Chapter 111: Lord Kailun is a Good Person
“Kailson, you know, your family has arrived in the royal city. One of your grandsons came to see me just now, he said he wanted to see you. Speaking of which, your family is quite strong, there are three seventh-ranks alone, and the assets they brought are close to a million, plus there are quite a few magic scrolls. How do you think I should persuade them to contribute to the Kingdom of Xiya?”
Arriving at a heavily guarded prison in the royal city, Kailun told Kailson the good news.
“Devil, what do you want to do to my family? If you have the guts, come at me, don’t involve my family, your actions will be condemned by everyone in the world.”
Kailson grabbed the iron bars with both hands, his eyes bloodshot. He only had two pursuits in his life, one was to reach the legendary ninth-rank, and the other was to lead his family to glory.
This world had a strong family tradition, most people regarded it as an honor.
“What do you mean by ‘don’t involve my family’? Don’t say such unpleasant things, I clearly invited them to discuss cooperation. You also know that it’s a special period now, the territory I need to manage has suddenly increased a lot, so many things are very troublesome to deal with. I asked them to come here mainly to work for me. Of course, the salary depends on their performance, if they don’t perform well, it will be deducted.”
Kailun, who was standing outside, spread his hands. If it were someone else, it probably wouldn’t be as simple as just staying in prison.
Think about the princesses, which one of them hadn’t suffered mental and physical torture?
It could only be said that Kailson was lucky, Kailun wasn’t interested in torturing an old man.
It was still more enjoyable to bully the princesses, they would even whimper pitifully when they felt wronged.
“Clang!”
Kailson grabbed the iron bars tightly: “You can tell me directly what you want to do. Although I’m not afraid of death, I can’t watch my descendants be buried for no reason.”
His tone was harsh, but the underlying meaning was that he had given in.
“Click!”
Kailun opened the prison door and walked out: “Come with me, I’ll take you to see your family. They are currently in a castle in the royal city, called Youlan(Orchid) Castle, it’s very luxurious.”
“Can you remove the magic-suppressing collar on my neck?”
Seeing this, Kailson quickly followed, the magic-suppressing collar on his neck restricted his strength.
“You’re already hundreds of years old, think carefully, would I easily remove your collar? If you’re not willing to sign a slave contract, then keep wearing this collar.” Kailun said without looking back.
Helplessly, Kailson could only pull up his collar to cover the magic-suppressing collar on his neck. As a person who was hundreds of years old, he still had some face.
Following behind Kailun, looking at his straight back and unconcealable composure and confidence, he recalled the day he was defeated.
It was this young man, who was younger than his grandson, who stabbed him in the abdomen with a dagger and completely defeated him.
Strange abilities, bizarre decisions, and madman-like actions.
Frankly speaking, he couldn’t understand Kailun’s behavior patterns.
Even he wouldn’t dare to confront the Temple like this, but Kailun not only did it, but also did it thoroughly.
Kailson followed Kailun all the way to the streets of the royal city. Looking at the bustling shops on both sides of the street and the smiles on people’s faces, he wondered for a moment if the place he had arrived at was still a small country where royal nobles ran rampant.
As he observed carefully, he saw awe, fear, and fanaticism in the way these people looked at Kailun?
Although it was a bit unbelievable, these complex emotions were indeed mixed together.
Even Kailun himself didn’t know that in just a few days, the legends about him were becoming more and more magical through word of mouth.
Fighting the princess, seizing military power, battling the Temple of the Heavenly God, capturing the Saint, instantly defeating an eighth-rank… these stories were even more exciting than biographical novels in their mouths.
So much so that many people developed a feeling called worship, and even the number of people signing up for various jobs increased.
For this kind of look that he had never seen in the countries belonging to the Temple of the Heavenly God, Kailson added a new evaluation in his heart.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at Youlan Castle. As soon as they reached the gate, Kailun saw a group of people coming to greet them.
When they saw Kailson behind Kailun, they were overjoyed. They had heard before that Kailson was defeated and became a prisoner of the Kingdom of Xiya, but they doubted it.
No matter what, Kailson was a renowned eighth-rank, how could he be captured by the Kingdom of Xiya, which only had a seventh-rank at most?
It was more believable that he had become a traitor to the Temple of the Heavenly God than that he had been captured.
Moreover, the fact that he was a traitor had been confirmed by the magic letters sent back by “Kailson”.
“Grandpa!”
“Father!”
“…”
As soon as Kailun arrived, many people called out “Grandpa”.
