Chapter 291 The Value of a Prince
Twenty minutes before the official start time agreed by both parties, the Undead mercenaries had already captured the enemy's prince, twenty-seven royal guards, two colonels, seven lieutenants, and twelve light cavalry.
Having lost even the prince, the morale of Lionel's army was so low that they completely lost the will to fight. Odysseus took the initiative to propose a ceasefire, and both sides retreated to their own camps. Lionel sent a negotiation team, which came to Odysseus' camp with a white flag to negotiate a ceasefire agreement.
Although Odysseus and his daughter had seen the whole process of the undead capturing the enemy prince and officers through the mirror, it still felt unreal when they saw the undead carrying the enemy prince and officers back in a mighty manner...
However, the peace talks did not go smoothly at the beginning.
"The dead refuse to hand over the person?"
Phoenix came out of the main account and looked at his capable secretary in astonishment.
Secretary Linda wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and motioned for Phoenix to follow her.
After walking around several rows of tents and arriving at the open space south of the camp, Phoenix's ladylike dignity was almost overwhelmed.
In the solemn military camp, the undead cordoned off a piece of land without considering themselves as outsiders.
Originally, the military camp did not allow such random enclosure, but the undead had done a great job, and the entire army was much more tolerant of them...
Some of the undead were sitting together chatting, some were fighting in pairs as if they were learning from each other's skills, some were practicing alchemy with bottles and jars, some were spreading out odds and ends on the ground as if they were selling them, and some were scattered into a small pile of bones, being looked after by the undead next to them.
In the middle of the area, a large group of undead were gathered together, discussing something with gestures; and the captives who fell into their hands, whether they were officers or princes, were all stripped down to their underwear, and their hands and feet were tied. They were lined up in a dusty row and allowed to be pointed at by the undead.
Phoenix took a deep breath.
She knew the undead's persistent spirit in sweeping up the spoils, but - he was the prince of the duchy after all!
"Didn't you tell them that one of them is the prince of the principality?" Phoenix whispered.
Miss Linda, who was wearing the azalea badge and was in charge of communicating with the dead, had a look on her face that was hard to describe: "I told them that His Royal Highness is very important , please hand him over to us as soon as possible, Miss. Their reply was... they would give priority to auctioning His Royal Highness."
Phoenix: “???”
Phoenix: "Auction?! Is that the auction I understand?"
Miss Linda almost wanted to cry: "I think so, miss."
Phoenix had the urge to faint at that time...
——Fortunately, Lionel’s spellcasters did not enter the south side of the camp and see their prince’s miserable appearance!
Otherwise, the hatred will be huge!
Phoenix was trying to keep himself calm when he saw several undead running out of the tent protected by the Innadri militia and running into the pile of undead surrounding the captives.
Then... one of the undead raised his arms and seemed to shout something to his compatriots. He walked to the pile of prisoners, stood next to the prince of the principality, and raised the bone of his index finger.
"…What is it doing?" Phoenix asked stiffly.
Miss Linda translated tremblingly: "Uh...it said that this is the number one prisoner that Her Majesty the Queen specifically requested, and the starting price is 100 Undead Coins..."
Phoenix: “…”
The group of undead surrounding the captive raised their hands and made KABA sounds one after another. This time, even without the secretary translator Phoenix wearing the Azalea Badge, he knew that they were bidding...
"I see..." Phoenix didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and muttered to himself in despair, "No wonder Mr. Yang said that before leaving--"
Before the financial sponsor who paid a high commission left Innadelli, Yang Qiu had a secret conversation with Miss Phoenix.
During the conversation, Yang Qiu kindly reminded the sponsor: the undead would attach great importance to their friendship with the Phoenix. If the undead captured prisoners in battle, they would compete for the honor of handing the prisoners over to the Phoenix. When an undead came forward to hand over the prisoners to the Phoenix, the Phoenix must carefully and solemnly express her gratitude to the undead who hoped to gain her favor.
Of course Phoenix remembered this incident, and when she helped the Church to exchange undead coins, she also exchanged a lot of them.
When the undead brought the prince back, she was thinking about how to pay the undead a thank you fee that would satisfy them. Seeing how serious the undead were, Phoenix was even more cautious...
The auction quickly heated up because the prince, who was only at level two, had a noble status and seemed likely to be able to exchange it for new regional reputation. After only a few rounds of bidding, someone offered a high price of eight hundred copper coins.
"This is the NPC that Miss Linda came to personally request! This is the prisoner that Her Majesty the Queen asked for herself! Is there anyone with a higher price?" Qin Guan, who was hosting the auction, worked hard to heat up the atmosphere.
Miss Linda, who understood the language of the dead, also looked devastated.
"One thousand!" The rich orange cat raised his hand.
"Damn it, are you crazy, orange cat? Capturing an NPC can only exchange for a few hundred reputation points at most. A thousand coppers are enough to bid for half a sealed object!" Jialuo felt sorry for him for spending the money.
"It's okay. I'll make some money and it will pay off. It's not easy to raise the reputation of the Queen. No one has raised her reputation in the Moses Port map for a long time." The wealthy orange cat boss said nonchalantly. He pointed outside and said, "Look, the Queen has come over to the side to wait to receive the prisoners."
Brother Lahong had the same idea as the orange cat boss, but he wanted to save the money for the epic necklace. After discussing it with Huanling, he reluctantly raised his hand: "1050!"
"1200!" The orange cat boss raised the price generously.
"That's enough, Orange Cat. What's the point of having reputation?" Huanling couldn't help but say, "To be honest, even if you open a new area, it will be difficult to continue to grind your reputation!"
"Is it okay for me to be happy?" Being ridiculed as a parallel importer in front of so many people, the orange cat boss was a little angry.
