Thinking of this, Roslyn only felt a cold sweat on his forehead. It's horrible. When did those simple-minded demons invent such a terrifying weapon?

"Your Highness......"

A light call pulled Roslyn back to reality from the death fantasy of a desperate roar. When he looked closely, he saw his most trusted henchman standing beside him. It was full of embarrassment that he wanted to say something.

"Say it! What's up? ”

Picked up a white towel from the table, dipped it in cold water and wiped the corners of his sweaty forehead. After a burst of coolness, Roslyn only felt that his spirits were also much more uplifted.

"There's a demon envoy from the Dano Pass. He said...... There are confidential matters that need to be discussed with His Highness. ”

"Emissary? The messenger of the demons? ”

Rosslyn was in the air. He finally understood why there was such an extremely strange look on his henchman's face.

The war between humans and demons has lasted for thousands of years. However, the term "messenger" has completely disappeared from hundreds of years ago between the two warring races. According to the Pope of Mankind, no country is allowed to negotiate privately with demons. Violators of the order should be subject to severe sanctions from the Supreme Court as adjudicators. Even if you are the king of a country, you are no exception.

The Holy See has a considerable influence among the laity. On the contrary, the monarchs of various human empires and kingdoms have turned their noses up at this call. Even, some princes and nobles even privately and unabashedly declared that they did not believe in the so-called God. The reason for this is simple: no ruler willingly gives his power to outsiders under the guise of religion.

There is nothing anyone can do to change this. The power of the Holy See is enormous. Even the most powerful human empire could not confront it. It is only perfunctory to admit the reality of the existence of the Holy See.

Roslyn also doesn't believe in God. But that doesn't mean he dares to make a private deal with the demons. Once this kind of thing is exposed, the Holy See will also have an excellent excuse to declare war on the Kingdom of Theo. Yes, humans do have a feud with demons. However, humans don't mind using the blood of their compatriots to make themselves stronger.

If it had been in normal times, Roslyn would definitely not have thought about it, so he ordered his subordinates to cut off the head of this demon. But now, he couldn't help but have a strange interest. He was eager to meet the so-called messenger, and to hear what the barbarians who occupied the other side of the Dano Pass had to say. If possible, maybe you can get a little bit of the secret of that terrible poison out of the other person's mouth...... After all, humans don't know much about demons. Even if this private conversation is known to outsiders, he can kill this demon at any time. Use his head to gag everyone's mouths.

……

When several personal officers cautiously brought people into the room through the side door. Only then did Roslyn suddenly realize that the young demon in front of him, dressed in a black cloth suit, was no less handsome than the most beautiful human youth.

He was extremely tall. At the broad shoulders, there are bare pieces of bronzed round muscles. Between the slender legs and feet and the well-proportioned lumbar muscles, there is a faint sense of powerful power that may explode at any time. Although the black hair that is scattered behind him is a little messy, it also shows a rugged beauty. And the deep eyes hidden under the arch of the high eyebrows also radiate a light full of wisdom and vitality from time to time.

"Tsk! Unfortunately, if you have a beautiful forehead pattern on the top of your head. That can definitely pretend to be the most prominent nobleman among the human race. ”

"If your forehead is as smooth and lifeless as mine, with your honor's courage, I believe that His Majesty the Demon Emperor will not hesitate to reward you with the title of a baron."

In the face of almost insulting sarcasm, Song Xiaoye also lightly returned a vicious retort. It's just that as soon as the words came out, he was pressed to the ground by several officers behind him whose faces changed suddenly.

