Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 473 - 027: Secret Alliance

Kawa Great Forest outskirts, Orte City.

Inside the City Lord’s Mansion, nobles from various city clusters are gathered, holding an opulent and lavish banquet.

However, the once joyous banquet for upper-class socializing is now shrouded in a pall of gloom.

"That damn city must be destroyed!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, that damn city built by the Beastmen is already threatening our very existence! We must take some counteraction, or else those damn thieves will steal our profits, and our cities will eventually become desolate!"

"We must punish those despicable Beastmen, who deserve only to crawl at our feet!"

The attendees are either of noble blood or representatives from various city powers.

This is a banquet convened by the elite, turned into a stage specifically for denouncing the existence of Neutral City.

It’s hard not to be angry for these city lord nobles.

Because of Neutral City’s existence, leveraging the Dragon Nest Tribe’s advanced technological background highly superior to these medieval city lord nobles, the mass and low-cost dumping of various alchemy potions, steel weapons, daily necessities, has caused these city lord factions to suffer extremely severe losses.

Take for example,

Healing Potion, a precious resource for survival in this region.

Before Neutral City was established, the supply of Healing Potions was almost entirely in the hands of these city lord nobles.

Through various relations within noble bloodlines, they obtained these military supplies from the Border Great Wall, then diluted them with boiling water, and sold them at exorbitant prices to mercenary adventurers frequently going on expeditions, using the channel of Healing Potions to extort and coerce, ultimately exploiting and buying the ores or magic plants collected from the wild by mercenary adventurers at low prices, then selling them at higher prices to the military at the Border Great Wall.

Just Healing Potions alone are enough to let these city lord nobles lie atop a Golden Mountain earning money.

Let alone everything else?

Weapons, armor, daily necessities, every item generates enormous profits.

The city lord nobles on the outskirts of the Kawa Great Forest live in unimaginable luxury, relying on these transactions that effortlessly flow gold coins.

However, all of this has been ruined with the emergence of Neutral City!

Healing Potions produced by Neutral City are of higher quality without dilution, and are cheaper,

They also provide other affordable yet effective drugs like Antitoxic Pill and Blood Coagulation Ointment, and have opened a hospital in the city, providing medical services to various patients.

Weapons and armor produced by Neutral City are several levels better than what they produce, and as for prices, there’s no need to mention them, damn it, how did those damn lowly Beastmen in Neutral City turn what originally cost dozens or hundreds of gold coins into low-cost goods measured in a few silver coins?

Good grief, are those despicable Beastmen’s steel made out of mud?

A set of Fine Steel Armor takes a skilled blacksmith several months to craft, where does that damned Neutral City get so many skilled blacksmiths?

Not only the prices are low, but the quantity produced is also enormous.

It’s said that the weapons and armor worn by Neutral City’s City Guard are even finer than those outside.

This is simply unbelievable.

As for clothing, lodging, entertainment, food, and other things these city lord nobles used to exploit merchants and mercenary adventurers, all were crushed entirely.

The competition between the two is like a high-dimensional destructive strike against a low-dimensional one, with no power to resist.

"Ladies and gentlemen, merchants are departing, adventurers are leaving, even the lower-class commoners are migrating, our city is bleeding, if we don’t want our hard-built enterprise to become desolate, we must all unite to give those lowly Beastmen a profound lesson!"

Even the foolish see the inherent dangers.

The existence of Neutral City is continually leeching off these cities.

If one day their established cities become desolate, counteraction is inevitable!

"But, the strength of those Beastmen is strong, we have not yet uncovered their true strength."

"Who is behind that city, we are also unsure."

The previous attempts at probing all ended without any news.

Some city lords sent elite troops, only to meet a complete rout, note that the ones sent to pose as bandits to probe were originally their most capable forces, but they suffered heavy losses, unable to glean even a shred of information about Neutral City.

"So what? It’s just a mere city built by lowly Beastmen, if there truly were some formidable power, they would have attacked already. Since they haven’t moved, it means those despicable Beastmen don’t have that power."

"Uniting the forces of over ten cities, can we still fear a paltry Beastman city?"

The discussions and confrontations at the banquet continue to unfold.

As time passes, a broad agreement is finally hammered out.

Some harbor apprehensions, but ultimately are driven by profit.

Consider this,

Once they capture the Beastmen’s city, they can plunder the secrets hidden within, those fantastic treatment drugs like Healing Potions, Antitoxic Pills, Blood Coagulation Ointments that can be produced cheaply, and methods for mass-producing low-cost weapons and armor, among other magical-like technical methods.

Especially in the medical and weapon aspects.

If they devour that city’s technology, their low-cost medical and weapon products will have formidable competitiveness even in the Central Earth World.

Especially during this time, as chaos is beginning to unfold in the Central Earth World.

The profits generated by these two types of goods might be numbers beyond the imagination of everyone present.

In the face of such insurmountable interests, the bit of apprehension in their hearts is finally discarded, and nearby forces of over a dozen points formed an alliance, and agreed to march together to subdue the "Demon Castle" teeming with evil and demons.

As time continuously flows, Neutral City rapidly develops by leveraging various advantages. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

The surroundings are peaceful; previously rampant bandit and marauder attacks have basically been eradicated, even distant creatures in the forests have been swept clear by the Dragon Nest Legion.

Apart from a few large Beastman forces occasionally probing at the edge of danger, human city forces remain tranquil.

Beneath this calm, however, lies a roaring undercurrent.