Jenny Gallop

Gordon looked at Landen, and his heart gave a jolt. It was obvious that the baron's fourth son before him already fully understood what a Magic Furnace meant, and also understood exactly what the Gallop Fund's collateral was. In that case, there was no way he would accept merely earning a bit of hard-earned pay and working for the Finance Department.

"My Lord Landen, surely you don't think you're the only one under heaven who can manufacture Magic Furnaces?" After thinking it over and over, Gordon said this one sentence. The meaning behind it was that the Finance Department would support a new Magic Furnace workshop.

"Of course I'm not the only one who can make them. Weren't the Goblins able to make them tens of thousands of years ago?" Landen said with a smile. "I just hope that when the giant dragons recover their excess Gold Coins, they won't come looking for me! After all, the Gallop Fund doesn't have a single Copper Coin in Night-Kirin City!"

Gordon fell completely silent. Clearly, the people from the Church of Wealth had found Landen before they had, and had poured certain truths into him. That made things extremely difficult for the people of the Finance Department.

Watching Gordon leave in dejection, Redbird let out a breath of relief. Beside her, Landen said lightly, with an easy expression, "As expected!"

Just as the two of them were about to leave the Grand Council, Redbird, who had been thinking for a long while, spoke again. "My Lord, there's something I found very strange just now. You taking Totapara to the orcs' territory was practically top secret. Only you, Frost-Wolf, and the Temples of Life in the two cities of Hindukush knew about it. Where could the news have leaked from? Could there be