Salin squinted his eyes. Neris became excited when she saw his expression. Master hadn't made this expression in a long time. This was going to make the Ironblood Duke lose money.
"Duke, only Master and I can make this armor. Even if you have the blueprints and Master Inbos, you can't make it. So, I really won't sell it. If you order a hundred of these, I'll give you one. "
The Ironblood Duke was about to vomit blood. Salin was referring to the Insect Angel Armor made purely from the shell of a magic beast. Salin wanted dragon scales to exchange for such armor.
In other words, he could only get the best armor if he gave enough dragon scales.
Dragon scales themselves were also good materials for making armor. However, the Ironblood Duke only had one Master Alchemist, Inbos, so he couldn't waste dragon scales. In his trade with Salin, dragon scales had always been the least. Because of their importance, the Ironblood Duke strictly controlled them.
"I only want the scales on the back of a dragon that can be ridden," Salin added.
The Ironblood Grand Duke was speechless. This kind of buying and selling method was practically coercion. Although the armor Salin gave him was good, it wasn't made from the shell of a high-level magic beast. Using it to exchange for the best dragon scales, Salin was robbing.
However, the armor that came with it moved him.
It wasn't for sale at all. In other words, Salin treated this armor as his own high-level equipment and wouldn't sell it in the future. If the Ironblood Duke wanted it, he could only get a share of it through this trade.
"Duke, how many sets of armor do you plan to buy?"
"Give me ten thousand first. No, I want twenty thousand!" The Ironblood Duke gritted his teeth and said. He cursed Salin in his heart. What a Scochenya vampire.
"Duke, what about the other armors?"
"A hundred thousand each," the Duke answered without hesitation. He had calculated this. He knew that Salin had to provide a large number of armors to Faka, so he couldn't sell too many.
"Okay!" Salin said and threw out a list with the materials he needed and the corresponding amount. The Ironblood Duke looked at the list and sighed in relief. Apart from having to pay the highest grade of dragon scales, Salin's other parts were a very fair trade.
Just as he was feeling a little depressed, Salin began to take out equipment from his spatial equipment. He said to the Ironblood Grand Duke, "I'll bring you the metal armor and composite armor later. I'll leave the armor you need here first. I know you won't go back on your word."
The Ironblood Grand Duke immediately cheered up. This sort of high-level equipment trade had always been done slowly. Salin would first forge it for his own use before providing it to outsiders.
Now that Salin had taken out 20,000 sets at once, his strength would immediately increase.
"Duke, I value our alliance. I even hope that we can continue to sign it after a hundred years," Salin said to the Ironblood Grand Duke as he took out his equipment.
The Ironblood Grand Duke could only accept such a blatant display of goodwill.
"However, I really don't have the confidence to maintain a friendly relationship with Faka. Duke, why don't we sign a personal contract that only targets Faka? "
The Ironblood Grand Duke glanced at Inpos, who nodded. There wouldn't be any loopholes in such a contract. A contract that targeted a third party was difficult to set up a trap in a magic contract. Inpos was a level-ten mage, so he knew what Salin was thinking. After all, Faka was a mage and wasn't reliable.
With Faka around, the alliance between the two sides would be closer.
The Ironblood Grand Duke agreed. This kind of targeted contract would be maintained until Faka died. Before that, the contract would be binding on both sides. The Ironblood Grand Duke also became vigilant. Faka's power had developed without a sound, and he actually needed more than a million sets of insect angel armor.
The Church was a behemoth that had caused the Tanggulas Empire to be on the verge of collapse. Even if the Church was broken up, each part of its power could still become a powerful force on its own.
Although the Inquisition had lost its six chief inquisitors, it still had Black Prison. The Cardinal Council didn't have Dinicio, but there were two messengers. Faka of the oracles had endured for a long time. Now that he suddenly had many warriors, the number of mages wouldn't be too few either.
The main fighting power of the Divine Envoys were the Ascetics. These Ascetics were not counted within the Vatican. Many monks didn't even go to church to pray.
Monks were much scarier than zealots. In the hearts of monks, there was no pain or joy. Their goal was to enter the Divine Kingdom. For this, even their faith was a little weak.
Monks were a group of people that were hard to understand. This was the case for mages as well.
Faka had a large number of monks under his command.
In the Dragon Palace, Salin and the Ironblood Grand Duke discussed the content of the contract in detail. Then, they used a high-level magic scroll to complete the contract.
After signing the contract, the Ironblood Grand Duke said to Salin, "I know you have better armor. I don't have enough mages under me, but I have many powerful warriors. I need armor specially made for human warriors. My warriors can all reach level seven or above. "
Reach level seven?
