Chapter 70: Soul Bone Trouble (I)
When Zhou Qing and others left the Notting Guild, it was already evening.
Romantina said goodbye to Zhou Qing, Tang San and Xiao Wu, and headed towards the wealthy residential area in the center of Notting City.
"Tina, are you back?"
The deputy lord of Notting City, Romanak, came forward to greet him.
"Father, you?"
Romantina felt a little strange. In the past, her father was very busy and would usually come home in the early hours of the morning, but he would never come to greet her.
"I heard that you helped someone hunt a soul beast this time and got a soul bone?" Romanyak said anxiously, "Take it out quickly, we can't have this kind of thing!"
Soul bones are the most precious treasure in the world of soul masters.
Anyone who possesses a soul bone will not tell others, for fear that others will covet it.
If her daughter had a soul bone and no one knew about it, Romantina would be very happy, but this matter has been exposed!
The Lord of Falling Star City, Baron Darles, had already visited him and inadvertently revealed that Romantina had obtained a soul bone.
Romanak had secretly inquired about who Darles was and knew it very well. He was originally a nobleman in Xingluo City who was gradually declining. After the eldest prince of Xingluo Empire was born, he wanted to support him, but his family was in decline and he couldn't even meet the eldest prince...
The second prince did not have the innate martial soul fusion sensitivity with the children of the Zhu family, so he automatically withdrew from the candidate for the throne.
After the third prince was born, he planned to invest in the third prince. However, because the competition for the royal family in the Xingluo Empire was too cruel, the supporters around the six-year-old eldest prince had begun to secretly exclude the nobles who supported the third prince.
The competition for the throne of the Xing Luo Empire is cruel but also (relatively) fair. Before the final winner emerges, nothing must happen to the prince.
But for the ministers and nobles of the Xing Luo Empire, it is also important to take sides in advance, otherwise it will be too late to support the next crown prince of the Xing Luo Empire after he is selected.
Perhaps the future prince will not say anything openly, and may even try his best to appease those ministers and nobles who once did not support him, but he will never completely trust them in private, and may even suppress them in secret.
Six years ago, Dales was ostracized by the nobles who supported the eldest prince. He had to use his connections to come to this small town on the border of Tiandou and Xingluo to be the mayor of the town in order to avoid the limelight.
But Romanak knew that Darles was very ambitious. The appearance of the soul bone would give him a reason to cause chaos in Notting City, and then he could find a way to intervene.
What exactly is the competition like in the Xingluo Empire?
Romanak didn't know, but he was sure that Darles must also want to take this opportunity to find a reason for the Star Luo Empire to attack the Tiandou Empire.
Contradictions and conflicts are accumulated through repeated collisions!
If it succeeds, it doesn't matter whether he supports the eldest prince or the third prince of the Xing Luo Empire in the future, because he has already proved his worth.
For this kind of fence-sitter who initially supports the eldest prince and then supports the third prince, it is not easy to be liquidated in the end, and he can even get along well...
"Dales!"
Romantina gritted her teeth secretly. She thought the other party had aristocratic demeanor, but she didn't expect him to think so far. He was so arrogant that he wanted to find a reason for the Xingluo Empire to attack the Tiandou Empire!
Really abominable!
Although Notting City, Falling Star City and the large area on the edge are mountainous and have many rivers and are not strategic locations, if Darles really does this, the peace and tranquility of Notting City and the surrounding villages will definitely be broken.
[I should have used the Soul Guide Zhuge Divine Crossbow to shoot them to death! ]
Romantina regretted it.
This was the first time she realized the cruelty of the world. In the past, she had a pleasant life in the Notting Guild, carrying out missions with other adventurers and getting paid. She didn't expect that because of this mission - because Zhou Qing was not familiar with her at the beginning and didn't want to show her soul guide... This was understandable, but the problem of soul bone exposure would have such a big impact!
"It's no use talking about him now." Romanyak said anxiously, "Take out the soul bone. We will immediately hold an impromptu auction and sell it."
This was Romanyak's response plan. With Darius's insidiousness, Romanyak was sure that the other party would spread the news in secret: Romantina, the daughter of the deputy mayor of Notting City, possessed a soul bone!
Although it is only a hundred-year soul bone, once it is exposed, Romanyak will not be able to protect his daughter.
Therefore, the best solution is to sell the soul bones.
He could see that Romanyak also wanted that soul bone, so he could consider it as spending money to avoid disaster.
“You haven’t absorbed it yet, have you?” Seeing Romantina remained silent, Romanyak’s heart sank. He sighed and said, “Then I’ll arrange for someone to take you out of the city tonight.”
If it has been absorbed...
Then the only thing Romanak could do for his daughter was to send her out of the city, hide her identity, stay out of the spotlight, and keep the trouble away from Nottingham.
Although he was extremely helpless, he was the deputy mayor of Notting City, and his primary concern was the stability of Notting City. As for his daughter, he could only pray silently in his heart that she would be able to survive tenaciously in the future - [Dales, I will never coexist with you! ]
"No, but the soul bone is not in my hands." Romantina shook her head.
"What?!" Romanyak yelled, "That's a soul bone, and you gave it to those kids?"
Romanak naturally sent people to investigate the identities of Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, and easily obtained information from the Academic Affairs Office of Notting College.
However, he never expected that his silly daughter would not even want soul bones.
"The Adventurer's Guild has a rule that once you've accepted a mission, everything except the remuneration belongs to the employer." Romantina said in a loud voice.
"You... I..." Romanak's fingers trembled, and finally turned into a long sigh, and said: "You are just too upright."
"Father, isn't this what you taught me since I was a child?" Romantina asked in confusion.
"Oh, my bad... Forget it, let's go find him. Before the news spreads, we will buy the soul bones from him and then auction them... I hope he hasn't absorbed them, otherwise we will have to cut off his limbs." Romanyak knew the potential for cultivation of Xiantian full soul power, but after all, he came from the small village of Holy Soul Village and had no background or power. He had already found this out.
If the other party is from a sect or family, it will be easier to deal with. Just tell Darles about this matter. I believe he will not dare to take advantage of the situation.
But it's a pity——
No.
For the stability of Nottingham City, he had no choice but to be sacrificed.
Big deal...
He will keep him at home and take good care of him.
"That's a head soul bone." Romantina said in a low voice.
Romanak: “…”
He also found out that Zhou Qing was an orphan, but that was a head soul bone... Wouldn't this force him to kill innocent people?
If it was the soul bones of the limbs, if they were chopped off, finding a better doctor, there was a chance that the life could be saved, and he could also compensate afterwards...
He was almost convincing his conscience, but he didn't expect that it was actually a head soul bone!
How lucky can I be?
Isn't this torturing the justice in his heart?
"Zhou Qing probably didn't absorb it. He said he wanted to study soul bones." Romantina added.
"That's good."
Romanak's heart had gone through ups and downs, but he finally let it go. However, he didn't believe that Zhou Qing could figure out anything. He just wanted to get the soul bone as soon as possible, and then auction it off to divert the storm...
(End of this chapter)
