Void Mansion, this is the residence of the Void Duke who was bestowed on Sean by the Royal Family of Lane, one of the new seven dukes of Lane.

The house has always been cleaned by servants from the palace, so when Sean took over the house from King Ryan, the house was not only exceptionally clean, but also all the things it should have were available. There is no need for Sean to spend extra to add any new furniture or decorations.

  So when Sean moved into this mansion, the only thing he needed to do was to ask a housekeeper to help him manage the mansion.

  Because Sean cannot always live here in the capital.

  For him, this mansion is actually just a symbolic meaning, at least as long as the mansion is still there, then no one will forget him, the Void Duke. Of course, if it is an ordinary traditional nobleman, then they will definitely choose to stay in the mansion located in the royal capital instead of returning to the fief. The closer the intelligence center is, the better.

  But Sean is no ordinary traditional nobleman.

  Although it has been assimilated into this world a lot now, the adventurous blood gene in the player's body has still not weakened. In fact, if it weren't for being dragged here by some things now, Sean would have wanted to leave King Ryan for a long time, and didn't want to waste even a minute and a second in such a place.

  And this is why Shaun will personally choose a housekeeper.

  As for the servants, they were the servants originally sent from the Royal Palace of Ryan. For these experienced and quick-working servants, Sean is still very satisfied, even if the rewards to be paid to them are three times that of ordinary servants. But in this way. The housekeeper’s salary is naturally not so low, and to be worthy of this salary, the housekeeper must be an experienced veteran, and at least he must have excellent abilities in many aspects.

   Now the housekeeper who has full authority to manage the entire void mansion is recommended by Asuna. His salary is fifty gold coins a month-enough for the monthly expenses of seven to nine ordinary families.

  But a housekeeper with such a high salary is naturally worth the money.

  So when Sean pushed open the door of the meeting room. What I got was not a greeting, but a sincere compliment from Floris, one of the big three of Ryan's dark giants: "Although you spend more on servants, the entire mansion is really cleaned up. It's clean. And your housekeeper is not easy.... These costs are still worth the money."

  Hearing Floris’s compliment, Sean just smiled politely, and did not reply.

  In fact. He almost let the housekeeper go away just now. Because he disrupted a life-threatening plan that Sean had finally figured out.

  As an excellent housekeeper, he naturally needs the most basic cognition of those powerful and powerful figures in China. Even if he doesn’t recognize his appearance, he must at least recognize symbols such as family crests. However, the Marquis of Floris is the most mysterious Marquis in Ryan, and this time the visit has not used the carriage with the family crest, so it is very normal for the housekeeper to be unable to recognize it. If it is not recognized If Floris's aura was really different, the butler recommended by Asuna would certainly not bother Sean.

Unfortunately. Sean is not clear about these things.

  In a sense, this housekeeper is indeed somewhat innocent.

"This time. There are actually two things." Seeing that Sean didn't answer, the Marquis of Flores didn't care too much. He sat casually on the sofa in the reception room, looking nothing like it. It's a guest.

  But Sean, who was face to face with him at such a close distance, felt an invisible pressure constantly pounced on him.

  In his field of vision, it was endless darkness, like a bottomless abyss. Along with this abyss-like aura constantly permeating out, and endless **** auras constantly emanating, Sean alone is sure that Floris is also a hidden powerhouse, at least It is definitely a real powerhouse in the golden realm. Because the breath radiating from the Marquis of Floris was fully surfaced, there were at least 800 people who died in his hands.

Like William, there is almost no guy who has killed people with his own hands. Although his aura will become uniquely majestic and powerful due to long-term command, he is full of deterrence, but it will never be like Foluo. Reese exudes an astonishing **** breath all over his body. No matter how much he suppresses and hides, for those with keen perception, he can still feel this breath.

  Of course, as far as Sean is concerned, another reason why the Marquis of Floris can be judged is a strong one, that is, there is no flaw in him.

Although it is just a casual sitting, it looks like there are flaws all over the body, but if you look closely, you will find that these so-called flaws are actually traps. If anyone thinks that Floris does not understand anything and rashly attacks, Then the end will definitely be very tragic.

