He returned to his seat with a glass of wine in his hand. "Come on, let's eat."
Turning around, Roddy found the hotel manager standing still with a troubled look on his face. He frowned and said, "What's wrong? Don't you understand what I'm saying? "
"I, I … I understand. I'll pass on your opinion right now!"
He was about to cry when he said this. This was equivalent to offending a group of powerful councilors and the speaker …
"Wait," Roddy stopped him. The latter was pleasantly surprised, thinking that Roddy had finally changed his mind. Unexpectedly, Roddy said slowly while pouring wine for Akasha, "I didn't say anything about my opinion. My answer is the same as what I said just now. You don't have to change a word, understand?"
Looking at the hotel manager who was about to cry, Roddy smiled and said to Houdini, "What's wrong? Are you afraid that I'll mess it up? "
"Although I don't want to admit it, I still have to say …" Houdini took a sip of wine and exhaled. "It's so f * cking good to humiliate the entire parliament!"
Of course, the laughter on the table could not reach the outside of the hotel. But it was obvious that after hearing the hotel manager's reply, all the councilors felt embarrassed …
"Arrogant!"
"Who gave him the courage? He can even reject the whole parliament! Does he still have any respect for Lachman?! "
"But the problem is …" Speaker Jeremy pressed his hands down and calmly stated a fact. "Before today, we didn't have any respect for him."
"…"
In the awkward silence, most people looked at the president of Brenka Academy. The latter was looking down at the ground pretending to be an ostrich, as if he was a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water at all. It really made people speechless.
Fortunately, Roddy did not forget to give them some benefits. Erwin and the others who were originally blocking the entrance turned around after receiving Roddy's notice, and only guarded the entrance on the first floor. Thus, the group of councilors were finally able to enter the courtyard of the hotel. They did not expect to talk to Rody anymore. One by one, they rushed to the front of the 'Fire Crossbow' without a care for their image. They stuck out their butts and observed it from a close distance.
The hotel manager stood aside, dumbfounded. Just the day before, he was still laughing in his heart that this thing that Roddy came up with was a joke. But now, looking at the president's posture of crouching on the ground to look at the structure of the territory, this thing … seemed to be very powerful?
"This … this is really cobalt gold!"
"F * ck!"
When someone discovered the pure blue material used to hang the "Firebolt", at least three people cursed at the same time. Even Speaker Jeremy, who was usually calm and collected, was dumbfounded for a long time. Then, they discovered that the "suspension" was not limited to the rear wheels. The front wheels were also made of two cylindrical cobalt gold cylinders. Just by looking at it, the "Firebolt" car used at least 12 kilograms of cobalt gold!
One had to know that a small-sized Floating-Space Tower would at most use 150 kilograms of Cobalt Gold, but this "Fire Crossbow" was only used to create three Floating-Space Towers, yet it used so much Cobalt Gold extravagantly … All the Sorcerers collectively thought of one word: Wastrel!
But after such a sigh, they also realized a fact: this extremely rare material in Lassiman might not be so rare in the Kingdom of Karen.
Maybe … the Kingdom of Karen did not lack this kind of ore?
There were no Barrenna mages among the Sorcerers here, so they all happily discussed it. Obviously, the monopoly of the "Cobalt Gold" could be broken!
Thinking back to the "one gold coin per kilogram" method of selling cobalt, everyone now understood that this was a deliberate slap in the face by the envoy of the Kingdom of Karen. They first sold eight kilograms for 40,000 gold coins, then dumped it for one gold coin per kilogram. It went without saying who the Kingdom of Karen was targeting.
"Luckily I didn't fight with Lotica, otherwise I would have vomited blood …"
The dean of the Moffett Academy sighed softly, and immediately there was a chorus of agreement. "Councilor Lotica really deserves it. Once the days of monopolizing the cobalt mine are over, this guy will soon be persuaded to leave the Parliament."
"It's not a good experience to waste 40,000 gold coins. The dissatisfaction within the academy will definitely not be suppressed."
