Online Game Dungeon Master

War is essentially an economic competition. This is true. After several days of continuous war, the underground forces have consumed a lot of money. Even if they have gained benefits through the war, they will have to pay astronomical expenses for every day the war continues.

This is not a conjecture. A simple statistics will show that, taking Dusk Town as an example, the potions, materials and scrolls consumed in the war alone are worth 5 million gold. If we extend it to the cost of supplying dead soldiers, repairing equipment and food, we can imagine how much the underground forces will have to pay to end this war.

Now, the problem of potions appears in front of them.

Potions can save the lives of countless units. Especially in high-intensity wars, potions are the greatest guarantee for restoring combat effectiveness. Their importance far exceeds that of healing professions and plays an irreplaceable role.

However, there is a shortage of potion supply. On the one hand, the Great Maurya Dynasty uses the home advantage to restrict the circulation strategy so that the underground forces cannot buy war supplies. On the other hand, the consumption of potions by the underground forces is indeed several times more than normal, which naturally leads to the phenomenon of supply exceeding demand.

Originally, there would not be such a problem in the local battle, but in the case of expedition, the underground forces could not cultivate a strong army in a short time, so they could only rely on potions and scrolls to effectively improve the strength of the army.

Once the potion is in short supply, the underground forces will lose troops, resulting in insufficient stamina for the mission of the end of the North Rift. Kisen obviously knew this and put forward a lot of conditions relying on the resource advantages he had.

Although the players knew the bottom line of the energy group, as long as it did not harm their interests, they would not say anything even if the king above them turned into a demon. However, the price Kisen offered was very high. Several players frowned and considered his proposal, and there was no thought of reaching an agreement in their hearts.

In the tent, the players read the quotation sheet and expressed their opinions.

"The prices of the inferior life potion and the strong life potion are 120% higher than the market price on average, and the strong magic potion, the oil of strength, and the magic resistance potion are 150% higher on average. Although the supply is large, up to 5,000 copies, which can sustain the consumption of two to three battles, we have to pay more than 10 million gold to buy goods with an actual value of less than 5 million."

"During the war, everything is possible." Shen Xuan smiled, "After all, Crystal thinks it can take us down, and is not worried that we will seize their goods, so it puts on such a big show."

Devilmaycry seemed to disagree, "But Lord, you don't have a good solution. We can't sneak attack them, find new sources of goods, or use the materials in the north for new construction. The waiting time is It's too long, so we can only be forced to fight and eventually drive them back."

"Besides, the price offered by the Energy Group is not enough to make us fall out, it's quite attractive, Lord, do you have any other plans?"

Shen Xuan suddenly said, "What if I find a competitor for them?"

"It's unlikely," Devilmaycry hesitated and said, "Crystal directly or indirectly controls more than half of the production of northern potions, two-thirds of which are concentrated in the Whistling Tower and coastal ports, and one-third are on the northern border of the Council of Skills. Is there any other major force that can provide potions?"

The major military kingdoms are still in a barbaric era, there is no alchemy industry, and there are relatively few dwarves. Therefore, the Energy Group controls most of the human power, which is equivalent to controlling all the power in the north.

"But you have ignored the Ice Knights."

The Ice Knights' territory is in the east of the Far North. This country with a population of one million is said to have been built to guard against attacks from the demon world for generations. At the bottom of the Blood Tide Lake in the center of the country, there is a Great Abyss Gate left over from the last time the Abyss swallowed the main material plane, which allows the great lords of the Abyss above level 150 to come to the world in their true form.

The Ice Knights never participate in any war. With 200,000 knights, they never step out of their territory. They even have covenants signed with various countries thousands of years ago until now.

North, Ancestral Highlands.

Lloyd, the Wolf Sword Saint, had just killed a level 120 mammoth king, wiped off the bloodstains of frost, glanced at the frowning Samair, and said, "My student, what are you thinking about again?"

Samair, who was standing beside him and had just shared hundreds of thousands of experience, said, "Yes, teacher, I am worried about the potions accumulated in the Knights for hundreds of years."

"Sell it. The covenant stipulates that the Knights shall not intervene in the war on the continent. Can't we even do business?" Lloyd agreed to his favorite disciple's words, and said naggingly, "The Throne of Light has not sent bishops here for decades. Is there anyone in the Knights who will hold on to boring and even paranoid doctrines?"

Samair thought to himself that the reason why the Throne of Light did not send bishops was not because of you, teacher, but he didn't say it, nodded, and agreed with Lloyd on a resale plan for a batch of potions that had been stored for hundreds of years.

Outside the tent, a blond young man walked into the tent and immediately negotiated with the goblin Kisen.

"Sir Samair, don't you want to make a considerable profit from this deal?"

"No, you should understand that I am here on behalf of the Ice Knights to help end the war, so the profit is not very tempting to me."

How could Kisen not hear Samair's lies? "If possible, you can even hand over the goods to me for negotiation. You can stay on the side and definitely give you a satisfactory price."

If ordinary people would definitely nod and agree, everyone knows how powerful NPCs with level 10 auxiliary skills are. Even if players hold the idea of ​​never trusting NPCs, they may still be persuaded in the end.

However, Samair did not have any friendly intentions at all. He drew a sword and pointed it at Kisen and said coldly: "Little goblin, you have good eloquence, but I came here with the purpose of destroying you. If you lower the price, Crystal can continue to survive in the north. If you don't, I can consider giving you a 'condition' that you are interested in complying with."

The goblin Kisen immediately shrank in fear. The characteristics of goblins do not care much about dignity. In addition, he is an NPC, so he quickly succumbed to Samair's intimidation.

"What? According to the previous 50%? Okay." Several players were surprised on the surface, but they knew that Kisen was threatened, and it was a threat that could not be revoked, so they immediately agreed, and they were overjoyed in their hearts.

Their final purchase included the combined totals of Kissen and Samar, so the underground no longer had to worry about logistics.