Lord of the Sky City

Chapter 454: Chapter 418: You Fight, I Snatch

In order to secure more population, Rocky, Karina, and Berg spared no effort in this matter and each of them was far from modest.

“Berg, Rocky, I’ll trade you each one thousand people for twenty tons of Magic Stone.”

Facing Rocky and Berg, Karina directly proposed to exchange the Magic Stone she had previously acquired for their populations.

Karina’s Rose City already had over seven thousand residents, so if she could exchange for two thousand people from Rocky and Berg, plus the thousand she was entitled to, the population of Rose City would officially break ten thousand, allowing her to start upgrading the city to a medium size!

“No way, no way, this won’t do.”

However, facing her proposal, neither Berg nor Rocky agreed, shaking their heads as if they were ratchet drums, definitively refusing.

They had captured a total of five thousand people this time. It sounded like a lot, but distributed evenly, each would only get about sixteen hundred people. If they agreed to Karina’s terms, Rocky and Berg would end up with only about six hundred people each—what could they possibly do with so few? Therefore, both of them disagreed.

Not only did they disagree, but Rocky also made an offer, “Berg, I’m offering three hundred thousand tons of goods, you can pick whatever, in exchange for one thousand people. What do you think?”

Rocky also needed population now, not to mention Thunderhawk City itself, but also Backhill Village. Currently, Backhill Village might not have a huge need for population, but once it started to develop, the demand for population would naturally increase. Moreover, how could Backhill Village develop without people? Thus, he desperately needed a large influx of population.

However, he knew that he definitely wouldn’t get people from Karina as she was still holding out to demand people from him, so he turned his target to Berg.

As soon as he finished speaking, Karina also looked toward Berg, “Berg, if you agree, I’ll make the same trade with you, say how much goods you want.”

“Why should I!”

Just as the two finished speaking, Berg became reluctant, “What are you guys doing, ganging up to bully me alone? I won’t do it!”

“You won’t have much use for these people anyway, better to exchange them with us, right?”

“Exactly, exactly, Lingyu City currently has enough people, you don’t need that extra thousand or two thousand.”

“No deal!”

With widened eyes, Berg defiantly stared back, “How about this, I trade with both of you. I’ll give you all the goods I got this time, and you give me all the people. What do you think about that?”

“You really have a big appetite.” Karina gave Berg a sidelong glance and sneered, “Do you also want to swallow all five thousand people?”

“Why not, I can digest them just fine.” Berg shrugged indifferently at Karina, then revealed a smiling face, “Both of you truly don’t need so many people now.”

“Rocky, you’re taking the technology route, Masters like Aniye are your focus, so population isn’t that important to you. Having so many people idling in your city, you’d even have to sustain them, why bother?”

“Karina, you’re so capable, two or three thousand people to you are just like destroying a city to come out on top. So, stop competing with me. My Lingyu City is originally a commercial city, definitely needing a population to expand its domestic demand. Besides, I’m not skilled, can’t fight, can’t do research, I can only rely on doing some small business to make ends meet, so please feel sorry for me…”

As a merchant, Berg was absolutely profit-driven, shameless when necessary, crying poor whenever it suited him, full of bluster, ready to throw away any dignity of a city lord, and began to plead tearfully with Rocky and Karina.

If it were someone else, they might have been moved by him, and even if not moved, just for his shameless vigor, it would be awkward to refuse. But Rocky and Karina knew him too well, so facing his tearful pleas, they simply ignored him and exchanged glances with each other.

“Rocky, this time I really am helping you out, you wouldn’t refuse to help me out this much, would you?”

Looking at Rocky, Karina spoke with arched eyebrows, her expression revealing a trace of charm.

“Yes, Rocky, we are here to help you this time, how can you still be so particular with us?”

Upon hearing this, Berg immediately aimed the emotional appeal at Rocky.

However, Rocky firmly shook his head.

Relationships, of course, must be valued.

But even with brothers, clear accounts must be maintained; although Karina and Berg had helped him, for which Rocky was surely grateful, the spoils that should have been shared hadn’t been skimmed at all, so Rocky resolutely shook his head.

Subsequently, the three started arguing.

In reality, they had no objection to equally splitting these five thousand individuals; the actual point of contention was about obtaining more people from each other, since for each of them, over a thousand people weren’t enough.

But since the population was so important, who would want to trade? Not to mention trading away, each of them was eager to obtain more people from each other.

A day passed in this manner, but they still hadn’t come to a conclusion. No matter, since all three of them were in a period of recovery and had nothing else to do, so if a day of discussion didn’t yield a result, then two days, eventually they would figure it out.

Thus, they discussed for a total of three days until they finally came to a decision.

In order to gain more population, Rocky pulled out his trump card!

He promised that once Aniye and the others had disclosed the technology of the New Armor, he would immediately gift Karina with a set of the latest White Demon Armor free of charge, and in exchange, he obtained five hundred people from her.

At the same time, he promised Berg that once the next generation Armor began mass-production, he would grant Berg’s Lingyu Business Association the sales rights to the New Armor, and in exchange, he also exchanged five hundred people from him.

In this way, Rocky gained an additional thousand people.

For the three of them, this deal was a win-win situation; on the surface, it seemed like Rocky was at a loss, but that wasn’t really the case, because given their relationship, once Rocky released the next generation Armor equipped with Runes, would he not give Karina a set? Would he not let Berg sell it?

The same held true for Karina and Berg – although the population was vital for them, if they could exchange these people for a guarantee from Rocky, it was still quite worthwhile.

Therefore, upon this proposal, both of them immediately nodded in agreement.

In this way, the matter finally came to an end, and after the distribution, Karina and Berg each received a little over a thousand people, while Rocky got about two thousand five hundred.

Securing these two thousand five hundred people eased Rocky’s mind, because let’s not forget, there were still over five hundred captives imprisoned in Thunderhawk City!

When they had occupied Backhill Village, the Proud Dragon Commerce Guild had retreated in defeat, not only driven away but also their soldiers and workers who were left in Backhill Village to defend and mine were captured, and these five hundred people had been in Thunderhawk City ever since.

Totalling up, these two batches of prisoners made exactly three thousand people.

And with these three thousand, the population of Thunderhawk City reached six thousand!

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