the last king of darkness

Chapter 251 The True Hunter

The core of Guardian Fire is kindling, which is an irreplaceable, non-renewable, and non-manufacturable resource.

All existing fires in Trorian come from relics and ruins.

This one is no exception.

The fire guardian put the fire back to the golden horcrux in the sacrificial field, set up the firewood, and put the embers and phlogiston on the base. After six hours of the fire ceremony, the fire of human life, The fire of hope for civilization was once again ignited in this ancient town.

The flames shrouded Fanxing Town again, and it had been 500 years since the last time.

The black mist receded far away, and the ancient streets, houses, clock towers, and squares were all immersed in the brilliance of the fire. People bathed in this hopeful moment and couldn't help but burst into tears.

The souls of the soldiers sublimated at this moment, and they voluntarily joined the expeditionary army with a high casualty rate, just for such a dream scene.

Human beings hold high the torch, dispel the darkness, kill monsters, and open up a new living place.

This is the most magnificent romance of Trorian humans who have inherited the will of fire.

Many fighters died without witnessing it, and they were lucky.

And this kind of luck comes from their commander, the new star of humanity appointed by Lord Theodore, the Son of Miracle.

Rhodes.

In the past two days, Rhodes has fully enjoyed the superhero treatment.

No matter what he wanted to do, there were a lot of people rushing up to greet him, and when he went to the toilet, there were people waiting outside to pass papers, and even the people who wiped his buttocks piled up into a mountain.

Serving the commander has become something worth showing off, even if it is just to give the commander a drink of water, move the chair, and put on underwear, they can show off for a whole day.

And the people around could only drooling and listening to his bragging.

Rhodes is also hard to say about them, after all, as long as they help, they can get a lot of humanity.

How can there be too much human nature?
Moreover, Fanxing Town has just been occupied, and it is time to stabilize the situation. When it is time to recuperate, the soldiers don't have to fight. Now it is the logistics and production personnel who are busy.

Of course, taking care of Rhodes is still the top priority of all things. Although he only needs to recuperate due to excessive staring, they don't think so. If they can't serve their commander well in all directions and without dead ends, their hearts will would be very disturbing.

So although Rhodes is very happy these days, he is also very troubled.

Especially at night, when it's time to go to bed, the room is crowded with all kinds of girls.

Forget about the girls, why are some men squeezing in?

Rhodes is very depressed. His condition has not been very good these days. Annabelle's horse back is too hard, and the bumps are too harsh. The key day is that he only wore a long robe and had no protective measures, which made him feel a little dickish now. pain.

Sure enough, men's underwear is still necessary.

But the main reason was the dream. He encountered some troubles and needed to deal with them in the dream at night.

So, he told Molly that he was not feeling well and needed to rest.

Unexpectedly, Molly directly listed his room as a restricted area, and anyone who entered the room needed her approval.

This made all the girls gone, which disappointed Rhodes.

Now, the expedition team has moved the stronghold from the dungeon to Fanxing Town, leaving only a few people in the dungeon as a subsidiary stronghold.

The cleanup work in Fanxing Town has already started.

Three thousand logistics personnel work around the clock, day and night, to clean up the town as quickly as possible and eliminate all pollution.

Combatants also occasionally assisted them, mostly dealing with collapsing ruins, caved-in pits and bursting streets.

It has to be said that apart from the damage caused by the battle, the integrity of Fanxing Town is quite high, and many things have been preserved quite intact.

In many houses, the cleaners saw half-drawn curtains, lifted quilts, dusty dining tables, and pots and pans full of black rot on the stove, as if the residents here died suddenly in their lives.

Wang Cheng once learned about the destruction of Fanxing Town through limited clues. It is said that Fanxing Town was attacked by nightmares, and everyone died in their sleep.

It was originally just an inference, but now it has real credibility.

As the only researcher, Mina's big house is already filled with items collected from the town, and she has already sent a letter to her teacher, Grand Scholar Amides, and the Wangcheng Society headquarters, asking them to send more researchers and archaeologists.

History and archaeology are very important things.

