Chapter 163: Dining or Smashing the Shop

“Trick the Augustus Family?” Fatty immediately perked up when he heard this, and hurriedly said: “I’m certainly interested, but I don’t know, do you have any good methods?”

“Hehe!” Old Xie suddenly laughed craftily: “Think about it, if this kind of bow is successful, then the price of raw materials for other bows on the market will definitely plummet, you know that, right?”

“Of course I know!” Fatty hurriedly nodded.

“But the problem now is, we know, but others don’t.” Old Xie suddenly laughed craftily: “If at this time, we block the news, and then you send people to buy up the raw materials for making bows on the street, what do you think the Augustus Family will do?”

Fatty was stunned for a moment, but after all, he was an expert in this field, and he quickly reacted, hurriedly saying excitedly: “Ha, I understand. If we buy up the materials at this time, the Augustus Family will definitely think that we want to monopolize the material market first, so that even if the Augustus Family has the Formula, they can’t produce! Under these circumstances, the only thing they can do is to snatch the materials with us! In this way, the price of materials will definitely skyrocket, and then, we quietly sell the stockpiled materials to them at a high price! Haha, when our metal bow appears, those materials the Augustus Family bought at a high price will all become garbage. It will definitely bankrupt these bastards!”

“Since you understand, then I won’t say more!” Old Xie smiled slightly, and then said: “Alright, I’ll give you the Formula later!”

After saying that, Old Xie turned around and left. And Fatty, with an excited face, began to discuss specific details with the Chief Steward.

Soon, starting from this morning, the various chambers of commerce under the Stephen Family began to get nervously busy, frantically buying all the raw materials for making bows that could be seen on the market. The scope even began to expand from the Imperial Capital to the whole country.

Such a big movement by the Stephen Family naturally couldn’t be hidden from others. Especially the Augustus Family, who were staring closely at them, received the news at the first moment. Just as Fatty and Old Xie predicted, they also thought that the Stephen Family wanted to stop the people who obtained the Formula from competing with them by monopolizing the raw materials. So the Augustus Family reacted quickly and also started a large-scale buying movement. Under the snapping up of these two families, the price of bow and arrow materials soared rapidly. Both sides were red-eyed, simply buying at all costs! In just a few days, the price of these materials had doubled.

Just at this time, the Stephen Family quietly brought in a group of unfamiliar faces from outside and cleared out the family’s inventory bit by bit. However, the Stephen Family covered it up very well. Some of them were selling, while another group was still constantly buying, putting on a look of not giving up until they achieved their goal, in order to confuse the Augustus Family. So that in the end, they didn’t detect anything wrong.

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Old Xie didn’t care about the outside matters at all. After he went out, he directly took Sven and those Barbarians out. More than 300 burly men, carrying weapons, strolling in the most critical core area of the Imperial Capital, naturally caused a wave of unease. Although the Stephen Family’s signboard was there, there were still at least several groups of people watching from a distance, afraid that Old Xie would lead this group of human weapons to commit violence.

Of course, Old Xie wouldn’t mess around in the noble district for no reason; if he were to do something, it would be later. He just felt that his people looked too shabby, so he took them to change their outfits.

Of course, as a generous master like Old Xie, he would absolutely not let his subordinates suffer. So he directly took these people to the largest weapon shop under the Stephen Family.

Actually, the Stephen Family was very impressive in the manufacturing industry of the Griffin Kingdom. Besides bows and arrows and Magic Wands, they also had pretty good technology in forging. Of course, this technology wasn’t as leading as their bows and Magic Wands. Their ranking in the Griffin Kingdom was even slightly worse than the Augustus Family’s blacksmith shop. After all, the other side had a close relationship with the Dwarves. Although they wouldn’t completely get the Dwarves’ technology, even sporadic small pointers were enough to make the Augustus Family’s casting technology look down on the Human Race world. Of course, their level could only manufacture low-level weapons, that is, equipment for ordinary soldiers. Like those high-level weapons used by Experts and nobles, those were the patents of the Dwarves.

Under the leadership of Chris Chen, Old Xie’s identity was naturally unquestionable. The person in charge in the shop naturally didn’t dare to neglect him and hurriedly came out to welcome him. Old Xie didn’t waste words with him either, and directly waved his hand: “Take me to the heavy weapon and Heavy Armor warehouse!”

