Chapter 560 Study

The Archduke Cumberlet entered the study in a rage, his face covered with dark clouds, and it was evident that he was not satisfied with the results of the discussion that had just ended, and the suppressed anger in his heart made every servant and maid who came to serve tremble, for fear that the Archduke Cumberlet would vent his temper on their heads. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, the Grand Duke of Cumberlet was not as undignified as these servants and maids imagined, and the object of his anger was naturally not these subordinates. It would be useless for the Grand Duke to vent his temper on these subordinates. He had to think carefully about how to convince the opposition in the council of the business alliance that at this difficult time, everyone should unite and work in one direction, instead of dragging everyone back and causing panic......

"Are you pissed off by those fools who don't know what to live or die again?" a faint voice sounded in the study.

Archduke Comberlet was stunned for a moment, and when he looked up, he saw a man in a black burqa standing in the corner of the study, revealing only a miserable white face, and a faint smell of bloody potions came from his body.

"Why are you here, and your body is out of the way?" asked Archduke Cumberlet with concern.

"As always, you can't die, but you can live to suffer. Many times I want to cut myself off, but I will never let go of the person who hurt me like this, even if I go to the abyss of the devil, I will drag that person to the ......" The miserable white face twitched, revealing a hideous look, gritting his teeth with determination and resentment.

"I'm sorry, Crilos, it's me who is incompetent, I haven't fulfilled my promise to you, and I can't send your enemies to you......" Archduke Cumberlet's face showed a look of helplessness and bitterness: "Judging from the current state of our business alliance, I want to fulfill my promise is already far away, and I don't even know if I can do it in my lifetime......"

The man with a pale face in a black burqa was the Marquis of Crelos, who had once led the Tempest Sword Saint to the army of the Kingdom of Antinac, he was the vice president of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce and the cousin of the Archduke of Comberlet. At that time, he volunteered to meet with His Royal Highness as an envoy of the Commercial Alliance, intending to take this opportunity to let the Storm Sword Saint hijack the king and nobles of the Kingdom of Antinac to the city of Morente, and at the same time let the forces of the Alliance launch a surprise attack when the million-strong army of the Kingdom of Antinac lost its command center, and annihilated the greatest threat to the north of the Commercial Alliance in one fell swoop.

If it weren't for Lorlist's unexpected accident, the plan of the Business Alliance would likely have come true, and the Marquis of Crelos would have become a legend in the history of the continent of Guelintea. As the saying goes, history is written by the victors, and future generations will only praise the legendary experience of the Marquis of Crelos who went into the tiger's den, his wisdom and courage, and his resourcefulness in defusing the threat of the million-strong army of the Antinac kingdom to the commercial alliance, and cleverly smashing the enemy chieftains, forcing them to go to the city of Moriente to confess their crimes. Perhaps at that time, nobles such as the Second Highness and Lorist would be portrayed as ferocious bandits......

It's a pity that no one could have imagined that Lorist, the Grand Duke of the Northlands, would be promoted to the Sword Saint, and he and the Storm Sword Saint would both lose and lose, and the Storm Sword Saint would flee for his life. None of the high-end combat guards composed of the four great swordsmen and the golden swordsmen who accompanied the Marquis of Crilos escaped, and all of them were chopped to pieces by the angry kings and nobles of the Andinac Kingdom. As for the culprit, the Marquis of Crilos was naturally obediently restrained, and he immediately turned from a future legend into a despicable villain who played tricks and tricks, and trampled on the disgrace of the peace of the nobility.

As a result of this hijacking incident and the subsequent sneak attack by the merchant alliance forces, the million-strong army of the Kingdom of Andinac was caught off guard and almost collapsed. If it weren't for the Norton family's armed Rock Legion holding the camp and blocking the continuous attack of the merchant alliance forces, the Second Highness would not even have had time to gather and reorganize the kingdom's forces and return to the battlefield. His Royal Highness, who hated the business alliance to the core, vented his anger on the Marquis of Crelos, refused to recognize his noble status, and regarded him as a liar, and used the methods of folk to deal with liars, pulled him naked, covered his body with various feathers, and tied him back to an old horse.

It's just that the methods of the Second Highness are more vicious than the folk's, and the folk deal with the liar by smearing the body with honey and then staining the feathers, although there are insect and ant bites, it can still be cleaned by soaking in water. And the Second Highness first broke the limbs of the Marquis of Crilos, then abolished his golden-level fighting spirit, and then painted his naked* body with raw lacquer, and finally glued feathers. Not to mention anything else, the lacquer alone will bring skin allergies, unbearable itching, and if you scratch it, it will cause skin ulcers, so you can imagine how resentful His Highness is at the business alliance for ignoring its peace sincerity.

