The king of Fareins was nicknamed Edward, but most people called him His Majesty Fareins, or His Majesty the King.
Edward was a fairly common name that had at least eighty thousand if not a hundred thousand names in the entire world, and after he ascended to the throne, no one dared to call him that to his face again.
So, when Roland called him King Edward, he was stunned for a long time. Then, he remembered that it was his nickname.
"It's been twenty years." Edward clicked his tongue unhappily. "I almost forgot what my name was."
Roland shrugged. After all, it was Stephanie who said the king was called Edward.
Although under normal circumstances, he should be called His Majesty Fareins, Stephanie was also Fareins, so … it was easier to simply call him by his name.
It was a family dinner. In the side hall of the royal palace, His Majesty the King sat at the head of the table, and on his left sat Her Majesty the Queen, who had been crowned for less than three years, and then across from the Queen sat Stephanie. As for Roland, he sat across from the king.
The king took a sip of fruit wine from a golden cup studded with colorful broken gems, then said, "Roland, I heard you have some business to talk to me about? What business? "
"Population."
"When did you become a slave trader?" The king scratched his head somewhat awkwardly. "We in Fareins prohibit slave trading, although this order is almost nonexistent for the great nobles, who still secretly trade slaves. But you're a Mage … You don't have much power here. You're just backed by the Association of Mages and Stephanie. You do have some power, but it's not enough for you to openly sell slaves on our land. "
This king seemed to be a bit of a blabbermouth, telling an outsider about the dark side of his own country. Was it appropriate?
"It's not slave trading, it's to rescue some humans from the Realm of Devils," said Roland.
Now Edward was interested.
He put down his knife and fork and asked curiously, "Are you trying to say that you Golden Sons are ready to attack the Realm of Devils?"
"Indeed."
The king pondered for a moment and said with a smile, "I know that you Golden Sons generally have a strong sense of justice, so I can understand that you plan to rescue the humans who were abducted by the devils in the past, but the question is … what benefits can we in Fareins get from it!"
Roland said, "A large population."
"Not enough."
Not enough?
In this world, population was very important.
Because of the high mortality rate, even the population density of Fareins was not high.
Another reason was that their territory was extremely large. If one had to find a comparison, it would be the Clown Kingdom plus the Kangaroo Kingdom.
Given that the population density was not high, it would be easy for such a country to accommodate one or two hundred million people.
Moreover, the people in this world were easy to feed. As long as they were given a piece of land and a house, they would be able to feed themselves.
Of course, that was under the condition that there were no natural or man-made disasters.
And if a country suddenly had an additional one or two hundred million people, as long as they could support them, it would definitely be an extremely high resource.
Population could also be converted into combat power.
The nobles everywhere were happy to recruit a group of tenant farmers for their empty territories.
As for the King who had the real power to distribute the population, as long as he operated, he would definitely obtain greater benefits.
These were real benefits … Even so, he wasn't satisfied?
Roland frowned.
Looking at Roland's puzzled expression, Edward clapped his hands and said, "Indeed, what you're offering is very interesting and of great benefit, worth a lot of gold coins. But the problem is that I'm the King, and I have enough gold coins, I don't need so much of this useless stuff, do you understand? I need more interesting, happier things. "
With that, Roland understood instantly.
"Your Majesty, please build an expeditionary force to join us. Usually, they don't need to fight, but we, the Golden Sons, will announce to the public that this expedition plan was single-handedly facilitated by His Majesty Edward. It was you who provided the funds and intelligence that allowed us to enter the Realm of Devils and rescue those miserable compatriots."
Hahahahaha!
Edward laughed heartily. He poured himself a glass of wine, raised his head, and drank it, then continued to laugh. "Smart, it's nice to talk to someone like you."
"Not at all, it's all because of your foresight, His Majesty Edward."
Roland had never liked to flatter people, but thinking of those miserable humans who were raised as pigs by the devils, Roland felt that it was not bad for him to flatter others for the sake of justice.
When Edward heard this, he laughed heartily again, appearing quite happy.
