Lord of War

  Brod really has the intention to cooperate with Sean, so he knows everything about Sean’s problems, and he fully demonstrates his sincerity in seeking cooperation.

  So, Sean quickly learned about the many situations and problems in the Kingdom of Lane now, especially with a clearer understanding of the situation.

  The so-called nobles in the Senegal and nobles outside the Senegal refer to the distinction between the inward and outward directions with the Tonis fortress as the center. To put it simply, all the nobles in the former Principality of Ryan were all Senene aristocrats. The old and new aristocrats of the Principality of Ryan, who had previously had nearly irreconcilable conflicts due to some differences in interests and positions, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The former Darby nobles who poured into the circle of the aristocratic system of the Kingdom of Ryan showed the same rare political stance: their strong rejection of the nobles outside the Great Wall.

  It is true that as Broad 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 Senei noble group headed by the Marquis of Thornweed, this time preempted the nobles outside the Senegal to react and reached a conscious resonance before they formed a group. In the foreseeable half a year, those people who belonged to the nobles of the Darbion Kingdom will probably be sad. After all, these problems involve interests, the nobles of Lane will certainly show a very tough and aggressive.

And when the former Darby expensive clan of the so-called foreign aristocracy finally understood and began to cling together, they were already at a disadvantage. Will be pulled bigger and bigger. Even if Darby’s nobles are led by a well-known politician, it will be difficult to reverse the situation in a short time. Once the time is long, no one can guarantee the unity of the nobles outside of Senegal. Centripetal force.

  If there is still fighting in this situation. Then in the next ten years, the so-called foreign aristocracy will definitely be at a disadvantage for a long time.

Unfortunately, Sean, who started from this war, was included in the list of nobles outside the Senegal-in fact, even Asuna G. Evans was rejected by the nobles of Sené, and Sean was also Do not expect to be able to enter the circle of the nobles of Sené. They just wanted to blatantly attack Asuna. The nobles of Sené didn't have the courage yet, so Asuna had become the only noble outside of the Great Wall who was not listed as a target in Sean's Seven-Man Alliance.

  But this is only temporary.

  Once the nobles outside the Senegal are suppressed in the overall situation, then the nobles of Sené will definitely force Asuna to choose to stand in line. Based on what Shaun knew about Asuna, she would certainly not abandon the alliance. But now her geographical location is completely blocked in Garrod Fortress. With this kind of situation in China, once the route of foreign materials is cut off, Asuna will immediately fall into a rather passive dilemma.

  Thinking about it this way, Sean knew why the Marquis of Devin proposed to give Asuna all the territory of the original Darbion within the Fortress of Garrod. The interest group led by the Marquis of Thornweed not only did not oppose it. And they all voted for the reason. Because of this, they had trapped the beast of Asuna in a disguised form. It even kept her away from the political center of the entire Kingdom of Lane.

  At this moment. Sean suddenly felt a sense of sorrow of killing a donkey.

"There are seven marquis of old power in the Kingdom of Lane, including Asuna. At present, it is certain that Commander Lloyd will never participate in the plan against his daughter, and that Lane's sword will not only propose to move those within Garrod Fortress. All Darbion’s territory was transferred to Asuna, and there was no other action... At least he did not clearly state his political stance. The remaining three families..." Sean glanced at Broad, and then He spoke in a deep voice. "All have joined the interest group of Marquis of Thornweed?"

  The predecessor of the Kingdom of Lane: During the Principality of Lane, there were seven marquis prefixed with "strength".

Among them, the Evans family occupies two seats, and the remaining five are the Marquis of Dwin Soder Sabre, who has the title of "Sword of Lane", the Marquis of Zober Rodis, who has the title of "Lane's Sword", and the owner of the so-called Ryan is the strongest. In the Heavy Infantry Regiment, the Marquis of Sebarox, Marquis Michael Att of Thornweed, Marquis of Karlovci Finristin.

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

  But what makes Shaun feel a little subtle. The Shab family, which is basically hostile to Sean, did not participate in the interest group of the Marquis of Thornweed. Instead, the Finlistine family joined the interest group on the condition that they exclude themselves. It is precisely because of this that their interest group is equivalent to pushing Asuna to the opposite side, so of course Asuna's father will not be able to participate in this interest group.

  And these seven old marquis of strength of Lane must also be a member of the list of dukes that the Kingdom of Lane has drawn up.

  Duke-level aristocratic conflict, this is not a fun game.

  Broad heard what Sean said, and naturally knew what Sean was worried about, so he opened his mouth and said, "My family has not yet decided on its position."

  Shaun raised his brow slightly.