  This is a strong man who really lives in the dark world.

   "Which two." Xiao En finally spoke after a moment of silence, but his back was already wet with sweat before he knew it.

   "Heh." Floris suddenly chuckled.

As a mature middle-aged person, Floris actually has a lot of charm, especially the dangerous aura that exudes from him, which is naturally terrifying for people with keen perception, but for some things People who don't understand--especially women, will look very charming. It's just that at this moment, Floris's smile may be charming to some women, but it is nothing to Sean, because the breath in him hasn't diminished in the slightest.

"Don't be nervous." After a chuckle, Floris said again, "I have no hostility or malice towards you.... Your current strength is still slightly insufficient, so you will still be affected by my natural aura. The influence of coercion, after you step into the golden realm, you will be able to feel the real changes in my body."

   "I know." Sean took a deep breath, and then said, "I mean. You have no hostility or malice towards me. Otherwise, I won't come here alone to meet you."

   "Oh?" Floris raised his eyebrows, and the look on his face became interested.

  In fact, when Sean saw the Marquis of Flores for the first time, the color of light he saw from him was the green that represented kindness, not other colors. So from then on, Sean knew that the Marquis of Flores had no hostility towards him. Of course, the color that radiated from that King Ryan's body was also green. In this way, Sean was concerned about the men who killed the Marquis of Floris. On the contrary, I felt a little embarrassed, but the Dark King didn't seem to care about those things at all.

  Sean did not know the past of the Marquis of Floris, but from his attitude towards King Ryan, Shaun was at least certain. That is, the outside world's evaluation of the Marquis of Floris is wrong. This is not a man who is purely loyal to the throne. In fact, it should be said that his truly loyal person is the current King Llane—Ingus Llane. From this point, Sean knew that there must be a very important and strong bond between the Dark King and the current Llane King.

"It's just an intuition." Sean sat on the sofa next to him. Although he tried his best to calm his inner resistance to the dark atmosphere, perhaps as Floris said, there are still some gaps between the two sides, so much more. Shao still showed some reflexive physical behavior, "Let's talk about business."

   "Alright." Floris nodded. Then he said, "The first thing is private."

  "Private matter?" Can utter such a word from Floris's mouth. Sean was also very curious.

"I want to make a deal with you." Floris nodded slightly, confirming that Sean had not misheard the meaning, and then continued, "I know this time the Chamber of Commerce Alliance made a deal with you, although it is specific I’m not sure about the trading items and content, but part of my trading is about slave trading..."

  As for why Floris knew this, Sean didn't doubt it at all, because he had already learned the walking route of the slaves of the Chamber of Commerce from Lodeske-from crossing the Viper Gobi. In terms of the size of the team of the Chamber of Commerce, let alone a dark king like Floris, I am afraid that the slightly capable nobles in the country have already received the news.

  So Sean did not speak, but continued to listen quietly.

"...So, I hope you can transfer at least five thousand barbarians to me. For some reason, I urgently need a mercenary group to complete the task in the near future, but if hired, it may cause information leakage. So I need to form a team to complete the task, and the barbarian is the most suitable quick fighter."

In fact, in the case of a big man like Floris, it is completely unnecessary to explain to Sean, but at this time he opened his mouth to explain why he needs a barbarian. Although the important information is still not mentioned, this is actually It is already a way of paying respect, at least Floris thinks that Sean is already qualified to sit on an equal footing with him.

   "I see." Sean nodded, "What about the transaction?"

"In the next year, you can get any information that I know for free from me." Floris said in a deep voice, "I know that my condition is not so generous. After all, with the information you have now It’s only a matter of time before you have the ability to collect information to be equal to me. But if I provide it directly, then you can definitely speed up progress in this area."

   "It's true." Sean nodded, "But in that case, why not change to intelligence sharing?"

  "Information sharing?" Floris glanced at Sean deeply, "If you ask so, then I can accept it."

  Information sharing and free access to any known information are two completely different concepts.

