Listening to Ken's sarcasm, Lal couldn't think of any words to refute.
As Ken said, even though Lal knew that Ken wanted to take revenge on these two forces through Rhodes, doing so would indeed be of greatest help to Rhodes' trip.
At this time, Lal was still unwilling to say: "Although you have been caught, there must be a lot of property hidden in the home where you live. The property of a city lord cannot be less than that of the Freelance Chamber of Commerce."
Lal still hopes to find loopholes in Ken's words to reduce his value in Rhodes' heart.
After listening to Lar's words, Ken explained: "As you can see, the town has just expanded. Whether it is recruiting subordinates or expanding houses, it requires a lot of time and gold coins. In order to develop the town, I must introduce freelancers. The Chamber of Commerce has entered, and at this point, not only can I not get any gold coins from it, but I have to spend a lot of money myself."
Ken's meaning is equally obvious. Due to the environment, the productivity here is relatively low. If you want to speed up the development of a town, freelance chambers of commerce must exist.
Smaller towns can introduce Freelance Chambers of Commerce, but similarly, the city lord cannot directly manage the Freelance Chambers of Commerce, and cannot even obtain part of the transaction commission.
In this case, unless the town develops rapidly, the freelance merchants will firmly occupy a dominant position in the city. Under such circumstances, the Freelance Chamber of Commerce can even ignore the orders of the city lord.
Compared with the soldiers used to defend against foreign enemies in the city, although the number of guards in the Freelancer Chamber of Commerce is smaller, they are more powerful in terms of rank. Even the city lord must make some calculations before dealing with the Freelancer Chamber of Commerce in the city.
If the methods used by the city lord are too heavy-handed, the Freelance Chamber of Commerce will never even be established in this town. This is obviously extremely detrimental to the development of a city.
The Freelance Chamber of Commerce controls almost all trading channels. Any business group needs to use this platform to achieve transactions, which gives the Freelance Chamber of Commerce great power.
Under such circumstances, the city lords of most small towns had to compromise with the Freelancer Chamber of Commerce and accept their behavior. The Freelance Chamber of Commerce also took a fancy to this, and became more and more greedy in the subsequent process. Only large towns can check and balance the Freelance Chamber of Commerce among them.
Therefore, after listening to what Ken said, Rhodes immediately understood that there was nothing wrong with what Ken said. If this was the case, then Ken did not have any property left. On the contrary, the Freelancer Chamber of Commerce in the city The wealth that exists may be several times that of Ken.
Rhodes knew that in order to survive, Ken could also provide him with a lot of information, and compared to Lal, Ken could learn more about the situation.
Under this situation, the information that Ken could provide was obviously more than that of Lal in front of him, but even so, Rhodes had no intention of keeping Ken behind.
Compared to ordinary people like Lal who have no ability to resist, Ken is obviously more powerful. Whether it is intelligence capabilities or his own strength, bringing Ken with him is equivalent to adding a big hidden danger to himself. .
Rhodes admitted that what Ken said so far was very reasonable, but what did this have to do with Rhodes? Since he failed in the battle, it was obvious that Ken was also prepared to die.
On the sidelines, Lal was still thinking hard about how to respond to Ken's words. Lal knew in his heart that after Ken's performance, his value in Rhodes' heart would definitely decrease.
Lal realized that in this situation, he might have been given up by Rhodes. Compared to himself, Rhodes would get more if he replaced his subordinates with Ken. If Rhodes chooses to give up his control over Ken, he will not only gain more information, but also gain a powerful subordinate.
Lal realized that in this current situation, perhaps his end was already doomed.
What Lal didn't know was that it was precisely because of his mediocrity, lack of any power, and constant cooperation that made Rhodes make the final decision.
At Rhode's signal, the bone dragon next to him immediately took action.
At this time, Ken's eyes were not on Rhodes, but on Lal, with a lot of provocation in his eyes.
Ken also knew that according to the character of the necromancer who always valued interests, coupled with the value he showed, the necromancer was obviously more willing to control himself. Ken is very confident about this.
Ken understood that he might have avoided death once, but he was also unsure of what would happen next.
All Ken can rely on is the magic scroll hidden in the space ring. Once the Necromancer relaxes his vigilance in the subsequent process, the Necromancer will obviously be unable to react to his own explosion at close range.
While Ken was thinking about these things, he suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart.
Taking advantage of the moment when Ken was unprepared, the Bone Dragon directly grabbed and swung out. Under the close attack, and because Ken had no defense for a while, he was directly knocked away by the Bone Dragon.
With just one blow, the Bone Dragon severely injured Ken. Ken flew backwards for a distance and then fell to the ground.
After falling to the ground, Ken tried to get up from the ground, but failed. Being hit head-on by the bone dragon, even Ken, who was wearing armor, was also seriously injured.
The powerful physical attributes prevented Ken from dying for a while, but based on his current physical injuries, it was obvious that he couldn't do anything.
Ken obviously did not expect that even though he had been extremely obedient before, he would still be attacked by the Necromancer.
Ken, who fell to the ground, seemed to have realized his end, and no longer hid it. Apart from letting out a few sad laughs, Ken directly took out a spell scroll from the space ring.
Just as Ken was about to tear open the scroll in his hand, a battle ax appeared next to him.
The tomahawk directly hit Ken's chest. The originally hard armor had no effect and was directly hit by the tomahawk. In an instant, it was cut into two pieces by the tomahawk, directly splitting open Ken behind the armor.
Ken, who was already seriously injured, could no longer hold on after receiving this blow. Even the magic scroll he was holding fell to the ground.
(End of chapter)