Weiss, who was standing on the side, had a red face as he choked on Wollings' words. He fiercely coughed twice before saying with a smile, "Patriarch Wollings, you might have misunderstood, you are the one who should get lost …"
'This Wollings is truly reckless …'
'How could Sir Hören let Mafa Merlin get lost? He's trying to rope him in. After all, this cooperation is very important to the Black Tower and will greatly influence Okland's future power structure. Compared to that, what is your Charlotte Family?
'Do you really think that you can get special treatment from the Black Tower just because you captured the Frost Leaf Plane?
Ridiculous … '
Yes, Weiss was looking at Wollings as if he was looking at a clown.
"I …"
In a flash, Wollings was deathly pale and dumbstruck. He was truly scared silly by Weiss' words. He was like a duck being pinched by the neck, unable to say anything.
"Sir Weiss, help me bid farewell to Sir Hören. Tell him that I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation …"
Lin Yun didn't say much. He turned and left the reception room, not even bothering to look at Wollings the entire time. In fact, in the confrontation just now, he had already made up his mind to kill Wollings. Although that guy was just a clown used by the Thousand Souls Sacrifice, it was still annoying to keep jumping in front of him.
But Hören ultimately intervened to stop this battle.
'Old fox …'
Lin Yun inwardly cursed. He could naturally see that Hören intervened at the crucial moment because he didn't want to get involved in the grudge between the Merlin Family and the Charlotte Family, to avoid involving the Black Tower. If Wollings died in the Black Tower's Dark Moon Fort and the news spread to Okland, everyone would think that Wollings' death was related to the Black Tower.
'I have to say, Hören is truly cunning …'
Whether it was the first transaction or this cooperation, he was deceiving me. However, Harren would never know that he was the one who had been scheming against him all along.
After discussing this cooperation, Lin Yun did not stay in the Dark Moon Fortress for long, and he directly returned to the Flame Demon Fortress.
However, he didn't know that the storm in the Dark Moon Fortress' reception room was far from over. Following the departure of Lin Yun and Wollings, the reception room was exceptionally empty. Only Whis and Suval were left.
At this time, the smiling Whis didn't say anything, but it made Suval feel very awkward on the side.
"That …"
Suval looked at Whis, puzzled. He really couldn't understand why Sir Hören told Wollings to get lost and not Mafa Merlin.
After all, that Mafa Merlin was only a youth of the Merlin Family, while Wollings was the Patriarch of the Charlotte Family, a force that wasn't weak in Okland. Moreover, the Charlotte Family had been very aggressive recently, capturing the Frost Leaf Plane in one fell swoop and showing signs of rising again.
Under such circumstances, in order to maximize the Black Tower's benefits, shouldn't they rope in Wollings?
But Sir Harren didn't do that and instead told the Patriarch of the Charlotte Family, Wollings, to scram. This way, the relationship between the Black Tower and the Charlotte Family could be considered to have become rigid. There might not be any room for improvement in the future. Although the powerful Black Tower wouldn't put the Charlotte Family in its eyes, Sir Hören's decision didn't seem to be in line with the Black Tower's style of putting benefits above everything else.
'Right …'
And the young mage's words before leaving, 'I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation'?
Just these words made Suval think of many things, and he couldn't help being startled. The Black Tower, one of the two major mage forces of the kingdom, was actually cooperating with the Merlin Family. What was even more outrageous was that the one the Merlin Family sent to propose the cooperation was only a young mage in his twenties.
This was undoubtedly bad news for him. It meant that he couldn't deal with the Merlin Family in name.
He wanted to figure out what was going on, but when he saw the smile on Whis' face, he felt as if he had swallowed a fly, and he simply couldn't say anything.
He knew that after this matter, there was already an irresolvable estrangement between him and Whis.
"Suval, come here …"
While Suval was preoccupied, Hören's voice echoed once again, making him restless. He followed the spiral staircase and arrived at the door of Hören's study. He gently knocked on the door, and after getting a response from Hören, he cautiously opened the door and respectfully asked, "Sir Hören, did you call me?"
"Yes …"
Hören was leaning on the desk, flipping through a black thread-bound book. He only raised his eyelids when Suval arrived and nonchalantly glanced at the other side before focusing on his book.
Sir Hören's attitude made Suval somewhat restless. His face had already turned deathly pale, and beads of sweat could be seen on his forehead. This 7th Rank Archmage with an aloof position in the Black Tower didn't dare to say a word in front of Hören.
