So Su Li said, "No problem, I will have a talk with the two of them. However, you must also properly settle these rchant mbers."
Hilda nodded, very composed and confident, "These rchant mbers are much less troubleso than the knights. They are a unit, and they can camp outdoors. Basically, we just need to maintain order, and they don’t require too much of our concern."
This is also an important reason why the situation in the territory hasn’t spiraled out of control. These people who co to the territory mostly have ample wilderness survival skills. Unlike delicate tourists, even if the territory does not provide them with food, clothing, accommodation, and transportation, they can still fend for themselves, camp, and set up tents. However, such a scenario may lead to so waste and disorder, as leaving them unsupervised for too long may indeed lead them to wilderness survival in the territory’s orchards, ranches, and warehouses.
Su Li also looked forward to the arrival of these rchants, hoping to alleviate this issue.
It wasn’t long after he arranged for everyone in the manor to prepare for their arrival that the steward of the trading company and people from Gray Market Trading Company jointly arrived at the manor.
Seeing the visitors, Su Li’s eyes lit up and he imdiately went to greet them: "President Roger! You personally gracing our territory is truly an honor for us."
"Hahaha!" President Roger burst into his usual hearty laughter: "Bauhinia Knight, you’re being too humble. If I hadn’t co to Hesse Territory, I wouldn’t have known your martial virtue was so abundant. You have no idea, my guards were terribly anxious; from entering Heisen City, crossing the Hesse Cross River Bridge, to entering Bauhinia Palace, we encountered thefts twice, three fights, and even a gang trying to extort us. Thankfully, the patrolling City Guard Army encountered them and chased them all away. I must say, your territory’s City Guard Army is truly brave. Against a group of elite knights, they swung their batons so fast they left shadows."
Even the well-traveled President Roger was greatly impressed today. This territory, although full of the rugged traits of the Border Prince’s Territory, truly has abundant martial virtue. Not only are there knights everywhere, but the area is filled with the boldness and heat of knights’ exchanges; getting into fights over disagreents is normal. Yet the superior force, capable of suppressing all these, also radiates a violent and primal aesthetic of wild beauty.
Witnessing all this firsthand, he was instantly filled with confidence in this partner! With so many knights, it wasn’t sothing easily overthrown. This even dissipated much of the resentnt he had from being heavily cheated at the auction.
Back then, Su Li had spent a fortune to win a completely useless jewel! His grandeur shocked the entire auction house, and even now at the elite salons and banquets of Marle Castle, there are those who can’t help but praise Lady Bayonetta, believing her actions during that auction were a perfect stroke of genius.
President Roger, being the blundering paymaster, was often a target of ridicule more than once. One major reason Roger insisted on coming personally this ti was to see what his paynt had actually bought back then.
He still recalls the confident and composed smile of Su Li at the ti, as well as the words he said to Lady Bayonetta.
That deanor, calm, wise, confident, and composed, definitely not the behavior of soone who had been fooled.
So after finishing his sentence, he couldn’t wait to ask, "My friend, there’s a question that has been bothering for a long ti. You must solve this mystery for . What did you actually purchase from Lady Bayonetta last ti? You wouldn’t say back then, but now you’re back in your territory, you can give so details, right?"
There’s nothing that can’t be said about this matter, after all, it’s equivalent to enhancing one’s power and deterrence, making others less likely to act hastily or harbor malicious intent.
So Su Li replied with a smile, "It’s nothing really, just a drop of Shalya’s Tear."
"So it was just a drop of Shalya’s Tear." President Roger was sowhat disappointed, "Although this thing has value, isn’t it sothing you can buy with just a bit of money? The Shalya Church produces this every year. It might be hard for rchants to buy it, but it shouldn’t pose much difficulty for a lord, right? At most it’s worth 100 Golden Crowns, yet you spent a fortune."
Su Li laughed and said, "President Roger, you might be mistaken, what the Shalya Church can produce is a potion called [Tears of rcy]."
The Lanode followers do not believe in rcy, so he has little knowledge of the affairs of the Shalya Church, and so when Tears of rcy was brought up, he barely had any reaction.
But seeing the smile on Su Li’s face, he finally realized, his whole expression froze, then his entire deanor seed to slow, as if ti itself slowed on his face, until a matchless shock erged on his face, his eyes, wrinkles, and mouth widened exaggeratedly under everyone’s gaze, until the corners nearly tore, and an egg could fit in his mouth.
Finally, with an exaggerated unhinging of his jaw, a violent tremor echoed from his throat, "You’re saying a drop of Shalya’s Holy Tear!? The one that Lanode drank!?"
As a Lanode believer, he might be unclear about anything related to the Shalya Church, but he couldn’t possibly be unclear about Shalya’s Holy Tear, after all, how the god they worship ascended to Divine Format is known to everyone.
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