Chapter 48 The muzzle on the forehead

After leaving the Alchemy Council, Byrne felt deep in his heart that he was still unsatisfied. The feeling of spending a lot of money would be addictive to almost anyone.

Then he recalled the aliens who were auctioned off, expressing slight sympathy but unable to act as a "savior".

But suddenly, the extremely beautiful elf figure under the moonlight appeared in Byrne's mind.

Byrne shook his head and said to himself: "That was probably the last time we met. I hope she won't fall into the hands of those people."

When he was young, he had unrealistic expectations and even some romantic thoughts about meeting the elves again, or even meeting them again.

But after getting married, Byrne's wife's position in his heart was only Margaret.

"I don't know who is behind the Alchemy Council's auction. I'm afraid I will come here again in the future."

Just when he was about to leave completely, he suddenly stared at the dark gold mask for a while, suddenly stopped, and quickly turned around and returned to the deserted alley.

He put on the mask and re-entered the porch to see the confused silver-faced waiters.

Byrne said in an extremely calm tone: "I want to buy a few more alchemical masks with 'concealment' effects."

After the auction is over, it stands to reason that the guests will not come back, but leave in a hurry without wanting to stay, as if escaping from a dangerous cave.

Byrne, however, was one of the few guests who kept coming back.

When he made the request to buy the alchemy mask, the silver-faced waiters quickly responded.

A very tall silver-faced waiter walked up, bowed slightly, and replied in a very polite manner.

"Sorry, our masks are limited to one per invitee and no more will be sold."

"So that's it, I understand."

In fact, Byrne was not surprised by the answer, and his whim was just an attempt.

Because the "concealment" effect possessed by the alchemy mask is too practical.

The leading silver-faced waiter continued with a soft voice and a hint of smile:

"Dear guest, there is one more important thing I must tell you. The 'concealment' effect of the alchemy mask can only take effect here. You'd better not use it to deal with problems outside."

Byrne fell into deep thought, feeling deeply disappointed with the alchemy mask.

He could immediately understand why.

Otherwise, people would wear the mask of the Alchemy Council every time they wanted to do something they didn't want to see anyone doing, and then the so-called secret organization would be made known to almost everyone.

Leaving the dark alley, Byrne came to the prepared carriage, took off the dark gold mask and put it in a special box.

The coachman responsible for driving is Tio, the guard captain who has worked for the Fisher family for many years. He has been Byrne's swordsmanship teacher in the past.

Tio was a boatswain who worked for John the Trader for more than ten years. Later, he refused to go to sea again because he almost died in a shipwreck.

A few years ago, his savings were dwindling. In order to support his wife and children, he came to the Fisher family for re-employment under John's introduction. Because of his good skills and rich experience, Lucius appointed him as the family's guard captain.

After returning to the hotel, Byrne did not go to bed immediately, but thought about visiting Mr. King tomorrow, planning to discuss things about the food processing factory.

The money has been spent, and what he has to do is to completely reject the investment invitation from the food processing plant.

It was already dark now. After thinking about it, Byrne went to bed and got up at around eight o'clock in the morning.

However, Mr. Jin is an "inverted person" who has no morning and noon at all, gets up in the afternoon, and is extremely active at night, so now is not the time to visit him.

He thought about what to do next:

"The guards and servants are very tired after traveling for so long from Nasir to Fein City. We should have another day of rest tomorrow and visit the father-in-law and Baron Hoffmann of the Hoffmann family the day after tomorrow."

The long journey is indeed a troublesome thing, but unfortunately there is a limit to the speed of the carriage. Byrne couldn't help but think that it would be much faster if he had the luxury of using magic to travel.

The Fischer family spent a lot of money at the auction, and the goods will be sent to Nasir within half a month.

Waiting until after three o'clock in the afternoon, Byrne, his guards and servants set off in a carriage and arrived in front of Mr. Jin's villa in the city center.

"I'm Byrne Fisher. I'd like to meet Mr. King. I have something I want to discuss in detail."

Byrne announced his name, and soon he was greeted by the butler and went to the living room to wait for a while.

The polite butler walked up, smiled and said to Byrne, who was already familiar with him:

"Mr. Byrne, we meet again. Mr. Jin just said that he can meet you in the study in about ten minutes. At about five o'clock, Mr. Jin will receive other guests, so you will not be left to have dinner."

