Chapter 161: A storm is coming (1)
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Add, click, recommend, nothing less, or else it would be a storm.
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However, Zhao Hai was not in the mood to care about these things. His attention was on the corpse rotting swamp. Laura had already told him that Boff was going to the corpse rotting swamp. Zhao Zui and the others were currently in the corpse rotting swamp. Moreover, they were not too deep in. If Boff went in, they would definitely notice.
Just as Grimm had said, their target was Boff. Everyone on the continent knew that the corpse swamp was not an easy place to go. Even a level nine expert would not be able to survive in there. Even if they managed to escape, they would be severely injured. If Boff was injured and came out of the corpse swamp, Zhao Hai and the others would not let him return to the Versailles family.
Zhao Hai and the others knew that Ivan didn’t do anything to them, but the Versailles family did. They could repay Ivan’s kindness, but they had to avenge the Versailles family.
Moreover, Boff had injured Grimm and even chased them all the way to the blackearth wilderness, forcing them back into the realm. This was a huge enmity, how could Zhao Hai and the others not take revenge?
Zhao Hai was not worried about Zhao Zui and the others. Although they had turned into zombies that looked almost like humans, a level 9 expert could tell if they were humans or zombies with just a sweep of divine telekinesis. Therefore, even if Boff found Zhao Hai and the others, he would not attack them. The rotten corpse swamp was not an ordinary place. Even if Boff was not a busybody, he would have heard of it. Attacking them in the rotten corpse swamp was no different from courting death. Don’t forget, there were more than one or two level nine experts who died in the rotten corpse swamp.
As he didn’t know if Boff had entered the rotten corpse swamp, Zhao Hai didn’t dare to let the slaves out. All they could do now was to wait.
Zhao Hai wasn’t in a hurry. His family was getting richer and richer. It wouldn’t be a problem even if he had to feed these 100 people for nothing. All he had to do now was wait.
Fortunately, Zhao Hai was patient. They didn’t know that Boff had been searching the iron Mountain for a while after leaving Casar city. He even went to the iron Mountain castle for a while. After checking carefully and making sure there was no one around, he entered the rotten corpse swamp.
In contrast to Zhao Hai and the others, Casar city was bustling with activity. The 2nd and 3rd elders were busy with their activities. The families that supported them were also busy with their activities. Of course, the first one they went to was Laura.
This time, it was not only one family who came to find Laura, but all the other families had joined hands in order to force her to admit defeat.
Those big families were very clear that if they wanted to complete their plan, Laura would be the biggest obstacle. If they wanted to force the great elder to step down with food, Laura had to participate. If they couldn’t convince Laura, she would keep giving out food, and their plan would never be able to be carried out.
Therefore, no matter how they wanted to deal with the great elder, they couldn’t get past Laura. Therefore, these families United to find Laura.
They thought that it would be difficult to persuade Laura, but they didn’t expect her to agree so easily. Of course, this was relatively easy. Laura also had her own conditions, which was a share of the profits.
Laura wanted a share of the daily necessities sales in the Duchy of Versailles. No matter who ruled the country in the future, no one could suppress her. Furthermore, she wanted to increase the share of daily necessities sales in the Duchy of Versailles.
These conditions were within the expectations of the major trading companies, but at the same time, they were also beyond their expectations. They believed that Laura had helped the Versailles family in order to obtain some benefits. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have done so. Now that the great elder of the Versailles family was about to fall, a new world was about to be changed. Naturally, they would prepare a way out for themselves. These were the conditions that Laura had offered when she helped the Versailles family.
What these big merchants didn’t know was that Caesar was also aware of their actions. Caesar had been running the Versailles family for so many years, and it wasn’t a joke. He had a lot of power in the Versailles family. He had suffered a big loss this time, but it wasn’t easy for the 2nd and 3rd elders to plot against him.
The actions of those big merchants were sent to the hands of Caesar at the first moment. As soon as Caesar saw these reports, he knew that he was in big trouble. If he couldn’t deal with those big families, then his position would really be over.
Caesar immediately went to find those big families and made many conditions in order to get the support of those big families. However, it had to be said that Caesar had been too tyrannical in the Versailles Duchy all these years. Moreover, he did not show too much mercy to these big trading companies. From time to time, he would even suppress them. It could be considered that he had offended these big trading companies. Those big trading companies laughed and laughed at him on the surface, but when it came to the real content, they would all change their topic. This made Caesar very depressed.
