Inside the study, Velin looked at the markings on the parchment and could not help sighing. To make it look completely genuine, that legendary expert certainly went to a lot of trouble.
Kyle, sitting to one side, nodded in agreement upon hearing this.
It had taken painstaking effort to deliver reasonable compensation to his lord, resulting in one elaborate plan after another.
"My lord, your subordinate has a question."
Velin sat up straight, looked at Kyle, and asked with a smile, "Let me guess, you want to ask why I didn't accept Bamos's first proposal and simply let them redeem the prisoners of war with supplies."
"Yes, my lord," Kyle replied. "With your current prestige, there is simply no need to add frosting to the cake."
"If you really want a reason, there isn't one," Velin shook his head, slowly explaining. "Doing this was just a whim, though of course, there was also the idea of letting them go home early."
"Exchanging prisoners sometimes exists only on paper."
Saying this, Velin paused for a moment and continued, "Suppose that during the mining, several hundred Black Asia Orc prisoners of war were buried underground and died of suffocation."
"In that situation, how should we explain it?"
"We'd just fabricate some crime and rationalize the deaths of these several hundred Black Asia Orcs."
Without too much thought, Kyle gave his own answer.
After saying it, he suddenly understood.
Looking at the expression on Kyle's face, Velin smiled and said, "So, that is what I wanted to do."
"My lord, your subordinate understands."
"Hahaha, take on only as much as your capabilities allow." Velin folded the parchment map, handed it to Kyle, and said, "Sometimes, when you do certain things, there isn't actually any purpose behind them."
"Some things are merely forcibly explained