Chapter 860: Is This a Lizard Scale?

The Feilie Regiment was a small, mid-level mercenary regiment. The core personnel were only six or seven people. The captain, Feilie, was a high-level swordsman, the rest were mid-level swordsmen, and there was also a mage.

Of course, on the surface, they were a mercenary regiment, but in reality, they were the enemy's claws and teeth. The merchant association's several crises were all spearheaded by this Feilie Regiment, making Silver Ingot hate them to death.

Now, these guys he hated so much were lying on the ground, twisted and turning, life or death unknown. Except for a mage, the Feilie Regiment could be considered wiped out.

During teleportation, mages were usually in the back, waiting for the swordsmen in front to clear the enemies and establish a safe area before the mages would follow. Otherwise, if ambushed, mages were just fragile little chicks.

But now that the swordsmen in front failed to clear the enemies, the mages in the back didn't dare to teleport.

Thinking of this, Silver Ingot's gaze turned to the bone club in Great Xiao Gu's hand. This bone club was plain and unremarkable, looking like it had no lethality. So, it wasn't because of the bone club, but the skeleton's own strength?

Truly worthy of being Lord Great Xiao Gu, who is of equal rank to the ancestor.

Gang Ya was also very surprised by this suddenly appearing Holy Knight. However, he was a guard and could see some details. Great Xiao Gu took advantage of the opponent's teleportation and struck the moment they rushed out of the strong light. The timing was grasped very insidiously.

Teleportation was always a very dangerous attack method. The Feilie Mercenary Regiment was clearly careless. On one hand, they learned about the situation here through the traitor; on the other hand, the teleportation scroll was also activated by the traitor, so they might have thought this side was safe.

But regardless, being knocked to death just after teleporting, and striking so insidiously, didn't look like those Holy Knights who prided themselves on being upright, loyal, and honorable.

Gang Ya hurriedly leaned to Silver Ingot's side and asked: "My lord, who is this Holy Knight? What happened? Where is the Summoner's skeleton? Where are those... treasures?" When mentioning the treasures, Gang Ya couldn't help but feel a sourness in his nose and choked up.

Silver Ingot no longer had any thoughts about those treasures, because the moment the entire palace began to disappear, he realized that all the treasures and beauties were illusions, manifested to test him:

"They were all the songs of sirens, illusory, fake. As for this lord..." Silver Ingot thought for a while and said somewhat hesitantly: "This is a companion of my ancestor, Silver Coin."

"Pfft—a companion of the old president Silver Coin? Didn't you say you are the 120th-generation grandson of the old president Silver Coin? Even calculating by twenty years per generation, that's more than 2,400 years ago. This is the old president's companion?" Gang Ya widened his eyes, a look of disbelief on his face.

If it were an undead creature, it might be possible, but this is a Holy Knight; naturally, it couldn't be an undead creature. And undead creatures have undead-type Black Knights.

If it's not an undead creature, what creature can live for more than 2,400 years?

Silver Ingot said somewhat embarrassedly: "We gnomes marry relatively late. Ancestor Silver Coin has already passed away for three thousand years."

Gang Ya spat blood. He was shocked by what race could live for more than two thousand years, while Silver Ingot was agonizing over gnomes marrying late? If this weren't his boss, he would have given him two raps on the head regardless.

"Then where is the Summoner's skeleton?" Gang Ya asked again.

Silver Ingot hesitated for a moment and whispered: "Don't ask."

Gang Ya hurriedly pursed his lips and nodded quickly.

As a qualified guard, he understood very well what should be asked and what should not. If the boss tells you not to ask, then don't ask.

This situation doesn't mean the boss doesn't trust you, but that status and position limit you. Knowing things you shouldn't know is more likely to invite disaster.

For example, he had heard of a Viscount's guard who insisted on inquiring about things he shouldn't know, and finally found out about the Viscountess having an affair with the Earl. He reported it to the Viscount, but the Viscount didn't dare to provoke the Earl and was afraid the scandal would be exposed, so he had the guard executed.

