LOL: I am a bad prince in Demacia.

Demacia's move not only represented their high confidence in themselves, but also showed that they did not take Noxus seriously at all.

"What do you think about this?"

Darkwill put the letter on the table and said expressionlessly. The fluctuating aura exuding from his whole body showed that he had reached the edge of anger at this moment.

A minister picked it up and slowly read out the contents of the letter. As the contents of the letter came to an end, the ministers present could not help but change their expressions.

"Your Majesty, Demacia's move is nothing short of humiliating us!"

"That's unreasonable!"

"We started a war and sold prisoners. What did they think of us?"

Some of the grumpy ministers had already jumped up on the spot.

They are Noxus, the tyrants of Runeterra, but at this moment they are being jumped in the face and humiliated.

"Who asked you to discuss this?"

Darkwill's voice was a little colder and he said, "What I'm asking you is whether to redeem or not to redeem."

Although in his eyes, human life is as worthless as trivial matter, but now he cannot ignore it.

A minister thought for a while and said: "If you want to redeem it, the money is not a small amount."

Darkwill's eyes flickered slightly. Two hundred gold per person seemed quite cheap, but when the big numbers were added up, it was not that simple.

The most important thing is that he would rather invest this money in the battle against Ionia to help him find the elixir of immortality.

A bunch of bastards are not as important as a strong army.

Another person stood up and suggested: "The letter said that he will deal with some of it from time to time. Maybe we can shelve this matter temporarily and wait until General Demir wins the battle before dealing with it."

Darkwill said nothing, but he was already thinking in his heart.

That's what he really thought. Just pretend he couldn't see it. Those bastards would be dead if they died. It had nothing to do with him.

Dumped among the Demacia team, you can still eat their food and drink their food, and they still have to waste their energy on guarding you.

When he sends troops to fight Demacia back, he can naturally take back those refugees.

After thinking about it, a minister said, "I'm afraid it won't work."

Before he finished speaking, a messenger ran in from outside the palace, knelt down on one knee and reported: "Your Excellency, the money to ransom prisoners of war has been spread in the city, and the whole city is talking about it."

Darkwill looked cold and said, "Who spread the news?"

There was still discussion in the meeting here, but the matter has spread throughout the main city.

It's obviously intentional.

The minister who was halfway speaking just now continued to speak: "I'm afraid Demacia did this intentionally. They are obviously using this to put pressure on us."

Darkwill calmed down. It was indeed possible. This news was deliberately let go by Demacia.

Just to put pressure on.

As the commander-in-chief, it was up to him to decide whether to redeem the prisoners of war or not.

If it is redeemed, a large ransom will be paid.

If he didn't redeem it, he would be the high-ranking commander of Noxus, and when he saw his people suffering, he wouldn't even pay for it, which would definitely have a big impact on his prestige in power.

The minister just now continued: "Commander, what happened a few days ago, if we don't pay this money today."

After his words fell, Darkwill's face became even colder, and his mood was extremely bad.

He almost forgot that the Black Rose incident happened a while ago. Those idiots thought that he had been secretly colluding with the Black Rose and made many wrong decisions.

Including the invasion of Ionia, which hurt money, people, and hearts.

Even the legendary general Swain was damaged there. Now some people are even speculating that it was Darkwill who was jealous of the talented people and did this on purpose.

Although damn, these idiots' guesses were pretty accurate, and of course Duckwill wouldn't admit it until he died.

Now, although these things have been suppressed, they have shaken his prestige.

It happened that Demacia was fighting again at this time. He was the commander-in-chief. If he couldn't fight back, let alone talk about it. The matter of the prisoner of war right now would be enough for him to eat a pot.

If he didn't redeem himself, when word spread, everyone would know that he had made such a decision and allowed the people of Noxus to be captured.

I'm afraid his prestige will plummet completely.

This is something Darkwill will never tolerate unless he is confident that he can directly quell the war before the matter spreads.

However, is this confidence really possible?

Facing a Demacia that has made changes, Darkwill believes that this battle may take some time.

Is there anyone other than Demir who can step forward at this time?

Names flashed through Darkwill's mind, and his fingertips kept tapping his thigh.

Swain is dead.

The black rose disappears from the world.

It has been almost two months since there was any news about Darius's Northern Expedition.

There were also warlords. Most of the capable ones were sent to Ionia, and the rest were sent to fight against Demacia.

Think again.

For a moment, Darkwill couldn't think of a good person.

In other words, he had to suffer this loss.

Damn Demacia.

Darkwill suppressed the anger in his heart and asked aloud: "Calculate how much it will cost to redeem those prisoners of war."

Soon, a minister calculated the results and stood up to report: "General, the number of our people captured in this Demacia attack is expected to be at least 150,000. At the price of two hundred gold per person, we must at least prepare Thirty million gold coins.”

"thirty million"

It was Darkwill, and his eyelids jumped when he heard this number.

With the strength of Noxus, is it difficult to come up with 30 million gold?

Not difficult.

But this is definitely not a small amount of money, and besides exchanging prisoners, these 30 million can do too many things.

Yet they wanted to give it to Demacia for free.

Moreover, the most important thing is that these 30 million are not small money for Darkwill now.

You know, he sent troops to attack Ionia for eight years, and invested a huge amount of gold coins in order to obtain the elixir of life.

Moreover, Noxus has been at constant war with surrounding places almost throughout the year, including Darius's Northern Expedition and Shurima's campaign.

These are all money-devouring machines, like bottomless pits, and Darkwill has already lost count of the money he has thrown into them.

Although he also obtained countless benefits from it, most of the money was in a state of flow.

Because for every additional place and population in Noxes' territory, he needed to invest a new amount of money.

Whether it is later development or construction or anything else, it will take a long time to pay off.

Another point is the Black Rose, from whom the Pale Witch demands a huge amount of money for all members to run.

A lot of money was spent a few days ago to suppress the Black Rose incident and deal with Catalina of the Dukecao family.

Although there is definitely 30 million gold in the treasury at this time, once these 30 million are given out, there may not be much left in the treasury.