But for Rhodes, the most important thing is that they found the true silver vein under Fanxing Town.

Its entrance is on the west side of Fanxing Town, surrounded by buildings related to miners. The clearers found a large number of townhouses, railroad tracks, mine cars, storage warehouses, ore processing plants, etc. here.

Many creations can be used with minimal maintenance.

After preliminary exploration, they found that the vein was much larger than imagined, with various branches extending in all directions and countless derivative minerals.

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Fanxing Town is built on the veins.

According to the rules set at the Supreme Council back then, King City is not responsible for the expedition affairs, but the income generated by the expedition belongs to Rhodes, which means that he is responsible for his own profits and losses.

Rhodes had already figured this out, that's why he dared to borrow so much money from the giant Mehalla.

After all, there is no such thing as running away in this world, other human kingdoms disappear, and without Trorian, all human values ​​will disappear.

That's why the giant Mehalla businessman dared to lend him so much money.

Also, because of this, Rhodes let Molly hire 30 miners in advance.

Taking down Fanxing Town seemed to him a certainty, and he wanted to restore the mine's production as quickly as possible.

Although there were some twists and turns in the process, the result was roughly the same without any deviation.

However, there were some twists and turns on Molly's side.

Hiring 30 miners is not a trivial matter, and they can only be entrusted to help them complete it.

However, the mega-businessmen of Mehalla thought that they were fooling around by hiring 30 miners before Fanxing Town was occupied, and the weekly wages of the miners alone could quickly eat up their loans.

Giant businessmen refused to provide services, and asked to appoint commissioners to supervise all their actions to prevent their funds from being wasted.

Molly spent a lot of time talking about it, but to no avail.

It wasn't until they ignited the fire of Fanxing Town that the attitude of the giant businessman took a 3600-degree turn in an instant.

And Molly, as the best assistant in the military headquarters, keenly seized the opportunity, and immediately put on airs, accusing the behavior of the giant Mehalla for harming their interests.

According to her calculations, 30 miners can produce as much as 1000 million silver cables a day. The non-cooperative behavior of the giant Mehalla caused the miners to arrive two days late, so they should be compensated for the loss of 2000 million silver cables.

Therefore, not only do they not have to repay the loan to the giant Mahalla, but the giant Mahalla should ask them for more than 400 million silver.

The big merchants were so troubled by this, they almost knelt down to lick this aunt's feet, and even sent a group of beautiful boys to really kneel and lick, but it was a pity that Molly sent them to mine.

In the end, the giant Mehalla businessman exposed this matter with the conditions of free recruitment, free delivery, and a free gift of an elite management team to assist them in their daily work.

The leader of the giant merchant, Mehla, told Molly that the matter of recruiting miners is quite simple. The actual population of Wangcheng has already exceeded 5000 million, and the slums in the outer city are overcrowded.

Many poor people are willing to do anything for a meager wage, and they can even lower their weekly wages a little bit, and then increase the cost of board and board to further save money.

If done well, there might even be some money to be made.

But this matter was eventually rejected by Rhodes.

He had inquired about the Book of Knowledge, and this practice would obviously affect the humanity and divinity he was about to acquire.

What's the use of earning more silver cables?Humanity and divinity are the resources he needs.

Moreover, being a big mine owner once and killing those factory owners is also something he really wants to do.

Rhodes has always believed in the idea of ​​a real man, what kind of skill is oppressing the poor, and oppressing the superior is a real man!

Not only that, but he will squeeze monsters, darkness, and void in the future.

The stronger the thing, the more he wants to squeeze it.

This is the real strong man, and he only swings his sword at the stronger man.

Only the weak will swing the knife at the weaker.

Therefore, Rhodes set the conditions, not only giving the miners a "high" weekly salary of [-] silver, but also including food and housing, and let the giant Mehalla merchants do their best to promote this matter in Wangcheng.

This mind-stopping operation made Mehara wonder if the human supernova who had just created a miracle was out of his mind.

He just wanted to object, and Rhodes made another condition that they couldn't refuse.

Borrow another 5000 million silver cords, repay after one year, at [-]% interest rate.

