Sean sat quietly in the conference room.

This is a conference room on the third floor, and it is also the place where he usually spends most time with William and Neil. Basically, as long as he is in the Void City, he spends most of his time in this conference room, although nominally he has to deal with some documents, but in reality he is basically just a decoration here, unless it is a change in the territory affairs that need to be carried out in his name, otherwise no documents need to go through his hands.

William and Neil are enough to handle the huge affairs of an entire territory.

In fact, it's also because Sean isn't a qualified lord, and William and Neil are just too good. Like other territories, even if the lord does not have to do everything, there will never be only one internal affairs officer under his command who specializes in handling government affairs, and even there will be several staff members who help to assist in government affairs.

But under Sean's command, there are only two people who handle government affairs: Neil and Ruud.

However, compared to Neil, Rude's work is undoubtedly much easier, because the Dai Territory he is in charge of is a territory that has been formed, and it does not require him to invest too much energy, especially after becoming Neil's subordinate, Ruud's workload has been reduced by more than half at once, which makes him naturally have more free time. However, Ruud did not waste this time, and this free time was used by him on other research topics, one of which is said to have aroused Neil's great interest.

Neil has lived for hundreds of years now, and has worked under many nobles under the guise of his identity, so in every respect, he has a strong advantage that other government officials do not have. It is precisely these advantages that allow him to accomplish things that almost require a government team to accomplish alone, so it is not easy to arouse his strong interest in such a situation.

Sean was looking through the information at the moment. It's the information that interests Neil a lot.

In the end, of course, Sean needs to make a decision in the end. However, Neil's other outstanding advantage is that when Ruud began to study this topic that is conducive to the economic growth of the territory, he has already seen the many troubles that this subject needs to face, so this information has made extremely detailed judgments and analyses, and even split the entire research project into three stages, and the funds and returns required for each stage have a rough assessment.

If the trouble written on this document can be overcome, then if this plan is successfully implemented, it is likely that the economic income of the territory will be tripled, and the size of the territory will increase. The more abundant the resources, the greater the profits. However, for a project as large as this, the first phase alone requires at least two million dollars, while the second and third phases are double the previous one.

In other words, you want to triple the income of the entire province. It also requires at least tens of millions of funds.

You must know that Asuna conquered the entire southern part of the kingdom of Dabiang. The final harvest of that battle was only tens of millions.

That's a great investment.

Of course. For a big project like this, the investment at each stage will also have a corresponding return, depending on whether Sean has enough courage to make this decision. Because once this project is launched, it means that Sean has decided to invest all the proceeds of the future war with the Kingdom of Dabion into it, which also means that he will not be able to make any military expansion or other government investment until the first phase of the plan is completed.

"Privatization and regulation of specialty products. Oh, it's a shame that Ruud can figure it out. Sean smiled and closed the document casually, but his eyes narrowed slightly. Now that you're outside the door, why don't you come in? ”

It wasn't loud, but it was loud enough in the night.

However, no one responded to Sean's words, and it was still very silent both inside and outside the room.

Seeing this, Sean sighed slightly, and then put his right hand into a bag around his waist.

The bag was rectangular and flat, about two centimeters deep, just enough to fit into one hand. However, looking at the intricate decorative texture on the bag and the black leather that was obviously specially tanned, it is clear that the bag was specially made by Sean.

When Sean's hand stretched out of the bag, the palm of his hand was already slightly glowing with golden brilliance, and Gollum, who was sleeping a little dazed, had been taken out by Sean.

This bag is actually Gollum's abode!

Shaking his hand hard, Gollum, who was still asleep, was already thrown out of the way by Sean.

"Gollum!"

A terrible scream that suddenly sounded in this silent night seemed particularly infiltrating.

I saw a golden streamer draw a golden straight line in mid-air at an astonishing speed, and then I only heard a muffled sound of "bang", and Gollum had directly penetrated the wall of the conference room, and I don't know which wall the corridor was embedded in. But this time, the entire Lord's Mansion did not move at all, and it was not like in the Black Swan Castle, where every impact on the wall caused a small earthquake.

And after two or three seconds of grunting through the wall, there was finally another faint sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Judging by the sound, it was obviously the sound of a person falling to the ground.

Almost at the same moment, the door to the conference room was slammed open, and three figures rushed in at a swift speed that even Sean was slightly surprised by. As soon as they entered the room, the three figures scattered around the conference room at the same time, and this extremely tacit cooperation was obviously not the first time they had done so.

This conference room is not very large, but even if there are more than a dozen people sitting at the same time, it is not a problem, but the layout of the conference room has always been a more serious and open environment, naturally there will not be too many furnishings, so there will not be too many obstacles that can be used, if you want to hide in the conference room, everyone knows that this is not an easy task, at least as long as you are not blind, you can find the hiding place by a casual sweep.

But at this moment, there is a scene completely staged in front of Sean's eyes, which is enough to shock anyone.

After the three attacking killers broke through the door and rushed into the conference room, they immediately dispersed around, because the direction of the three of them and the explosive power of the sudden acceleration were different, and the speed was also very good, so even Sean could not lock the three of them at the first time, so he completely subconsciously swept along the trail of one of them, and it was at this moment of kung fu that the other two killers who entered the conference room completely disappeared under Sean's nose.

When Sean swept in some surprise in the direction that the other two had just rushed into, the third person who could still find traces suddenly disappeared out of thin air!

Sean's brow jumped.

Shadow Assassin!

This is a sixth-order profession, which is the so-called high-ranking silver in this world. While not particularly good at damage, and not as capable of breaking defenses or powerful damage as other Assassin classes, this class is the most frustrating of all Assassin classes. Because their professional talent is that they can perfectly integrate with the environment, so that they can not only shield their own breath, but also stage a special means of changing people.

Basically, anywhere there's a shadow hanging over it, it's home for their profession.

There is no doubt that the reason why Sean lost their tracks was entirely because they blocked their own aura and then blended into the surrounding shadows.

Although there is not much space in the conference room to hide people, for the shadow assassins who can hide their bodies as long as they have shadows, there are too many places for them to hide in this conference room, and even with these shadow parts, it is not particularly difficult to get close to Sean.

If......

Almost as soon as Sean thought of a trouble, a shadow assassin struck out from the left.

His attack had no warning, so abrupt that it made people feel a little uncomfortable, even Sean, who had experienced a hundred battles, failed to react at the first time, so that he missed the weakest attack opportunity of the shadow assassin - this is the biggest weakness of their profession: the shadow assassin is not compared to other assassination professions, their own defense is very weak, and the lethality is not high, so at the moment of the outbreak, it is actually equivalent to a completely defenseless state, if you can parry their attack in this state, Then they go into a "hitstun time", somewhat similar to a wrestling failure.

Out of habitual conditioning, Sean immediately returned to the defense with his sword the moment the shadow assassin suddenly attacked. But what he didn't expect was that the target of the shadow assassin was not him, but the oil lamp placed in front of his desk - this was also a key point that Sean had considered before.

The short sword in the shadow assassin's hand mercilessly shattered the outer cover of the oil lamp, and the tip of the sword easily cut off the little wick on the oil lamp, as if a flame had sparked on the short sword.

Then, as the shadow assassin withdrew his hand, the flame was extinguished with a flick of the dagger.

Darkness, like a beast that had been dormant for a long time, finally showed its hideous fangs at the moment when the only light in the room disappeared, and suddenly jumped out, completely engulfing the entire room.

A slight chill approached suddenly.

But not from the front, but from behind Sean.

The second shadow assassin is suddenly attacked! (To be continued......)