The Witcher: My backyard leads to London

Shagang County, at the entrance to the secret forest on a snowy night.

The city square at the entrance was already filled with various buildings. These steampunk-style buildings even stretched deep into the forest on the snowy night.

Although the remaining evil spirits in the snowy night forest are difficult to eradicate in a short time, there are still groups of extraordinary people preparing to settle on both sides of the road from the entrance to the black mausoleum.

Outside the city square, on the top floor of the Adventurer's Guild building.

Ricardo once met Vera here.

At this time, a large number of nobles gathered here, all dressed formally, to welcome the arrival of a certain high-ranking member of the empire.

"I heard that after Lord Ricardo's application for promotion to Marquis was approved this time, the empire center also confirmed the long-pending candidate for the governor of Shagang County."

"Who is it? Is it Mr. Ricardo?"

"How is it possible... In the past, although Shagang County was the third largest port, it was only a small port. Maybe the position of port governor was still possible... But now, Shagang County has developed rapidly in the past few years, not to mention the current connection to Linlin. There are already two entrances and exits to Xuexing Province in the Shagang County area..."

A group of people whispered, and in the end it was unknown who leaked the governor's choice.

"His Majesty's final choice is a branch of the Downton family, the younger brother of the contemporary Grand Duke Downton, the deputy head of the Imperial Land Exorcism Hall in the capital, Lord Winston, the Marquis!"

"Your Majesty, Marquis Winston, is a true wizard, and he was already a famous legendary demon hunter decades ago. After that, he became a body-refining wizard, and now he is a quasi-second-level combatant. A first-level senior body-refining wizard!"

"It is said that Lord Winston, the Marquis, may serve as the deputy master of the Exorcist Palace of the entire West Coast Knight Empire in the future!"

"Arranging such a powerful governor candidate shows that His Majesty attaches great importance to our Sargang County!"

"It is said that when the Governor came this time, he first came to the Adventurer's Guild because when he was a legendary demon hunter, he had a deep connection with the Adventurer's Guild. It is said that Paris's son-in-law and brother Lei Luo also have some connections..."

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The crowd on the top floor of the Adventurer's Guild was talking a lot.

The time came to noon.

The special envoys from the county center and the empire center who announced Ricardo's appointment as marquis and the new territory of Kanyu had already reached the top floor, and the new governor was belatedly arriving.

A burst of hot air approached.

Several rooms on the top floor have been connected to each other and turned into a hall because of this incident.

At this time the hall door opens.

A white-haired middle-aged man wearing black demon hunter armor strode into the scene.

There were several waves of people following behind him, including those wearing the uniforms of the Exorcist Hall, the Night Watch Officers, the Imperial Central Council and County Council uniforms, as well as those from the Adventurer's Guild, the Holy See, and the God of War Church...

As for the nobles who followed, there were families such as the Viscount Panshan family...

"Your Majesty, Lord Winston!"

"Lord Bishop Vanas is here too! I didn't expect Lord Vanas to actually know Lord Winston!"

"Maybe it's the God of War Church and the Demon Hunter Group? Speaking of which, Lord Vanas was promoted to bishop after what happened last time. His background is really profound..."

After Winston entered the hall, he did not take a seat, but walked directly to the position of the imperial central envoy.

at this time.

On one side of the hall, where there used to be a table on the top floor, Sir Parson from the county center was talking with the special envoy from the empire center.

They planned to go to Ice Lake to collect the second half of the documents for Marquis promotion to Ricardo after meeting with the Governor today.

The reason why it was not completed last time was because Ricardo's promotion to Marquis this time involved exchanging points from the Exorcist Alliance for a large amount of territory in the Panxue Mountains.

Ricardo was not only promoted to marquis this time, but also obtained the territory of the Panxue Mountains, which was larger than the duchy.

The expansion at such a speed is also the reason why Ms. Vera, the top executive of the Constellation Church, made arrangements in advance.

Anyone who knows a little bit knows that the entrance and exit of the Linxue Province branch in the Ice Lake Territory was built by Lady Vera of the Palan clan. It is impossible to leave public territory around such an important pass for other nobles to exchange for profits. .

"Sir Parson, let's put aside the exchange of public domain territory in Sarport County for now."

As soon as the new port governor, Marquis Winston, arrived, he immediately made a sound that surprised the entire audience.

