<h4>Chapter 123: The Special Mission of Morston n’s Miss that Came From Afar (Part 1)</h4>


    Trantor: The Light


    Editor: Entelechy


    Clyde originally came to “Moston” Hotel together with “Radiant Saintess” Suhiya and his younger sister. Here, he happened to encounter the other three saintesses of Light Church.


    During the dinner, Clyde received an invitation card from the hotel’s behind-the-scenes operator, Morston n, one of the three big tycoon ns that secretly controlled Adrian Empire. Morston n’s special envoy had delivered an invitation card and said that their Miss had invited him to discuss a matter. Although Clyde didn’t want to have any rtions with the tycoon ns, considering that the other party was ady and had presented him with 10,000 gold coins, he reluctantly epted the appointment. If she had been a young master, Clyde would have directly rejected the invitation.


    Now, the most important trouble facing Steinbeck Fief was Marquis Charles as well as his supporters, the tycoon Dous n that controlled all trade of Adrian Empire, who challenged it for the Needham ins. Dous n oftenpeted with Morston n; otherwise, Clyde would have ignored this invitation.


    Before the appointment, Clyde made his little sister, bloodkin Lolita Lucifer, stay to apany Light Church’s wasted saintesses. If Suhiya or the others asked for his whereabouts, she would excuse him. Lucifer epted this task with pleasure and pledged not to take advantage of this asion toy her hands on the drunken women of Light Church.


    Morston n had arranged for a beautiful ck-haired knight named Lun to invite Clyde. Themander of Adrian Empire’s Imperial Knight Regiment, she had a deep friendship with Morston n’s Miss and was willing to run errands for her as a close female friend. Along the way, Clyde chatted with this beautiful knight who seemed aloof and cold. Although Lun’s ck pupils unintentionally revealed her vignce, she politely didn’t avoid Clyde’s questions and didn’t hide many matters.


    This beautiful pdin had an unexpected connection with Clyde. After chatting, Clyde discovered that Lun was a schoolmate of Alicia from the same knight academy. Lun was actually her senior schoolmate. However, this senior schoolmate never suspected that this man who had no outstanding features besides being handsome was bullying her junior schoolmate in private.


    “That girl Alicia is too softhearted. I heard she married the Third Young Master Hal, the son of Earl Harrison, a Suzerain of Adide’s Atad City. It’s such a pity. All contact was lost after that Undead cmity. In all likelihood, the facts bode ill rather than well.”


    “Miss Lun, don’t worry. Alicia might have escaped. Light Goddess blesses and protects kind-hearted people.”


    “Mister Clyde, thank you for your kind words, but I cannot count on that. Due to that Undead cmity, even the idol I admire, Sacred Moon Dragon Knight Princess Verly, is missing. Even a dragon knight met misfortune, junior Alicia is just a pdin. I fear...”


    Pdin Lun had a forlorn look. She didn’t notice that Clyde was struggling to notugh. If this beautiful pdin knew that her junior schoolmate and idol had shared a bed with him just a few hours ago without a thread of cloth on them and done all kinds of ambiguous things, he wondered what kind of amusing expression she would show. Thinking this, Clyde involuntarily sized up her figure. This beautiful pdin was tall and slender. He felt that she absolutely wouldn’t feel inferior to Miss Pdin Alicia.


    “We have arrived. Mister Clyde, what are you thinking?” Noticing his gaze, Lun hesitated.


    “Nothing, it’s just I don’t know Miss Morais. I wonder why she is looking for me.”


    “Mister Clyde, there’s no need to be nervous. She just wants to discuss business, very simple.”


    Under Lun’s guidance, Clyde arrived at the secret meeting, “Morton” Hotel’s ninth floor, the top floor a luxurious privatepartment was located. At the moment, Clyde was thinking about how to take down this beautiful Pdin Lun. However, he couldn’t speak of this wicked matter; fortunately, Clyde cleverly responded with some reasonable lies to avoid being seen through.


    Clyde walked into this luxurious privatepartment, and with the illumination of multiplemps, he saw Miss Morais. Miss Morais wore golden, alchemist-specific attire. Clyde had seen simr attire on Second Miss Reba, but judging from the profession rank badge on her shoulder, Morais was quite a few grades better than Reba. She really wasn’t a useless flower vasedy.


