Chapter 68

Baron Duwei signed the IOU in a nearly humiliating manner.

The total amount was as high as two million gold coins.

"Sir... This amount seems a bit off..."

After signing, Baron Duwei wiped his cold sweat and cautiously said, "I remember it should have been only a bit over one and a half million..."

"Hmm?"

Tang En said without hesitation, "You made a mistake in your calculations."

"Uh... Alright..."

Duwei silently cursed his long-dead math teacher once again.

Tang En put away the IOU, "Take me to the treasury."

"Ah!?"

Baron Duwei was on the verge of tears, "Didn't we agree to ask the family for the money?"

"This is interest."

Tang En looked at Baron Duwei with a blank expression, "Do you think I would let it end so easily after I got involved?"

Baron Duwei naturally dared not say anything and obediently led Tang En to the treasury of the lord's mansion.

"Wow! Gold coins! So many gold coins!"

Eliya's eyes sparkled; it was the first time the little girl had seen so many gold coins, and the impact was so great that she almost doubted her own eyes.

"Sir, there are about three hundred thousand gold coins here... that..."

Baron Duwei rubbed his hands, "How much interest do you want, sir?"

"Of course, all of it."

"Ah?"

"I said, all of it."

Tang En sneered, "These gold coins are of no use to you anymore; they are all mine now."

After saying that, Tang En waved his hand, and the Mage's Hand lifted the chests and sent them into his backpack.

"Space equipment!"

Baron Duwei's eyes widened in shock, his mind filled with disbelief.

Even the Cardiel family didn't have many pieces of space equipment, and a mere rural lord of Ellington actually had space equipment!?

Who would believe such a thing if he told them!?

Even more terrifying was the capacity of this space equipment—good heavens! He had already stuffed ten chests in and it wasn't even full!

"Sir! You can't do this! Leave me some!"

Duwei panicked; watching the gold coins disappear felt like being cut to the bone.

"It's not up to you to teach me how to do things."

Tang En sneered as he emptied the treasury. He didn't really care about the amount of gold coins; what made him happy was that there were a few chests of magic crystals in the treasury, which he naturally accepted with a smile.

Looking at the empty treasury, Baron Duwei seemed to have aged a dozen years in an instant.

Gone, all gone!

The gold coins he had painstakingly collected, and those expensive magic crystals... Oh God, if he couldn't deliver this batch of magic crystals on time, that person would definitely kill him!

After plundering the treasury, Tang En looked at Baron Duwei again, his expression very calm.

"Now, our accounts are settled. Get lost."

Tang En kicked Duwei away. He really wanted to kill Baron Duwei, but Kasparmi and Ellington were different; the commotion here would attract the attention of the capital. If he killed him, trouble would soon follow.

However, Tang En certainly wouldn't let him off so easily. After leaving, he planned to find Locke and reveal the news of Duwei kidnapping the little girl to him.

When the Mercenary Guild exposed this scandal, it would be much more effective than him taking action.

Even the nobles in the capital couldn't confront the Mercenary Guild head-on—their scandals were all in the hands of the Mercenary Guild.

Seeing that Tang En didn't intend to kill him, Duwei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, as long as he was still alive, he could earn the gold coins back.

Duwei made a decision: he would raise the tax by fifty percent this year, and by next year, it should be about right!

Tang En was about to leave with Eliya.

"Big Brother Lord, why let him go?"

Eliya wrinkled her nose, "He kidnapped Eliya, and he must have kidnapped other children too. Why not kill such a bad guy?"

"Oh?"

Tang En paused, looking at Eliya, "Eliya doesn't like him?"

"Um-hum!"

Eliya nodded vigorously, "He's a big bad guy! A big pervert! He even appeared in front of Eliya without clothes, disgusting!"

"Is that so, then I'll kill him."

Tang En nodded, turned around, and threw his longsword. The sword whistled through the air, piercing Baron Duwei's body and pinning his corpse to the wall.

Duwei's mind hadn't caught up yet, and he struggled painfully, "But... we agreed... not to kill me..."

"Oh, sorry, I changed my mind," Tang En waved his hand without turning back, "Eliya hates you, so you might as well die."

"You... this... damn... pervert... controller..."

After saying this with great effort, Duwei's head slumped, and he died completely.

Although he didn't originally intend to kill Duwei, Tang En wasn't afraid of anything now that he had. It would just be some trouble from the capital.

If the Cardiel family really sent experts to avenge him, it would be a good opportunity to test the strength of the high-level fighters in Plandar.

