Chapter 604: Pre-Battle Preparing, Hand of Equalization

Translator: Lonelytree

Very quickly.

Pegasus in the oak forest, burrowing owls in burrows, grouse by the stream…

All the creatures in the oak forest also became active.

The living and the undead.

Under the moonlight, in the midst of the love song, they actually threw away their past prejudices and conflicts and danced harmoniously together.

Matthew could feel the happiness that came from the depths of everyone’s souls.

Other than the mother of coolies, Myosacci, who complained to him that the zombies were not working well under such beautiful music.

The other units were all very happy.

Even the arsonists in the workshop were working harder!

So Matthew also relaxed.

He was immersed in the beautiful ocean of music with everyone.

After a short moment of joy.

The intense preparation work continued.

July 26th.

Rheagar represented Rolling Stone Town and officially submitted the application for the battle to the Alliance of Seven Saints.

Their target was the Highleaf Region.

The war mode was ” Conquest War.”

Theoretically, the conquest battle would be won in two out of three battles, but everyone knew that the winner of the first battle would basically win everything.

According to Zeller’s scouts in the Highleaf Region,

The Black Dragon Lord was sending people to collect war tools from house to house, including military weapons, various fats, wood, and iron.

The Highleaf Region was a purely agricultural territory.

Rolling Stone Town still had some textile industry.

In addition to producing grains and cotton, the Highleaf Region only had rich land resources and high mountain reservoirs.

This news greatly boosted the morale of the people in Rolling Stone Town.

This was because when Rheagar was preparing for war, he did not really need to collect materials from the people. If they could not be bought on the market, he would issue a collection list to the residents through the City Hall.

The items on the list were also bought according to the market price.

Therefore, the overall situation of the town was relatively optimistic.

Matthew didn’t participate in the direct battle, nor did he interfere with the preparation of the main force.

He was mainly responsible for providing magic support and leading the dragon-slaying team to carry out special operations.

However, in order to cooperate with a newly established ” Arson Squad “.

Matthew provided them with a large amount of blazing glue, Molotov Cocktails, and high-purity sulfur ore.

Many of the incendiary tools were in storage.

Matthew sold them to Rheagar at a wholesale price that was 20% lower than the market price.

After the deal was done.

In one go, he received 120,000 gold coins in return.

This was obvious.

Making money from war was indeed the fastest way to make money!

When it came to price negotiations, neither of them was a calculative person.

The accounts had to be calculated clearly.

But for the common interests of Rolling Stone Town.

They were all willing to make some concessions.

For example, in the scroll ” Fei Ziben’s Dragon Slaying Spear “, the result of the negotiations between the two parties was-

Ray offered 250,000 gold coins, Matthew offered 50,000 in cash, and Soria offered 300,000 in interest-free loans.

The ownership of this scroll was tightly held in Matthew’s hands.

Correspondingly.

Matthew had to make the following promise:

[This scroll must be used to defend Rolling Stone Town or in a related war.]

And in return.

Matthew would receive the highest priority claim for the dragon slaying.

In other words, after the profits from slaying the dragon were converted into cash, they had to first make up for Matthew’s actual cost (400,000), and then Rheagar’s profits.

Considering the significance of slaying a dragon, it could almost determine the direction of the battle.

Rheagar readily gave up the right to recover the profits of more than 600,000 (in case).

In other words.

What if the slaughtered dragon had a higher value?

The surplus had nothing to do with Rheagar.

Of course.

When the two of them discussed the relevant terms, they were all doing their best to minimize losses.

In order to prevent Matthew from losing money.

Rheagar also proposed that after the victory, Matthew and his dragon-slaying team would receive 15% of the tax revenue of the Highleaf Region for the next 30 years.

This was a considerable number.

Matthew was shocked when Rheagar brought it up.

One had to know.

Rheagar had to feed an army of nearly 1000 people.

And his dragon-slaying team currently had less than ten people.

To be able to make such a decision.

It meant that he was very optimistic about Matthew and the others’ actions.

It also further proved that Rheagar’s popularity was not without reason.

These were not isolated cases.

There were too many parties involved in starting a war. Even the economic relationship between Matthew and Rheagar had to be calculated one by one.

Food expenses during the war;

Casualty allowance;

Additional subsidies and reward mechanisms;

The cost of weapons and items;

Depreciation expenses for all kinds of large equipment…

All these things are not described in one way.

In short, at the end of July for more than a week.

Everyone, including Matthew, went in and out of the office hall of the liege’s residence.

Let alone Zeller.

Even Rheagar was so busy that smoke was coming out of his mouth.

However, everything was sorted out before the end of July.

To be able to achieve such high administrative efficiency.

In addition to Rheagar and Zeller working overtime, Little Patton also played a big role.

This guy was a tax officer with outstanding calculation ability. He seemed to be good at administrative work.

He was responsible for drafting many economic contracts during wartime.

In comparison.

As a magic consultant, Matthew gradually reduced the frequency of going to the office hall.

He mainly trained his minions in the cemetery.

Ever since he levelled up to Level 16, Matthew’s single summoning limit had also increased to 480.

In other words.