Lord of War

Void Mansion, this is the residence of the Duke of Void, who was rewarded by the Ryan royal family to Sean, who is now one of the new seven Dukes of Ryan.

This house has always been cleaned by servants from the palace, so when Sean took over the mansion from King Ryan, the mansion was not only exceptionally clean, but also had all the things it should have. Sean didn't need to spend extra to add any new furniture or decoration.

So when Sean moved into this mansion, the only thing he needed to do was to ask a butler to help him manage the mansion.

Because it is impossible for Sean to live here in the capital all the time.

For him, this mansion is actually just a symbolic meaning, at least as long as this mansion is still there, no one will forget him as the Duke of the Void. Of course, if it is an ordinary traditional aristocrat, then he will definitely choose to live in the mansion in the capital, and will not return to the fief. The closer the information center, the better.

But Sean is no ordinary traditional aristocrat.

Although he has been assimilated by this world a lot now, the adventurous blood gene in the player's body has still not weakened at all. In fact, if it weren't for being dragged here by some things now, Sean would have wanted to leave King Ryan's capital a long time ago, and he didn't want to waste even a second of time in this kind of place.

And this is why Sean will choose a housekeeper himself.

As for the servants, they were the servants originally dispatched by the Lane Palace. Sean is still very satisfied with these experienced and agile servants, even if he has to pay them three times as much as ordinary servants. But in this way. Naturally, the salary of a housekeeper cannot be so low, and to be worthy of this salary, a housekeeper must be an experienced veteran, or at least have excellent abilities in many aspects.

The butler who now manages the entire Void Mansion is recommended by Asuna. His salary was fifty gold coins per month—enough to cover the monthly expenses of seven to nine ordinary families.

But a housekeeper with such a high salary is naturally worth the money.

Therefore, when Sean pushed open the door of the conference room, what he received was not a greeting, but a heartfelt compliment from Floris, one of Ryan's dark giants: "Although you spend a lot on servants , but the whole mansion was really cleaned very cleanly, and your housekeeper is not simple.... These expenses are worth the money."

Hearing Floris' praise, Sean just smiled politely and did not reply.

In fact,

He almost told the butler to leave just now, because he disrupted a dead bone transformation plan that Xiao En had worked out with great difficulty.

As an excellent housekeeper, it is natural to have a basic understanding of those powerful figures in the country. Even if you don't recognize its face, you must at least recognize symbols such as family crests. But the Marquis of Floris is the most mysterious Marquis in Lane, and this visit has not used a carriage with a family crest, so it is very normal for the butler not to recognize it, if it is not recognized If the aura on Floris was really different, the housekeeper recommended by Asuna would certainly not bother Sean.

It's a pity that Sean doesn't know these things.

In a sense. The butler was indeed somewhat innocent.

"This time, there are actually two things." Seeing that Sean didn't answer, Marquis Floris didn't care too much. He sat casually on the sofa in the reception room, looking nothing like him. is a guest.

But Xiao En, who was so close to him face to face, felt an invisible pressure constantly rushing towards him.

In his field of vision, it was endless darkness, like a bottomless abyss. Accompanied by the abyss-like aura that continued to permeate out, and the endless bloody aura that continued to emanate out, Sean was sure that Floris was also a hidden powerhouse based on this alone. At the very least, they are definitely the real powerhouses of the Golden Realm. Because the aura emanating from the Marquis of Flores is all superficial, the number of people who died in his hands must be at least eight hundred if not one thousand.

A guy like William who only uses his mouth to command and almost never kills people himself, although his aura will become uniquely majestic and powerful due to the long-term command, full of deterrence. But it will never exude an astonishing bloody aura like Floris. No matter how much he suppressed and concealed himself, for those with keen perception, he could still feel this aura on him.

Of course, for Sean, another reason why Marquis Floris can be judged to be a strong man is that he has no flaws in him.

