Chapter 20 Semi-Annual Meetings (Part II)
No, if nothing else, the crux of the matter is:
Aren't you a extraordinaire of the "orderly" path? Why are you so skilled at soliciting bribes?
And what value should I bribe with?
I'm completely inexperienced!
One thought after another flashed quickly, and Glerint thought for two or three seconds, and quickly had a countermeasure:
"No, Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, I can be a 'bribe-taker' in every sense of the word, a 'bribe-taker' who can satisfy everyone."
What this means is:
Ask Darnell to declare his Extraordinary Sequence Rank as Sequence 7, and he will give a bribe that satisfies the other party.
But he was still not sophisticated enough, and added a sentence "in all senses", but he forgot that even he could hear Darnell's off-string sound, how could the other party's old fritters not understand what he meant?
Thankfully, Darnell doesn't mind the slightly blunt wording.
He was originally looking at Glerint's identity and wealth, so he deliberately gave him a hint, eager to get some benefits from him, and was almost not ready to ask for face, in order to be greedy again before leaving.
He nodded knowingly and said:
"That's good!"
"In that case, of course, I will not be stingy to give you young people a chance to exercise. Anyway, we are old, and we have no desire for power and extraordinary things, and we just want to buy some property in Beckland, buy some estates for retirement, and spend the future time with my wife and children. β
It was a beautiful remark, but it was just to tell Glerint what he wanted.
After all, he was already old, and he was about to leave his position as deputy director of the Southern Continent, and he had no intention of devoting himself to the promotion of the extraordinary way, so what he pursued was nothing more than wealth and real estate that could be used to generate wealth.
"Old thing, it looks quite serious, but it's really not soft when it's greedy, and you want to ask for a house and a land...... Didn't Russell spread the adage 'When you reach old age, your energy fails, you must quit greed'? β
After slandering the two of them with one sentence, Glerint's mind suddenly broadened:
"Oh? Is that so, Your Excellency Lieutenant General, I just happen to have a small villa in the West District that I want to sell, I wonder if you are interested in taking a look?
If you're happy with it, I can give you an 'internal price'. β
He thought of the fact that when he first came to the Southern Continent, the other party sold the "Different-Face Pocket Watch" to him for 5,000 pounds, so on the one hand, it was for bribes, and on the other hand, he may not have the idea of returning favors.
The West End villa in Glerint rents about Β£1,100 a year if you want to rent it out, although there are no famous paintings or antiques, and there are no fine bone china saucers and gold-encrusted cutlery. But it was large enough, with four floors, more than twenty rooms, and at the same time equipped with stables, servants' rooms, and so on. In addition, there lived a number of lords, barons and barons, as well as a very large number of wealthy merchants.
And it has a 56-year leasehold, so the value is roughly around Β£60,000.
Of course, it is impossible for Gleilint to bribe Darnell directly, and he doesn't have the courage to accept it directly, so Glelint's plan is to sell it to Darnell at an "internal price" discount. In this way, not only does he not need to actually pay a bribe, but he can also use it to collect a large amount of cash, and what he pays is just a villa that means little to him.
Sure enough, Darnell was very moved by this, and couldn't wait to ask:
"What kind of villa is it?"
But after listening to Glerint's account, he was embarrassed - for a very simple reason, he wanted to buy the villa very badly, but he couldn't afford so much money.
This does not mean that his total wealth is not enough, it is just that he can't scrape together so much cash.
After giving a general account of the situation of the villa, Glerint pondered it for a moment, and said with a smile:
"I can give you a 7% discount if you want, but you will have to bear the corresponding taxes."
It may sound like a discount of about 18,000 pounds, which is very exaggerated, but in fact, this account cannot be calculated in this way, because the tax on large property transactions in Rune is very heavy, and these high-priced properties are not particularly easy to sell, and sometimes Beckland may not be able to complete a similar transaction once a year.
His offer made Darnell even more excited, he had thought that Glerint would give him a few thousand pounds as a bribe at most, but he did not expect the Viscount to be so generous.
This made it even harder for him to refuse!
He groaned for more than ten seconds before he said:
"Although I have to say, I am very impressed by your proposal. But I still think we should think a little bit before we make every decision.
But no matter what, I feel your sincerity in satisfying everyone. β
Get!
Glerint nodded indispensably and responded:
"It is as it should be, and your sanity has always been admired by me."
Then, just as he was about to take his leave, Darnell added:
"By the way, are you still hungry for powerful magical items?"
What do you mean?
More than 40,000 pounds, are you going to trade magical items? It shouldn't be, this price can't reach the demigod-level items at the top, and it far exceeds the magical items at the level five of the sequence.
After a moment of doubt, he replied quickly and affirmatively:
"Of course."
After thinking for a moment, he added:
"If you have a more powerful magical item, I can make up the difference."
Darnell visibly hesitated:
"Okay, you can go to the last place to rest first, I'll think about it carefully."
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After leaving Darnell, Gleilynt couldn't help but think about "bribery".
"Obviously it is an 'arbitrator' route that symbolizes 'order', why is Darnell so skilled in soliciting bribes?"
This can't be explained simply by character, because the behavior of deviating from the core of the extraordinary path may cause the potion to backlash, or even directly make people lose control. Moreover, the Extraordinary digests the potion, and the potion also affects the personality of the Extraordinary.
Therefore, Darnell's behavior, to a certain extent, should be considered to be in line with the core of the extraordinary pathway.
He is used to working backwards from the high sequence:
"By the way, an interesting point is that whether it is the 'judge' who maintains order or the 'black emperor' who distorts order, their corresponding old days are called 'disordered' and 'shadow of order', which seems to have a negative connotation? It's not just about 'controlling the order', but also about 'disrupting the order' or at least 'the possibility of disrupting the order'?
Moreover, the name of the complete essentia in that strange space is also 'Order World', which sounds like it is simply 'controlling order'...... But its old name is 'Children of Chaos'.
What does this mean? β
As a new "Child of Chaos", Glerint certainly knows the core of this old title without a doubt:
Chaos breeds order, and order has its own shadow.
"But why? Why is order necessarily with shadows? β¦β¦ If I can completely control the 'world of order', then order can be eternal as long as I don't want to, why must it be with the shadows? β
He couldn't figure it out for a while.
However, after thinking about it, Glerlint realized something from Trenthorst's tampering with the underlying rules, that is:
Whether it is to "maintain" or "break" the rules, the purpose of the Extraordinary is always to gain power from the order.
By extension, as long as the benefits are obtained according to some rules, whether explicit or implicit, it should not violate the core of the sequential pathway.
Of course, the basis for the act of "bribery" is undoubtedly the rules behind the scenesβbut the "reasonableness" of this behavior can also be said to be based on the rules, on the rules of the dark side of society that are not allowed by the law.
"Well, 'using the rules of light or darkness' should be said to be the core of the 'lawyer' approach, and the 'black emperor' at the top level is to reverse the light and darkness, move the rules he recognizes to the open side, and play with the rules openly."
So, what does it mean to be a "bribe-taker"?
It doesn't take much thought to know the answer to this question.