Chapter 207: Killing in All Directions

However, as an Old Demon Lord who had lived for hundreds of years, Old Xie was naturally extremely familiar with these things. As soon as he saw Jushi’s confident look, he had a good idea in his heart. So, in order to maintain the initiative, he directly cut to the chase and said, “Your Excellency Jushi, I hope you can understand one thing!”

Jushi was immediately stunned, he had never seen such an opening to a negotiation in his life, so he asked strangely, “What thing?”

“This time, I am not negotiating with you!” Old Xie said in an exceptionally arrogant tone, very directly, “Because I only propose conditions, there will be no concessions. If you agree, then we trade, if you don’t agree, then forget it!”

“What?” Jushi stood up immediately upon hearing this, and said angrily, “Your Excellency, you being so tough, doesn’t seem like doing business!”

“I am not a Merchant originally, of course I wouldn’t be doing business!” Old Xie said very arrogantly.

“But in that case, I can only regretfully tell you that the Dwarves cannot accept your unreasonable demand!” Jushi also stated his position strongly.

“Then since that’s the case, there’s nothing good to say!” Old Xie stood up directly and said, “Show the guest out!”

Jushi was dumbfounded as soon as he heard it, he didn’t expect Old Xie to be so ignorant of worldly ways, directly wanting to drive people away. It made him extremely embarrassed at the time, if he didn’t leave, he really couldn’t save face. But if he just left, going back like this, he couldn’t explain it to Piritz at all, should he tell him that he was directly driven back?

Just when Jushi was in a dilemma, Lan Fake saw that it wasn’t a good thing, and hurriedly interjected, “Everyone, let’s calm down first, don’t let things get stiff so easily!” Saying that, he forcefully pressed Old Xie back onto the chair, and then persuaded Jushi to sit back down.

After Jushi sat back down, he didn’t dare to hesitate anymore, and immediately brought out his trump card, coldly smiling at Old Xie, “Castle Lord Your Excellency, please don’t forget, that thing, acid water, is only produced by us Dwarves, if we don’t supply the goods, hehe!” He didn’t continue with the following words, but the meaning was already there.

“Hmph!” Old Xie snorted coldly, then said indifferently, “You got two things wrong from the start. First, I can get that acid water through other channels, it’s just a bit more troublesome, after all, you have provided goods for the whole Continent for hundreds of years, enough for me to use for a while. Second, how do you know I must use acid water? Hmph, telling you, there are many items that can replace acid water, I just can’t be bothered to go through the trouble!”

“This!” Jushi immediately felt three heads shorter upon hearing Old Xie’s words, he just remembered that it seemed he really didn’t know if acid water was the only thing needed, and the Dwarves had shipped too much in the past, even if they cut off the supply, it really wouldn’t be very difficult for others to get it in the short term.

Jushi, whose weakness was hit all of a sudden, froze for a moment, after some thought, he had to depressingly say to Old Xie in a soft tone, “Then, then according to your intention, how should we trade!”

“My intention?” Old Xie saw that Jushi was convinced, and then asked with a cold smile, “First answer me, how much acid water do your Dwarves produce in a year?”

“Oh, probably one or two thousand jin!” Jushi thought for a bit and said.

“Too little, what if you produce with full force?” Old Xie continued to ask.

“One or two thousand jin a year should be there!” Jushi answered.

“Then good!” Old Xie said, “My first condition is, ten thousand jin of acid water, exchange for 100 Goblin Mines!”

Actually, ten thousand jin of acid water could produce about 1000 Goblin Mines, and it accounted for one-third of the materials, so calculating it like that, giving Dwarves 100 Goblin Mines, Old Xie made a huge profit, even giving 200 wouldn’t be a loss.

However, since Jushi didn’t know the details, he didn’t know if this amount was a lot or a little, but subconsciously, he had already guessed that Old Xie must have ripped them off fiercely, so he tentatively said, “Is this number a bit too few, you see, can we~”

Jushi still wanted to ask for more, but unexpectedly Old Xie directly waved his hand to interrupt him, “I just said, I am not a Merchant, and I won’t bargain with you, either, agree to my conditions, or, we just part ways!”

“This~” Jushi was naturally very annoyed after hearing this, but fortunately he was a very tolerant person, forcefully suppressing his anger, he said to Old Xie, “I have noted your words, however, I cannot make the decision on this matter, so please let me go back and ask for instructions, then give you a reply!”

