Chapter 275 Let The Three Parties Go

Hearing the Mist Witch mention that the Holy Kingdom was finally making some moves, Minori's eyes lit up, and he strode into the castle hall.

He came to the large, spliced wooden table.

Taking out the map of the Hill Region, he spread it on the table and looked at the location bordering the Holy Kingdom.

The Mist Witch closely followed Minori, also looking at the map on the table, though she couldn't understand it.

"Master seems to be in a good mood," the Mist Witch thought to herself.

She didn't quite understand what her master was currently doing, but since it was what he ordered, she would naturally do her best.

"Which side are they from?" Minori suddenly asked.

The Mist Witch's bright yellow pupils flickered, and she opened her mouth, only to realize she didn't know either.

Did such a thing need to be distinguished?

She only knew that some humans had secretly contacted the trolls sent to the border of the Holy Kingdom, but she had no idea what their identities were.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter anyway," Minori said, seeing no response, realizing this point, and shaking his head with a chuckle.

The situation in the Holy Kingdom was actually quite complicated, not to mention the geographical division between the Northern and Southern Holy Kingdoms.

Due to the Holy King's daughter, there were many different noble factions.

Tap, tap!

Faint footsteps came from outside the door.

Cruche Lulu had recovered some strength and walked in cautiously from the door with faltering steps.

Seeing Minori observing the map in the hall, as well as the Mist Witch standing aside, looking at her with a disdainful gaze, Cruche Lulu, wrapped in straw, stood in the corner, her arms, revealing delicate white scales through the gaps, hanging in front of her, lowering her head even further.

The "cloud operation" magic had already assisted Minori in completing his task, and she hadn't been told what to do next.

Cruche Lulu felt a sense of confusion and helplessness rising in her heart.

"What do they want?" Minori didn't mind Cruche Lulu hearing the following information.

"Gold ore," the Mist Witch immediately replied.

"Gold, huh?"

"What a simple and direct transaction, as expected, this kind of thing can't be stopped from spreading among the soldiers, it's as leaky as a sieve," Minori shook his head and chuckled a few times.

"That's right, after all, they're our own people, there's no need to be too cautious."

Since the last time two troll teams were sent, carrying gold ore to the Holy Kingdom's city wall fortress, and were killed, three more troll teams had been sent in succession.

These three teams carried items such as magic beast skins, herbs, and gems.

If the first two times were accidents, then after five consecutive times, even the most foolish person would probably realize that there was something wrong with the trolls appearing under the city wall fortress.

"The relationship between the Holy Kingdom and the Abelion Hills is like fire and water, but even in the most hostile relationships, for some people, nothing is more real than profit."

Minori quietly stared at the map, his eyes deep, a cold smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

That's right.

The ultimate purpose of sending out the trolls was to trade with the Holy Kingdom in order to purchase a large amount of grain and food.

This didn't require a complicated plan.

There was a saying in his previous life that Minori didn't like, but he agreed with.

When profit reaches 10%, they will stir; when it reaches 50%, they will take risks; when it reaches 100%, they dare to trample on all the laws of the world.

When the profit reaches 300%, they dare to risk the danger of hanging!

And what Minori was offering was more than three times that!

Gold ore, magic beast skins, magic materials, various minerals, valuable and rare medicinal herbs, agate, crystal, gems, and so on.

The Abelion Hills had no shortage of any of this!

The area of the hills was about the same as the entire Northern Holy Kingdom, while the number of demi-humans in the hills was only between one hundred thousand and one hundred and fifty thousand.

And what was the population of the entire Northern Holy Kingdom?

A full 3.5 million people!

This wasn't simply a matter of population size, but rather that the demi-human population simply couldn't use that many resources.

"Cruche Lulu, what do you think is most valuable to the various demi-human races in the Hill Region?"

Minori withdrew his gaze from the map and looked at Cruche Lulu standing in the corner.

Being suddenly asked, Cruche Lulu was obviously stunned, and nervously raised her head, a look of serious thought appearing in her red pupils.

She hadn't been in the Hill Region for long, but through contact with other demi-human races, she had gained some understanding.

For some reason, Cruche Lulu thought of the former Lizardman tribe, and after a brief thought, she softly said, "Food."

"Worthy of being a former clan leader," Minori praised.

Cruche Lulu lowered her head embarrassedly.

Food, weapons, and slaves were the three things that all the demi-human races in the Hill Region cared about most.

And "food" was ranked first.

There was no unified government here, and the various demi-human races were completely independent and harbored hostility towards other demi-human races.

In this chaotic situation, it was impossible to have a systematic currency transaction of gold, silver, and copper coins like the human countries.

"Barter" was the most direct way for the demi-humans in the Hill Region to trade, and gold was simply not needed by the major demi-human races.

With only a population of a little over a hundred thousand demi-human races, the Abelion Hills could completely support them, and with the pride of these demi-human races, they simply disdained to trade with humans.

In addition!

On either side of the Abelion Hills was the Holy Kingdom, with whom they had an age-old feud, and the Slane Theocracy, which advocated "human supremacy."

The three sides wished they could beat each other's brains out, so how could they possibly compromise and trade with each other?

However.

Minori didn't care about this, what he wanted was to get the three sides involved.

"Send twenty trolls, first pull half a cart of gold ore over there, as a first meeting gift," Minori said calmly with a calm expression:

"It's really cheap for them, let's just treat it as 'buying a horse with a thousand gold' - that word has a bit of a derogatory meaning here."

