Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 148 Disrupted Negotiations
When this statement came out, everyone was lost.

The notoriety of the Hailan Empire may not be so well-known in the town of Flöm, north of the Delusion Land, but for the children from Rose City and those adventurers, it is a place full of evil! In the textbooks of the academy and the stories of the bards in the tavern, the true and false crimes committed by the Hailan Empire are simply too numerous to list!
If we add in Carolina's reputation as the Little Highland of the West, and the fact that they are now entertaining the remnants of the Highland Empire, and their actions are so similar, then bystanders will easily come to a conclusion - Carolina is preparing to restore the Highland Empire? !

"How did you know?!" the middle-aged man was stunned. Mindatis was one of their major financial backers, but he had never appeared in public. How did this young man determine that he was with them?

"Do I need to report the news I got to you?" Ron curled his lips. "Just ask the dead people, the Death Squad, the Dark Circles, or Bakoyannis?"

"Does the name sound familiar?"

"It's her!" The middle-aged man suddenly realized. No wonder he didn't see Bakoyannis and the bandits she had gathered when he came. It turned out that they had also failed!
"Is there anything else you want to ask?" Ron didn't want to bother with this guy anymore. "If not, then leave. You are not welcome here."

"There are so many good guys and girls waiting for me to welcome you. If you don't have something serious to do, I have nothing to talk about with you bugs."

"Business? Oh, you, please stay!" The middle-aged man hurriedly stopped Ron. He knew that launching an army to punish the culprit and then "making peace magnanimously" would no longer work, but he had been given a death order from his superiors to make Ron withdraw his troops at all costs - their trade had been severely disrupted, and those adults were almost losing their pants.

But the problem was that they wanted Roan to withdraw his troops, but they didn't want to spend money or lose face. This demand, like the colorful black, left the envoy with almost no options, which led to the scene just now.

It is definitely not possible to complete all of them now, but at least one main task can be completed.

"Mr. Ron, I admit that we were the first to take action, but that was a deal issue and we were just fulfilling our agreement," the middle-aged man said with a different expression, "but now we have cut off contact with that person and the deal is over."

"We would like to discuss one more deal with you."

"Still want Karad to withdraw his troops? Go talk to him, I don't have the final say." Ron looked at him indifferently. Anyway, one of them was anxious, but he was definitely not.

"That's what the hobgoblin warlord said," the middle-aged man said with a dark face, "We admit that we misjudged you and that we were at fault first, but you have done enough revenge now, right? Stop it!"

"If this gets to the city-state alliance, what good will it do you?"

"The City-State Alliance has rejected your request. Stop trying to bully others." Constance interrupted at this time. She came to Ron for help, so of course she didn't mind taking advantage of the Carolina people's misfortune.

"If you didn't go to Rose City first, how could you have caught up with us?"

"You guys..." The middle-aged man said anxiously, "Didn't we agree on the way..."

"What did you agree on?" Carlos grinned. "You agreed on it with me, so I didn't say anything just now."

"They are not under my control. Have you made it clear with them?"

"No!" A bunch of young people who were watching the fun and enjoying the trouble laughed together. They didn't care about any considerations, interests or exchanges. They were basically the second sons or illegitimate children, who were sent out to roam free because it was not their turn to inherit the family business. Why would they care about so many things?
They came here with the delusion of joining Ron, and they liked him, so they stood on his side, it was that simple!
"Okay, this is none of your business, stop making trouble," Ron signaled to these young people to quiet down, and looked at the Carolina envoy, "It's not that I don't intend to do a deal with you, just name a price. If it's suitable, it's not impossible to negotiate." "This... one hundred thousand gold coins!" The envoy gritted his teeth. This was the bottom line he asked his superiors for before coming here.

Now he has no more cards to play except this one: "You are still in the initial stage, you should be in great need of this money, right?"

"One hundred thousand? To send away beggars?" Driver jumped up when he heard that. "It should be at least one million gold coins!"

Although the goblin's price was a bit high, there were actually quite a few people who supported him.

The messenger even tried to argue with the short man, thinking that if he could persuade Ron's companions to shift their stance a little, the situation might be eased.

But are goblins so easy to reason with? The messenger broke into a cold sweat after just a few words.

"Sir!" He had no choice but to ask Ron for help, "You better be reasonable, right?!"

One million gold coins. The masters above would rather use the money to fight a decisive battle with Kalade, so they didn’t ask for much!
"Of course I'm reasonable," Ron glanced at him, "Well, I don't want your money either. I want to discuss business with you: the kind you are best at."

"Send the remnant of the Hailan Empire, the elf Mindatis Ryan, to me. How about we write off our previous grudges?"

"No!" Before the messenger could even speak, a woman accompanying him immediately said, "We can't do what you say!"

The woman's figure and face were hidden by a wide robe, so Ron couldn't see her background, but she was obviously of a higher rank than the envoy.

"Well, it's like this, sir," the messenger said with a smile, "It's not that we don't want to make this deal, but Mindatis is... no longer with us."

"You are sheltering the remnants of the old empire!" The young people started to make a fuss again.

"No!" The envoy, who was attacked from both sides, shook the white flower on his chest into a handkerchief and kept wiping the cold sweat from his temples. "In fact, it was precisely because we were unwilling to protect the remnant that he was expelled from the country. Now we have no place to catch him."

Ron noticed that when the messenger said this, he kept glancing at the woman behind him. Could it be that... this woman was also an elf who survived the Hailan Empire?

Naturally, the young people watching the show refused to accept this explanation. The more conservative ones began to criticize Carolina, while the more radical ones had already threatened to write to the Rose Council members back home.

A city-state like Carolina should be kicked out of the alliance!

(End of this chapter)