All the giants were shocked.

The take-off of Fanxing Town is already a certainty. After the fire of protection is lit, there is no reason for it to fall unless a major disaster occurs.

And this son of miracle, Rhodes, with a battle group of 100 people, occupied Fanxing Town in less than two weeks, which was originally thought to take a year or more.

He can come back in such adversity, and in such a great situation, it is impossible to miss.

As long as Fanxing Town can function normally, the true silver veins below it will be a steady stream of cash cows.

Not to mention 5000 million silver ropes, even 50 million silver ropes, even [-] billion silver ropes are still affordable.

Real silver is the most widely used spiritual material, whether it is bullets, crossbow bolts, equipment, weapons, or potions, utensils, rituals, and spells, all need real silver.

A typical example, the most commonly equipped city defense army is the real silver sword.

This thing is simply synonymous with simple and efficient violence. It is sharp, has extra lethality against monsters, and has excellent spiritual conductivity. As long as a city defender holds a big sword, his combat level can be raised by half a level.

Therefore, this investment will definitely pay off.

The mega merchants swam over like sharks smelling blood.

They thought that Rhodes was an idiot who didn't understand business, and they were eager to get more benefits from him. They even sent a group of beauties for this purpose, but it was a pity that Molly sent them to sweep the streets as soon as they arrived in Fanxing Town.

Rhodes just pretended to be ignorant and talked about conditions with them.

In the end, Rhodes got a huge sum of 20 million silver cables from them, at the cost of [-]% of the annual output of the true silver mine.

Although Molly was unwilling to oppose any of Rhode's orders, she still couldn't help but say.

"Lord Rhodes, this is a very bad business. With the scale of the true silver mine in Fanxing Town, the output value can reach 1500 million silver cables a day, 515 days a year, and the total output value is as high as 75 billion. What they want is 20% The output is 15 billion, but the cost is still borne by us, which means that they have no risk and get three times the interest rate."

Rhodes smiled and said, "Molly, that's not how the account is calculated. Think about it, why did the elders give me the autonomy of Fanxing Town?"

Molly pushed her gold-rimmed glasses and replied meticulously: "Of course it is for this reason to openly reduce the team preparation and reduce the assistance to us."

"Then we are beyond their expectations and have swollen their old faces. Do you think they will find a way to break the contract with various excuses and take back my authority to independently dispose of the spoils?"

With that said, Molly came to her senses.

"What do you mean, to tie the Megamer to my chariot?"

Rhodes said with a smile: "That's right, to earn such a large amount of money, I think they will definitely work hard to get better conditions for us."

Molly was silent for a few seconds before speaking softly.

"You are right. The Mega Merchants is a joint business group with a very complicated and deep background. Even the elders have many people who have a share in it. However, why don't you mortgage the ownership of the real silver mine? This can You can achieve the same effect and save a lot of money.”

Rhodes shook his head and said seriously: "Molly, remember, don't use anything as collateral."

Molly, who has always been as serious as a class teacher, now asks like a primary school student: "Why?"

"Imagine carefully, what are the conditions of the mortgage?"

"If the money cannot be repaid, its ownership will go to the Mehalla magnate."

"Then what do you think they can do to maximize their interests?"

Molly suddenly came to her senses: "They will do their best to interfere and destroy Fanxing Town, making it impossible for us to produce normally. In the end, the debts will become due, unable to repay the debts, and the ownership of the veins will be taken away."

"What if I exchange 20% of the output?"

Molly immediately replied: "They will find ways to help us expand production in order to seek greater benefits."

Rhodes showed an inscrutable smile: "Do you know how to do the following work?"

A cold light flashed in Molly's eyes, and there was a bit of chill in her serious tone.

"Understood, I will use this to let them spit out as much benefit as possible."

Rhodes smiled super happily.

"Molly, do you understand now? A real hunter often appears as a prey."

A strange light flashed in Molly's eyes.

At this moment, she was even more convinced that Rhodes would assist the king to complete the holy fire plan, lead mankind to a brighter future, and become their savior.

(End of this chapter)