“Okay!” Old Xie originally didn’t expect a deputy of his to make the decision, so he agreed very generously.

“Then, regarding the cooperation of Imp craftsmen?” Jushi then hurriedly asked.

“This is also simple!” Old Xie said indifferently, “You produce fine war gear, whether it’s weapons or Armor, we are responsible for carving Magic Arrays on them, and enchanting them. For the finished products, everyone gets half!”

“How can this be?” Jushi became anxious as soon as he heard it, and immediately protested, “Our Masters take at least three years to forge one item, but you only need a few months to complete the enchanting, obviously we put in more labor, why should we split it equally with you?”

“Just because you have thousands of Master level figures, but we only have a few dozen Imp craftsmen who can enchant, obviously, we are the ones monopolizing the market!” Old Xie coldly smiled, “If you don’t cooperate with us, I can completely privately acquire their works directly from the Masters, and then enchant them! I believe, if they knew their works would have the opportunity to be endowed with powerful Spells, I’m afraid they might even give the things to me for free, do you believe it?”

“This!” Jushi was speechless again this time. Because he knew the tempers of those Dwarven Masters too well, if humans used money to bribe their works, they would definitely be beaten up, but if it was in the name of enchanting to acquire them, they would absolutely all rush to offer their own proud works.

The reason was simple, the Dwarves’ enchanting technology was 0, they could only give their works to the Elves to enchant. But the Elves were extremely lazy, they would rather spend time dressing up than to enchant Dwarven weapons, so the Dwarves could only have a pitiful dozen or so items endowed with magic by the bored Elven Mages every year.

But there are thousands of Dwarven Masters? Hundreds of good items are produced every year, if these items cannot be endowed with magic, then no matter how good they are, they are only ordinary items, only war gear that has been enchanted has the possibility to become various magical items that will be famous for a hundred years. And which Dwarven Master doesn’t want his works to be remembered by people for a long time?

So in this situation, Dwarven Masters were going crazy thinking about enchanting, almost every year they fought bloodily for those few pitiful enchanting slots. Now that such a good enchanting opportunity like Old Xie’s had appeared, wouldn’t those Masters go crazy after knowing it?

Old Xie just seized this psychology of Dwarven Masters, that’s why he was so rude to Jushi. Seeing Jushi was once again speechless by him, he couldn’t help but coldly smile, and then said, “Also, I want to tell you, don’t just look at our working time, you should at least consider the cost too? You Dwarven Masters forge, just need to use Refined Iron, and that stuff is everywhere in your Kingdom of Dwarves, but we need to use Mithril and Magic Stone for enchanting, I think, you should know the price difference between Mithril, Magic Stone and Refined Iron, right? Telling you, me taking half from you, I still earn less than you, you know?”

“This~” Jushi heard Old Xie say this, felt it made some sense, so he asked, “Then if we provide the required Mithril and Magic Stone?”

“Then we take thirty percent!” Old Xie said directly. Actually, he wanted the Dwarves to provide Mithril and Magic Stone, because although he also had some of this stuff, it was okay to deal with dozens of items, but it was absolutely impossible to cope with large-scale production. He would definitely need to get more later, but in reality, the only supplier that could meet such demand was the Dwarves. Instead of begging them later, it was better to throw the trouble to them now.

“Thirty percent? You take thirty percent just for labor? This, this is too ruthless, right?” Jushi was almost scared silly by Old Xie’s lion’s big mouth. Even Lan Fake on the side couldn’t help but roll his eyes, thinking, this kid is too black, right? If this deal went through, wouldn’t the few Imps he trained each be able to exchange for a gold mountain?

Old Xie didn’t fear Jushi’s indignation at all, directly coldly smiled and said, “I just said, no bargaining, if you don’t agree, then I’ll provide the enchanting materials, and then we split it equally!”

“This!” Jushi was dumbfounded again. He knew that he was caught by Old Xie by the pigtail again, that was the degree of cherish Dwarven Masters had for their own works. For those Dwarven Masters, they definitely didn’t lack Mithril and Magic Stone, but lacked people who could enchant! If they could use the Mithril and Magic Stone in their hands to exchange for one more enchanted item that they had worked hard to forge for a few years, they would definitely agree even if they suffered a loss.

After figuring this out, Jushi couldn’t help but smile bitterly, “Castle Lord Your Excellency, you really have a sharp eye! You grabbed all our weaknesses at once, leaving us with no ability to resist, really admire, admire!”