"The headquarters of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, is there still no progress in Doom Castle?"

  Baron Rodney, holding a burning pipe in his mouth, stood on the balcony of the spacious villa, looking at the beautiful scenery of Gem Cape with gloomy eyes.

  The new president of the Pharmacist Guild was sweating profusely with nervousness. Fortunately, Baron Rodney was not asking him, but the thief standing in the corner of the room, whose face was covered by shadows.

  "The Golden Two-Headed Dragon has recalled the main forces of the mercenary group from all over the place and concentrated them in the Castle of Doom..." A low and unrecognizable voice sounded lazily: "Dozens of 'scouts' have been sent to explore the way, but... I guess there are 'cats' in the Castle of Doom, and none of the scouts sent out have returned alive."

  "Is the defense of the Castle of Doom so tight that no intelligence can be detected?" Baron Rodney said angrily: "I spent so much Jintalan and raised so many 'scouts' to let them spy on intelligence, not to fatten them up and slaughter them! Moonlight Mouse, those 'scouts' under your command are probably so fat that they can't even get into the gaps, right?"

  "My Lord Baron, the little scouts in the 'Rat's Nest' are only used to gather intelligence, not for fighting. The Golden Two-Headed Dragon is the leading gold-level mercenary group in Kolanbang!"

  "Moonlight Mouse" leaning against the shadow of the wall, still lazily hugging his arms, said slowly: "The other side has no fewer silver-level thieves than our "Rat's Nest", and there are also several gold-level thieves of the same level as me. With them there, once the infiltrating scouts are discovered, do you think they still have a chance to escape?"

  The thief Moonlight Mouse is the leader of the secret intelligence organization "Rat's Nest" under Baron Rodney, but from the tone of his voice, he does not have much respect for Baron Rodney.

  The slightly sarcastic tone of Moonlight Mouse made Baron Rodney furious, but he suppressed his anger. A trace of fear flashed in his turbid eyes. After calming down, he slowly said: "Apart from these bad news, is there no exciting news?"

  "There is really no good news, but there is still a lot of bad news. Do you want to hear it, Baron?" Seeing that Baron Rodney did not dare to get angry, Moonlight Mouse raised his mouth sarcastically: "The power behind the 'Lemli Potion Workshop' has surfaced. It is said to be a mysterious magic research institution called 'Kovale Mystery Research Institute'."

  "Although we still don't know who is behind this institute called 'Keao Research Institute'."

  "But there are signs that it is related to Komo University, and it should have some connection with the senior magicians of Komo University."

  "The intelligence sent back by my 'spies' shows that this Keao Research Institute is involved with another mysterious force called 'True Knowledge Mutual Aid Society'..." Moonlight Mouse said, becoming serious, frowning and saying, "Behind them, there seems to be a larger force, but the confidentiality level of the relevant information is too high, and there are very few people who know about it, so the 'spies' have not been able to get in touch with it..."

  "At present, the Mercenary Guild Kolan Branch and the Eternal Hammer Kolan Branch have jointly established an organization called 'Kolan Lemli Pharmacy Development Co., Ltd.' with the 'Koao Research Institute' behind the Lemli Pharmacy Workshop. They are referred to as 'Kolai Pharmacy', which mainly deals in various pharmaceuticals."

  Shaking his head with some regret, Moonlight Mouse stared at Baron Rodney with his amber eyes glowing with a faint light, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry to tell you that I'm afraid your 'Kolan City Pharmacist Guild' will completely collapse after the other party's 'Kolai Pharmacy' officially starts operating!"

  Thinking of the original potion production capacity of Lemley's potion workshop, Baron Rodney took a breath of cold air!

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  The other party was just an experimental potion workshop, but with a few civilians who didn't know anything about potion science, the potion production capacity created by them had already exceeded that of the Pharmacist Guild, which had as many as 300 pharmacists and thousands of pharmacy apprentices under his command.

  The strange pharmaceutical tool "seized" from the Lemley Pharmacy Workshop has been disassembled and studied by him, and it has also been copied, which can indeed greatly increase the production capacity of pharmaceuticals.

  However, the pharmaceutical tool can only perform simple auxiliary processes and cannot completely replace the existence of pharmacists. The real core technology is still in the hands of pharmacists. The pharmacist formula!

