This lich needs more money

As the host, Ariel could not refuse the enthusiastic guest, the Withered Rose.

When she came to her senses, she had brought the Withered Rose to the most prosperous commercial street in Storm City.

Why did she come here to shop? Didn't we agree to come here to discuss business?

No matter how confused Ariel was, the Withered Rose still acted like a close friend to Ariel, and intimately took her around to buy things.

Compared with the poor families like the Kingdom of the Wrath of Tide, the Underdark only has a bad environment, but it is rich.

The underwater gold mines in the Kingdom of the Wrath of Tide are not worth tens of millions of gold coins. Such small veins are not worth mining in the Underdark. The Withered Rose was generous. She threw a lot of gold coins at anything she liked, and soon bought half a street of things.

Ariel's eyes were straight, she had never been so extravagant as a princess.

Originally, she was a little bothered about wasting time on the streets, but seeing those happy merchants, Ariel felt that it was okay to walk around a little longer.

It would be a good thing to let these poor people earn a few more gold coins.

With this idea in mind, Ariel became enthusiastic and began to introduce the specialties of the Kingdom of Raging Tide to Withered Rose.

What aged salted fish, big and round pearls, what fist-sized fish bluestone... In short, all the goods that could be seen were blown into specialties of the Kingdom of Raging Tide, which could not be bought anywhere else.

Withered Rose was also very cooperative, smiling and throwing gold coins.

After walking down the street, Ariel felt embarrassed.

For just this section of the road, Withered Rose spent nearly two thousand gold coins.

Two thousand gold coins, this is what the Kingdom of Raging Tide lacks the most, and it can already buy a huge manor in Storm City.

Many of the goods were priced at a high price. Seeing that Withered Rose was generous, the Angry Tide people asked for a high price. Ariel saw it several times, hesitated for a long time and finally did not ask, so that Withered Rose spent ten times the price to buy these useless things.

After walking this section of the road, Ariel was uneasy. It seemed that she helped the people of the Angry Tide Kingdom to make a fortune, but it was not good to cheat this generous undead queen like this?

Withered Rose seemed to be unaware of it. Instead, she asked enthusiastically where else she could buy the specialties of the Angry Tide Kingdom, as if she had not spent enough money.

This made Ariel feel even more guilty. This queen trusted her so much, but she continued to deceive her?

Ariel hesitated for a while, then said to Withered Rose: "Sorry, Your Majesty Rose, you just spent too much money. Those things are not worth the price. I will have someone send the extra difference back."

Withered Rose said in surprise: "Not worth the price? Why do you say that? Those are all good things I have never seen."

Ariel said helplessly: "Everything in the Kingdom of Angry Tide was fished out of the sea. Those so-called underwater treasures are actually just common things and are not worth so many gold coins."

Withered Rose said gratefully: "Ah? Is that so? Sister Ariel, you are so kind-hearted that you actually admitted this. If it were someone else, you would have dragged me to another street to shop."

Ariel said embarrassedly: "Our Kingdom of Angry Tide is too poor. Seeing so much gold, I couldn't control myself for a while. But Your Majesty Rose, you are a guest, we shouldn't do this."

"No, no need. Sister Ariel, your words are a hundred times more precious than those gold coins. From today on, you are my recognized friend." Withered Rose said, hugging Ariel's arm.

"Friend?"

Ariel felt her brain was a little confused. How could she be praised after cheating someone? How did they suddenly become friends?

Withered Rose did not give her a chance to think. She waved her hand and said to the followers behind her: "All the things I bought just now are given to my sister Ariel. Just consider it as my meeting gift."

This gift made Ariel lose her ability to think.

A gift worth several thousand gold coins is equivalent to giving her a manor in Storm City. This gift is a bit too heavy, so Ariel dare not accept it.

But she is no match for Withered Rose. After giving in for a few words, she was blocked by Withered Rose's "You don't want to be friends with me", and she accepted these gifts with a confused face.

Just this one shopping trip, Ariel and Withered Rose became closer. They didn't seem like opponents in a game of mutual competition, but became close to besties.

After that, Withered Rose didn't talk about business with Ariel. She just said that she was really tired from flying all the way and wanted to rest for a night.

Ariel didn't have time to think about whether the dead would be tired at this time. Without thinking, she arranged for the Withered Rose to live in the palace.

When it was late at night, Melina couldn't help asking the Withered Rose: "Mother, why did you go shopping with that princess? And you were cheated of so much money?"

In fact, Melina felt something was wrong when she was buying things today. They were obviously selling pearls, but they said one gold coin at the beginning, and then it became ten gold coins at the end. Even Melina could see that there was something wrong with this quotation.

The Withered Rose was very satisfied with Melina's performance. This silly child at least felt that something was wrong, which meant that she had made some progress.