The methods carried out by His Royal Highness were a great disgrace to the Marquis of Crilos. Among all the nobles of the Chamber of Commerce in the Business Alliance, he has always been known for his gentleness, personability, and talent, and he is also the dream lover of many noble ladies and ladies. But this mission was the biggest nightmare of his life, he was tied to an old horse covered with feathers and sent back, so that he got the nickname of the feathered man, so that he could no longer have a face to see people.

Not to mention the mental pain, the physical trauma made the Marquis of Crilos want to break himself many times. Broken limbs are the lightest injuries that can be recovered by drinking a few bottles of healing potions. The feathers all over his body have become a big problem, and the hair removal process alone makes his life worse than death. You must know that His Royal Highness asked people to smear him not with honey, but with raw lacquer, and after solidifying, he pulled it off with the skin, and no one could stand this pain.

By the time the feathers from the Marquis of Crelos were cleaned, he was a bloody man, and not a single piece of skin on his body was good. What was even more painful was that the toxicity and allergic nature of the lacquer began to attack, and the painful and itchy feeling penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and the Marquis of Crilos went berserk many times. And the blood on the body kept growing, which was full of pus and blood, and when I touched it, it was like a knife cut, and the pain was unbearable. The worst thing is that the pharmacist can't do anything about it, there is no way to refine the right treatment potion at all, and even uses a red-hot soldering iron to deal with the blood blisters that appear on the body, but unfortunately the treatment effect is not obvious.

Marquis Crilos's body suddenly shuddered, his black robes were shaking, and his lips were bitten out of blood. There was a pang of sorrow in the heart of the Grand Duke of Cumberlet, he knew that the itch in the Marquis of Crelos had flares up again, and now he was forcibly enduring it. And he can't go up to help, and he can't even touch it, otherwise it will only bring more pain to the Marquis of Crilos.

"I, I don't blame you......" Marquis Crilos finally spoke, this pain in his body had passed, and his face turned even paler.

"At the beginning, you advised me not to carry out that plan, saying that we could defeat the enemy with dignity, but it was because I coveted to make a peerless achievement and become a legend that people sang, that I did not measure my strength to send the envoy, so that I suffered such an end. I am to blame myself, and I can't blame others. If you want to hate me, you only hate that person, as a king, but he acts so viciously and viciously, he can cut me with a sword, and I will not complain until I die.

But he shouldn't have humiliated me like this, used such means against me, and though I failed, I was still a nobleman, and he should have hanged me instead of treating me like a liar. I am still living with humiliation and pain because I want to inflict the same revenge on him, so that he will also taste what I have endured.

Your Highness, you have indeed disappointed me, not because you failed to fulfill your promise, but because you are still in such a difficult situation, and you are still indecisive and unable to do anything......"

The Marquis of Crelos's voice was very calm, but the Grand Duke of Cumberlet couldn't help but feel a little creepy.

"What's wrong with you, Crilos, why are you talking about it all of a sudden?" asked Archduke Cumberlet, frowning. Since the Marquis of Crilos's injuries stabilized somewhat, he has been living in seclusion, unwilling to appear in front of the public. In addition to regularly coming to the study to discuss and analyze the situation of the alliance with the Archduke of Cumberlet, and to make plans, he was to recuperate in the mansion of the Archduke of Cumberlet, and he did not want to see outsiders or go out to attend any aristocratic gatherings.

For example, after the defeat of the last battle of the Merchant Alliance in the decisive battle of the city of Bruvia in the Plains of Falis Hill, the formation of ten garrisons and the establishment of a temporary defensive front were planned by the Marquis of Crilos, and the strategy of territorial merger decided by the Grand Duke of Cumberlet was also suggested by the Marquis of Crilos. At the side of Archduke Cumberlet, the Marquis of Crilos acted as a think tank and a military advisor.

"I'm here today to tell you that I'm leaving here and leaving the territory of the Chamber of Commerce. The Marquis of Crilos said very blandly.

"What, where are you going, what are you going to do?" said Archduke Cumberlet stood up at once, unable to sit still any longer.

"Hehe, it's very simple, I want to take revenge in person when I leave here, use my own hands and my mind to carry out revenge, do you think the current business alliance is still capable of helping me fulfill my wish for revenge?"

Grand Duke Cumberlet sighed and sat down again: "You can't go, and I won't let you take this risk. Your fighting spirit has not yet recovered, and your whole body is often tormented by illness. You should understand that your current body simply can't support you to go to the Imperial Capital. Your enemy is a king, and there is news that he will be crowned emperor next year. Even if you go to the imperial capital, you can't do anything about him, he is a great swordsman, and he has the tightest guard circle around him, and you can't even get close to him.

Also, how are you going to take revenge on him, assassination? The end of becoming a king killer is that the soul will fall into the abyss forever, and future generations will be cursed to die well, and they will never be able to enter the realm of the gods and will not be able to transcend. No god would overtake a king-slayer. Therefore, in our history, only kings can execute a king. And I promised you that if we win, I would hand over your enemy to you, and you could torture him, but not decide whether he lived or died. You said yes at the time......"