Although it was just sitting casually, it seemed that there were flaws all over his body, but if you looked carefully, you would find that these so-called flaws were actually traps. If someone really thought that Floris didn't understand anything and attacked rashly, Then the end will definitely be very tragic.

This is a strong man who truly lives in the dark world.

"Which two pieces?" Sean was silent for a moment before finally speaking, but his back was soaked in sweat before he knew it.

"Oh." Floris suddenly chuckled.

As a mature middle-aged man, Floris actually still has a lot of charm, especially the dangerous aura emanating from him, which is naturally scary for people with keen perception, but for some people People who don't understand it-especially women, it will look very charming. It's just that at this moment, Floris' smile may be charming to some women, but it is nothing to Xiao En, because the breath on his body has not weakened in the slightest.

"Don't be nervous." After a chuckle, Floris said again, "I don't have any hostility or malice towards you....Your current strength is still a little insufficient, so you will still be affected by my natural breath." The influence of coercion, after you step into the golden realm, you will be able to feel the real change of my breath."

"I know." Sean took a deep breath before he said, "I mean. You don't have any hostility or malice towards me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come here alone to meet you."

"Oh?" Floris raised her eyebrows, and the expression on her face became interested.

In fact, the color of the light Sean saw from Marquis Floris when he first met him. It was green, which represented goodwill, not any other color, so from then on Sean knew that the Marquis of Floris had no hostility towards him. Of course, the color exuding from that Lion King was also green. As a result, Sean felt a little embarrassed that he had killed several of Marquis Floris' subordinates. It's just that the dark king doesn't seem to care about those things at all.

Sean doesn't know the past of the Marquis of Floris, but from his attitude towards King Ryan, Sean can at least be sure of one thing, that is, the outside world's evaluation of the Marquis of Floris is wrong. This is not a person who is simply loyal to the throne. In fact, it should be said that the person he is truly loyal to is the current King of Ryan——Ingels Ryan, from this point of view. Sean knew that there must be a very important and strong bond between this dark king and the current King Ryan.

"It's just a kind of intuition." Sean sat on the sofa next to him. Although he tried his best to calm down his inner resistance to the dark breath, perhaps as Floris said, there was still some gap between the two sides, so more or less At least it still showed some reflexive physical behavior, "Let's talk about business."

"Alright." Floris nodded before speaking. "The first is a personal matter."

"Private matter?" Sean was also very curious to be able to say such a word from Floris' mouth.

"I just want to make a deal with you." Floris nodded slightly, clearly confirming that Sean heard correctly, and then continued, "I know that this time the Chamber of Commerce Alliance made a deal with you, although the specific I don't know much about the transaction items and content, but part of my transaction is about the slave transaction..."

Sean has no doubts about why Floris knew this, because he already knew from Lodsk the route of the slaves from the Chamber of Commerce Alliance—crossing from Viper Gobi. In terms of the size of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance team, let alone a dark king like Floris. I'm afraid the aristocrats in the country who are a little bit more capable have already received the news.

So Sean didn't speak, but continued to listen quietly.

"...So, I hope you can transfer at least 5,000 barbarians to me. For some reason, I urgently need a mercenary group to complete the task in the near future, but if hired, it may cause intelligence leaks. So I need to build a team of my own to complete the task, and the barbarian is the most suitable crash fighter."

In fact, for a big man like Floris, there is absolutely no need to explain anything to Sean, but at this time he opened his mouth to explain the reason why he needs barbarians. It is already a way of showing respect, at least Floris thinks that Sean is already qualified to sit on an equal footing with him.

"I see." Sean nodded, "What about the transaction?"

"In the next year, you can obtain any information I know from me for free." Floris said in a deep voice, "I know that my conditions are not very favorable, after all, with the information you have now It’s only a matter of time before you can collect intelligence and be equal to me. But if I provide it directly, then you can definitely speed up your progress in this regard.”

"Indeed." Sean nodded, "But if this is the case, why not change it to information sharing?"

"Information sharing?" Floris looked at Sean meaningfully, "If you request so, then I can accept it."

