Chapter 116: The Cruel Truth
The Venier family is one of the nine first-class families of the Enchanted Jungle, and it may be hard for you to imagine that such a behemoth could barely be called a third-rate small family fifty years ago.
And the person who enabled the Vernier family to develop at a rocket-like pace was none other than Vernier. Lafitte, he's Vignier. Fick's father is also Vinierciso's grandfather.
Fifty years ago, Lafitte took over the dissolution of the Vernier family as the heir, and when he took full control of the entire Vernier family, the first thing he did was to carry out a series of drastic cleanups and reforms.
Spies of other families or people who harm the interests of the family, even if it is a relative Lafitte, does not hesitate to eliminate them.
Lafitte had a unique perspective on family business, and the business model changed dramatically, and many people thought that the Vernier family would be ruined at the hands of this young man.
But it turns out that all the changes made by Lafitte are right, it is Lafitte who brings the Venier family back to life, and it is he who brings the family back on track that should have been lost.
After thirty years of development, the Vernier family finally entered the ranks of second-rate families in the hands of Lafitte.
Like the Frozen Snow Realm Glitter and the Iris family, even if they get them into the magical jungle, they will become third-rate families at best.
They think that their family belongs to a second-rate force, which is purely arrogant, and a family like theirs has no power to resist in the face of a second-rate family.
Tens of billions of wealth and ten magisters are the standards of second-rate family forces, but it is not that they can become second-rate forces after reaching this standard, this is like an unspoken rule. As long as you are recognized by most second-rate families, your power can become second-rate.
In fact, ten years ago, the Venier family had reached the standard of a second-rate family, but because it was not recognized by other family forces at that time, the Vinier family was not recognized by the forty-seven second-rate family forces until it had nearly 100 billion assets and more than 20 Magister-level powers.
It stands to reason that the Venier family has developed like this, even if Vernier's ancestors know it, it is enough to be gratified, but Lafitte is not satisfied with this, his wish is to let the Venier family develop into a powerful existence that can be unrestrained by other forces, like the Holy Land, the Warrior Tribe, and the Sky City.
And before you can become that kind of existence, you must first become a first-class force, and it must be the kind that is outstanding among all first-class forces.
For this reason, Lafitte has worked hard to develop the family in the past thirty years, until the family has become the forty-eighth second-rate family in the Enchanted Jungle, and on the surface, the Vernier family is even in an extremely high position in the ranks of second-rate families.
But this is far from enough, it is not so simple to become a first-class power family.
The standard of a third-rate family is hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth and a magister; The standard of a second-rate family is tens of billions of assets and ten mages; The requirements of a first-class family are trillions of money and more than 100 mages, in addition to a great mage or a master of alchemy, potions, and inscriptions.
Such a demanding requirement is not to mention the Vernier family, which has just become a second-rate family, and even some families who have become second-rate families for more than a thousand years are still second-rate families.
I don't know whether it was accident or fate, Lafitte accidentally saved a child in the toy tower in the toy city, and when the child's father came to thank him in person, Lafitte learned that the child was the son of a diplomat from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Earth Defense Headquarters.
Diplomats are the spokespersons for communication with the outside world since the Earth Defense Headquarters decided to open to the outside world, and are not only responsible for exchanges and cooperation with the Holy Land, Treasure Island, Edelstan and other forces, but also responsible for foreign commerce and trade.
In such a situation, the power of the diplomat is infinitely magnified, and it can be said that the diplomat is not only the messenger of the Earth Defense Headquarters, but he can almost be equated with the decision-maker of the Earth Defense Headquarters under certain circumstances!
Naturally, in order to thank Lafitte for saving his son's life, the diplomat used his power to help Lafitte obtain the qualification for commercial cooperation with the Earth Defense Headquarters.
Don't underestimate such a qualification, no matter what time it is, the products of the Earth Defense Headquarters are hot and sought-after goods in the adventure world.
Since the Earth Defense Headquarters is located in the wilderness forest area at the bottom of the Toy City Tower, except for the Toy City which is slightly closer to the Earth Defense Headquarters, it is not only necessary to spend time taking a flying ship to go to the Earth Defense Headquarters, but also to walk to the bottom of the 100-story Toy Tower. Although there are also toy tower rolls, this is not cost-effective in any way.
Therefore, commercial cooperation with the Earth Defense Headquarters has become the main strategy of the major forces, and the first to win most of the cooperation is the Maple Leaf Chamber of Commerce, although the Maple Leaf Chamber of Commerce claims to be only a first-class force, but in the eyes of many people, its financial resources are almost comparable to a country, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a super power.
Next are the superpowers of the Holy Land, Toy City, Sky City, Ariante, Magatia, Treasure Island, etc., and the share of Treasure Island is divided into five parts, the Warrior Tribe, the Shooter Village, the Abandoned City, the Magical Jungle, and the Notellers.
Notellerus is a force that has only been incorporated into Treasure Island in the past hundred years, and although many people are unhappy that this new force can get a piece of the Treasure Island pie, no one dares to gossip about this powerful pirate organization.
Thanks to the help of diplomats, the Venier family took the lion's share of the business in the Enchanted Jungle. With this huge profit, the Vernier family has developed rapidly.