He was stunned for a moment and marveled at their enthusiasm, so he waved his hand and smiled: “Don’t be so polite, I’m still so young, wouldn’t it make me look old if I had so many grandsons?”
Everyone: “…”
Kailson: “…”
The atmosphere fell silent, Kailson’s old face darkened slightly.
“Ahem, don’t just stand there, Lord Kailun is just joking with you, why don’t you all greet him?”
Considering the safety of his whole family, Kailson coughed twice to divert everyone’s attention.
He knew that this was Kailun asking him to express his stance. If he didn’t perform well, the descendants present might all be finished.
“Greetings, Lord Kailun!”
Everyone looked at this young man who was younger than them and bowed reluctantly.
“Good, good, as expected of people taught by Kailson, you’re quite obedient.”
Kailun smiled and took out a scroll from his arms and unfolded it: “I believe you have already moved into Youlan Castle, so I won’t waste everyone’s time. Originally, I planned to give Youlan Castle to you, but Kailson didn’t want it, he didn’t want me to suffer a loss. He said that the housing prices in the royal city have skyrocketed recently and have reached the point where every inch of land is worth its weight in gold. If he directly accepted the castle, it would inevitably damage everyone’s feelings. So he decided to buy Youlan Castle from me for one million gold coins.”
“Cough, cough, cough!”
Hearing Kailun’s asking price, Kailson almost fainted.
This time he really started coughing, he was disgusted by Kailun’s exorbitant asking price.
The descendants present all looked at their elder with astonishment, they felt that Kailson was trying to sell them all.
Did they know what one million gold coins meant?
This was all the assets of the entire family, the foundation accumulated over countless years.
Giving away one million just for a castle with strange props, wasn’t that crazy?
“Thump, thump, thump!”
Seeing that Kailson was coughing badly, Kailun kindly patted his back, just that the strength of his patting was a little bit too strong.
Kailun: “Don’t worry, Kailson, I’ve already said that I won’t take this one million gold coins. If I took your one million gold coins, wouldn’t I become that kind of person?”
Hearing Kailun’s words, Kailson raised his head in surprise, even forgetting the pain in his back for a moment.
Kailun continued: “So I’ll only take five hundred thousand gold coins, this is my final concession. If you force me to take one more copper coin, don’t blame me for turning hostile, if I turn hostile, this place will be covered in blood.”
He took out the assassin girl’s dagger and played with it, this was clearly a blatant threat.
As for the so-called “forcing him to take one more copper coin”, it should be interpreted in reverse.
In layman’s terms, if this five hundred thousand gold coins was short of a single copper coin, his whole family would be finished.
“Father, is what Lord Kailun said true?”
A man with a somewhat aged face in the crowd asked Kailson.
Kailson pulled up his collar with a dark face and said, “It’s the thought that counts, it’s the thought that counts, we can give more if there’s a chance in the future.”
When he said this, Kailson almost gritted his teeth, he even said “it’s the thought that counts” twice. If Kailun’s dagger wasn’t right on his lower back, he would have to hold on for a while.
That was five hundred thousand gold coins!
With a snap!
Half of the family’s foundation was gone.
“???”
Hearing Kailson’s words, his descendants looked at him with a “Are you kidding me?” expression.
“Wow, I didn’t expect you to be so generous, Kailson. If I refuse again, wouldn’t it make me look too stingy? But I can’t take any more gold coins. How about this, give me some high-level scrolls to play with, not too many, just a cartload. Remember, get more eighth-rank scrolls, I like reading those recently.”
Kailun was amused when he heard Kailson’s words, so he made a new request.
“Thump!”
Kailson didn’t faint, but his son fainted.
There was a little chaos at the scene, but because of Kailson’s presence, this chaos only lasted for a minute. Next, it was one of Kailson’s grandsons, who had fifth-rank strength, who was responsible for communicating with Kailun.
Kailun threw the scroll in his hand to Kailson’s grandson and said, “This is the deed to Youlan Castle, you have the right to live here for fifty years, after that, you have to pay if you want to continue living here. I don’t know much about the management fees and cleaning fees, but someone will come to you to collect them. The gold coins, deliver them to the gate of my manor before dark tomorrow. If it’s even one copper coin late, I won’t take it, understand?”
Hearing Kailun’s words that he wouldn’t take it if it was even one copper coin late, the young man’s face lit up with joy.
If they deliberately delayed, wouldn’t it mean that they didn’t have to pay?
