Chapter 815: Negotiation
A long army of dark elves marched through the lush meadows. This is the core territory of the Rakshasa Demon, and the whole landscape is very different from the barren desert of the other world, but is overgrown with soft green plants, although the leaves of this plant are round and close to the ground, which is completely different from all the plant characteristics known to Ryan, but being in the middle of such a green world also makes Ryan feel like he is back in the Taron savannah.
Ryan, Aledia and the others sat on a platform with a large wind magic array drawn underneath it, allowing a huge platform with a radius of nearly 100 meters to float in mid-air and travel on its own under the command of the operator. Due to its huge size, such a magic item is also called a "magic guide", and the amount of magic cores it consumes per day of use is a fairly large amount, enough to bankrupt an ordinary legendary ** master, but it seems so insignificant to the dark elf lord Aledia.
Ryan sat on such a magic guide, and suddenly saw three dark elves flying in the sky in the distance, he recognized the outfit on the dark elf at the head, which was the herald in the army, who was dedicated to transmitting orders or information back and forth in the team, as for the two female dark elves wearing the robes of the ** division behind him, needless to say, they must be the bodyguards used to protect this herald.
The Dark Elf male herald soon came to the periphery of the magic guide where Ryan was located, and more than a dozen powerful breaths immediately locked on him, and the herald also landed from mid-air very cooperatively, allowing Aledia's personal guards to verify his identity, and checked him up and down, and after confirming that it was correct, several of Aledia's personal guards took him to board the magic channel.
The male herald stood on the outside of the platform and stopped walking inside, although he passed the inspection, but this person's every move was still firmly locked by a dozen powerful breaths, as long as this herald had any unruly movements, such as suddenly approaching Aledia and them, these legendary ** masters who were responsible for guarding the entire magic guide would not hesitate to shoot him on the spot.
"I've seen Lord Aledia, Lord Morik, my lords!" Although the male herald had not really seen Ryan and them, he also knew the appearance and figure of these strong men that Aledia had encircled, but they did not belong to the army system of the dark elves, so he used a general title.
"Oh, you're Biloch from General Dahni's command, and Dahni and the others must have arrived outside the city of Fetahab, have you brought us news from the front?" Molik, who was sitting at the bottom, recognized the herald and asked.
The herald didn't expect that such a small person as himself could be called by his name very familiarly by Lord Molik, and his heart was suddenly excited, but as the elite of the dark elf army, this male herald was still able to suppress the excitement in his heart, and he replied in a relatively calm tone: "Yes, Lord Molik, I came from General Dahni. Four hours earlier, General Dahni's army had arrived outside the city of Fetahab, and had quickly surrounded it, but we had seen the beggar messenger sent by the city, and General Dahni did not dare to promise anything, so he asked me to bring the news to your lordship. ”
"A beggar messenger?" Aledia spoke upon hearing the news, "Is there really a plan to surrender, or is there something else going on?" Aledia's words made it difficult for the male herald named Biloch to answer, in order to avoid suspicion, they did not contact the messengers who came to beg, but only temporarily controlled them, and then reported the news, and Aledia or Moric decided the fate of these messengers and even the entire city, Aledia asked now, he really could not give an accurate answer, if the random speculation finally affected Aledia's decision, he could not afford such a responsibility.
Luckily, Aledia didn't want to get any answer from the herald's mouth, she said this more like asking herself, only to hear Aledia continue: "Now that Fetahab has fallen, MehZulu has retreated, and Slatoad's reinforcements have been wiped out at the Three Peaks, do these guys still want to bargain with me without opening the gates and surrendering unconditionally? Or are they simply stalling for time in order to carry out another plot?"
"Lord Aledia, it's better for us to explicitly refuse their surrender, and then go straight in and wash the whole city. Morik was also very uncomfortable with what the Rakshasa Demon had done in the Three Peaks Fortress, so he made this suggestion to Aledia.