"I like people with guts. I prefer the kind of smart people who have brains, though. ”

Roslin lifted the brocade robe embroidered with exquisite patterns on his body, slowly squatted down and sneered: "Obviously, you are a brave fellow. Unfortunately, you're not smart. For idiots like you, who have muscles but no brains, I've always just cut off their heads and gouge out the brains to feed the dogs. ”

"I thought the prince might be a little more intelligent than an ordinary soldier. Now it seems that I was wrong. Song Xiaoye, who struggled to raise his head, smiled indifferently: "An idiot like you who jumps to conclusions without knowing anything, doesn't even have the qualifications to feed dogs." ”

"Bastard! How dare you insult Your Highness! ”

One of the guards shouted angrily and slammed his fist into Song Xiaoye's right cheek. However, just at the moment when the fist wrapped in the steel gauntlet was about to hit the target. He suddenly felt a constriction in his throat. Then there was the crunch of bones breaking. His eyes were black, and he immediately fainted to the ground.

Song Xiaoye shot extremely fast. In just a few seconds, he had already twisted the four officers standing in front of him with his backhand. And he pressed down the epiglottis in front of everyone's throat.

"You, who are you?" Looking at the few guards who fainted to death on the ground, Roslyn, who looked gloomy, finally found that this demon was wearing a black iron badge on his chest.

This seems to be representative of the other person's identity. Roslyn, however, disagreed. He knew better than anyone else the strength of the guards around him. They were bronze warriors handpicked from the most elite troops. A mere black iron warrior can do this, and he won't believe it if he is killed.

"I'm the lieutenant general of the Dano Fortress."

Song Xiaoye didn't want to dwell on this issue for too long. After stepping over the guards lying on the ground, he sat down directly on the oak chair in front of the table: "Let's put it simply! I want to talk to you about a deal. ”

"Deal?"

"Not bad!" Song Xiaoye glanced at him lightly: "I want to use gold to buy enough grain from the Theo Kingdom." ”

Roslyn didn't speak. Just with a falcon-like gaze, he stared at the demon envoy in front of him with an indifferent expression. He looked so closely. Even the twitch of every muscle in the corner of the other party's eyes did not let go at all.

If it weren't for the very structured conversation that preceded it. He would definitely think that the demon sitting in front of him was an out-and-out madman.

Buying grain? The demons actually buy food from a human kingdom? This is probably the first demon in hundreds of years to dare to make such a request to humans.

Lao Tzu is really ****** lucky.

This guy is crazy enough, too.

"Hahahaha!"

Roslyn, who had been stunned for a long time, suddenly laughed. He laughed so heartily and so unscrupulously. Even, laughing so much that he bent down to hold his stomach tightly, and his eyes were squeezed into a blurred tear by this violent movement.

"Hahahaha! I, I admit, your jokes are really funny. Ha ha! However, if you want to kill me, you don't need to make up such a boring excuse before you die. Hahahaha! The demons actually buy food from humans, hahaha! You know, did you know that this is possible? Hahahaha! ”

"Why should I kill you?" Song Xiaoye shook his head and sighed: "Why do all human beings regard the demon race as an enemy? What is the deep hatred between us that cannot be resolved? Why can't we just sit down and talk like friends? ”

"Friends?"

A very strange look appeared on Roslyn's face, "You...... Do you really want to buy food? ”

Song Xiaoye did not speak. Just with the most sincere gaze, he nodded seriously.

"Alright! Tell me, how much do you want to buy? What price? Roslyn smiled and shook his head. There was a look of disbelief and contempt in his eyes.

"One hundred thousand stones. The price of grain per stone, ten gold coins. ”

"It's a good price. It is more than twice as high as the market price in the mainland. Roslyn still had the same playful tone: "How do you pay?" How do we deliver the goods? ”

"It's up to you to decide how. At the same time of delivery, the money and goods are cleared. Song Xiaoye didn't care about the other party's attitude at all. Just said slowly word by word: "However, as a sign of integrity." I can first return to you all the human corpses that died in battle today. ”

The last sentence is not loud. But to Roslyn, it had another additional meaning. Gradually, he began to put away the sneer on his face. Instead, it was replaced by unprecedented solemnity.

He suddenly realized that what this demon envoy said did not seem so ridiculous. It is very likely that the qiē that comes out of his mouth is true.