Killing Duwei felt like swatting a fly.

With a light "snap," a letter fell from Duwei's corpse.

Tang En, who was about to leave the treasury, paused, and the envelope flew into his hand.

"Kamen?"

Tang En frowned at the name, opened the envelope, and read it, his frown deepening.

The letter revealed very sinister information. It turned out that Baron Duwei wasn't a pervert who liked little girls!

He was actually collecting little girls for someone named Kamen, who seemed to be using the girls for some evil ritual. Baron Duwei had a deal with him, providing girls and magic crystals in exchange for powerful abilities and a longer life after the ritual was completed.

Kamen looked like a cultist, and Duwei was the one who had been tempted.

"Assisting evil, he deserved to die."

Unfortunately...

Tang En shook his head, "The information in this letter is too limited."

He pondered for a moment, then took Eliya back upstairs to Duwei's study and expanded his mental power, but found no second letter.

"It seems this guy destroyed the previous letters..."

Tang En held the envelope, pondering for a moment, then made a copy of the letter and put the original back in Duwei's corpse.

Although he wanted to deal with Kamen, the letter didn't reveal Kamen's location, and he had no way to find him. Besides, Ellington was in ruins, and he had no time to waste on an unknown villain.

"Big Brother, there are so many people outside..."

Eliya, a bit scared, hugged Tang En's neck, her body trembling slightly.

She rarely saw so many people rushing over with such hostility, so she was very afraid.

"Don't worry, we'll go straight back to the inn."

Tang En patted her head and teleported back to the inn with Eliya.

After tidying up their clothes, Tang En and Eliya went downstairs.

In Plandar, the boundary between inns and taverns was very blurred. Many taverns had inns on the second floor, and many inns had taverns on the first floor, so they immediately entered a noisy tavern.

The news of what happened at the lord's mansion had already spread, and the adventurers drinking beer and eating roasted meat were loudly discussing the events, speculating about who had broken in.

"I bet that person is in for a bad time," a local adventurer said with a smug look, "Duwei's butler is not simple..."

"Og? Isn't he just a butler?"

"Ha! A butler who always carries such a strong smell of blood? Anyone with a bit of experience can tell that Og has killed many people. Honestly, I've seen him, and I really hate that smell. It's as disgusting as rats in the sewers."

"Anyway, this time Duwei is in big trouble. There's no movement in the lord's mansion yet, and the guards are still hesitating about whether to rush in..."

Just as he finished speaking, someone burst into the tavern, "Latest news! The guards have stormed the lord's mansion! They found the bodies of the guards!"

"Boom!"

The tavern erupted into a second wave of heated discussion, this time focusing on whether Duwei, Og, or the murderer would survive.

"Latest news! Og's body has been found—Og died from spitting blood!"

"Latest news! Baron Duwei is dead! He died in the treasury, pierced through the body by a sword and pinned to the wall!"

"Latest news! The guards found a letter on Baron Duwei. Guess what? Baron Duwei was the mastermind behind the kidnapping of little girls in Kasparmi!"

"What!?"

"Baron Duwei did it!? Is this news true!?"

"Of course it's true!"

The man reporting the news said confidently, "The Mercenary Guild has withdrawn the task, and it's almost certain that the mastermind was Baron Duwei and his butler Og!"

"Damn! What a waste of my two thousand gold coins!"

This was clearly a mercenary who had taken the task.

"Latest news! The mastermind behind the kidnapping has been confirmed—it was definitely Baron Duwei! A secret room has been found in the lord's mansion! The recently missing little girls are inside! They have been released and returned home!"

Each new piece of news sent the adventurers in the tavern into a more excited state. No one had expected that the long-standing kidnapping case in Kasparmi would be solved because of Duwei's death!

Even more surprising was that the culprit was Baron Duwei!

A lord kidnapping his own subjects was unimaginable and would inevitably lead to his own downfall!

Following the confirmation of this news, the mysterious person who killed Baron Duwei and exposed this evil scandal became the focus of everyone's attention.

Unfortunately, the guards searched the lord's mansion thoroughly but found no trace of the murderer.

The people of Kasparmi now referred to the murderer as a mysterious hero.

Tang En sat in a corner, slowly eating roasted meat and drinking beer with Eliya, finding it very amusing to watch the changing expressions of the people.

"Hey? Mr. Tang En?"

A voice full of surprise sounded behind him.

Tang En looked up and saw it was Locke. === PS: Vote, vote, vote!! The top voter is myself, which is really embarrassing! ===

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