Aledia pondered for a moment, shook her head, and said, "No, after all, this is the core ruling area of the Rakshasa Demon, and since the beginning of the Millennium War, no foreign army has ever set foot here, unlike other territories that have changed hands several times. For these rakshasas, we can capture them for ransom or use them as slaves as punishment, which is nothing more than a deal for the Rakshasa who is good at business, but if we kill them on a large scale, we will anger these self-proclaimed neutral merchants, which is very unwise for us. Don't forget that even in the current state of war, we still need all kinds of supplies from these Rakshasa merchants and their chambers of commerce. ”
"In that case, let's send someone to hear what kind of conditions they want to propose?" Seeing that Aledia said this, Molik stopped insisting on his own thoughts, and asked instead, "My lord, who do you think is more appropriate to send?"
"No, you don't need to send someone. Aledia smiled and said, "General Dahni has made great achievements along the way, and has also gained my trust, so she will have full authority to dispose of this city on my behalf." Our bottom line is to take all the wealth of the whole city, and as for the buildings and inhabitants of the city, if they can pay enough extra price, we can let it go, otherwise everyone in the city will be taken away as slaves, and the city will just be a pile of ruins. ”
A moment later, the Dark Elf herald flew back in the direction he had come. Unlike when he came, the herald now carries Aledia in his arms, and for this reason he is followed by a small group of Aledia's personal guards, who will escort the herald back to General Daherni's station, and protect General Daherni who is negotiating on Aledia's behalf.
Flying in the sky for four hours in a row, at least four or five hundred kilometers can be traveled, Ryan and the others took the magic guide to travel slowly, to get through this distance is probably more than a day, this is surrounded by plain terrain, even if there is a city, it is difficult to see its outline in the distance, unless it is very close, otherwise you can only see the sky that is always gray.
Ryan and they marched slowly until the next day, and General Dahni in front sent a herald again, it seemed that the negotiations had a result, Aledia They didn't take this matter to heart, the city of Fetahab was a toy at the fingertips for the dark elves at this time, and what to do with it all depended on the mood at the moment when the order was given, but when the herald who delivered the news boarded the magic guide, Ryan suddenly found that she was General Dahni himself at all.
Aledia also noticed this, and she asked in a strange tone, "Dahni, even if the negotiation is successful, you don't need to make such a trip yourself, right?"
With a slightly angry expression on her face, she half-knelt on the magic guide and said to Aledia, "Dear Lord Aledia, I have betrayed your trust, this time the negotiations broke down, and I failed to meet your demands. ”
"The negotiations broke down?" General Dahni's words made a question sprung up in the hearts of everyone present, everyone was chatting in twos and threes, but now all the attention was on the dark elf general, everyone was curious about why this negotiation broke down, was General Daheri too reckless and offered a completely unacceptable condition to the other party, or did those Rakshasa demons have other plans, and the negotiation is just a pretense at all?
"Stand up and tell us what's going on!" Aledia's tone became serious, and under her command, the half-kneeling General Dahni straightened up from the magic guide, and was allowed to walk closer to the center of the entire magic channel, which was less than ten meters away from Aledia and the others.
General Daheni spoke, "The other party is in charge of negotiating with the chief financial officer appointed by Fetahab, who was appointed as the acting city lord when he came, and is qualified to negotiate. However, in the specific process, the conditions he put forward were difficult for me to accept, the Rakshasa was willing to pay enough for the defeat, but in any case did not allow our Dark Elf army to enter the city, and also asked us to exchange the Rakshasa captives captured in the previous war, and of course they would also pay a ransom that satisfied us. ”
"After determining that these conditions were their bottom line and that they could never be changed or changed, I refused without hesitation and immediately terminated the negotiations. Lord Aledia, in this thousand-year war against the Rakshasa demons, we dark elves are the undoubted victors, we can give enough respect to the defeated Rakshasa demons, and we can also give the necessary mercy to those captives, but all this must be done voluntarily by us, not in a passive exchange, obviously the guys in the city of Fatahab have forgotten this, so I think it is necessary to give them a lesson that will last a lifetime!"