No wonder Lord Kailun added a “understand” at the end, it seemed that he just wanted to give his grandfather a way out.
Lord Kailun was such a good person!
“Understood, understood, I will definitely handle this matter well.” Kailson’s grandson’s face was full of smiles.
But Kailson couldn’t smile at all, he clearly understood that Kailun’s “understand” was directed at him.
If his family couldn’t deliver this gold, Kailun wouldn’t just not take it, he would directly wipe out his family and take everything.
Don’t doubt it, this devil Kailun could definitely do such a thing.
Seeing that his grandson had obviously misunderstood, he was furious, so he vented his anger towards Kailun on his grandson.
He gritted his teeth, walked up to his grandson, and directly slapped him: “You bastard, Lord Kailun is so good to our family, yet you dare to have crooked thoughts. I think you don’t want to live anymore, do you want to drag the whole family to their deaths?”
“Grandpa, what are you doing!?” The grandson covered his red and swollen face with a wronged expression.
“I’ll beat you to death, you good-for-nothing, always thinking about crooked things, you deserve to die!” Kailson punched and kicked his grandson.
He had to wake his grandson up, otherwise this kind of thought would destroy the whole family.
“Calm down, calm down, Kailson, if you keep hitting him, you’ll kill your grandson.” Seeing that the time was right, Kailun quickly stepped forward and stopped the furious Kailson.
Only then did the others dare to come up and help the grandson on the ground.
“Before dark tomorrow night, five hundred thousand gold coins will be delivered to the gate of Lord Kailun’s manor. If it’s short of a single copper coin, you all commit suicide!”
Kailson’s tone was cold, leaving no room for concession.
After saying these words, Kailson’s image in the family completely collapsed.
His descendants looked at him with strange eyes, as if they were looking at an elder with dementia, pitiful, infuriating, and hateful.
“Hey, the child doesn’t understand things and was just joking, don’t take it to heart. I’m an optimistic and open-minded person, I never mind such small matters, everyone should be free. Right, considering that you are new here and might not have jobs, I will arrange some things for you to do to pass the time, I hope you won’t refuse.”
Kailun had a gentle smile on his face. In their eyes, Kailun was completely better than Kailson, giving people a feeling of closeness.
“Thank you for your generosity, Lord Kailun, we will definitely work hard.”
Everyone responded symbolically. The so-called working hard was just a perfunctory statement for now.
Kailun waved to them with a smile: “In that case, you all step back first, Kailson and I still have something to talk about.”
It wasn’t until everyone left that Kailson said, “You should be satisfied with me doing this, right? Now they have a grudge against me. Heh, how pathetic, they would rather believe an outsider than me.”
“This is not what I asked you to do, don’t shift the blame onto me. For me, they can create greater benefits if they are alive, but it doesn’t matter if they die. Or rather, it was your kindness that saved them, not me forcing you to be the bad guy.” When it came to sophistry, Kailun wasn’t afraid of anyone.
Kailson: “…”
Kailun looked up at the gradually darkening sky and said, “I have something to do tonight and have to go back early, so sign the slave contract now.”
He took out a slave contract from his arms and handed it to Kailson.
“Sigh…”
Looking at the slave contract in his hand, Kailson sighed softly, his already aged face becoming even older.
Before his family arrived, he could still hold onto a glimmer of hope, but now it was a foregone conclusion.
After witnessing Kailun’s insidiousness again, he clearly realized the terror of this young man.
As stated in the intelligence, his control over people’s hearts had reached a terrifying level.
And this terror could only be known after witnessing it firsthand.
Coupled with Saint Chrissy, who had become a traitor, he felt that the huge Temple of the Heavenly God was heading towards collapse.
The original balance had been broken, the scales had tilted away from their original direction.
“I’ll sign it, but you have to promise me that you won’t harm my descendants.”
Kailson helplessly unfolded the scroll, his heart filled with sadness as he looked at the clauses on it.
No matter what, he was an eighth-rank powerhouse who had been prominent for hundreds of years, but now he had become someone else’s slave, the gap was conceivable.
If it weren’t for his family, he might have banged his head against the wall.
Every existence who could reach the eighth-rank was proud, they dared to gamble their lives with death to reach the eighth-rank, they already had the determination to disregard life and death.
But everyone had weaknesses, and Kailun’s actions were undoubtedly tearing open his chest and exposing his weaknesses.
