Chapter 200: Peace Talks

Even a few years ago, Jimola would not have traveled by Sailboat, but instead would have taken a small wooden boat belonging to the Believers of the God of Death to reach Tana City.

This is also the mode of travel that the vast majority of people in Gannaer would choose.

When she first stepped onto the Cement Ship built by the players, Jimola felt the shock that comes from technology.

"It only takes one hour for you to reach Gannaer; this Ship is very fast," Captain Bulutuo said proudly. "This Ship can carry up to 300 people, and it even comes with a conference room, a restaurant, and can carry enough supplies to sustain 1,000 people for half a month."

Because it was just a string of numbers, Jimola did not have a real sense of it, but she felt quite shocked by the appearance of this Ship.

The wide deck, the stable vessel, the spacious guest rooms, and the full three-story hull all made her feel that this was unheard of.

Although this type of Ship is already considered commonplace in the Royal Capital, and many people take such vessels to travel to maritime cities like Rierna.

But a similar Ship had never appeared in Gannaer; after all, Gannaer is just a small city, and it wouldn't be appropriate for such a Ship to come here.

As the whistle sounded, the Ship, named Aote No. 1, sailed out of the port.

Jimola stood at the bow, flipping through those stories about the Underworld; these stories even had some illustrations and were well-produced.

She remembered that when she went to Tana City, her student had also mentioned wanting to look through history, saying that several Xiahui People had provided some observations about the Underworld.

Although the priests cannot awaken, if they could master more of the dusty history, perhaps they could allow the Queen to no longer have to respond on behalf of the God of Death.

She hadn't been flipping through it for long before the Ship had already arrived at Gannaer.

In the blink of an eye, they had actually arrived.

Back then, when she traveled downstream, it had taken her a full day to reach Tana City.

Yet using this Cement Ship, it only took one hour...

No wonder Tana City could defeat Gannaer; perhaps during the process of being closed off, Gannaer had fallen too far behind.

Xin Zhi Xiang Wang also did not expect that the Ship from the Federal would arrive so quickly.

He immediately recognized that the Cement Ship was from the Federal because it had Aote No. 1 written on it.

It was a name the players had voted on in the forum.

"That is..." Although Ganseer also knew that the Queen had suffered a loss, he did not expect a Cement Ship to sail over so quickly.

One must know that Tana City didn't have many Cement Ships at all; such a magnificent Cement Ship could only have come from the Royal Capital.

But the flag on it could not lie; this was a Ship from the Federal.

"This is the Ship we built, the very one that was under construction."

"So fast?" Ganseer had completely forgotten to what extent that Ship had been built; although Tana City had plenty of manpower and sufficient resources, this was still too fast.

It should have only been about a month in total, yet they had actually finished such a large Ship.

It looked like the decorations inside were quite good, and the exterior even had a layer of paint.

Looking at this speed, there should also be the enhancement of a Formation.

"With the help of the craftsmen from the Wisdom Church, and because many people were willing to do this work," Xin Zhi Xiang Wang explained. "We also have many people in our factory; those young people have plenty of strength."

With people helping, the speed was naturally fast.

Ganseer immediately reacted again, "That is to say, besides finishing these Formations, those craftsmen also assisted you in building the new Ship? There were only two of them, how could it be so fast!"

"That is indeed the case, but as you can see, because we Xiahui People are sufficiently diligent and brave, these processes were all accelerated." Xin Zhi Xiang Wang quite liked the ignorant look of this NPC.

Unlike Evans, Ganseer always had a high-and-mighty appearance; because he did not have much contact with other players, no one on the forum discussed him.

Only the players on the Ship would feel that this person Ganseer was very rude, arrogant, and looked down on people.

For example, he never ate with the players.

For another example, he would say that these players had no table manners.

He would even complain about their Tana City accents when they spoke.

Players encounter regional discrimination in real life, and it turns out it exists in the game too!

And to be discriminated against by an NPC, of course, the mood would not be pleasant.

After getting off the Ship, Jimola had a dazed feeling, as if she hadn't just taken a trip to Tana City, but had gone to the Federal's Royal Capital.

