Chapter 127

"And then you escaped back like this?"

Earl Michel squinted his eyes and looked at the two men who were in rags, their hair was scorched, and their heads were drooping in a state of embarrassment. There was a dangerous coldness in their eyes.

The magician Delal, whose black magic robe had long been turned into a few rags, glanced at Michelle's unflickering expression, and couldn't help but let out a cold snort.

"Count Michelle, the reason why we became like this is entirely because the information you gave was wrong. The weapons hidden in the convoy of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce 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, squinting at Magician Delal: "What? Are you accusing me?"

The magician Delal was furious. He was about to speak, but was stopped by Everton, whose armor was black and white by fire magic and electric magic.

"No, Earl Michelle, we didn't mean to accuse you. However, the strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce's escort team is indeed far beyond our estimation. The 200 men I lead are the most elite cavalry squads of our legion, but they don't even You can't even do it near their camp. I think... this is probably beyond your expectations?"

Earl Michel was silent for a while, then nodded slowly.

"That's right, I didn't expect that the strength of the guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would be so terrifying." Earl Michelle glanced at the mottled marks on the two of them and frowned. "You said that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has developed a magic arrow? It can also use the magic crossbow to fire continuously?"

Everton nodded: "Yes. Ordinary arrows can be blocked by the magician Delal alone, but this kind of magic arrow is also a great threat to the magician. I think even if Xu Yi didn't shoot, I'm afraid we won't be able to break through the defense of these magic arrows and rush into the camp."

"Magic arrow..." Count Michel tapped his fingers on the stool, pondered for a moment, took a deep breath, and stood up. He held out his hand to the two of them. "Okay, Mage Delal, General Everton, my information this time is indeed inaccurate. It caused you to suffer losses, which led to the failure of this operation. But through this operation, I found out that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce actually Secretly developed important information such as magic arrows. I think Li Nuer's army commander must take this news very seriously, and I hope you will explain it to him when you go back."

"Of course."

Half an hour later, Everton and Magician Delal, who had concluded the secret meeting, quietly left Earl Michel's private estate outside Durekton.

Watching the figures of the two disappear into the dark field outside the manor, Count Michel frowned and fell into deep thought.

It is not the first time that the private cooperation with the Greedy Wolf Legion of the Kingdom of Sark has been done, but Earl Michel is well aware of the extreme danger involved in this kind of cooperation, so he is very cautious every time he chooses to cooperate.

If he hadn't deeply felt the threat brought by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, Earl Michel would never have chosen to take advantage of the importance that the Kingdom of Sark attached to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Privately lured the Greedy Wolf Legion to take action, and deliberately induced Earl Will to keep the convoy of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce away from the city, creating such a good opportunity for a night attack.

Originally, according to Earl Michel's plan, it was only necessary to kill Xu Yi and get rid of the core strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will naturally fall apart, which will greatly weaken the support for Princess Seweney, causing Princess Seweney to lose an extremely important and potential supporter, further reducing her threat to Her Royal Highness Prince Eric.

Although Earl Michel himself is very optimistic about the prospects of the magic industry advocated by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but due to his position, it is inconvenient for him to explicitly support it now.

Anyway, even if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is eliminated, as long as His Royal Highness Prince Eric inherits the throne. In the future, there will be opportunities to re-develop the magic industry on the basis of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

But now the strength of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has far exceeded Earl Michel's expectations.

According to the description of the magician Delal just now, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce only has about fifty guards, and the magic crossbow alone has forced the magician Delal to open the azure guard as a defense.

What shocked Earl Michel even more was that with the magic arrows newly developed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the ordinary guards in the area were so powerful that Delal, a powerful eighth-level magician, could not resist and were forced to flee. .

If you compare the strength of the two sides. Then there are two hundred well-trained and well-equipped elite cavalry of the Greedy Wolf Legion, together with an eighth-level magician, against about fifty ordinary caravan guards in the Shangxinfei Chamber of Commerce, plus Xu Yi whose strength is unknown , but according to Delal, at least a powerful magician with the strength of a ninth-level magician.

If the effects of the magicians on both sides are offset. Undoubtedly, the Greedy Wolf Legion that launched the surprise attack has an absolute advantage in strength.

