After leaving the meeting City Lord Johnson immediately went and found the two men who accompanied him to the City and joined them in a room that was prepared for them.
“So how was it, Sarge? Are the aliens gonna attack us after all?”
“That’s enough Rikers. Remember where we are…but to answer your question, I don’t think securing good relations with this neighbor of ours will be an issue. In fact, it should benefit us greatly.
“They have things that we need. And it will be you two who are responsible for delivering the supplies so be prepared.”
“Aye Sarge.”
“Aye Sarge.”
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POV Raizen
It took some time but eventually the meeting resumed, and it was time to finally iron out the details of the deal.
It was an interesting deal to say the least.
Since City Lord Johnson here only owned 50% of the City, he didn’t necessarily have full control of all the resources of the City, which based on the items in the apology ring, was quite a lot.
And likely all from the Mavelia Merchant Union.
There were only two things he could trade with apart from actual physical labor.
A type of cow and wild wheat.
Next to their City wild wheat and other grains could be found in abundance and to go with it there are plenty of this other type of cow constantly grazing.
They named the cows themselves, calling them Iron Hide Cows.
It was quite a simple name, but it painted enough of a picture of what to expect from the cows. They were massive and all of them had a hide that would quite literally hurt to punch if you were too weak.
All of the males had horns of different shapes and sizes that were equally intimidating. Especially that of the horns of the bull of the herd.
Anyway, through a lot of hardship, City Lord Johnson and his people were able to capture a few from the herd and begin getting milk. They weren’t killing the one’s they captured as of yet, but the herd was massive and there quite literally hundreds of them near there City.
So, every now and then, they would go kill big one for its meat. He did make sure to emphasize that they had implemented strict rules regarding how many of them they could kill at a time.
I suppose that’s a good thing, I’d hope they wouldn’t overhunt their own prized resource.
Moving on, they would give us meat, the hide from the cows, milk, and wheat for their part of the deal.
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Our part of the deal was a bit different.
What City Lord Johnson wanted more than anything was resources. Cultivation resources and even the tools and weapons to match
He briefly touched on the fact that it was hard to acquire resources from the Mavelia Merchant Union and thus it hard was hard for him to build up any significant forces in the City.
Despite the fact his City had just over 500,000 people living there.
Which was a little surprising for me.
We didn’t get nowhere near that many people showing up to my City. It was weird but I didn’t dwell on it.
Anyway, it seemed they needed to have more things that they could offer to people, and these resources would do that.
With the favorable prices I could get from Greja, the blacksmith, and the alchemist shop, we were able to provide what he needed.
We had an agreement on what was being traded, what still took some time to figure out was the actual amount.
It was during this meeting I learned that I should never try and negotiate with Vanessa about anything…she was…fierce.
It took a few more hours, but eventually the deal was finalized, and it was time for the visiting City Lord to leave.
We stood at the entrance to the City. The boys were directly behind me as always, with Richard and co standing not too far off.
Meanwhile City Lord Johnson was standing just outside the gate with the two human men flanking him.
It looked kind of weird.
I was at minimum 10-15 years younger than him, and the boys behind me were only thirteen, yet we were standing here as the group with far more power.
It was a good reminder not to judge anyone simply because of how they looked.
“I’m glad we were able to come to an understanding City Lord Raizen, and I look forward to meeting you once again.”
“Same to you City Lord Johnson.”
Instead of immediately turning to leave like I expected him to, I saw him reach into one of his pockets and pulled out a small round and grey device.
“I was told to give this to you.”
He tossed the device over to me and simply turned around and left.
I watched him walk away for a few moments before heading back to my office.
Once in my office, I stared at the little thing for a few minutes before pressing the only button that was located in the center of it.
A click could be heard, then shortly after a voice that I heard not too long ago came out of the device.
“It is nice to speak to you again City Lord Raizen.”
“Miss Seiha. I didn’t think I would be hearing from you today.”
So, is this considered a phone in the Multiverse…?
I think Earth has them beat here…
“Well, we never finished our talk. I hope your discussion with City Lord Johnson was more fruitful?”
Hm…
I need to be careful with what I say.
Maybe I should send for Vanessa…
Well, it should be fine as long as I don’t agree to anything I think.
“It was fine. Regarding our talk, what were you referring to?”
“A discussion regarding trade City Lord Raizen. I will be frank here. The Mavelia Merchant Union has apologized to you personally and decided to accept the destruction of an outpost of ours at the hands of your people as another form of compensation.
“I believe that should suffice as an apology for our mistakes, and our desire to build good relations with you.”
Did she just say my people destroyed one of their outposts? When the hell did that happen…I took a look upwards wondering if Elder Zal would show up and either confirm or deny it, but nothing happened.
I’ll play it by ear then…she doesn’t seem upset about it, and I don’t know anything at all about it, so I’ll ignore it. Instead, I should probably ask what she wanted to trade.
“I understand, then let’s talk about trade. What did you have in mind Miss Seiha?”
“My offer is simple. To allow us to set up a shop in your City. We will pay a 20% tax and provide significant discounts to you.
“To facilitate this, we are willing to build four pairs of Mavelia Transport Stations for you.”
I understand setting up a shop…but what the hell is a Mavelia Transport Station? I would she assume that I knew what that was?
“I don’t know what a Mavelia Transport Station is.”
“I see…”
I feel like I lost a battle of some sorts there.
“A Mavelia Transport Station is quite simply a teleportation pad. Using nothing but the ambient Qi in the atmosphere, it is able to almost instantaneously teleport something from one programmed station to another.”
….
It seems I will need Vanessa after all…
Greja too…
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