She had always thought that Gannaer's development was already very good, but she hadn't expected Tana City's development to be even better, and one must know that it was the border of the Federal.

It wasn't until she was greeted by Baroness Clara that she realized she had already arrived in Gannaer.

"Baroness Clara." Jimola bowed calmly, "I am very sorry, I did not complete the mission of peace talks."

"You have already done quite well; where are those children?" Baroness Clara frowned.

"They asked me to return alone; those children... I fear..." Jimola shook her head, "However, I have brought back the other side's demands; I need to see the Queen."

"Very well." Baroness Clara saw the book in Jimola's hand, but she did not attach importance to this matter, instead taking Jimola onto the carriage heading to the palace.

Because the two were of similar age, Jimola could not help but talk to her about what she had seen and heard in Tana City.

"They are no longer the Tana City of the past, and the Wisdom Church clearly values this place more; they have allowed many Xiahui People to settle in the city. Although they are only the lower class in the city, their wisdom has already moved the major churches." Jimola was very worried, "From what I witnessed, they have already built the latest factories in Tana City, no worse than the Royal Capital. They also possess a lot of cultural knowledge, and even have... this is the Underworld observation I obtained from them; although I do not know who described it, it not only has descriptions but also illustrations."

"It even has illustrations!" Baroness Clara could not help but take it seriously, and she cautiously took the book.

"In this, there are many deities in the Underworld, although they all belong under the jurisdiction of Pluto. I think there should be angel-level figures in the Underworld, such as descendants of the royal family, but it is a pity that I cannot know their specific names from them; they only wrote code names."

"Their language was different from ours to begin with." Baroness Clara thought of the person the Queen had summoned today.

That was also a Xiahui Person, who had spoken some observations about the Underworld.

Could it be a revelation given by the God of Death?

If one could obtain revelations from the Underworld without needing those witches, wouldn't that mean that what those witches said were all lies?

Cooperating with the Red Moon Goddess is, after all, a matter that deeply harms the foundation of Gannaer.

But no one was willing to wait any longer.

The Queen's power is becoming less and less, each generation worse than the last; if they cannot find a way to communicate with the God of Death, the consequence will be that in a hundred years, Gannaer will have no Queen to respond to the prayers of the Believers.

That will affect the stability of the entire Gannaer, and even more so, it will destroy the faith in the God of Death.

As devout Believers, no one would be willing for such a thing to happen, let alone the nobles.

Very quickly, the carriage drove into the palace, where the Queen was currently enjoying her lunch.

Hearing the commotion, she wiped her hands, waiting until the attendant led the person in.

"Your Majesty the Queen." Jimola bowed respectfully, "I have brought the Federal certificate of notarization."

"Sit down first, you haven't had lunch yet, right? Let me see, you should eat something, don't go hungry," the Queen said with a smile, appearing amiable.

The Queen held this Priestess in high regard.

Baroness Clara was the one who had cared for her as she grew up, while Jimola was the one who had educated her as she grew up.

Although the two used different methods, both had earned the Queen's respect.

Jimola did not dare mention that she had already eaten a large meal on the Ship, so she respectfully handed over the certificate of notarization in her hand, then picked up a bagel.

"What is this?" The Queen received the certificate of notarization while looking at Jimola's side.

"This is a portion of observations regarding the Underworld, brought from Tana City; there are very well-known booksellers among those Xiahui People," Jimola pushed the item in her hand forward, "I need to compare it with our own history."

"Xiahui People... then that should be true." The Queen frowned, then smoothed her brow, "Perhaps this is not a bad thing."

She ignored what Jimola was thinking and instead unfolded the certificate of notarization in her hand to read it.

"Let us trade, just as expected, and also build trading ports, allowing Tana City to open shops in Gannaer. They also require us to provide the witch ringleaders in the city; this is not a problem. Although I have already handed the masterminds over to the Barbarian, I can still provide them with some more. Hmm, this is a request to purchase supplies from Tana City? They are quite shrewd, but these are things we need as well; after all, we gave the Barbarian too much Grain before."

