Although the war in the mine has stopped, more troops are coming from all directions.
The portal of Otherworld Plane was closed and the nobles could not enter, but Countess Winter used the magic means left here before to open Space Gate at a huge cost, bringing all Flying Wolf Cavalry and some nobles.
After these nobles came in, they went to their own territory and brought their own troops.
Soon after the war stopped, no less than ten thousand troops had gathered here.
The war is not over, but because of the arrival of these Noble Army teams, the situation has once again turned to Count Winter's side.
"This is my Gold Mine, you are declaring war on my Winter Family!"
In war, it is often necessary to have a good reputation in order to stand on top. This is the case for Count Winter now.
Count Soron These people are shameless plunderers and thieves.
"Hmph! Every mineral vein in Otherworldly Plane belongs to all the nobles. You Count Winter mined Gold Mine selfishly. How dare you complain first when we find out?"
Count Soron also fought back. It is necessary to stand firm, otherwise there will not even be a supporter.
In short, only if you have reason can you continue.
"I have been discussing with the nobles for a long time, but it is you!"
Count Winter has everything in mind.
"The key to the Otherworld gate is only held by Lord Marquis of Northwind, but he privately closed the gate and did not allow any nobles to enter or exit it. Why is this?"
"For what you said, the so-called Baron Ryan is in crisis. Do you need the support of the Noble Army team?"
Ryan blinked and looked at the two nobles with a somewhat unkind look in his eyes.
So, it was me who was used as the reason?
No matter what, he has this bad reputation on his back.
Regarding this matter, Marquis of Northwind didn't have any way to refute it like Count Soron did. He hesitated for a long time without knowing what to say, his chest heaving.
"We were originally meant to rescue Baron Ryan, but we just found this Gold Mine on the road."
Or Count Soron opened his mouth to fight back, as if he had already prepared such rhetoric.
After saying that, he looked at Ryan again.
"Baron Ryan knows this matter best."
Ryan sneered in his heart, but nodded on the outside.
"Yes, I am hunting this Otherworld's Divinity Beast. Dragons is the life closest to Deities. And you also know that my father, Count Clayton, has a Dragons mount that is about to be Legendary. I hope to be able to help him."
The reason is understandable. When the nobles go back, they may beat their own children and then look at other people's vocabulary to relieve their anger.
"Really? That's a coincidence."
Count Winter sneered angrily.
"Then it's a coincidence that you killed my army and declared war on me, Winter Family?"
There is no solution to this matter. There is no unnecessary reason for the outbreak of war. It is purely the existence of Gold Mine that makes them have to make a decision as quickly as possible.
"We just take back the part of ourselves that belongs to us."
Count Soron knows that it cannot admit the motive of the war and can only muddy the waters from the political aspect.
"Okay, very good!"
Count Winter gritted his teeth and said:
"Then, I also want to take back my victory. My soldiers cannot die in vain. Now that the war has begun, let's continue!"
Now in the war here, Count Winter has a greater advantage.
"No one can give up Gold Mine's interests. How about sitting down and solving it in a gentler way?"
Ryan said, which made Count Winter even more angry. If it weren't for the fishing net and gum, how could his Flying Wolf Cavalry have suffered such heavy losses.
"The war has begun and cannot be ended easily."
"Then we'll have to wait."
After Ryan finished speaking, he did not care about the many nobles present and led his soldiers to retreat to the other side of the mine.
Not long after, the sound of troops marching came from Mountain Forest.
Soldiers belonging to nobles from several other counties arrived.
Count Soron appeared, Dragon Mountain County's Noble Army team, even if there were no nobles present, would not refuse the count's call. Ryan was acting out of love and reason, in exchange for Gold Mine's interests, letting the armies of Zero Crossing Prefecture and Iron Mountain County move closer.
When Count Winter arrives, these armies will soon get the news, and their armies will also appear here.
The confrontation between the two sides gradually evolved into a war between counties.
This scene became a little unbearable for a while.
In a war involving tens of thousands of soldiers, even the great nobles would be unable to bear the consequences.
The state of war in the previous two years has made the nobles of Northwind Province now have a strong feeling of war weariness in their hearts.
They go to war for profit and become war-weary, but there is actually no conflict.
As a result, this war that was half started came to a halt.