Intelligence sharing and free access to any known intelligence are two very different concepts.

The former is an unreserved method of information exchange. This method is naturally a mutually beneficial method when both parties are on the same basis, but for two parties who are completely unequal like Sean and Floris Naturally, it is Floris who will suffer, because the information currently possessed by Floris has taken him at least more than 20 years, and it has also been accompanied by countless sacrifices.

From the instinctive reaction, in the collection and mastery of intelligence. Floris really didn't see Sean as an equal yet.

This is why Sean will propose to share.

It's just that Floris agreed to Sean's conditions so quickly, which still surprised Sean, but it can also show from the side that Floris really needs these five thousand barbarians very much. In other words, the task he is currently on is very urgent. And it's very important, otherwise, Floris would not need to make such a big concession, because the real beneficiary in the next year will only be him alone.

"Then regarding the barbarians, I will transfer them to you at the normal individual transaction price in the slave market."

"Okay." Flores nodded.

The so-called regular individual transaction price does not refer to the unit type transaction, but the individual transaction.

House transaction. It refers to a one-to-one transaction.

Under normal circumstances, each barbarian household consists of at least two people, that is, a husband and wife team of a man and a woman; if there are more individual households, there may be about five people, that is, a husband and wife plus a son. Daughter or parents etc. And for a house type transaction like this, the selling price largely depends on the fighting power of the barbarians in this house. But no matter whether the combat power is high or low, it is usually not less than ten gold coins. If food expenses are included, it is likely to reach fifteen gold coins per household.

As for house type transactions, it is usually necessary to buy an entire tribe.

The size of the tribe naturally varies from big to small. Usually, even a small tribe will have two or three hundred households, but such a small-scale barbarian tribe. There are probably only a hundred or less barbarian slaves who can really be used as soldiers. For this reason, if you want to form a barbarian army of normal size, then it is very likely to buy several tribes, or a medium-sized tribe.

In this way, for many nobles or warlords, there are obviously too many people wasting food, and not everyone can afford such expenses.

For this reason, there are targeted sales specifically to satisfy this type of customers.

individual transactions.

The so-called individual trading refers to the sale of young and middle-aged barbarian slaves who are mainly between the ages of sixteen and thirty.

Barbarian slaves of this age are almost the type that can go to the battlefield as soon as they are equipped with weapons, and because they have been "trained" by the slave owners in advance. Therefore, there is almost no possibility of riots and rebellions, but the level of combat power will be relatively mediocre, and it is difficult to do a charge like those barbarians who do not fear death.

Therefore, whether these individual slaves can be restored to the heroic ability of fearing death depends on the technology of the buyer.

But even so. No matter how mediocre or even used as cannon fodder in many cases, barbarian individual trading now occupies a very large share of the slave market, and it is almost becoming the mainstream trading method that replaces house trading. Therefore, along with the increase in the share and traffic of this kind of transactions, the transaction volume of barbarian individual transactions also began to increase gradually.

Up to now, the transaction amount of each individual barbarian ranges from twenty to one hundred gold coins.

The higher the transaction amount, the younger the barbarian, and the greater his potential or knowledge, and so on.

This time, in order to show their sincerity, the Chamber of Commerce Alliance sent the 15,000 barbarians to Xiao En. They were all young and middle-aged slaves worth fifty gold coins. to 3,000 people, and the remaining 12,000 people are all between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. However, even the group of 3,000 barbarians who are over twenty-five years old is still a very rare boutique for the outside world, because they are all Jingu barbarians.

"Do you have any requirements for slaves?" Sean said, "Lodesc gave me a record sheet, if there is a specific need, then I can give you this record sheet, and you can choose it. "

"No need." Floris shook his head, "I don't have any requirements on height, age, place of birth, strength, potential, etc. The only thing I ask is that they can go to the battlefield immediately. Of course, it is best to know some combat skills." It doesn’t matter if the coordination on the formation is really not working.”

