Chapter 94 War Loan

Amber Xiu sat in front of the Porcupine Knight, playing with the two swords in his hands curiously.

All the elves have been stuffed into his private space. With this space that can stop time, he doesn't even need to use magic to seal it. He can just throw them in and freeze time.

There's nothing special about these elves, except that these two swords are a bit weird.

Originally, he thought that there was magic attached to break the wizard's shield, but in fact it was not. The magic patterns on these two swords were very special, so special that Amber had never seen them before.

After careful study, it was discovered that these two daggers were like magic black holes that could absorb the magic of anything.

When the wizard's shield was hit by the dagger, part of the magic power was sucked away, causing the structure to be unbalanced, so it was pierced.

This is not just an ordinary "destroying magic" effect, because the magic power that is sucked away can also be injected into the user's body.

"People who use such weapons are afraid that they won't die quickly enough?"

Magic power is a very personal thing. It is not the internal power in martial arts novels that can be passed on to anyone you want. Absorbing other people's magic power is like drinking poison.

In order to increase the destructive power of the dagger, he was willing to commit suicide?

Looking at the elf's performance, it seems that he is really trying to commit suicide.

Porcupine Knight sat across from Amberxiu nervously, not knowing what this powerful necromancer wanted to do. Amberxiu had just asked him what contract he had signed with the elves, and he could only briefly tell them the elves' intentions, and then this powerful necromancer went into a state of thinking.

Porcupine Knight didn't dare to ask more questions. He couldn't even deal with that group of elves, let alone this terrifying necromancer.

Amberxiu put away the two strange daggers and prepared to go back and interrogate these elves.

Their arrival was too strange. It didn't seem like they were here just to clear the way for the elven army. The army hadn't even formally attacked yet, so it was impossible for them to clear the way to the core area.

This must be related to the magic contract that the elf gave away, but there are no clues, so I can only go back and investigate slowly.

Looking back and seeing the Porcupine Knight standing aside, Amber waved to him, and the lord approached cautiously.

The first thing Amber Xiu said was: "How many gold coins do you have?"

The Porcupine Knight was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "To show my gratitude, I am willing to pay you 20,000 gold coins."

An Boxiu shook his head and said, "I'm not asking you how much you give me, I'm asking you how much you have in total."

"Ah? You mean..."

Amber Xiu said nonchalantly: "That's what I mean. You said that you are willing to give everything. I just want all the gold in your inventory. Is that not too much?"

The Porcupine Knight said excitedly: "Master, if you take away all the gold coins, this territory will fall apart immediately. If you do this, you will be no different from those elves."

Amber smiled and said to the Porcupine Knight: "Whether your territory collapses or not has nothing to do with me. Besides, the Alchemy City is about to enter a melee. What's the use of gold alone? Can you defend it?"

The Porcupine Knight said in surprise: "Master, are you willing to assist me? I am willing to use all my gold coins to hire you as a mage consultant!"

Amber: ...

Why does this person have such beautiful thoughts?

With just tens of thousands of gold coins, you can hire a legendary player, you can’t even hire a parallel import player.

"What I mean is that you just don't have money, but others do. You have formed an alliance with a few small lords, but on the outskirts of the Alchemy City, a small alliance like yours can't even rank. There are so many rich lords you can rob." Amber Xiu said.

The Porcupine Knight smiled bitterly. He wanted to rob, but as Amber said, their alliance was not even on the list. They had less than a thousand soldiers in total. They were not strong enough to defend, so how could they possibly take the initiative to attack? When he said this, the Porcupine Knight regretted the war against the lich. He should not have listened to the nonsense of those paladins.

As long as we don't get involved with those holy warriors, the number of troops we can mobilize now can at least double.

The Porcupine Knight said helplessly: "We are completely unable to expand now. The nearby lords are not fools. They are all ready for battle."

Amber Xiu showed a devilish smile, tempting the Porcupine Knight and said: "If you don't hit others, will others not hit you? You know that you are not strong enough, and others will definitely choose to devour the weakest first."

"Master, what do you mean?"

"Lord, have you heard of war loans?" asked Amber Xiu.

"War loan?" The Porcupine Knight frowned, he had never heard of this. As a knight promoted from a poor man, the Porcupine Knight actually did not have much education, and he had not been a lord for long. The daily management of the territory alone was enough to keep him busy.

"You don't have enough troops, you can borrow some. For example, I can lend you a group of undead skeletons for use in combat. And you need to pay me gold coins. With your troops, you can conquer larger territories and plunder more people, and I can also earn more gold coins. Isn't this a win-win situation?"

Amberxiu is now like a devil from hell, tempting the Porcupine Knight into the abyss little by little.

Fighting is a troublesome thing. Amberxiu is too lazy to do it himself, so he might as well let others earn gold coins for him.

Having lived for hundreds of years, Amber has seen many wars. Every time a chaotic world comes, countless ambitious people emerge. The Porcupine Knight doesn't seem to have any ability, but he is willing to risk his life at the critical moment. If you give this kind of person a little help, you might get a good return on investment.

Another point is that the Porcupine Knight signed some kind of contract with those elves. Although we don’t know what it is yet, this man must have other uses.

The Porcupine Knight was extremely reluctant, but he had no choice.

Amberxiu could have killed him and taken everything away. At least the conditions of this necromancer were a little better than those of the elves, giving him a chance to turn things around.

Amber Xiu didn't hesitate to move all the more than 100,000 gold coins in the warehouse.

It’s a little less, but at least it’s not a complete loss.