Twenty years, it only took twenty years for the Vernier family to go from a second-rate family to a first-class family that can control the fate of the magical jungle. I don't know how many people's eyes have been blinded? How many people's hearts and lungs have been blown up?
But no one knows what Hisoka has done behind this prosperity
At the time when he had just established relations with the diplomat, the forty-seven-year-old Lafitte collapsed from overwork, and the priest who examined him told Lafitte: 'You have only two years left to live, even with precious herbs or the priest's restorative magic, you can drag it out until the third year at most.' ’
Faced with such a situation, Lafitte was very unwilling, and the line between the Vernier family and the Earth Defense Headquarters still needed to be taken care of by him personally, if he died. At most, this golden line can be maintained for another year or two, and when the time comes, not only will this line be lost, but even the Vernier family, who is about to enter the first-class family, will be in trouble.
If Lafitte dies like this, the diplomats of the Earth Headquarters may be thinking of their old relationship with them for a short time to help take care of the Venier family.
But it is said that people go to tea and cool, and people die like lights go out, and if it takes a long time, such a transaction maintained by the kindness of the dead cannot continue.
So in order to keep the Venier family, for his wishes, Lafitte desperately looked for all ways to prolong his life.
When Lafitte found the cursed magic of life grafting, he was forty-nine years old.
At this time, he only had one son, Fick, but he already had two grandsons. One is Gio, who has an outstanding/magical talent, and the other is Hisoka, who has just been born.
Because Lafitte was reluctant to give up his only son, he set the goal of grafting his life on his two grandsons. However, Hisoka detected a bad result at such an inopportune time, although Hisoka was extremely talented in magic, even stronger than his brother, but Hisoka had no elemental talent.
What does it mean to have no elemental talents? He'll never be an elemental mage! Even if he spent a lot of magic to release elemental magic through elemental transformation, the power he released was extremely weak, and he couldn't compare with other normal magicians with elemental talents.
So, naturally, the target of the curse is Hisoka, who is of little value in the eyes of Lafitte.
The curse was used successfully, and Lafitte absorbed most of Hisoka's lifespan, although there may be a lot of wear and tear in the grafting process, but for Lafitte, as long as he can live another ten years, he is sure to take the Venier family to a new level.
Of course, when he cast the curse, Lafitte didn't dare to tell his son Fike the truth, he was afraid that his son would have pity and ruin his plan, he just said that there was a certain harm to Siso, and Fike, who was worried about his father at the time, didn't think much about it.
However, when Siso's many disasters and illnesses and even his fake death several times, Fick began to investigate the matter, and when Fick found out the truth about it, he even attacked his elderly father.
But it was too late, and Fick had no solution to it, and the high priest he had spent so much money on could only shake his head helplessly at such a curse.
It was when he was ten years old when Hisoka knew that the sickness that had been tormenting him was a curse. He broke into his father's study, ready to wait for his father, but he didn't expect his grandfather to come. Although Grandpa usually loves Hisoka, Hisoka somehow feels a sense of fear every time he faces Grandpa, so Hisoka subconsciously hides behind the bookcase.
Everyone should be able to guess the next situation, Fick came in and first talked to Lafitte about business, but I don't know where it touched Fike's nerves, Fick forcefully turned the topic to Siso's curse, and Lafitte and Fick had a big quarrel about it.
Who will pay attention to what is next to them when they quarrel, let alone in their personal study.
When Hisoka heard this, he didn't run out to question his grandfather and father, nor did he cry sadly, he just crouched helplessly behind the bookcase and stared blankly at the ground.
Since then, Hisoka has changed, he no longer strives to actively practice magic, and he no longer takes business seriously. He has changed from a good baby who loves to learn and love his relatives to a gentleman who eats, drinks and has fun.
Hisoka's mother was inexplicable about Hisoka's transformation, and after a few more beatings and scoldings that didn't work, Hisoka's mother didn't care much about him, after all, she had another very good child.
Hisoka's father, on the other hand, guessed something and had a long conversation with Hisoka all night, but he had no way of convincing the distraught Hisoka.
As for Lafitte, he has been running around for the family's business, and he has no time to care about Hisoka's transformation, and he may not even know Hisoka's previous personality.
It's just that none of them know that before Hisoka's personality changed, he secretly approached Priest Kos, who specializes in treating the family members, and asked Priest Kos how long he would live.
The Kos priest could not lie to a child who was on his knees and pleading with him, especially if the child he had brought up. Although he may have been a little cruel to Hisoka, since Hisoka knew about it, his concealment from him was as weak as a piece of window paper.
Decade! Hisoka, who was only ten years old, almost completely collapsed after hearing that he had only ten more years to live at most.
At this point, Hisoka's mindset completely changed.
He didn't hate his parents, because they were genuinely good to him. Although he had a grudge against his grandfather, he did not choose revenge. Instead, he chose to let go of this grudge, no matter what, grandpa was for the continuation of the family.
So Sisoka decided to play the world in his lifetime, taste local food, and see all the beauties in the world
Doing all the fun and interesting things in the world is Hisoka's wish!
It was his dying wish