Lord of War

Brod really wanted to cooperate with Sean, so he knew everything about Sean's problems and talked endlessly, fully showing his sincerity in seeking cooperation.

Therefore, Sean quickly became aware of many situations and problems in the Kingdom of Ryan, especially had a clearer understanding of the situation.

The so-called aristocrats inside the Great Wall and nobles outside the Great Wall refer to the distinction between the inner and outer axes centered on the Fortress of Tonis. To put it simply, all the nobles in the former Principality of Ryan are the nobles of Senai. The old and new nobles of the Principality of Ryan, who had previously had almost irreconcilable conflicts due to differences in certain interests and positions, faced a sudden sigh of relief. The original Darby expensive family who poured into the aristocratic circle of the Ryan Kingdom showed a rare common political stance: a strong rejection of the nobles outside the Great Wall.

It is true that, as Brod said, in the face of absolute interests, unless it is a blood feud, there is no grievance that cannot be let go.

In this way, the group of aristocrats inside the Great Wall headed by the Marquis of Thorns reached a consensus this time before the nobles outside the Great Wall reacted and formed a group. In the foreseeable six months, the nobles of the original Darbion Kingdom will probably have a very difficult life. After all, these issues involving interests, the nobles of Ryan will definitely show an extremely tough aggressiveness.

By the time the so-called nobles outside the Great Wall, the original Darby family, finally understood and started to form a group, they were already at a disadvantage. At least one side had prepared and made full use of half a year of fighting. The gap between the two sides was only 1 will be pulled bigger and bigger. Even if there are shrewd politicians from the Dabigui family, it will be difficult to reverse the situation in a short period of time, and once the time is long, no one can guarantee the unity and centripetal force of the nobles outside the Great Wall with their sloppy personality.

If in this situation, infighting still breaks out. Then in the next decade or so, the so-called nobles outside the Great Wall will definitely be at a disadvantage for a long time.

Unfortunately, Sean, who made his fortune by relying on this war, was included in the list of nobles outside the Great Wall. In fact, even Asuna G. I hope that I can still enter the circle of nobles in Senai. It's just that the nobles within the Senna did not have the courage to attack Asuna blatantly, so Asuna became the only noble outside the Senna who was not listed as a target in Sean's seven-member alliance.

But this is only temporary.

Once the nobles outside the Great Wall are suppressed in the overall situation, the nobles inside the Great Wall will definitely force Asuna to choose to stand in line. Based on Sean's understanding of Asuna, she will definitely not abandon the alliance. And now her geographical location is completely blocked in the Garrod Fortress. In this country's situation, once the foreign material route is cut off, Asuna will immediately fall into a rather passive predicament.

Thinking about it this way, Sean knew why when the Marquis of Devin proposed to give Asuna all the former Darbion territory within Garrod Fortress, the interest group led by the Marquis of Briargrass not only did not object. And why all of them voted for it. Because in this way, they would trap the fierce beast Asuna in a disguised form. It even made her completely away from the political center of the entire Ryan kingdom.

This moment. Xiao En suddenly felt a sense of sadness.

"There are seven marquises from the old school of the Lane Kingdom, including Asuna. What is certain is that Commander Lloyd will never participate in the plan against his daughter, and the sword of Lane, in addition to proposing to destroy the Garrod Fortress All Dabiang territory is transferred to Asuna,

There are no other actions... at least they haven't clearly stated their political stance, and the remaining three families..." Sean glanced at Brod before speaking in a deep voice. "They have all joined the interests of the Marquis of Briargrass group? "

The predecessor of the Kingdom of Ryan: During the Principality of Ryan, there were a total of seven marquises prefixed with "strength".

Among them, the Evans family occupies two seats, and the remaining five are the Marquis Dawin Sodel Saber who has the title of "Sword of Ryan", the Marquis Zob Rhodes who is the leader of the gray night, and the one who has the title of "Sword of Ryan". Marquis Fosse Sebarox, Marquis Michael Aite of Briargrass, and Marquis Karlovci Finlisting of the heavy infantry regiment "Silent Mountains".

Except for Asuna, the other six are regular visitors of the twelve nobles of Ryan.

But Sean felt a little subtle. The Shab family, which was basically in a state of hostility with Sean, did not participate in the interest group of the Marquis of Briargrass. Instead, the Finnstein family joined this interest group on the condition that they excluded themselves. It is precisely because of this that their interest group is tantamount to pushing Asuna to the opposite side, so of course it is impossible for Asuna's father to participate in this interest group.

And these seven marquises of the old school of Lane's strength must also be members of the list of dukes that the Kingdom of Lane has drawn up.

Duke level noble conflict, this is not a fun game.

When Brod heard what Sean said, he naturally knew what Sean was worried about, so he said, "My family hasn't decided yet."

Sean frowned slightly.

"However, my cousin who competes with me for the inheritance is more inclined to this interest group." Seeing Sean's expression, Brod said calmly.

"Are you threatening me?" Sean's face turned cold.