The former is an unreserved way of exchanging information. This method is naturally a mutually beneficial way for both parties on the same basis, but for two parties like Sean and Floris that are completely unequal. In terms of nature, Floris will suffer, because it is only the information currently possessed by Floris. At the very least, it took him more than two decades, and it was accompanied by countless sacrifices.

  In terms of instinctive reaction, in the collection and control of intelligence. It is true that Floris hasn't regarded Sean as an equal.

  This is also the reason why Sean will propose sharing.

  It's just that Floris agreed to Sean's condition so quickly, which surprised Sean a bit, but it can also show from the side that Floris really needs these five thousand barbarians. In other words, the task he currently has is very urgent and very important, otherwise Floris would not have to make such a big concession. Because in the coming year, the real beneficiary will only be him.

   "Then regarding the barbarians, I will transfer them to you at the normal individual transaction price of the slave market."

   "Yes." Floris nodded.

  The so-called regular individual transaction price does not refer to house type transactions. It's an individual transaction.

  House type transaction refers to a transaction of one household.

  Under normal circumstances, each barbarian household is composed of at least two people, both a male and a female husband and wife; there are more individual households. Then there may be around five people. Both a couple plus sons and daughters or parents, etc. And for a house-type transaction like this, the selling price largely depends on the combat power of the barbarians in this household, but no matter whether the combat power is high or low, it is usually not less than ten gold coins. If you add food expenses, Expenses, then it is likely to reach fifteen gold coins per household.

  In house type transactions, it is usually necessary to buy an entire tribe.

  The size of the tribe is naturally large and small. Usually, even the smallest tribe will have two or three hundred households. But such a small-scale barbarian tribe can truly act as a barbarian slave driven by warriors. I am afraid there are only a hundred people or even fewer. For this reason, if you want to form a barbarian army of a normal level, then it is very likely that you will have to buy several tribes, or a medium-sized tribe.

  In this way, for many nobles or warlords, there are obviously too many people wasting food, and such expenses are not affordable for everyone.

  For this reason, there is a targeted sale specifically to satisfy this type of customer.

  Individual transactions.

  The so-called individual trading refers to the trafficking of young and middle-aged barbarians who are mainly slaves between the ages of sixteen and thirty.

The barbarian slaves of this age are almost of the type that can go to the battlefield as soon as they are equipped with weapons, and because they have been "trained" by the slave owners in advance, there is almost no possibility of rioting and rebellion, but the level of combat effectiveness is down. It will also be more mediocre, and it is difficult to do assault operations like those barbarians who trade in apartment types.

  So, whether these individual traded slaves can be restored to the heroic ability of fearless death depends on the technology of the purchaser.

   But even so, even if it is mediocre or even used as cannon fodder in many cases, individual barbarian transactions now occupy a very large share of the slave market, and almost become the mainstream transaction method that replaces the house type transaction. Therefore, with the increase in the share and flow of such transactions, the transaction volume of individual barbarian transactions has gradually increased.

  Nowadays, the transaction volume of each individual barbarian ranges from twenty to one hundred gold coins.

  The higher the transaction volume, the younger the barbarian, and the greater his potential or knowledge, and so on.

This time, in order to show its sincerity, the Union of Chambers of Commerce sent these five thousand barbarians to Sean as young and middle-aged slaves with a value of 50 gold coins. Among them, the barbarian slaves over twenty-five years old only accounted for no more. To three thousand people, the remaining 12,000 people are between 18 and 24 years old. However, even these three thousand barbarians over twenty-five years old are still very rare pieces for the outside world, because they are all Jingu barbarians.

"Are there any requirements for slaves?" Sean said, "Lordske gave me a record sheet. If there is a specific need, then I can give this record sheet to you, and you can choose it. "

"No need." Floris shook his head, "I don't have any requirements for height, age, birthplace, strength, potential, etc. The only thing I require is that they can go to the battlefield immediately. Of course, it is best to know some battles. It doesn’t matter if it’s impossible to cooperate in the battle."

   "If it's a battle formation, I have a lot of good stuff." Sean chuckled lightly. "Three thousand Jingu barbarians."

