Soma. Hasting, who is only twenty-nine years old this year, is already second only to Domingo in the entire Hasteen family. Hasting's real power figure.

Because, he is the lord of the city of Lomingen.

Of course, in fact, the entire Hastings family knows that Soma. Hasting's management is not just Lominen, although he is nominally the lord of Lominen, but in reality he is very powerful, and has the entire management of the Tinchiin Territory - to put it bluntly, he is an acting lord with no appointment power. However, it was up to him to submit it to Domingo. Domingo basically would not object to Hestin's letter of assignment, so everyone in the Hestin family knew very well that it would not be too far for Soma to become an official acting lord with the right to appoint.

Of course, Soma is also very smart.

That is, he did not participate in the race for the next patriarch of the Hastings family - as a side branch of the side branch, Soma. Although Hasteen has Hasting's last name, it is like Domingo in the end. People like Hasting, who consider themselves to be descendants, actually don't look down on such distant relatives, so it is absolutely impossible for the candidate heir of the Hasteen family to fall into the hands of Soma.

It is precisely because he chose to give up that Soma can now become an existence above ten thousand people under the entire Hasteen family. This is partly because he is smart enough and reassuring enough, but also because Soma is a real talent, unlike other far-flung sidekicks who only talk and daydream unrealistically.

It can even be said that there is a rumor circulating in the Hastings family today: which patriarch candidate will be able to get Soma. Hasting's support, then he will completely sit on the throne of the patriarch of the Hasteen family.

But, Soma. Is Hasteen really unambitious?

Even a slightly more sensible aristocratic kid wouldn't think so, but in fact, many people always overestimate their own strength, and almost all future candidates for the patriarch of the Hasteen family think. I must be able to control Soma. Hasting, so they don't care about Soma at all these days. How strong is Hasting's influence, and even wishes that Soma's influence could be stronger, so as long as he can get his support, it is really a sure thing.

Only Soma himself knows best, even if he is ambitious, he can't show it in him, and the only hope is his grandson.

He had already made a plan to choose a candidate to support him as the patriarch when he was most influential, and then let his children grow up with his own children. Cultivate deeper bonds and friendships, and completely get rid of the embarrassing identity of the distant side. And when it comes to his son's generation, although it is still a side branch, it will not be considered too far away, so his grandson will hopefully compete for the position of the patriarch of the Hastings.

This is a long-term ambition that requires patience.

But for many. This is also a result worth looking forward to and striving for.

It's like the history of the Michilyn family.

So for this long-term ambition and purpose, Soma. Hasteen spares no effort in managing the entire Tinchiin Territory. And the desire to make him stronger. In such a situation. Soma's personal interests are equivalent to being completely tied to the interests of the entire Hastings family, so for the unexpected events that occur within his management, Soma naturally invests twelve points of energy to deal with them.

For example, a file on his desk is the identity report and some speculation about the seven adventurers who died on Songuo Street last night. And I don't know if it's a coincidence or some other reason, and it was placed on the table with this archival document. There is also some news and intelligence about Sean and others, of course, these intelligence messages are the result of Elekate's disguise.

Soma's brow furrowed, a typical movement he made when thinking about things.

Of course, he knew about the mysterious blueprint that Master Rhoda had obtained a few months earlier, and it was because of his order. That's why the Yeros family intervened - of course, he also arranged this matter after reporting to Domingo and getting Domingo's approval. And in the entire Ting Qi Yin Domain, any nobleman knows that the Yeros family is a veritable dog of the Hastings family, since this dog is ready to bite, then no matter how unhappy the other honorary nobles are, but in the absence of a good way, no one dares to tear their faces with the Hastings family, so naturally they can only watch the forced negotiations between the Heros family and the old man of Rhoda.

But I don't know what the road is for, this time the usual trick of the Yeros family did not succeed, but finally let the Mage Guild headquarters have a summons to feedback to the ward here, which makes the Yeros family feel deeply shameless, and they are already planning to kidnap Rhoda. And seeing that the signs of the Yeros family were wrong, of course, the other nobles were also trying to save it, sending guards to secretly protect Rhoda was one of the means, and at the same time, due to the joint pressure of the nobles, the Mage Guild did not dare to go too far.

Therefore, in the case of many compromises, there was a banquet held at Hastings Manor a few days later.