"Since Gold Mine wants to divide it, let's divide all the mineral veins."
"Including you nobles."
Count Winter stared at Count Soron and Baron Ryan. These two nobles also had a large Magic Crystal Mine in their hands and wanted to share it.
"Okay."
Ryan agreed with a smile, while Count Soron's expression was much gloomier.
Other Plane's portal is finally open.
Many nobles once again appeared on Thundercloud Mountain, and really began to discuss how to allocate Otherworld's resources.
"Our purpose is for resources and the wealth of Otherworld."
"Instead of war, one after another, we have already lost many soldiers. If we continue to fight, all our nobles will lose their slaves and labor force next year."
"Aristocratic gentlemen wouldn't think of farming by themselves, would they?"
"The resources of Otherworld are the wealth of the entire Northwind Province. We should use the wealth to develop our territory and increase our wealth, so as to have a say in the empire."
"We need peace, we need a result, a result where no one can be jealous of the resources of other nobles."
"The war cannot continue."
The only outsider in the mansion, Viscount Hogg looked at these nobles in confusion.
what happened? Is there something I didn't know?
He didn't do anything when he was suddenly called over and heard Marquis of Northwind's hysterical words.
"It should indeed be like this. We should spend more time on our own territory, not the plane of Otherworld."
The nobles nodded in agreement, but there was no good proposal regarding the so-called result.
In the end, it was Ryan who stood out among the crowd.
"I think that since we want to share the benefits of Otherworldly Plane, we must first understand how much wealth we can obtain from this Forest Otherworld."
"First, it's the population of the Natives tribe."
"Population is always the most fundamental resource for the strength of a territory. Every great noble's territory has a huge population, so that it can have a powerful army and an extraordinary legion."
"The two earls know this best. To be honest with you, the Count Clayton Family controlled by my Ryan·Clayton's father is also able to possess such a huge extraordinary Flame Dragon Knight Legion because of Otherworld Plane's resources and population control."
Speaking of Count Clayton, many nobles present couldn't help but get jealous. That was a great nobleman who was called the candidate for the future Fifth Grand Duke of the empire, and was the target of many families for generations.
"So the population resources of Otherworld Plane cannot be ignored."
"What is the second resource?"
"I think our past hunting has given us the answer, that is, there are countless ferocious beasts among Mountain Forest that have been bathed in divinity."
"These beasts are food, rare meat. Meat can make us stronger, and some of them can be domesticated into domestic animals. In my Frozen Earth Territory, many families have begun to raise goats captured from Mountain Forest World."
"With domestication from generation to generation, this kind of goat will become a large source of wealth in the territory. The most important thing is that it is sustainable. The ewes give birth to lambs, the lambs will grow up, and the lambs will be born again, just like chickens lay eggs, and eggs lay eggs, and they become our wealth."
"Other than that is Magical Beast. There are many Magical Beast among Mountain Forest World. We all know one thing. A powerful knight must have a powerful mount. If you are lucky enough to tame a Magical Beast, then it will be a family heritage of at least a hundred years."
"So I think that the beasts in Mountain Forest World and Magical Beast are the second resources we can obtain."
"Then what is the third resource?"
"Is this the mine for which we started the war?"
"No, never. You can become a nouveau riche by selling minerals, but you cannot become a noble noble by selling minerals. This is the reason why our Northwind Province nobles have not been accepted by the South nobles for so many years."
"We only have mines."
"We already have mines. Can more mines change our view in the eyes of South people?"
"So, the third resource is the trees in Mountain Forest World and the soil in Otherworld."
"Northwind Province There is a lot of frozen soil, and there is not much land that can be planted. It is too difficult to open up wasteland. The most important thing is that we need soil suitable for growing food."
"Otherworld has some trees that we don't have here."
"What are the South nobles most proud of? It is the glory that their ancestors have left for themselves. In Northwind Province, we don't have it. Therefore, we have to build our own glory and build a wonder that belongs to Northwind Province."
"Once successful, when the nobles of South mention the nobles of Northwind Province in the future, they will no longer be barbarians living in the mines. They will think of the glory we have built, and they will yearn for it, because we, the nobles of Northwind Province, have accomplished what their proud ancestors did."