"If it's a battle formation, I have a good batch." Xiao En chuckled, "Three thousand Jingu barbarians."

Floris's eyes lit up suddenly: "It is indeed a good batch....The price is not cheap."

"Anyway, it's from the Union of Chambers of Commerce, just give you fifty gold coins each." Sean shrugged, "But the remaining 2,000 people don't have such good stuff. But Sheng is not bad in terms of potential. If you take it to train for a while, it should still be able to exert some effect."

"Okay, it's up to you to arrange it." Floris nodded very satisfied.

If it is purchased according to the market price, let's not talk about the two thousand barbarians. Just for those 3,000 Jingu barbarians around the age of 25, the transaction price for each of them would definitely not be lower than 80 gold coins. Now he bought 5,000 barbarians with excellent "quality" for 250,000. This is equivalent to saying that Sean sent him 2,000 barbarians with excellent potential and strength.

"At that time, I will arrange people to trade with you."

"No problem, I'll leave it to you to arrange all of this." Perhaps it was because Floris had solved a very difficult matter, so at this moment Sean could feel that Floris was obviously relaxed. It was a real relief feeling. This made Sean a little more curious about what Floris was about to do, but Floris didn't say anything, and Sean really couldn't ask anything, "By the way, there is one thing I almost forgot to tell you . . . That fellow Anom is inquiring about you."

"Anom?" Sean froze for a moment. "The former silversmith from Darbion?"

"Yes." Floris nodded, and this time his expression became a little more serious, "You ruined his good deeds at the auction and made him lose two apprentices. It is definitely a very embarrassing thing for the old man, so the old man has already started to inquire about your identity."

"I see." Sean really didn't expect the old man to take such revenge, but even so, he didn't really care.

"You'd better be more cautious." Seeing Xiao En's disapproving attitude. Floris couldn't help but speak again, "Since you are also a goldsmith, you should know what kind of guys are those who are willing to follow the blacksmith. Although I rejected the task assigned by the old man to investigate you this time, but With the old man's social circle, I believe it won't take long to find out your identity, and it is obvious that the old man seems very serious, because this time he sent out two of his strongest followers, so Anyway, you'd better be careful."

"The strongest?" Hearing such a word, Sean's face showed a bit of curiosity. "How strong is it?"

"Both of them are high-ranking gold pinnacles." Floris replied, "It's a little troublesome to explain. Due to some professional habits, I have conducted investigations on these two people before, so the information about these two people .I will send the information to you later...But for the sake of safety, you'd better leave a stronger follower by your side these days, one of these two is very troublesome."

"I see." Sean nodded, "Thank you very much for your advice."

"You're welcome, after all, we are now in a mutually beneficial relationship." Floris shrugged, "Okay. Now that the private matters have been dealt with, let's have a business negotiation."

"Business?"

"Well, this time Ryan has been upgraded from a principality to a kingdom, and some neighboring countries have also sent people to participate, so according to the default unspoken rules on the mainland, a martial arts festival will be held for competition." The Marquis of Floris Shen Said in a loud voice, "This is the simplest way to judge each other's national strength. ... On the whole, the martial arts festival is divided into two stages, one is a military competition, and the other is a duel of personal strength. "

"Your Majesty the King wants me to fight?" Sean roughly already knew what the business was about.

"Yes." Flores nodded, "The two military battles have been determined to be in charge of Lord Asuna G. The strong above the domain are not allowed to participate in the battle, so in fact the event is divided into the silver group and the gold group, and people of different strengths compete for the championship. However, in view of the fact that this time the event has a relatively strong tentative purpose, so A single-match elimination system is adopted, and there is no loser's group."

"I understand." Sean nodded, "So His Majesty the King wants me to participate in the silver competition?"

"Of course, if Lord Sean agrees, His Majesty the King hopes that you can allow your followers to participate as well."

Hearing this, Xiao En basically understood what was going on with the martial arts festival that he decided to hold on a whim: "That is to say... there is a great risk of death if you fight against each other in such an event?"

"Yes." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)