The demons are short of food. This is a fact that is well known to all countries on the continent. After each battle, the corpses of the two clans that died were all snatched back by the demons to be used as food for the winter. This is also the best evidence that it was used by the Holy See as an excuse to crusade against the barbarian aliens.

Roslyn remembers that his uncle, a prince of Theo, was killed in a war with the demons. It is said that his corpse was also chopped into pieces by the hungry demons, boiled into a thick broth, along with the soldiers who died in battle.

For the barbaric behavior of the demon race, the countries of the mainland have hated it for a long time. Laying in the ground is the greatest respect for the deceased. In particular, the bodies of the war dead must be transported back to their hometowns for solemn burial. Therefore, after this great war, in order to snatch the corpses of the dead left on the battlefield, there will always be countless relatively small encounters between the human and demon races. What makes human beings helpless is that the demons who occupy the geographical advantage can always grab the vast majority of the corpses. On the other hand, on their own side, the more people who die in battle, the greater the price they have to pay to barely get back that small number. Over time, the disputes between the two races among the human countries have also faintly become an unwritten consensus -- unless there are great nobles who have made outstanding achievements in war, the corpses of any dead will be abandoned on the battlefield and left to the demons to deal with.

Since those savage creatures like to eat people, let them eat enough.

This is really a kind of extremely helpless, but there is no way to do it.

One can imagine how shocked Roslyn, who was the third prince of the Theo Kingdom, when the words "return the corpse" came out of the mouth of a demon envoy.

That's tens of thousands of war dead! If only they could get all their bodies back...... One can imagine how high his status in the eyes of the broad masses of the people will be raised. No, not only the public, but even the stubborn old guys in the military will express their immense gratitude to themselves. Hum! Hum! Hum! With these things, it is enough to have the absolute upper hand in the competition for the throne with the two imperial brothers.

Rosslyn stood there silently. He didn't speak for a long time. Only the slightest strangeness passing from the corner of his eye from time to time could reveal the depths of his heart, which was being fiercely and rapidly calculated.

Why did Theo send troops to attack the demons? It's not about land and wealth.

Yes, the barbarians who do not have the sacred forehead stripes on their heads are indeed uncivilized. They don't know how to irrigate, and the grain they harvest every year can't even fill their stomachs. However, this does not mean that the demons are destitute. In fact, they definitely possessed much more gold than any human monarch. It is said that the Demon Emperor's palace was made entirely of gold. Even the stinking thatched huts are studded with sparkling and mesmerizing gemstones. But what's the use of that? Gold cannot be eaten for food, and precious stones cannot be used to fill the stomach. Under the premise that all human countries refuse to trade with them, the barbarian demons can only starve to death with a large amount of wealth.

Roslyn is a very smart person. He could, of course, calculate that the value of a simple commercial trade profit was obviously much higher than that of a war in which tens of thousands of people died. What's more, the purchase price offered by this demon envoy was more than twice the price of grain on the mainland. A single transaction can make a profit of hundreds of thousands of gold coins, which is beneficial to himself and Theo.

But what about the Holy See?

The black-robed priest is like a fly that penetrates everywhere. Once this kind of thing became known to them, the Holy See would have an excuse to use troops against Theo. Millions of the most elite Holy Knights, as well as kingdoms and empires that have been summoned in the name of God to get a piece of the pie in war...... It's enough to tear the whole of Theo to pieces.

Thinking of this, Roslyn's cunning eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of hesitation.

It's not that he doesn't understand the truth of "seeking wealth and danger". Yes, trading with the demons will indeed bring ruin to the Theo Kingdom. However, by the same token, trading with the demons can also allow the kingdom to obtain much-needed gold. Right and wrong, it's all in your own thoughts.

However, Roslin, who has not been able to express his position for a long time, feels that in addition to these two options, he also has another hole card in his hand that is more valuable.