Dead Rose explained to Melina: "We came here for two purposes. One is to help your father negotiate the deal. This is not difficult at all, because your father said that no one in the Kingdom of Angry Tide can see through the problem of this plan. Every clause on it seems to be very beneficial to the Kingdom of Angry Tide. Even if we do nothing, they will have to sign the plan directly. The Kingdom of Angry Tide cannot bear the opportunity to increase the national strength.

"So I made friends with Ariel not for this deal, but for the second task your father ordered. We can't let that Aiolos marry Ariel, but we are outsiders, how can we have the right to dictate the marriage of the princess of the Kingdom of Angry Tide? I think your father doesn't want to tear his face with the Kingdom of Angry Tide, so he can only change another way.

"As long as I become friends with Ariel, I will have the right to say a few words about my friend's marriage. Do you understand now?"

Melina suddenly realized that this was the plan, but immediately asked: "But why didn't father mention this before we left?"

Death Rose smiled and said: "This is a method that only women can use. How did your father prepare in advance? In other words, he doesn't need to tell me too much, he believes I can do it."

It is indeed as the Death Rose said, Amber has always believed in the ability of the Death Rose. Fists alone are not enough to control a kingdom. The strength that the Death Rose usually shows is only one side of her. When using wisdom, she will not let herself down.

Melina understood her mother's intention completely, and then asked, "What should we do next? Can we tell Ariel now not to get married?"

Dead Rose shook her head and said, "It's not that simple. Although I have become friends with her, our relationship is not deep yet. Now is not the time to talk about this. Let's wait a few days. After the contract is signed, I believe Ariel will truly recognize my sincerity to her. Only then can we talk about these in-depth issues. But before that, there is a key point that needs to be found out."

Melina asked excitedly, "What is the key point?"

Although Melina herself is not very smart, she especially likes this kind of detective game of unraveling the mystery. It was very fun when Amber took her to the dark elves as an undercover last time, but it was a pity that she didn't enjoy it.

Now Melina once again felt the excitement of playing detective games with others, and she couldn't wait to become part of the plan.

Withered Rose thought for a moment, then said: "Through today's conversation, I found that people in the Kingdom of Angry Tide get married at a very young age, and women can get married at the age of twelve. Ariel is not young anymore, she is already 28 years old this year, but she seems to have never married, which is not in line with the customs of the Kingdom of Angry Tide. We need to find out why she doesn't get married, otherwise it will be difficult to continue talking to her about marriage."

"Can't you just ask directly?" Melina said strangely.

Withered Rose rolled her eyes at her daughter and taught her: "Ariel is already considered an old woman who can't get married in the Kingdom of Angry Tide. If you ask directly like this, it is very likely to disgust the other party. You are also a woman, don't you even understand this?"

"Uh, I don't quite understand."

Melina felt wronged. She was only a little over one year old. Who could know what a 28-year-old woman thinks?

Withered Rose did not expect her silly daughter to come to her senses all of a sudden, so she could only patiently say, "Don't worry, it shouldn't be difficult to find out about this. After all, she is a princess of a country and the only heir to the Kingdom of Rage. Her marriage should be a matter of concern to all citizens. Just ask around and you'll get relevant information."

"That's good!" Melina said excitedly, "I'll go and find out. I'll ask the merchants who cheated us today."

"Are you asking for information? You're turning yourself in, afraid that others don't know that we're targeting Ariel?" Withered Rose said helplessly, "You'd better listen more, watch more, talk less, and follow my orders."

Melina was like a deflated ball, and said helplessly, "Okay, I'll do whatever you say."

This is completely different from playing house before. She didn't have any chance to show herself at all. It was more exciting to follow her father on an adventure.

Withered Rose didn't care what Melina thought, and continued to deal with Ariel in the next few days. As for the contract negotiations, they went smoothly. Just as Ambersu thought, the people of the Kingdom of Angry Tide had no concept of "labor costs". In their opinion, fishing is also work, and working for Ambersu is also work, and the latter can earn much more.

Ariel did not expect the contract to be so "favorable". The Kingdom of Angry Tide seemed to get a lot without paying anything. Food, materials, airships, and a large number of alchemy products and weapons, this is a good thing for the Kingdom of Angry Tide to make a lot of money.

So much so that the king of the Kingdom of Angry Tide found Ariel and asked her very seriously whether she had reached any other contract with the lich, otherwise how could the lich give such generous conditions?

Ariel could only swear that she had only met the lich once and had not agreed to anything.

The King of Angry Tide was so excited that he recited Talos's blessing hundreds of times, and then signed the contract with the Withered Rose in a hurry.

After the contract was signed, the Withered Rose also indirectly found out the key to Ariel's unmarriage. Her fiancé died not long ago.

The name of the fiancé is Munger Gray River.