    Miss Morais had beautiful x-colored hair and light blue pupils. Out of a professional need to avoid careless idents that might happen during alchemy experiments, Morias had tied her long hair into a ponytail. She also wore very big golden-framed circr sses, appearing to be an astute and capable secretary. Unfortunately, she wasn’t wearing an office suit; otherwise, she would have truly resembled one.


    Although she hade into contact with mysterious medicaments for a long time, Morais had fair skin, unaffected by her alchemist profession. In contrast, Reba, the Second Miss of Earl Harrison’s family, just focused on the study of alchemy and wasn’t as astute as Morias in the practical aspects.


    Alchemy was a very expensive profession. In Ximengsi Continent, this profession’s level of squandering money far surpassed most other magic-ss professions. Physical professions were simply iparable. Even for the knight profession that squandered the most money among the physical professions, not counting mounts, the price of a Dragon Knight’s set of equipment might still not match the price of refining a single rare potion.


    The alchemist profession was ssified as a magic profession, but in reality, most alchemists’ magic levels were very low. They couldn’t even defeat Magic Apprentices who only knew the low-leveled Fireball spell. The human alchemists of Ximengsi Continent didn’t have high requirements for magic; being wealthy enough to purchase various expensive alchemy materials was enough.


    “Mister Clyde, please sit here. Lun should have told you about mymission already!”


    “Say, Miss Morais, I roughly understand the concept of proxy warfare. Merely, why choose me... No, our Steinbeck Fief. You should have investigated that our Steinbeck Fief has just over ten thousand troops. Even if you sponsor us, we might not be able to gather even 20,000 troops, which is basically iparable to Marquis Charles’s army of 120,000 troops.”


    “Mister Clyde, you are truly frank. If... if I said I chose ording to my intuition, would you believe it?”


    “I don’t believe that. Intuition is often inurate. Believing in miracles is something for the devotees of Light Church. If I remember correctly, Miss Morias, you don’t believe in Light Church. In addition, an astute merchant like you would not depend on intuition with stakes like these.”


    In the luxurious privatepartment, Clyde chatted with Miss Morias. Pdin Lun was sitting beside Morias while quietly drinking tea, resembling apetent bodyguard. Although Clyde cared little about this discussion, Lun was themander of Adrian Empire’s Imperial Knight Regiment, so it was impossible for her to not care about this, but she pretended to no care.


    “Mister Clyde, then I’ll just say it. Ai, I can’t find anyone else that can help other than you.”


    “Miss Morais, I’m a bit unclear about this. Even with the financial resources of your family, you still can’t find a hired thug?”


    “No, it’s not an issue of money, but rather...”


    Morias was very frank. She didn’t conceal her ns from Clyde. The issue of the ownership of the Needham ins was a point of contention between Dous and Morston n. After suffering the sessive invasions of Augusta and Franconia Empire, most of the grain production areas of Adrian Empire had taken a heavy hit, indirectly destroying Morston n’s earnings for this year.


    Like the saying “misfortunes nevere alone,” Dous n took advantage of their difficulties and demanded Morston n to reduce the price of grain when selling to them; therefore, they could sell itter at a higher price and make a hefty profit. If not, Dous threatened to purchase cheap grain from other empires and rely on their trading abilities to hit the markets of Adrian Empire with cheap grain and suppress grain prices. In that case, Morston n would lose even more.


    Marquis Charles had received the support of Dous n, intending to forcibly upy the Needham ins that had remained discarded for many years. There, Dous n nned to secretly build arge-scale granary to store the cheap grains they had purchased from other empires. As long as the warehouse were established, they could suppress the grain prices at any time, dealing a blow to their rival.


    Morston n had no choice but to look for a proxy to help them seize the Needham ins. Dous n had already spent arge amount of capital to build arge-scale granary. Once the ownership of the Needham ins changed, the situation would reverse. After losing arge amount of capital, Dous n would not be able to pay attention to Morston n for a long time.


    However, most of the aristocrats of Adrian Empire already had fixed patrons. Unless their original financial backers went bankrupt, those aristocrats would not easily change their financial backers. Near the Needham ins, only Steinbeck Fief didn’t have a financial backer. Miss Morias had made a special trip to see whether she could be its financer. Her ability to judge such matters was extraordinary. Based on some simple collected information, she was able to easily determine the true ruler of Steinbeck Fief. It was not the public Suzerain Princess Saras, but rather Clyde, who had taken the post of being an administrative officer.