"Then you just ran away like this?"
Count Michel narrowed his eyes and looked at the two people in front of him who were all in tatters and even had large pieces of their hair singed and hanging on their heads, looking extremely embarrassed. There was a dangerous coldness in his eyes.
Magician Dral, whose black magic robe had long turned into a few rags, glanced at the unblinking expression on Michelle's face and couldn't help but let out a cold snort.
"Count Michel, the reason why we are like this is entirely because the information you gave is wrong. The weapons hidden in the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's fleet are far more powerful than we imagined, and their president Xu Yi is nothing at all. A mere seventh-level magician, I’m sure he has at least the strength of a ninth-level magician!”
Count Michel snorted coldly and glanced sideways at Magician Dral: "What? Are you accusing me?"
Magician Dral was furious and just about to speak, he was stopped by Everton, whose armor was blackened and whitened by fire magic and electric magic.
"No, Count Michel, we don't mean to accuse you. However, the strength of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce Guards is indeed far beyond our estimation. The two hundred men I led are the most elite cavalry squad in our legion, but they are not even able to I can’t even get close to their camp. I guess... this is beyond your expectation, right?”
Count Michel was silent for a while and nodded slowly.
"That's right, I didn't expect that the strength of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's escorts would be so terrifying." Count Michel glanced at the mottled marks on the two men's bodies and frowned. "You said that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has developed a kind of magic arrow? Can it also use a magic repeating crossbow to fire continuously?"
Everton nodded: "Yes. Ordinary arrows can be blocked by the Dral magician alone, but this kind of magic arrow is also a great threat to the magician. I think even if Xu Yi didn't take action, I’m afraid we won’t be able to break through the defenses of these magic arrows and rush into the camp.”
"Magic arrows..." Count Michel tapped his fingers on the stool, pondered for a moment, took a deep breath, and stood up. He extended his hand to the two of them. "Okay, Magician Dral, General Everton, my information this time was indeed not accurate enough. It caused you losses and led to the failure of this operation. However, through this operation, we found out that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce actually Important information such as magic arrows has been developed secretly. I think Commander Li Nuer must take this news very seriously, and I hope you will explain it to him carefully when you return."
"Of course."
Half an hour later, Everton and Magician Dral, who had ended the secret meeting, quietly left Count Michel's private estate outside Dulacton.
Watching the two people's backs disappear into the dark field outside the manor, Count Michel frowned and fell into deep thought.
This is not the first time that he has privately cooperated with the Sark Kingdom's Greedy Wolf Legion, but Count Michel is well aware of the extreme dangers contained in this kind of cooperation, so he is very cautious every time he chooses to cooperate.
If he had not deeply felt the threat posed by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, Count Michel would never have chosen to take advantage of the Sack Kingdom's emphasis on the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. Privately, he lured the Greedy Wolf Legion into action, and deliberately induced Count Will to keep the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's convoy out of the city, creating such a good opportunity for a night attack.
Originally, according to Count Michel's idea, he only needed to kill Xu Yi and get rid of the core strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will naturally collapse, thus greatly weakening the support for Princess Sevigny. Princess Sevigny will lose an extremely important and potential supporter, further reducing her threat to His Royal Highness Prince Eric.
Although Count Michel himself is very optimistic about the prospects of the magic industry promoted by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, given his position, it is not convenient for him to clearly support it now.
Anyway, even if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is eliminated, His Royal Highness Prince Eric will only succeed to the throne. In the future, there will be many opportunities to re-develop the magic industry on the basis of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
But now the power displayed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce far exceeds Count Michel's expectations.
According to Dral Magician's description just now, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce only has about fifty guards. However, just by relying on magic repeating crossbows, Dral Magician was forced to open the blue guard as a defense.
What shocked Count Michel even more was that with the magic arrows newly developed by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the powerful eighth-level magician Dral could not resist even the ordinary guards and was forced to escape. .
If you compare the strength of both sides. Then there are two hundred well-trained and well-equipped elite cavalry of the Greedy Wolf Legion, coupled with an eighth-level magician, facing off against about fifty ordinary caravan guards from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, plus Xu Yi, whose strength is unknown. , but according to Dral, he is a powerful magician with at least a ninth-level magician.
If it cancels out the effects of both magicians. There is no doubt that the side of the Greedy Wolf Legion that launched the surprise attack had an absolute advantage in strength.
But the result was that apart from killing the three patrolling guards at the beginning, the Greedy Wolf Legion did not even touch the edge of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's convoy. On the contrary, all two hundred of their own cavalry were damaged, and only the magician Dral was destroyed. and Everton escaped back with their superior personal strength.