   "However, my cousin who is vying for inheritance rights is more inclined to this interest group." Seeing Sean's **** se, Brod said quietly.

  "Are you threatening me?" Shaun's face was cold.

"No." Brod's heart suddenly frightened, a sudden cold murderous intent made his heart suddenly twitch, as if being pinched by an invisible hand, but his face remained normal. The voice didn’t seem to tremble 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 have one less help, but you can Get an ally."

"It's just that doesn'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 be of no benefit, because even Brod. The ally mentioned was just a secret ally who couldn't disclose each other's identity and relationship like Ronnis did at the beginning. This did not have any real benefits for Sean at all.

   And Sean, but it happens to be a typical person who does not see rabbits and scatter eagles.

  "I can give you a batch of Grey Night Mine." Thought for a while. Broad said, "Probably enough for you to arm a main force."

Gray Night Mine, this is a rare metal mine mixed with traces 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 Rhodis family. This is also the name of the gray night collar. For the sake of origin. However, Sean knew that Gray Night Mine was only rare in the surface layer. For the underground world, Gray Night Mine was a common ore that was almost flooded.

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

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

  The standard equipment used by the Silent Mountain, known as the strongest heavy infantry regiment of Lane. It is this special armor.

  But in Sean’s eyes. This "strongest" is actually very watery: Because it is equipped with such powerful equipment, Silent Mountain is only a quasi-fourth level army. If this set of equipment is unloaded, Silent Mountain will even directly descend to a quasi-level three army, which may not even count as a level three army. From this, it can be imagined that the military quality and discipline of this army are so bad. What degree.

  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 the quasi-five level. And with the steel wings and the impact shield, it might be able to directly break through the limits 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 increase the army’s combat effectiveness level. Then the ranks of all members of the legion need to be promoted-for the players, the rank is the representative of strength, but for these aborigines, the rank is not equivalent to the realm of strength. To reach the level of the seventh-level legion, all members of the army must be of the sixth-level rank; the eighth-level is the seventh-level, and the ninth-level is the eighth-level.

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

  So Brod made this condition, and Sean was really excited.

   "Amount?" Sean asked.

   "Ten thousand." After a little thought, Broad spoke up.

   "Not enough." Sean shook his head simply.

  If only the number of soldiers can be armed with 10,000 soldiers, it will not help Sean much. The most is to pile the steel wings to level six, and he can't even expand the scale. And the most important point is that these materials were provided by Broad. Once a war broke out, he didn't even have the reserve resources to supplement it, which meant that he had a weakness completely grasped by Broad.

   "I can only provide up to 20,000 sets of equipment with the same standard as Silent Mountain."

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

"It's impossible!" Even if he let out an exclamation, the whole person almost jumped up, "If you give you all the mining rights, the gray night collar will no longer be the gray night collar. The mining of the gray night mine. Power is the foundation of our Rodis family's survival!"

"I don't mean to occupy the mining rights of Huiye Mine forever." Sean looked at Brod who was excited, and stretched out his hand to signal him to be safe and restless, "In this way, I only want you to mine Huiye Mine for three years. You use it. Three years of mining rights for the Gray Night Mine in exchange for your position as the head of the Rodis family, I think this sale is very fair?"

  Hearing Sean’s words, Broad could not help but fall into contemplation.

  Sean knew that he was calculating the gains and losses, so he didn’t bother. After all, for him, it would be a lucky thing if he could get the mining rights of Grey Night Mine, but if he didn’t get it, it didn’t matter, because he had already discovered a path to the abyss, and he waited until the territorial situation was complete. After stabilizing, he was going to go to the underground world to take a stroll, when the gray night mine didn't cost much.

"The vein found in Huiye Ling can only produce 100,000 tons of Huiye Mine each year. Of course, this is limited by the current mining technology. But theoretically, it can reach about 200,000 tons per year. "Broad didn't answer Sean's words, but suddenly introduced the ash night mine. "Take 100,000 tons of ash night mine as an example. In fact, after the smelting process, it is about 5,000 sets of silence. The standard equipment of the Mountain Legion...So even if you want three years of mining rights, at most 15,000 sets of the standard equipment of the Silent Mountain Legion are only. If this is the case, wouldn't it be better for me to give you 20,000 sets?".

   "It's not the same." Shaun shook his head, "I'll ask you, how many years can Huiyeling's Huiye Mine be mined?"

  "In terms of 100,000 tons of annual mining output, it may be possible to mine for another fifty years." Broad hesitated. In the end, he told Sean what was a secret to the Rodis family.

  "In other words, there are still about five million tons of mineral reserves." Xiao En nodded slightly, "If I can say that I can make your annual mining output reach 300,000 tons?"