Stephanie looked at Roland rather in surprise. In her impression, Roland was extremely arrogant … the kind that had no boundaries.
She even had a feeling that Roland might not even care about the gods.
But now he was flattering … not for money, not for power, but simply to settle some of the rescued humans. He was flattering her arrogant, arrogant, and extremely unreliable father!
That was really hard on him.
And the queen, who was sitting on the side, was also a little surprised. It was the first time she had seen the king so happy.
Indeed … the more Edward looked at Roland, the more he liked him.
He didn't hold his liquor very well, and he was already a little drunk after a few drinks, and his mouth was even more unguarded.
He would say anything he wanted.
For example, what kind of relationship he had with a certain noble lady, and what kind of romantic encounters he had some time ago.
The Grand Secretary was actually impotent, and then General Biden's youngest son and sister-in-law had secrets like that that couldn't be said.
Roland frowned as he listened and repeatedly gave Stephanie looks, telling her to keep her father in check.
But Stephanie's expression was very calm, as if she was used to it.
It was the queen who was a little fidgety.
Although he was a bit tipsy, Edward wasn't really drunk. Seeing that Roland was winking at Stephanie from time to time, he said with a smile, "By the way, I heard that you and my eldest daughter have a rather ambiguous relationship!"
"No." Roland flatly denied it.
Stephanie also shook her head. "Roland keeps his chastity, he only has two women!"
"Heh, who are you kidding." Edward naturally didn't believe it. "There is no pure friendship between men and women at all. Besides, my daughter is so beautiful. "
Roland was a little depressed.
He suddenly felt that … this king didn't look like a king at all.
Instead, he was a bit like a street thug.
"So, Roland, do you think my daughter tastes good?" Edward continued to ask.
Roland sighed. "I really don't have that kind of relationship with Her Highness the First Princess."
"Heh!" Edward had a "keep pretending" look on his face. "My daughter is beautiful, has a good figure, is as beautiful as a goddess, so sexy, so tempting! If she weren't my daughter, I would … "
A glass of red fruit wine was poured over Edward's head.
The king's drunkenness was immediately mostly sobered up.
Stephanie said gloomily, "Father, I hope your mouth can say less such misleading things, it's because you keep saying that that I have an extremely bad reputation in the capital."
Edward wiped his face. "It's just that those people have their own dirty minds."
The queen covered her face with both hands, as if she couldn't bear to look.
Stephanie sat back in her chair and stopped talking.
"All right. Let's get down to business. " King Edward wiped his hair and face with a white handkerchief and said, "I will send an expeditionary army, but this expeditionary army is full of noble soldiers, so don't expect them to go to the battlefield. But if anyone dares to disobey you and mess around … you can teach them a lesson, got it? "
Roland nodded. When it came to business, His Majesty was quite reliable.
"So Roland, I have a question I've been holding back for a long time to ask you."
"Your Majesty, please ask!"
"I heard that you seduced the queen of Hollevin, how did you do it?" Then he pointed to the queen beside him. "Try it on her, I want to see what you're capable of to make a queen willing to go with a poor Mage like you."
The queen's face was pale!
Roland felt that this king was f * cking sick and almost flipped the table.
Then, before Roland was about to lose his temper, Stephanie pulled Roland away.
The two of them left the palace and took a carriage to Stephanie's manor.
In the carriage, Stephanie said apologetically, "I'm sorry to have made you suffer."
"It's fine, although I do feel a little angry, it doesn't seem to be a big deal to endure it." Roland waved his hand.
"My father, he's a big boy." Stephanie's expression was also quite helpless. "According to my grandfather, Father has been like this since he was a child, fond of interrogating other people's privacy, and at the same time, unable to control his mouth and talking nonsense everywhere."
"Although your father is a jerk, like a gangster, he is still one of the most powerful people in the world." Roland closed his eyes, feeling a bit of a headache. "This is simply a disaster."
Stephanie rolled her eyes at Roland helplessly.
Although her father was indeed a jerk, she would certainly feel a little awkward hearing it from an outsider.
After all, it was her father!