Old Xie’s status was different now; he was no longer the idiot that anyone could bully before, but an Earl of the Empire, and the upper echelons of the family had also passed down the news, saying that Old Xie already had substantive rights to participate in family affairs. Therefore, the people in charge everywhere didn’t dare to go against Old Xie’s wishes, and the person here was the same. So when he heard Old Xie’s order, he almost didn’t hesitate and hurriedly acted, leading the people to the warehouse.

In that warehouse, which was equipped to arm hundreds of Heavy Armor Warriors, various models of Armor, double-edged axes, Heavy Swords and other weapons were placed, all shining with cold light, top-quality goods. Seeing this, those Barbarians were almost drooling.

You know, in their Barbarian Wasteland, there were absolutely not so many such good things. They were still in a very primitive social state and couldn’t cast at all. Otherwise, they wouldn’t use beast bones and wooden sticks as weapons. Back then, Fatty used only a hundred Battle Axes to exchange for Little Stephen’s mother, the precious daughter of a large tribal chief. It can be seen how short of ironware they were there.

“Take as much as you want, as long as you don’t have a burden during battle!” Old Xie waved his big hand.

Hearing Old Xie’s words, the group immediately went crazy. Without saying a word, they immediately began to fight for them, and soon it became a mess. Old Xie and Sven saw that something was wrong, afraid that they would fight here, they hurried over, kicking and beating, only then did they suppress their excitement, and one by one they began to honestly choose their favorite weapons and Battle Armor.

About two hours later, these people finished choosing. Everyone had a full-body Refined Steel Armor, holding a Battle Axe or Heavy Sword in their hands, carrying a large shield on their backs, and a small dagger or short sword stuck in their waists. They were simply metal monsters!

Looking at the human-shaped weapons wrapped in metal walking out of the warehouse, Old Xie couldn’t help but be extremely satisfied. After such a powerful group of guys stood in the yard, without even making a move, an invisible pressure was enough to make those who wanted to be enemies with Old Xie tremble with fear!

“Not bad, not bad!” Old Xie said with a smile: “Let’s go, brothers, I’ll take you to the best Grand Hotel in the Imperial Capital! Let you eat the best food and drink the best wine!”

“Yeah! Long live Young Master!” When those Barbarians heard this, they were so happy they jumped high.

“Haha, let’s go!” Old Xie didn’t waste words either, laughed, and directly led them away.

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When Old Xie and his group arrived at that Grand Hotel, they were immediately stopped by the hotel security and others. Seeing their appearance as if they were facing a great enemy, Old Xie couldn’t help but find it a bit funny. He thought to himself, he was here to eat, not to smash the shop, was it necessary?

Fortunately, the Manager of the hotel came out at this time. As soon as he saw Old Xie, his head got a circle bigger. He didn’t dare to neglect him and hurriedly came over with a smile: “Young Master Stephen, look, we’ve always gotten along well. If you are dissatisfied with us, just say a word and we will change. There’s really no need to make such a big fuss, right?”

“I’m here to eat, not to smash the shop!” Old Xie said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

“Eating?” The Manager was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly laughed: “Then we certainly welcome you with all our might. It’s just that, Young Master Stephen, here, your safety can be completely taken care of by us. How about your subordinates don’t go in?”

“How can that be?” Old Xie’s face immediately sank, and he said directly: “I came here this time to reward my subordinates, how can I not let them in?”

“Young Master!” The Manager almost cried when he heard this, and hurriedly said, “You also have to understand our difficulties? The hotel is full of high-ranking nobles. If you let them in, how can I still do business?”

Actually, Old Xie also knew that the Manager was in a difficult position. Because their hotel was, after all, the best in the Imperial Capital, aiming to provide a place for dining and entertainment for various nobles, so naturally, they paid special attention to status and taste. Let alone these Barbarians, even rich Merchants couldn’t get in without a noble status. Because that group of haughty nobles considered it an insult to sit and eat with these lowly people. If they were let in, those nobles wouldn’t come. In their words, they couldn’t afford to lose that person.

If these Barbarians entered as Guards, that would be fine, but if they entered as guests, that would be a big problem. It would almost be equivalent to smashing their own signboard, so the Manager was so embarrassed.

Actually, Old Xie knew this reason too, but he didn’t want to care about this. In fact, as an Old Demon Lord, he was fundamentally not a reasonable person!

So he very bluntly said to the Manager: “I’ll give you two paths to choose from. One is to let us eat, the other is to let us smash the shop. You decide!”