Rose kept waving rose petals with her hands. With her waving again, a tree root suddenly rose from the grass and steadily wrapped around an archer's wrist.
The unprepared bow and arrow flew out and steadily hit the vest of a human soldier in front.
After feeling the gradual consumption of magic in her body, rose couldn't help breathing out, raised her hand, quickly retreated with those humans caught by the rose bud, and shouted: "(goblin language) everyone! All right! Stop! "
In the case of continuous confrontation, the flower demon spirits themselves are also very tired. After hearing the call of the generation leader, the flower demon spirits quickly flew into the air, quickly flew behind the rose, panted one by one and floated in the air.
The human soldiers who saw these flower goblins suddenly retreat stopped fighting for a time and instinctively stepped back a few steps to distance themselves from these flower goblins. Especially those magicians, after the end of the limited time, immediately ran out of the magic range, quickly restored their magic and prepared for the next battle.
Arrow looked at the situation on both sides.
Flower goblins, together with rose herself, a total of 15 flower goblins participated in the battle just now. After the scuffle just now, a total of five sisters on their side were arrested.
Every flower fairy's face showed a tired posture. They all gasped, and their bodies were full of the mud when they fell to the ground. One of the flower goblins had broken its wings and was now flying in the air with the help of two companions.
Then, look at the human side.
It was only Lord Norris's vanguard troops, almost only about 100 people. There is still a queue of about 300 people waiting behind.
However, the vanguard troops of these 100 people are not in good condition now. They are also very tired and many people are scarred. Without the support of magicians, although many of them were not dead, many of their arms and legs were broken and all looked embarrassed.
At the same time, beside the rose, there are five huge rose buds, each containing a human soldier.
What's more, it's not just roses that have buds around them. Beside the other tired flower demon spirits, there are two more and one less. A total of seventeen flower buds are suspended there. This means that in this battle, the flower demon spirits captured a total of 17 soldiers.
"Hoo... Human!"
After taking a breath, rose held back her fatigue, opened her mouth and shouted——
"Change! Change! "
While shouting, she stretched out her fingers and pointed to the sisters who were caught by humans and locked in cages or bags.
After shouting twice in a row, she suddenly raised her hand and made a slow squeeze. With her movement, the flower buds holding the soldiers began to shrink slowly. With the contraction, some soldiers' feet were still hanging outside the bud, but now they twitched violently! It seems impossible to imagine what they are experiencing now.
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"(goblin language) catch... Humans?"
Rose looked surprised.
But arrow nodded slightly, smiled and said: "(goblin language) that's right. I guess you won't die in the first conflict. After all, no matter how to say, human beings grasp your goal for your beauty and efficacy. Obviously, living flower goblins are more valuable than dead flower goblins. Therefore, in the case that humans will not kill you, you can't directly kill you, and at the same time, you should catch more human soldiers back. Well... In my opinion... Let's count it according to three times the number of your sisters captured by humans. "
Hearing this, rose turned her head and discussed with her sisters. Obviously, this method makes these flower demon spirits don't understand. Rose turned her head again, frowned and asked: "(demon language) excuse me, what's the use of catching soldiers? Can you infer that the human soldiers who came to catch us? "
Ello couldn't help laughing. Such a smile made the flower demon spirits a little more nervous.
"(goblin) love soldiers? Hahaha, are you kidding? Soldiers are just consumables for nobles, and more often they are just a number. How can you love soldiers? "
Such a sentence, but it makes rose more confused. Similarly, after Buffy's translation, the members of mermaid song now show confused expressions.
"(goblin language) well, although for noble lords, soldiers are tools, there is no love or no love at all. But you should also know that although nobles have no feelings for soldiers, they have very strong feelings for money. To some extent, soldiers are equal to the money of these noble lords. "
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Yes, it's equal to money.
Arrow slightly squeezed his fist and looked at the confrontation in the distance. His heart was also excited and beating fast!
In the case of market value, should a flower goblin be worth two or three hundred gold coins?
But for a lord, if a soldier died in his army, the pension should not be less than 50 gold coins.
At first glance, it seems that it is not a loss to exchange three soldiers for a flower goblin, but the actual situation absolutely does not allow a lord to make such a "cheap" conversion.
After the battle just now, many of these soldiers were injured, and even many of them were not light.
A soldier who is wounded and unable to fight is not a soldier, but he still needs to pay military pay and wages during his recovery.
Plus the maintenance of weapons, potions and armor, and the consumption on the road. Finally, if there is no exchange, it is equivalent to adding the pensions of the 17 soldiers.
Is that all?
I'm kidding. Of course not.
The above losses are only direct economic losses, as well as indirect losses.
The position of the dead soldier must be filled, so it is necessary to recruit again. Go through the conscription process again and rearrange the accommodation and food arrangements for new soldiers.
Most importantly, these soldiers need to be retrained, which also represents economic losses during the training period.
Catching flower goblins is for money.
But if catching flower goblins itself can't make much money, or although it can make money, the process is very hard, and it will bring a lot of trouble to yourself, what's the significance of catching flower goblins?
"Lord Norris!"
Ello shouted, and when the cold Lord turned to look at himself, he said with a smile——
"If we stop now, I believe the flower goblins are still willing to carry out the next negotiations in a peaceful way. What do you think? "
Are you willing to spend a lot of effort, travel mountains and rivers, calculate everything, and spend a lot of physical and mental energy to earn 100 gold coins?
Or are you willing to lie comfortably, or earn 50 gold coins for nothing when running other jobs?
Economic choices are always so cold. Therefore, ello will see if the Lord can accept such an exchange.
For a long time, for a long time
Viscount Norris's eyes looked coldly at the flower demon spirits who were confronting their soldiers over there.
He also looked at the tired and scarred soldiers.
After observing for a moment, the anger accumulated on his face suddenly turned into a sneer?
With this sneer, the Lord slowly raised his head and shouted, "piranha whale, you're right."
One side, the members of the sea shark association were suddenly stunned. The piranha also turned his head and looked at the Lord.
"As you said, I am indeed an academic who only knows how to carry out some so-called microeconomic operations, does not have strong combat effectiveness, and only knows how to use some small brains. Compared with you, a professional who has been taking risks everywhere all the time, my cognitive experience of demons is really poor. "
"But... But..."
"Can you tell me now? Tell me, why is this the case today? "
"Didn't you swear to me that the flower goblins have always been known for their timidity and cowardice. It's easy to catch them?"
"But now... Why do these flower goblins show such great power? Now come and tell me, how on earth can I regard these little things as gold that can be easily picked up? "
From beginning to end, the Lord's tone seemed normal.
No pride, no dissatisfaction. Just like always talking about some trivial things in life with ordinary people, there are no violent ups and downs in emotion.
When Norris said these words, the piranha couldn't help humming coldly. But compared with Norris's "sarcasm", he didn't show any desire to fight directly or talk back in turn. After thinking for a moment, the president of the sea shark Association suddenly turned his eyes to arrow next to him. His eyes kept scanning the short president, and his scarred face now looked much more serious.
Seeing that the cannibal whale didn't respond to him, Norris couldn't help humming and raised his hand: "let go."
The soldiers in front saw their Lord give orders. After a little hesitation, they finally opened the cage holding the flower goblins.
The five imprisoned flower goblins trembled out of the cage. Once they were free, they immediately flew to rose at a very fast speed and apologized softly.
Rose shook her head and waved her hand after comforting her sisters. Those huge flower buds slowly fall to the ground and open. The soldiers inside rolled out in panic. After showing a little confused expression, they immediately ran to their human team.