The Demon Lord System
Ch. 52 - Debate at the royal palace
A middle-aged man wearing a dark blue suit came out from inside his carriage and walked into the royal palace accompanied by three people, two heavily armed men and one bespectacled woman in tight clothes were now beside the middle-aged man holding a notebook.
The middle-aged man walked into the palace without any soldiers stopping him, it was all because the middle-aged man was a distinguished noble family, he was Ling's father, Gronth Shoto.
Shoto glanced at the woman who was now right behind his side, "Siska, regarding the food supply last month, how much input do we get?"
The woman named Siska immediately turned her notebook around, after searching around, she then said, "Master, for yesterday's input we got about 23,303 gold pieces, he said, that's a lot more than last month" then the woman closed her notebook again.
"I see, then good."
Not long after they reached the great door of the kingdom, the royal soldiers immediately opened the door for them to enter.
"Welcome Mr. Gronth." The soldier opened the royal door while greeting.
"Thank you for the welcome." After that, Shoto entered the door of the great kingdom.
A woman dressed as a waiter immediately escorted Shoto to the meeting hall, where there were already many other important families, for the total number of families present around 14 large or nuclear families.
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Seeing the head of the family from the Gronth family had come, the king smiled and began to speak as Shoto sat down at the place he had been provided.
The king let out a long sigh before speaking, "Everything, I know for sure you have known the information about the humans from the Bhaki kingdom, they are known for the manufacture of the Medicines, they are, I am here as king to order you to help me make them our slave laborers, and in exchange I will give you a lot of magic tools and resources, how?"
Some of the prominent families balked at the king's words, including Shoto, just that Shoto did not raise his voice first, he preferred to listen to the situation.
"King Kana, I refuse." A woman dressed in red brown stood up.
"Reason?" The king smiled as he looked at the woman.
"Isn't it clear? how can we do something like this? did not the king say to instill morals? and also in this kingdom there is absolutely no slavery from 100 years ago thanks to the king's grandfather, King Alvis Ercol." The woman said firmly.
The name of the woman herself is Luna, she comes from a distinguished family named Leonardo.
King Kanma looked at him with a disgusting look, in his dictionary, it was fitting that people at the bottom always submit to the superior, even if it was bad though, they did not deserve to fight.
A woman beside Luna immediately told him to be quiet and agree, however, the king could easily bring down the power of Leonardo's family.
"Luna, stop it, I'm afraid your family and you're okay." The woman is named Yuri, she comes from the Yuusha family, her relationship with Luna herself is a friend, therefore she does not want Luna and her family for anything.
"But..."
"Have heard this friend of yours." Yuri hugged her best friend, she then turned towards the king, "King Kanma, we agree."
Hearing that, the king of Kanma laughed in satisfaction, "Hahaha, good, if any of you refuse, your family will be burned alive, but for his women, I will make them comfort women for the soldiers." Once again the king of Kanma laughed.
That way, all the families agree even though it is not the heart, but among them, half the well-respected families do not mind it while not those affected, even they immediately agree.
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Ling was now talking about the discussion of the Alliance with the Count in the dining room, it was just that at the dinner table there was absolutely no food as Ling and the Count decided to finish the meal first before discussing the formation of the alliance.
The Count looked at Ling sharply, "Ling, I have a recommendation of an alliance partner that matches us, like this." The Count took out a drawing paper containing pictures of the girl at the dinner table.
Ling then took one of the photos and saw it, Ling looked at him normally, for the photo given by the Count himself was a photo of the girl wearing a bra only, but Ling did not react at all, making the Count look at him in wonder.
"What's wrong? is it less beautiful?"
"I don't need beautiful ones, it's just that I need strong ones and not burdens like them." Just by looking at his physique, Ling already knew that at least their strength was only at the level of 3-star Silver, it was not even a match for his subordinates at all.
Ling then reached into his pocket and took out a photo of a long white-haired man, he was from the Yuusha family and he had the name Shukaku Yuusha, for his own information Ling found out about it from his subordinates whom Ling had assigned from days ago to gather information regarding both new and old disciples.
Looking at the photo, the Count was quite surprised when he saw it, "K.you, are you sure about him? he's notoriously unwilling to submit to anyone you know? what if he refuses?" The Count's tone sounded quite agitated.
Ling looked back at the Count, "No, I think he was just a person who was too wary, even my subordinates who I told to observe him were hurt by the traps that were in his residence, but since I have an ace that's my waiter named Levi, I can still know his true nature and whatever he likes or dislikes." Ling explained long enough.
"Is that? well Ling, my colleague Kamaki, he's an Assassin, you know, he has black hair tied up..." The Count tried to introduce his partner with his traits.
Ling nodded slowly, he actually already knew about the Count's comrade, after all he had to investigate someone who was going to be his partner.
Ling then reached back into his pocket and again took out a few more photos, he showed a few others, but according to the Count himself it was not a wise choice.
"Hey Ling, these guys are kids, why did you choose them? even though there was one person who was sturdy, but I don't know why you should choose them" the Count couldn't help but be curious, even though they could be said to be inner disciples as well, but according to the information the Count got, they were the support type, the dark type, and the Paladin type.
Dark is a Class that makes its users stronger when casting magic, but at the same time will eat the Mana of two people around it, therefore the Count is a bit hesitant to accept it.
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