Amber gave the Porcupine Knight a list of the materials he needed and the price list for exchanging undead skeletons.

It doesn’t matter if he has no money now. He can be given a loan limit of 100,000 gold coins, and the monthly interest rate will only be 15%, which means he only needs to pay back 15,000 gold coins a month. For a war loan, this interest rate can be said to be very low.

But the Porcupine Knight still felt a pain in his liver. The cheapest mantis-form skeleton cost a thousand gold coins, and even hiring adventurers was not that expensive.

Fortunately, the list also listed some of the materials that Amberxiu needed, various corpses, alchemy materials, etc., which could be deducted from Amberxiu by the corresponding amount of gold coins.

The Porcupine Knight directly decided to loan a hundred alien skeletons, and at the same time sent a pile of corpses and stock of alchemy materials to Amber to pay off the debt. These were the casualties caused by the previous annexation of other lords' territories. Originally, it was just a casual cover of soil, and now it was a good opportunity to recycle the waste.

Amber was also quite satisfied with the deal. After agreeing on the transaction time, he asked the Porcupine Knight to inquire about Isabel's whereabouts.

Isabel has good talent and is serious and responsible in her work. Not every alchemy apprentice can help him cultivate the bone-breeding virus. If it were someone else, they might have died several times earlier. Amberxiu needs to find her and make her work for him.

But when Amber mentioned the place of transaction, the Porcupine Knight's face changed and he said in surprise: "That castle... is not the Lich's..."

Amber smiled slightly and removed the effect of the transfiguration, revealing the true form of the lich.

The Porcupine Knight was so frightened that his legs went limp. Sure enough, the lich was not dead at all.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Ryan's paladins were too unreliable. They had already rushed into the castle, but they still couldn't destroy the lich.

The Porcupine Knight was secretly glad that he had no intention of attacking the castle, otherwise this man would not have come here to discuss business but to take his life.

Amber said to the Porcupine Knight: "Okay, prepare what I want. Remember, with me, debts cannot be cleared even after death. If you owe me money, you must pay it back even if you become a corpse."

The Porcupine Knight could only smile bitterly and promise that he would pay off the debt on time.

Amber nodded with satisfaction, then returned to his castle.

Opening the private space, Amberxiu came to the group of elves whose time was frozen.

Cicero's time freeze was lifted, and Amber said to him straight to the point: "What exactly do you want to do by sending you deep into the hinterland so anxiously?"

Cicero looked at Amber's skull face and said with some surprise: "So you are a lich. I have heard about you. The destruction of the Alchemy City should be related to you, right?"

Amber reminded him, "I am the one who has the right to ask questions now. You are the prisoner. Know your place."

Cicero said confidently: "Haha, what can you do to me? The worst that can happen is torture or killing me. But the souls of elves will eventually return to the arms of the gods. If you think that torture can make me surrender, you can try it."

Cicero was so confident entirely because of the characteristics of the elves. They were blessed by the elven gods and possessed very high mental resistance. Most mental spells such as charm, control, paralysis, etc. were ineffective against them.

This is the blessing given to them by the gods. Even if Amber uses the power of the Golden Throne, he cannot suppress the power of the elven gods.

As everyone knows, if you want to attack an elf, you can only use force, and even drugging won't work.

As for Cicero, who is obviously an old adventurer, Amberhu's torture would probably be difficult to be effective, mainly because Amberhu didn't have that much time to waste with him.

Amber thought for a moment and said to Cicero, "In fact, I have a rough guess. The real secret is the contract, right?"

Although Cicero's expression did not change, his pupils contracted uncontrollably.

Amber smiled and said, "You see, this is the difference between the living and the undead. The undead can really have no expression if they don't want to, but you can't. Charm is indeed useless to you, but you also can't use mental magic to control your thoughts and prevent micro-expressions from revealing your thoughts."

Amber's words made Cicero panic. He never expected that the lich he met was proficient in this kind of interrogation method.

Amber continued, "According to common sense, the content of the contract is not important. Such harsh terms as guaranteeing the safe departure of humans are no different from a direct death sentence. The real key should be the consequences of violating the contract, right?"

Cicero wanted to close his eyes to prevent Ambersou from observing his pupils, but Ambersou reached out and touched his neck, detecting his inner thoughts through his heartbeat and pulse.

"Oh, it seems that I guessed right, but what benefits can you get by violating the contract? Can it make humans surrender directly? ... No, it seems that is not right... What benefits will it bring to your invasion? Well, it seems that I guessed right again..."

Amber asked questions one by one and got a lot of information by testing Cicero's heartbeat.

First of all, the signing of the contract must be related to the invasion of the elves, and it is something that is beneficial to them, and the condition for launching it is that these human lords violate the above contract.

Also, the massive invasion of the elves is about to begin in the next few days. Cicero and his men are not the only vanguard. More Dusk Guards have been sent out to force these lords to sign contracts along the way.

Unfortunately, Cicero said nothing, so Amber was unable to get more specific details.

But I don't think a small soldier like Cicero would know too many details.

Ambersau sealed Cicero again, stroking his chin and thinking. The elves were as stubborn as the Ryan Empire, and they might not be willing to pay a ransom to buy back Cicero and his group of Dusk Guards.

It seems like it's time to contact the desert dwarves.

To do business, we must constantly expand the market. The elves are unwilling to pay, but I believe the desert dwarves will be willing to pay a high price to buy these elves.

Today it's over 6,000. Sorry, I need to take a break.

(End of this chapter)