"The Red Knight is too deceitful." The Lord of Shadows said angrily, "Could it be that she really wants to provoke an all-out divine war, and I really think I can't do it if I'm afraid of her?" ”

Bravado.

This is the evaluation that rises in the hearts of Gavin and Catherine at the same time.

The really ruthless people will never shout blindly here, and they will have issued an oracle early and started a full-scale war.

"This war is commanded by General Gavin, and it is his own strength that is used, and Madam has not made a move from beginning to end, so naturally he should talk to you, not Madame." Catherine's answer made the Lord of Shadows choke for a long time without replying.

Because the meaning of the other party's words is obvious, if you want the strategy lady to come out and talk to you, you can.

You force the lady out yourself.

If he had cards available, he would have used them a long time ago, and he wouldn't have waited until now.

The Lord of Shadows' gaze turned to Gavin again, and said with a look of re-acquaintance with him: "I didn't expect General Gavin to be so heavy, you can really represent the strategy lady with full powers?" ”

Musk is indeed bluffing.

He's trying to do it, but in fact, the attention has been on Gavin.

Not only observing his micro-expressions, but even paying attention to his soul fluctuations.

I want to gather information that is beneficial to me, so that it will be easier for the next negotiations.

It's a pity that this time he ran into an opponent.

The other party behaved perfectly from the inside out, not the indifference of the robot, but the wisdom of the pearl, as if he had anticipated what he wanted to do.

This is the look he hates the most, because once he sees this look, it means that his conspiracy and calculations are about to fail.

"It depends on what Your Excellency the Lord of Shadows is talking about, if it is simply on the ground, I think I can call the shots for the most part, if it is said about the upper plane, I can't do anything." Gavin's answer was watertight.

It does not give the other party the opportunity to provoke his relationship with the strategy lady, but also indicates that he has enough decision-making power.

"I'm not going to bother with you today." Musk put on a benevolent and generous appearance and said, "I am not to blame for returning the shadow divinity and the shadow nest, and the two sides will stop fighting and no longer carry out meaningless attacks and assassinations." ”

"Haha......" Gavin burst out laughing, as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke.

Musk watched coldly and didn't ask him why he was laughing, he was just laughing at himself.

Seeing that the other party didn't talk, Gavin could only restrain his smile and said: "Your Excellency is really joking, in this world, how can there be a reason to vomit out something that is eaten in your stomach?"

This is your core doctrine.

This is our loot, and there is no possibility of returning it unless you can exchange it for something of equal value.

If that aside, I agree with the truce, but with one more addition. ”

The Lord of Shadows was speechless.

This is a typical spear against one's own shield.

Although the other party's statement is vulgar, it is indeed his core doctrine, and only in this way can they openly and openly take the stolen and deceived property for themselves.

If you deny the other person's statement, you are denying your own core doctrine.

The consequences of this are far greater than the benefits you have lost.

This opponent is more difficult than most of the opponents he has faced in the past.

"You may keep your loot, but I will also reserve the right to reclaim the Shadow Divinity by force, and the armistice will be automatically destroyed when you try to condense the Shadow Godhead with the Shadow Divinity." The Lord of Shadows threw his own bottom line.

He could acquiesce to Gavin's possession of the Shadow Divinity, but he would never allow anyone to condense the Shadow Godhead.

In this world, there are not a few who hold shadow divinity, and some powerful shadow creatures may breed shadow divinity in their bodies, after all, the difficulty of divinity breeding is not particularly high, as long as the corresponding criteria are met.

But if the divinity is used to condense the Godhead, then there are two natures.

This is something that all gods are extremely afraid of, and they will not sit idly by and watch the same godhead appear.

"It's nature." Gavin promised without hesitation.

Not only because he didn't have the heart to peep into the shadow priesthood for the time being, but also because he knew that these priesthoods, which originally had masters, were not so easy to seize.

These gods already have prior sovereignty, as long as the same godhead appears within the scope of their godhead, they will be the first to sense it, and they can even roughly sense the location of the godhead.

Strangling these challengers in the cradle is the choice of most gods, unless there are other arrangements or conspiracies.

For the same godhead owner, both parties will automatically enter a state of divine war, and many divine laws will no longer apply to them until the true ownership of the priesthood is confirmed again.

So far, in the history of the gods of Faeren, there has not been a single mortal who has successfully usurped the priesthood.

Ciric, Midnight's gods, that is not a usurpation of the priesthood, but a promotion, from the divine will of the god Io, it is a reshuffle of the power of the Faren god system.

The rest of the gods are either new priesthoods and new gods that follow the development of the world and keep pace with the times, such as the Lady of Strategy.

Either the previous god himself had a problem, seriously neglected his duties, or was eliminated by history, and was replaced by a new god.

Either that, the priesthood between the gods usurped each other.

In addition, the shadow priesthood also has a reporter - Shar, the goddess of the night.

Night and Shadow are closely linked, and Shar has always wanted to bring the Shadow Priesthood under her control, and her Shadow Demon Network has shown signs of this.

The Lord of Shadows dared not speak out in anger.

