174 105. Magic Metal and Gryphon (1/2)
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After the Banquet at John's Palace, John's deal was officially signed with the Elves.
after the banquet, Alison spoke after trying all the cuisines, ”The praise of cuisine by those traders is understated. I never thought the food can taste so good. The Wines themselves were very good and of high quality, I guess only the tears of the 1000-year-old Aspen tree could match them, A pity that it can only be extracted them once a year and that too in low quantities. Yes, I have decided, our first trade will consist of all sorts of wines which were present in this banquet. I personally am prepared to use Nature magic on your all of your farms' first thing tomorrow morning.”
Duke Rose was surprised after hearing Alison, ”Ambassador Alison, are you sure? I heard you don't even usually entertain the dukes or other ministers in the Ayananore kingdom with your nature magic. or are you just spouting bulls**t.”
Alison was drunk as he spoke in an angry drunk manner, ”Of course I am sure, you think I would back down on my promise. I will do it first thing in the morning. I usually only get to drink once a year since I only have one 1000-year-old tree in my yard. I am someone who doesn't joke when it comes to using nature magic.”
Mist slapped his forehead as he heard Alsion, He murmured, ”Usually I only had to bear this type of nonsense from this guy only once a year, what a headache. This will be problematic. It seems this drink is really good that even Alison is moved.”
Alison heard Mist as he glared him with sharp eyes and asked in an angry manner, ”What did you say?”
Mist sighed and spoke, ”Nothing.”
Mist murmured, ”I wonder if you are an elf or a dwarf, seriously.”
Duke Rose smiled as he saw Alison and spoke to John, ”You are quite lucky John. Mr. Alison usually doesn't even entertain the queen or princess Emena if they want to use Mr. Alison's power for fun. He only uses it when it comes to emergencies. I guess this was also coupled by the fact that both of the ambassadors have a good impression on you as you cared a lot about your populace regardless of their identity. Your Fight with the Radiant Church was a blessing in disguise as your medicines bought quite a shock to them and hence the chance of an alliance with you.”
John nodded as he understood their feeling after watching the happy atmosphere from them.
Later, the whole Kingdom got to know about Count John's alliance with Elves. The most peculiar thing was that Ayananore Kingdom's Strategist Mist and Foreign Ambassador were present in the North-frontier Kingdom. This was the most explosive news to the whole kingdom. Even John got to know about their identities later on. He was quite surprised by their positions.
John spoke as he read about Duke revealing their identities to Ealdron, ”No wonder, Duke Rose was so respectful to them. This also means that they are quite confident in their abilities as they traveled with a small team of elves. These guys didn't even bother to report me.”
John sighed and continued, ”Sigh, I guess I need to cut some slack at least.”
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In the Imperial Palace,
King Lionheart was the one who was most bewildered about after reading about this alliance. He had a face which seemed it had gone full red because of the anger after reading this news.
He roared in the Ministerial palace as he read it, ”How is it possible, How the fuck was that upstart able to forge an alliance with those stubborn elves. I need an explanation. And what is this bullshit about them trading an extensive amount of goods? Our plan will be ruined if this count is able to feed his populace.”
One of the Ministers in charge of Magic Metals named Gryphon spoke, ”There is still a chance Milord. If we attack him with numbers. We can easily occupy them. We also have those Ballista blueprints with us. And this time we can make those ballistas with our magic metals as well. Our tests were almost successful for making those ballistas with magic metal when the upper ministers agreed to you attacking count John in the previous verdict. The current results are successful. That count will be at a disadvantage when it comes to magic metal and this will be our chance.”
Gryphon was a young man with red curly hair and someone who possessed a Kingsly aura. This guy's name was Gryphon Lorr. The first son of the Lorr family.
A lot of ministers in the palace murmured, ”It seems he was always waiting for this chance. Can we really suppress this guy in the future.”
Lionheart was quite surprised as he heard Gryphon, ”hahaha, No wonder you are from Lorr family. Good news. Immediately start mass production of those Ballistas with Magic metals.