The woman's smile stiffened slightly as she asked, "May I ask how much grain Your Majesty wants?"
Zhao Fu named an amount that was neither too much nor too little. He wished to cooperate with the alliance, and if he demanded too much, they might truly refuse.
The woman also breathed a sigh of relief and smiled again. "Your Majesty, I will need to return to the alliance and report this to those above. Please wait for some time."
Zhao Fu gave a sound of acknowledgment. The woman then left Great Qin and returned to the alliance.
Faced with Great Qin's demand, the various factions discussed and deliberated for a while before ultimately agreeing. Though they had to pay a great deal of grain, resolving the natural disasters would bring them even greater benefits.
First, the disaster-stricken regions could resume planting crops. Second, the afflicted citizens would no longer need to be relocated again. It would also stabilize public sentiment, preventing the same panic and unease as before.
Upon learning that the alliance had agreed to pay grain as compensation, Zhao Fu dispatched the Calamity Sealers. Those Calamity Spears could only unleash their true power in the hands of someone with calamity attributes. Moreover, they contained restrictions; even if they were given to others, those people could not wield their true power and therefore could not resolve natural disasters.
There was no need to worry too much that the alliance's people would kill the Calamity Sealers sent there and seize their Calamity Spears.
Great Qin had also recovered the Calamity Spears that other factions had previously seized. Zhao Fu selected some people with comparatively stronger calamity power, bringing the number of Calamity Sealers back up to one hundred and twenty.
The one hundred and twenty Calamity Sealers obeyed Zhao Fu's