At the same time, in the Kadir Family.
In Patriarch Frank's study, a figure shrouded in black mist was sitting in Frank's original seat. Charles and Morton were standing in front of him with their heads lowered. Their humble attitude was even more humble than when they were facing Frank.
"Do you have any orders?"
"Where's Frank?"
A man's hoarse voice came from under the black mist. During the Glorious Festival, the whole of Alinx was covered in divine spells. Their people had to leave the place temporarily, so they did not know where Frank was now.
"Father has gone to train. He has been coughing blood for a while now …"
At this point, Charles secretly glanced at the man in the black mist, but he could not see his face. Charles lowered his head in disappointment and continued, "Father said that during this period, you can contact me if you need anything. I can make all the decisions."
"I see … Seems like Frank has found the key point …"
A strange laughter came from the black mist. A moment later, he said to Charles, "If that's the case, I'll leave this matter to you."
"Please give me your orders."
"Gather all the elites of your family and head to the Haer Zorm mine."
"Huh?"
Charles was stunned. "The Haer Zorm mine has been sold to Tang En —"
"I know, but …"
The black mist suddenly stood up and laughed sinisterly. "Haer Zorm is no longer a mine. Now, it has become a gate … a gate to another world …"
"Gate?"
"Yes, the gate to the underground world has been opened there."
"The underground world!?"
Charles was shocked. "Since the second Chaos invasion, all the passages to the underground world have been sealed!"
"So, this is the will of the heavens …"
The man in the black mist muttered. "The leader must still be waiting for our arrival … After a hundred years of hibernation, we will welcome a glorious future under your leadership!"
"What did you say?"
"Don't ask so much. Just do as I say!"
The man in the black mist said coldly. "Gather the elites and arm them to the teeth. This time, there will be a great battle!"
Charles felt a chill in his heart. "Yes!"
"That's right. Seeing that you've put in so much effort, I'll grant you the power you've been waiting for."
Charles was immediately overjoyed. In the next moment, the shrouded man suddenly appeared in front of Charles. Black tentacles split from his body and lifted Charles up. Then, a few of the tentacles drilled into Charles's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. Charles laughed wildly as he accepted the power of the black tentacles. His body quickly swelled up and his bulging veins gradually turned black. Soon, his eyes also turned black.
"Phew … power … this is the feeling of being filled with power …"
After Charles landed on the ground, he clenched his fists and an explosive power surged through his arms. A black light flashed in his eyes and his pupils returned to normal. The black blood vessels on his arms also returned to their normal color.
He casually glanced at Morton, and Morton actually felt a strange and chilling feeling.
The corners of Charles's mouth curled up into a contemptuous smile. He casually touched the wall lightly. With a loud bang, the entire wall turned into flying ash. A maid who had just passed by outside saw the figure shrouded in black fog in the study room. She was immediately petrified.
"Mon, monster …"
The shrouded man casually said, "Get rid of her. Don't let the news leak."
"No problem!"
Charles had just obtained power and wanted to try it out. With a sinister smile, he stretched out his hand. The black fog gathered into a ferocious python that coiled around the maid. With a light squeeze, the maid's life force was sucked dry by the python and turned into a pile of bones.
"Hiss —"
Charles felt the surging life force feedback from the python and a strange flush appeared on his face. He was intoxicated by the indescribable pleasure. Now, he finally understood why his father had to kill a few people every few days after receiving the blessing.
Morton, who had never had a chance to show off, looked at his brother with envy and fear. He had finally obtained the power he had always dreamed of. Then, the next one would be him, right?
But …
Just like his father, Frank, Morton also felt an indescribable sense of strangeness from Charles.
Was it really what he wanted to obtain such power and become like this?
"Morton, you don't have to envy your brother," the shrouded man said to Morton. "Perform well and offer your loyalty to the great Lord of Darkness. You will also receive the same blessing. When the time comes, your family's contributions will make you the right-hand man of the Lord of Darkness."
"Yes! I will work hard! "
Morton hurriedly lowered his head, except for a layer of cold sweat on his forehead.
Damn it! What nonsense am I thinking!
Power! All I need is power!
Her father and brother had already received the blessings. She had to follow them!
Ellington.
"So, this is the reason why you want me to work overtime all night!?"
The furious Grandia almost could not restrain herself from pouncing on Tang En and biting him. "Are you crazy!? A hundred thousand people! Three months' worth of food! I can't accelerate the ripening in such a short time! Why don't you just kill me! "
"Wrong, it's not a hundred thousand people."
Tang En corrected her. "It's a hundred thousand dwarves. Subterranean dwarves are still dwarves. As for their appetite … you can refer to Bryan."
"Uh, there's no point in referring to me, right?"
