Chapter 1007 The Heeat Family

Chapter 1007 The Heeat Family

Listening to Lady Miranda and Lord Cassius go on reveal how they were trapped by the behemoth known as Sybarian council, Alexander could not help but lampoon to himself, 'Fuck! Just my luck to choose the worst losing side.'

Going by what was revealed to him, he could not help but see only darkness in front of him. Rread latest chapters at novelhall.com

How was a small pasha who was a slave just five years ago and had no experience in commanding a fleet going to fight the navy of a superpower able to muster millions of men?

Even just those pirates that Lady Miranda alluded to would be more than enough to lay waste to his trade routes.

And who knows, perhaps even lay siege to Zanzan!

This sudden thought instantly made Alexander's hair stand up on edge, as he reasoned to himself,

'Yes! Given how the Sybarian Council is salivating over the Margraves family's wealth, it might very well only be a matter of time before they choose to come and capture the city itself. Why drool over the harvested fruit if you could just take the garden itself?'

Alexander suddenly began to realize how all his new discoveries and inventions were drawing all the wrong eyes, and it made him feel very restless.

The idiom - 'It is a sin for a beggar to clutch on to pearls' began to ring like an alarm bell inside his mind, and his heart wished little more than to immediately fly back to Zanzan to try and think of a defensive strategy.

'Calm down! Calm down!' But such alarmed thoughts only lasted for a few scant seconds.

For logic soon returned to drown it and the rational part of his brain dictated to him,

'Since the Sybarians have not attacked us yet, and only want us to pay a toll, it means they are till now content to trade and make as much gold as they can from it. Yes, my commodities should be priceless to them. So being merchants, their first thought should be to trade with us. Not conquer us like some of the other 'barbaric' powers. I can use that to buy myself time.' Alexander was finally able to spot a tiny stream of light in the midst of a pool of utter darkness and his heart rejoiced.

Things were not nearly as dire as the paranoid man was imagining them to be, as he further reasoned,

'Sure, I would bet half my kingdom that in the future our relationship will start to sour when they start running an enormous trade deficit with me. But not right now. Right now, those families that will be able to sign trade deals with me will be able to make gold hand over fist.'

'In that respect, I'm like the newly emerging Roman empire. And Sybarsis is like Carthage. And just like them, we can be close allies until the first Punic War.'

Alexander only let out a sigh of relief upon reaching this logical conclusion, reassured his city was not about to face an imminent siege.

Following which he then began to try and think of various ways to use this information, i.e.- what exact deal should he strike with Sybarsis, which family he should strike the deal with, and even whether he should ditch Lady Miranda in favor of Miss Linda or even select a brand new candidate from the family's roster.

"You see my lord, the Heeat ducal family is one of the most 'special' ducal families of Sybarsis. They are one of the few families that do not have a merchant fleet for trade. But instead, they hire ships from other families in exchange for their produce, which are various livestock and an unimaginable amount of silver!"

"This is where we came in. We approached the family thinking that we could use promise them our expertise in shipbuilding, in return for the family negotiating safe passage on our behalf. We did this because we knew the ships we were capable of making using Lord Alexander's techniques were several times more durable than anywhere in the world."

At this point, Lady Miranda's voice suddenly turned from enthusiastic to bitter,

"But who knew, it was all a ruse. Instead of a helper, we had just invited a wolf into our home. The Heeat family only pretended to be interested in our predicament so that they could swallow our family whole and take everything for themselves! Half of those 20,000 men that I told you about are theirs."

As Lady Miranda said, she pointed to the south side of the city where presumably stood an army, ready to attack the mansion.

And after saying this, her tone went from bitter to heartbreaking, "I still want to tear my heart out every time I remember how easily I let those bastards dock into the harbor. Just let 10,000 men waltz into the city without a thought! Idiot!"

The lady once again began to clench her teeth while berating herself, pressing her lips so strongly that Alexander was afraid she was going to break them.

"It is not your fault, dear! We did not know the real numbers." While her husband quickly tried to comfort her, pointing out, "They at first claimed they were only Lord Parker's bodyguards and part of the delegation. And by the time we noticed, it was already too late! How could we have known of such treachery?"

As for Alexander, hearing this flimsy excuse, could not help but roll his eyes, and subconsciously blurt out, "How the hell do you mistake 10,000 men for bodyguards?"

And then he instantly pursed his lips.

Because Alexander did not actually mean to say this out loud as it made the other side look foolish.

But the story was so tall, that it just came out.

Fortunately, neither of the couples seemed to mind, as Lord Cassius replied,

"We did not know. They landed at the harbor under the cover of the night in secret. Some members of the family had already defected to Miss Linda by then. *Sigh*, the enemy had us surrounded even before we could wake up to them."

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