Chapter 380: Negotiating with the King

Based on the meaning of the Great Elder, the difference between the establishment of the Klan Kingdom and the Shengrui Kingdom should not exceed 100 years. However, according to the historical records of the Crane Kingdom, the Crane Kingdom was established more than 1,000 years after the end of the Battle of Buler, but the history books clearly record that the Battle of Buler began in the autumn of 2000 and ended in the spring of 2002 in the Plain Period.

"May I ask the Great Elder, can you tell me the exact time in the city of the Lower Crane Kingdom?" Zeng Jun asked.

"Canghuang Ji 3045, this should be recorded in your history books, don't you cultivators care about history?" The other party was confused by Zeng Jun's question again.

"Then it's strange, why is it that the Klan Kingdom was founded 999 years later than the Shengrui Kingdom, but it has been passed down to the twelfth generation by now?"

"Haha, it turns out that you are entangled in this, I think you are mistaken, the time when the Klan Kingdom was established is indeed 3045 years old, but as early as before the establishment of the Klan Kingdom, in 2003, the head of the Klan mercenary group, Fabia I, established the Fabia Empire, which is the predecessor of the Klan Kingdom, at that time, the territory of the Fabia Empire was only half of the current Klan Kingdom, and then gradually recovered the entire territory of the former Waitrell Empire before it was officially renamed the Klan Kingdom." The Great Elder explained just now.

Before the Kingdom of Klan, there was another country controlled by the Klan Mercenary Group, the Fabia Empire, and this country has existed for more than a thousand years, and it is said that the existence of the Fabia Empire is also a symbol of honor belonging to the Klan Mercenary Group and the Fabia family, but why did the history books of the Klan Kingdom deliberately ignore this history, and if what the Great Elder of the Shengrui Kingdom said is true, then the Fabia Empire did not establish a new regime in just about a year after the end of the Battle of Breel.

This doesn't seem to be quite reasonable, it stands to reason that after a major war is over, the warring parties must be greatly injured, and it is difficult to recover without more than ten or twenty years of recuperation, and it is generally not a large-scale war again before the recovery of vitality, but the Klan mercenary group was able to recapture part of Waitreil's territory after a year. After such an analysis, Zeng Jun immediately felt that there must be something greasy in the middle.

"Excuse me, Honorable Elder Murphy, did the Crane Mercenary Regiment participate in Blair's General Battle at that time?" Zeng Jun continued to ask. If the Klan Mercenary Regiment had participated in that battle at the time, then it would not be justified in any way, and if they did not participate, the reasons for this are very worthy of investigation.

"It is said that there are participants, but we don't know the specifics, at that time, the entire Luming Empire was fighting hard against another army of the undead from hell, so except for the Great Sword Master of Gru who went to the battlefield because he had to perform other tasks, no one else went, so there is a lack of first-hand information about that war in our database, and all the introductions about that war in the royal library inherited from the Luming Empire of the Shengrui Kingdom were compiled with reference to the history books of other countries, and we don't know how much of its authenticity, But the timing of the outbreak and end of the war should not be wrong. Grand Elder Murphy replied.

"Dear adventurer, your questions seem to be a bit too much, can we not talk about these irrelevant questions, we invited you here for the relics left by the Great Sword Master of Gru, I think you should be clear about this." After waiting for so long, Zeng Jun has not yet entered the main topic, Luther XI finally couldn't hold his breath, in fact, he didn't know that Zeng Jun had entered his main topic from the moment he came in.

"Well, can anyone tell me the reason why Grand Swordsman Gru went to Brell alone." Zeng Jun asked.

"This, I think Marquis Harbor has already told you just now, this is a state secret belonging to the Shengrui Kingdom, and we are inconvenient to disclose." Luther XI replied.

"So, what else are you talking to me about? My time is precious, and if you are not sincere, let me go as soon as possible, or the Lord God will not forgive you for imprisoning a law-abiding citizen. "In order to get out, Zeng Jun moved out the main gods.

"Don't say that, young man, when will we imprison you, don't you see that you are not very free now? We invited you just to negotiate a deal with you. Luther XI said.

Zeng Jun said impatiently: "I have already said that unless you tell me the reason why Gru went to Blair, there will be no way to talk about the transaction between us. ”

"This is absolutely not going to work, we can promise you any conditions other than this." Luther XI said.

"Well, if you can give me 5 billion gold coins, I can consider giving you Gru's stuff." Zeng Jun opened his mouth.

"It can't be! According to the rules of the Lord God, I can give you a maximum of 50,000 gold coins, and it is impossible to have more. Luther XI almost jumped from his throne.

"Let me ask you a question, you say that it is a state secret and cannot answer, and when you ask you for money, you say that the Lord God does not allow it, so what can you give us?"

