The Angola Dwarf Tribe was less than a hundred kilometers from the Norma Dwarf Tribe led by Chief Shluka. After receiving word that Xu Yi had arrived, representatives from the Angola Dwarf Tribe came early the next morning.
To Xu Yi's surprise, the delegation was headed by Chief Monto himself, accompanied by the two most respected elders in the Angola Tribe.
Seeing this lineup, Xu Yi naturally understood how seriously the Angola Tribe took these negotiations, so he became even more cautious.
Yet the negotiations themselves surprised him even more.
The entire process was remarkably simple. After Xu Yi presented Chief Monto and the two elders with the terms he had prepared, all three openly showed their excitement and agreed without so much as a second thought. For a moment, Xu Yi felt certain he had offered them terms that were far too generous.
But he had based these terms on the offer he had previously made to Chief Shluka. Apart from an additional promise to build a road from here to the Angola Tribe, there were no further concessions.
In truth, Xu Yi was judging dwarves by human standards. Dwarves were an honest, straightforward race-bluntly so, one might say-and their way of handling things was very different from that of humans.
Drawing on his experience with human negotiations, Xu Yi had expected Chief Monto to bargain, with both sides arguing back and forth for a while before finally reaching an agreement.
Who would have thought Chief Monto and the two elders would be so satisfied with the terms that bargaining never even crossed their minds?
Of course, there was a reason Chief Monto and the two elders agreed so readily.
The Angola Tribe was not far from here. As fellow dwarves, the two tribes naturally visited each other often,