Chapter 1265: Summit of different races (4)
Chapter 1265: Summit of different races (4)
Chapter 1265: Summit of different races (4)
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I just calmly looked at them and said, "When the time comes, we can discuss the terms. You will all have a chance to trade with the Dwarven Kingdom, so there's no need to worry."
The moment that they heard this, they all knitted their brows once more.
After all, they could hear from the way that I said this that I wasn't planning on playing ball with them at all.
I was planning on upholding the agreement with the Dwarven Kingdom and sell as their middle man.
That meant that I wasn't going to give the other human kingdoms any chance to connect directly with the Dwarven Kingdom.
That effectively put a stop to their plans, so it was only natural that they were unhappy with
me.
But I knew that there would only be more trouble by letting them connect directly with the Dwarven Kingdom.
The other person that seemed to have a small issue with this was the representative from the Sorcery Empire, but it seemed like it was a very small issue that they had with this.
They only had slightly knitted brows instead of deeply knitted brows like the rest of the human representatives.
It wasn't hard to guess what the representative from the Sorcery Empire was thinking. They had been in control of the trade with the Dwarven Kingdom for this long, so to have someone else dip their fingers in this was equal to interfering with their business. But they didn't mind as much since they were still the only ones that controlled the high grade magic catalyst, there was no one that could replace them in this matter.
As long as they had the high grade magic catalyst, it wasn't as if anyone could interfere in their trade with the Dwarven Kingdom.
But as one of the four empires of the human race, it was hard for them to accept that someone was taking something from them.
Still, that representative from the Sorcery Empire didn't say anything since he knew that this was for the best for the human race.
This would break down the wall that had been between the dwarves and the humans, so it was taking a step forward.
In a dangerous time like this, it was necessary.
In the end, there was nothing that the human representatives could say since this was a public setting.
The only thing that they could do was take action under the surface, making things harder for the Kite Kingdom so that they would play ball.
But how could I have not expected this?
By the time that they planned on doing anything, it would already be too late.
We had been preparing for this for a long time, so Haley had already set up everything that was necessary to counter them. I had full faith in her capabilities, so there was nothing for me to worry about.
After the dwarven representative brought up this matter, the other representatives from the other races started bringing up their issues as well.
The representative from the Merman Empire offered underwater goods for goods from the human race.
Though it wasn't necessary for them to do this, they knew that doing this would allow the human race to become stronger. At the same time, they would have access to far more resources from all over the territory of the humans.
But there was a difference in terms of their terms.
Instead of relying on the Kite Kingdom, it was the Tide Empire that would be the middle men for the Merman Empire.
The Tide Empire wasn't surprised to hear this at all, it even seemed like they had already expected this.
The relationship between the Merman Empire and the Tide Empire was completely different from the one between the Dwarven Kingdom and the Sorcery Empire. It was only natural that they would rely on the Tide Empire to sell their goods for them.
But of course, that didn't mean that the Merman Empire didn't do private deals.
That meant that our deal was still in effect.
The giants didn't really want much other than some art and they would trade it for materials, so they were the easiest ones to deal with.
The hardest ones to deal with were the elves.
"We want some land." This was the first thing that the elven representative said when they made their request.
The elves were the only ones that I didn't know what their demands were ahead of time since I wasn't as close to these elves as the others.
The only elves that I was close to was the village that was in the Kite Kingdom. These elves were elves that came from the Elven Kingdom, so they had their own agenda.
Seeing that no one said anything, I narrowed my eyes to look at the elven representative and asked, "What land?"
The elven representative didn't take offense to this and calmly said, "We want some unpopulated land for elven refugees. There have been some elven villages that were caught in the fight with the demons and the land there has been corrupted. So we just want some unpopulated land to create new villages in."
The human representatives didn't seem to be against this when they heard this.
After all, having elven villages in their territory wasn't exactly a bad thing.
There were times that elves traded with the rulers of the territory that they were in, though these were rare times. At the same time, it wasn't as if they elves would just abandon their villages if something were to happen.
If there was something that happened to the kingdom, there was no doubt that they would be able to get the support of the elves.
That was how it was in the war against the demons.
The elves that had their villages destroyed were those that were on the front line in the war
with the demons. They had their villages destroyed when the demons destroyed the human kingdoms that they lived in.
During that time, there had been reports of elves fighting alongside humans against the demons.
So an elven village was a good thing to a certain extent.