"He was the one who proposed all the proposals, and he is also the one who has been offending this envoy … If he doesn't give us an explanation, I think it will be very difficult for us to negotiate with this envoy face to face. Today, he actually ordered the 'Executioner' to oppress the envoy of the Kingdom of Karen. The Parliament will not tolerate the existence of such a person who disregards the law! "
At this time, the "late" justice descended on everyone, as if they had always been like this.
"Oh right, isn't Houdini from the Brenka Academy? He should be helping us to salvage our relationship. Why can't we find him now? "
This discussion finally made everyone turn their attention to the dean of the Brenka Academy. In the end, after knowing that Houdini had been demoted, everyone's face turned gloomy like Jeremy's …
Offending one was enough, but throwing one of their own out like a sacrificial pawn. Wasn't this digging a hole and jumping into it?
"Alright, it's useless to talk about this now. I'm afraid what we need to worry about is not only the problem of the cobalt mine."
In the midst of the awkward silence, President Jeremy interrupted them. He stretched out his hand and pointed at the gap in the shell above the rear wheel of the "Firebolt". "From here, you can see that the size, color, and shape of the 16 crystals inside are exactly the same as the four crystals in the auction house …"
"Hiss …"
The group of old guys suddenly gasped. Just a moment ago, they were saying that Lotica was stupid and had been tricked by the Kingdom of Karen. Now, it seemed that except for the Brenka Academy, there was no one else who could escape!
The five academies had taken out almost 100,000 gold coins to buy the four crystals. Including the eight kilograms of cobalt mine, a total of 140,000 gold coins had fallen into the pocket of the envoy of the Kingdom of Karen without a sound.
And they had suffered such a huge loss, but they didn't even have the chance to go in and see Roddy.
"Who said he's a country bumpkin? Isn't this too cruel?! "
"Speak! Did your Brenka Academy collude with him from the very beginning? "
A few straightforward magisters couldn't help but curse. Jeremy and the others looked at the "Firebolt" in front of them and couldn't help but sigh. It was easy to deteriorate the relationship, but it was too difficult to repair it. No matter how they tried to salvage the relationship with the Kingdom of Karen, they were already at a disadvantage …
*****
While the group of councilors was busy observing the "Firebolt", the atmosphere in the Brenka Academy was almost frozen.
The news of the "cobalt mine" being sold in large quantities had spread everywhere. After half a day of investigation, it was now basically confirmed that the ore sold by the Kingdom of Karen in Brexton Avenue was real!
Moreover, the quality of the ore was exactly the same as the one Lotica bought at the auction for 40000 gold coins!
500 kilograms of cobalt gold ore was sold out in a few hours. After that, news of cobalt gold being resold immediately appeared on the black market. After all, the pure dealers didn't keep the ore for experiments. By ten o 'clock in the evening, the price of cobalt gold on the black market had soared to 20,000 gold coins per kilogram …
Logically speaking, it sounded ridiculous for something that could be bought with 1 gold coin to be sold for 20,000 times. However, cobalt was a precious resource that Lessiman would never sell in the market. No one knew if he would sell it off like this in the future.
More than half of the people who bought cobalt gold would keep it for themselves and wouldn't sell it. The remaining dealers would almost double the base price at the auction. This was because the "Noggenfogger Auction House" had to pay in "cash" and couldn't pay in installments. If they had accepted installments at the auction, the price would have soared to tens of thousands of gold coins per kilogram.
But now, the market was suddenly "saturated", causing the price to be inflated and unstable. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the exaggerated price would rapidly fall tomorrow and the day after, and soon stabilize at a low point. But the current situation wasn't optimistic for the Brenka Academy.
The breaking of the monopoly was like a crack in a dam. It meant that the academy would face the crisis of a complete collapse.
"Lord Lotica, the academy's deputy deans are already waiting for you in the conference hall."
Lotica, who had been standing like a statue, finally came to his senses. He walked into the conference room with a somewhat stupefied expression, and then felt as if he was welcoming a violent storm …
Forcefully using 40,000 gold coins had side effects to begin with. Now that it was rebounding in an even more violent form, Lotica was immediately under unimaginable pressure. Almost all the deputy deans requested for him to withdraw from the council …
The academy's management only represented the academy's own interests. When Lotica's behavior deviated from this and might cause the students' interests to be damaged, he immediately became the target of "throwing away the rook to save the king."
