next week's state meeting." Sean broke the silence.

"There are more problems than imagined." Mars said, "The treasury of the empire is not as full as imagined, Her Majesty's domestic policy is lax, the taxes of various fiefdoms have not been fully collected for several years, and there are various other problems. In terms of expenses, more and more money has been spent on the war army in recent years, and the gold coins spent are far from keeping up with the income. If this continues, there will be a big problem with the internal turnover of the empire."

"Isn't the empire going to relax its crackdown on the sub-orcs?" Sean asked, "even though they've tightened up in a corner."

"The hatred between the two races is difficult to resolve. You know, my sister is a famous radical." Mars said lightly, "As long as there are sub-orcs trying to resist, she will use force Solve them. My mother is very supportive of her decision, because the conflict between the sub-orcs and humans outside the gray wall is far more intense than the people in the capital. Perhaps it has something to do with the matter in Nexco Village, someone leaked the news and aroused the anger of the sub-orcs."

"The men who killed Baron Tolland?"

"I don't know." Mars shook his head, "There is little understanding of the villain organization of the sub-orcs in the capital. The nobles have a contemptuous attitude towards these people and don't take them seriously at all. As for the mother, she has full authority to leave these matters to Tisiphon is in charge."

"So the biggest expense can't be cut off." Sean quickly came to a conclusion calmly.

"That's right." Mars sighed, "All in all, the empire is in great need of money now, which is why the royal family will entertain the envoys from the East, and my mother also hopes to reach a certain business contract with them."

Sean nodded, just as he thought, the pretentious Saint Via Empire was willing to entertain the remote oriental envoys, and there must be a deep meaning behind this move.

"His Royal Highness Mars, His Royal Highness Mars." A man's voice came from outside the window.

Mars frowned, opened the window at hand, and looked downstairs. The carriage with the family emblem of "Frederick" in gold was parked under the camphor tree outside the door, and the old-fashioned gentleman's top hat stuck out of the door. The cane is shining brightly in the sun.

"My lord duke." Mars stared at the tall and tall man, who just happened to stop and raised his head to look at him.

"Your Highness, is anyone here?" Sean asked.

"Well, a distinguished guest." Mars pressed his aching temple and closed the window, "I may have to leave for a while."

Sean stayed alone in the silent room, and Mars left with a serious face, which made him a little curious about the mysterious guest who came to visit, but now he couldn't understand the situation outside.

Since he was going to meet a distinguished guest, it meant that Mars couldn't come back in a short time.Sean walked to the desk expressionlessly, picked up the ministerial file left on the table, and flipped through the contents one by one.

"Minister of Finance, Reid Tax Officer..." Sean shifted his eyes along the yellowed leather paper, and he quickly read each line of text recorded on it, and stored the files in his mind by category. , "Is even the data of the Duke level included?"

"Oscar Frederick..." The pages of the book stopped turning, and Sean's eyes drooped slightly. The page that should have recorded "Duke Oscar" was blank except for a cursive name.

Slender fingers rubbed the blank page, Sean lifted the file, facing the front and back pages together to the sunlight outside the window, the page that recorded the information of "Duke Oscar" was obviously more transparent.

"Did the notes be forcibly erased by drugs? Did you want to hide something?" Sean looked at the only blank page, lost in thought.

With a bang, the door of the room was pushed open without warning.

Sean turned his head, and a handsome man dressed as a housekeeper walked in with a smile.

"Butler Lin," Sean looked at the man and said calmly, "So it was Duke Oscar who met His Highness?"

"Master Sean, good day" Lin Lin bowed and saluted with a respectful attitude.

"Good day, but please don't call me that. You can just call me by my name. After all, I'm just a commoner student now." Sean picked up the file on the table again and continued to flip through it, without shy away from the person in front of him, " What are you doing here alone?"

"That's right, Duke Oscar wants to convey something to you." Lin Lin suddenly paused, "No, it should be said that the Lord God has something to convey to you."

"God Lord?" Sean stopped flipping through.

"That lord's exact words." Lin Lin pressed her throat, and let out a solemn and angry voice: "'Shameful blasphemer, from now on, I will withdraw my protection from you.'"

"He went to find Duke Oscar? When?" Sean raised his eyelids, and his eyes did not leave the file in front of him.

"When I was taking a bath for Duke Oscar...or an hour ago." Lin Lin thought for a while and replied, "The Lord God suddenly appeared."

"An hour ago?" Sean sighed softly, "So, did Duke Oscar come here specially to convey his oracle?"

"It can be said this way. Because the Lord God behaved very well..." Lin Lin pursed her lower lip, paused before saying something else, "If you were there, you probably understood that the situation at that time should be called urgent."

"I understand." Sean returned the file in his hand to its original place, "Reassure Duke Oscar, I will take care of this matter."

Lin Lin looked at the young man in front of him without any emotional fluctuations, and admired the calmness of the other party in his heart.It was as if what greeted him was not the wrath of the gods, but the tantrum of an ignorant child.The relationship between the young man and the Almighty has always been a little weird. Lin Lin couldn't tell whether this relationship was good or bad. He only cared about whether the young man could calm the Almighty's anger.

"Since you already know about this, then I will step back first." After explaining everything clearly, Lin Lin turned around and prepared to leave. After all, he knew very well that the Duke no longer wanted to sit silently in another room to delay time.

"Wait a minute." Sean stepped forward and stopped Lin Lin. He took out two keys out of nowhere, "It just so happens that I have something that I would like to ask Duke Oscar to look at."

"That's what he said." Lin Lin recounted the conversation between himself and Sean.

At dusk, he followed Duke Oscar to stand in front of the old Rose Pavilion.The cobwebs on the door frame have not been treated, and under the dim natural light, they look dilapidated like a dusty devil's lair.