Leave yourself more than half an hour, Byrne thought, it should be enough.

Because the cooperation with the Fisher family was very successful in making money, the two parties naturally looked at each other more and more favorably.

Over the past four years, his relationship with Mr. King has gotten better and better.

Byrne knew very well that a lot of the money earned by the Fisher family for Mr. King actually went to Viscount Best.

Viscount Best Leon is the head of the "Lion Family", Mr. Jin's brother-in-law, and the lord of Fein City. He is just fifty-three years old this year and is still in the prime of life.

He has already reached the second level, and has even reached the metamorphosis of a powerful knight, but it is basically impossible to reach the monarch further in his lifetime.

The two extraordinary bloodlines that the Leon family has been stably inheriting are the "Bronze Lion" and the "Giant Stone Ape", both of which are bloodline powers derived from high-level magic beasts.

At the same time, the Leon family has a 17% chance of inheriting the "protection" type of spellcasting talent.

The entire Lion family has been operating in Fein City for hundreds of years, and the core family members have spread out to nearly a hundred people.

In comparison, the Eagle family's foundation and power are much weaker, and it can be said that the strength on paper is basically no match for the Leon family.

Their biggest trump card is the support of Earl Hoven, the governor of the East Coast.

Although Earl Hoven always smiled with Viscount Best at the banquet, the two of them were even close friends who had known each other for many years.

However, everyone in the upper class circle of the East Coast knew that the sparks between Earl Hoven and Viscount Best in private had already broken all over the ground, and now all the industries owned by the Lion family are being eroded step by step.

But so far, Viscount Best and the family behind him have not been seriously injured, because Mr. Jin has a very strong ability to make money in business and has been responsible for handling various major businesses of the Lion Family.

Ten minutes later, Byrne looked up at the navy clock on the wall. The time was a little after four o'clock.

He came to the second floor of the villa with ease and knocked on the door of the study, but he did not hear Mr. Jin's low voice shouting "Come in".

Byrne was stunned for a moment. "Deep memory" showed that Mr. Jin would always shout "Come in", but today's situation was a little different.

Then he heard a "crackling" sound of something breaking, and felt something was wrong, so he pushed the door open.

"Mr. Jin..."

Byrne just wanted to speak but stopped, his eyes gradually became low, and his eyebrows slightly frowned.

It's broken.

The huge body weighing hundreds of pounds lay on the ground, and the bald man's eyes stared at the ceiling. His eyes were full of anger and lingering fear, as if he had seen something the most terrifying thing in the world.

There was a clearly visible bullet hole at his temple, and blood plasma flowed out.

An extremely delicate alchemical flintlock rifle fell next to Mr. Jin's hand, and there was still a residual smell of smoke in the air.

Dead!

"Damn it!"

Byrne took a deep breath, didn't want to touch anything, and retreated vigilantly, even suspecting that the murderer might still be nearby.

"Mr. Byrne, why are you here too?"

The sudden voice not far away made Byrne stunned for a moment, and he immediately turned around and saw two people.

One was the butler of Mr. Jin's family, and the other was the local sheriff of Finn City, the "metamorphic" knight transcendent of the Lion Family, and the third brother of Viscount Bester, Renzo.

Sheriff Renzo wore a black leather coat, had two mustaches, and looked very serious.

Why did they come here suddenly? Byrne was silent for a moment and said lightly: "Mr. Jin is dead, and the murderer may still be nearby."

The butler and Sheriff Renzo were completely stunned after hearing this.

"Mr. Jin is dead? What are you talking about!" Sheriff Renzo roared.

The two quickly stepped into the study and watched everything that happened in astonishment.

Mr. Jin's heavy body was right in front of them, and everything was too shocking!

The housekeeper burst into tears and kept shaking his head, saying, "Lord of Redemption, why did this happen! It's impossible!"

Byrne paused and reminded again, "The murderer may still be nearby. We must be careful. He may attack again."

"It's okay, Mr. Byrne. I won't let the murderer succeed."

Sheriff Renzo quickly calmed down and then comforted him in a calm voice.

Just as Byrne was about to nod, he saw Sheriff Renzo decisively and quickly take out the alchemical flintlock from his waist and put it on his head without hesitation. The cold and hard touch was creepy.

"Don't move!"

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