Sometimes, if the boss doesn't let you ask certain things, it might be to protect you.

However, Silver Ingot not letting him ask wasn't to protect him, but because he didn't know how to say it. Should he say: This skeleton is the ancestor's companion, and it even inherited the treacherous merchant's treasury?

This was also Silver Ingot's biggest dilemma. He hired a skeleton casually on the road, but it inherited the treasury left by his ancestor. What should he do? Should he rise up and snatch the Holy Armor back?

Don't even think about it. How could a gnome merchant do such a thing? Merchants must follow the rules. Forcibly snatching something someone else legally inherited is not what a merchant should do, and besides, he couldn't snatch it anyway.

Ah, no, no, no, even if he could snatch it, he couldn't. Gnome merchants don't do robbery. The problem now is actually: is Great Xiao Gu's inheritance legal?

"Legal, because it holds the Dragon-Patterned Steel Core Coin. The merchant association was originally its. That is to say, even if my ancestor Silver Coin were here, he would only be managing the merchant association for its family. Well, I originally wanted to hire a guard, but I didn't expect to hire the boss back." Silver Ingot muttered with a bitter smile.

Actually, Silver Ingot had already seen this issue of ownership in the clan rules. The Silver Coin family was only the manager of the Silver Merchant Association. Everything in this world belonged to: The Co-Lord of the Dark Origin and the Abyss Origin, the King of all Ancient Gods of the Void, the Master of Knowledge, Planting, Harvest and Beauty, Equality and Justice, War and Peace... the Master of Divine Power, the Reverser of Void Laws... Time Origin, Ang.

Just the titles took up a whole page. Originally, Silver Ingot only treated it as empty talk. For three thousand years, the Silver Merchant Association had always been managed by his family; how could it be someone else's?

But now he discovered that it really was someone else's. Even the ancestor's treasury acknowledged it, which was embarrassing.

Making him violate this legality, he didn't dare. Anyway, he couldn't beat it, so he could only change his way of thinking.

Silver Ingot leaned in front of Great Xiao Gu and said: "Lord Great Xiao Gu, you have already inherited the Silver Merchant Association. How do you plan to handle your merchant association?"

Silver Ingot emphasized the tone of the words 'your merchant association'.

My merchant association? Great Xiao Gu tilted his head.

"Oh, it's like this. Let me report the current situation to you. Because the Silver Merchant Association has been continuously suppressed by Grand Duke Lyon, it has effectively gone bankrupt. Now, except for some fixed assets, all the liquid funds are on the carriages. Liabilities exceed assets, and a large loan needs to be settled in a month, amounting to as much as 600,000 magic crystals. If it cannot be settled..."

Silver Ingot still wanted to explain the situation of the Silver Merchant Association in detail, but Great Xiao Gu said inexplicably: "Arrived."

Then he quickly mounted the horse, led another horse carrying the skeleton of the two-legged giant bird, and ran away.

Originally, it could have ridden the giant bird, but once it entered the Dark Side, the giant bird that couldn't be reached by the sun immediately fell apart. Fortunately, there were enough horses left by the sand bandits to carry it in.

Silver Ingot and Gang Ya looked at each other: "Ran away? This... what does he mean by 'arrived'?"

"Maybe it means the mission is completed, and he delivered you to the destination? So he ran away?" Gang Ya guessed.

"This... this... he doesn't want the final payment?" Silver Ingot 'this'-ed for a long time before finally blurting this out.

Gang Ya said helplessly: "What final payment? He took your treasury away."

Silver Ingot shook his head: "There was only one suit of armor in the treasury, nothing else. If he took it, he took it. But... ran away?"

Silver Ingot really couldn't understand. Isn't this a lord of equal rank to the ancestor? How could he run away? Is this the style of a big shot?

Just as he was thinking, Great Xiao Gu rode the horse back, took out a brass scale the size of a thumb, handed it to him, and said: "Find it." Then he left again.

"Find it? How to find it? So small, is this a lizard scale?" ===== CHAPTER 861 =====