The heavy dark curtains blocked all the light from the outside, making the originally spacious and bright room atmosphere extremely depressed. Only the silver-plated candlestick on the table and the overhead chandelier brought a little gloomy light to the dark environment.

If you look carefully, you can find some silver runes around the walls and on the gates - carved with melted secret silver, an ancient proverb from the "original scriptures" of the Holy Cross Church.

Its name is "Silence".

Where this rune is carved, the power of the void will be greatly restrained, and any alchemy items and magic spells will not be used. The mutant monsters will become extremely weak, and the evil gods will not even be able to set foot here.

Because of this characteristic, the "silent" Rune was widely used to decorate the Holy Cross Cathedral in various principalities, as well as the black prison and the heavenly palace in the imperial capital - by chance of the fascist rebellion, the nine pointed star wizard tower obtained the production method of the "silent" Rune from eboden Cathedral and soon secretly arranged it in the top conference room of the wizard tower.

The participants who are lucky enough to sit in this conference room obviously don't care about such a repressive environment - rather, the suppression of the void can make them really feel at ease to enter here without worrying about the alchemical props and high-level magic spells laid by a wizard.

"Dong --!"

The participants on both sides of the long table trembled with the sound of small wooden hammers, straightened their backs and sat down awe inspiring; All the eyes looked at the old man in gray robe, thin but energetic.

The head of the twelve elders of the nine pointed star wizard tower, consul eboden, Lorenz corona.

There are several parchment scrolls stacked on the table, and each participant has a transcript in his hand... It is better to say that they are sitting here because they know the purpose of today's meeting.

"Well, now that everyone is clear, I officially announce the beginning of this meeting in the name of consul eboden!"

He coughed twice and made a simple opening speech; The energetic old man said slowly:

"There are only two things to discuss today, and actually one thing - first, how eboden's trade expansion in the South will face the counterattack of the yode chamber of Commerce; second, whether more assistance should be given to the Turin family to help them completely overhead the governor's office of Bain!" he said, glancing at his side.

"Yes, consul!"

The first clerk on corona's right hand side, named Baudelaire, quickly got up and bowed humbly to the old man:

"In the past 20 days, while governor Bain and Yoder chamber of commerce were busy blocking Bain Road, especially the count of red blood castle, they had successfully settled in the three count leaders in the northernmost part of Bain; because they were newly established small chambers of Commerce and reached an alliance with the local count, it did not arouse excessive suspicion of Yoder chamber of Commerce;"

"However... Because yode chamber of Commerce monopolizes the local market and trade routes, especially wine and salt, it is very difficult for our chamber of Commerce to maintain, lower the price and make no profit. The purchase and sales channels are all in the hands of the other party. Although it is only a preliminary estimate, I am afraid that the new chamber of Commerce in the South should lose all this year..."

"Moreover, because our actions are too rapid and publicized, and it is said that the blockade of red blood castle has been lifted, Roger Yod may have begun to notice; if this continues, the other party's counterattack should start sooner or later... It is expected that it should start within one to two months."

With the sound of parchment flipping, only Baudelaire had a slightly awkward voice in the quiet conference room.

what?!

At this moment, these participants no longer care about politeness and inferiority. They gathered in small circles with the people around them, exchanged and discussed in private from time to time, and there was a commotion in the conference room.

At the beginning of the establishment of the new chamber of Commerce, losses and losses are inevitable, especially for such chambers involving long-distance trade, but if so, bodrell does not need to point out clearly; His words show that it is not just a loss, but also the risk of bankruptcy and being eaten back by yode chamber of Commerce!

This is absolutely unacceptable!

It's a long way from eboden to Byrne, and the cost is very high. Once they go bankrupt or are acquired, it means that all their previous investments have been wasted... Although these are not bone breaking for them, they are not small money to lose.

"The problem of cost can be put aside for the time being."

With a slight cough, corona patiently persuaded: "what we should really care about right now is the counterattack of yode chamber of Commerce - as long as we can drive the nail into the South and completely curb the arrogance of yode chamber of Commerce, this investment will be successful!"

"But only if we can really resist Roger Yoder's counterattack, consul!"

One of the free nobles got up and complained: "with the support of governor Byrne, the old Roger almost monopolized the whole trade route of Byrne. We have no chance of winning by price or reserve. Failure is inevitable!"

"This is the same for Roger and his Yoder chamber of Commerce." the old man crossed his fingers and spoke slowly: "I have received a very key information. Yoder chamber of Commerce and Byrne governor's office are carrying out a 'road repair' plan to connect the whole Byrne trade route with red blood castle as the core."

"This is a very huge plan, and once he is really successful, the whole Bain's financial resources will completely become the bag of Yoder chamber of Commerce, and old Roger with the support of governor Bain will become the real Lord of Bain!"

"If he continues like this, the South will completely become a piece of iron - not long ago, when he was not full of wings, he tried to extend his claws to the North... Ladies and gentlemen, this is no longer a matter of investment, but a matter of eboden's life and death!"

"Byrne's area is four times that of eboden, and its resources are ten times that of us. In addition, they also have Byrne's wine, dwarf minerals, horse of the Principality of Boye and leather of the Principality of Arles... It can be said that if there is no ocean trade and the resource network of lottel and East and West Saxony, we have no chance of winning in front of Yoder chamber of Commerce!"

The old man raised his head, looked around everyone's face with sharp eyes, and was very satisfied with the nervous look of everyone: "at present... Yode chamber of commerce must have raised a lot of funds, manpower and material resources for the 'road repair' plan, and there is no spare force to fight back against us."

"This is a good opportunity to nip the power that threatens and even destroys eboden in the bud - collapse, acquisition, annexation, Alliance... Even use force when necessary!"

"We are not opposed to the emergence of local United chambers of Commerce in each principality, and even welcome such existence, because they can take the initiative to expand their trade network to areas beyond our reach..." suddenly, the old man's words changed:

"However, we absolutely cannot accept an existence strong enough to threaten us - within the Empire, eboden must be the core of wealth, the strongest and leader in the chamber of Commerce; those who dare to challenge... Will destroy them ruthlessly!"

"Therefore, we should establish a joint chamber of Commerce in red blood castle to further support the Countess of the Turin family to defeat governor Bain?"

Another free nobleman stood up and looked timidly at Corona: "is that so, consul?"

"Of course, but it is definitely not unconditional support. At least they should win the monopoly of red blood castle's wine and salt - as long as the Turin family has not lost their mind, they will certainly agree to this condition."

At this point, Lorenz corona finally smiled: "what's more, we have received the support of senior members of yode chamber of Commerce, and we know the resource allocation and reserves of the whole chamber of Commerce like the back of our hand - it will certainly surprise Roger yode before he reacts!"

"Internal members?"

"Yes, internal members."

The old man accentuated his tone. In his sight, everyone calmed down and waited nervously for the moment he announced:

"Roger Yod's eldest son and former successor of the Yod chamber of Commerce, little Yod... Has joined us now!"