An adventurer talked to the king like this, Luther XI was so good that he didn't show any displeasure, but the ten elders around him and the swordsman who brought Zeng Jun in had already had a crooked nose, but now that they had to ask Zeng Jun, they could only endure it.

"In addition to the relics of the Great Sword Master of Gru, we also want to know some information related to it, of course, if you are willing to cooperate with us, I will give you a reward equal to the value of what you provided, as for the specific reward, I am still uncertain, it depends on the value of the other information you provide." Luther XI said with a kind expression.

"You cheat me, if you don't give you a reward after I give you everything and tell you everything you want to know, I'll bite you?" Zeng Jun felt cheated as soon as he heard the conditions proposed by the other party.

Luther XI shook his head and said, "The Lord God will not allow us to deceive any adventurer. ”

The main god in Luther XI's mouth should refer to the pale yellow server, Zeng Jun thought about it for a while, the server master should not encourage NPCs to deceive players, otherwise the whole world is full of deception, and everyone should stop playing.

"Tell me, what do you want to know?" Zeng Jun asked expressionlessly.

"We need to know how you got that shield and that armor, and the more detailed you are, the better, because it will be related to how generous you will be rewarded in the end." Luther XI was a good guide.

Zeng Jun then led Gru's last wish mission on how to find a finger bone, and in the process of completing the task, he obtained another task item, Susanna's thoughts, and finally under the guidance of Susanna's thoughts, he overcame many difficulties to find Gru's shield step by step. Finally, when it came to the fact that Gru's cuirass had been snatched from other adventurers, Luther XI and the Ten Elders were obviously a little disappointed, but judging from their subsequent reactions, the information provided by Zeng Jun had been very helpful to them.

"It's strange, it is said that with the strength of the Great Sword Master of Gru back then, after entering Spartwood, unless he encounters a master at the level of the Undead Emperor, he should be able to escape even if he is defeated, and at that time, it was said that several of the Great Undead Emperors were in the Brell Prairie, who else had the ability to kill Mr. Gru and resurrect him as an undead?" After listening to Zeng Jun's statement, one of the elders muttered to himself.

"Respected adventurer, can you show me that shield?" Elder Murphy asked.

"I can't." Zeng Jun suddenly felt that these people were eager to find Gru's relics because they were afraid of any evidence of collusion with the undead in the back then, and they were eager to destroy the corpse, so he refused the other party's request.

"So, can you tell me what's so special about that shield?"

Zeng Jun thought to himself, it doesn't matter if I tell you, maybe I can take the opportunity to ask for more rewards when you are in a hurry, and if there is a system god looking at you, you shouldn't be destroyed with me, right? Then he replied, "On the back of the shield there is a line of words: It is him, why?" ”

"Who is he?" Several people, including Luther XI, asked in unison.

Zeng Jun stuck out his tongue: "How do I know, if I knew, I would still use it to beg you." ”

However, the other party's question overturned Zeng Jun's previous speculation, Gru should not have been used as a messenger to go to the Netherworld Abyss to contact the undead high-level and secretly unite, otherwise it would be impossible for them to guess who the murderer was after knowing the location of the accident.

"Could it be that some of the rumors that the Luming Empire received back then were true." One of the elders muttered to himself.

"Rumors?" Zeng Jun rushed to the front of the elder and asked eagerly.

The elder was speechless, and hurriedly denied that he had just said such a thing.

The rulers of the Shengrui Kingdom insisted on refusing to inform Gru of the reason for going to Blier, and Zeng Jun resolutely refused to hand over Gru's shield and cuirass to the other party, and the two sides were at a stalemate.

Half an hour later, a system bell came - "Ding~!" ”

System Prompt: If you insist on not handing over the quest items to the rulers of the Shengrui Kingdom, you can only get 25% of the reward. Immediately, an option dialog appeared in front of Zeng Jun, and the rewards available on it were worse than those given by Harbor when he was in the library. The mystery of the knight and the skill upgrade book are gone, and after some entanglement, Zeng Jun chose the best pet of the meat shield type for Yu Yang - the ground-level boss-level pet panda baby, a pet with a growth type of qi and blood defense, with a [Blood Rite] skill, losing half of his own qi and blood to recover the same amount of mana for the master.

As compensation, Zeng Jun, Bing Lan and all other team members who participated in the mission received a certain amount of experience and reputation rewards according to the size of their contribution to the mission. After automatically obtaining the experience reward, Zeng Jun was promoted to 99 level by one level, and his desire to save experience to upgrade his career level was once again frustrated.

"Why, the task is completed like this, why is there so little experience rewarded, not even half an item?" Bing Lan and the others obviously received the experience reward at the same time, and they were a little surprised to send a message to Zeng Jun to ask.

Just when Zeng Jun was annoyed by the drastic reduction in the rewards he received, he didn't know that because of his insistence just now, he had invisibly avoided a regime change in the city of Babel.