Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2166 - 667: Preparing for Battle (Part 1)
Now all of Aegean’s foreign trade is transshipped by Fawkes. The Dubin Kingdom, Bonaparte Medusa Kingdom, and the Tang Zang Empire have risen to the position of allies among Aegean’s surface races, which should be credited entirely to the Shaman of Divine Songs. Even with such a strong diplomatic advantage, Beamon still relies on an array of spoils and real gold and silver in the state treasury for foreign military purchases! As for Rommel? He only used one refining formula to make everyone flock to him!
The high value of intellectual property is like a newly opened window, bringing a fresh perspective to all of Beamon.
Rommel is quite savvy. No matter how many countries he sold the charcoal refining formula to, at least he did not exchange it with the Bonaparte Medusa Kingdom, leaving a bit of the bone broth for Beamon.
The Beamon corte clieUhe front council convened twice, wasting countless words but failing to discuss a unified plan.
Rommel gave Fawkes a charcoal refining formula and also presented the Beamon Kingdom with a thorny problem.
Resource deposits in the Donau Wasteland are extremely scarce. Even with the charcoal refining formula, Beamon cannot refine and stockpile charcoal sprite bombs massively without coal! Under the current circumstances, no country is likely to sell coal anymore. If Beamon wants to stockpile a vast number of charcoal sprite bombs, cooperation with the coal-rich Bonaparte Medusa Kingdom is the only way.
Although Beamon desperately wants these "charcoal sprite bombs" to equip its troops, they don’t want to provide such strategic weapons to the army of the Snake-men traitors either. Settle accounts later; who knows if Beamon will have to fight the betrayers in the future? The problem is precisely here—without cooperating with the Bonaparte Medusa Kingdom, Beamon can’t find coal resources, and without coal, there’s no thinking about "charcoal sprite bombs"! What’s worse, if other countries see the clues and cooperate with Bonaparte Medusa before Beamon does, Beamon will gain nothing at all.
Whether or not to cooperate with Bonaparte Medusa is currently the most troubling issue for Beamon’s top leadership.
"Our cousin didn’t give us the charcoal refining formula; he gave us a burning potato instead." Helen admitted to Old Liu that she was too naive and simple, but even Fawkes probably couldn’t concoct such a pus-filled power play. This requires a deep understanding of the Aegean situation and the intricate relationships among the major powers, and an incredibly developed brain.
"What I’m currently considering is not whether to cooperate with the Bonaparte Medusa, but whether to sell the charcoal refining formula to the Sea Clan and the Demon Clan!" Liu Zhenhan said astonishingly, his words turning the tense faces of the top leaders at the front council meeting pale.
"This... this..." No one dared to say that the Shaman of Divine Songs was ready to defect, but King Sal and the elders still found Liu’s leap of thought a bit overwhelming.
"I’m not joking!" Liu Zhenhan knew that his proposal was quite shocking.
"But everyone must understand that if we don’t hand over the charcoal refining formula, others in Aegean will!" Liu Zhenhan said with a bitter smile. "There is no doubt about it!"
"Who dares to do such a thing?" the radical elders and generals almost exploded: "Humans wouldn’t be so absurd. Is Your Excellency referring to one of the Dubin Kingdom, Bonaparte Medusa, or the Tang Zang Empire?"
"The Dubin Kingdom and Bonaparte Medusa definitely wouldn’t do such a thing. One is a surface-race ally in Aegean, and the other has ties to their former country, with blood feuds against the Demon and Sea Clans. They should have this awareness of the greater good." The stable elders whispered: "Is Your Excellency suggesting that the Tang Zang Empire might seize the chance for war profiteering?"
"Between countries, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests; The Tang Zang Empire is far from Aegean. Whether we live or die, honestly, doesn’t relate much to them, so if they did, it wouldn’t be strange! But I once promised the Tang Zang Empire to help their court’s First Mage evade divine punishment safely and advance to a Saint Xiao Mage. The Tang Zang Five Prince always urges me to help him finish this matter as soon as possible. I believe even if they have the black heart for selling us out for war riches, they wouldn’t act now! For the Tang Zang Empire, which owns a continent, wealth hardly matters; what they lack is a truly weighty Saint Xiao Mage!" Liu Zhenhan nodded.
"Then drag it out; can’t let the Tang Zang Empire get off cheaply!"
"But it’s harder to say for the fallen elves!" Liu Zhenhan lowered his head, smiling bitterly: "We aren’t really sure about what’s lately happened in Lusen City. But if the Moore and Drow can swiftly stabilize internally and coordinate well with the Naga, seeing how countries guard their coal mines, they aren’t unlikely to suspect their charcoal refining formula already leaked! By then, given the conduct of these fallen elves, providing the charcoal refining formula to the Demon and Sea Clans for their maximum benefit is probably inevitable!"
Old Liu’s reminder made all Beamon leaders realize that the pioneer of the "charcoal refining" concept wasn’t Rommel but the Blood Elves.
"This thing is truly dangerous!" Liu Zhenhan put on graphite alloy gloves, took out a walnut-sized charcoal refining, and upon heavy rubbing on the tactical glove’s phosphorus blade strip, a raging flame burst from his hand, the tongue of fire rising half a foot high.
The walnut-sized charcoal refining hit the iron tree bonsai in the corner of the conference hall, quickly exploding into splintering flames, lighting the tall iron tree into a curling torch.
