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There are never enough news in the City of Knowledge. Everyone who has lived in the City of Knowledge will think so. Every season, every month, every week, and even every day, a large number of new topics are constantly emerging, making people dizzy. Where have new relics been found? Which adventure group has been destroyed? Which mage has studied the new magic circle and burned its own laboratory? Which alchemist has refined new drugs? Which commodity has fluctuated again? Which merchant has gone bankrupt again? Which poet has written new poems? Which musician has had a sudden accident in the concert venue? Which school has expanded enrollment? Which children have fought again? Every class and every profession, there are countless topics for people to talk about and kill time.

But in the last few days, almost all the class and any profession in the capital of knowledge have been discussing the same issue. All newspapers, all magazines, front pages and covers have been occupied by one news, and for three consecutive days.

Marquis Snape, led by Carion, the Federation of Neville, is about to visit the Capital of Knowledge again and intend to hold a large ball. This news spread throughout the streets and alleys, quickly flooding all other topics, occupying every family and every tavern.

No one doesn’t know Marquis Snape, at least in the knowledge. Maybe some don’t know the city lord Odin, maybe some don’t know Master Antuine of the Mage Guild, but no one doesn’t know Marquis Snape.

People know him not because of his lord’s identity. After all, the Karion is just a small territory in the Neville Federation and is very inconspicuous.

People know him, not because of his identity as a marquis. After all, there are no nobles and civilians in knowledge. Everyone has the same identity and needs to abide by the same laws. Aristocrats from other countries enter the capital of knowledge, except for some preferential treatment in economic conditions or reception specifications, and even if the emperor of Faral is here in person, the same is true. Therefore, the identity of a marquis is not enough to let everyone know him.

The real reason why his name spreads all over the world is that he is a rich man and the richest man in the Yara world. His total property exceeds one billion gold coins. If the real estate in various places is included, this number will rise by another 30%. Most people are often very confused when they first hear about his total property. As an ordinary person, it is difficult to understand what a billion gold coins are. In fact, the three human countries in the Yara continent, plus the neutral land, have a total of four human forces. The total annual income of the country is about 50 million gold coins per year. In other words, Marquis Snape's property is equivalent to twenty times the total annual income of all human countries, and this number is still increasing.

His business was spread all over Quanyala, and his instructions were almost an oracle in the business field, but he had always been very low-key, living in his own territory, Karion, all year round, and being a leisurely little lord.

When the property is too huge, it often attracts many people with bad intentions, and often encounter troubles such as assassination, kidnapping, threats, and robbery, but Marquis Snape has almost never encountered them. On the one hand, because he is a lord and is too rich, he can arrange quite strict defenses and hire a large number of bodyguards and guards. Ordinary robbers and thieves cannot cause trouble to him at all. On the other hand, because he is too rich and very refreshing, he has a certain degree of contact with several human demigods and even other races of demigods, and some even have good personal relationships. Those high-level professionals who are not ordinary robbers and thieves are unwilling to cause such trouble because of the deterrent power of his demigod friends. In this way, the richest man in Quanyara has not had to consider security for many years and lives a comfortable life.

Such a legendary figure is now in his eighties and rarely leaves his territory in recent years. However, news suddenly broke out in the city of Knowledge that Marquis Snape was coming to the City of Knowledge, and a storm immediately broke out. Soon, news came out that the Marquis not only wanted to come to the City of Knowledge, but also held a large dance party to invite people who received the invitation. This news pushed the storm to another climax. At the same time, the price of dance invitations also rose step by step. On the day of the dance, it was actually hyped up to a sky-high price of 80,000 gold coins.

Nowadays, such invitations with high prices in the black market have a coffee table placed in front of Catherine and Penis. Facing such expensive invitations, Catherine frowned in distress and stared at the invitation without saying a word.

"It's very strange." Panis said suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Katherine looked up and asked in confusion: "What's strange?"

"You didn't sell it." Panis knocked on the invitation on the coffee table: "It's illogical."

Katherine glared at Panis angrily, but sighed sadly: "You think I don't want it, but it's a pity that this one can't be sold."

"Ha, no wonder you are so melancholy." Panis teased Catherine before asking, "Why can't you sell it?"

Catherine hesitated for a moment, thought for a while, and sighed: "Because... he is a creditor."

"Ha? That Snape is your creditor?" Panis said in surprise.

"Yes, it's him." Catherine nodded and pulled the armor skirt on the chain armor in annoyance: "I owed him a lot of money and kept saving money to pay off his debts, so I will never let go of every copper coin."