Hören had been the Chairman of the Black Tower for several hundred years. To be more precise, when Hören took over the Black Tower, the Black Tower was in the midst of a disaster. At that time, the powerful Gaugass Battlemages had left the Black Tower. When this news spread, almost everyone thought that the powerful Black Tower had become a thing of the past and that its decline was inevitable.
But after Hören took over, a series of thunderous methods thoroughly stabilized the unstable Black Tower. Then, after a few dozen years, under Hören's leadership, the Black Tower once again set foot on the peak of the Andalusia Kingdom. To everyone in the Black Tower, Hören's status was supreme. Even an existence as powerful as Suval, a Representative of the Black Tower with deep qualifications, couldn't raise his confidence in front of Hören.
Time slowly passed, and more than ten minutes had passed. During this time, Hören had been reading and hadn't said a word to him. He hadn't even looked at him. This couldn't help making Suval secretly anxious. Beads of cold sweat slid down his forehead, and his robe was already drenched. At this moment, the wisp of hope in his heart had thoroughly disappeared.
He had lived for a few hundred years, and if he still couldn't see anything, he would be worse than a fool.
It was clear that Sir Hören was angry and dissatisfied with him.
As for the reason, he could roughly guess.
Thinking of this, Suval braced himself and said in a weak voice, "Sir Hören, I was wrong …"
"Oh?"
Just as Suval finished speaking, Hören put down the book in his hand and raised his head to look at Suval. "Do you know where you were wrong?"
"I know …"
A boundless pressure made the 7th Rank Archmage Suval tremble with fear, almost suffocating him. At this time, he realized that Sir Hören was a lot angrier than he had imagined. He lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Hören as he sincerely said, "Sir Hören, I was muddle-headed and allowed an outsider to act in the Black Tower. Please punish me heavily …"
"Hmpf!"
But what he hadn't expected was a cold snort. Hören attentively looked at Suval for a few minutes before shaking his head and sneering. "It looks like you still don't know where you were wrong …"
If the person in question wasn't Mafa Merlin but someone else, Hören wouldn't have gotten angry and would have even turned a blind eye. He definitely wouldn't have called Suval over and left him hanging for over ten minutes.
Not to mention the fact that the Merlin Family had already established a close partnership with the Black Tower, just this Mafa Merlin wasn't someone Suval could easily provoke.
Hören had already noticed the appearance of Wollings from the Charlotte Family and made a move against Mafa Merlin, but he didn't immediately stop him. He wanted to see how powerful the young mage would be after half a year. At the Magic Hand's gathering, the young mage defeated the 9th Rank High Mage Dai Lun as a 5th Rank Great Mage, and now, the young mage was already a 5th Rank High Mage.
To be honest, Hören was looking forward to the fight between Mafa Merlin and Wollings, he wasn't worried about the young mage at all.
Because he felt that even if Wollings was a Peak 6th Rank Archmage, he wouldn't be able to injure the young mage in a short time. If something went wrong, he would immediately make a move and save the young mage. He was quite confident in this as a Peak Archmage.
But as the fight started, he was thoroughly shocked. Only when Wollings was about to be suppressed by the young mage and even killed did he react and make a move to stop the fight.
In the end, he had no choice but to get to know the young mage again. A 5th Rank High Mage with the power to defeat a Peak 6th Rank Archmage was truly frightening.
This made him even more convinced that there was an extremely powerful existence standing behind the young mage, at least at the Heaven Rank!
Otherwise, how could Mafa Merlin be so heaven-defying?
"Ah …"
Suval was stunned. He stood there, motionless, a bewildered expression on his face as he looked at Hören in a daze. 'Didn't I already admit my mistake? How …'
"Tell me, did you let Wollings make a move in the reception room in order to deal with Mafa Merlin?" Hören looked at Suval with a scrutinizing gaze as he questioned him word by word.
Even if he was in the study on the 2nd floor, he clearly knew what happened in the reception room. Suval had been extremely hostile towards Mafa Merlin ever since he appeared, and then he let Wollings make a move. Clearly, his real goal was to deal with Mafa Merlin.
'Damn …'
Hören had the urge to curse. 'Of all the people you wanted to deal with, you had to deal with Mafa Merlin. Is that guy someone you can handle? Let alone you, even I wouldn't dare to easily deal with Mafa Merlin. After all, he has the support of a Heaven Rank powerhouse. The Black Tower would be out of luck if that Heaven Rank powerhouse became unhappy.'
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