“I can’t fully promise you this, if they don’t do anything wrong, I naturally won’t touch them. So you should remind them to abandon their bad habits. But if they do something wrong, they have to be prepared to die, after all, I’m a cruel person, generally speaking, the prisons in the royal city don’t hold people.”
Kailun spread his hands, as long as they were obedient, he was a good person.
“I understand, I will discipline them well and definitely not cause you any trouble.”
As he spoke, Kailson had already signed the slave contract and handed it back to Kailun.
At this moment, he had completely become a traitor to the Temple of the Heavenly God, he only hoped that Kailun could really fight against the Temple.
Thinking of the miracles that had happened to Kailun, he couldn’t help but feel anticipation.
If Kailun could defeat the Temple of the Heavenly God one day, wouldn’t he be considered to have abandoned darkness and turned to light?
Inexplicably, Kailson had the thought of deceiving himself.
“Very good, then you go home directly, I won’t lock you up in prison.” Looking at the approaching carriage, Kailun smiled.
“Wait, can you remove the magic-suppressing collar for me?” Seeing that Kailun was about to leave, Kailson quickly asked.
Kailun looked back at him: “Indeed, you do look ugly with the collar. Collars are indeed exclusive to beautiful girls.”
As he spoke, Kailun snapped his fingers, and the collar on Kailson’s neck fell off with a clang. “I’ll give you the collar, you don’t have to return it.”
Kailun didn’t choose to take back the expensive magic-suppressing collar, the reason was simple, it was just because Kailson had worn it.
Kailson: “…”
Watching Kailun get into the carriage and leave gracefully, he turned around and looked at the unfamiliar castle with a dazed look in his eyes.
……
Kailun’s carriage wasn’t empty. As soon as he got in, Phils pounced on him, her beautiful purple hair covering his head.
After finally freeing himself from Phils’ softness, Kailun pinched her face and said, “Don’t pounce on me like that next time, if you suffocate me to death, you can go find a place to cry.”
“If you don’t like it, then don’t bite me, you’ve made my chest wet~”
Phils rolled her eyes at Kailun with a smile and threw herself into his arms: “Chrissy just sent a message saying that Helena will assassinate you tonight, around ten o’clock.”
Kailun: “Who is Helena?”
Phils: “The girl you negotiated with this afternoon, she’s an eighth-rank assassin from the Temple of the Heavenly God, it’s said that her assassinations have never failed.”
“An eighth-rank? Not bad, I just signed a contract with an eighth-rank, and another eighth-rank is coming to deliver herself at night, I’m really lucky.” Kailun played with Phils’ hair and nodded with satisfaction.
“Since I brought you good news, shouldn’t you reward me?” Phils raised her head and looked at Kailun expectantly.
Kailun thought for a moment and said, “Indeed, I should reward you, how about rewarding you with a week off to go back to your hometown?”
“Bah, bad guy, you only know how to give me time off, tell me honestly, are you avoiding me? Why did you even take in Chrissy but not me?”
Phils held Kailun’s face and threw a straight ball.
“Isn’t it common sense to save the delicious dessert for last?” Kailun remained unmoved, a faint smile on his face.
However, his smile now was much purer than when he was outside.
“You only know how to say nice things, instead of doing that, why don’t you lock me up in prison and whip me hard? Even the princess got that kind of treatment, but I didn’t, it’s not fair.” Phils pouted, a little anger in her eyes.
Kailun: “Isn’t it because you’re a pervert? I thought about it for a long time but couldn’t figure out how to deal with a pervert.”
“When it comes to being a pervert, I’m far inferior to you, classmate Kailun.” Phils rolled her eyes at Kailun.
“Classmate doesn’t sound good, change it.” Kailun poked her delicate face with his finger.
Phils’ purple eyes rolled: “Then Master?”
Kailun shook his head and whispered something in Phils’ ear.
The latter’s eyes flickered with a hint of spring, she let out a soft gasp and looked at Kailun with amusement: “You still say you’re not a pervert, but you’re much more perverted than me. However, I won’t refuse your request, Mr. Pervert.”
She knelt on Kailun’s lap, hugged his shoulders, and slowly leaned closer, calling out softly in an extremely seductive voice: “Daddy~”
“Hiss~”
Kailun took a deep breath, it had been a while since he had been intimate with Phils, he missed her nimble little tongue.
So he spent the next few hours having a snack with Phils, making her choke several times.
[The familiar taste made Phils unable to extricate herself. Favorability +1, Total favorability 92]
……
After returning to the manor and having dinner with the girls, Kailun, who had nothing to do, watched the dancers’ hot dance while peeling an apple with a dagger.
