Mage Veigar

Chapter 472 Not giving in
Guest House.

The empire's envoys temporarily reside here.

After the negotiations came to nothing, they returned here for a brief meeting.

The person in charge of this event, Dilos Le Jar, sat in the main seat and let out a long sigh. He had a relaxed smile on his face, and he was completely different from the Dilos who was so angry that he stormed out of the negotiation room.

"Everyone, was my acting just now okay?"

Delos asked everyone with a smile, and everyone smiled along with him.

"Team leader, your acting skills are amazing."

A diplomatic official looked at Delos with some admiration: "You left early and didn't see their self-righteous faces. I'm afraid they have already preconceived that our upper limit is only 150 war airships. I believe that when the next negotiation comes, the premium can be raised to 200 war airships, which will completely solve this problem."

"Humph, a small border country, you still want to win us in negotiations?"

Dilos sneered arrogantly. As an elite diplomat, he would certainly never let his emotions cloud his mind. The previous scene of uncontrollable anger was indeed an act.

After only seeing the solution provided by Dynasty at first glance, Dilos understood that Dynasty was trying to test their bottom line by asking for an exorbitant price, so Dilos chose to take advantage of the situation.

He did not lower his posture.

Even in front of the queen, Delos was extremely angry and rude, just to make Vega's side believe that 150 warships was the bottom line of the empire. When the next negotiation came, they only needed to increase the price to 200 warships, and I believe the dynasty would accept their transaction price.

As for their real bottom line?
This number may be double that of 200. If Dilos can really redeem the prisoners of war with the price of 200 war airships this time, then he will definitely add a strong stroke to his diplomatic career and prove what an elite diplomat is.

“No one can take advantage of me.”

Dilos sneered again, and then began a waiting period. He planned to restart the negotiations in ten days. By that time, the dynasty would probably be eager to sell the prisoners. After a heated debate, the 200 war airships could probably be taken away directly.

This has to be mentioned here.

Due to Dilos's lifelike acting, neither Vega nor Xia noticed anything wrong. They thought that 150 war airships were indeed the bottom line of the Empire, because the Empire has always been arrogant, and it is not impossible to offer this price.

But Vega will not sympathize with the Empire.

He believed that the bottom line was meant to be raised. Since the Empire's bottom line was 150 ships, then he should let the other party raise it. If they didn't, Vega wouldn't mind killing them immediately.

To give the empire a greater sense of urgency.

Vega sent envoys to the kingdom in a fair and open manner. The purpose of sending the envoys to the kingdom this time was very clear, which was to demand the 200 war airships that the kingdom once owed them.

Generally speaking.

At this stage, the kingdom not only has no ability to repay these war airships, but even if it has the ability to repay, it will definitely not repay them. After all, it is not yet the final delivery time, and it is reasonable and legal not to deliver them now. If they allocate another 200 ships at this time, it is very likely to make the domestic war situation worse.

However, Vega sent a messenger to bring a message to the kingdom.

What this meant was that as long as the kingdom delivered 200 war airships ahead of schedule, he would immediately send troops to the eastern part of the empire to force the empire to withdraw its layout in the Dragon City.

in short.

The kingdom pays protection money to Vega, and Vega forces the empire to withdraw its troops.

Since sending envoys to the kingdom was a legitimate act, the empire received the news immediately.

Although they did not know the purpose of the envoy, they were terrified when they learned of Vega's move, fearing that the dynasty and the kingdom would join forces to deal with them. After all, the West Coast had just been defeated, and they no longer had the ability to fight on two fronts.

Therefore, the empire applied to restart the negotiations the next day. This time, Delos seemed calm and unhurried.

"Lord Dilos, has your country agreed to our plan?"

Vega said this to Dilos with an innocent smile. He immediately gave the other party a warning and tried to embarrass Dilos. After all, it was the Empire that directly announced the breakdown of the negotiations yesterday.

But Delos was unaware.

Not only did he not feel embarrassed, but he said to Vega with a happy face: "Congratulations, I have just obtained the authority. In response to your proposal, my country is willing to increase the stakes to 200 war airships. This is a huge concession that has never appeared in the history of empire negotiations. Your country must not miss this opportunity."

Vega frowned subconsciously.

This sentence can be translated into nothing more than: If you miss today, you will never find such an opportunity again even if you search with a lantern. We advise you to agree to our proposal as soon as possible, and agree with a grateful heart.

If this happens in the business world, it would be a big store bullying its customers.

But Vega obviously didn't buy it, and this time it was his turn to leave with Xia.

"A big store bullies customers?"

Veigar sneered and said, “Since you are so arrogant, let me teach you what ‘respect’ means.”

On the third day after the negotiation, Vega organized his troops and ordered the 30 defenders of the City of Black Gold to move toward the border and set up camp at the checkpoint closest to the empire.

Send envoys to the kingdom.

Deploy troops on the border.

As soon as these two actions came out, the top leaders of the empire felt the pressure for the first time.

After hearing about this, Foreign Minister Donp Gainel wanted to kill Dilos for his incompetence, so he rushed to the City of Black Gold as soon as possible, intending to personally handle the negotiations.

Before the negotiations, he first held an internal meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, he began by lecturing Dilos: "Look at what you have done. You gave the dynasty what they wanted. Now that things have come to this, do you know how much domestic pressure I have endured?"

"But……"

Dilos said cautiously, "They want 500 warships, and they want to cancel the exclusive concession agreement for the City of Black Gold. They even want us to transfer the city of Erkia, but our maximum limit is only 400 airships."

"Five hundred airships? Erkia City?"

The Foreign Minister laughed sarcastically and said, "This dynasty is really ambitious. But it doesn't matter. Tomorrow we will agree to all their demands and redeem the captives first to relieve the pressure at home."

"Excuse me, sir, how are the other conditions to be fulfilled?"

Dilos said puzzledly: "We can't give up the city of Erkia. It is the gateway to the east. Even if you agree, I'm afraid the higher-ups won't agree."

"Delos, you are still too young after all."

The foreign minister shook his head and said, "There are a few people in this world whose words can never be trusted. One is women, one is businessmen, and the other is politicians. I don't even believe my own words. Why should you believe that I will fulfill my promises?"

"Sir, you mean..." Dilos suddenly understood after being enlightened.

Foreign Minister Dunpu nodded and said, "Dilos, you must remember that the rules are protected by force, so they can never override force. The Empire's territory is not something the Dynasty can get their hands on. If they want Elkia, they can take it."

(End of this chapter)