Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords.

Chapter 406 Trading
"As the commander-in-chief, you should know better than anyone that you have no chance in this war." Bernard's eyes were as calm as the calm sea. He looked coldly at the group of brown-skinned Persian Gulf people in front of him, and the empty sleeve of his right hand rustled in the sea breeze. "The result of refusal is to be buried in the sea or toil forever in the dark mines. We in Derby are currently in great need of miners."

"Of course I know! I know better than anyone else! Hahaha!" Uli almost laughed wildly in his heart, but he had to pretend to sigh: "General Bernard, I have to admit that your strategy and courage really amaze me. You even dared to come here directly to stop us from retreating. To be honest, now I really can't think of any way to win. Your Fighting Knights are really strong, and there are so many magicians beside you..."

"Then why don't you lay down your weapons?!" Debe's officer couldn't help but shout as he looked at the Persian soldiers who were still holding scimitars.

These Persian Gulf men were still lined up in neat rows, gathering closer and closer, their shining blades looking so cold under the moonlight.

"Put down your weapons?! Why should we put down our weapons? Each of my men's blades can still chop off dozens of Debe people's heads!" Uli suddenly took a step back and cast his gaze towards the figure who had just walked out of the room on the other side. He said respectfully, "Lord Yivra, it's up to you now. Turn all these damn Debe people into stone statues, except for the one-armed man named Bernard. Don't turn him into stone too."

"He is still useful. It is related to whether we can win this war more easily."

These words alerted everyone, and the fighting knights drew their swords in unison, their fighting spirit gleaming on the blades. The court mages chanted spells in haste, preparing for another possible attack.

Bernard frowned and looked over.

It was a breathtakingly beautiful Medusa, so beautiful that even the most determined warrior would be frightened and his breath would be taken away at the first glimpse of her.

Above the veil as light as mist were a pair of beautiful eyes, which were as beautiful as stars, so beautiful that Bernard couldn't help but sink into them.

It was just an unintentional glance, the pupils were so beautiful that they seemed unreal and so enchanting that Bernard instantly forgot about the golden snake hissing in her hair, and the curse that was enough to turn his flesh and blood into a stone statue. He only felt his mind being seized by an irresistible force, sinking and falling hopelessly.

I am willing to become an eternal moonlight sculpture before her eyes.

"No! Something's wrong!"

Bernard was startled and broke away from those beautiful eyes. He subconsciously drew the magic sword from his waist with his left hand.

Putting aside his identity, the governor is also a swordsman with a high level of fighting spirit, but at this moment his back is already sweating profusely and he feels the threat of death!
"Sir Faan, please..."

Before Bernard could finish his words, he saw something he would never forget.

"Quick...run..."

The fighting knights around him had already turned into lifelike stone statues. Only the legendary Faan had no time to utter a word in a hurry before he was turned into a sculpture from head to toe.

Under the moonlight, on the deck as wide as the ground, in addition to the group of Persian Gulf soldiers, there were thousands of petrified human statues.

For the first time, the usually calm governor showed surprise and fear on his face.

He had taken into consideration the fact that the other party had Medusa priests, so he brought the legendary Faan and a dozen court mages along to prevent those Medusas from casting the petrification spell.

But this tall, enchanting snake lady didn't even cast a spell, and petrified thousands of people. Even Faan couldn't avoid it. How powerful is she? ! !

"General Bernard, I want to ask you now, have you made up your mind? Surrender or perish? Perhaps you don't know how powerful our Lady Evela is. Let me tell you, she can easily petrify tens of thousands of your soldiers!" The Persian Gulf commander Uli could no longer suppress the smile on his face. In the eternal sky, even ten Fox beauties could not make him more excited at this moment.

"If you don't want all your soldiers to turn into stone statues and sink into the bottomless sea, you'd better order them to throw their weapons into the sea collectively!" Uli Shana grinned.

