The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Of course not." Seeing that Leo seemed to have misunderstood his meaning, Frank Fussen immediately explained: "I have learned about Jason's situation, he has a strong talent, before coming here, in a regular meeting He has already been included in the training list..."

"Wait, don't you think the conditions you offered are a bit strange?" Leo interrupted Frank Fusen, and said with a chuckle: "Jason seems to be trained to serve your special bureau, but you use this as an excuse?" The terms of trading with me, it's like using my things to train you talents, I don't seem to see any benefits."

"At least you can get some reliable friends." Frank Fusen flashed a look of embarrassment, coughed twice, and said.

Frank Fussen's mood is extremely embarrassing now, even though he had expected such a situation to happen in advance, but when things came to an end, after being asked by Leo in this way, he still wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in, and his heart Apart from embarrassment, there is more resentment towards the guy who came up with such a bad idea.

Although Frank Fussen is the director of the Special Bureau, he seems to have a lot of power, but in fact his power is limited to a combat team under his command, because the special bureau has a lot of authority, so Congress, in order to prevent the special bureau from becoming a monopoly, So they set up some branches within the Special Bureau.

These branches are not subordinate to the director of the special bureau, but to the Congress. In this way, the power of the director of the special bureau is greatly weakened. Sometimes it is not as good as the head of a branch department. Generally speaking, the director of the special bureau More like a mascot that acts as a deterrent.

After learning about Leo's own strength from various channels, the internal meeting participants at the highest level of the Special Bureau agreed that there should be no conflict with Leo, but rather, they should win over Leo.

Making this decision was not only based on Leo's own strength, but more importantly, Leo's innocence and status as a retired soldier made everyone present at the time think that Leo was a patriot, and it was worth paying some price to win him over.

However, in the subsequent discussion with Leo about what conditions should be offered for the pharmaceutical transaction, the participants of the meeting became different.

Among them, those who are loyal to the royal family feel that Leo should be loyal to the royal family from Leo's past behaviors. , then it can also increase the influence of the royal faction in the special bureau in a disguised form, so their proposal is to offer extremely generous trading conditions to Leo.

After seeing the Royal Faction's proposal, the Congress faction naturally thought of the other party's plan. Just like the speculation in the Royal Faction's mind, the Congress Faction also felt that Leo seemed to be closer to the Royal Family. Although they are also very interested in the wizard potion refined by Leo, they don't want Leo to really become a partner of the special bureau, because in that way, most of the people who are cured by the wizard potion They will all be grateful to Leo, and thus change camps.

Therefore, when discussing the transaction conditions, the king's faction tried to obstruct this matter. Taking advantage of the number of the king's faction and using financial constraints as an excuse, they gradually erased the original transaction conditions. If it hadn't been for the previous meeting Passed the resolution that the wizard potion must be traded, maybe they have already removed Leo from the list of collaborators.

In this way, when the task of negotiating the drug deal with Leo fell into the hands of Frank Fussen, the bottom line of the above conditions was pitifully small, let alone Leo, even when Frank Fussen saw this condition for the first time , think this is simply nonsense.

It's a pity that this nonsense transaction condition was actually passed at the meeting. If it wasn't for the fact that there were no other more suitable negotiators within the Special Bureau, Frank Fussen would have turned around and left at that time. It was precisely his sense of responsibility. It made him fall into an embarrassing situation now.

When Leo saw Frank Fussen uttering such absurd conditions so confidently, he couldn't help but have the urge to laugh, because he also saw that Frank Fussen had to bite the bullet and say these words, which was definitely not his fault. Intentionally, from this, he can also speculate that the power struggle within the Special Bureau has reached the bottom of the absurdity.

Therefore, instead of asking Frank Fussen again, he turned to the old wizard and asked, "Do you think I should accept such a condition from the Special Bureau?"

"Acceptable." The old wizard gave an unexpected answer. This answer not only surprised Leo, but even Frank Fussen was very surprised, and looked at the old wizard in doubt, wondering why the other party would speak for him .

However, the two soon realized that the old wizard was not helping the Special Bureau at all, or that he was not helping the Congress of the Special Bureau. They only heard him continue to say: "You can actually buy the potion for the Special Bureau." The Ministry of Supervision, I believe they should be willing to pay enough..."

"No!" Before the old wizard finished speaking, Frank Fussen immediately interrupted the old wizard and gave the old wizard a hard look. He didn't want his hard work to benefit the royal family in the end.

Although, as the director of the special bureau, he has always been on the neutral side and has never intervened in any struggles within the special bureau, but he is very clear that with the return of the Poseidon scepter to the royal family, the royal family's prestige has been increasing day by day. If this trend continues, the influence of the royal family in the Special Bureau may soon surpass that of the Congress. By then, many things he does not want to see may happen, so he must avoid a situation that breaks the balance within the Special Bureau. That's why he agreed to come and discuss the drug deal with Leo.

However, after stopping the old wizard, Frank Fussen fell into a difficult situation again, because he couldn't come up with any exciting conditions to persuade Leo to sell wizard potions to the special bureau.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere in the room became a little awkward.

However, soon Frank Fussen seemed to think of something, and said, "I have something that you may be interested in that can be used as a trade item."

"What item?" Leo seemed to have been waiting for Frank Fussen's words, and responded immediately.

In fact, Leo had already thought about selling wizard healing potions to the special bureau before that, but he couldn't find a suitable opportunity.

With Leo's continuous accumulation of wizard knowledge, he can also refine various wizard potions, and his alchemy ability has also rapidly improved. He has been able to easily refine potions like wizard healing potions up.