"Although the demons are poor. However, out of respect for His Royal Highness, I still brought a small gift. Hopefully, you will like it. ”

Song Xiaoye, who was sitting quietly on the side, saw all the changes in the other party. Smiling, he removed a poorly handmade animal skin bag from his waist. After pulling the cord on the mouth of the bag, forcefully. Suddenly, the items contained in the loose bag also revealed its true face.

It was a human head with a lime seal on the surface, which had become slightly black and swollen. The flickering candlelight reflected on the completely rolled eyeballs, revealing a pale gray as thick as the belly of a dead fish. The coarse and hard salt grains that were smeared on the surface of the corpse in large quantities for the purpose of decomposing were condensed into patches of moldy mottled salt flowers under the mixed infiltration of dried blood and pus.

Although it had begun to decay and deform, Roslyn could still see at a glance that the owner of this head had been entrusted with the task of leading 2,500 elite troops over the Dark Mountains. The henchman who is ready to launch an attack on Dano Fortress from behind, the kingdom's one-star warlord Razina.

Sitting on the wide oak chair, Song Xiaoye, who looked indifferent, leisurely stilted Erlang's legs. He even took a bottle of wine with an attractive color from the table himself. After pulling the cork vigorously, carefully pour a little into the silver goblet in front of you. With a kind of elegance and tranquility that only nobles have, I slowly took a sip.

He was waiting for Roslyn to speak.

To be exact, it should be waiting for the three princes of the Theo Kingdom to be prepared to accept the secret deal they proposed.

"Plan and then act" is an extremely famous ancient saying in alien civilizations.

If it is said that the attack on Dano Fortress launched by the Theo Kingdom is an important opportunity for Song Xiaoye's life. Then, on the way to reinforcements, they encountered a sneak attack led by Razina and poisoned them all. It is on the invisible balance of "luck" that a weight is added that is neither big nor small, but has another meaning.

War always kills people. Even if the tens of thousands of troops under his command are all defeated. As the prince, Roslin didn't even blink an eyelid. However, when the absolutely derogatory term "defeated" is associated with things like "gold" and "heroes", and the ability to bring back the bodies of tens of thousands of war dead. Even if a completely lost battle is, it can add countless dazzling and attractive beautiful halos to the loser.

Song Xiaoye could see that Roslyn had already been tempted by the secret deal he proposed. If there is still a little bit of hesitation in the other party's heart, which is not very strong. It comes from two parts.

One of them: the Holy See.

The second is the human wonder soldier who secretly crossed the dark mountain range, and then encountered in the valley, and was poisoned by himself.

In Song Xiaoye's opinion, His Royal Highness, the prince of the Theo Kingdom in front of him, has a terrifying ambition that has swelled dramatically under the influence of power and desire.

The power of the Holy See is indeed enormous. But in the eyes of the truly ambitious, this external threat is only a superficial thing. Rather than the crises that may be encountered in the future, the schemers are more interested in the reality of the present. Therefore, as long as the amount of gold in his hands is large enough and heavy enough, he can completely offset the position that the Holy See occupies in the depths of Roslyn's heart. As for the rest...... The human head on the table will be more effective than any persuasion. Bright aura.

Song Xiaoye could see that Roslyn had already been tempted by the secret deal he proposed. If there is still a little bit of hesitation in the other party's heart, which is not very strong. It comes from two parts.

One of them: the Holy See.

The second is the human wonder soldier who secretly crossed the dark mountain range, and then encountered in the valley, and was poisoned by himself.

In Song Xiaoye's opinion, His Royal Highness, the prince of the Theo Kingdom in front of him, has a terrifying ambition that has swelled dramatically under the influence of power and desire.

The power of the Holy See is indeed enormous. But in the eyes of the truly ambitious, this external threat is only a superficial thing. Rather than the crises that may be encountered in the future, the schemers are more interested in the reality of the present. Therefore, as long as the amount of gold in his hands is large enough and heavy enough, he can completely offset the position that the Holy See occupies in the depths of Roslyn's heart. As for the rest...... The human head on the table will be more effective than any persuasion.