Chapter 99 - Dark Elf (1/2)
Translator: Yang_Wenli Editor: Yang_Wenli
“Archmage Gray is the winner of the competition. Everyone, thank you all for your participation.”
The fat ball-like nobleman who started the whole betting session gathered the gold coins on the table. After distributing the gold coins to the people who won the gamble, he placed away the remaining gold coins into his own pouch.
In the end, this gambling session only attracted the interest of some attendants that followed nobles to participate in the World Expo. After the Hearthstone demonstration ended, the crowd’s attention shifted to the next arcanotech device.
The fat nobleman who started the gamble walked into the crowd. He chose to keep his distance from the center of the Crystal Palace. His nimble footsteps were quite inharmonious with his size.
He continued to walk past the crowd and arrived at an empty corner. Then, he walked past a marble sculpture and disappeared. In his place was a tall and slim individual wearing a neat mage robe. The shadow of the hood covered that person’s face. One could only see the purple hair falling down from the side of the hooded robe and the special dark-purple skin color characteristic to dark elves.
The dark elf was fiddling with the coin-filled purse. He winded around the various countries’ exhibition halls and arrived before Farucci’s exhibition hall. Then, he entered through the entrance.
“To be able to enjoy the Grand Duchess of Blackwood’s renowned entertainment at a time like this, I, an unremarkable nobody, am truly humbled.”
After walking into Farucci’s exhibition hall, the dark elf walked into a small unremarkable room located inside the exhibition hall.
Madam Schroder was standing in the center of the room. Minutes ago, she was discussing with the other countries’ nobles present in the Crystal Palace about what was going on in Norland recently.
“An unremarkable nobody?”
Madam Schroder shot a glance at the dark elf in white. Under the shadow of the hood, she could see the insignia of a black bird on that dark elf’s neck area.
That was their symbol. Madam Schroder had only heard about them.
Compared to major nations with thousands of years of history, the city-state of Norland was akin to a tottering infant still learning to walk. Merely, the knowledge this infant country obtained from the underground remnants allowed it to be able to defeat its surrounding countries.
Apart from that, Norland was open to all races. Because of that, Norland became a country of multiple different races. Even though humans were the most numerous and dwarves the second-most, there were many unknown races living in the shadows of Norland. Likewise, there were also a lot of secret organizations.
When even the Necromancy Association was able to establish themselves in this city, who could possibly imagine how many races that humanity were incapable of accepting were living in this magic academic filled city?
After all, beneath Norland was a city multiple times larger than Norland itself.
Among those secret organizations, the most well-known would be an organization with the symbol of a black bird.
“I don’t care who you are and what you might be, as long as you’re able to give me the information I seek, all of these shall be yours.”
On the table before Madam Schroder were two piles of gold coins. Just from a glance, there were at least two thousand. Besides the coins, there was also a pile of gems.
One truly couldn’t help but gasp in admiration at how wealthy the high ranking nobles were.
“Grand Duchess of Blackwood, I guarantee that I’ve obtained all the information that you seek. But, while I am able to inform you of a portion of them, I will have to keep the remaining portion confidential.”
The dark elf tidied up her robe. As a professional working in the shadows, wearing all white was truly quite conspicuous and unbefitting of her occupation.
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