Leopold City Hall, reception room.
Coming here again after a year, Elvin's mood was completely different from the first time he met the viscount.
He was personally led in by the viscount.
Elvin even had the leisure to appreciate the furnishings in the reception room. Not to mention the expensive furniture and oil paintings on the wall, there was a weapon rack in the corner of the room that was full of lances, shields, and swords, which constantly showed the fact that the viscount's family was a military noble.
And all of this, Elvin did not notice it at all when he came here for the first time.
In the reception room, Elvin saw Viscount Andrea again after a year.
"Good day! Viscount! "
"Welcome home, Captain Elvin!"
After greeting, Elvin sat in the guest's seat and looked at the old man in a noble suit opposite him. He suddenly noticed that the viscount had obviously aged a lot compared to a year ago.
Although his sitting posture was still dignified, upright, and rigid, it was far less oppressive than a year ago.
"As an old man with rich experience, when I saw your eyes a year ago, I felt that you would be able to fight for your own merits and honor sooner or later.
I didn't expect that in just a short year, not only have you successfully advanced to transcendence, you even sat in the position of the captain of a Level Six ship!
Old, I'm really old. I can't see the depth of the young people nowadays. "
The viscount looked at the young naval officer in front of him and sighed with emotion.
In front of him, Elvin's vision was no different from before. He had long seen that the viscount was no more than an ordinary official knight.
At least in the transcendence level, he had to look up to him a year ago, but now he could look down on him lightly.
For the Knight's path, the berserk physical body allowed them to obtain far more physical fitness than ordinary people, but the speed of consumption was also increased at the same time. Even if they completed the transcendence transformation, the increase and decrease in lifespan would not be much longer than ordinary people.
It was just that their bodies were healthier and stronger, far from transcending birth, old age, sickness, and death.
Elvin's Garriott family was like this.
The Barons of the past were basically all extraordinary Knights. As adventurers in their bones, they did not lack a firm will and extraordinary courage to make breakthroughs. But in the short 170-year history of the family, didn't eight barons change like a merry-go-round?
Only when they reached the level of Grand Knight and awakened the extraordinary energy of knight, "Battle Energy", would their mind and body be integrated to a certain extent, and their lifespan would be significantly increased. The average lifespan of a "Great Knight" could reach 150 years, but there were some who took care to ensure that they could live to 200 years old.
By the time the titled Knight had undergone a qualitative change, even the path of Knight who did not pay attention to longevity could easily live for hundreds of years. It would not be a joke to watch the rise and fall of a kingdom.
However, Elvin could only lament at the sight of the visibly aged viscount. He was still young, and it was still too far away for him to think about those things.
"Your Excellency, you flatter me. I still have to thank you for your generous help!"
Elvin's words came from the bottom of his heart. Thinking back to when he joined the army, if not for the "Yellow Swan" and the "recommendation letter," his path in the army would probably have taken another turn. It was hard to say if he could have achieved what he had now.
"There's no need to thank me. It's just a recommendation letter. If you didn't have talent, that letter would just be a piece of waste paper.
About half a year ago, I saw a copy of the Beckler Post. It also had the name "Major Elvin Garriott" on it. I thought it was the same name before, but after seeing you now, I have no doubt.
Obviously, even without my help, your name would still echo in the sea! "
As if sighing, the viscount now had the look of a normal old man. And for Elvin, who was already a navy captain, the viscount could no longer be as casual as before.
With a slight smile, Elvin didn't continue to be modest. He took a sip of the premium black tea. At least, this was a treatment he didn't receive the last time he came here.
The confidence brought by power and identity made him not reserved in the slightest. Even the viscount, who had always been rigid, strict, and unreasonable, now felt that it was natural and right.
Knock, knock, knock …
At this moment, there was a sudden hurried knock on the door.
The old man frowned slightly. They knew that he was meeting a guest, yet they still came to disturb him. Were these guys so unruly? However, he couldn't lose his temper in front of the guest.
He shouted with a straight face.
"What's the matter? Come in. "
To his surprise, the person who pushed the door open and rushed in wasn't a staff member from the city hall, but his butler!