When the time comes, everyone will be engaged in a research and discussion about this mysterious drawing - in fact, it is just how to divide the cake. Originally, the original proposal was to auction it, but the thought of having to compete with the people of the Mage Guild made all the nobles lose confidence, and this drawing is due to some dark side considerations, and no one wants those big families and royals to intervene, so this upcoming banquet at Hastings Manor is very secretive.

At this sensitive time, an alien nobleman of honor arrived in Hastings City and made contact with Master Rhoda, and on the night of the contact, seven adventurers hired by the Yeros family died on the spot, which is obvious from any way you look at it.

But as Sean said, sometimes even if you know that things are wrong, you still have to make mistakes again and again because of some face problems, which is the so-called aristocratic practice - of course, for nobles, this is actually to protect their family honor. And a young nobleman like Sean, who has just won the title, will definitely feel that he and his family have been insulted in the face of this slander, so he will definitely not bow to others. Naturally, things will be made bigger.

But Sean, is it really such a nobleman?

Soma had just closed the two files, ready to negotiate with the people of the Yeros family about what to do with the foreign nobleman Fran. At the time of Dumoy's business, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"What's the matter?" Soma asked in a deep voice, because of the long-term prestige, so Soma said this from a majestic momentum.

He knew very well that, because of his orders, no one would usually knock on the door of his office unless there were special circumstances. The normal processing step is to record the matter. When he opens the door during the lunch break and in the evening, the secretary in charge of organizing and recording things will hand him the documents that record things, and then he will take a little time to deal with the things that need to be responded to, which is considered to be the completion of the day's work.

But at the moment, he didn't open the door. His secretary knocks on his door, which means that the matter is important or urgent. He needs to deal with it immediately.

So although he was asking something. But the man got up and left his seat, walked to the door, and opened the door to his office.

"Lord of the Castle."

Soma's secretary is not a woman, but a man. He looks a little fair, looking a lot like the kind of weak scholar described in the earth books, but wearing gold-rimmed glasses, he looks full of a rigorous and serious atmosphere, the only thing that has not changed is his unsmiling face and the calm and almost indifferent and lifeless tone.

"What's the matter?" Soma repeated it again.

"Someone wants to see you." The secretary spoke.

Hear this. Soma's brows furrowed, the look on his face showed a hint of anger, and his voice suddenly became a little cold: "You just knocked on the door and interrupted my train of thought because of this?" ”

"Yes." The secretary still did not smile, but nodded with a serious look. "I've brought them to the reception room to wait for you."

Soma looked at his secretary coldly, maybe outsiders don't know, but Soma knows very well that his secretary named Kazi is also a rare talent, because he can always organize very complicated and chaotic things clearly, and then transfer these neat contents to his own hands, no matter how complicated the records, they will become orderly in his hands.

In this way, Soma's workload has been greatly reduced, which has also improved his work efficiency a lot. And when the things that he has dealt with are handed over to Kazi, things will also become orderly, what should be dealt with first, what things can be solved later, everything does not need to be worried and retold by Soma, Kazi will arrange everything properly.

Looking at Kazi's calm face, Somana's anger after being interrupted was quickly suppressed, just as he knew Kazi very well, Kazi also knew Soma very well, so if it wasn't something very necessary, Kazi would never bother himself.

When reason regained the upper hand, Soma had already guessed that the other party's identity might be special, otherwise Kazi would have asked them to wait until they came out of their lunch break, instead of knocking on their door after bringing them to the reception room, so Soma soon said, "Who is the other party?" ”

"Fran. Viscount Dumoy and two of his servants. Kazi replied, "I think this matter is the highest priority to be resolved at the moment, so I will interrupt your train of thought, please forgive me." ”

Soma was indeed a little shocked when he heard the name of the person who came, and he couldn't figure out why this foreign honorary nobleman would come to him. But in the next moment, Soma had already realized that this foreign honorary nobleman was probably not as simple as he imagined, so he quickly walked in the direction of the reception room, and Kazi also closed the door of the office before quickly following Soma's pace, and walked behind about a position from Soma.

At this moment, the temperament exuded by these two people almost reached an astonishing unanimity, and there was a resonance aura. (To be continued......)

PS: Make up for yesterday's chapter, above!