Looking at the thousands of stone statues and the boundless ocean, and feeling the fishy and salty smell of the sea breeze, Uli had an extremely strong intuition that destiny was in my hands!
The Medusas inexplicably did not attack, so Ivra was not exposed. Then the other party actually appeared directly in front of Lady Ivra. The giant dragon in the daytime and the strong man who slashed with the sword did not appear either...

All of this was simply too much of a coincidence, so coincidental that Uli believed that Yonghengtian had personally intervened in this war and abruptly changed the course of the war.

Bernard closed his eyes and sighed softly. He did not feel angry about being ridiculed, but only regretful, because his underestimation of the enemy had harmed Fahn and all the officers and soldiers.

At this moment, he had to make a choice.

If he chose to hold on to the end, although he would gain a good reputation, he was afraid that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers behind him, including himself, might turn into stone statues.

Although surrender would make him be labeled a coward and bear the infamy forever, it would at least allow most of the soldiers to survive.

Bernard could only gamble at this moment. He bet that after he surrendered, even if these Persian Gulf people would start a massacre to vent their anger, they would not kill them all. They would let as many people as possible live...

"Wait a minute."

Suddenly a cold voice sounded. Bernard looked over and then lowered his eyes. It was Medusa!
"My dear lord, what do you want to say? If it is a taunt, forget it. I will not get angry because of some taunts. You won this time, this is a fact, but please don't be too arrogant. Our dragon knights are still soaring in this sky!"

Bernard maintains respect for the strong, but that doesn't mean he has to be humble.

"No, I just want to make a deal with you." Yivra said slowly, her enchanting golden snake tail swimming slowly on the deck.

Wu Li inexplicably had a bad feeling and wanted to stop this so-called transaction.

"Hulala~"

As a result, at this moment, a group of beautiful snakes rushed out of the room.

The smile on Uli's face froze in an instant.

Swish swish!
The men from the Persian Gulf looked in astonishment at the densely packed petrification spells falling from above their heads. They had no time to react. In an instant, half of them were turned into stone statues. Each one was a masterpiece, perfectly displaying the complex expressions on the sculptures.

A temporary short circuit in the brain caused the Persian Gulf commander-in-chief to drop the scimitar in his hand onto the deck without even noticing it.

This is the most powerful petrification spell ever used against the Debe people!

But now it is used on its own people, the only thing that remains unchanged is that its power is still terrifying.

These once brave and fearless men, the good men who fought with him on the battlefield, the warriors of the Persian Gulf Empire, the eagles soaring in the sky, and the treasures in the hands of every legion. Now they have all turned into stone statues that are deader than dead.

Uli never dreamed that this group of Medusas would use petrification on them.

He could not understand until his death why the other party did this!
"Why? Why is this happening! Why are you damn bitches doing this!" The Persian Gulf commander-in-chief Uli went crazy. He picked up the scimitar on the ground and wanted to rush forward to chop off those beautiful heads from those damn necks.

But they were held back by several guards. The Medusas looked cold. The spell they just cast was obviously a warning. There was a certain distance between the two sides. If they rushed forward, even the remaining hundreds of people would be turned into stone statues.

Not to mention that Lord Yifra was still there.

The Persian Gulf Empire was a slave state, but in order to obtain the assistance of these Medusa priests, the Medusa clan was specially made a noble of the Persian Gulf Empire. It should be noted that this was the first time in the entire Persian Gulf Empire that a foreign race was made a noble. With such an honor, no other clan would rebel.

No one could figure out why these Medusas did this.

"What deal?" Bernard was a little confused about the current situation, but it was better than before. Changes meant more possibilities.

"I can help you unpetrify your subordinates and help you win this war, but you have to promise me a few things." Evelyn simply ignored Uri next to her. If she wanted, she could turn him into a sculpture at any time.

As someone chosen by the Dark Goddess and given divine power, if it weren't for the prophecy, she wouldn't have been here at all, and Uli didn't deserve to see her at all.

Even the mad king had to book a time in advance if he wanted to see her.

"Can the petrification be removed?" Bernard's heart skipped a beat, and he just asked, "What is it?"