But the result is that the Greedy Wolf Legion killed the three patrolling guards at the beginning, and didn't even touch the side of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce convoy. On the contrary, the two hundred cavalry were completely damaged, and only the magician of Delal And Everton escaped back by relying on their super personal strength.

In the end, with this result, Earl Michel had to re-evaluate the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in his heart.

In the eyes of most people, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce just made a lot of money by relying on novel magic machines, but its background and strength are far from being comparable to those of the old big chambers of commerce in the kingdom.

However, through the failure of this raid tonight, Earl Michel discovered that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce may not be as well-established as those old big chambers of commerce, but its strength should not be underestimated at all.

The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was able to develop magic arrows in such a short period of time, which can even pose a threat to powerful magicians, so if they are given a period of time to develop, what novelty can they develop? Woolen cloth?

Thinking of this, Earl Michel suddenly realized that his positioning of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce might be a little wrong.

Such a chamber of commerce that can always create miracles is probably not the kind of small chamber of commerce that he thinks can be manipulated at will.

Count Michel pondered for a moment, picked up the pen and paper, and began to write a letter.

"His Royal Highness Prince Eric, I have a new suggestion regarding the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce..."

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Early the next morning, everyone in the convoy got up from their tents at dawn.

Without Xu Yi's instructions, everyone put away all their things diligently, and simply ate a few mouthfuls of dry food. Then Qiqi got on the magic locomotive and headed quickly towards Sewell City.

What happened last night made everyone unwilling to stay here any longer.

In this strange place, perhaps only Earl Samo's territory was reached. Only then can everyone feel at ease.

When the convoy set off, Hart led the five guards he personally selected, escorted the three prisoners who stayed yesterday, and drove a magic cargo locomotive to turn around and return to Bangta City.

According to Xu Yi's instructions, they will not stop in any cities along the way, try to keep it as secret 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 something would happen to the three captives on the way, but after Issos paid for a potion and poured each of the three captives down, the three captives immediately fell asleep like dead people . It was impossible to make any movement at all, but it made Hart and others a lot easier.

After the convoy parted ways, Xu Yi led the rest of the magic locomotives to transport supplies at the highest speed, and it took only one morning to get out of the range of Raimat City. Set foot on the spacious and flat concrete road again.

However, to Xu Yi's surprise, this time the convoy had managed to drive happily on the road for two hours, but suddenly found that the road ahead suddenly broke down.

Although the road that appeared on the other side of the road looked very spacious, it was basically an old dirt and gravel road.

Although by the standards of dirt and gravel roads, the road is fairly flat and in good condition, but a dirt and gravel road suddenly appeared on the main road connecting the two cities. But Xu Yi still couldn't help being a little surprised.

"I see. This should be within the range of Basaru 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: "Batrou City is the poorest city in the Northeast Province, not one of them."

"Is it so poor that you can't afford to build a road?" Xu Yi asked in amazement.

"Well... if you really want to repair it, you should be able to repair it." The researcher said with a bit of a sigh: "But the old city lord of Basalu City, Earl Longley, has always had a good reputation. It is said that he is unwilling Because the construction of roads will increase the burden on the civilians in the city, they 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 obviously stupid.

The cost of building a road is at most hundreds of thousands of gold coins. Although this will bring a certain financial burden to the city, after the road is built, the benefits to the entire city will far exceed this investment.

Such examples can be found in many cities around Banta City. In the long run, this investment is very cost-effective anyway.

This Earl Longli is so short-sighted, Xu Yi can't help but despise him.

"By the way, you just said 'old city lord'? Does that mean that Batru City has a new city lord now?" Xu Yi noticed a problem.

"Well, the old city lord is actually the old Earl Longley. He passed away at the beginning of this year due to illness, and now his son has inherited his hereditary earl title and the position of the city lord."

"That's it..." Xu Yi nodded, thinking of the information he had obtained before that there were three cities in the Northeast Province that had clearly expressed their support for His Royal Highness Prince Eric. As well as the current city of Batru and another city of Dulekton.

If it is the old Earl Longley who has passed away who supports His Royal Highness Prince Eric, will the young Earl Longley, who took over the title and the position of the city lord, change his attitude?