"This is the recent situation of the Mercenary Guild's Coran branch and the Eternal Hammer Coran branch, Lord Baron Rodney."

  The scene switched to another place.

  In the luxurious villa on the seaside that looked like a manor, a middle-aged man in old-fashioned gentleman's clothes, wearing a bowler hat, bent over, and nervously reported to a fat old man.

  This old man is the real boss behind the Pharmacist Guild and the highest-ranking noble of the Golden Power Association in Coran City - Baron Aldington Rodney.

  The person who reported to him was the newly appointed president of the Pharmacist Guild, a president who was not a pharmacist.

  Because of the Komo University, Coran City has a very special status in Zilargo County. It can manage itself and there is no ruler like a lord or city lord.

  The Civil Affairs Council is also organized by the residents themselves to maintain the order of the city, which is different from the city-state councils of other cities.

  However, now that Komo University is not in charge, the Civil Affairs Council has been slowly infiltrated and controlled by powerful people, and has become an administrative agency serving them, with only a symbolic lower house left.

  And most of the members of the lower house have been secretly bought by the upper institutions.

  In Kolan City, the power of the Gold Power Association is not actually very large, and the highest-ranking gold power noble is Baron Rodney.

  However, the Rodney family is still the richest in Kolan County, with many industries in and outside the city, as well as a large number of farms, ranches and vineyards.

  I heard that they also control one-third of the docks in Kolan Port. They are really a powerful family.

  However, the largest landowner in Kolan City is not the Rodney family, but Komo University.

  From Gem Cape to Cape Bay, the original Cape Forest area is almost all Komo University.

  Hundreds of years ago, the first generation of magicians from Komo University came here and used magic to turn the muddy, hot and stuffy mangrove cape forest into a place suitable for human habitation, allowing humans to replace crabs as the masters here.

  If it weren't for the magic power of the magicians, those muddy and smelly creatures would not be driven away.

  If these muddy and smelly creatures were not driven away, there would be no human habitation in the cape forest.

  Komo University can be said to be the pioneer of Kolan State. It is not an exaggeration to say that the entire land of Kolan State belongs to Komo University.

  However, those magicians did not mind civilians living on their land, and even protected the fishermen living near Komo University.

  Therefore, Kolan State attracted a large number of free people and fishermen to join, and gradually formed Kolan City.

  Later, the land originally occupied by civilians gradually became their private land.

  However, no one dared to offend Komo University, because these lands still belonged to Komo University in principle.

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  If the administrators of Komo University want to expand the campus one day, the residents of Kolan City may have no place to live.

  They can only hope that the administrators of Komo University will be merciful and give them some compensation. Otherwise, they will have to leave their hometown.

  Protest to Komo University? That's impossible!

  The land originally belongs to them, how can you make them give it to you by reasoning?

  It’s good enough that they haven’t asked for land use fees for hundreds of years!

  Want to occupy it by force?

  Uh... I only heard that some people hope that magicians can maintain their demeanor and be reasonable, and I have never heard of anyone who dares to be unreasonable to magicians.

  Baron Rodney is not actually a real noble.

  A long time ago, Rodney's family was still a small fisherman living by the sea. Because they were afraid of the attack of mudflat fishmen, they moved to a place where there were many magicians to seek protection.

  Unexpectedly, they stopped fishing and started working for the magicians who built Komo University, and gradually became rich.

  For hundreds of years, the Rodney family has developed step by step to the present.

  Later, the Rodney family became a little famous in Kolanbang, and was quietly pulled in by a money power organization that wanted to break into Kolanbang to become a member, becoming the first batch of gold nobles.

  At the beginning, they were just a small third-class lord, and many families like them were also pulled in, with titles ranging from quasi-eighth-class knights to first-class lords.

  However, the Rodney family is not easy to mess with. They used all kinds of means to eliminate or annex many other gold nobles, and finally gained a foothold in Kolanbang, becoming one of the most powerful families besides official institutions such as Komo University and the Civil Affairs Council.

  Baron Rodney's father eliminated the last first-class gold lord family and became a quasi-baron.

  Baron Rodney inherited his father's ruthlessness. At a family banquet, he killed his father and all the brothers who could inherit the family business, took the throne himself, and began his bloody war.

  Twenty years ago, he finally became the Golden Baron.

  However, Baron Rodney's ambitions ended there.

  Because of the suppression of Komo University, no one dared to make trouble in Kolan City.

  Baron Rodney tried every means, but there was no progress in twenty years.

  Unless he could control Komo University, he would never be promoted in the Golden Nobles.

  Moreover, among the Golden Nobles, the Golden Baron was nothing at all. He couldn't even afford to offend the Golden Dukes and Marquises of other city-states.

  Although Baron Rodney was confident that he could compete with the Golden Barons of city-states of similar size, the geographical location of Kolan City was too remote and isolated from the Golden Power Association's network of influence.

  The nearest medium-sized city-state to Kolan City, "Tarandor City", is protected by the large city-state of Suribal City, so he can't reach it at all.

  Fortunately, although Komo University stopped Baron Rodney's ambition, it also protected Kolan City, allowing him to develop with peace of mind.

  After twenty years of hard work, Baron Rodney finally realized that he could only find a way to unite local forces and form an alliance of interests.

  He began to plan a big move to hold all local forces hostage, move into Komo University, and become the owner of Komo University!

  Among the rich and powerful nobles, the promotion of the title is not based on how much money you have, but on how far your power can affect.

  Baron Rodney was trapped in Kolan State and could not move. If he wanted to upgrade his title, he had to break through the suppression of Komo University and Suribal City.

  To do this, he must have absolute say in Kolan State.

  A few years ago, Baron Rodney began to control various local industries and integrated the originally scattered pharmacists to form the so-called "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild".

  He manipulated this guild behind the scenes, using the potion quota to force the branches of the Adventure Guild and the Mercenary Guild in Kolan City to join his camp.

  Everything went quite smoothly before the appearance of the hateful "Lemli Potion Workshop".

  If Baron Rodney had a few more years, he might have been able to take all the votes in the Civil Affairs Council and weave all walks of life in Kolan City into a huge network of interests.

  However, the sudden emergence of the Lemli Potion Workshop completely disrupted his plan.

  Many adventure groups, mercenary groups and other armed forces that had begun to move closer to the Rodney family suddenly turned to support their respective guilds, and even formed a force that was enough to compete with the powerful Rodney family.

  This made Baron Rodney furious.