Chapter 55 55. Twelve Kings of the North
The people of Beach Street cannot escape three things: birth, death and the Bale Gang.
Calvo, the boss of the Bale Gang, likes this sentence that he plagiarized from somewhere. Despite the fact that Beach Street was crowded with several gangs, the Burroughs only had the protection money for a casino and a few hundred yards of shops.
On this day, Calvo was wearing a lizard fur coat, staying in his room covered with lizard fur rugs, enjoying the service of a maid who was said to have lizard-human blood.
Soon after, the people below stood outside the door and told him that Randy didn't come.
Calvo remembers Randy as a very shrewd young man. Just like he did when he was young. So Calvo never gave him a chance - because of a secret hidden deep in his heart: he strangled the former boss of the Bale Gang to death with his own hands.
“Didn’t Big Friez and Little Friez follow him all day long?”
Then his men nervously told him that Little Friez was also missing.
What Calvo wanted at this time was to let them experience the torture of "Calvo the Lizard Man" when they came back. But what he was waiting for was not the news of Randy's return, but that Randy and the five gang members died tragically outside the territory.
Calvo the Lizardman realizes that they may be causing trouble for the Bale Gang.
And trouble soon came calling.
......
"Do you want me to use arcane missiles to pierce this wooden door and fly dozens of yards to hit an unlucky guy, or do you want Andrew to use bewitchment to make the rats in the nearby gutter crawl? Come out and bite the people in the dream like crazy?”
Michael’s words had the effect of opening the door, and the closed door of the casino suddenly opened, revealing a fat man wearing a lizard skin with a flattering smile on his face. Smiling, he stepped out of the door: "Dear Master Mage..."
"Let's get straight to the point." Michael interrupted Calvo's nonsense, "When I came here, I investigated the Bale Gang's casino income. To put it simply, the net profit of your casino is about 70 silver coins per day, while the more than 30 stores controlled by the Bale Gang collect more than three gold coins per month. According to the "Spellcaster Protection Act", when non-individual forces cast spells. If an attacker launches an attack, the person concerned can demand compensation from the attacker. The amount is usually 50% of the normal revenue of the force for a period of 6 months. Therefore, from the next July to December, you need to compensate Warlock Annan every month. 13 gold nuggets ”
"I...the Bale Gang..."
To be honest, only Leng Touqing thinks that as long as he gathers a few people, dares to fight and kill, and recruits his subordinates, he can form a gang, and from then on, he will have no worries about food and clothing, and will be exploited. Commoners and businessmen - in fact, behind the real gangs are either the black gloves of the nobles or covered by big shots.
The Bale Gang also has them, so if they find three warriors, Calvo will even ask his men to break their legs and sell them on the black market.
But two of the three people outside the door are spell casters. They are natural nobles. Moreover, the carriage parked on the side of the street was printed with the emblem of the Mage Tower that made him tremble...
The "Lizard Man" Calvo, who made the common people fearful and made children stop crying, lowered his head and expressed his submission: "Ba Le Gang will provide compensation on time.”
"Send this month's compensation to the Morrowind Tavern within three days."
Michael completed the claim quickly and got on the carriage to return to the tavern. At this time, he noticed Annan's worried look.
“You don’t look happy.”
“Because you just killed someone?” Andrew Luna guessed. .
Annan shook his head. The death of some damn people did not make him uncomfortable. Especially the blue dragon's claws sticking out of the cracks were like playing with toys. It was difficult for him to feel the weight of death. "I'm worried." They will pass the losses on to civilians.”
"You will be a good lord, Annan." Andrew Luna said happily, "Don't worry, the Bale Gang will only exploit those damn gamblers and blackmail the rich people who open shops. They know that civilians cannot extract money."
"Spellcaster Protection Act..." Annan thought of another thing, "Wouldn't the murderer who attacked Reeves' convoy have to face huge compensation?"
Michael and Andrew. Luna made different moves at this time.
Michael checked the defensive spells of this mage tower carriage, and Andrew Luna quietly diffused a warning halo.
Confirming that the carriage had not been bugged, they relaxed again. "You finally admitted it?"
"I'm just asking."
Pretending to be the only son of the Reeves family sounds like a wonderful thing...provided you have a life to enjoy it. Although Annan can summon the blue dragon by chance, Annan, who does not know other spells, is no different from ordinary people.
An arrow and a cup of poison can kill him.
“The Spellcaster Protection Act was just something I made up to deceive him.” Michael said. "What does a gang leader who doesn't even know a word know? As long as you keep forcing him to have no time to think, and then provide a way, he will naturally think about the problem."
"But there is indeed a similar bill in the south of the Kingdom." Andrew Luna added.
This mage tower carriage equipped with the light feather technique is quite stable. On the way, Andrew Luna used his aria-like singing tone with a certain purpose to tell Annan about the situation in Breeze City:
For example, after the new lord Levis disappeared, Breeze City could not live without a lord. So with the push of some old nobles, a young man named Olmedo took over as the city lord.
Seeing that Annan was still pretending to be confused, Andrew Luna had to put it more bluntly: "Due to historical reasons, the tradition in the north never allows young people to become lords of important towns. But Reeves The exception is the family. As one of the twelve kings of the North, the Reeves family is now in serious decline. You are the only one left in this generation...well, the only male left, so the other eleven kings' families allow Levis. Make an exception. "
"Then Levis was attacked and his life and death were uncertain. The Olmedo family and the old nobles used the excuse that Breeze City needed a city lord to send Jeffrey Olmedo to the position of city lord. "
That Augusta Olmedo sounds fishy.
The carriage stopped on the street, Annan and the others walked into the tavern.
“…she thought I wouldn’t succeed, and then I said, I’ll prove it to you.”
“Did you do it?”
“If If I do that, I won’t be sitting here bragging to you.”
"Hahaha, respect our lost ideals."
"Cheers! Now I can only go home and inherit the property left by my father..."
"You fucking..."
The chat in the tavern soon turned into a quarrel, and then into a fight, with shouting, shouting, and chaos.
Boss Andrew Luna was so used to it that he didn't even bother to separate them.
"Would you like some wine to calm down?" he asked.
“No need.”
Hesitant Annan asked Michael if he could borrow the wizard’s carriage.
“Of course.”
Michael and Andrew Luna looked at each other.
It looks like their little warlock friend has some big secrets to deal with.
(End of this chapter)