He really wanted to take action immediately and exterminate these fellows. However, he was only an expert of the eighth rank, and had not yet reached the ninth rank. Moreover, because he had been busy with his family’s Affairs all these years, his cultivation had not improved at all. He had only just reached the beginning of the eighth rank. These large trading companies here in the vanser Duchy all had experts of the eighth rank overseeing them. Even if he really wanted to take action, he would probably only end up in failure.
Although he was the Grand Elder of the clan and could request for the assistance of those consecrated experts, the weakest member of the Versailles clan’s consecrated experts was a powerhouse of the 8th rank. There were more than 30 of them, and over 30 powerhouses of the 8th rank were an extremely powerful force.
However, he couldn’t do that now. This incident had dealt a huge blow to his reputation. In addition, the 2nd and 3rd elders weren’t easy to deal with. If he wanted to ask those consecrators to help, according to the family rules, he had to go through the elders ‘meeting. However, if he were to hold the elders’ meeting now, it would be impossible for his request to be approved. He would only be put in a difficult position again. If he didn’t go through the elder Council, then it would be in line with the wishes of the second and third elders, and they could openly use the family rules to oust him.
Moreover, even if he could ask those mercenaries to help him, he wouldn’t dare to do so. Those large trading companies all had the support of large clans, and those large clans weren’t any weaker than the Versailles clan. If those large clans joined forces to force the Versailles clan, he would still have to abdicate, and most likely lose his life. He didn’t dare to do such a thing.
First elder had been paying attention to second elder and third elder’s actions, but he didn’t pay attention to Ivan. In fact, he didn’t care about Ivan at all. Ever since he became the family master, he had been suppressing Ivan. Now, he had no power. In his opinion, Ivan was an idiot who was not worth his concern.
However, he had forgotten that people would grow up. Ivan had become a level 8 warrior at a young age, so he couldn’t be that stupid. He had been suppressed by the first elder because he didn’t have any experience in political battles. After a few incidents, he had grown up. He had learned a lot from his forbearance and watched from the side. The current Ivan was no different from the past Ivan when he had just become the head of the family. It was already completely different.
However, no one had noticed Ivan’s difference. The entire Versailles family had underestimated him. They had no idea that he had been secretly contacting the elders of the neutral faction. His power was now on par with the second and third elders of the Versailles family.
The elders of the independent faction didn’t like the great elder’s arrogance and didn’t want to help the second elder fight for power, so they became independent. However, by becoming independent, they would be pushed to the opposite side of the three elders. Of course, they wouldn’t get any good things, and they would feel indignant. Ivan found this after a long time of observation, so he began to secretly contact the elders of the independent faction and slowly accumulated his power.
Everyone was preparing for a storm that was about to descend upon Casar city. At this time, Laura once again left the city, heading straight for Rocky Mountain.
None of the forces in Casar city had any reaction to Laura’s visit to Rocky Mountain. They only thought that Laura was going to discuss the price increase with Zhao Hai, so they naturally didn’t stop her.
Just like that, three days after her last visit to Rocky Mountain, Laura came to Rocky Mountain again and explained her plan to Zhao Hai.
Zhao Hai didn’t expect Laura to have such a plan, but he didn’t object to it. Although the civilians of Casar city would suffer a little, it wouldn’t last long. As long as Ivan took over, the storm would pass.
Besides, they owed Ivan a favor, and helping her get the position was a way to return the favor. Besides, it would only benefit them.
Zhao Hai knew that Laura had done Ivan a huge favor. If Ivan really became the leader, he would definitely support Laura. By then, Laura would be able to sell even more things, which was a good thing for Zhao Hai.
If Laura’s sales volume increased, it would mean that Zhao Hai’s income would increase as well. That would mean that he would have more gold coins to use.
Actually, Zhao Hai was not short of money at the moment. During this period of time, the bamboo rice that Zhao Hai sold to the Versailles Duchy earned him nearly 10000 gold coins. One must know that he was the only food supplier in the entire Versailles Duchy. This was equivalent to him monopolizing the business, and a monopoly was the most profitable.
However, if these 10000 gold coins were to be thrown into the blackdirt wastelands, it would probably not even make a sound. The blackdirt wastelands were too big, and the foundation was too thin. There were too many things needed.
Zhao Hai realized that the more money he earned, the more he felt that he didn’t have enough money to spend. He could only think of ways to earn more.