Game of Thrones: From Lord Elden to Young Wolf - Chapter 179

c177 Various Meetings to Begin

Backlund, Queens, a luxurious villa.

This is the property of the church, which was taken back from a fallen noble. Of course, the church also gave a very reasonable price, which did not bring shame to the glory of the goddess.

After Her Excellency Arianna’s order, Archbishop Anthony’s attention to Robb also increased, so Robb was naturally arranged to live in such a luxuriously decorated villa.

On the second floor of the villa, a man who looked like a butler was directing his servants to clean the room.

The butler’s name was Ribak, and he was born into a family of butlers.

Yes, a family of butlers.

His grandfather was the deacon in the manor of the current Duke Negan, and his father was the deputy butler of the Duke Negan.

Barrick’s original life trajectory should have been to continue to serve the Duke Negan’s family, or to be sent to other small families closely related to the Duke Negan.

But because of the arrival of the unexpected person, the Fader, his life trajectory also changed.

By the way, Duke Negan is the leader of the conservative party in the Kingdom of Rune, and the spokesperson of the Church of the Storm in the military.

Naturally, Barrick, the butler, is also a believer of the Lord of Storms.

So, Robb moved into the villa arranged by the Church of the Night, and the Church of the Storm arranged his daily life. This is a compromise and balance.

Seeing Robb carrying a book and walking into the gate of the villa, Barrick, who had been observing on the second floor, immediately realized that the master he served had returned, so he opened the door to greet him.

“Excuse me, is this Sir Robb Stark?”

Robb saw the butler temperament of this man at a glance. He had served many people before, and these people all had an inexplicable feeling.

This feeling allows the nobles who are familiar with those people to distinguish at once whether they are their own or others’ butlers.

Robb handed the book in his hand to Barrick casually and naturally: “I am, are you the butler arranged by the Church of the Night?”

Barrick said humbly: “I believe in the Lord of Storms.”

Lord of Storms?

Robb recalled the thunder he heard when he first crossed over, and he didn’t have much of a good impression of this god, it was too noisy.

“Okay, but you have to remember to keep quiet in the manor in the future.”

Barrick: Huh?

He was a little confused. His master’s temperament seemed a little elusive. Why did he think he was a noisy person?

Robb sat on the soft sofa in the living room, which was covered with a comfortable and smooth velvet cloth, a very high-end fabric.

Very comfortable, it turns out that the enjoyment of the steam age far exceeded that of the Middle Ages.

Robb asked Barrick: “This seems to be the aristocratic area. I just lived here. Should I pay attention to anything?”

Barrick is a butler from an aristocratic family. In his career, he has met many upper-class people and colleagues who serve various aristocratic families, and is very familiar with the ins and outs here.

With the help of such a butler, Robb can easily step into the social circle of Backlund nobles. Of course, a little advance arrangement is needed.

Barrick said respectfully: “The Storm Church has arranged everything you need for living, two chefs who are good at different cuisines, four coachmen, two carriages, one four-wheeled and one two-wheeled, three personal male servants, and two family nurses.

In addition, there are 20 servants and 15 female servants, a housekeeper…”

After hearing this, Robb simply compared it with the Middle Ages and calculated it.

He found that many personnel configurations and occupations were not available in the Middle Ages, so he was not sure what kind of social level such configuration was at.

But what is certain is that it is definitely much better than the average baron.

Robb was not going to make any personnel reforms: “Please help me find a tutor who is very knowledgeable in linguistics. I want to learn the Rune language well.”

Although Barrick didn’t quite understand why the master could speak fluent Rune and continue to learn his own language, it was really a bit strange, but he still agreed.

As a servant, sometimes you still have to learn to shut up.

Barrick continued, “Okay, sir. Should we send an invitation letter to the nobles living nearby?”

Robb is very familiar with this. Banquets are the specialty of the nobles.

Nobles or the upper class like to use banquets to build relationships and socialize.

Generally speaking, if people like Robb want to expand their social circle, they need to hold a banquet to show their ability and financial resources and gain recognition from more upper-class people.

When others hold banquets, they will also invite you.

In this way, you will soon find a circle with the same interests and completely integrate into it.

For Robb, who is holding a banquet for the first time, the scale of the banquet and the guests are all very particular.

If the scale of the banquet is large, but the people who come are all people of all kinds, then Robb may become a joke and circulate in the noble circle.

For now, Robb feels that he knows too little about this world, and has not yet figured out what identity to use to contact the upper-class noble circle, so it is better to put it aside for the time being.

So Robb ordered: “Don’t send any invitations for now, send a gift to all the nobles living nearby and tell them I’m here. Um… send one to the nobles you can contact.”

At this time, you can see how convenient it is to have a butler who has served in a noble family.

They have their own relationships and intelligence networks.

They only need to publicize it a little, not to mention most, at least a small part of the noble circle will know that a young man named Robb Stark has moved into the villa of the Church of the Night in Queens.

Barrick was about to leave when Robb suddenly thought of something: “By the way, how much money is left at home?”

Barrick was even more confused. Who is the master? How can I know how much money you have?

But he still told everything he knew: “We are hired by the Church of the Storm, and the expenses are basically collected from the Church of the Storm. But the rest is not within our jurisdiction.”

The implication is that we are just workers who are paid to do things, and we don’t know how much money there is!

Robb was helpless, so he took out the dress he had just worn when he landed in this world, which was inlaid with some gems.

Together with the start-up capital given by the Church of the Night, he gave it all to Barrick.

“Sell this dress at a fair price. There is still some money here. You will be in charge of the family’s finances.”