Not only because the other party is his mother, but also because the other party is far stronger than him.

If a divine war breaks out for the Shadow Priesthood, the Goddess of Darkness will definitely get involved.

For a short time, Gavin didn't want to get involved with this difficult master and get her attention.

"Then tell me about your conditions." Musk's first premise is not so much a condition as a warning.

In the end, it still relies on its own strength, and when the other party really condenses the shadow godhead, it means that it is ready for divine war.

After this series of conflicts, the Lord of Shadows has a clearer understanding of Lady Scheming and her followers.

They are different from their previous enemies, they are better at planning, and many things are interlinked.

Such an enemy must be treated more cautiously, otherwise it is easy to suffer big losses.

"Exchange souls, one-on-one exchange of souls of believers on both sides." Gavin was not referring to ordinary souls, of course, but to the stratagemic sacrifices of those assassinated by the Shadow Assassins.

Their souls may have been imprisoned by the shadow assassins using secret methods, or they may have been stolen into the kingdom of the Lord of Shadows.

Gavin believes the latter is more likely.

Since the soul can be plundered, it can naturally be stolen.

"One to three, if you want to, you can change, if you don't want to, forget it, anyway, I'm not bad for this soul." The Lord of Shadows, the Lion, opened his mouth.

He saw that the strategy lady was in the early stage of development, and the number of exclusive sacrifices and priests was small, and the importance was far higher than his own.

"It's decided, one to three, the same life dice exchange." This time, Gavin didn't bargain with the Lord of Shadows.

It wasn't just the exclusive sacrifice of three hundred strategist ladies, but also three hundred excellent mid- and low-level commanders.

And those shadow assassins in the Vizeme Manor, their movements are restricted, and they can't play the role of gathering intelligence that they are best at, and it is better to exchange them for being more useful to themselves.

Moreover, these shadow assassins had been in their own Vizeme manor, and had been forced to fight for Gavin before, and whether they would be able to gain the trust and reuse of their own organization after their return was another matter.

Gavin exterminated far more shadow thieves than they had assassinated.

Even if all the exclusive sacrificial souls were exchanged, Gavin still had a lot of money left in his hands.

"In the matter of soul exchange, someone will take the initiative to find you, I hope you can keep the agreement." Musk's incarnation of divinity began to fade gradually, and finally turned into a cloud of shadows that melted into the surrounding shadows and disappeared.

His current activity time was all obtained by the deity at the risk of being bitten by the Chaos Demon Dog, and he tried to solve it as quickly as possible.

After seeing the Shadow Lord Divine Incarnate leave, Gavin and Catherine retreated directly into the Dream Shield.

Although the armistice agreement between the two sides is a verbal agreement, it is still relatively reliable when both sides are afraid of it, unless it is certain that there is a real possibility of completely destroying the other side.

The war in the Shadow Nest is almost over, and there are no living Shadow Assassins in sight.

The relief of the Vizeme Manor has launched a full-scale erosion of the Shadow Nest.

It can directly erode and transform those finished buildings with the power of shadows, turning them into a part of itself.

Unlike in the past, this time it is not as simple as transformation, but devouring it outright.

Vizeme Manor is upgrading itself with buildings converted from the Shadow Nest.

The beginnings of the Vizeme estate were not very high, it was just a family estate established by a merchant aristocracy, and the main body was a three-story main building.

Although Gavin expanded it later, it mainly stayed below the surface, and there was little change above.

Wait until there is the Tower of Domination of Misnoel, and the two can be connected.

Even the underground expansion has been terminated, and most of the ancillary functions such as the Phantom Factory and the Phantom Warehouse have been transferred.

The main role of Vizeme Estate is now to serve as a carrier of immortal divinity, plus to make ghost wines.

The latter function has also been diminished by the opening of ghost wineries in other regions.

The Shadow Nest is a true castle, covering an area more than ten times larger than the Vizeme Manor, and the number of buildings is not comparable to it, enough to accommodate three or four thousand people living here at the same time.

The Vizeme estate is typical of small swallows of the big.

However, it is at ease, because it not only has immortal divinity, but also a large number of shadow divinities, and its carrying capacity is not the same as it was in the beginning.

Without the resistance of the Shadow City Defense Locks controlled by the Shadow Masters, the speed at which the Shadow Nest was devoured by the Vesemme Manor was astonishingly fast.

The Shadow Nest itself is imbued with the power of the shadows, and the Vizeme Manor can now take over directly with its own power.

By the time the Shadow Nest was devoured, the entire Vizeme Manor had not changed much, at best, the main building of the Manor had changed from three floors to five floors.

But if you can see its shadow, you will find a real difference, and it is a castle.

The Vizeme Manor has become a multi-structure, with an additional layer of shadow castle in addition to the underground.

"Hiss ......"

Rao is Gavin and Catherine, both of whom have seen the world, and they can't help but gasp at this time, they are now in the treasure trove of the Shadow Nest that has been transformed into a Shadow Castle.