In the end, this result forced Count Michel to re-evaluate the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in his heart.
In the eyes of most people, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has only made a lot of money with its novel magical machinery, but its foundation and strength are far from being comparable to those of the established large chambers of commerce in the kingdom.
However, through the failure of the raid tonight, Count Michel discovered that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce may not be as good as those of the old chambers of commerce, but its strength cannot be underestimated at all.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can develop magic arrows, a weapon that can even threaten powerful magicians, in such a short period of time. If they are given another period of development, what novel things can they develop? Woolen cloth
Thinking of this, Count Michel suddenly realized that his positioning of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce may have been a little wrong.
Such a chamber of commerce that can always create miracles is no longer the kind of small chamber of commerce that he thinks can be manipulated at will.
Count Michel pondered for a moment, picked up a pen and paper, and began to write a letter.
"Dear Prince Eric, I have a new suggestion regarding the New Flying Chamber of Commerce..."
# # #
Early the next morning, everyone in the team got up from their tents at dawn.
Without Xu Yi's instructions, everyone put everything away diligently and took a few bites of dry food. Then they all got on the magic motorcycle and headed quickly towards Sewell City.
Something like this happened last night, which made no one willing to stay here any longer.
In this strange place, perhaps we can only reach the territory of Earl Satsuma. Only then can everyone feel at ease.
At the same time as the convoy set off, Hart led the five guards he personally selected, escorted the three prisoners who stayed yesterday, and drove a freight magic motorcycle to turn around and return to Bonta City along the same route.
According to Xu Yi's instructions, they will not stop in any city along the way, try to stay as secretive as possible, return to Bangta City as quickly as possible, and report what happened last night to Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny.
Xu Yi was originally worried that the three captives would cause trouble on the way, but after Issos gave each of the three captives a bowl of potion as compensation, the three captives immediately fell asleep like dead people. . It was impossible to make any movement, but it made Hart and others feel a lot more relaxed.
After the convoy parted ways, Xu Yi led the rest of the magic motorcycles to transport supplies at the highest speed, and it took only one morning to get out of Laimate City. We set foot on the spacious and flat cement road again.
However, to Xu Yi's surprise, this time after the team drove happily on the road for two hours, they suddenly found that the road ahead was suddenly cut off.
Although the road that appeared at the other end of the road looked very spacious, it was actually an old dirt and gravel road.
Although the road was relatively flat and in good condition by dirt and gravel road standards, a dirt and gravel road suddenly appeared on the main road connecting the two cities. But Xu Yi couldn't help but be a little stunned.
"I know, this should be within the scope of Basalu City." A human researcher from the Magic Machine Tool R&D Center who was traveling with Xu Yi's hometown is another city in the Northeast Province. Seeing Xu Yi's puzzled face, he asked him Explained: "Batru City is the poorest city in the Northeast Province, bar none."
"Are you so poor that you can't even build a road?" Xu Yi asked in shock.
"Well... if you really want to repair it, you should be able to do it." The researcher said rather sadly: "But the old lord of Basalu City, Count Longli, has always had a good reputation. It is said that he is unwilling to do so because of Building roads will increase the burden on the people in the city, so we refuse to raise funds to build roads like other cities.”
Xu Yi frowned slightly, thinking that from the perspective of ordinary people, this decision might be praised as loving the people like a son, but from the perspective of a city lord, it was clearly stupid.
The cost of building a road can be hundreds of thousands of gold coins at most. Although this will bring a certain financial burden to the city, once the highway is built, the benefits to the entire city will far exceed this investment.
Such examples abound in many cities around Bonta City, and in the long run, this investment is very cost-effective anyway.
This Earl of Longli was so short-sighted that Xu Yi couldn't help but feel contempt in his heart.
"By the way, you just said 'old city lord'? Does that mean there is a new city lord in Batru City?" Xu Yi noticed a question.
"Well, in fact, the old city lord is the old Earl Longli. He passed away at the beginning of this year due to illness. Now his son has inherited his hereditary earl title and the position of city lord."
"That's it..." Xu Yi nodded, thinking that the information he had obtained before was that three cities in the Northeast Province had clearly stated their support for His Royal Highness Prince Eric, namely Laimate City, where the convoy was rejected yesterday, and Now this city of Batru and another city of Dulacton.
If it is the deceased old Earl of Longley who supports His Royal Highness Prince Eric, then will the attitude of the young Earl of Longley, who takes over the title and the position of city lord, change