Chapter 119 [0117] The King Returns

Unlike everything going according to plan in the mines, things were more chaotic in Fulgrim's Tavern.

At the beginning, Ike found someone who could be trusted to take charge, and some private workshops nearby also came to join forces, so the situation seemed stable.

However, as the news of the mine explosion spread, someone spread the news that "Vandel and Hilko were both finished."

The number of people spying on Fulgrim's Tavern suddenly increased.

In Zaun, Fulgrim's Tavern is also a "landmark building" because Vandel is Zaun's most reliable middleman, and the tavern itself represents the basic order established by Vandel.

An order that is better than nothing is still order, and insignificant power is still power.

Now, hearing that Vandel is finished, naturally some people have different ideas.

For the sake of safety, these people with ulterior motives did not send people to enter the tavern and test it directly.

Without knowing whether the news was true or not, they just sent reliable people to keep an eye on the tavern.

In less than an hour, almost all the alchemy barons sent out their men to linger around Fulgrim's Tavern and keep watch, trying to find out whether the rumor was true or not.

While keeping an eye on Fulgrim's Tavern, the smart people also sent people to look for Hilko - if Hilko also disappeared, then the rumor would be much more true.

Hilko was naturally not found.

However, considering that Hilko was always mysterious and not easy to find, the alchemy barons still ordered to monitor him, and no one dared to take risks.

Except Finn.

In this matter, Finn was more or less a participant.

After all, when Hilko contacted Marcos, the law enforcement officer of Piltover, it was through his relationship.

Although it was impossible to know Hilko's overall plan, Finn could at least be sure that the explosion today was really related to Hilko.

So, after getting the news, Finn immediately sent his men, not to keep an eye on Fulgrim's Tavern, but to try to contact Marcos - and then, he got an amazing news.

Marcos was seriously injured and is now lying in the hospital in Piltover!

Finn was so excited when he heard the news that he almost threw his lighter away.

A fight broke out, this was definitely a fight!

With Finn's status, he obviously didn't know that the parliament had received a notice from the Noxians, nor did he know that Cassiopeia was actually the mastermind behind the entire bombing. From his perspective, the story went like this:

Hilco contacted Marcos through his own connections and wanted to cause trouble for Vandel.

The specific actions are unknown, but it is certain that Marcos was seriously injured in this trouble, and the other law enforcement officers probably felt very uncomfortable.

Then, the news came out that Vandel and Hilco were finished.

In Finn's opinion, this news was very likely to be true, especially when he traced the source and found that the first person to spread the news was a scumbag who used to work under Hilco.

Very good!

Combined with the fact that Hilco had "borrowed" the rune steel armor that he had bought at a high price, and also poached Sevika, the second capable fighter in Fulgrim's Tavern...

Finally, Finn came to a "reliable conclusion":

Vander and Hilco were both injured!

At this time, Zaun was in a power vacuum period - if not now, when? !

As long as he acted quickly, he could take advantage of this short vacuum period to directly replace Vander and become the most powerful person in Zaun, just like when he became the Alchemist Baron before!

Of course, just like when he became the Alchemist Baron before, he needed some help from Piltover.

With this in mind, he tried to contact the law enforcer under Marcos.

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The effect of this risky contact was surprisingly good - before the Noxian ambassador jumped out, Piltover actually didn't know the situation.

Now that the Zaun people took the initiative to contact them, they were naturally happy to learn about the situation from Finn.

In this way, Finn met the members of the Piltover Parliament for the first time.

The member he met was named Levi Cantera, who was elected after spending a lot of money lobbying. He had no powerful family to support him and was the most insignificant person in the parliament.

Generally speaking, this kind of member is here to make money - he needs to double, triple or even ten times the money he invested in the election during his term as a member.

But Levi is different from other guys who only know how to make money. He has greater ambitions.

As long as the operation is done properly, the money-making member may not be unable to become a powerful member!

Levi and Finn are very similar in many ways. They are both out-and-out speculators, so they hit it off.

Levi needs to build his own base, and Finn needs help from Piltover.

After a brief meeting, they split into two groups, one to collect information in the parliament and the other to investigate the situation in Zaun, and the two sides exchanged what they had.

If everything goes well, Finn will be able to obtain a large number of Piltover orders through Levi; and Levi will get the lowest processing price. It's a win-win situation!

As for the relationship between Zaun and Piltover, the purpose of the Noxians, Hextech...

Neither Levi nor Finn care about these things.

Finn has no pressure to sell Zaun.

If Levi is not unqualified, he would definitely be the first to sell Piltover to Noxus.

In this way, Finn quickly learned the news from the parliament, including the mine being blown up by Hextech crystals, including Fandel and Shilko, etc. - As for the Noxian part, Levi did not say anything at all.

In front of the Noxian notice, no one in the Piltover parliament cared about Fandel and Shilko.

Heimerdinger is protecting Jayce and Viktor, and hopes to stop the Noxians from getting too far; Mrs. Gillaman hopes that everything will pass quickly; Mel tries to balance the relationship between the family and his career; most of the other council members are trying to smooth things over, not wanting to delay their own money-making because of this matter.

Taking this opportunity, Finn began to act.

He didn't foolishly attack Fulgrim's Tavern with great fanfare, because that would be notifying other alchemy barons that he had received the confirmed news that Vandel was finished.

He didn't want to see a situation where many heroes were fighting for supremacy!

In order to conceal his tracks, Finn sent his men to keep an eye on Fulgrim's Tavern and the men of other alchemy barons, while he was busy planning his own middleman base.

Finn saw clearly that Fulgrim's Tavern had greater symbolic significance, but in terms of function, it was just the most reliable middleman in Zaun.

As long as he was prepared to become a middleman here and firmly controlled the working channels in Piltover, he would completely replace Vandel - no, not replace, but have far more power than Vandel!