Seeing Catherine suddenly igniting the fighting spirit in her eyes for no reason, Panis quickly said, "How much money do you owe him?"

"Four thousand." Catherine said.

"Only four thousand?" Panis jumped up when he heard it, and opened his mouth and was about to say something when he heard Catherine continue in a low voice: "Wan."

Panis's voice stopped abruptly, and his open mouth uh a few times, but he couldn't make a sound in the end. After a while, he sat down dejectedly and sighed, "Okay, I understand, it's really a very melancholy thing. How could he owe so much?"

"My grandfather owed it." Catherine obviously didn't want to talk about her grandfather's affairs, and she briefly told her: "It was 60 million at that time. My parents tried hard to pay back 20 million during their lifetime. I wanted to pay off the debt in my lifetime."

"Then, is this creditor collecting debts now?" Panis asked tentatively.

"No, he never collects debts." Catherine hesitated for a while again, and finally said, "Forget it, since Lina has told you about her, I'll tell you my past."

"I said that my family was a great nobleman of the Faral Empire more than a hundred years ago. Because of political failure, they fled Fral. The fleeing family members were divided into two groups, one went to Neville and the other was us. Although they were escaping, the family was still very, very rich and brought a lot of property. After all, ours is a direct descendant. Ours lived like this until my grandfather began to manage the family."

"My grandfather and Snape are good friends, very, very good ones. Grandfather is a mage, a very powerful mage. Snape was already very rich at that time, so he has been using funds to support his grandfather's research behind his back."

"However, because of some unrealistic ideas from grandfather, his experiment failed continuously. In a year, a large amount of funds were consumed in the failed experiment. Finally, when grandfather woke up, the funds consumed exceeded 100 million. At that time, Snape was not as rich as he is now, but he absolutely trusted his grandfather and believed that the experiment was very promising and successful, so he provided funds unconditionally. In the last half year, he even drew most of the funds from all his business to fill the gap on grandfather's side."

"As a result, the experiment failed in the end, and Snape was on the verge of bankruptcy."

"But even so, Snape did not blame his grandfather. Instead, he kept comforting him and blaming him for despair. His grandfather knew that he was sorry for Snape, so he converted all the property in his family, except for real estate, that is, the land on this street, and compensated him with gold coins, but even so, there was still a vacancies of 70 million."

"Snape did not refuse his grandfather's compensation, and these compensations also brought him back from the brink of bankruptcy, but even so, his business was still seriously damaged."

"I feel that I don't have the shame to see Snape's grandfather become an adventurer again and explore the most dangerous place. The first two returns were very good, and I paid back 10 million gold coins, but the third time... my grandfather never came back."

"That was fifty years ago. My father was still a child, but under the education of his grandfather, he also firmly assumed the mission of continuing to repay his debts."

"Snape, on the contrary, felt guilty towards my family because of his grandfather's death. He felt that he caused his grandfather's death, so he took care of my family even more. He wanted to take his father home as his biological son many times, but he was rejected by his stubborn father."

"My father's strength is much worse than his grandfather, so he took a different path from his grandfather. Although the return is slightly less, it is safer. It is indeed as my father thought, the debt is constantly decreasing, although the reduction rate is a bit slow. I thought I could continue like this, but ten years ago, my father and mother... never came back."

"Then I took over the debt, lived alone in a foreign restaurant, lived by myself, and was determined to refuse to accept Snape's help. In fact, I was not ignoring his kindness, but I knew that our family owed him too much and could not continue to owe him."

"Even so, he still treated me like he was to his biological granddaughter, secretly paying attention to my growth until I became a full adult. In fact, I also know his attention, and I even knew that on the day I became a professional at the age of thirteen, he happily made an exception and got drunk, but almost never woke up again."

"This is the story of my debt." Catherine said leisurely: "As for me, I have saved up 500,000 gold coins now, and with your help, the speed is getting faster and faster. It's just now, and it's in the accumulation stage. When the team is promoted to gold, you can make more money and truly repay the debt."

Panis kept listening silently until Catherine finished speaking, and asked, "Okay, sure enough, this invitation cannot be sold, you must participate. But, since you are actually so close, why do you still have to look at the invitation with an expression of a doomsday?"

Catherine's face suddenly changed and finally turned red. She slapped the table hard and shouted: "Don't ask, but this one is not allowed. Anyway, you just accompany me to attend tonight, don't ask so much." As she said that, she ran to the backyard with big strides.
Chapter completed!