Chapter 712 A surprising gift

Chapter 712 A surprising gift

The next morning, we went back to meet the king of the Midra Kingdom once more.

We were brought to the castle and brought to the throne room once more where the ministers and the king were all waiting for us.

It seemed that they had already gathered beforehand and I could guess what they had been discussing.

What else could they have been discussing?

There was no doubt that they had been discussing us while we weren't there.

I'm sure that they were most likely talking about what we wanted from this meeting.

I could see that the second prince wasn't here, so it seemed that they had held this meeting without the second prince.

Even if the second prince had his level of prestige in this Midra Kingdom, it didn't mean that everyone was happy about this. The one that should be the least happy was the king...

Even though the second prince was his son, he was also a threat to his rule.

The second prince was so outstanding and the king...

Well, he wasn't exactly the best king there was. He wasn't even considered a good king.

It was already considered good that nothing really bad happened during his reign.

The people didn't have any expectations until the second prince suddenly showed his prowess.

Now, people were just waiting for the second prince to take over, but this wasn't something that the king wanted to do. After all, the king had only been on the throne for a decade since taking over for his father.

Compared to his father's long forty years of reigning, that was still very short.

So the king was wary of the second prince, even if he used the second prince to make himself look better.

Not long after we arrived, I saw the second prince also coming in.

Only then did I start getting to the main issue.

I was already expecting this, as well as what came after.

There was a trace of greed that appeared in the king's eyes before he said, "I was thinking that since this is a precious resource, we should make sure that we get the right price. I was thinking...how about its weight in gold?"

I slightly knitted my brows hearing this since I never thought that he would be so shameless as to ask something like this.

He was basically saying that he wanted to trade the limestone pound for pound for gold.

Was this worth that much?

Never.

Yet he had the audacity to say something like this.

I didn't let myself be bothered by this as I just said with a smile, "You jest, your majesty."

Then in a more serious voice, I said, "How about ten gold coins per tonne?"

This was already a very generous offer since it was already double the current market price, but...

It still wasn't enough for this greedy king and his greedy ministers.

"I'm sure that you can do better than that, Duke Zwein. This is a precious resource that is hard to find and hard for us to mine, so I'm sure that you can offer a bit more." The king said with a greedy smile.

I just gave a sigh deep down as I felt that there really was no helping this fool of a king.

But the real goal of this proposal wasn't actually to buy the limestone.

The limestone was nothing more than bait to make sure that they agreed to this.

Without answering him, I said, "Your majesty, I wish to present a gift to your Midra Kingdom."

The king and his ministers were all caught off guard when they heard this, but they waited to hear what we had to say.

"Wyverns, I wish to give you some wyverns."