In Storm County of the Duchy of Thunder, a rather surprising thing happened recently.
Baron Keane, who was seriously ill and almost dead, suddenly recovered, and then conducted a large-scale inspection and adjustment of his subordinates. A large number of subordinates who originally occupied important positions were transferred to idle positions that lacked real power. Many of them were found to have committed various crimes and were punished.
The most shocking thing was that their chef, who was famous throughout the entire Stormwind County, was found to have poisoned Baron Keane's food!
Such a crime was, of course, unforgivable. According to the law, even family members would be implicated. But Baron Keane said that the chef had worked hard for the Keane family all these years. Even if he had made a mistake, it was enough to use his life to pay for it. His family had nothing to do with this matter, so his family was specially pardoned.
How could Baron Keane suddenly recover? How could he have the ability to find out the traitor in the family? Why was he so kind? That was what everyone was most puzzled about.
"Crick Keane is a scholar after all." In the secret room of the Church of the God of Aristocracy, the Storm County High Priest sneered and said, "He can't achieve great things if he is soft-hearted!"
"After all, he is a believer of Song of Distant Past. The doctrine of Song of Distant Past is weak, and the church organization is also very weak. In the final analysis, it is because they lack the spirit to kill decisively! " The words of the High Priest, who was in charge of some shady affairs, were full of disdain and sarcasm. "Whether it is God or man, they are all grass eaters. Even if they are forced to the end of the line, they can only kick or use their horns to fight. How could someone like him have the courage to go on a killing spree! "
The High Priest nodded slightly and assigned new tasks.
A mere baron was not worth his time and energy. Since this guy was in the limelight now, he would wait for the time being. He would deal with him after he was out of the limelight.
Anyway, no matter how many tricks he could play, he could not change the fact that he was just a baron. How much manpower and financial resources could a baron have? How much influence could he have in the upper class?
Behind the Church of the God of Aristocracy was a group of great nobles!
Crick — or Sui Xiong — did not know this. His "system" function was not so powerful that once someone schemed against him, it would immediately pop up a prompt like "Mission: Resist Assassination." Right now, all his energy was focused on the internal clean-up.
He wouldn't have known if he hadn't checked, but the moment he did, he was shocked! When he checked the loyalty of his men, he was shocked. All kinds of problems made Knight James, who was loyal to him, furious. If he didn't stop him, he would've drawn his sword and cut them.
Crick was also shocked. Although he was mentally prepared, he didn't expect the problem to be so serious! In fact, a lot of power in Baron Keane's territory had been taken away. The middle and lower level officials who were loyal to him were either pushed to useless positions or directly killed. There were already five or six confirmed murder cases!
"These fellows are insane! You don't take human lives seriously! " After reading for some time, he angrily flung the files of crimes on the table, panting heavily. He picked up the prepared wheat tea and gulped down half a cup of cold water, but still couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.
He began to drink wheat tea after he "woke up." He was really not used to the kind of tea that the nobles often drank — tea leaves and spices were ground and boiled together, and finally some spice powder was sprinkled in the filtered tea soup. This was really beyond the acceptable range of a Chinese's tongue. So he would rather drink the fried wheat tea from the Northwest Void Mask Amusement Park in recent years. At least this thing tasted cleaner.
Because he found that "Sui Xiong the Traveler MK5" had suspected all kinds of things about the Void Mask Amusement Park, Sui Xiong specially made changes in the memory of Crick Keane, or "Sui Xiong the Traveler MK6," so that he ignored all kinds of Earth-style things that he brought with him to avoid accidents. But he did not change Crick's aesthetics, so Crick's eating habits and lifestyle were subtly changing.
In general, he gradually became less sociable among the nobles and more close to the middle and lower classes of people.
After all, Sui Xiong was born as a nobody!
So he really couldn't understand the thinking of the upper class — those nobles who had a good relationship with "Crick Keane" before, after learning about the current situation of the Keane family, gave simply inexplicable suggestions!
A friend's suggestion was: "Sell the family property and live directly in the Void Mask Amusement Park. Settle down there for the rest of your life. You have money, and you know so much about art. You can go there and make some operas or something, and the temple of your church is also there. At least you can take care of it. "
This suggestion was too cowardly, and Crick didn't like it. But in any case, it was still a slightly more reliable suggestion, at least it could be implemented.
In contrast, the suggestions of several other friends made him wonder whether these guys were brains or tofu dregs!
Everything those people said could be summed up in one word: kill.
Kill all the families of all the disloyal people, hang them all, and hang their bodies on the roadside. This could deter those who had bad intentions — they all said so.
