Chapter 821 (1/2)

Chapter 821: A Meeting

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“My lord, your guest is here, ” said a maid who pulled the curtain and poked her head in.

“Send him in,” Otto Luoxi handed a silver royal to the bar girl beside him and said, “I need a private minute with him. I’ll call you later.”

“Yes, my lord!”

“Is this the covert place you mentioned?” The man who came in removed his hood and glanced around. “If I hadn’t seen the Luoxi guards standing outside, I would think I’d come to the wrong place.”

“It isn’t easy these days to see you, I had to take extra precautions, ” replied Otto, grinning.

The guest was Hill Fawkes, a member of the emissary delegation who “betrayed the King of Dawn, killed the guards and knights and escaped from the City of Glow with some fallen minions”. Ever since Yorko’s secret departure, Appen Moya, the King of Dawn became so furious that he claimed it was a blatant provocation to and contempt of the Kingdom of Dawn on Graycastle’s part. He also said that it was a witch that killed his father and he absolutely did not allow such an evil existence in his domain.

Of course, Otto knew far more than that. For example, that while Appen was searching for the witches, he also dispatched a group of knights to chase the emissary delegation. He ordered that any member of the emissary delegation, other than Yorko, could be killed on the spot, especially the witches who dared to collude with the neighbor country. At the same time, investigations were carried out in the King’s City. Denise, a businesswoman who had an intimate relationship with the ambassador, was taken to the palace several times for inquiries. Hill and the others who voluntarily stayed as contacts, on the contrary, disappeared.

Otto did not hear anything from Hill until a few months later when the event no longer received so much public attention.

This was their first meeting after their last departure.

“Would you like some drinks?” Otto patted the soft couch beside him and asked, “I guess you usually have no chance to enjoy it.”

Hill did not sit down; instead, he walked to the window and looked around. “We’re on the second floor. Where’s the reliable path you mentioned in the confidential letter?”

Otto, the eldest son of the Luoxis, sighed, stood up and opened a board under the soft couch, revealing the dark passage beneath it.

“Slide down from here, you’ll arrive at the back garden. In the yard, you’ll find a secret door and a dry well. You can choose either way to leave.”

“Nobody else knows this path?”

“Of course, both the back garden and the tavern belong to the Luoxis.” He said, shrugging, “No wonder Sir Yorko said you’re a fox. You’re still as cautious as you were before.”

“If I were not like this, I’m afraid I would have been hanged on a gallow now,” replied Hill, who took a coin from his pocket and dropped it down the tunnel. After listening to the sound for a while, he closed the board. “If you want to tell me any information in the future, write me an encrypted letter. It’s not safe to meet in this way.”

“But an encrypted letter is also not safe for me. If the information in the palace is leaked, King Appen will certainly suspect our families.” Otto sighed and said, “He’s no more my good friend who talked about everything with me.”