Next to Winston stood Bishop Vanas of the God of War Church and several bishop-level figures from the Exorcism Hall.

At this time, some of the bishops' entourage took out the map of Shagang County's jurisdiction that they had brought with them.

He just spread the map on the table next to him.

"Your Majesty, Marquis Winston, the ceremony for Lord Ricardo's promotion to Marquis has been completed. The redemption of those public territories through the exorcism coalition is led by the core leaders of the Constellation Church... Have you really thought about it carefully..."

Sir Parson himself is also a descendant of a branch of the Parlan clan. At this time, he saw that Winston was acting evilly, and he was obviously here to cause trouble for Ricardo, the great benefactor of the Parlan clan, and he immediately spoke out.

However, after Winston saw someone opening the county map next to him, he glanced directly over and ignored Sir Parson's response.

In a sense, although it is very rude, the status of a field marquis with strong combat power is very different from that of just a knight.

When Sir Parson saw this scene, he directly greeted Paris, who was standing in the crowd.

As a member of the Palan clan's interest circle, his greeting was to ask Paris to think of a solution.

"Every entrance and exit to the secret realm of Linxue Province is the public property of the empire! It is already a huge benefit for us to allow the Ice Lake Territory to operate independently. How can we still allow the Ice Lake Territory to rely solely on the merit points of the Exorcist Alliance? , to exchange for this precious related land? You are stealing from the empire’s pocket, everyone!”

"The Panxue Mountains themselves are of inestimable value. Have you forgotten the tombs of the Storm Clan that have been unearthed over the years? How can you just hand over the entire mountain range so easily..."

On his first day after taking office, Marquis Winston rushed over immediately after learning the news from the God of War Church, Viscount Panshan's family and other forces who came to report the news.

He chose to leave the wealthy Imperial Land capital area and come to a remote port like Sargang County to take up a position because of the port's status as a transportation hub between the two continents.

After the land route is established, the bloody coffin and the black mausoleum are the two most important entrances and exits.

That is to say, the two most important related assets, how can we let this kind of core fat slip away from our mouths!

As for Ricardo’s own possible objections…

The other party may not even be a wizard...

The Constellation Church that protected him was originally in the capital, so it didn't mean that all the forces were afraid of it, and I heard that the people directly related to him had also left Shagang County...

The process and legality of the other party's acquisition of territory is not so perfect. It relies on territorial war revenge and the exchange of merit points from the exorcist coalition...

When Winston thought about these problems that would help him receive money and water in the future, he felt his heart burst into laughter, imagining the benefits he could obtain in the future.

Although he has turned white-haired, as a once legendary witcher, he has left beautiful witcher-like stories in various provinces of the empire. He has various habits of enjoying life like a witcher. Naturally, he also inherited the demon hunter's lack of money.

"He is a troublesome master..."

Paris walked out of the hall silently.

As a former legendary demon hunter, although the other party has an old relationship with Lorient's younger brother Lei Luo, the several Ice Lake Territory forces that Ricardo serves as the leader are all very important. The members of the Palan clan among them are very important to them. recognized.

In addition, Vera herself seems to be trusting Ricardo more and more...

In this prospect, Paris had decided that he must side with Ricardo.

He went directly outside, quickly made a message with a spell scroll, and then called a letter owl and asked the owl to find Ricardo.

The letter owl was specially left by Ricardo at the night watchman's office in the county town.

This owl has undergone special messenger training. ,

Special action paths can be made for urgent alert letters.

And this time the letter.

It belongs to the urgent alert type.

After flying out of the sight range of the Night Watchman's Office, the owl directly unfolded an extra scroll on its body, and then used the scroll to send an alarm to the Card Puppet Cafe.

Although it finally turned back towards the secret realm of the snowy night forest.

Inside the Pai Puppet Cafe.

Celia directly received the simple message from the owl, and then she used its characteristics as a slave of the mutated vampire succubus to communicate with Ricardo who was far away from the cafe.

After Ricardo received the news, he immediately teleported to the Card Puppet Cafe, and then based on the specific content of the news obtained from Celia, he teleported directly to the entrance and exit of the secret realm in the Snowy Night Forest.

soon.

Ricardo and the letter owl met.

He had just organized the entrance ceremony for the territory's wizard apprentice school in the past few days, and then traveled back and forth between the wizard world and the wizard civilization in the modern world.

Some of the infrastructure equipment of the modern world's magic technology industry were transported to the territory.