  However, the pharmacists owned by his pharmacist guild are only a few intermediate pharmacists at the highest level. The real senior pharmacists or even pharmacy masters are impossible to be constrained by such informal guilds.

  The pharmacy formulas mastered by these junior and intermediate pharmacists are mostly basic popular pharmacy formulas.

  It is not like the violet pharmacy mastered by the other party, which has private ownership of the pharmacy formula. Even if he orders mass production of pharmacy, he is not competitive in this regard!

  Now, the other party has officially begun to get involved in the pharmaceutical industry and has carried out large-scale pharmacy preparation.

  How huge is their potion production capacity?

  As Moonlight Mouse said, once the other party officially operates, his pharmacist guild will completely lose its living space!

  Although the pharmacist guild is profitable, it is not his main means of making money.

  Even if the pharmacist guild goes bankrupt, it will not affect his source of funds.

  However, the problem is that once he loses control of the potion quota, he will no longer be able to restrain the Adventurer Guild, the Mercenary Guild, or even the City Guard under the Civil Affairs Council of Kolan City.

  Losing control of these armed forces will trigger a series of chain reactions, causing the Rodney family's deterrence against other powerful families and small and medium-sized forces to decline significantly.

  This has shaken the Rodney family's leadership in the Kolanbang area.

  "Damn it! Can't let them succeed!" Baron Rodney roared with a ferocious face: "Moonlight Mouse! Gather all your combatants! Attack the Castle of Doom! Destroy it! Must destroy it!!!"

  "Are you sure you want to do this? As far as I know, the Kolai Pharmacy, jointly established by the Koao Research Institute, the Kolan Mercenary Branch, and the Kolan Eternal Branch, will hold a shareholders' meeting in the near future."

  "These shareholders are spread across the major city-states in Zilargo County, and they are all powerful institutions. If you plan to take action, it's best to do it before the shareholders' meeting!"

  Moonlight Mouse smiled: "Otherwise, once the other party's board of directors is established, if you want to destroy this organization, it will be equivalent to making an enemy of the powerful institutions in the entire Zilargo County."

  "It can be predicted that the other party's power will not be even smaller than the Jinquan Association. It is probably difficult for you, the Jinquan Baron, and the Rodney family behind you to compete with it!" Moonlight Mouse's meaningful words guided Baron Rodney's thinking.

  Baron Rodney's eyes turned resentful, and after a while he said: "Then... let's mess up the city of Coran first. I need time to contact the nobles of the Golden Power Society. They will definitely be interested in this matter!"

  Shrugging his shoulders, Moonlight Mouse said indifferently: "As you wish!" Then he stood up and prepared to leave.

  At this time, Baron Rodney said faintly: "In addition, contact the 'Razor Crown War Goblin Corps' in Dagon County as quickly as possible and tell their General Harlock that I agree with its request. As long as it helps me destroy this blockade, I will convince the nobles of the Golden Power Society to support its founding of a country!"

  Moonlight Mouse smiled silently, and his figure gradually disappeared into the shadows.

  Baron Rodney looked at the turbulent sea and was silent for a long time before he said quietly: "Zilago has been quiet for too long. It's time to use a city-state war to redivide the sphere of influence. Although the 'plan' is a little ahead of schedule, I believe the effect will not be too bad, right?"

  The new president of the Pharmacist Guild, who was soaked in cold sweat, looked at the Baron in horror. He felt that he seemed to have heard something he shouldn't have heard.

  Baron Rodney knocked the cherry wood pipe in his hand on the fence of the balcony of the villa, carefully wrapped his beloved pipe with a handkerchief and put it in his pocket, turned around and turned the huge gem ring on his thick fingers.

  He looked at the new president of the Pharmacists Association with a smile on his face, his expression gentle but domineering: "Are you right?"

  “Sir…I…I didn’t hear anything…” The new president of the Pharmacists Association was terrified and stammered, his tone full of pleading.

  His body involuntarily retreated, and a series of shrill screams rang out in this beautiful villa, which stopped abruptly after a long time.

  On the hillside behind the villa, next to the tombstone engraved with the name "Selena", next to the densely packed tombs without words, it is estimated that a new small mound will be added soon...