Chapter 197: This is Not All

  "This is impossible, that’s definitely not just a mid-level spellcaster!"

  "Mr. Kaman, are you sure you didn’t see it wrong? Was that really a true dragon?"

  "Doesn’t Bay Territory only have about a thousand soldiers? How could we have failed?"

  "We have to fight back, we must!"

  "With what? That was already ohird of our territory’s forces, are we supposed to throw everything in?"

  "For the time being, don’t eh Bay Territain. We ck detailed information about them."

  "We’ll deal with the battle ter; the key issue now is how to hahe aftermath."

  "Exactly, the elite soldiers who didn’t die must be redeemed. It takes at least three to four years to train one, and talent is hard to find."

  "And the regur soldiers, if we don’t want to use our own people to repce them, we have to redeem them as well…"

  "That’s right, and the biennial scription day is ing up soon!"

  "How are we going to pehe wealthy Bay Territory certainly won’t back down easily!"

  "What about the ruins? We’ve already ied nearly 100,000 gold s!"

  "It’s already in their hands, what else we do?"

  "…"

  The noisy arguments filled the room.

  These Carlisle family nobles qualified to attend the meeting all had at least the rank of knight and managed one or twe vilges or towns.

  Although they were arguing fiercely, each of them was basically hitting the key points.

  The chaos was naturally due to their vested is being involved.

  In this regard, they always became very shrewd!

  Kaman, who had escaped with his life through an emergency teleportation array, had no desire to speak.

  He just sat there with a gloomy expression, watg the others argue, occasionally gng at Larry Carlisle, who remained silent.

  This 40-year-old vist, already a peak high-level spellcaster, wasn’t paying much attention to their quarrels.

  A well-dressed, brisk butler walked in, directly approag Larry Carlisle.

  Larry raised his hand to take the dot the butler handed him, and the others immediately fell silent, waiting for him to speak.

  Waving the dot in his hand, Larry exhaled slightly and turo look at Brown, who had escaped using a teleportation scroll:

  "Set aside your personal biases and tell us about Bay Territory—its lord, soldiers, and people…"

  Despite his unpleasant expression and deep ay, Brown rexed a little upon hearing Larry’s question.

  Vist Larry never wasted words, and this was giving him a ce!

  He carefully sidered everything he had seen, not exaggerating a bit, and answered truthfully:

  "The lord of Bay Territory is a Level 6 Arist named Matthew Ser."

  Arist?

  A mid-level Arist!

  The Carlisle family members were suddenly shocked.

  They weren’t afraid of someone being strong, but they feared someoh high status!

  Arists were the highest echelon of the heril Empire!

  Even if the Carlisle family defeated Matthew, they absolutely wouldn’t dare to kill him.

  "He’s a member of the Ser family and has received strong support from them."

  "Bay Territory produces a new potion called ‘Vitality Potion.’"

  The Ser family!

  Vitality Potion!

  As soon as these two names were mentioned, everyone in the Carlisle family took a collective sharp breath.

  Some of them already knew about this, but most had bee in the dark.

  "The most important thing is that Matthew Ser seems to have signed a life tract with a true dragon."

  "Acc to intelligehe dragon was discovered in the Foggy Marsh, near Sweetwater Town!"

  At these words, every member of the Carlisle family instinctively wideheir eyes.

  Sweetwater Town!

  Every member of the Carlisle family could never fet the pain of that pce!

  It had taken the Carlisle family nearly twenty to thirty years and an iment of tens of thousands of gold s to develop that rge town.

  It was hailed as the key hub for advang into the Foggy Marsh and developing new ruins.

  And the result?

  It was destroyed in the most absurd way by a bck dragon!

  And now, hearing the e between Matthew, the dragon, and Sweetwater Town, it was iable for them to let their minds wander.

  "Could it be that the dragon was inally discovered iwater Town?"

  "Or maybe Sweetwater Town took the bme for Matthew Ser?"

  "That dragon should have beloo the Carlisle family!"

  "Exactly, I think so too!"

  "We must tinue fighting and take back what’s ours."

  "…"

  Seeing these people being agitated again, Brown suddenly grew even more worried.

  He was truly afraid that these fools would lose their heads airred into ung atack.

  Recalling the blood-soaked, frenzied yet terrifyingly calm Beelzebub, Brown found himself pletely losing any desire for battle.

  He was left with a psychological scar!

  As a high-level warrior, Brown thought he shouldn’t feel such emotions, but reality left him no choice—he was terrified to his core.

  He had been just half a breath away from being decapitated by that bloodstained axe if he hadn’t teleported in time.

  "Alright, quiet down!"

  Vist Larry spoke calmly, as if indifferent to matters like the true dragon.

  The people who had just been riled up instantly quieted down, as if their previous excitement had just been a show for Vist Larry.

  Casually gng at them, Vist Larry gestured for Brown to tinue.

  "The true dragon’s bat power is immense. High-level professionals are no match for it…"

  Everyone dismissed the idea of going after the dragon…

  "Bay Territory’s elite soldiers are incredibly capable in battle."

  Hoable?

  "Although the soldiers’ average professional level is no higher than Level 3, with most only at Level 2 or 1."

  Defeated by these low-level troops?

  "But they all have ented armor and ons…"

  Impossible, there’s no way Bay Territory could be that wealthy!

  "And each soldier carries two bottles of ‘Vitality Potion’ and two bottles of ‘Nutritional Konjac Potion’."

  "Sir Tres must be very aware that Bay Territory also has a heavy infantry unit of about 200 soldiers."

  "They wear full ented pte armor and wield powerful, heavy ented ons…"

  This…

  Couldn’t be true, right?

  "Each soldier earns a monthly sary of 20 silver s."

  "If they die, their family receives a pension of 5 to 10 gold s, and their retives are cared for by the territory…"

  This must be a lie!

  There’s no way that’s true!

  The more Brown spoke, the darker the faces of the Carlisle family members became.

  If what he said was true, Bay Territory’s soldiers would be extremely tough to deal with!

  No one wao face them!

  This is not all!

  This isn’t just generosity!

  It’s sheer foolishness!

  Even the Carlisle family’s elite soldiers didn’t enjoy such treatment!

  FAL