At the gate of the manor, before Stephanie got out of the car, she asked, "How's the progress on your floating city now?"
"The completion rate is about one percent, I think."
"That's a little slow." Stephanie frowned.
She wanted to have a shelter on the floating city, so that in case something really happened, she would have a place and opportunity to make a comeback.
This was very important to her, and the sooner the floating city was built, the more at ease she would feel.
"Everything is difficult at the beginning." Roland thought about it and said, "Next, my strength will slowly increase, and the construction of the floating city will be greatly accelerated."
Stephanie nodded. "I believe you, just waiting for your good news. Right … I'll help you keep an eye on the expeditionary army, and I'll help you train the people in that team beforehand so that they won't be so unruly. "
"Thank you."
"No problem, come back in half a month and take the expeditionary army away."
The two of them soon ended the conversation.
Roland teleported back to the Realm of Devils, found the vanguard conference room, and found Solisa and the others.
"How did it go on your side?" Seeing Roland, a group of people immediately gathered around.
Now the rescue was going on in an orderly manner, and a third of the people in the breeding city had been moved to the main plane, then escorted to Wetland City by other players from Sicily.
Most of the humans who were farmed, after being blessed by Detoxification and Healing, could live healthily.
But there were still a small number of people who died.
Their bodies were dry and thin, and there were even wriggling white maggots on the surface of their bodies.
The breeding city … What kind of good environment and conditions could it have?
Those bone devils and mind flayers only needed to ensure that most of the humans didn't die and didn't get infected by the plague.
A hundred or so weak humans … If they died, they could just throw them outside the city.
After all, humans were born, and new human babies would soon appear.
The more the rescue, the more the central area of the city was cleared, the more appalling the tragedy became.
Many bones were piled up in the center of the city.
Based on the teeth marks on them, a picture of raw humans could appear in people's minds.
And now … they began to intentionally ask the succubi about the breeding city.
It had been determined that there were three breeding cities within three or four hundred kilometers of this city.
After saving this one, they would have to save the next one.
In other words, at least three hundred thousand or four hundred thousand people would have to be saved.
However, Wetland City could only hold two hundred thousand more people at most, and any more and the city wouldn't be able to bear it.
Therefore, a city or country that could reach a large population had to be arranged as soon as possible.
That was also why Solisa was anxious.
"It's done." Roland nodded and said, "But we have a rather important problem now. Even if Fareins is willing to accept these people, it's not very realistic for them to trek nearly two thousand kilometers to Fareins. A small number of people are easy to handle, just rent some carriages, but millions, tens of millions of people, how many carriages are needed, and if they just walk, how many people will die during the migration? "
The group of people froze.
They hadn't thought about this problem before.
At this moment, someone was streaming, and the comments in the livestream quieted down because of this sentence.
"Do we have no choice but to move them from one fire pit to another?" Solisa was rather upset.
"I have an idea, and I need your cooperation."
Solisa's eyes lit up. "Go ahead."
"You all know that I know how to teleport multiple people."
Everyone nodded.
Roland continued, "But the cost of teleportation is too expensive, so I'll find a way to reduce its cost to an affordable level."
"How long will it take?"
"At least a month," Roland continued. "That is to say, if you rescue more people, then you'll need to take care of their food for at least a month, and it's not easy to feed hundreds of thousands of people."
Everyone was silent.
Their guild had two to three hundred people, and the logistics were under a lot of pressure.
It was too difficult for them to take care of the food and drink of hundreds of thousands of people.
"They don't eat much, just two meals a day." Solisa gritted her teeth. "Fifty thousand people, the Phoenix Guild will take this number of people."
At this moment, the chairmen of the other guilds also stood out.
"I'll take thirty thousand."
"I'll take twenty thousand."
"Forty-five thousand."
In a short while, people from a dozen guilds took half a million people.
And in the livestream, more people were shouting.
"We'll be small, but we can also take three thousand."
"We'll take five thousand."
"Six thousand."
"I'll definitely come up with a cheap magic array in a month."
Roland shook his cloak and immediately disappeared in front of everyone, leaving only a blue light.
Cool and straightforward!
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