Fatty Ederick, Old Baker, and Explosive Head Tyre could be said to be the three most important people in the entire branch sect.
Ederick ran a transportation kingdom in Area 3 on the surface. He had a monopoly on all freight, shipping, air, and other businesses in the area. Even the controlled products of the Federation often appeared on Ederick's shipping list. In Ederick's hands, more than a hundred thousand people were serving his kingdom, from Federation dignitaries to greasy workers. It was these people of all shapes and sizes that formed this huge and tight transportation kingdom.
"There's no place where my hand can't reach."
This was a phrase that Ederick often said. He was like the uncrowned king of District 3, and he was also the most powerful district in Bescot on the surface. Of course, the reason why Ederick was able to sit in his current position and survive on this path of power and profit was because of Horn's support.
In the fifty years since Ederick's transportation kingdom had risen to stability, the main family of Bescot had invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this area. This was a long war that had lasted for two generations, and as a result, Horn and Ederick had formed a deep friendship. It was an inseparable and complex emotion that was entangled by bloodline, friendship, and interest.
The old man, Baker, was Horn's uncle, one of the older people in the entire Council of Elders. His territory was in District 8, and in the dark world of that district, the name Butcher Baker could shut up a crying child immediately. Baker was one of the biggest drug suppliers in that district. The path he had walked could only be described as bloody. It was a true bloody path. Every inch of the ground on Baker's path was filled with blood and meat mud!
Baker's nickname was not for nothing, and the competition in the drug industry would only be more intense than Ederick's. Bescot's former patriarch, Chalos, was unwilling to touch the drug business, so he did not have much support for Baker. Baker's borrowing and resources from the main family were limited, but he managed to carve out a territory of his own in District 8.
Of course, such a person had nothing to do with honesty. Therefore, during the turbulent days when Horn took over the family, Baker even crazily wanted to assassinate the heir of the main family. After that, they were killed by Horn and the newly established Secret Warriors. Beck's three sons all died at the hands of the Secret Warriors. Even Beck himself had his front teeth knocked out by Horn.
After the mad dog was chased away, it obediently chose to submit. Horn also had to admit that with Beck around, some things were much easier to deal with.
The last one was Tyre. His property was not fixed in a district on the surface like the first two elders. Tyre's businesses covered almost half of the 22 districts on the surface. His business covered a wide range of areas, including weapons manufacturing, oil refining, mining, selling dangerous species, casinos, restaurants, and so on. In terms of the depth of the profession, he was far inferior to the other two elders, but in terms of breadth, he was far superior to them.
This brought Tyre a huge and important benefit, which was intelligence. It was no exaggeration to say that Tyre was Bescot's eyes and ears on the surface. Through him, Bescot could accurately understand all kinds of information on the surface.
Of the three of them, Ederick and Horn had the deepest friendship, Baker hated him to the bone, and Tyre was neutral. The other elders of the Council of Elders also chose to live in one of the three of them. They formed a unified, yet clearly aligned power structure.
It could be imagined that it was not easy to control the complex and powerful forces of the side clans. Among them, it was not enough to rely on the status of the main family and the side sects. The most important thing was strength!
The so-called strength included the flourishing bloodline of the main family, the endless talents, the enormous family army, and the top experts who could suppress one side. Only with these powers could the main family firmly suppress the side sects. Just like when Horn took over the family, there were objections everywhere. Horn simply abandoned the chaotic side sects and led his army into the chaotic battlefield. When he attacked the Blade Demon's planet and finally brought back the level of Demon General Habik, all the voices of opposition disappeared overnight. This was the shocking effect of power.
Even after so many years, even if there was no lack of elders like Baker who regarded Horn as an enemy in the other sects. However, after so many years, no one dared to jump out and oppose Horn. They could only occasionally make things difficult for him from the level of the family rules.
Horn's principle towards the other sects was also very simple. As long as he could control Ederick, Baker, and Tyre, the other sects would not have any disloyalty. This was his way of controlling them.
Simple and direct.
After the three most important elders arrived, the other elders also arrived one after another. Walking into the conference hall, it was inevitable that there would be a round of greetings. So it wasn't until half an hour after Tai that Horn announced the start of the meeting. According to the previous process, the first step was for the elders of the various sects to report on the family business they had been in charge of in the past five years, as well as the profit data and so on.
This year was no exception, so it started with Ederick. The fat man moved his butt, but did not get straight to the point. Instead, he said, "Everyone, I've discovered something interesting recently."