"No." Brod's heart suddenly trembled, a sudden cold murderous aura made his heart twitch suddenly, as if being pinched by an invisible hand, but his face remained normal, and his voice There seemed to be no trembling at all, "I'm just making a mutually beneficial proposal to you. ... If you think this proposal is good, then we can cooperate, so that your enemy will not only lose one boost, but you can get An ally."

"It's just that it can't make my heart move." Sean thought for a while, and he was very satisfied with Brod's sincerity, but if it was just like this, he would not benefit at all, because even Brod The so-called ally is just a secret ally who cannot reveal their identities and relationship like Lonnis did back then, which is of no real benefit to Sean at all.

Sean, on the other hand, happens to be a typical person who doesn't see the rabbit but doesn't cast the eagle.

"I can give you a batch of Gray Night Mine." After thinking for a while. Brod said, "Probably enough for you to arm a main army."

Gray night mine, this is a kind of rare metal mine mixed with a trace of magic power. It usually appears as an associated mine, but it is extremely rare to appear as a non-associated mine in the territory of the Rhodes family. This is also the name of the gray night collar. The reason for the origin. However, Xiao En knows that the gray night mine is only relatively rare on the surface layer. For the underground world, the gray night mine is a common ore that is so common that it can almost be said to be flooded.

But only for the countries on the surface, the gray night mine is still a relatively important resource.

Synthetic iron smelted from this ore combined with two other common common ores. It can be used to make a special armor. Players could not equip this kind of armor in the game, but according to the calculations of the sophisticated party, the texture of this kind of armor is already equivalent to weak bronze-level equipment, and it also has a certain degree of magic resistance. Moreover, the protective effect is equivalent to the level of heavy armor, but the weight is only half of that of heavy armor, which is basically equivalent to that of light armor.

As the standard equipment adopted by the Silent Mountains, known as the strongest infantry regiment of Ryan. This is the special armor.

But in Sean's eyes. This "strongest" is actually very watery: because it is equipped with such powerful equipment, the Silent Mountain Range is only a quasi-level 4 army. If this set of equipment is unloaded, the Silent Mountain Range will even be directly reduced to a quasi-third-level army, which may not even be considered a third-level army. From this, one can imagine how bad the military quality and discipline of this army are. to what extent.

If Sean replaces all three main armies under his command with this standard equipment, Sean believes that these three armies can even be directly upgraded to quasi-level five. And if the steel wings are combined with the impact shield, it may be able to directly break through the limit of the sixth-level army.

Level six, this is the limit value of the general army.

Starting from this watershed, if you want to continue to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. Then the ranks of all members of the legion need to be upgraded. For the players, the ranks are the representative of strength, but for these aborigines, the ranks are not equivalent to the realm of strength. To reach the level of a seventh-level legion, all members of the army must be of the sixth rank; the eighth rank is the seventh rank, and the ninth rank is the eighth rank.

As for the tenth-level army, there is only one in the entire Miracle Continent.

So Brod put forward this condition, and Sean was indeed a little moved.

"Quantity?" Sean asked.

"Ten thousand." Brod said after a little thought.

"Not enough." Sean shook his head simply.

If it is only able to arm 10,000 soldiers, it will not be of great help to Sean. At most, it will be brainless to pile up the steel wings to level six, and he can't even expand the scale. And the most important point is that these materials are provided by Brod. Once a war breaks out, he doesn't even have backup resources to supplement, which means that he has a weakness that Brod has completely grasped.

"I can only provide at most 20,000 sets of the same standard equipment as the Silent Mountain."

"I don't need it." Sean refused directly, "I want your mining rights."

"It's impossible!" Broddang exclaimed, and almost jumped up, "If you give you all the mining rights, Hui Yeling will no longer be Hui Yeling. The mining of Huiye Mine Power is the foundation of our Rhodes family's survival!"

"I don't mean to occupy the mining rights of the Huiye Mine forever." Sean looked at the excited Brod, and reached out his hand to signal him to be calm, "Well, I only want you to have the mining rights of the Huiye Mine for three years. You In exchange for the mining rights of the Gray Night Mine for three years in exchange for the head of the Rhodes family, I think this deal is very fair, right?"

Hearing Sean's words, Brod couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Sean knew that he was calculating the gains and losses, so he didn't bother. After all, for him, it would be a very lucky thing if he could get the mining right of the Huiye Mine, but it doesn't matter if he can't get it, because he has already discovered a path to the abyss, and when he gets the territory in the future After the situation has completely stabilized, he is going to go for a tour of the underground world. By then, the Huiye Mine will have as much as it needs.

"The ore vein found in Huiye Territory can only produce about 100,000 tons of Huiye mine per year. Of course, this is limited by the current mining technology. But theoretically, it can reach about 200,000 tons per year. "Brod did not answer Sean's words, but suddenly introduced the Huiye Mine, "Take the 100,000-ton Huiye Mine as an example, in fact, after the refining process, it is about 5,000 sets of silent mines. The standard equipment of the Mountain Legion...so even if you want a three-year mining right, at most it will be 15,000 sets of the standard equipment of the Silent Mountain Legion, so wouldn't it be better if I give you 20,000 sets?"

