Chapter 348: Cry for Help from the North

Four days later, when Kaelen, Sane, Finnick along with the girl Ivy and Eldrin’s warrior delegation returned to Silverport to do procedures bringing two thousand Elf clan members migrating back to the Eternal Forest, the face of the capital of the Seven Autonomous Cities alliance had changed to the point of almost not recognizing the chaotic appearance of before anymore.

Right at the archway of dock number one, the arrogant gold sign of the past year had been ordered taken down by Godfrey telling Dwarf blacksmiths, melted to cast subsidy money distributing to tens of thousands of slaves having just been freed. Replaced into that was a dark green painted wooden board covered with glass, pasting the Lyra Covenant summary accompanied by the glaring red seal of the City Hall! The entire human trafficking iron cages along twelve docks had also been smashed completely to forge agricultural tools and ship repairing tools.

And the thing making Kaelen most satisfied was when just stepping into the central mansion of Silverport, he already saw a familiar small figure with the pointy ears of the Goblin clan currently sitting cross-legged on the high chair behind the large desk, two hands nimbly clacking the abacus unceasingly!

That was exactly Brian!

Right when receiving the report news via the communication ring from the night Auction Island was subdued, Elric and Mr. Hollis had immediately dispatched Brian leading a delegation consisting of two hundred accountants, petty clerks, court clerks and teachers having just graduated from the first crash training course of Lyra city taking express ships crossing the sea over taking over Silverport.

"Father! Lord Divine Envoy! Brother Finnick!"

Just seeing the three people stepping into the main hall along with Ivy, Brian joyfully jumped nimbly from the high chair down, hugging the thick ledger book jogging out welcoming. The kid had heard recounted the God of Life having just appeared was exactly the third brother in Father’s family, so when seeing Finnick in the handsome young man form with Chloe sitting on his shoulder, Brian both admired and politely bowed his head greeting really loudly.

Finnick lightly nodded responding to the etiquette with the resourceful adopted younger brother of the two fathers, even took from his pocket out a deep blue spirit fruit picked from the new World Tree handing to Brian as a meeting gift making the boy thrilled his whole body.

"Brian, how is the situation of inventorying assets and collecting fines in Silverport these past few days already?" Kaelen sat down onto the sofa, smiling asking his small student.

Mentioning the ledger money matter, Brian’s two eyes immediately shone sparklingly like two gold coins. The kid flipped the ledger book open, reading fluently without needing to look at the paper:

"Reporting to Father, all matters went smoothly beyond imagination Sir! In the past three days, the entire fortune of the Twelve Merchant Bosses in Silverport has been completely inventoried by me and Uncle Godfrey. Besides seventy-eight large merchant ships and twelve docks, the cash and gold ingots confiscated in the underground basements of those twelve houses total one million four hundred and sixty thousand gold coins!"

Brian flipped further to the second page, his voice increasingly more excited:

"And over four hundred grand aristocrats, lords and merchant bosses rescued that night no one dared to default on debts, all voluntarily paid double the fine money into the reconstruction fund, collecting additionally eight hundred and twenty thousand gold coins! The representatives of the remaining six autonomous cities on the East coast this morning also brought seals arriving asking to merge completely into the legal system of Lyra city to be sheltered by you Sirs!"

Sane sitting beside hearing the number over two million gold coins collected back after just one night flipping the table at Auction Island then satisfiedly smirked looking at Kaelen:

"You see yet, I told you going robbing the rich crowd doing evil deeds is faster than sitting selling soap in Lyra city by a hundred times yet you kept not believing."

"That is called confiscating illicit assets and collecting fines exactly according to court regulations, who told you calling it going robbing in front of the kids’ faces huh?" Kaelen glared at his husband once, then turned asking further Godfrey having just stepped in from the door outside: "And what about the prince and envoy crowd of other countries? Have they signed completely into the Life Contract then left the port yet?"

"Reporting to Lord, all have signed the contract under our supervision and boarded ships returning to their countries since this morning already Sir." Godfrey respectfully clasped his hands reporting, then somewhat hesitantly added: "Only that... there is still one person since yesterday until now resolutely refusing to board the ship returning to his country, but keeps kneeling stubbornly outside the iron gate of the mansion continuously from midnight yesterday until exactly now to beg to meet the three Sirs Sir."

"Oh? Who is it?" Kaelen somewhat surprisedly asked.

"Yes, is exactly Prince Marcus of the Frostgard kingdom in the North, the person having once sat in Diamond VIP Room number Four on the auction night and spent one hundred thousand gold coins buying consecutively three potion bottles drinking on the spot there Sir."

Hearing the name Marcus of the Frostgard kingdom in the North of the snowy mountain range mentioned, the gazes of Kaelen, Sane, and Finnick simultaneously crossed each other. They just discovered Sane’s origin battle halberd fragment was being polluted by the God of Decay at the border of the Three Northern Kingdoms, unexpectedly immediately there was a person of the Northern royal family personally finding his way all the way to the door!

"Let him in here." Sane ordered in a deep voice.

Less than two minutes later, two Crimson tribe warriors had led a man stepping into the main hall. If not thanks to the ice blue velvet cloak embroidered with the snow wolf head image of the Frostgard royal family on his body, perhaps Kaelen would also find it hard to recognize this was exactly the middle-aged Prince having once arrogantly demanded to use money smashing into the face of VIP Room number One on the auction night four days ago!