These are waiting for the first batch of apprentices to complete their training in school, and then start learning to operate after taking a crude version of the industrial apprentice potion.

"Come to the top floor of the Adventurer's Guild!"

After receiving the news from the owl's scroll, Ricardo's face darkened and he tore up the scroll.

Then.

With one step, he flew directly into the air and rushed out of the secret entrance of the snowy night forest.

It appeared directly between the entrance and the top floor of the Adventurer's Guild.

He unfolded a certain strength of the wizard's force field around him.

Scarlet light flashed in his eyes.

It slowly floated down on the outer corridor on the top floor of the Adventurer's Guild.

boom!

After kicking open the door of Viscount Frostwind's castle a few days ago, Ricardo kicked open the door of the top floor hall of the Adventurer's Guild again.

This time it was even more exaggerated than last time.

The last time there was only one family in the Castle of Viscount Frostwind, and the Frostwind family was originally just a baron-level family, but in this generation, Viscount Frostwind was promoted to the viscount family, and the level of related relatives was not high...

And these nobles attending the meeting in front of them...

"who!!"

In the parliament hall, the members of several forces who originally followed Marquis Winston suddenly turned around.

Especially the personnel of the Exorcism Hall and the God of War Church.

Ricardo felt a special faint malice directly from the personnel of the Exorcism Hall and the God of War Church.

"Who dares to touch my territory!?"

Ricardo's cold voice penetrated directly into the hall.

The nobles who came to attend the meeting because of two important events in the hall suddenly felt cold in their hearts.

They were also surprised at where the Binghu family had the courage to dare to be so arrogant after eating the Viscount of Shuangfeng...

"The new Marquis of Ice Lake?"

Marquis Winston was originally on the edge of the map, discussing with the people around him the situation and the future readjustment of the interest structure.

At this time, he looked at Ricardo, narrowed his eyes, and turned his head away, as if he was questioning whether Ricardo's mind was normal.

"Governor Winston, right?"

Ricardo identified the source of the noise, and based on the other party's clothing and the content of the owl letter, he also confirmed the person and cause and effect.

He walked towards the other party.

The second-level wizard force field on his entire body was like a spear, stabbing at the opponent's position.

"Hmph, it looks like you have been promoted to an official wizard."

"It's really unreasonable to think that becoming a wizard means you can do whatever you want..."

Marquis Winston and Vanas and others around him were a little surprised by Ricardo's behavior.

In public, how dare you provoke an established wizard and legendary demon hunter just because of your newly promoted wizard level?

As for the news that Ricardo was a new wizard, the nobles present also guessed it from the details of some documents about the annexation of the Frostwind Viscounty by the Ice Lake Territory.

Of course they could not have imagined that Ricardo was already in the second ring.

The time is so short, a certain amount of energy and hard work have been spent, and coupled with talent and luck, it is within the acceptable and understandable range to be promoted to an official wizard now.

"Well…"

Before Marquis Winston could finish his response, he felt a majestic pressure pressing directly onto his chest.

He didn't even have time to react before he sat down straight.

Sitting on the ground, my butt landed directly with a bang.

If he leaned forward a certain amount, he might even be sitting on the ground.

"This is…"

Winston didn't react for a while.

He mobilized his quasi-second-level body-refining wizard magic power, but the majestic pressure on his body lightened a little, and it was still impossible to shake it...

Second ring! ?

Winston waited a few beats before finally reacting.

But he was pressed heavily to the ground at this time, and he could not speak at all under the majestic pressure.

"Do not talk."

Ricardo felt the peculiar difference of malice, and the little cursed power behind it.

His eyes shifted from Winston to Vanas, the God of War Church on the side.

He did not have a good impression of this member of the God of War Church who had cooperated with the Storm Marquis Tagula to extract the ice and snow divinity of the Mirror Temple, which indirectly led to the death of Lorient.

At this time, I felt something weird about Vanas.

The wizard's force field directed at Winston immediately expanded to Vanas.

and…

Added with the power of the world-purifying force field!

At this time, Ricardo also happened to walk in front of Winston, and the range of the force field at this time was enough to cover him!

"ah!!"

Vanas felt the same majestic pressure, and suddenly screamed, and then he fell to his knees, and his whole body began to emit a faint black flame.

"Can it be purified?"

"As the bishop of the church, you can actually be purified?"

Ricardo was a little surprised.