   Floris' eyes suddenly lit up: "It is indeed a good batch of goods.... The price is not cheap."

"Anyway, it was given by the Chamber of Commerce Alliance. Just give you fifty gold coins." Shaun shrugged. "But the remaining two thousand people don't have such a good product. However, the potential is not bad for the victory. After getting it. If you spend more time training, you should still be able to exert some effects."

   "Yes, it's up to you to arrange it." Floris nodded very satisfied.

If you buy at the market price, how about the two thousand savages? Just the three thousand 25-year-old Jingu savages, and the transaction price for each of them will definitely not be less than eighty. Gold coin. Now he bought 5,000 barbarians with excellent "fineness" for two hundred and fifty thousand. This is equivalent to saying that Sean has given him two thousand barbarians with superior potential and strength.

   "At that time, I will arrange for someone to trade with you."

   "No problem, these will be arranged by you." Maybe it was because it solved a problem that made Floris very difficult. So at this moment, Sean could feel Floris's visibly relaxed mood. It was a truly relieved feeling. This made Sean a little more curious about what Floris was about to do, but Floris didn't say it, and it was really hard for Sean to ask anything. "That's right. I almost forgot to tell you one thing.... That fellow Arnoum is asking for your news."

   "Anom?" Sean was taken aback for a moment. "That former silversmith from Darbion?"

"Yes." Floris nodded, and this time his expression became a little serious. "You broke his good deeds at the auction, and you also caused him to lose two apprentices. This is something that must be paid for. The old man is definitely a very face-slapped thing, so that old man has already begun to inquire about your identity."

   "That's it." Sean hadn't really expected the old man to have this kind of revenge. But even so, he didn't care much.

  "You better be more careful." Seeing Sean's disapproval attitude, Floris couldn't help but speak again. "Since you are also an alchemist, you should know what kind of guys are willing to follow the craftsman. This time, although I rejected the old man's assignment to investigate you, but the old man's social circle, I believe It won’t take long to find out your identity, and it’s obvious that the old man seems to be very serious, because this time he sent out two of his strongest followers, so no matter how you say it, you’d better be careful."

  "The strongest?" Hearing such a word, Xiao En's face showed a bit of curiosity, "How strong?"

"Both of them are high-ranking golden peaks." Floris replied, "It is a bit troublesome to explain. Due to some professional habits, I have conducted investigations on these two people before, so the information about these two people , I will send you the information later.... But to be safe, it is best to leave a stronger follower by your side these days. One of the two is very tricky."

   "I see." Sean nodded, "Thank you very much for your advice."

   "You are welcome, after all, we are now in a mutually beneficial relationship." Floris shrugged, "Okay. Now that the personal affairs have been dealt with, then let's have a business negotiation."

   "Official business?"

"Well, this time Ryan has been upgraded from a principality to a kingdom, and some neighboring countries have also sent people to participate, so according to the default unspoken rules on the mainland, a martial arts festival will be held for competition." Marquis of Floris Shen Sheng said, "This is the easiest way to judge the national strength of each other.... Generally speaking, the martial arts festival is divided into two stages, one is a military competition, and the other is a duel of personal strength. "

   "Your Majesty wants me to play?" Sean already knew what the business was about.

"Yes." Flores nodded. "The two military battles have been determined to be in charge of Lord Asuna G. Evans and Lord Devon Soder Sabre. The individual part of the game, Saint The strong above the domain are not allowed to participate in the battle, so in fact the event is divided into the silver group and the gold group, and people of different strengths compete for the championship. However, given that this time the event has a relatively strong tentative purpose, so It adopts a single elimination system, and there is no loser group."

   "I understand." Sean nodded, "So His Majesty wants me to participate in the silver competition?"

   "Of course, if Lord Shaun agrees, His Majesty the King hopes that you can allow your followers to participate at the same time."

  Hearing this, Xiao En roughly understood what was going on with the martial arts festival that was decided temporarily: "That is to say... in such a competition, there is a great risk of death?"

   "Yes." (To be continued.)