On January 8th, yesterday’s Extraordinary gathering at the “Golden Age” bar suddenly lost four members: “Scholar”, “Blood Rose”, “Detective” and “Professor”.
Even Gray Linte, who has been studying occult knowledge recently, was able to add a few words to the occult knowledge sharing session at the party.
The direct result of the lack of members is that no transaction is successful.
Thanks to this, after receiving the income in December of the previous year, Gray Lint's savings once returned to nearly 8,000 pounds, but this was obviously not enough to cover the consumption of the Extraordinary Road.
As for Sylvie, Glerint has just paid the third progress payment, 500 pounds.
It’s still far too early to reap the benefits.
Considering that he did not know when he would leave for the Southern Continent, Gray Linte entrusted Anthony with the matter of inspecting Sylvie and paying the progress payment.
£2,300 is not a small amount of cash wealth.
But after careful consideration, Gray Linte believed that Anthony could be trusted.
In the ship investment of Gray Lint, the other party holds 4% of the shares as a manager and enjoys the income, and this part of the equity is not allowed to be sold.
This income alone exceeds 400 pounds every year, and Graylingt also pays him salary and year-end bonus.
Although Anthony is now over 50 years old, he can still earn profits from holding shares for at least ten years until he retires.
So Graylint believed that he had no reasonable reason for betrayal.
As for the shares of the shipping company, they were jointly invested by the earl and several viscounts, and no one would dare to play tricks on them.
Gray Lint's original plan was to purchase a powerful enough magical item from branch members after arriving in the Southern Continent.
Powerful magical items that can be bought with money usually correspond to sequence six or sequence five.
This corresponds to a price ranging from four to five thousand pounds to as high as about ten thousand pounds.
In addition, "The Briber" formula and potion materials, "Decryptor" potion materials...
All this will cost money, and it will cost three to four thousand pounds.
Based on his current digestion progress, even if it is just a normal and simple performance, it will take no more than ten days at most to completely digest the "lawyer" potion.
As for the Sequence Eight "Barbarian", he has already collected all the formulas and materials. As soon as the "Lawyer" potion is digested, he can prepare the potion in time and complete the promotion.
In other words, if the role goes well, he won't be able to get the "briber" formula from Klein.
So he wanted to buy the formula himself in advance.
In view of this, Graylint, who did not want to be bound by gold pounds, naturally chose to prepare enough wealth in advance.
There is basically nothing that can't be done with money at mid- to low-sequence levels.
If so, it's probably because you didn't spend enough money.
Therefore, Gray Lint, who had accumulated a large amount of real estate, chose to make a decision that went against his ancestors:
“Sell the house and land!”
This is because the wealth in ships and banks is difficult to handle and use directly, and the earl, who does not understand the situation, will not agree to his wasting money like this.
At the same time, Graylingt is not willing to give up these two parts of long-term and sustainable income.
At present, the annual income of this part of wealth exceeds 20,000 pounds.
Therefore, the only wealth he could handle was the two properties in Bridgewood and Hillston, the small villa in the West End, and the few estates.
This is why he chose to sell his house and land.
As for the mansion he lives in now, a large villa, it is actually closer to a castle.
This is bound to his viscount title according to the laws of the kingdom. It does not mean that it cannot be sold, but it is quite difficult.
Of course, Gray Linte wouldn't just sell it.
The total value of these real estate properties that can be disposed of alone exceeds 150,000 pounds, but it is impossible for him to sell them completely.
In order to be more private, he decided to sell only two properties and a small estate.
The two together are worth about fifteen thousand pounds.
In addition to the nearly 8,000 pounds he still has, excluding the formulas and potions from sequence six and up, this wealth is basically enough for him to spend.
The reason why it is "basically enough" is because he also plans to train or hire two or three extraordinary subordinates.
As a noble, even if he goes to the Southern Continent to risk his life for a future, it must be the life of Xianbo's men...
This is the basic thinking of all nobles.
Of course, Gray Linte would not be so cruel, because this is not in line with his world view.
But with two or three subordinates, it is also necessary for him to not have to do everything himself.
Just like now, he feels more and more that the valet Harsh, as an ordinary person, does have a lot of inconveniences for him.
For example, he needs to always pay attention to hiding his extraordinary abilities and hiding Jim's existence.
You must also be careful not to let them come into contact with or get close to magical items.
At the same time, even if the negative effects of magical items are great, they cannot be revealed.
But he was unwilling to directly train Harsh to become an extraordinary person. This was because Gray Lint knew that the other party had a beautiful family.
If you choose to become an extraordinary person, you will inevitably be accompanied by madness and crisis.
For ordinary people who live a stable life, becoming an extraordinary person is more of a disaster than a good thing.
As for the royal family's rule that prohibits nobles from cultivating extraordinary people in private, it is just because they are afraid that their own status will be threatened.
As long as you don't have the strength of a demigod or above, the royal family is more willing to keep this handle and use the punishment of "deprivation of the title" to manipulate you at any time.
And to be honest, Gray Linte may not be that rare about this title.
For what he wants to do, the advantage of having this identity is that it is indeed more convenient in many cases.
But without this identity, those things would just be a little more troublesome.
In the short term, wealth means more to Graylingt than a title.
As for the long term?
Sorry, he didn't think about it.
The end of the world is coming soon, why do you still want to have a title that will last forever?
Besides, when the war breaks out later, even someone with Earl Hall's status and wealth will have to consider surrender.
Not to mention he is a little viscount.
For the nobles who are inevitably involved in the war and the tide of the times, only exchanging wealth for their own power in advance is the real way to go.
Gray Lint's current plan is to try his best to become a "briber" before Klein is put down by Source Castle, and pretend to digest part of the potion.
At the same time, cultivate your own power.
When Klein gets the "Black Emperor" card, he can prepare the "Corrupted Baron".
He knew very well that no matter what aspect, he could not digest the potion faster than Klein.
Therefore, as long as he doesn't want to have to do nothing but play games and watch movies, he has to fly first.
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"Jim, your tricks are of no use to me."
Looking at the "eyes" wrapped in the afternoon tea snacks, although Gray Linte knew clearly that it was Jim's hallucination and it was fake.
But he still couldn't help his stomach churning, and he completely lost his appetite after Jim removed the hallucination.
The little mouse stood upright, holding Intis purple walnuts in its two "hands" and chewing them with relish.
"But, Graylingt, I have the feeling of 'digestion' from the potion you mentioned."
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Glancing at Jim and the refreshments next to him, Graylingt raised his right hand expressionlessly:
"Eating and drinking are prohibited here."
Snap, most of Jim's remaining walnuts were wrapped in an invisible tough film, which made his teeth ache.
"Dong dong dong"
"What's up?"
Just when Jim was about to run away, there was a knock on the study door.
"Mr. Mariano, a woman who calls herself the 'Hermit of Destiny' is here to visit you."
Harsh reported through the door.
I won’t post half of the update. I’ll add another update tomorrow.