Chapter 938 (1/2)

”I'm very sorry, this is the result of my poor supervision; i... I didn't expect this to happen.”

With a heavy sigh, corona frowned and said, ”by the time I deal with it, things are beyond the control of the free Parliament.”

”It's not your fault, master corona.” Loren shook his head and interrupted the old man's remorse. ”If the Military Secretary hadn't withdrawn the imperial legion, these mercenaries wouldn't dare to rebel at all; no one could expect such an emergency.”

He and corona are alone in the empty free Parliament at the moment.

After hearing that eboden was about to be invaded by overseas enemies, one-third of the nobles had begun to flee, one-third were hiding at home, and the remaining one-third were arranged to fill the vacant posts and positions of the two-thirds, so there was no room for the meeting.

After communicating with corona, Loren finally made things clear.

First, corona, who rushed back to eboden City, issued the mobilization order for the all-round war of Conrad I through the freedom parliament, which caused a frenzy of citizens fleeing, and many rich and noble people fled the city like crazy.

Corona chose acquiescence for a reason similar to Laurent's idea at that time - the probability of eboden being able to hold is too low to drag the whole city to death.

However, this chaos made the three mercenaries in the city see some hope of ”making a big fortune”.

First, they falsely agreed to the employment conditions of the free parliament, and controlled several key fortresses and urban areas in the name of ”maintaining order in the city”; Then, when preparing for the handover, he suddenly sat down and raised the price, doubling the Commission.

Cash, and don't accept credit and substitutes!

At this time, the three mercenary regiments had united and controlled most of the fortresses and urban defense facilities in the city. A very small number of urban defense troops were disarmed and driven out without defense, or turned into corpses in resistance.

That's when things changed.

But it's too late to deal with it.

A large number of businessmen fled and could not take away their shops and goods, but they would certainly take away real gold and silver, or even lose money and sell everything that could be sold; As a result, there are abundant supplies in the warehouses in eboden, but the storage of gold and silver is very small, which is not enough to pay the amount demanded by the mercenaries.

Therefore, although Loren has been comforting corona; But both of them knew that this was the result of corona's misjudgment... At least, he had to bear most of the responsibility.

Corona is a wizard. He is not a politician and businessman like the Bellini family; Even if he became the consul of eboden, he could not change the fact that he was a wizard; This means that when he thinks about a problem, he must first weigh the pros and cons of a thing from the perspective of a wizard.

Therefore, he could not control the mercenaries of eboden like the Bellini family. The direct result was that the uncontrolled mercenaries expanded rapidly and could not be easily contained.

In other words, when the Bellini family, which controls trade and the aristocracy in the city and holds military power, fell, and the leader of the wizard tower became the consul, in a sense, this situation today is doomed.

While they were talking, the door of the parliament hall was opened. Lucian, with a cold face, escorted three people into the hall, surrounded by five demon hunters on both sides.

Three people with different expressions.

One is ferocious, the other is sinister, and the other is smiling, unaware of it.

The three of them sat down on the chairs roughly pressed by Lucian and the demon hunter.

”Well... Can I have a drink?” the smiling mercenary leader pointed behind him and looked curiously at the black haired Wizard: ”I was suddenly awakened early in the morning and greeted by this little brother so warmly. I'm really thirsty.”

”Yes, but not now.” Lauren slightly raised his mouth. ”According to Byrne's rules, the negotiating parties can raise a glass only when they shake hands and make peace.”

”That's good! That means you're not going to be polite to us; the consul of corona is here, and you mentioned Byrne's rules, so... You're the Duke of Turin of Byrne.” giggling, the mercenary leader stared at Lauren:

”Well, according to the rules of the Empire, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is... Hey, forget it. You probably don't want to know the name of a little bastard like me. Just call me 'poisonous snake' - the weakest of the three mercenary regiments. The guys you taught at the gate are my people! Ha ha!”

”The guy next to me, who looks like a bad guy, is the boss of black blade. He also started the trouble this time... Well, I'm not the first one anyway!”

The ferocious ”black blade” commander snorted coldly, gnashing his teeth.

”And this one is not easy to provoke at first sight. He is the leader of silver blood. His strength is the strongest among us, and he is also the best of the three of us - anyway, I can't fight!”

The narrowed ”silver blood” did not move, and the wolf's eyes stared at Lauren.

After all, the two sides know each other.

”Well, after the polite talk, let's start discussing business.” master corona, standing between the two groups, clapped his hands and slowly opened his mouth: ”we should all know the purpose of the three here; we emptied the free Parliament today, hoping to reach an agreement privately...”

”We have only one condition.”

The ”silver blood” sitting in the middle of the three only stared at Loren and said coldly, ”let's fight, but we have to pay twice the Commission.”

”Otherwise?” asked Loren.

”Otherwise, we will always occupy the port and fortress of eboden, and then give the city to the Azores when they arrive!” the grinning ”black blade” stared at the black haired wizard with a fierce expression:

”Either city or money... Duke, please choose one!”

But Loren just shook his head and looked at the three of them strangely.

”I said... You don't think Azores are a very easy race to deal with?”

”Well, even if you succeed in reaching an agreement with them, what's next? Are you going to leave the city or be loyal to the Azores? I've dealt with them. You don't have to think about the latter. It's impossible.”

”As for the former... I can guarantee that as long as you leave the front foot, the Legion of the rear foot empire will arrive - even if you don't recapture eboden, the Empire will do its best to eliminate you traitors.”

”That's our business. You don't have to worry about us!”

Black blade sneered, ”you'd better think about yourself first, Duke - how will your majesty punish you for losing eboden before the elves come?”

”So you're going to fight to the end?”

”Oh, you just found out!”