From this point of view, the choice of Brenka Academy's management was exactly the same as the one Brenka Academy had made with Houdini.
In the face of interests, they didn't care about feelings and didn't even bother with basic courtesy. If the dean hadn't stood his ground and forcibly suppressed the request for a vote to dismiss him on the spot, Lotica would probably have been stripped of his seat in the council today!
"We all know that cobalt gold can't be monopolized for long. Over the years, we've relied on it to obtain benefits that exceed our expectations. Therefore, breaking the monopoly is not necessarily a bad thing. "
Dean Lasio clearly saw further. "Do you think that the council will really sit back and do nothing if we continue to monopolize it? When the other five academies really join forces to deal with us, how many of us sitting here right now would dare to stand up and take responsibility? "
He tapped the table. "Once something happens, you want to quickly throw the blame away. Which of you can compare to Councilor Lotica's contributions to the academy? Now this voting method is quite smooth, huh? "
The dean's words stabilized the current tense atmosphere. Lotica cast a grateful look at him, but he also understood that he had to stand up and make a statement now. He quickly stood up and said, "The appearance of cobalt gold on the market means that the other party came prepared. We currently don't know how much they have in stock, but what we can be sure of is that … after the council noticed their existence, it's no longer realistic to want to sell the cobalt gold.
"In other words, we still have time. Whether we deal with it, deal with it, or compromise, we have to first see what their attitude is. "
To be able to become a core councilor, Lotica's sense of smell and methods were top-notch. Therefore, after a rational analysis, he finally got the mages present to collectively accept his plan. Only when the dean announced that the meeting was adjourned did he weakly sit back in his seat. When he wanted to pick up a glass of water to drink, Lotica realized that his hand was actually shaking badly.
This was not because of fear, but because of anger and indignation.
The appearance of the envoy from the Kingdom of Karen had directly triggered Barrenna's "high-tension line" and at the same time, forced Lotica into a dead end. Although he had said that he wanted to "negotiate and discuss", in reality, he knew very well that the other party would probably not give him the chance to do so!
From the beginning of the whole incident, he had been using the flag to make things difficult for Roddy. If the only solution was to lower his head and beg for Roddy's forgiveness … then he might as well kill Lotica!
So for Lotica, he actually only had one choice.
The only thing he lacked was the right time.
*****
On the 6th of October, the "Crown of Late Autumn" competition continued.
The news of the "Duriel Ring Rally" record being broken had attracted widespread attention. For the first time, the name "Kingdom of Karen" also entered the eyes of most people. And when they paid attention to the contestants from this country in the competition, they suddenly realized that this seemingly small country was far more valiant than they had imagined!
All the competitions that involved physical strength were basically won by a guy from this country named "Irwin".
Exaggeratedly, even the top three and top four were contestants from the Kingdom of Karen.
And today, the competition on the racetrack was also shocking. The contestants from the Bindu Nation, who had basically won the word "equestrian" in previous competitions, were actually evenly matched with the knights from the Kingdom of Karen!
The intense competition made the viewing experience skyrocket, drawing waves of cheers. But in the end, the champion was still won by the little khan of the Bindu Nation, Duke. David and his comrades were placed second and third by a hair's breadth.
David could not help but admire the little khan's equestrian skills. Although the "Dragon Lance Knights" had the best treatment and high-intensity training, there was still a gap between them and this race that grew up on the back of a horse. Still, they did not feel any pressure even if they did not win first place, because Roddy had originally let them participate with the purpose of "relaxing".
After the competition, David did not forget to go up and chat a little. The little khan, on the other hand, was extremely nervous before, fearing that he would lose face if he did not win first place. Now that his wish was fulfilled, his mood was much better. Although he was hostile towards the Kingdom of Karen, he also respected the strong. So he did not refuse David's conversation. After a few simple words, both parties went their separate ways.
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