Chapter 711 A Royal Pays Visit
"Lady Levine, Agatha requests that you et her."
A middle-aged-looking lady ca inside Levine's dedicated potion lab and told her. Levine was busy experinting with her concoction in the test tube. Hearing her servant's voice, she raised her eyebrows and kept the test tube on its stand before turning behind her.
"Agatha would never bother about puny matters. Did she say what it was about?"
Levine said while walking away from her table. Her experints would go on for hours on end. And this one wasn't any different. The B-ranker potioner needed a bath. Her private chamber was on the other side of the position lab.
"Um… she said it's about so royal matter."
Levine pondered a bit before nodding at her servant. She wondered what the royal matter was as she walked towards her bath.
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"Like I told you…"
A male voice was addressing Agatha desperately.
"It was Eren who had asked to co here. I'm sure he'd tell you I'm speaking the truth right away. Where is he? Just contact him and ask."
This young man was sitting on the other side of Agatha's table. He had dark brown hair and a dark brown beard. He had eyes of the sa color as his hair.
There was nothing special about this Ace ranker. However, his surna made him royalty. He was a Renar.
Agatha had a headache handling this man. He was asking her to accommodate him into the White Raven guild on the basis that he was being asked by Eren to do so.
"Rodrick Renar, is it? I can't contact Eren because he is not available right now. Why don't you co again in a few days and et him yourself? Leave your contact details with . I'll inform you when he cos back."
Agatha said while massaging her forehead. The guy was insisting on being part of the White Raven guild for a while at this point. Agatha had other things to worry about. She couldn't spend all her ti arguing with a scion of Renar.
Agatha didn't want to take soone like Rodrick into their fold because she feared the repercussions. There is almost no chance that a royal scion will join any guild like a normal ranker. Those who did join would only do that as a way to gain fa. And they only did that with well-established guilds.
Agatha didn't want to put the White Raven guild in the crosshairs of unknown royal forces that were infighting with each other by taking Rodrick into her guild. She also didn't know what the guy was talking about when he said he was being invited to co by Eren.
As far as Agatha knew Eren, he wouldn't ever do sothing like that. Not without solid benefits at least. And as of right now, Rodrick seed to have nothing to offer them but troubles and more troubles.
Agatha had to admit Rodrick had co prepared with a shaless face. He didn't try to leave even after she had turned down his offer several tis. He didn't even have a shred of royal pride in him.
"Leave, you say? Hahahaha. But I have nowhere to go. I left the capital city of Royal Renar to live here where my buddy is starting up a new city.
I left all my royal rights when I left the city. For now, I'm just a commoner. I can only count on Eren at this point."
Rodrick said while chuckling. He then looked at Agatha with a serious face before speaking up in an even more serious voice.
"Look, Agatha. I know I'm imposing on you. But I really need a place like this to survive. I wouldn't have co here otherwise."
Agatha's worries intensified when she heard Rodrick speak. She had thought that offering the royal a roof over his head would cause political trouble. But it turned out that she had underestimated the scope of trouble that could be caused by this brown beard man.
"What do you an by "leaving royal rights?". That sounds like…"
Agatha said while narrowing her eyes on a smiling Renar. The latter coughed a bit before answering honestly.
"I an I am not protected by any royal retainers anymore. All of my royal rights had been taken away from now that I left the capital city for my own goals. I basically quit being part of the royal contest for the position at the royal court. By default, I am also stepping down from the contest for the royal throne.
So I hope you understand why I can't live outside this city. I don't have any allies outside this city."
Rodrick said while looking at Agatha with his pursed lips. He scratched the back of his head while doing that. Agatha grimaced as she pieced together the remaining pieces of the puzzle.
"You an to say you'd be targeted by other royal scions who are still in the royal contest of power? And now that you don't have any royal retainers or royal rights to protect yourself…"
Rodrick nodded at Agatha before comnting.
"That's right. I'm the easiest target for all my royal cousins."
"Even more reason for to say no to your request. We don't want any trouble with any faction of the royal house, Ace Rodrick."
Rodrick smiled bitterly when he heard Agatha's blunt reply. He had to admit Eren had put the right person on the job of managing his city and his guild. The young lady didn't mince her words after learning about his stray-royalty status.
Rodrick sighed and placed both his hands on Agatha's table before speaking up.
"Look, I have co here in secret. Nobody knows about being here. And they'd never guess I had co here after eting soone like Eren. So it should be safe for a while for all of us.
Plus, you are underestimating House Montmorency and House Derringer. No royal cousin of mine would try to offend these two houses. Because it would an they would be putting such forces under soone else's banner.
I'll keep a low profile until I'm ready to co out. Till then, we'll all be safe. And that's all I need."
Rodrick said before flashing a cunning smile. He waved his right hand and took out various scrolls and books in front of Agatha on her study table. He coughed and spoke up to make his offer more tempting.
"Plus, I have various spells and techniques I can offer you that you can blatantly say ca from my side. I have known about the White Raven's team mbers for a while now. So I only picked up ranking resources that were suitable for all of you.
Do we have a deal now?"
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