Ryan's words made the eyes of the nobles who were preparing to deepen their ties with the South nobles light up. As everyone knows, it was precisely because of the recent shift in focus of the Northwind Province nobles that Ryan said these words.
He wants to build a wonder, to be precise, a tourism development base.
Lord Ryan can't do this alone, it requires Northwind Province nobles to unite.
If you want to develop the economy, you cannot do it without tourism.
The preliminary wonder materials are the trees in Mountain Forest World that are not found in the empire.
Even more than just ornamental crops, if Lord Ryan develops in the future, these rare and precious trees that have never been seen before can be sold to Druid or Elves. This will be a huge transaction.
"The fourth resource is the vein that can only be mined through time."
"Iron Ore Copper Mine, Silver Mine, Gold Mine Magic Crystal Mine, all the veins are the fourth resource we can obtain."
"In my opinion, in the entire Otherworld Plane, apart from these four resources, there is no fifth type."
"Baron Ryan!"
A Baron said, yes, at least those who can appear here today are Baron. Because there were too many people, Lordship didn't even call out.
"What about divinity? Otherworldly Plane The most important thing should be divinity."
"Divinity?"
"Divinity is no longer voluntary."
Ryan sighed and said:
"After Countess Winter's investigation, it was found that the divinity of Otherworld had been spread throughout Mountain Forest by Deities many years ago. That's why the beast of Otherworld grew so huge and gave birth to those mineral veins in Mountain Forest."
"Each of the four resources I mentioned before is a part of divinity. We are originally exploring divinity."
"In addition, the Governor can also testify about this matter. Do you really think that I, Baron Ryan, was in danger and caused the portal to be closed?"
Ryan didn't want to have a bad reputation for certain things, and Marquis of Northwind didn't want to either, so he immediately stood up and said:
"Yes, I ordered Legendary Knight Mulan to close the portal because the flow of divinity on Otherworld Portal's key has accelerated."
"We guess that the ten years mentioned before will not be that long anymore, because the mining of our mineral veins will accelerate the loss of divinity, thus causing the death of Otherworld Plane in advance."
No noble wanted to take the blame, so no one said anything.
"This time will turn ten years into eight years and five years due to our subsequent mining of mineral veins."
"I think this is also the reason why we must sit down and discuss a suitable result. If we develop Otherworld Plane during the war, how much wealth can we gain in three to five years?"
Ryan asked and then spread his hands.
"So now, we should talk about how to divide the four resources of Otherworld Plane."
"Let's start discussing one by one."
"The first is the first resource, the Natives population of Otherworld Plane."
"Before I do this, I need to remind everyone that those Natives are not slaves. They are extraordinary seeds that may evolve into barbarians. While we are discussing how to deal with them, we must also take into account the wishes of the Natives tribe themselves."
"You don't want to have hundreds or even thousands of restless people suddenly appear in your territory, right?"
"You have also witnessed the ferocity of Natives."
"Azure Lion Tribe, Black Bear Tribe...Gray Hawk Tribe, the Natives of these six tribes belong to me, Ryan. On this point, I have reached a consensus with those Natives in the past time."
"I will also fight for the remaining population of the Natives tribe. My Frozen Earth Territory are not afraid of anything except that the population is not large enough."
"This matter cannot be discussed here. You need to send people to communicate with those tribes yourself."
"Then Baron Ryan, I wonder how you conquered those tribes before?"
The one who spoke was Baron Hatton, the neighbor of Ryan, who was also stimulated by the development of Frozen Earth Territory, and this bad Baron couldn't help but want to follow suit at this moment.
The pressure from the neighbors is really too much.
"It's very simple. We control the land and orthodoxy. We can allow them to leave that dying world safely and give them an orthodox identity in the empire."
"This is the biggest bargaining chip we have."
"Besides that, it's the military aspect. I'm very powerful, aren't I?"
"Natives The strongest among the tribes can become the leader, so they are naturally willing to follow me."
The strong are always strong. Ryan can almost see that the Natives tribe is unlikely to appear in Baron's territory. At least a viscount is required to be able to suppress a tribe.
"I use these conditions in exchange for them to become my people. It's that simple."
The nobles pondered subconsciously after hearing this. How do they feel that Baron Ryan started planning today's situation a long time ago?