   "How is this possible!" Broad subconsciously chose to refute, but he saw Sean's calm and composed appearance. He swallowed everything he wanted to say later.

   "I want your three-year mining rights, if you agree. Then I can also pass on this technology to you." Xiao En said softly. "And I can assure you that I will never get involved with the ruins under the Grey Night Mine, it is still the secret of your Rodis family."

   Hearing Sean's understatement about the ruins under the Grey Night Deposit, Broad's face changed drastically. The secret of this ruin, even in the Rodis family, is only known by the core few. And he only learned about it after he overheard it once. The other heir candidates didn't know about it. This was why Broad wanted to be the only heir anyway.

  Because on the Continent of Miracles, anything that involves the word "remains". It must be invaluable, and it may even be a shortcut to make people powerful.

  And this reason is why Broad wanted to avoid Sean's involvement in mining the Ash Mine.

"Trust me." Seeing Broad God se, Sean knew why he refused to let himself intervene in the mining of the gray night mine. "If you don't have my skills, then you will need at least twelve years from now. It is possible to dig out the entrance to that ruin."

  This time, Sean didn’t lie to Broad.

  There is indeed an ancient ruin underground in the gray night collar, and it is also a Tier 8 team instance. When this copy was released, it was already when the game version was updated with the fourth expansion. The timeline at that time had passed to 1886, which is now twelve years later, so Sean said twelve years It's no joke afterwards.

  Only Tier 8 is just the lowest entry barrier for this instance.

  He still remembers that the guild leader he was in took the entire Jing Ying group and ran to open up wasteland. Basically, all the members were at the top level of Tier 8, and they still wanted to die in this dungeon. It took at least a month before and after to reluctantly open up wasteland to the third boss. It is said that it is already the best performance among all the teams that open up wasteland in the entire Southern Continent.

When the team led by Sean finally was able to play this dungeon later, the strategy of the first four bosses was already exhausted, so they did not spend too much time to keep up with the progress at that time. group. Later, when fighting the final boss, because of a terrain bug he accidentally discovered, after sacrificing half of the team members, they finally killed the boss and became the first team to clear the game.

  In this world, the eighth rank is equivalent to high-level gold.

Shaun didn’t think there would be so many high-level gold powers under Broad’s command, because even Florence, now known as the lord with the largest number of powers in the Kingdom of Ryan, could not make up ten high-level gold powers. Rod really dug such a passage that could open the main entrance of the ruins in a short time, and he absolutely couldn't get this copy, so Sean believed that Brod would eventually come to him for help.

"If you need 900,000 tons of Grey Night Mine, I can satisfy you." Broad pondered for a long time, but in the end he found that he had no choice at all, so he could only say, "But I can't do it every year. Give you the mining rights directly...In this way, I will give you 150,000 tons a year, and I will pay you all within six years."

"If you want to pay in installments, then I want one million tons, which can be paid back in five years, but I must provide me with 200,000 tons of ash night ore every year. I do not accept any purification or smelting. Semi-finished products that have passed." Xiao En directly refused without hesitation, "If you can't accept this proposal, then we have nothing to talk about. I will treat you as if you haven't been there."

   "Deal." This time, Broad only thought for three seconds, and he agreed to Sean's proposal without hesitation.

  So the two parties quickly reached a consensus on this matter and signed a secret agreement with each other to prevent Broad’s denial in the future. But in this way, Brod suffered a bit. After all, Sean completely took the initiative in this matter, so he didn't have any evidence and handle to leave Brod, but now When he needed the assistance of Sean, Broad could only choose to silently shut up.

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

  And Sean, after a moment of silence, he wrote a letter to Xuefanio, asking her to send the letter to Asuna as quickly as possible. In the content of the letter, Sean has briefly stated the current situation in the Kingdom of Ryan, as well as the yin plans and tricks prepared by the nobles. Although he simply mentioned a few words in many words, Sean believes that Asuna's ability would definitely be able to quickly discover the trap inside, so as to respond in advance.

  Of course, Sean also mentioned Broad Roddis, and talked about his private transaction with him again. This is also a means of protection by Sean. After all, although he has changed his approach and impression of Broad, it does not mean that he can immediately trust this person, even if there is no red halo on him.

  But these are all secondary issues.

The most important thing is that at the end of the letter, Sean explained the danger of the situation, so he decided to temporarily change his mind, no longer meet with them but go to the capital by himself, and then everyone will provide it in Broad Just meet up with his manor. At the same time, in the letter, Sean had also explained that Asuna told her not to rendezvous with Duke Hatch and others, so as to avoid unnecessary situations and troubles. As for his own safety, he would find a way to solve it. (To be continued...)