Reading line by line, although there was still a need to compensate for a portion of the costs for the Formation and city wall repairs, the main problem lay with the Barbarian, and Gannaer could instead be liberated from it.

It was just that the price was not small, either.

"This, is Your Majesty the Queen going to agree?" Jimola suddenly felt the bagel in her hand was hard to swallow.

"What else could I do?" The Queen shook her head, "Teacher, we have already fallen too far behind; do you know the tragic state of the battlefield?"

"I only know that the battle ended in less than half an hour. Everything afterward was just cleaning up the battlefield," Jimola said with a dark face, "Moreover, those Barbarian died very miserably; it is said that because they used the Wealth Church's Gold-Making Array and then used the Lightning Strike Array, those Zombie were destroyed until not even ash remained."

"This..." Although the Queen knew they had lost miserably, she had not expected it to be this miserable.

The Formation that those witches were so proud of had likely not even lasted two minutes on a real battlefield.

Although she did not know about things like metal conducting electricity, one only had to use their brain to know that it must be because the Zombie, after turning into metal, became the primary targets for the lightning strikes.

And gold could certainly allow this phenomenon to be stably maintained.

"You have worked hard, Teacher." The Queen quickly signed her name on it, "I think they should not have left yet; after the contract is signed, I need them to send specialized personnel to negotiate the specific details."

Although she knew this was humiliating, there was no other way.

Gannaer truly had no way to make a silent Death God confront the multiple deities of the entire Federal.

Even if the Death God recovered, it was impossible for Gannaer to go head-to-head.

This was the reason for contacting the Barbarian.

"Your Majesty the Queen, may I ask, how should we handle our relationship with the Barbarian?" Jimola asked with concern.

Compared to Tana City, the Barbarian were clearly closer to Gannaer.

Although there were rivers separating them and high mountains to rely on, those Barbarian were, after all, combative.

Having caused them to lose so much this time, it was impossible that they would not make Gannaer pay compensation.

"How to handle it? They cannot beat Tana City, and they will be severely weakened for some time, so do we still need to fear them? Those Formation are not effective against Tana City, but they are still easy to use against those Barbarian, are they not?" the Queen said indifferently; clearly, she had already considered this problem.

Having received this reply, Jimola did not waste any time.

That Ship was still waiting for her, and she needed to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.

As for the witches and nobles who needed to be dealt with, that was no longer something she needed to worry about.

As long as the Federal did not use this as a pretext to attack, it would be fine; otherwise, if they arrived on the many Cement Ship that brought her here, the consequences would be very serious.

"Your Majesty the Queen, Priestess Jimola said that the Ship she traveled on took only one hour to sail from Tana City to the port of Gannaer; the speed is very fast, and it is very difficult to breach," Baroness Clara reminded the Queen, "It is best if we do not have any conflicts with them in the future."

"Then let's deal with those nobles; they should have all been captured by now, right?" the Queen said, looking up.

She looked at the book on the table that had not been taken away by Jimola.

That should have come from the enlightenment of the Death God; perhaps from here, she could obtain news of the Underworld.

"What about those witches?" Baroness Clara shook her head, "We cannot deal with all the witches, otherwise they will do even more problematic things in Gannaer."

"Then let the Priestess keep an eye on them; I think our people will not let those witches affect the normal operation of Gannaer." The Queen was already well-versed in such matters; the reason the Necromancy faction had all fled was precisely because they could no longer stay in the city.

Every resident in the city was the eyes and ears of the Priestess; unless the Priestess allowed those of the Necromancy faction to escape, otherwise, all the people of Gannaer would make them prisoners.

Hearing the Queen's response, Baroness Clara felt relieved, "However, shouldn't this book be returned to Priestess Jimola?"

"I will just take a look at it first; by the way, there is also that manuscript from this morning, I will definitely be able to research it," the Queen said firmly.

Half an hour later, Xin Zhi Xiang Wang saw Priestess Jimola board that Cement Ship.

In other words, Jimola had been in the palace for less than half an hour, and the Queen had already signed the documents and reached a basic agreement.

This speed was just too fast!

(End of this chapter)