Seeing Salin's confused expression, the Ironblood Grand Duke said, "The ancient warriors on the ancient warship will kill me sooner or later. Do you think my family will rely on this? On my dragon island, I have an army that has been trained with dragon blood for a long time. If I want to, I can conquer at least half of the Cloud Flow Empire. "
"Half?"
"And a few powerful dukes. As for the Cloud Flow imperial family? They're nothing outside of Cloudmist City. "
Salin nodded. From the Ironblood Grand Duke's words, he understood something. Cloudmist City didn't look like much, but it had absolute defensive and offensive power.
With Cloudmist City, the imperial family's safety could be guaranteed. Although the various nobles were powerful, they had never thought of rebelling. After all, there was no point in rebelling without killing all the members of the imperial family.
"Duke, you're not thinking of giving me the recipe for the Dragon Blood Warriors, are you?" Salin joked.
Unexpectedly, the Ironblood Grand Duke said, "Your Highness, if you want to buy it, I can sell it to you."
Salin's heart jumped, and then he laughed. There wasn't much point in obtaining it, but he would have to pay a huge price. He didn't know how to raise dragons, and he didn't have the coordinates to the Dragon Plane. Where would he find dragon blood?
Furthermore, raising the Dragonblood Warriors would probably take several generations before they could reach a certain scale. Even if he bought the recipe, he wouldn't be able to use it.
"Duke, what do you want?" Salin didn't refuse. Since they were in an alliance, they had to give each other benefits. Now that he had obtained enough Dragon Scales, he could forge Dragon Scale Armor for his followers.
"I want a safe demiplane to raise my future Dragon Blood Warriors," the Ironblood Grand Duke said.
Salin suddenly realized that he could do the same. And he didn't even need to find a demiplane. Shika's metal totem was the most suitable space for Dragon Blood Warriors to live in.
He couldn't raise enough Dragon Blood Warriors now, but that didn't mean he couldn't in the future. The strength of Shika's metal totem depended on how strong the creatures inside were.
If the totem was filled with Dragon Blood Warriors, then even if they had ordinary skills, as long as their life force was strong enough, they could provide endless power for Shika.
"Unless you provide enough dragon blood, Duke. What's a demiplane? It's a space where you can develop a kingdom! "
The Ironblood Grand Duke hesitated. "Dragon blood? Raising a dragon consumes a lot. If you can provide me with enough magic potions, I'll provide you with dragon blood. That way, we'll have a chance to develop. "
Salin thought of the situation he saw when he first arrived at the palace on the sea. He guessed that the Ironblood Grand Duke knew something, or that an even bigger disaster was about to happen, which was why the Ironblood Grand Duke was considering a way out.
Salin's guess was right. The Ironblood Grand Duke wanted a demiplane to move Dragon Island in. Most of his family's power was concentrated on Dragon Island. Dragon Island's wealth was immeasurable. As long as he protected Dragon Island and had a hundred years to develop, even if his family's power on the Myers Continent was destroyed, he could still make a comeback.
Salin sighed. The Ironblood Grand Duke was indeed bold and had ideas. This transaction was the biggest one of all.
He was even willing to take out the recipe for Dragon Blood Warriors. This person definitely didn't rely on his ancestors' savings to become so powerful. A family couldn't have such a person every generation. Maybe the Ironblood Grand Duke would really become the emperor of a great empire.
In the eyes of mages, nobles who stubbornly guarded their family's secrets would be eliminated sooner or later. If the Ironblood Grand Duke kept using his secrets to exchange for more things, his family would continue to expand until it became a colossus that ruled a plane.
The Ironblood Grand Duke was already a level-10 True Martial. Logically speaking, it wasn't strange for him to live for a thousand years. As long as he didn't die in battle, this thousand years would be enough for his family's power to reach an ideal level.
Although Salin was the king of a country, he was also a mage. He wouldn't fight for hegemony on the Myers Continent. At most, his country would move to a more suitable demiplane for development.
A mage nation that stood aloof from worldly affairs. This was Salin's dream, and it was also Rex's dream.
Salin didn't leave the palace on the sea immediately. The Ironblood Grand Duke had a teleportation array here. He directly sent over the dragon scales that Salin needed, and added a large amount of dragon blood.
Salin knew about the existence of some demiplanes, but the only suitable one for the Ironblood Grand Duke was the connection point within the Cloud Flow Empire.
This required two people to verify it together. The Ironblood Grand Duke obviously wouldn't pay Salin just for a coordinate point. Salin only received a down payment, a total of 120 thousand kilograms of dragon blood.
Salin finally understood why the Ironblood Grand Duke didn't seem strong. This guy actually knew how to enter the Dragon Plane and hunt low-level dragons.
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