Lombardo

**Lombardo** (隆巴多), also called Carl (卡尔) or Karl, is patriarch of the Mellon Family and mechanic master serving Josh.

## Name

Assuming Lombardo and Carl are the same person and the Mellon Family did not have a change of patriarchs

## Story

Karl, the mechanic master of the Mellon Family, currently serves under Sir Josh. At present, Patriarch Sukh of the Mellon Family is already attacking the Dark Moon City. He has controlled the entire Dark Moon City. Your relatives and friends are already under Sir Josh's control!

### Lombardo dies

A major incident spread across the Dark Moon – the patriarch of the Mellon Family, Lombardo died of illness in his residence.

The news of Lombardo's death was actually released after two days, and it was the result of discussions between the elders of the Mellon Family. The interim patriarch was delegated to an elder named Sukh. As for the former patriarch's aide, elder Ronald was under control secretly because he was seen as the one who killed Lombardo.

Although Ronald explained everything about Lavat and others, several Elder knew of the "relationship" between the family and the Blue Lava Estate. However, they couldn't possibly blame Lavat directly. Therefore, Ronald became a scapegoat unfortunately. Certainly, these were all handled internally. To the outsider, they had only announced that Lombardo died of illness.

However, it was only the beginning of a nightmare for the Mellon Family. Soon, Princess Royal sent out imperial guards to control some important places under the Mellon Family. Most critically, these places were keeping the demons who were kidnapped initially for trafficking to the Blue Lava Estate.

Before the incident was publicized and expanded, Sukh, the interim patriarch of the Mellon Family, immediately went to the palace to plead guilty. Shea furiously presented him with a series of information, which described the evil deeds of the Mellon Family in detail, including setting spies into the palace, secretly colluding with the Blue Lava Estate, trying to assassinate the leader of imperial guards' reserved forces Aguile and the garrison's instructor Arux, demon and resources trafficking etc.

According to Shea, these information were provided by a mysterious person the day before yesterday. Initially, she couldn't believe it. After sending out the Imperial Guards for investigation, she really found those missing people, and she was furious.

Sukh was already guilty, but he didn't expect that Princess Royal had such complete information in her hands. He quickly thought and pushed all the blame to the dead, unlucky Lombardo. Also, he brought up the previous contributions of the Mellon Family. He expressed his willingness to atone and asked Princess Royal for leniency.

Shea knew that the Mellon family was deeply rooted and had a wide network, so it was difficult to truly uproot them. More importantly, the current Dark Moon couldn't have too many changes to avoid civil war arising from uncertainties. She followed Chen Rui's idea and went along Sukh's line to propose two conditions.

First, the Mellon Family's old residence in the Northwest Block would be given to the reserved forces, Cloak Gang as compensation.

Second, the Mellon Family would be responsible for the procurement and supply of food. No matter what method they used, food for the Dark Moon residents during the capital's sanctions must be guaranteed.

The first condition was still fine, but the second condition made Sukh look troubled. With the reputation and means of the Mellon Family, it wasn't impossible to get food. Yet, in this case, it would offend the capital. It was just that this time Shea had deadly evidence in her hands. Once released, the Mellon Family would be hated in the Dark Moon while Shea would have enough reasons to deprive all the glory represented by the family name, Mellon.

Sukh couldn't help but curse at that mysterious person who provided the information in his heart. By the way, the mysterious person who provided the information coincided with the time when Lavat left, could it be...

If it was really Lavat who killed Lombardo, why would he betray us and expose the Mellon Family? Although he was puzzled, the most important thing for Sukh wasn't to think about that but to make a decision.

### Aftermath

After considering for a long time, the new Mellon Family patriarch reluctantly chose to accept the two conditions.

After Sukh left, Shea's eyes showed appreciation. Not for Sukh, but for the plotter Chen Rui. This strategy of finding a scapegoat was indeed brilliant. The Mellon Family had shouldered the key task of solving the food problem. Along with the "trade" in the west, the food issue could be solved without exposing the food base.

Chen Rui was the absolute winner this time. Not to mention he obtained the realm king fruit, he also killed Lombardo and severely schemed against the Mellon Family. As for the old mansion in the Northwest Block, it was for Paglio.

According to Paglio, the strength of Aurora Frost was very wonderful. It could help him further restore his strength. Although he still couldn't break through the ancient runes seal, it could improve his strength in the existing early Demon Emperor. Not only that, the Aurora Frost Cave was also good for training, especially for Delia who had [Water Mastery].

However, it wasn't urgent. The Blue Lava Estate or other places would definitely send someone to investigate this place secretly. So, they would wait for others to visit first.

The value of the Mellon Family was more than that. Under the cover of the Double-Headed Dragon Legion and the elder of Mellon Family as bait, Kaguron led the imperial guards to pretend to be demon-traffickers and launch a large-scale attack on the "bandits" to the south of Dark Moon.

The bandits suffered heavy casualties from the fierce attack. Fortunately, they were mostly well-trained elites, so they didn't become disordered in a critical situation. Under the leadership of their leader, they successfully evacuated and avoided being eliminated entirely.

As a result, the Mellon Family had become famous for eliminating the southern bandits. In contrast, their old rival, Saiful Family was much worse. They were still troubled with Cloak Gang's protection fees.

As the popular "celebrity," Sukh, the new Mellon Family patriarch, had to endure his anger and smile forcibly.

As for the realm king fruit, it was related to a Demon Emperor powerhouse. The Mellon Family couldn't afford to take such a blame, so he had to find someone else to take it.

Therefore, the puppet, Cyprus didn't stay in the Dark Moon. Instead, under the diversion "Lavat", Cyprus escaped all the way to the north where Red Spirit Estate was located.

## Chapter Appearances

Lombardo appears (or is mentioned) in **2** chapter(s):

* Chapter 238
* Chapter 240

Karl appears (or is mentioned) in **1** chapter(s):

* Chapter 386

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 233 (Steambun)
2. ↑ Chapter 78 (Steambun)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 386 (Steambun)
4. ↑ Chapter 139 (Steambun)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 240 (Steambun)