"It's not the same." Sean shook his head, "Let me ask you, how many years can the Huiye Mine in Huiyeling continue to be mined?"

"Based on the annual mining volume of 100,000 tons, it can be mined for about 50 years." Brod hesitated for a moment. In the end, he told Sean this matter that was a secret to the Rhodes family.

"In other words, there are still about five million tons of mineral reserves." Xiao En nodded slightly, "What if I have a way for you to mine 300,000 tons a year?"

"How is this possible!" Brod subconsciously chose to refute, but seeing Xiao En's calm appearance. What he wanted to say later was swallowed back.

"I want your mining rights for three years, if you agree. Then I can also teach you this technology." Sean said softly. "And I can guarantee that I will never touch the ruins under the Huiye Mine Deposit. It is still a secret of your Rhodes family."

Hearing Sean's understatement about the ruins under the Huiye Mine Deposit, Brod's face suddenly changed. The secret of this ruin, even in the Rhodes family, only the most core people know. And he only found out about it because he accidentally eavesdropped on it, and the other candidate heirs didn't know about it, which was why Brod wanted to be the only heir no matter what.

Because on the Miracle Continent, anything involving the word "remains". It must be priceless, and it may even be a shortcut for people to become powerful.

And this reason is also the reason why Brod wants to try his best to prevent Sean from interfering in mining the Gray Night Mine.

"Trust me." Seeing Brod's expression, Sean knew why he refused to allow himself to intervene in the mining of the Gray Night Mine, "If you don't have my technology, then you will need at least twelve years later It is possible to dig out the entrance to that ruin."

This time, Sean didn't lie to Brod.

There is indeed an ancient ruin in the underground of the gray night collar, and it is also an eighth-level team copy. When this dungeon was released at that time, it was already the time when the fourth expansion piece was updated in the game version. The latter is no joke.

It's just that the eighth level is only the lowest entry threshold for this dungeon.

He still remembered that the guild leader he was in back then dragged the entire elite group to open up wasteland. Basically, all members were at the top of the eighth rank, and they still died in this dungeon. It took at least a month before and after to barely open up the wasteland to the third one. It is said that it has the best performance among all the teams in the entire southern continent to open up this dungeon.

When the team led by Sean was finally able to play this dungeon, the first four strategies had already been exhausted in detail, so they did not spend too much time keeping up with the progress of the team. . Later, in the final game, because of a terrain bug he accidentally discovered, after sacrificing half of the team members, they finally killed this one and became the first team to clear the level.

And in this world, the eighth rank is equivalent to high-rank gold.

Sean doesn't think that there will be so many high-ranking gold powerhouses under Brod's command, because even Florence, who is now known as the lord with the largest number of powerhouses in the kingdom of Ryan, can't make up ten high-ranking gold powerhouses, so even if Brod Rhodes really dug out such a passage that can open the main entrance of the ruins in a short period of time, and he has absolutely no way to complete this dungeon, so Sean believes that Brod will eventually come to him for help.

"If you need 900,000 tons of Gray Night Mine, I can satisfy you." Brod pondered for a long time, but in the end he found that he had no right to choose at all, so he could only say, "But I can't I will give you the mining rights directly.... How about this, I will give you 150,000 tons per year, and I will give you all within six years."

"If you want to pay in installments, then I want one million tons, and you can pay it back in five years, but you must provide me with 200,000 tons of raw ore from the Huiye Mine every year. I don't accept any purified or smelted ore. It’s a semi-finished product.” Sean directly refused without hesitation, “If you can’t accept this proposal, then we have nothing to talk about, and I will pretend you never came.”

"Deal." This time, Brod only thought for three seconds before agreeing to Sean's proposal without hesitation.

Therefore, the two sides quickly reached a consensus on this matter, and signed a secret agreement with each other to prevent Brod from turning his face and denying anyone in the future. However, in this way, Brod suffered a bit. After all, Sean completely took the initiative in this matter, so he didn't have any evidence or handle that could be left to Brod, but now Under the situation that he needed Sean's assistance, Brod could only choose to keep silent.

When the agreement was completed, Broad quickly left the small hotel without staying for a moment.

As for Sean, after being silent for a while, he wrote a letter and handed it to Sefanio, asking her to deliver the letter to Asuna as quickly as possible. In the letter, Sean has succinctly stated the current situation in the Ryan Kingdom, as well as the plots and tricks prepared by the nobles. Although he only mentioned a few words in many words, Sean believes that the future Asuna's ability will definitely be able to quickly discover the traps inside, so as to deal with them in advance.

Of course, Sean also mentioned Brod Rhodes, and explained his private deal with him. This is also a means of protection for Sean. After all, although he has changed his approach and impression of Brod, it does not mean that he can trust this person immediately, even if he does not have any red halo on his body.

But these are all secondary issues.

The most important thing is that at the end of the letter, Sean explained the danger of the current situation, so he decided to temporarily change his mind and no longer join them but to go to the capital by himself. His set of manors can be met. At the same time, in the letter, Sean also told Asuna not to meet with Duke Hatch and others, so as to avoid unnecessary situations and troubles. As for his own safety, he will find a way to solve it. (To be continued) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. )