Soon, Li Huailin and Misty Rain arrived at the imperial palace. He didn't expect the Elven Queen to take the initiative to come to the main city of the humans during the war. It was a very bold move, but it also showed her attitude. The war was about to end. At least the elves didn't want to fight anymore.
Although the war was declared by the Lancaster Duchy and the Elven Kingdom, the humans also declared war on the Elven Kingdom. Therefore, it wasn't wrong for the Elven Queen to negotiate with Anthony. However, Li Huailin was a little anxious. If Anthony and the Elven Queen reached an agreement, then he wouldn't be able to get any money. Therefore, when he heard about this, Li Huailin immediately rushed over.
"Duke Aquitaine, the court meeting has begun. We're waiting for you now. Please come with me." As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the palace, he saw a minister waiting anxiously. When he saw Li Huailin, he immediately rushed over and said.
"Come," said Li Huailin as he waved his hand.
The meeting was held in the main hall of the palace. It was considered an important discussion on national affairs. Basically, all the ministers were present and stood in a circle below. Sitting in the middle of the stage was Anthony. Beside him was Queen Rachel, who was facing east and sitting next to Anthony. Both sides hadn't started discussing the real issue yet. They were just chatting because the main character, Li Huailin, hadn't arrived yet.
"The Duke of Aquitaine requests an audience …" A voice was heard at the entrance. Immediately, everyone in the palace looked at the entrance of the main hall, especially Elven Queen Rachel. She was very curious about the appearance of the human who annihilated the Silverwind Guards.
It was completely different from what she imagined. There were two people at the entrance. It was obvious that the young man was the Duke of Aquitaine, but he was too young. He looked like he was in his twenties. He was skinny and not tall. He didn't look like a soldier at all. Was this the Duke who annihilated the Silverwind Guards and pillaged the Elven Kingdom?
At the same time, Li Huailin also noticed the Elven Queen on the stage. The NPC's name was written in red, Rachel Chenyu. She looked like a beautiful woman in her thirties. She had the charm of a mature woman. Just by looking at Li Huailin, he felt like she was seducing him. Her aura was also very strong. She should be the kind of person with some brains. Come to think of it, this 30-year-old Elven Queen had lived for a long time. It was hard to judge the age of the elves. The little girl he knew, Vanessa, was more than 200 years old …
Speaking of Vanessa, Vanessa was currently standing below. Beside her were a few elves that Shi Feng had never seen before. Judging from their attire, they should be elven ministers. They were probably here to accompany the Queen in negotiations. However, this group of people was nothing special. Li Huailin only glanced at them casually, and the few elven ministers immediately turned their heads away. They didn't dare to look Li Huailin in the eye. The human ministers were also in the same situation. The main reason was that Li Huailin was too ferocious. Even his own people were afraid of him, let alone those from the enemy kingdom.
"Huailin, you're here. Over here," Anthony said to Li Huailin as he pointed to the seat on his right. This seat happened to be facing the Elven Queen. Anthony's arrangement was really good.
Li Huailin didn't say anything. He walked straight to the seat in front of him. The servants beside him reacted quickly. They immediately took out a small chair and placed it next to Li Huailin's seat, allowing the Duchess, Misty Rain, to sit down.
"Hello, Duke of Aquitaine." Before Li Huailin could sit down, the Elven Queen, Rachel, stood up and said to Li Huailin in a deep voice, "I am the ninth Queen of the Elven Kingdom, Rachel Chenyu. Nice to meet you."
Li Huailin didn't expect her to have such a good attitude even after he had killed so many of her people. Li Huailin nodded and went up to shake her hand, saying, "Hello, Madam."
"Huailin, Madam Rachel has just requested for a ceasefire. I would like to ask for your opinion as the commander-in-chief," Anthony said. After all, this war was started by Li Huailin, and Li Huailin was the one fighting. Even the second legion's food was provided by Li Huailin. Before the empire could do anything, the Elven Kingdom couldn't hold on anymore. Hence, he mainly wanted to ask Li Huailin's opinion on whether or not they should continue fighting.
"A truce?" Li Huailin said as he sat down. "It's not a problem, but Lancaster Duchy has suffered great losses. The people can't survive anymore. If the Elven Queen is willing to compensate us, I don't want to fight like this."
Misty Rain rolled his eyes. The people can't survive, but it's all your fault, okay?