Duke Oscar frowned. He raised his hand and wiped the door, his fingertips were covered with thick dust.It was hard for him to believe that their supreme god and that human had been living in such a bad environment.

"You two... who are you looking for?" Stephen, who came out to look for food in his pajamas, was startled by the two figures in the corridor.

"Excuse me, do you know where Sean Miller's room is?" Lin Lin asked the frightened person with a smile.

"Who are you? What are you doing?" Stephen rolled his eyes.

"We are his friends," Lin Lin shook the key in his hand, "Come help him get something."

"I'm the senior of his alchemy department, why have I never...have seen you before?" Stephen's voice became smaller and smaller, looking at the cold and ruthless face in front of him, he knew at a glance that the other party was a ruthless character not to be messed with.

He couldn't help shrinking his neck, and said embarrassingly, "Of course, I don't know Sean well, it's normal that I don't recognize all his friends."

"Where is his room?"

"The innermost room on the third floor." Stephen said quickly.

"Thank you for your guidance." Lin Lin showed a gentle expression towards Stephen, calming his emotions, while Duke Oscar was already walking up the stairs with a silver cane.

"It should be this room." Lin Lin took out two keys from his breast pocket, and used one of them to open the door in front of him.

The space in the room is smaller than imagined, not even as big as the bathroom in the mirror palace.Duke Oscar casually opened the wardrobe by the door, and there were only a handful of ready-made clothes in it, and two of them were replacement uniforms for the Academy of Magic.

"Where is what he said?" Duke Oscar looked away and asked calmly.

"In the bottom drawer under the table case." Lin Lin walked to the table case by the window, and he was surprised to find that there was a brass lock on every drawer in front of him.

"What's the use of such a trick." Duke Oscar snapped his fingers lightly, and all the brass locks fell to the ground.

"My lord, is this okay?" Lin Lin asked a little worried.

"It's okay, he has lost the protection of the God Lord now." Duke Oscar ordered with a deadpan expression, "Open all the drawers."

Lin Lin knelt down and opened the drawers under the desk one by one.All drawers are empty except the bottom one.

"Cunning human being." Duke Oscar narrowed his eyes slightly, watching the objects presented to him by Lin Lin, "It seems that he has already arranged everything to finish."

It was a wax-sealed white envelope and two golden queen coins.

Sean slowly opened his eyes.Although it was late at night, he didn't feel sleepy.Because of the request of His Highness Mars, he has been lying on this bed almost all the time these days.

He turned his head, the window was wide open, and a figure stood there.

If it were an ordinary person who suddenly found that there was an extra person in his room in the middle of the night, he might not be able to help but scream in horror.Sean will not panic, he has long been used to this existence that will suddenly appear and then disappear, although sometimes he will calmly think about whether the other party is the hallucination of his schizophrenia.

"Helaire."

"Shut up, you don't have the right to call my name now." The man standing in front of the window said fiercely.

"Then what should I call you from now on?" Sean asked softly.

The man turned his head, and the cold moonlight slanted on his face. Sean finally saw his expression clearly at this time. Those rose-colored pupils flashed with mixed emotions, including ridicule, anger, and other things. What.

"Heh, there's no need to address you, because today will be the penultimate time we meet." The man's mouth curled into a line.

"The penultimate time? When was the last time?"

"Of course it was when you died tragically." The man said coldly, "I will show up and take your body directly."

"It sounds like you don't want to see me." Sean asked slowly, "If this is the case, why is there a penultimate meeting today?"

"It was a mistake." The man said through gritted teeth.

"This is not a mistake. If you don't want to show up, then I will never see you." Sean pierced the other party's lie with a calm voice like the tip of a needle, "Helaire, you want me to see you in your heart."

"It's ridiculous." Herrera turned her head angrily, "Human, you're the one who pretended to be asleep and tried to trick me into showing up!"

"I admit, I deceived you." Sean nodded and admitted generously, "But if I want to deceive you, it must be based on your willingness to take the bait. So this can only show that you want to see me."

Helaier was at a loss for words for a moment, and it took a long time before he spit out the word "sophistry".

"You dare not admit that you wish to meet me," Sheen said. "Why?"

"Why should I admit it!" Something hot like magma flickered in Helaier's eyes, "Arrogant and rude human beings, I warn you not to speculate on my thoughts, or I will make you pay the price."

"Can't you answer it?" Sean seemed to have not heard the other party's threat, "Then change to a question that you can answer. Why are you acting so angry? Can you tell me the reason?"

"Reason?" Herrell laughed angrily, and walked towards Sean step by step, "Of course it's because of your blasphemy and betrayal, didn't Oscar tell you clearly?"

"I will no longer protect you, you have been abandoned by me, human being." A cruel smile appeared on the corner of Herrell's mouth.

"Are you so gentle with so-called blasphemers?"

"What?" Herrell frowned.

"I thought that for such a rude person, you should end his life directly, or let him live in pain for the rest of his life." Sean analyzed calmly, "This is in line with your character."

Herrell was stunned, he suddenly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with him.

"Yes, human, you reminded me." Herrell regained his ferocity and said stiffly, "The left and right are ignoring the contract. I really should... kill you directly."

"No, you won't kill me." Sean raised his hand and brushed the shattered hair on the side of the man's face behind his ears, and said with a sigh, "Because what you want is to monopolize me, Herrell."

"What are you talking about?" Herrell held that hand instead, her voice trembling imperceptibly.

"What exactly do you want? You should be clear. After becoming a demon, you understand yourself better than me." Sean whispered, "If you think about it carefully, you will easily find that I am already It’s such an important existence.”