"1300." Brother Lahong shouted again.
"1500!" The orange cat boss immediately stepped forward.
The prince's equipment has been completely removed. In the eyes of the players, the value of this NPC at this moment is just a prisoner for exchanging reputation, and the maximum exchange limit for a single prisoner NPC is only 500 so far - for example, the reason why the players captured him in the first place, Lord Adela III of Nadli.
At this price of several hundred reputation points, the premium is incredibly high - when the first seal dropped, it was sold for 800 coppers!
"Spending more than 10,000 yuan to buy a prisoner, are all rich people so willful?" Poor Yang Ying was shocked.
Brother Lahong shook his head helplessly. He had no choice but to deal with such a big dog owner: "PASS!"
The orange cat boss proudly stood up, paid the money, took the prince from Qin Guan who was hosting the auction, and immediately ran to Phoenix who was waiting outside to exchange his reputation.
Players were also very curious about whether this prince NPC could really increase the reputation of the Queen, so they were no longer in a hurry to auction it off and all came over to watch the fun.
Phoenix, who became the focus of the undead, had a blank expression on his face.
Letting his secretary Linda support the numb-faced prince of the principality, Phoenix put his hands on his chest and formally performed aristocratic etiquette to the orange cat boss. He took off the other Odysseus family emblem on his collar and pinned it on the orange cat boss's collar himself - there was no way to do it, as the guy was wearing a shiny set of Fiery Sun Order armor.
Phoenix had no choice but to hand the family crest to the orange cat boss, draw his sword, tap the orange cat boss's left and right shoulders lightly, and solemnly announced: "I hand over the glory of the Odysseus family to you, respectable warrior, I hope you can treat the weak with kindness, face the strong bravely, fight with those who do wrong, fight for those who cannot fight, help those who have helped you, respect women, be loyal to friends, and be loyal to love." (Note 1)
The orange cat boss stared at her blankly, muttering, "Hey, where's your reputation?"
Miss Linda had to repeat her master's words and added, "Undead Warrior, my master has appointed you as the family knight of the Odysseus family. You will have your own territory and people, and please fight for the glory of the Odysseus family."
“What the hell—?!”
Before the orange cat could react, the players who came to watch the fun were already cursing loudly in excitement.
"Are you kidding me? This prince can be replaced by a lord?!"
"Who said that prisoners can only be exchanged for reputation? Come out, I will never forgive you!"
"Oh my god, Queen, are you blind? You want this idiot to be your family knight?!"
Lahong, who had photoshopped out the prince, was about to burst into tears: "Look at me, Queen!! I was the one who caught this idiot prince——!"
Although Lahong is also the mayor of Exile Town, the mayor's authority is not as high as that of the lord! As a player mayor, he still has to compete for reputation rankings every month, but the lord is a lifetime position!
Qin Guan, who hosted the auction without bidding, was in tears: "Fuck it, I said it was the Queen who came to pick up the captives herself, why didn't I rush in?"
“Calm down, it seems that there is only one village in the knight’s territory… Oh my god, I want the village too!!” Miaobishenghua held his head in pain.
The orange cat boss finally realized what he had gotten in exchange for the prince NPC he had photographed. He danced wildly with joy and almost fell apart on the spot: "Oh my god, hahahaha! I'm the Queen's knight! Oh hahahaha!!"
Such a hateful character... must arouse public outrage, and the players who were close to him drew their knives and stabbed him with daggers, sending him offline - the battlefield activity ended, someone stopped charging, and players no longer had infinite resurrection.
Miss Phoenix & Linda, who saw the newly appointed family knight being hacked to death: "..."
The two ladies had experienced the test of the undead for a long time, and they left quietly with the prince, leaving behind only the players howling in agony.
In the magic steam train carriage heading from the Rhine Capital to Innadri, Yang Qiu smiled and withdrew his mental power from the branding matrix. After thinking about it, he still felt unhappy and chuckled.
The red-haired boy sitting opposite him looked at him with disdain: "Why did you suddenly go crazy? Pay attention to maintaining the subspace barrier. If it is exposed, you will have to pay the price."
"No, I'm not crazy. I'm just too happy to control myself." Yang Qiu smiled and poured himself a cup of free black tea from the dining car. He picked up the cup and said, "Can you imagine, old man? The famous Phoenix of the Odysseus family actually made my undead a family knight."
“How is it possible?” The red-haired boy was stunned at first, then his eyes widened. “What did you do to the people of Odysseus’s family? Hey, hey, don’t do anything rash. When Upton gets crazy, he’s not much worse than you!”
"Who do you think I am? I have never been the kind of person who would use dirty tricks to seize things." Yang Qiu said dissatisfiedly.
"Oh, you just use some seemingly harmless means to rob people." The red-haired boy complained expressionlessly.
"Please call it wisdom." Yang Qiu smiled.
The red-haired boy almost rolled his eyes to the sky.
"Speaking of which, Kingsley." Yang Qiu changed the subject seamlessly, "I heard you say before that you once opened the wrong door when you went to the dimensional demon world and almost fell into a collapsing demon world?"
"What do you want to say?" Kingsley Jean asked warily.
"The collapse of the demon world refers to a demon world where a black hole appears. No life can survive until the entire demon world is swallowed by the black hole after hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Is that right?" Yang Qiu said.
"Well... you don't mean to say that you even want to take over the demon world which is in the process of collapse?" Kingsley said uncertainly.
"Why not?" Yang Qiu said solemnly, "Do you believe that if you can still find a way to this collapsed demon world, you can earn yourself a brand new wizard tower?"
Kingsley: “???”
Kingsley: "You didn't lie to me?!"
"Of course." Yang Qiu looked sincere.
If you can handle nuclear waste, the Mage Tower is nothing! We have everything!