Hey … there were hundreds of people here! If he killed so many people in one breath, wouldn't he become a big devil?
And … if he wanted to kill so many people, where could he find an executioner? He wouldn't be treated as a lunatic right away, would he?
But those nobles didn't think so. They all said that nobles were sacred and inviolable, and that anyone who dared to harm nobles should be severely punished, absolutely not the slightest tolerance!
At that time, Crick smiled and said that he would carefully consider their suggestions when he went back, and when he got home, he would tell Butler Layton to beware of those guys in the future.
"Don't the suggestions of those Excellencies also make sense?" Butler Layton asked doubtfully.
"But they are brainless." Crick sighed. "You know, stupid teammates are scarier than god-like opponents! If the force that could silently infiltrate our Keane family like a sieve is a god-like opponent, then these few are stupid teammates. Oh, Layton, idiocy is also contagious! "
Butler Layton nodded repeatedly, not really understanding.
The next day, when they were eating, he asked curiously, "Sir, is idiocy really contagious?"
Crick pondered for a long time, trying to find an explanation, but when he saw Layton's character attributes, he sighed deeply and gave up on the idea.
[Layton, Strength 10, Vitality 12, Agility 10, Perception 12, Intelligence 9, Charm 10, Reputation 120, Occupation: Butler Level 5, Priest Level 1, Loyalty 100]
There was no need for it to be contagious. This Mister Butler was a little stupid to begin with!
"That's just a joke." He brushed aside the "idiocy is contagious" matter, then looked at Knight Leader James, who insisted on standing at the side and refused to eat with His Lord.
[James, Strength 14, Vitality 14, Agility 12, Perception 10, Intelligence 9, Charm 10, Reputation 200] Occupation: Warrior Level 3, Knight Level 4, Lord Level 1, Loyalty 100]
His two subordinates, one civil and one military, were both a little stupid …
"Sigh!" Sighing deeply, he said, "Let's talk about Spencer's suggestion."
Spencer Smith, Deputy Commander of the Church of the God of Knights in the Duchy of Thunder, presided over the affairs of Storm County. This young knight was a rising star of the younger generation who shone brightly. He had even made it to the semi-finals of the main competition in the World Martial Arts Tournament held at the Void Mask Amusement Park, and had won one of the matches in the top 16. It was only because he had met "Godly Bow" Levi Spring in the winner's bracket, and "Thunder Tomahawk" Suchel Magnus in the loser's bracket that he had stopped in the top eight, unable to advance any further.
Compared to these subordinates of his, Crick felt that this young expert's suggestion was definitely more reliable.
Other things aside, this person's intelligence was higher than that of his subordinates!
[Spencer Smith, Strength 20, Vitality 18, Agility 16, Perception 14, Intelligence 14, Charm 18, Reputation 650] Occupation: Warrior Level 3, Knight Level 8, Saint Samurai Level 8, Friendliness 80]
Look at those gorgeous attributes! Look at those dazzling reputation points! Look at those admirable total levels!
What was a winner in life? That was it!
Crick believed that if a fight really broke out, it was estimated that this person alone could wipe out the entire group of knights led by the baron. Maybe he could even eat some melon seeds or something along the way.
So he felt that Spencer's suggestion could still be kept as a backup plan.
If it really did not work, then he could just pack up and run away with his whole family …
Thinking of this, he could not help but sigh deeply again.
The situation in front of him was really too grim!
Probably because they felt that he did not have the ability to make a comeback, or because they simply had nothing to fear, those guys who schemed against him did not carefully conceal the news. After a little investigation, he found out the mastermind hiding behind that group of traitors.
The Church of the God of Aristocracy.
This answer did not particularly surprise him, but it made him a little depressed.
The opponent was too strong, and it was too difficult to take revenge!
The Church of the God of Aristocracy had been developing faster and faster over the years, and its power was also growing. They had the support of the great nobles represented by the king. For nobles at the level of viscount and baron, although they mainly tried to win them over, if they could not win them over, they would try to get rid of them. In recent years, many nobles in the Duchy of Thunder who were determined not to cooperate with them had died suddenly.
Previously, Crick Keane was a firm believer of the God of Culture and Culture. The Church of the God of Culture and Culture was an important target of exclusion and attack by the Church of the God of Aristocracy, so this young baron was naturally on the hit list and lost his life in vain.
After eating, Crick took the file again and sat in the study, deep in thought.
After thinking for a long time, he sighed deeply. "Oh, Crick Keane, it is difficult to help you get revenge and solve the predicament facing the Keane family …"
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