However, in order to avoid disturbing the market and causing the price of wizard healing potions to drop, he did not sell all the refined wizard healing potions to the black market, but only sold a small part, no more than five or six bottles at a time, and the rest More than 20 bottles have been collected by himself.

After several months of accumulation, Leo has hundreds of bottles of wizard healing potions on hand. A small amount of these potions are placed in the safe of the apartment, and the rest are placed in the storage space, which is carried by Leo so that they can be used when needed. can come in handy.

However, Leo recently discovered that as his strength began to increase, there were very few places where he could use wizard potions, and because of the increase in life level, wizard potions did not play a great role on him.

For this reason, Leo also had the idea of ​​selling these wizard healing potions, and besides the black market, the best buyers in the Kingdom of England are naturally only the Special Bureau and the royal family, so now we are negotiating with Frank Fussen and Wizard Otto The matter of the drug deal with him was exactly what he wanted.

Although judging from the performance of the royal family, it is not a big problem to reach a deal with the royal family, but it is not in his interest to just sell the medicine to the royal family. He still needs a rival of the royal family to appear. A conversation with Frank Fussen.

However, Leo expects that the trade items that the Special Bureau will offer are not pure money, but something of other value.

The Special Bureau of the Kingdom of England was established very early. At first, it was only created by a few court knights. With its later development, it has now become a third force besides the royal family and the Congress.

After so many years, there must be a large number of special items in the special bureau, and Leo is very interested in these items, so even if Frank Fussen just offered good conditions, as long as there is nothing he wants in the conditions, Then he will also choose to put Frank Fussen aside.

"Based on our investigation and understanding of your Excellency, we found that you seem to be very interested in knowledge," Frank Fussen was extremely confident. He felt that it would not be difficult for him to convince Leo, so he straightforwardly told them about their investigation and surveillance. Come out, and then continued: "I believe that you must be interested in this item. I wonder if you have heard of the god of eternal wisdom?"

Hearing Frank Fusen's words, Leo couldn't help being stunned for a moment, because it was so coincidental that he talked to Bailu about the fallen god of eternal wisdom during the day, but at night someone mentioned this god again, and Leo couldn't help but I wonder if this was secretly arranged by Bailu.

Frank Fussen didn't know what was going on in Leo's mind. After seeing Leo for a long time, he understood that Leo already knew the existence of this ancient god, so he continued, saying: "According to the legend, the eternal wisdom The gods possess all the knowledge of the world, which touches the deepest mysteries of the world."

"Do you have a way for me to get this wisdom?" Leo asked with interest.

"Of course it's impossible. No one in the world can withstand the knowledge of eternal wisdom, and I have no way to transfer the wisdom of a god to you." Frank Fussen shook his head, but changed the subject, and said: "But , I can let you have a part of the knowledge of eternal wisdom."

Before Leo asked what the other party should do to obtain some knowledge of eternal wisdom, the old wizard at the side said in surprise: "Frank, you are too bold, even if you are the director of the special bureau, you have no right to use that knowledge." thing."

"Yes, I am indeed not qualified to use that thing," Frank Fussen nodded, admitted the old wizard's statement, but added: "But don't forget, according to the achievements I have made in the past, I should once The opportunity to use that thing, I can completely transfer this opportunity to Lord Leo."

The old wizard shook his head and said, "This is not possible, there is no precedent, neither the Congress nor the royal family will agree."

"No, there is a precedent for this. Don't forget Peter Whispering." Frank Fussen retorted and reminded the old wizard.

Hearing this, Leo already had a vague understanding of what Frank Fussen mentioned. After all, the story about Peter Whispering has already become a household name in the Kingdom of England and has become a must-have bed for every family. head book.

In this story, Peter Qiaozui was just a stuttering and stupid groom at first, but by a coincidence, he saved the life of the palace minister at that time. The palace minister hoped to repay him and asked him what reward he wanted , he replied that he hoped to stop stuttering and become wiser.

After learning of Peter's wish, the minister of the palace decided to give Peter the chance to meet the gods and get enlightenment from the gods, so Peter got this opportunity, successfully met the gods, and Under the inspiration of the gods, he became the smartest person in the Kingdom of England and the most eloquent person.

If the story reaches here, it can barely be regarded as a short story of good and good, and evil and evil, but in fact the story is not over. After Smartmouth Peter became smarter, he could easily discover some secrets from other people's speech, and after he discovered these secrets, he couldn't keep them. Instead, he told the secrets to show off that he has a clever mouth.

In the beginning, these secrets were just private affairs between servants and maids, but later he revealed more and more secrets, and the identities of the involved parties became higher and higher, and in the end even the king was involved .

As a result, the king ordered him to be executed before Qiaozui Peter discovered and revealed more secrets, and the person who executed the execution order happened to be the palace minister who Qiaozui Peter had saved back then.

At the end of the story, the palace minister asked Qiaozui Peter what his last wish was, and Qiaozui Peter told the palace minister that he still wanted to return to the original stupid and stuttering groom.

For a long time, Leo thought that this was just a fable, but now through the dialogue between the two, Leo found that the story might be true, and the divine revelation in the story that made Peter clever and eloquent , should be part of the eternal wisdom that Frank Fussen said.

Frank Fussen said at this time: "The Special Bureau once accidentally obtained an artifact of eternal wisdom. As long as you touch this artifact, you can obtain divine inspiration, and how much spiritual enlightenment you get depends on everyone's own ability. Some can get as smart as Twitchy Peter, and some can get nothing at all."