A cold smile appeared on the pale face of the Marquis of Crelos: "Yes, I also promised back then, I just wanted that person to experience my pain too, and I didn't expect to kill him." But I've been waiting for a few years, five years, and all I've been waiting for is the news of the defeat of our business alliance forces again and again, and now can my revenge be fulfilled?"

"Why not? As long as we work together, we can get through the current difficulties and usher in the revival of business alliances. In another twenty or thirty years, we will be able to regain our former glory, and we will once again sweep through the central and southern parts of the continent, invincible. Crillos, be patient, we still have time, and I will be able to fulfill my promise to you. Archduke Cumberlet replied firmly.

"Hehe......" Marquis Crelos laughed: "Your Highness, this is our words to fool those nobles and people of the Chamber of Commerce, don't you believe that these beautiful futures will also be realized." In fact, not only you and I know it in our hearts, but even those lost dog-like chamber of commerce nobles will not believe what you say, otherwise you would not have come back in anger just now. Obviously, are the people who had the meeting in the morning going against you again to make trouble for you and obstruct you from implementing your new economic policy?"

Archduke Cumberlet was speechless, and only after a while did he say faintly: "I sometimes do not understand that we are now facing the most difficult period of the business alliance, and it is not easy to stop the war and retain some vitality. However, several countries have implemented a monopoly system on salt, which is clearly to take advantage of our lack of salt and want to make a lot of money from us. Why should I care about a little money, but this gives an excuse to those who oppose me, thinking that it is my surrender and peace that will bring such humiliation to the business alliance, and they ask me to tear up the armistice and the agreement of understanding reached, and declare war on the kingdom of Peterson and the five countries of Zhouquan, but they don't want to think about it, do we still have the confidence to start a war with the twenty-two countries in the central and southern parts of the country again?

The most pressing problem facing us at present is to reintegrate the economy of the territories of various chambers of commerce, carry out unified development, enhance our economic and military strength, immerse ourselves in hard work to open up trade routes, and regain our market. Although we have now lost the Plains of Mana Hill and the city of Moriente, we still have that great quartz mountain. If the Kingdom of Trimber can become rich by selling glass, then we can also restore the strength of our business alliance by selling glass.

It is infuriating that I have clearly pointed out a bright way for them, but those who oppose me still dream of plundering wealth by war. It is irritating that now they are fighting against me against all policies that favor business alliances, and are fighting for power for their own interests. ”

Reaching an understanding with the Second Highness of the Kingdom of Antinac made peace with the Grand Duke of Cumberlet's prestige in various chambers of commerce. In addition, not long ago, the Peterson Kingdom and the Tickor Kingdom and other five countries announced the implementation of the salt monopoly system, which made the high-level of the various chambers of commerce of the business alliance furious, threatening to reintegrate the chamber of commerce and declare war on Peterson and other five countries, and the Grand Duke of Cumberlet finally forcibly suppressed it. But this gave the nobles of the Chamber of Commerce who opposed the peace quest a good excuse to blame, and they formed the opposition of the Archduke of Cumberlet, and resolutely resisted and opposed all the orders and policies issued by the Archduke, leaving the Archduke of Cumberlet exhausted and having a headache.

"I have long reminded you that there are too many chambers of commerce in the business alliance now, especially now that there are only four provinces left in our territory, it is difficult for the chambers of commerce that have lost their territory to share the commercial benefits from them, and the chambers of commerce that have territories resolutely refuse to let other chambers of commerce enter the territory. That's why I suggest you merge all of your chamber territories. But this in turn makes the chambers of commerce that have territories in the four provinces your opponents.

If I were you, I would raise the butcher's knife and clean up these opposing chamber leaders. Extraordinary times are very acting, and you know the situation that the business alliance is facing now, and if you let it go any longer, it is likely that the entire business alliance will separate and collapse. One hundred and eighty-six years ago, when Archduke Forde Morente announced the formation of a business alliance in the plains of the Falis Plain, there were seven of our chambers of commerce. But now you see, there are still twenty or thirty chambers of commerce, noisy all day long.

Anyway, whether you object or not this time, I'm going to leave here and head to the imperial capital. Something happened there that interested me, and maybe my revenge didn't have to happen on my own at all. Before you leave, let me carry the pot for you. You're a good person, you can't do it, so let me do these things that make it difficult for you. Afterwards, you come out to clean up and declare me a rebel, so that if something happens to me in the future, no one else will be able to find the head of the business alliance. Give me your arrows, you don't have to worry about this, let me decide for once." ”

The Marquis de Crelos departed with the Archduke of Cumberlet's command, and the Archduke of Cumberlet stared at his back for a long time, speechless, and finally let out only a long sigh......

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