Big Capitalist

The rebuilt Count Rio's Palace looks like a dreamy modern manor, shining brightly in the territory.

It abandons the complexity and heaviness of traditional aristocratic mansions and replaces it with a simple and grand design style without losing the sense of high-end luxury.

The main building of the mansion has smooth exterior lines and is made of a special white stone that reflects soft light under the sunlight. From a distance, it seems as if the entire mansion is shrouded in a layer of holy light.

Huge floor-to-ceiling windows occupy most of the walls of the building, which not only allows sufficient light into the room, but also vaguely reveals the luxurious scene inside the mansion, attracting people's attention.

The spacious and bright hall has a floor paved with whole pieces of white marble. Each piece of marble has been carefully polished and is mirror-clear, reflecting the star-like magic crystal chandelier on the ceiling.

There is an exquisite fountain in the center of the hall. The main body of the fountain is carved from a rare blue gem. Under the impetus of magic, the water of the fountain presents various wonderful shapes, sometimes like blooming flowers, sometimes like soaring dragons, vivid and lifelike.

The fountain is surrounded by a circle of comfortable sofas made of the finest magic leather, which is soft and elastic. Sitting on it feels like being gently wrapped.

However, the focus today is not this luxurious mansion. The mansion is only the background of this mysterious gathering, and the real protagonists are the invited guests.

In a luxuriously decorated reception room, Merlin had already been waiting quietly.

Standing next to him was Patton, the new head of Earl Leo's territory, and old man Lincoln, who looked curious.

Lincoln couldn't help but ask Merlin again, "Who on earth is coming? You're being so secretive. I'm really itching to come."

Barton also looked puzzled and agreed, "Yes, President, and you also asked all irrelevant people to leave the Earl's Mansion, and even deployed so many people around it, for fear that someone would break in."

Merlin just smiled and said, "You'll all know soon. The fewer people who know about this, the better."

As soon as the voice fell, the door of the living room was gently pushed open, and Yuna walked into the room with elegant steps. She looked around and asked softly, "I'm not late, am I?"

Merlin quickly stood up to greet him, smiling and saying, "No, on the contrary, you are the first one to arrive."

Lincoln's eyes were immediately drawn to Yuna, and he couldn't help but exclaim, "What a beautiful girl, who is this?"

Merlin introduced, "This is my senior, Yuna. She's the president of the Royal Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Clement Royal Family."

"The Clement Royal Family? Isn't that the royal family of the Star Empire? And there's the Royal Chamber of Commerce, which is the most prestigious chamber of commerce in the Aize Continent!" Lincoln couldn't help but take a breath when he heard this, and was in awe of Yuna's identity.

Merlin turned to Yuna and introduced him, "This is Grandpa Lincoln. He's a skilled potter and one of the key figures in our plan."

Upon hearing this, Yuna gracefully performed a standard aristocratic salute to Lincoln, showing her royal demeanor.

"Merlin, what's going on? Why did you call me here and why are you being so mysterious?" Along with the voice, the door was pushed open again, and Stacy and her mentor Elsa walked in together.

Lincoln frowned instantly when he saw the two elves.

Throughout the long history of the continent of Azer, the relationship between the two races, the dwarves and the elves, has always been delicate. Although it has not reached the point of confrontation, it cannot be called friendly either.

At this moment, the space in the room suddenly fluctuated without any warning, and then the space in front of them seemed to be twisted and torn apart by an invisible giant hand. Vice Dean Jenny leisurely stepped out of the twisted space and appeared in the room.

She immediately spotted Merlin standing in the middle and asked curiously, "Why are you looking for me so urgently? I was just on vacation at Sun Island."

Since Merlin completely took over the Arcane Academy, Deputy Dean Jenny's life has changed dramatically.

Matters that used to give her headaches, such as financial management, student grades, teacher salaries, and magic research, no longer require her to worry about them.

She looked radiant and in much better spirits. She even developed a new hobby. Activities like knitting, which she had no time for before, now became a source of enjoyment in her spare time.

Lincoln was so shocked when he saw this scene that he couldn't close his mouth. He secretly wondered in his heart: "Is this space teleportation? Could this be a legendary wizard?"

He knew very well that anyone who could skillfully perform space teleportation magic must be a legendary wizard with extremely high magical attainments, which made him even more curious about the people Merlin had summoned this time.

When Vice Dean Jenny saw Elsa was there, a smile immediately broke out on her face and she greeted her warmly.

These two have known each other for many years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are old besties. It was Vice Dean Jenny who invited Elsa to teach at the Arcane Academy.

Just as everyone was greeting each other, the door was pushed open again and Professor Harrington and Gust walked in together.

When Harrington saw Vice President Jenny and Elsa, he couldn't help but show a very surprised expression and asked in surprise: "No, you are here too?"

Vice Dean Jenny was even more shocked. She turned to look at Merlin and said, "Merlin, what on earth are you going to do? You actually invited two alchemy masters?"

"Two alchemy masters?" Lincoln heard this and cast his gaze towards Harrington and Gust, secretly marveling, "These two seemingly ordinary old men are actually alchemy masters standing at the pinnacle of the alchemy field?"

Gust said helplessly, "I didn't want to come, but Harrington dragged me here."

Merlin smiled slightly and said, "Not two alchemy masters, but three."

"Three? Who else is the alchemy master?" Everyone looked puzzled.

Merlin clapped his hands. At this moment, in the corner of the room, a middle-aged man who no one had noticed before slowly stood up.

This person was very low-key. He wore a clean white silk dress and a strange black alchemical ring around his neck.

Harrington frowned when he saw the black alchemical ring. He looked at Merlin and said, "Merlin, why is he wearing a slave ring? Isn't it banned by the Aize Federation?"

After the establishment of the Aize Federation, slavery was completely abolished in the Aize continent.

But in the era when slavery was prevalent, in order to more effectively control slaves and prevent slave rebellion, alchemists invented such a cruel thing as the slave ring.