It was still an hour before ten o’clock at night. In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, he deliberately changed the defense of the manor.
He directly canceled the original shift system and replaced it all with magic circles.
Now, except for this small courtyard, which didn’t seem to have much defense, his entire small building could be described as impregnable.
At this time, Afra was having a tea party with the girls in the living room of the small building. This was to prevent everyone from being alone and encountering danger.
Although Winnie and the others could only be considered pets, Kailun would still be angry if his pets were hurt by others.
So he asked Afra, who had the strength of a peak eighth-rank, to take care of the pets.
Never underestimate assassins, people in this profession could always do some outrageous things.
Now in the backyard, besides Kailun, only Princess Hilna was accompanying him to watch the dancers’ performance.
This wasn’t Hilna’s own will, it was Kailun who forced her to stay.
There was still a long time to go, he needed someone to chat with to pass the time.
In order to let the assassin girl, whose name he had forgotten, find him immediately, Kailun deliberately released his aura.
In the eyes of an eighth-rank, this was like a bright lamp in the night, very conspicuous.
Perhaps because she had found new hope, there was a new light in Hilna’s eyes now.
It was precisely because of this light that Kailun couldn’t help but want to bully her.
“By the way, I heard that you went to Kano Prison before, I wonder what you went there for?”
Kailun suddenly turned his head and stared at Hilna.
The latter was startled: “No… nothing, just passing by and wanted to take a look.”
Kailun: “Oh, I see, I thought you wanted to lock me up in there and whip me. I’ve been having strange dreams these past few nights, it’s really funny, how could you, a little pet, capture me?”
Hearing Kailun’s teasing, Hilna was not angry, but rather happy.
It wasn’t because she was teased that she was happy, but because she saw hope.
From Kailun’s words, he obviously only regarded the dream as a simple dream.
It was precisely because of Kailun’s carelessness that Hilna saw hope.
Now she no longer resisted the dreams, on the contrary, she wanted to dream of more scenes.
It would be even better if she could have self-awareness and control her body while dreaming.
“Here, have an apple.”
Seeing that Hilna was lost in thought, Kailun stabbed a piece of apple with the dagger and stuffed it into Hilna’s mouth.
Hilna didn’t think too much about it, she chewed the apple with her cheeks puffed out and swallowed it.
“!!!”
Suddenly, a tingling sensation surged up, she felt her body starting to go numb.
“What is this?” She looked at Kailun in astonishment.
Kailun smiled: “It’s an apple.”
“That’s not what I meant, I mean the apple is poisoned.” Hilna shook her head with a stiff expression.
Kailun: “I know, because this dagger is coated with poison, didn’t you know?”
Hilna: “???”
Could it be that her plan was exposed and Kailun wanted to silence her?
“But don’t worry, the original poison has been cleaned off by me, now it’s only coated with a paralyzing poison, you’ll be fine after a good night’s sleep.”
Kailun pinched Hilna’s pretty face with amusement, he called Shirley over to carry Hilna to the living room where Afra was.
Now this stubborn princess shouldn’t do anything reckless.
“Ha~”
Kailun put the dagger in the fruit plate and stretched.
Feeling a little sleepy, he closed his eyes for a nap.
He didn’t know how long had passed, his fingers suddenly moved, and then he heard a pleasant female voice: “You’re really careless, do you think those magic circles outside can stop me?”
Opening his eyes, Kailun saw that the assassin girl was already sitting on the chair where Hilna had been sitting, playing with her dagger.
She had an arrogant expression on her face, disdainful of everything around her.
They were only separated by a small table with a fruit plate on it. At this distance, for an eighth-rank assassin, killing a “fifth-rank” Kailun was just a matter of moving her fingers.
“Whoosh!”
Seeing the arrival of a stranger, the dancers on the stage quickly surrounded the assassin girl. Although they were wearing revealing clothes, their movements were quite agile, and they pointed their shining daggers at the assassin girl from a distance of five meters.
Sensing her powerful aura, they didn’t act rashly.
Recalling the plan Kailun had explained, they even took a step back.
Master Kailun said that they only needed to protect their lives, if their faces were injured, they would be neglected.
Thinking of this, they retreated again and again, until they were more than ten meters away, so that the assassin girl couldn’t directly hurt them.
They had always trusted Kailun’s words, and with the time they had spent together, this trust was almost catching up to Isabella’s.
Assassin girl Helena: “…”
Are you serious about taking so many steps back?
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