Bryan scratched his head, blushing under the stares of everyone. "My appetite is relatively large among the dwarves."
"Then we'll discount it. Bryan, you can eat fifteen silver coins' worth of food a day. They'll calculate it as ten silver coins."
Fiona said straightforwardly. "A dwarf's daily appetite is ten silver coins. Ignoring the fluctuations in the exchange rate, a hundred thousand dwarves would be ten thousand gold coins a day. Three months and ninety days, that's nine hundred thousand gold coins worth of food."
"It doesn't look like a lot."
Cat Cichiro, Vanilla, said curiously. "We earned twenty million gold coins from the patent auction. This amount of gold coins is nothing, right?"
Fiona and Tang En looked at each other and smiled bitterly. "Vanilla, you may have misunderstood one thing … having money and having food are two different things."
Vanilla was puzzled. "What do you mean?"
Although she was a cat-eared girl, a cat-eared girl with a body full of muscles was really not cute. Tang En shook his head and threw away some bad thoughts. He explained, "Although nine hundred thousand gold coins is nothing to Ellington now, it's a terrifying amount of food. Even if you have money, you can't buy it."
Fiona flipped through the book and said, "Ellington has a rare harvest this year. We've harvested 1,130 tons of wheat. In addition, we've been constantly buying food outside, and recently, Grandia has been speeding up the ripening of food. Our total food reserves have only just broken through three thousand tons."
"Only three thousand tons?"
Before Vanilla could speak, Tang En was stunned. "What can this amount of food do?"
Tang En was numb to the numbers of hundreds of millions in his previous life. When he suddenly heard such a small amount of food, he felt a little awkward.
"Oh, my Lord …"
Fiona was helpless. "This is already a lot! Three thousand tons of food reserves can at least feed ten thousand people for half a year. Do you know how many cities and towns can't even guarantee food for the winter? We can double our food reserves in such a short period of time because of Grandia's contribution! "
Grandia immediately puffed out her chest and raised her head proudly.
"Alright …"
Once again, Tang En had a deep understanding of the importance of agriculture. Without three to five years of emergency food reserves, it was impossible to make people feel at ease, right?
Or was this the aftereffect of coming from an agricultural civilization?
"The original plan was that three thousand tons of food would be enough for the winter, but we didn't expect a large number of outsiders to come in recently. As a result, the food reserves are still stretched. We are also in a hurry to stock up on various vegetables and poultry meat …"
At this point, Fiona noticed the blank expressions of the people around her. She suddenly froze and laughed dryly. "Sorry, I digressed. Let's get back to the topic. Three thousand tons is three million kilograms. Converted to imperial units, one silver coin is about 0.8 kilograms. In other words, it's worth about three million seven hundred and fifty thousand silver coins. The exchange rate of gold coins and silver coins has stabilized at about 1: 98, so it's about 38300 gold coins."
After speaking, Fiona glanced at Vanilla. "Now do you understand how serious the problem we are facing is?"
"Ah?"
Vanilla still had a confused look on his face.
Tang En smiled bitterly and said, "That is to say, if we do a rough calculation, we need to use the shortest amount of time to gather twenty-four times the amount of food we currently have. Only then will we be able to satisfy Baruo's request."
Fiona added. "And in addition to this, for our own needs for the winter, we need to prepare at least three thousand tons of food for our own use. It needs to be said that in addition to the one thousand and one hundred tons of wheat, we have bought the remaining one thousand and seven hundred tons of food over the past two months. Grandia has been working hard to ripen the remaining two hundred tons of food in the past two weeks. "
"Now, here's the problem."
Tang En clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention. "What can we do now to gather seventy-one thousand tons of food in the shortest amount of time — preferably within a week — worth nine hundred thousand gold coins?"
"There's no way …"
"Unless we go to each town and sweep the food market one by one …"
"But that will inevitably cause the price of food to skyrocket, and then cause panic buying. Then it will cause panic among the people, and maybe even lead to war …"
"Brian, how much food can we sell at Durandon?"
"Sell? Big brother, don't joke around. "Brian curled his lips." A few days ago, he asked me if he could buy some food from you! "
At the end of the discussion, everyone looked at Grandia in unison.
Tang En tilted his head and muttered to Fiona. "It's the only way …"
Fiona nodded. "Yes, it's the only way …"
Grandia's rosy little face turned pale. In her eyes, Tang En and Fiona were like demons with green eyes. She shook her head vigorously. "Impossible! That's impossible! Don't force me. If you force me, I'll — ah ah ah!!! "
Seeing Tang En suddenly stand up, Grandia's hair stood on end. She screamed shrilly, startling everyone.
"Don't be agitated, don't be agitated … Actually, you're the one who's thinking the wrong way …"
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