Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3226: Tacit Understanding and Brushing God's Grace

Although this kind of thing would not harm the interests of Yeerlan, it would benefit Xiaduo. Xiaduo did not expect Yeerlan to do this without paying anything, so he sent a private message to Philippa:
"If there is anything else you need me to do, please let me know."

This is actually a transaction, but Shaduo does not want to talk about it bluntly. He himself does not care, but Philipa is an elf, and elves always have an inexplicable reserve, or even scruples.

Moreover, if it is a formal transaction, Philippa must inform the country of Yeerlan about it. At that time, Xiaduo may have to pay a higher price. It is better for him to reach a tacit understanding with Philippa in private to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Philippa understood Xiaduo's hint completely, but he was a little hesitant. "Counselor Xiaduo, you are still a human after all. Isn't this a little inconvenient?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Duo turned into an elf in front of him and said, "I can participate in the experiment as your personal assistant or in any other capacity you think is appropriate."

Seeing this scene, Philippa was a little stunned. It was the first time he saw someone of equal status to him do such a thing. It was too straightforward and too naked.

Only then did he have a fairly intuitive understanding of the widely circulated rumor in Yeerlan that "humans have no bottom line". No upper-class elf would do such a thing.

Of course, this does not mean that the upper elves do not care about interests, but they will not talk about interests so blatantly. For the sake of family, for the sake of the people, for the sake of the country, are all reasons. It would be really uncivilized not to talk about any reasons.

Philippa was also amazed at how people could disregard their dignity for the sake of profit.

However, he did not look down on Xia Duo because of this. Instead, he paid more attention to Xia Duo.

Personal face is one thing, and credibility is another. As long as credibility is not lost, personal face is secondary, and you may even gain more benefits from it.

If Philippa were to choose, he would rather give up some of his interests or pay a greater price to save his face.

He really couldn't understand the thoughts of humans, but with the establishment of the Northern Alliance, he would have more and more opportunities to deal with humans in the future. He didn't know whether it would be humans who changed under the influence of the elves, or the elves who changed under the influence of humans.

Just as Philip's thoughts were spreading, Shado had already put forward specific conditions -

"Our cooperative development plan in Elan is still ongoing. I am willing to invest an additional batch of arcane crystals. Your Excellency Philipfa will decide where to use them."

Arcanic crystals have been a strategic material of Netheril since their birth, and only very small amounts flowed into the elven country before the birth of Mysera.

After the birth of Misera, there is a relatively stable channel for obtaining it, but the quantity is still strictly limited. However, arcane crystals have been proven to be the most ideal consumables for war spells.

Every country - including Yeerlan, of course - is trying to obtain more arcane crystals through various means, but each one has achieved little success.

And now that Shaduo is willing to pay the arcane crystal in exchange for the opportunity to obtain divine grace that has little effect on Yeerlan, Philipa is undoubtedly very tempted, but when it comes to the arcane crystal, he also has certain selfish motives.

After thinking for a while, he sent a message to Xia Duo, "The Elan development plan basically does not require arcane crystals. Consultant Xia Duo might as well invest those arcane crystals into the next agricultural cooperation."

"Agricultural cooperation? Didn't Lord Filifa say before that King Hellion and the Parliament must agree?"

"I have reported this to the Crown Prince. He agreed to cooperate with Consultant Xia Duo, on the condition that the cooperation must include bloodline research support from the Kalinshan side. This is also the requirement of the parliament. If Consultant Xia Duo agrees, we can sign a formal letter of intent after the alliance meeting."

The agricultural cooperation that Philipa mentioned includes two aspects. One is the half-plane ecological farm research that Shaduo took the initiative to propose. The other is the research on new crops transformed by blood, which is more valued by Yerlan. This part must be supported by the blood technology from Karinshan.

The reason why private transactions were inserted into this cooperation was mainly because agricultural cooperation with the Naish people was relatively sensitive. Both the Crown King and the Parliament intended to cooperate in a private capacity first, and then turn it into an official one depending on the situation.

The representative of the private partner currently introduced is Philippa. If this cooperation can be successful, Philippa will only need to report the results to the Crown King and the Parliament for a considerable period of time in the future, without having to report the process.

This would of course make it very easy to manipulate the situation. As long as Shado cooperates, the Crown King and the Parliament will have no way of knowing that a batch of arcane crystals have flowed through the cooperation.

As for why he had to go through it this way, it was of course because Philippa did not want to be suspected of colluding with the Naish people. Even if this batch of arcane crystals was eventually discovered by the Crown King and the Parliament, it was simply not reported.

If this step had not been taken, how would he explain the arcane crystals he had taken from Xia Duo? Could it be that Xia Duo had given him a batch of strategic materials that were very important to any country without asking him to do anything?

Philip had been the Crown King's advisor for so long that it was impossible for him to leave such a big attack point for his political opponents and dissidents.

In addition, the Crown King's thoughts have recently undergone some unexpected changes because of Kalish. These changes may have unpredictable impacts on Yeerlan, so he must think more about himself.

And the batch of arcane crystals provided by Xia Duo, which do not exist in the eyes of outsiders, will become a more crucial trump card in his hand!
For Xia Duo, as long as the transaction can be completed, he doesn't care how the arcane crystals are given out, not to mention that Philipa's words have locked in the possibility of agricultural cooperation in advance, so he will not object even more.

……

Soon, Xia Duo and Philipa agreed on all the details. He paid 5000 standard arcane crystals to become the launcher of Yeerlan's sacrificial experiment today. This price was indeed not small.

Based on the current market price of 1000 gold coins per piece, these 5000 arcane crystals are worth 500 million gold coins. However, due to the sales restrictions in Netheril, the actual transaction price is actually close to 2000 gold coins per piece.

Of course, compared to the more than 4000 gold coins before Misera was born, the current price has been cut in half.

Philipa was very satisfied with the deal, and Shado actually did not lose out either. 5000 standard arcane crystals could not catch up with Misera's daily output. It was only because of the artificial restrictions on sales that the price remained high.

If sales are liberalized, the price may drop to dozens or hundreds, or even cheaper.

At the same time, compared with the magic items that Ye Erlan is going to use for sacrifice today, the arcane crystals worth tens of millions are actually not that much. If the magic items that Ye Erlan is going to use for sacrifice today are sold publicly, the price will be at least over 100 million.

A considerable number of them are old and obsolete magical instruments, or magical instruments that have not been completely scrapped due to manufacturing errors. Both types of magical instruments can be recycled, but recycling also has costs and is not necessarily more cost-effective than manufacturing new ones.

In addition, the giant mithril mine in the Gray Peak Mountains has started to produce some time ago, so there is no need to recycle these old or scrapped magic tools.

But no matter what, even if it's garbage, it can be sold for a lot of money.

In this regard, Xia Duo could only sigh and say that Gou Da Hu is really rich!

Ye Erlan took out so many things for his first sacrifice experiment. What else could this be but a wealthy man? Anyway, he would never do this.

From this perspective, these 5000 standard arcane crystals seem to be very worthwhile. After all, if you really want to exchange them for arcane crystals, you definitely won’t be able to get so many things.