The First Magic World War

Chapter 420: 392, return to your country immediately

Princess Akso has only one assessment of these gentlemen — hypocritical!

Once famed as one of the Empire’s Three Heroes, not only was she among the top of the Sacred Order, but her intelligence and wisdom were also exceptional. How could she not see that Charlotte, Augusladin High Priest, Vigo, and even the other three “Beastmen of the Sacred Order” were all full of “tricks”?

Especially Charlotte!

To many, Charlotte might seem somewhat normal, but through the eyes of Princess Akso, Charlotte was a monster whose every thought was bizarre beyond comprehension and every action beyond rationality, with no rules or chains in his heart, not even the gods in mortal guise playing amongst humans could compare with such a mindset.

The princess shook her head and said, “Gentlemen, do not discuss South Serif in front of me in the future. I can hardly bear to listen any further.”

Charlotte, with a faint smile, said, “I will certainly follow Princess Akso’s teaching!”

Princess Akso indifferently said, “Since you agreed to look after my grandchildren for Arsen Lupin, I cannot be without gratitude. I’ve heard you are quite interested in the God of the Labyrinth. Fortunately, I have an item at hand, which is said to be a relic of the God of the Labyrinth left in the mortal world. When we return to Strasbourg, I’ll have someone send it to you.”

Charlotte hastily thanked Princess Akso. The Labyrinth Evil God had always been a thorn in his side, and the day he would challenge Agmilas in the Agres Sea wasn’t far off. If he could master more powers of the Labyrinth Evil God, it would greatly assist him in escaping this predestined calamity.

Princess Akso handed Charlotte a document and said, “However, I did not summon you here for this matter. Your diplomatic mission with Anne is now complete. My father, His Majesty Julius Axler, commands you both to return to the Empire immediately, with the Lionheart Dynasty’s diplomatic mission to be continued by me and the Augusladin High Priest.”

Charlotte spoke somewhat sheepishly, “We’re being sent back just like that?”

Princess Akso said indifferently, “Lord Mekelen, you are truly too much of a handful. My father probably fears you’ll stir up some irreparable diplomatic incident if you stay in the Lionheart Dynasty any longer!”

“Also, congratulations, Lord Mekelen! You’ve been promoted.”

When Charlotte looked at the document, he indeed saw that his position had been elevated to the rank of a 22nd class, third grade councillor, yet his political status remained the same!

Charlotte was now unfazed by promotions, he carefully put away the document and said, “I will escort Anne back to the Empire right away!”

Princess Akso said meaningfully, “You must spend a few more days in Modova, Earl Brittany likely wishes to meet the newly-promoted Grand Duchess in the city of Liguilia.”

Charlotte caught the princess’s hint and nodded subtly before he withdrew.

The next day, Princess Akso had someone invite Anne back to the Cold Spring Palace and handed her the documents from the Fars Royal Family, which included the formal recognition of Anne as the Duchess of Modova, the official papers recalling Anne, and the documents promoting Anne to a 20th class, fifth grade councillor.

When Charlotte and Anne were about to leave, they bought sixty carriages, emptying a carriage market in Asa Fortress.

In this world, carriages were never fast-moving goods. Unlike cars on Earth that could sell several hundred thousand a month, the demand was always not high. With Charlotte and Anne’s sweeping purchases, it quickly became a hot topic in Asa Fortress, and countless people were discussing the grand actions of these two “authors.”

Of course, Charlotte would never disclose that he was transporting gold coins gifted by the nobles of the Lionheart Dynasty. The stated reason was that he had received a large collection of documents and data funded by the nobles of the Lionheart Dynasty. These documents and data would become the solid foundation for a new novel, and he extravagantly praised Asa Fortress as a city of culture, history, and the nobility… employing every praiseworthy term at his disposal.

This public statement had a significant impact. After Charlotte and Anne departed, more nobles sent “materials” in haste to catch up with them, causing them to buy even more carriages midway. By the time their caravan left the Lionheart Dynasty’s borders and entered Modova, it had grown to an astonishing eighty-two carriages.

Charles was very obedient. When Princess Akso hinted that he should stay in Liguria City, he and Anne arrived and truly settled down there.

Although the royal command was to “return to the country immediately,” it did not specify how quickly they must travel on the road. Besides, there were indeed matters in Liguria City that required Charles’s attention.

Upon arriving in Liguria City, Charles first met with the bandits under Yesen Loping, as well as over a hundred young men and women—these were all Zimmerman’s illegitimate children.

In his previous life, Charles had been a mathematics teacher, the kind that had studied educational psychology—a genuine educator. He had a detailed conversation with each of these children and categorized them into seven different situations.

One group was simple: those who wanted to attend school. He promised these children that he would send them to Behemoth and, after changing their names, enroll them in the schools there.

The city under Charles’s control had the best educational resources in Behemoth.

Better educational resources in Strasbourg were out of the question. Zimmerman had offended so many people that these children could die inexplicably once their identities were discovered.

All these children would change their surname to Mecklen, and after reaching adulthood, they could choose to revert to the surname Robin or perhaps Axler…

Well, even though adopting either of these surnames was somewhat risky, Charles did not want to interfere with their futures.

One group didn’t want to study further; Charles would arrange for them to join the Westwind Knights, to be reorganized along with the bandits under Arsen Lupin.

Another group only wished to leave Modova and cut ties with their past; Charles also arranged a destination for them, sending them to Cappadocia. They could join Menilman’s fleet or any other fleet, heading to any part of the world.

Charles provided every young man or woman who wanted to leave with ample cash and weapons.

The fourth group didn’t want to do anything.

The fifth group wanted to go to Strasbourg to meet their “mother.”

The sixth group was the dispirited type, living like a hedgehog.

The seventh group was rebellious, living like a powder keg.

Charles built a Temple of the Serpent of Destiny in Liguria City and stuffed all these hard-to-educate children into it to become trainee priests. Even though they weren’t covenantors of the gods or favored like Charles, he believed that the Serpent of Destiny wouldn’t mind.

He didn’t neglect these children either; instead, he provided a large number of novels for them to read…

What if one of them became a novelist?

Even if a novelist didn’t emerge, having a few quick scribes would be beneficial.

After spending half a month in Liguria City, Charles finally managed to put the entire Modova on the right track while also awaiting the arrival of a very “important” person—Earl Brittany.

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