The Mist Witch didn't quite understand Minori's later words, and quickly nodded, softly saying, "Do you want to send Go Gin along? He has lived in the human kingdom for a long time and is better at communicating with humans."

"No need," Minori shook his head, smiling strangely, "He is the 'king' who rules these trolls from behind, it's too early to show himself now."

"Hehe, I understand," the Mist Witch chuckled, her mist-entwined figure leaving the hall extremely lightly.

Tap, tap. Minori raised a finger and gently tapped the table, reviewing his plan in his mind.

Spending a lot of energy on this during this period has slowed down the pace of Leveling up, but once the plan begins to be implemented, the missing experience during this wasted period can be easily made up.

As long as the Holy Kingdom provides the food, he can allow the goblins to reproduce in large numbers, coupled with the Zern tribe, who are also good at reproduction.

This is equivalent to launching a second "breeding plan" in the hilly area.

The identity that Minori is currently impersonating is a mysterious magic incantation that manipulates the undead, creating a large number of demi-human corpses like goblins, without arousing obvious suspicion.

Of course, this is only one of the purposes.

Minori also needs to guard against things getting out of hand. To prevent accidents, he also needs to find someone to endorse him, so as to further reduce suspicion and presence towards him.

"[Zurrernorn]!"

This organization flashed through Minori's mind.

He can be regarded as having a lot of fate with [Zurrernorn]. After all, two of the other party's members died in his hands, one is.

Khajit is not dead, he was resurrected by the leader.

Minori indirectly learned something about the strength of that mysterious leader through two consecutive contacts with members of [Zurrernorn].

Belongs to the controllable range.

"Come here."

"Ah, yes."

The Cruche Lulu suddenly heard Minori's words, walked over in small steps, and stopped in front of Minori. "Drink this."

Minori looked at the Cruche Lulu, who was wrapped in straw all over, took out a bottle of red potion and put it on the table. The red liquid in the potion bottle is dragon blood!

"Dragon blood" is very precious.

Cruche Lulu can release "cloud operation" through rituals, allowing him to see higher value, and he doesn't mind taking out dragon blood to observe.

Minori never forgot that Cruche Lulu possessed the profession of [Dragon Adept] related to dragons.

The other party is also the only Lizardman who possesses the racial profession of "Lizardman Awakening Ancient Species."

This kind of white-scaled variant, which is completely different from ordinary Lizardmen, makes people have to suspect that the other party really has dragon blood.

According to the other party's appearance characteristics, it is somewhat similar to the appearance of the Rotten Coffin Dragon King in the legend before he became an undead.

Minori couldn't be sure whether he really had the blood of the Rotten Coffin Dragon King.

When he killed Cruche Lulu and put the corpse into the prop box, he really didn't consider the possibility of resurrecting it later.

At that time, he simply thought that the other party's blood might be more precious.

Unfortunately, after studying it, he found that the other party's blood was no different from ordinary Lizardmen's blood.

It ended without a hitch.

"Yes, sir."

Cruche Lulu respectfully opened her mouth, picked up the dragon blood potion bottle on the table, and swallowed all the blood inside in one breath.

She doesn't care what the red liquid is.

The human man in front of him can easily kill himself and resurrect him. If he wants to kill her, he doesn't need to bother so much.

Dragon blood was drunk.

Cruche Lulu felt a warm feeling all over his body, and his body became a little hot.

Layers of sweat emerged from the delicate scale crevices.

Faint white steam rose from all over the body.

If this is just an external phenomenon.

What Minori is concerned about is Cruche Lulu's aura, which is beginning to strengthen: "Ninjutsu · Detection."

Under the blessing of perception magic, Minori can clearly see that the water-like blue light color on the other party's body begins to deepen rapidly.

"16Lv?"

Minori narrowed his eyes.

Cruche Lulu dropped 2 Levels after being resurrected by him, becoming 15 Levels, and now it has been raised by 1 Level.

Suddenly!

At Cruche Lulu's neck and arms, red special line patterns appeared.

"Ah ah!!"

Cruche Lulu couldn't help but let out a beast-like roar, and violent emotions appeared in his clear red pupils.

"Bad guy - clan - everyone!"

Cruche Lulu murmured to himself, starting very small and then getting bigger and bigger, roaring almost roaringly.

Bang!

Cruche Lulu stomped on the ground with his legs, raised his still sharp claws, and pounced towards Minori.

"Out of control."

Faced with this situation, Minori was full of interest instead, raised his eyelids: "Charm."

Cruche Lulu, who rushed over, froze in place in the blink of an eye.

The violent emotions in his eyes turned into sluggishness, and there was a faint hint of struggle, making the expression on his face a little distorted and hideous.

"Oh, it can also have a certain resistance to mental charm magic."

Minori clearly felt that his charm magic was being resisted, but his strength far surpassed the opponent's.

Easily suppressed it.

"Dragon blood is less affected, but once you drink too much dragon blood, will you also be affected?"

Time passed bit by bit.

The violent emotions in Cruche Lulu's eyes gradually dissipated, the struggling facial expression also relaxed, and the red special patterns on his neck and arms also disappeared along with it.

"The red lines just now, could it be the passive ability of [Dragon Adept]?"

Minori looked at the attribute panel and there was no prompt, a thought flashed in his mind, and he lifted the "Charm".

Cruche Lulu's eyes regained clarity, a little dazed.

She now feels an unprecedented ease all over her body, and even the weakness of releasing "cloud operation" before has disappeared.