After being gnawed by the parasitic insect crowd and having all the stimulating fluid sucked out of his body, Marcus originally just past forty years old had suffered backlash aging over twenty years, his hair white past half, his face full of small scars and haggard wrinkles, walking having to have a servant supporting.

Just stepping across the threshold and seeing the three Gods on the presiding chairs, the man once most arrogant in the North immediately pushed the servant’s hand away, knelt dropping down onto the stone floor kowtowing to the point of bleeding his forehead:

"Marcus of the Frostgard kingdom asks to bow to meet the three supreme True Gods! The sin that day at Auction Island was because Marcus had eyes like blind, has already paid fully two hundred thousand gold coins fine money and signed the Life Contract already. Today Marcus thick-facedly kneels here is not to beg for his ruined life, but wants to bring the entire territory of the Frostgard kingdom out as a tribute gift, begging the True Gods to cross the snowy mountain range rescuing the millions of citizens of our Three Northern Kingdoms with please!"

Sane sat crossing his legs on the sofa, his deep purple eyes coldly looking at the man currently kneeling on the ground:

"You Three Northern Kingdoms yourselves drag troops hacking killing each other fighting for land throughout several dozens of years now, now actually run here begging Gods to go clean up the battlefield for you guys huh? In this world where is there such a cheap matter?"

"It’s not that we want to hack killing each other, Lord God of War!" Marcus raised his tear and fresh blood-soaked face up, his hoarse voice filled with fear and despair: "Before the night at Auction Island, I also did not understand why the three countries Frostgard, Ironpeak and Stormhold originally sharing the same root, together worshiping the God of War since the ancestors’ time yet throughout the past fifty years actually went crazy hacking killing each other unceasingly! But after seeing with my own eyes the parasitic insect crowd crawling out from the Immortality Potion that night, I just awakened realizing the entire Three Northern Kingdoms all had been hit by the evil magic of the exact same evil demon!"

Kaelen and Finnick sat up straight: "You speak clearly and see, fifty years ago in the North what matter happened?"

Marcus took a deep breath, tremblingly recounted the royal secret of the three Northern countries:

"Reporting to the True Gods, exactly fifty years ago, at the Red Iron valley located at the intersecting point between the borders of the three kingdoms at the foot of the snowy mountain range, a large avalanche exposed an ancient ruin underground. At that time my royal father along with the two kings of Ironpeak and Stormhold countries together led troops into the ruin inspecting. Right in the middle of the ruin, they saw half a dark purple metal spear tip broken in half currently embedding deep in the rock, but around that spear tip was tightly wrapped by a pitch-black meat mass oozing red blood!"

Hearing about half a dark purple metal spear tip broken in half, the Purple Lightning streaks around Sane immediately flashed violently! That was exactly the front half tip of his origin battle halberd having been lost when self-destructing origin soul along with the God of Decay ten thousand years ago!

"At that time the three kings did not know that black meat mass was an evil thing, only felt standing near that spear tip then combat power skyrocketed up multiplying!" Marcus painfully closed his eyes continuing saying: "Thus all three people immediately turned faces drawing swords hacking killing each other right in the ruin to fight for the ownership right of the spear tip! Since that day, a blood-red fog screen from the Red Iron valley began spreading out across the territory of the three countries. Any soldier, general or even ordinary farmer of the three countries only needing to pick up weapons then two eyes automatically reddened completely, in the head only remaining crazy killing lust not distinguishing friend from foe!"

Marcus kowtowed down onto the stone floor adding one really strong hit:

"Also since after that time entering the ruin, the bodies of my royal father and those two kings all began to be corroded from the inside by a bizarre rotting disease, exactly when the Silverport merchant boss crowd happened to find their way arriving offering the Immortality Potion! To have money buying medicine keeping lives and maintaining the crazy war in the Red Iron valley, throughout the past fifty years the three countries have pushed tens of thousands of strong young men into death places, fields abandoned, children starving to death full on the streets! Now I newly understand all is the linked trap of the evil god to turn the three Northern countries into a slaughterhouse nourishing the black meat mass wrapping around that spear tip!"

The main hall sank into freezing cold silence. All the final puzzle pieces had completely fit together! The God of Decay on one hand used the parasitic meat mass clinging onto Sane’s battle halberd fragment in the Red Iron valley to instigate crazy killing lust and corrode the lives of the three Northern kings; on the other hand used the Immortality Potion in Silverport to force them to continuously squeeze dry the flesh and blood of the countries bringing submitting to him!

Sane slowly stood up from the sofa. His face completely did not have any expression, but the terrifying pressure radiating out made the entire marble mansion vibrate violently:

"Daring to take my weapon going making a bait stake for its filthy insect bunch... It seems this time not peeling cleanly its skin layer in the North then it still thinks I truly died already!"

Kaelen also stood up beside his husband, turning saying to Finnick and Brian:

"We will immediately hit the road to the Red Iron valley in the North to recover Daddy’s battle halberd fragment and completely clear the War link. However before leaving, with the new faith amount gathered from resurrecting the World Tree and subduing Silverport, the spatial rift between the two worlds has widened adding one portion already."

Kaelen smiled looking at the communication ring on his wrist:

"To manage the entire Seven East Coast Autonomous Cities having just merged, as well as prepare resetting the order for the entire Three Northern Kingdoms upcoming, only exactly the kid Brian with several hundred staff members alone then is too exhausting. It is time to call the person holding the fourth link of the Orbit over here working already!"