"First, our Medusa clan must join Debe. To be more precise, we must join the dragon knight named Levi."

“No one would reject the joining of a group of priests proficient in magic.” Bernard nodded, but his doubts grew.

A free magician or a group of beauties? A victory that came out of nowhere? Is this a conspiracy? Or is it for some unknown purpose?

He couldn't figure it out, so he chose to agree for the time being.

"Second, I need you to take us to see the dragon rider named Levi."

"It's easy."

"Third, I want the Medusas captured by your soldiers in Castle Sturge to be released."

Yivra spoke calmly, her eyes as deep as the stars in the sky.

But no one dared to look into the eyes of this peerless beauty who was even more beautiful than the beautiful snake.

"that is all?"

"that is all."

……

The doubts in Bernard's heart were almost filling the entire Storm Sea.

It’s not that these conditions are difficult, but they are simply too easy!

It was so simple that he thought the beautiful snake was playing a joke on him, except for the last one. He had to pray that these beautiful snakes were not chopped off by the brave warriors of High Cliff Castle.

However, given the temper of the Lord of High Cliff Castle, he would most likely capture all these beauties alive and make them his maids.

Uli is going crazy!
He glared at the Medusa chieftain whom he once respected, with his eyes as if hiding an angry lion.

Uli's roar echoed on the silent deck, filled with rage and despair of being completely betrayed: "Why?! Ivra! The Empire has treated you well! It has given you an unprecedented status! How dare you betray the Empire!"

He broke free from the guards who were holding him tightly. His eyes were red, and the scimitar in his hand was shaking violently due to extreme anger. The tip of the knife was pointed directly at the Medusa leader. "You poisonous snakes! I will take your heads..."

The beautiful snake girl didn't even look at Uli, but just glanced at him casually with her starry eyes that were enough to shake Bernard's heart.

Uli's voice stopped abruptly.

The Persian Gulf commander-in-chief, along with the scimitar in his hand, turned into a sculpture under the moonlight.

"Ulidar!" The remaining Persian Gulf soldiers looked desperate, and fear completely overwhelmed their courage.

They looked at their commander who had instantly turned into a stone statue, looked at the densely packed stone statues of their former companions around them, and then looked at the group of indifferent Medusa. Their last bit of will to resist completely collapsed.

No one knew better than them how powerful the Medusa leader was, so it was even more difficult for them to have the courage to pick up the scimitar that had fallen to the ground.

Bernard took a deep breath of the bloody and salty sea breeze and forced himself to suppress the huge waves in his heart.

He looked at the stone statue of Uli, and then at Ivra who seemed to have done only a trivial thing.

The previous conditions were simple like traps, yet so real that they were impossible to refuse - especially when the life and death of Fan and thousands of elite soldiers depended on each other's thoughts.

“Sir.” Bernard’s voice was low and solemn. He put away his magic sword, put one arm on his chest, and performed the formal etiquette of Commander Derby. “On behalf of Derby… and Lord Levi, I accept your conditions. I swear on my honor that I will do my best to fulfill them as long as it is within my authority and ability. Now, please…”

He raised his head and looked at Ivra, "Remove the petrification of my men."

This is the most effective way to prove whether the other party is joking or not.

The beautiful snake leader hardly chanted any mantra, but there was light flowing in her pupils.

The hard rock surface of the sculpture is like ice and snow encountering the warm sun, softening and fading visibly to the naked eye, revealing the texture of skin, cloth and metal.

Faan's body trembled violently, and his eyes quickly changed from confusion to horror. He subconsciously took a step back, and the magic light condensed in his hand almost exploded out of control.

"Lord Fane!" Bernard quickly stopped the other party from casting the spell.

Otherwise, if the ship was blown up, they would all be fed to sharks.

The old wizard in golden robes looked at the Medusa in front of him in shock. The eyes of this legendary wizard were filled with unprecedented awe and deep fear.

He understood that in that silent moment just now, the legendary power that he was so proud of was as fragile as a child. He was instantly petrified by the other party, and his entire mind fell into darkness.

(End of this chapter)