Robb actually didn’t care about small things like money.

The main reason was that he rarely used money to buy anything. When he was in Westeros, he was the emperor. He didn’t need money to buy anything he liked. He just took it directly.

The financial affairs were also managed by his sister Sansa, and he didn’t touch those annoying numbers at all.

Although Robb couldn’t fully trust the butler in front of him, it was okay to give him this little money to manage. There was not much in total.

If he found something wrong, he could just kill him and replace him with another butler.

That’s not a big deal.

But now Robb has another goal: making money.

——

The next morning, Robb enjoyed a baked bread covered with maple syrup, a refreshing lemon steak and dairy cheese, and sat in a four-wheeled carriage in high spirits. He walked into the Church of the Night in a very ostentatious manner and started a new day of work.

Crestai, who was dressed in a simple civilian outfit, frowned when he saw Robb’s upper-class appearance, which was even more luxurious than other people in the church.

Crestai reminded: “Robb, isn’t it a bit inappropriate for you to do this?”

Robb also felt that Crestai was right: “I see that many people’s carriages outside are more luxurious than mine, but my carriage is just a four-wheeled carriage, and there is no decoration. This is indeed inappropriate for my status.”

Crestai was helpless for a while, thinking that except for those powerful dukes and businessmen with millions of assets, who can have a more luxurious carriage than yours, but he couldn’t continue to dissuade him, after all, the other party was personally instructed by Archbishop Anthony.

Even if Krestel could control himself to be a simple person, he still had to admit defeat in terms of human relations.

This morning, Robb had nothing to do, so he continued to read books about Emperor Roselle, and soon felt the unusualness of this fellow.

He seemed to be a versatile person!

He knew all the math, physics, chemistry, and biology, and he moved to this world. It can be said that the whole world’s trotting into the steam age was promoted by this guy.

In comparison, Robb was much inferior.

Not to mention that he had almost forgotten the knowledge of math, physics, chemistry, and biology, he taught the experiments and principles to his subordinates to study, but he couldn’t study anything in a short time.

Robb had some guesses about this: “It should be the effect of the potion. Some potions can help people restore the memory in the memory library.”

When he thought that the potion system in this world had such a magical effect, Robb was very happy, and he would try it no matter what!

In the afternoon, Robb was received by Archbishop Anthony.

Archbishop Anthony’s room is very clean and tidy, revealing a sense of quiet beauty, while also being solemn and respectful.

Bishop Anthony sat in his seat and motioned Robb to sit on the sofa beside him: “Sir Robb, are you satisfied with the house arranged for you?”

“It’s OK.” Robb added in his heart: It would be better if you gave me more gold pounds.

Archbishop Anthony continued: “According to Ms. Arianna’s instructions, I will help you get in touch with the upper class of this country and help you learn more about this world. Perhaps you would be willing to attend a noble dinner?”

Robb himself has not held a dinner, but if Archbishop Anthony of the Church of the Night takes him to a dinner, it is also a good way to quickly increase his popularity.

After thinking about it, Robb felt that he could learn from how the nobles of this era held dinners, so that he would not be completely in the dark.

“Okay, thank you for your help.”

Archbishop Anthony had anticipated this outcome: “How about a week from now?”

Robb nodded: “Okay, I can ask them directly about the supernatural path then.”

Archbishop Anthony’s face fell instantly. He really didn’t expect this gentleman to have such a trick.

He thought that the place where Robb lived before might be completely different from here, so he reminded him: “I need to remind you that in Rune, most of the nobles are not extraordinary people. If you ask them directly, you may not get the answer you want, and it is a bit rude in Rune.”

Robb was a little surprised: “People who don’t have extraordinary powers can become nobles? Shouldn’t people who have powerful powers have higher status?”

In Robb’s view, if a superhuman has power far beyond ordinary people, but his status is very low, this is completely illogical.

Archbishop Anthony began to think about the wording and explained with effort: “That’s right, because many superhumans love peace and order, and we also need a more stable situation, so this situation will occur.”

Robb understood the implication of Archbishop Anthony: the powerful superhumans in this world and the church representing the gods all hope that society has a stable structure, which will produce a certain framework.

Even if you are a superhuman, can you be more extraordinary than the gods?

Gods want social stability, so there will be no barbaric behavior of the strong preying on the weak. You should go to work when you should go to work, and work when you should work. Don’t think that you can do whatever you want with a little supernatural power. Be careful of a thunderbolt from God.

So there will not be a large-scale situation where supernatural people kill nobles at will. There is no way to control a small number of them. After all, no one can completely stop malicious incidents from happening, not even gods.

Why do gods want social stability?

Robb felt that there must be something wrong, because he once had divinity, and knew that after having divinity, he would definitely become indifferent to ordinary people.

Because of the difference in life levels, gods look at ordinary people like ordinary people look at ants.

They don’t care about the life and death of ordinary people at all.

Robb guessed: Do the gods of this world also want to absorb the power of faith?

If I preach, wouldn’t I be on the opposite side of most gods?

It seems that before I fully develop, I have to preach in areas that the church has not reached!

——

In the next few days, Robb has been learning the Rune language and studying the basic operating laws of this world.

Soon, he had a deep understanding of the main regions and countries such as Rune, Intis and the Southern Continent.

As a god, Robb learned Rune language very quickly.

Soon, it was three o’clock in the afternoon on Monday. Robb remembered clearly that this was the day when the mysterious organization above the gray fog held a meeting.

Robb’s first Tarot meeting was about to begin.