The Council of Elders lasted for a long time, and occasionally, an elder would talk about something unrelated at the meeting, but no one would stop him. Therefore, Horn did not interrupt Fatty and only looked at him with a smile. Ederick let himself lean forward, his upper body almost pressing on the table. Even with the sturdiness of the Lightning Rock, the stone table creaked under the weight of the fatty's tonnage.
"Recently, in my controlled goods transportation channel, I discovered that one of the orders was actually transporting the Origin Jade. The Origin Jade of the Black Twilight King Snake! "Fatty smiled.
Baker revealed a row of yellow teeth and sneered, "Rank ten dangerous species, although rare, it's not enough for you to make such a fuss, is it?"
"What do you know? A person with one foot in the grave probably has half of his head rotten." Fatty nodded his head and continued, "What's interesting isn't this Origin Jade. It's that this Origin Jade was sent down from Babylon to an old fellow in District 11 on the surface. This Origin Jade was bought at a secret auction by that old thing through a Babylonian agent. As for the holder of the Origin Jade, the names of Leon and Allen were filled in. "
"Leon? Isn't that the kid from the William Family? "
"Who is that Allen?"
"Allen … sounds a little familiar."
Tyre raised his head and swept his gaze across the discussing elders. He smiled and said, "I think you're all confused. Isn't Allen the kid that our great Patriarch Horn has been nurturing in recent years?"
Horn spread out his hands and smiled, "Since he's with Leon's name, he should be our little Allen. Hey, good boy, he actually hunted a king snake. "
After returning to Babylon, Allen mentioned to Horn that he had hunted a batch of dangerous species and cooperated with Leon to use his identity to deal with the matter. Horn didn't ask in detail at the time, but encouraged him to make more friends like Leon. He hadn't thought that Allen and the others would actually kill a king snake. Now that he heard about it, he was a little surprised.
"No, no, that's not the most interesting. I know that the Williams have recently held an autumn hunt. I had someone check and the Williams' Young Master Leon has always been ranked second on the list. As for our little Allen, he fell out of the top ten rankings on the afternoon of the autumn hunt, and his name was not seen the next day. "Ederick said mysteriously.
An elder standing on Baker's side said, "So this is the person that Patriarch Horn trained? Ha, forget it if you can't enter the top ten, you actually didn't even enter the rankings? This is really disappointing. I suggest that we cancel the funding for his family, because he doesn't have the qualifications! "
Becker just smiled and didn't comment.
Ederick looked at the elder as if he were looking at an idiot. Just as he was about to speak, Tyre turned a ruby ring on his hand and said, "I don't think you understand what the fatty means." Leon actually appeared on the list all the time, which meant that he had been busy hunting during the autumn hunt. If I remember correctly, the autumn hunt was held in the Whispering Forest. "There is indeed a king snake there, but I heard that its nest is far away at the border of the forest, bordering the Snow Revolving Cloud Mountain."
"That kid named Leon wants to maintain his advantage. I don't think he has time to go all the way to the Snow Revolving Cloud Mountain to hunt. Looking at our Allen, he fell off the list. I remember that he was the winner of the death arena. If someone like him couldn't beat a few dangerous species, I wouldn't believe it even if I killed him. So there's only one possibility, and that's that our little Allen didn't hunt obediently, but went deep into the forest. Put the Origin Jade together with their names, and I don't think there's any need to say anything else. " Tyre spread out his hands and said, "The truth is that our little Allen hunted a king snake alone and used the name of the William family's young master to kill it."
Horn nodded and said, "Allen did go deep into the forest. The Tyrant Bear Skin in my study is proof. But when it comes to hunting the king snake … "
"Perhaps it just so happened that the king snake was in a weak state, because there were also the bones of the Snow Giant among the controlled items sent down from the secret auction. That's right, their owners are also these two little fellows. " Ederick waved his fat hand and said, "It must have been a fight between the king snake and the snow giant that allowed our little Allen to take advantage of it. But I have to say, the little fellow's luck is surprisingly good. "
Baker, who had been silent all this time, finally opened his mouth and said, "Even so, is such a small matter worth writing about in the Council of Elders, Ederick? Ederick, you're making a mountain out of a molehill. "
The fatty smiled and said, "I don't think it's inappropriate to discuss our family's rising star at the meeting. On the contrary, it's you, Old Baker. I suggest you pay more attention to the family's affairs. If you make any wrong judgments because of insufficient information, you will regret it in the future. "
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