"Are these shadow thieves dragons? How do you hoard so much gold in your own treasure trove? ”

"The world says that the wealth of the church of the Lord of Thieves is second only to that of the goddess of wealth, Wokin, and I originally thought it was a rumor, but now it seems that the rumors are all kept, how much gold is here? Million? Or 100 million? ”

"Eight thousand three million two hundred and twenty-one thousand, the account books of the treasury, the records are clear, and even the various currencies are clearly recorded, this should be the people's fat and ointment they have looted from the city of Typhram over the years, and now all of them belong to us."

The treasure in the Shadow Nest Treasure Vault is terrifying.

There are no gems, diamonds, no magical weaponry, only currency.

There are many different types of these currencies, ranging from magic gold coins from Serre to Dana (gold coins) from the South, as well as Drogen from Waterdeep, Golden Lion from Cormier, and Nubo from Sambia.

However, the largest number is still gold brick bars, both of which are standard weights, the former is a piece of ten kilograms, and the latter is a piece of one kilogram.

Although whether it is the iron ore assembly line in Colossus City, or the army gift package given to Gavin by the Kingdom of Lesserman, it is far more than the value of this treasure trove.

But those are fixed assets, and they are far less shocking than the piles of gold coins piled up here.

Fyodor replied respectfully on the side: "Shadow energy is very corrosive, whether it is magic equipment or various spell casting materials, if it is stored here for a long time.

They will inevitably be eroded by shadow energy, slowly giving them shadow properties, which will certainly enhance the shadow effect, but similarly, if exposed to sunlight, they will also be suppressed.

As a result, the Shadow Masters Guild has another treasure vault on the material plane, and there is more than one, and they don't keep all of their treasures in one place.

Only gold is not afraid of the erosion of shadow energy, but will make it more pure, more sought after and loved by the world.

The vaults of the Shadownest were mainly prepared for Far Eastern trade.

Although the Shadow Masters Guild itself is not directly engaged in Far Eastern trade, they control thirty percent of the market share through funds.

They will use all kinds of means to break the chain of legitimate businessmen, break their financial chains, and then come to their door and provide them with high loan sharks.

If they succeeded in bringing back goods from the Far East, the profits would barely pay off the usury.

If they fail, then all of the merchants' property will go to the Shadow Masters Guild.

The countries of the Far East do not recognize the currency of the continent of Faerun, but they will not refuse this kind of gold bar of astonishing purity. ”

The Shadow Assassin is now in his true Shadow state.

Ever since he lost his shadow, he has been hiding in the shadow nest that he thinks is safe, but he didn't expect it to become the coordinate to show Gavin the way.

Although they are the same person, they are not identical.

The real ghost belongs to the undead, and it has no feelings, so naturally it is not loyal to the Shadow Master Guild, and it directly brings the leading party to the extreme.

"It's a bank vault! It's just gangster, it's completely black, eats meat by itself, and doesn't even give people a mouthful of soup to drink. Gavin suddenly realized.

That makes sense.

At the same time, I have a deeper understanding of the darkness of the Shadow Master Guild.

Anyway, it was a no-loss deal, and all the risks were borne by the merchants, who made the most profits.

It's no wonder that those merchants of Typhram City gritted their teeth with hatred when they mentioned the Shadow Master Guild.

It is estimated that many people have witnessed the businessmen around them being destroyed by their entire families, and some have even experienced it themselves.

"What is a bank?" Catherine keenly grasped the key to Gavin's complaint.

The two have known each other for more than a day or two, and they know very well that the identity of the man in front of them is much more complicated than it seems, and the new terms mentioned inadvertently have their own special meanings.

This time, Gavin did not say a word vaguely, but patiently explained: "Banks are more functional currency exchange offices, which not only provide different types of currency exchange, but also take into account the function of storing currency or valuable goods, and if their own funds are strong enough, they can even provide credit business." ”

The currency exchange office is a monetary institution of Ferry itself, and its main business is to provide currency exchange for countries in different regions.

However, with the exception of cities like Waterdeep, where there is a lot of trade with many regions, there are specialized currency exchange offices.

Most of the currency exchange offices are part-time, mercenary guilds, king's mints, lords' firms, churches, monasteries, but there are also large trades or shops that offer similar services.

As long as you have enough financial resources and a wide variety of currencies in your hands to meet the needs of customers, you can engage in this industry.

Most people still choose those places with strong strength and reliable reputation to prevent being scammed.

The Church Monastery of Waukin, the goddess of wealth, is the first choice and is the least likely to be exchanged for counterfeit money, but the fees are often the highest, forcing some people to take risks and find other preferential options.

Catherine asked, "The credit business you are talking about can't be the usury of the Shadow Master Guild, right?" ”

This kind of business is not unique to the Shadow Master Guild, most of the gangsters and thieves in various parts of the Faren continent will carry out this kind of business as long as they have enough strength, especially where there are casinos and venues, this kind of business is more prosperous.

Because this way of getting money is sometimes faster than grabbing it openly, and it is difficult for outsiders to interfere.

In many places, it is black, but it is legal, because the two parties signed a contract in the first place, and many slaves were created in this way.

The Shadow Master Guild just does something bigger and darker than the average gangster organization. (End of chapter)

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