However, the Elven Queen didn't say anything because Vanessa had already mentioned this to her. Indeed, the human army had the upper hand. According to the greedy nature of the humans, it was impossible for them to retreat so easily. Queen Rachel, who had been dealing with the humans for hundreds of years, naturally knew this, which was why she came here.
After meeting Vanessa yesterday, Rachel began to pay attention to the situation of the Orcs in the east. Just like what Li Huailin had said, the Orcs were making their move. It seemed like the invasion would happen in a few days. After losing the Silverwind Guards, it would be very difficult for the elves to stop the Orcs. If the second legion refused to retreat, they wouldn't even be able to protect their main city, and the entire elven race would be exterminated. After understanding this, Rachel decisively went to Blessed City and called a truce with the humans.
How could she not hate Li Huailin? The Silverwind Guards alone had lost 100,000 people in this invasion. Tens of thousands of civilians were affected by the burning, killing, and looting. Now, she had to fork out money for them to retreat. However, she had no choice. She couldn't win, so she could only endure it.
"That's true. I wonder how much does the Duke want," Rachel said.
"Ores, 6,000,000 in cash, and something called Tree of Life Particles," Li Huailin said in one breath.
Misty Rain facepalmed. You really don't know how to do business. At a certain level, you could've at least raised the price a bit and then slowly haggled back. You've already stated your bottom line right from the start.
"Ores? 6,000,000 in cash? Tree of Life Particles? " Rachel was slightly stunned, but she also understood what Li Huailin meant. Li Huailin had already thought of the Keimler region. Both sides had fought because of this. Now that the other party had won, there was no reason not to go. Tree of Life Particles? Rachel also knew that this was a special product of the Elf Clan, but it wasn't very valuable. At most, the Elf Clan would lose a little bit of income from trade. However, 6 million gold coins in cash was enough to kill the Elf Clan. She really couldn't afford that much.
"Duke Aquitaine, we can give you the Keimler region and the particles of the Tree of Life, but we really can't give you six million gold coins," Rachel said.
Anthony also frowned. Indeed, six million gold coins was a little too much. Even a powerful human empire would only have an annual income of about 15 million gold coins. Six million gold coins was indeed a huge sum of money, and the elves would definitely not be able to afford it.
"If you can't afford it all at once, I can give you three years with 10% interest. Just 2,210,000 per year will do." Li Huailin revealed the plan that they had discussed earlier. "If you can't even pay 2,210,000, what are you doing here?"
"2,210,000 …" The Elf Queen was stunned. Originally, the highest compensation she could accept was about 2,000,000. However, if it was in installments, she could really afford to pay 2,000,000 a year. However, if that was the case, the elves would be in dire straits for the next three years. Especially now that the Silverwind Guards had been wiped out, they would need a lot of money to rebuild their troops. If they were to carry this debt, it would be impossible to rebuild within three years.
"I think Duke Aquitaine's suggestion is not bad. I wonder what the Elf Queen thinks." To be honest, Anthony was a little impressed by his wife, Marina. Last night, Marina told Anthony that the elves would immediately send someone to negotiate. Moreover, the price that Li Huailin asked for wasn't much different from Marina's.
"Alright …" Rachel thought for a while and suddenly nodded. "I agree with Duke Aquitaine's condition."
"Oh?" Li Huailin was a little surprised. He wasn't afraid that the elves wouldn't agree, because they weren't allowed to disagree now. However, he didn't expect them to agree so readily. "Very wise."
"We don't have a choice, do we?" Rachel said.
"It's good that you know." Li Huailin said. "I say, you still have some brains. Why did you send such an unreliable general to lead …"
"…" Rachel was really speechless after hearing Li Huailin's question. Selena was the best general under her command. Otherwise, she wouldn't have appointed her as the captain of the Silverwind Guards. To put it bluntly, when Selena was at war, a human in his twenties was still drinking milk at home. However, the problem was that Selena was really defeated by this guy, and she was utterly defeated. She couldn't lose any more, and had no soldiers to lose to. How was she supposed to answer that …
"Since the Elf Queen has agreed, I will let Prime Minister Mach draft the peace treaty. What do you think, Madam?" Anthony quickly interrupted when he saw that the situation wasn't right.
"No problem, Human King." Rachel was rather shrewd, and immediately changed the topic.
"Done," Li Huailin said happily to Misty Rain, as though he was presenting a treasure.
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