At this moment, Finn was full of confidence.

He had already thought about it. When he had set up the framework of the middleman here, he would directly reveal the news that Vandel was finished, just like throwing a bone to a group of vicious dogs, so that other alchemy barons would fight for that tavern.

At that time, I can take advantage of the fact that Fulgrim's Tavern can't act as a middleman to launch my own agency!

Hahaha!

After completing all these arrangements, Finn returned to his factory with satisfaction, sat in his large boss chair, and played with his shiny lighter again.

Now, only the workers in the factory are fuel.

When the plan succeeds, the whole of Zaun will be my fuel!

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Unlike Finn, who "has someone above", the other alchemy barons' connections are obviously much worse.

But these greedy guys are not willing to give up this opportunity easily, so they have sent out their most reliable men to stare at Fulgrim's Tavern.

At the beginning, everyone was still very restrained.

However, after nightfall, perhaps someone began to be impatient, or perhaps the night gave people the confidence to be presumptuous, and the gangsters who were performing surveillance tasks outside the tavern finally couldn't hold back.

No one wants to be the first to do something.

No one chooses to go to the tavern to find trouble.

But this does not prevent them from finding fault with each other.

Fighting outside Fulgrim's Tavern is obviously a good way to test the reaction of Fulgrim's Tavern, and also to test the level of the opponent.

There are many people guarding the tavern in Fulgrim's Tavern, but the most elite, reliable and capable ones have followed Vandel to the mine. The rest are either not strong enough or panic.

If the thugs outside really come in to cause trouble, they will naturally raise their fists without hesitation.

But if they fight each other outside...

Then let them go!

In this way, these thugs who are responsible for surveillance and information gathering under the command of various alchemy barons physically fought on the street outside Fulgrim's Tavern.

At the beginning, they just insulted and spit at each other.

As they cursed, some people got anxious and simply raised their fists.

After the fists, there were sticks and bricks.

By midnight, some people had already started using sharp weapons.

In this case, the surrounding Zaun people avoided this tavern far away - in the night, Fulgrim's Tavern seemed to have become an isolated island surrounded by garbage.

As the fight outside escalated, the people in the tavern began to get restless.

They didn't know if Fandel was still alive.

According to Ike, Fandel had a wizard, so he was probably fine - but the guy later said he had a way to save Fandel, and no one knew where he ran off to.

Ike's disappearance undoubtedly greatly affected the morale of the tavern. Although the lights were bright, the atmosphere was so heavy that it seemed suffocating.

After midnight, the battle outside finally decided the winner.

The winners lifted the fallen losers up as if they were throwing away garbage, and threw them into the ditch not far away. After walking around the tavern twice with satisfaction, they finally made up their minds.

Without changing their clothes, they knocked on the door of the tavern with blood all over their bodies.

Knock knock knock -

Every knock on the door seemed to knock on the hearts of everyone in the tavern.

Everyone in the tavern looked at each other, and finally chose to open the door.

"Fulgrim's Tavern... never closes." The young man who opened the door pinched his thigh and recited the welcome words that Fandel had set. "What would you like to have a drink so late at night?"

"You can mix it as you like." The leader, the purple-haired victor, made a pun, "The bartender isn't here anyway."

"It's for mixing wine, not mixing it." The young man obviously understood the meaning of the other party's words and corrected him, "Forgan's Tavern does not mix wine."

"It's just a drink, don't be so sensitive." The other party shrugged as if he didn't care at all, and found a place to sit down casually in front of the bar. "Have some strong drinks, I like strong ones."

"There are many exciting ones." The young man picked up the cup and chose the liquor with the highest alcohol content as the base. "I'm afraid you won't be able to drink it."

"Ha, what's not to drink?" The other party took out a bag nonchalantly and smashed it on the bar. "Besides, I can't drink it alone. If we all drink it together, we can drink it, right?"

The mouth of the bag was not tied tightly. At this moment, everyone in the tavern saw the yellow light belonging to Jin Hex in the bag.

A clear attitude.

The young man bartending the drink did not take up the challenge, but kept silently mixing the drinks - but judging from the fact that the lid was not tightly closed when he shook the shaker for the first time, it seemed that his heart was not at all calm.

Seeing his state, Zi Mao let out a satisfied smile.

very good.

It seems like that guy Fandel is really finished.

Moreover, it wasn't just Fander who was finished.

Bensuo, there are still many hard-nosed people who are not here...

great!

Thinking of this, he reached out his hand with satisfaction and grabbed the glass of wine.

When he took the wine glass, the biting coldness almost made him lose his grip - he blinked in confusion and did not react for a moment.

When that guy made the cocktail just now, he didn't add any ice cubes? !

Just when he was confused, a familiar voice came from behind him.

"The rules of the tavern are to pay first and drink later - don't you have enough money for this strong drink?"

The green-haired gangster's eyes finally widened at this moment. He stood up and turned his head to look at the door.

Then...he saw Fander.

And there are many tough things that he was thankful that "are all over" just now.

"you you you--"

"You can't eat the Overlord's meal even if you stumble." Fandel came to him, like an eagle catching a chicken, and picked him up by his collar, "Don't you think so?"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes!" The other party nodded like a fool, and simply put down the cup without asking for the money, "I'll leave right away -"

Fander let go.

Then, just as he was about to stumble out, a sheet of frost spread throughout the tavern, and the shoes of these gangsters were frozen to the ground without exception.

"Fander let you go." Ino pressed the hilt of his sword with a calm expression, "But I didn't say you can leave."

Kalya’s little class·Pay first and drink later:

Fandel's tavern theoretically sells wine, but in fact it acts as a middleman. The wine itself is dispensable, so you pay first and drink later.