Chapter 72: At the Negotiating Table (Part II)
To put it bluntly, it is to offer to buy each other, and if the three of them work together, it will naturally be of no use.
However, these three people are not an unbreakable alliance in the first place, in fact, they all show some signs of self-defeating.
Luo Ming doesn't think that he is a vertical and horizontal family who can control the situation in the world by relying on his incorruptible tongue, but if there is a problem in the first place, then he only needs to point out the problem and then make this crack widen.
Luo Ming didn't tease them again, but handed them three notes each.
After a person reads the note, Luo Ming blows a spark from his finger, quickly turning the note into ashes, and then passes the next note to the next person...... This ensures that no one can see the contents of someone else's note.
By the way, he also used this mysterious ability to make fires to further deter them.
When all this was done, the three of them had different expressions, and the people on Sherlock's side, no matter which one of them, showed a look of sudden realization.
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The negotiations finally came to an end when almost no agreement was reached.
Next, the two sides prepare their troops and horses, and only after a head-to-head battle can the winner be determined.
The number of soldiers on the three brothers' side was small, but they had a castle to lean on. By sticking to it, you may be able to delay it for a long time.
In this way, outsiders will come to mediate, such as the lords of neighboring regions.
If this were the case, Sherlock would still have a good chance of inheriting the barony's title, but a large part of the territory, including the castle, would be forcibly given to the other side, and then a truce would be signed under the watchful eye of the mediator.
In this way, it has also caused a substantial division of the territory, and after the armistice period has passed, the other side has made more defensive preparations and recruited troops, and there may be no way to unify the territory in a generation.
The mediator can take a profit from it and split Miana into two pieces, which is equivalent to weakening the power of the place, falling into internal strife, and there is no way to expand or make profits at will, which is better for the lords of the neighboring regions.
Of course, it is also possible to hope that the church will send an investigation team to kill and take away the guy who colluded with the cultists, and the other party's camp will naturally be in chaos, but how long will it take? A few days, or a week or two? It is impossible to say for sure.
In fact, being an ally with "those who collude with cultists" was a felony ten years ago, but today it is not enough to deal a fatal blow to the other side.
The strength of the church is certainly strong, but it is already very laborious to fight against the cultists, and if we carry out a large-scale attack on those who are suspected, we can only maintain it for a while at most at a critical moment, and it cannot last.
Otherwise, day after day, it will essentially become another calamity in addition to the cult, and finally cut itself off from the people – especially from the aristocracy that occupies the ruling class.
After all, there are more than single digits of righteous gods recognized by the public, and if a certain god's church becomes unpopular in a certain place, then the church of other gods is likely to successfully infiltrate, or even slowly occupy the local advantage, evolve peacefully, and crush the original church.
The three brothers mounted their horses and charged towards the castle surrounded by a group of mercenaries and privates—the other of whom would most likely try to hunt them down. Although Shalim carried a self-detonating object like a holy warrior, the explosion also had a limit.
Although the explosion power of the oversaturated Magic Reservoir Crystal was not bad, even a sword master within three or four meters was likely to be killed. But this is not a professional military weapon after all, there are no anti-personnel fragments. If you don't bear the shock wave of the explosion at close range, you probably won't be injured much, and if you are twenty or thirty meters apart, then you can only be pushed by the wind - and the chance of being shot by a bow and arrow from twenty or thirty meters away is not small. If the other party shoots Shalim to death with an arrow from a distance, even if the explosion happens, it will be meaningless, and even the rest of the people on this side will be wiped out.
They did guess it, but it was Lormine and Grant who caught up. The short-distance explosiveness of the two will not be lost to the horses.
"Delay them with arrows!"
Before the order of the leader was finished, the mercenaries had already consciously done so.
Six arrows shot straight at the two of them, and compared to the stray arrows that fell from the sky, the speed and accuracy of this straight forward were much higher, and it was difficult to deal with.
However, don't forget that Grandi is a swordsman, she doesn't need to waste her strength to quickly swing her sword to shoot down the six arrows one by one, she only needs to cover her whole body with a layer of fighting energy, and with the armor she wears inside, she can directly rush over - and collide with the arrows!
The metal arrows twisted and deformed, and the wooden poles simply snapped, the sawdust scattered, and the arrows disintegrated in mid-air, as if they had hit a steel plate!
Although the momentum of the forward rush was hindered by the kinetic energy of the six arrows, Granty's body was unharmed, and the arrows could not break through her defenses at all, and even if they were lucky enough to penetrate the fighting energy, they would be bounced off by the chain mail inside.
Almost at the same time, Lormin rushed past her.
As for bows and arrows, although he also dabbled a little, he did not dare to guarantee that his archery skills were superb. Rather than the uncertain bow and arrow, he hoped to use the sword to quickly solve the problem and escape from the explosives, but the reality was that he didn't have that much strength to maintain the state of body and sword unity for a long time.
The bow and arrow are unreliable, the body and sword are not enough time to unite, and there is only one option left - throwing weapons.
The sword that Hendrik had given him was still in its sheath, and another long sword appeared in his hand.
The mercenaries raised their shields and crossed their spears and swords to form a solid line of defense, hiding the figures of the three brothers behind them as much as possible, and slowly retreated.
The way they coped in silence, and their will to fight even if they knew they were invincible, really made people feel pressured.
However, he was not alone.
"Granty!"
Login called her name, and then, help arrived.
She unsheathed her ironwood and bronze sword and threw it at the mercenaries' lines.
It doesn't open the shield of the dimensional fault, it doesn't heal pain, it's just an ordinary scabbard.
But in the hands of a swordsman, even if it is tens of meters away, it can defeat ordinary people!