"Master!"
The butler, who was in a hurry, had his clothes slightly messy. This was unimaginable in a noble family that valued etiquette.
After entering, although he didn't run, he ran all the way to the viscount's side at his fastest speed. Clearly, some troublesome matter had made him unable to care about such details.
He even temporarily ignored Elvin, the guest, and whispered in the viscount's ear, "Master, we just received news from the terns. Our 'Twin-Tailed Fish' has been hijacked by pirates."
Hearing this, the viscount's hand trembled slightly, knocking over the exquisite tea set beside him. The bright red tea spilled all over the floor. The calm face that he had cultivated for decades was also broken in an instant.
"Are you sure it's the 'Twin-Tailed Fish'?" His eyes widened as the old man's voice sounded unusually hurried.
"There's no mistake. It's the news sent by the captain of the 'Twin-Tailed Fish' before it was captured by the pirates.
But there's something strange in the intelligence. Even if they resisted and caused damage to the pirates, the pirates didn't retaliate.
However, the pirates' counterattack wasn't very intense. It was as if they were planning to capture everyone alive. We don't know what happened after that … "
The butler didn't dare hide any details. He knew his master's way of doing things and didn't want to affect his master's judgment because of his own reasons.
Bang!
The old man's old but still powerful palm slammed on the table.
"Hmph, of course they want to capture the crew alive! The goods they want? What they want is my life!
Good, they want to catch me with the goods!
In order to oust me from my position as a councilor of Wake County, that fat pig in Wesker City has completely shed all pretense of cordiality! "
Even a rigid old man like the viscount had lost his composure. This made Elvin curious about what was on the ship. After all, with his understanding of the old man's wealth, even if he lost a ship's worth of goods, he wouldn't be so flustered.
"Master, what do we do now? Those goods … "
The butler rarely saw his master in such a state. He knew what was on the ship and knew that the situation was too unfavorable for them, so he asked carefully.
"Since they've already made their move, they naturally won't give us time to react. Perhaps soon, a military patrol ship will 'coincidentally' encounter the pirates?
A ship seized from the pirates naturally won't be protected by the privileges of nobility. They can openly search it and determine the nature of the matter from a legal point of view.
In the end, they can completely push the blame to the navy's normal patrol and remove themselves completely. Other than hiring pirates and leaking information, they won't suffer any losses! "
The viscount's eyes flickered with a ferocious glint like an old wolf. This matter concerned his life, so he couldn't afford to hesitate.
"We have to seize the ship before the navy finds the goods. The safest way is to get rid of the pirates as well!"
Elvin, who was at the side, initially listened to the viscount's troubles with the attitude of a bystander. But he quickly realized that with the viscount's shrewdness, how could he openly reveal such a secret that clearly involved some sort of "contraband" in front of him?
The latter part of the conversation was clearly for him to hear!
And unless the other party had the ability to directly bribe the navy to make arrangements in advance and "cooperate" with the pirates seamlessly. If there was a navy patrol ship in the nearby waters, wasn't it his own "Roaring Conch"? Who was more suitable than himself to find someone to deal with the pirates?
The old man may have a spare armed merchant ship in his hands, but whether he could catch up with the pirates or if he could catch up with the pirates was still a question. The old cunning fox was obviously trying to get him to take the lead!
Elvin quickly weighed the pros and cons in his heart. Did he need to intervene in this obviously local power struggle for the old viscount?
At this time, there was no Uncle Gör to be his life mentor. Any decision he made would have to bear the consequences himself.
It was also a test of the captain's decisiveness!
Although he had some personal friendship with the old man, the pursuit of the pirates involved the joint operation of more than a hundred people on the entire warship. He had to be responsible for the lives of the navy headquarters and the crew.
Although there was no need to be too clear between public and private, but …
At this moment.
The old man saw Elvin suddenly raise his head and look straight at him with a pair of glowing eyes. For some reason, he suddenly thought of himself when he was young, when he earned his first bucket of gold without relying on his family.
He suddenly felt a chill on his neck.
"Uh …"
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