Cthulhu Gonfalon

Although he knew it was difficult, Crick had to solve the obstacle before him. Regardless of morality or his own safety.

From what he saw, the safest solution was probably what his friend Spencer had said: flee to avoid Void Mask Theme Park with the entire family. But then it would mean the foundation that had been laid by generations in Keane’s family would be surrendered and offered as a gift. He believed that if Crick Keane found out from seven feet under, he would definitely resurrect from anger.

That made him very annoyed. The solution could only be used when he reached his limit. At least for now, he wouldn’t consider it!

The other safer solution was to change his belief and join the church of the God of Nobles. Although they had some conflict in the past, as long as he was willing to admit defeat sincerely and surrender honestly, the church of the God of Nobles wouldn’t fuss too much with a Viscount.

However, the solution wasn’t about being annoying, but about pissing people off!

Crick asked himself, and he was sure that he was not an idiotic person from Northern Europe. One who loved everything and would still encourage living without borders, even after a terrorist attack. He couldn’t practice the concept of turning the other cheek. People tried to kill him but he didn’t try to kill them; that idea was already hard enough to understand. Now he had to surrender himself and plead for forgiveness?

D*mn! I have already traversed once. I am not here to test my limits of being treated like a dog!

Solution, denied!

Refusing the two safest solutions, the options left had huge hidden dangers. The biggest problem that Baron Keane faced was the lack of high-end military might. The most powerful expert in the territory, James, was only level eight. His attributes were not too good. Compared to the knight troop from the church of the God of Knights, he was only slightly stronger than Spencer’s attendant. Anyway, glancing through the knight troop, there weren’t any knights weaker than James…

A great leader once said, political power derives from military force. Baron Keane’s military forces were a little weak. It would be impossible to fight against the church of the God of Noble!

“Maybe… I should hire one or two experts?”

He put down the scroll in his hands and drank a mouthful of wheat tea. Then he was lost in thought.

A few days later, Baron Keane posted a recruitment notice.

[Due to the lack of talent in the territory, we are recruiting experts who are highly skilled in martial arts to hold a position. After probation, those who performed well will be granted with a feudal estate and noble ranking.]

After the notice was posted, it quickly caught many adventurers’ eyes. These adventurers were mostly older and already weary of slaughter and adventure. They wanted to settle down. Although they knew that Baron Keane’s situation wasn’t great, they thought they would just flee when it came to the worst…

Loyalty 20, loyalty 25, loyalty 18, loyalty 33… Crick looked through the bunch of adventurers that responded to the call for recruitments. Although they were smiling, they already sighed in their hearts.

Putting their capability aside, these people have such low loyalty!

Who would dare to hire b*stards that didn’t even have a loyalty of 50! He didn’t want to promote a bunch of ingrates!

Looking at them carefully, he let out a heavy sigh. He told his butler, Layton, to record everyone’s name. They would discuss them when the entire recruitment ended.

“Your Excellency, these people seem okay!” The knight James said happily during the internal meeting of Baron Keane territory. “Among them, there were a few that are even stronger than me. They would come in handy!”

Crick rolled his eyes. He was dying to tell him, “Bro, it’s very hard for me to communicate with you.”

The butler, Layton was much steadier. He hesitated and said, “Your Excellency, I think these people don’t look very loyal…”

Crick nodded. He thought his butler had good insight.

“The adventurers are used to cheating each other after all. It is impractical to count on their loyalty.” The butler Layton saw that the Baron supported his opinion, so he continued. “Aren’t you close to Captain Smith of the knight troop from the church of the Groundbreaking Knights? Why not discuss with him if you could recruit two people from his knight troop?”

Crick was stunned and suddenly enlightened. “D*mn! Why didn’t I think of that!”

That afternoon, he departed in a hurry to make a trip to the church of the God of Knights.

Spencer Smith didn’t mind sending a helping hand to his friend, but if it were to be a long-term recruitment, he would be a little hesitant. Although the troop from the church of the God of Knights wasn’t weak, the enemy they were fighting against was strong. One must remember that the church of the God of Nobles had a main target already. They wanted to jostle and elbow out the church of the God of Knights all this time!

However, dealing with the pressing danger, Crick exerted himself to the utmost, performing all kinds of tragic acting he had seen on TV, movies and manga back then. Even though his acting skills would only be six points at maximum, he moved Spencer in the end.

“Alright, I can choose two people for you,” Spencer sighed and said. “Let me make this clear: they can only protect you. They can’t help you with your government affairs.”

“Protecting me is sufficient!”

Half an hour later, Crick looked at the two knights, who were about 40 years old, and remained silent.

Honestly speaking, the two knights were not weak. One was level 12, another one was level 13n. Compared to James, they were at much higher levels.

But, the intelligence of the two knights was extremely low.

One was seven and the other one was eight.

These are two silly dudes!

Most likely because the sadness across his face was obvious, Spencer was a little embarrassed. He laughed drily and said, “I think you should focus on hiring people. If you can’t find any suitable help in Gale Prefecture, why not try to look around in the Void Mask Theme Park? The transportation there is most convenient. There are transportation portals that connect to many capitals of countries and cities. Many adventurers like to spend their leisure time there. If you were to recruit there, you would be able to find some amazing experts…”

Crick nodded repeatedly. Without further ado, he returned home to hand over some necessary duties. Then he rushed to the capital of the Duchy of Thunder with the two bodyguards and got to Void Mask Theme Park through the transportation portal.

“He has been through a lot…” The jade green jellyfish was invisible and floating in the air as he gazed upon his clone, who was working very hard. He couldn’t help but pity him.

“If this continues, he can’t settle down and experience the life of a noble…”

After pondering, he finally decided to give Crick a little assistance.

That night, after rushing about, Crick still couldn’t manage to find a suitable underling. He sat down wearily in the leisure center that was operated by the church of the God of Happiness. He did like a corpse; letting the warm and clean water flush out his body, not wanting to do anything.

“Recruiting is too tough!” he covered his face with a slightly moist towel and mumbled to himself.

“The key is that there’s no money, right?” a frivolous voice said next to him. “If there’s money, it is quite easy to recruit.”

Crick was too lazy to lift up his towel but replied with a bitter smile. “Yeah, no money! I am only a Baron, my territory isn’t big. and my income isn’t high either. Although in the long term, maybe it would be profitable. I need the money now!”

“Why not go ahead and try your luck?” the person said. “There is a roulette in the casino. Only one gold coin is required for one round. If it has three sevens, you would win a large sum of money!”

“I don’t have such good luck!”

“Nothing to lose if you try. To a Baron, what is one gold coin?” That person smiled as he stood up and walked away.

Crick thought and accepted his suggestion.

An hour later, he was brought to the service counter. He was shocked as he saw the terrifying amount on the cash converter card!

The heck! With one gold coin, I won such a big amount of money?! This is like a dream!

“Could it be that I am possessed by the God of Wealth?”

Saint-Vallier Von Stovski Francis, also known as Shoggoth, was standing in the shadows nearby. He had given the suggestion earlier. When he saw that scene, he smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

“What God of Wealth? This is the bestowed by Void Mask Majesty.”

Sui Xiong smiled and patted his shoulder. “Well done. The magic that fogs the minds of the people was used well!”

Then, he smiled and looked at Crick.

Money I have given you. Keep up your hard work!