Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 243 Negotiation

Agreed's threat did not move the three people present. Remington even said with some disdain, "I think you don't know how big the gap is between your army and ours. I know you have a large territory, but you don't know how to govern it. After all, everyone knows how dragons manage their own territories."

Agreed took a deep breath. The enemy's contempt reassured him considerably, because face was worthless. On the contrary, the foolish act of thinking oneself clever would give Agreed a great advantage in his counterattack against humanity. The enemy's arrogance was always Agreed's best ally.

So Agreed, suppressing his disgust, continued, "So what? What do you all want by making such a big fuss to 'invite' me here?"

Remington said with a smile, "I heard that Your Excellency the Dragon God of Destruction is about to establish a nation. We hope to sign a series of trade treaties with Your Excellency, since we have many resource needs and would like to trade with you."

As they spoke, they took out a blank piece of paper and slapped it in front of Agred. Agred picked up the trade contract and his face immediately darkened. In short, the terms of the trade contract were to purchase basic resources such as grain and cloth at very low prices, while also imposing mandatory requirements on mineral resources such as iron, copper, coal, and oil. If the contract was signed, Agred's country would have to provide the Undying Empire with a large amount of mineral resources every year according to its needs at extremely low prices.

Looking at the contract, Agreed asked, bewildered, "Why do you think I would sign a trade treaty that offers me absolutely no benefit?"

Remington said with a hint of humiliation, "Because we will provide you with abundant living resources while you are still in the wilderness. As long as you provide us with the resources we need, we can make you live a prosperous life."

Agred looked at them and smiled involuntarily. "Provide supplies so you can develop and eventually wipe us out?"

Surprisingly, Agreed signed the agreement cleanly and decisively, then handed the contract to Remington, saying, "I sincerely look forward to doing business with your country."

Then, Agreed stood up cleanly and efficiently, opened a portal, and left the spot, leaving Remington looking completely bewildered and the two witches beside him.

The witch dressed in black said with great disappointment, "He agreed so easily? This dragon is such a coward? I thought he would fight us and then sign another contract with more favorable terms after he was wary of our strength."

Remington said nonchalantly, "It's all the same anyway. This is good. This beast is quite sensible. I've decided that I'll take him as my mount. Hahaha." The three of them laughed wildly, completely unaware that there was anything abnormal about it, because people who think they are smart never realize their own stupidity.

In the heart of the Death Desert, Agreed's true form slowly opened her eyes and analyzed, "The enemy's abilities aren't as terrifying as I thought. My battle with the avatar of the god on the Arctic continent caused such a huge commotion, yet they knew nothing about it. But while they don't know my true strength, they do know that I have abundant mineral resources here. It seems the witches' senses can only perceive information from that continent... or are those little things on their heads only able to capture this much?" As she spoke, Agreed looked up at the sky, where a group of small objects had appeared, orbiting in a circle. The outer shell of Musurida made them very inconspicuous. Now that she thought about it, they must be the technology those people used for reconnaissance. After realizing their existence, Agreed had already ordered Lingzi to seal off that technology and have them continuously transmit false data to confuse the enemy.

"An interesting trick, but unfortunately, you little ones don't understand the true status of technological civilization in this multiverse, and you've greatly underestimated my power. However, I'm not in a hurry. You still have some value; to destroy something, you must first drive it mad. Let you run wild for a while. I've also investigated the witches' strength enough to contend with a god's avatar and be a local tyrant on this planet. But all of this is based on the premise that the god won't take it seriously enough to send a divine avatar here. After all, who would travel such a long distance just to crush an ant?"

However, that guy named Remington does indeed have fragments of divine power on him. Fate is truly on my side; I've also encountered a rare delicacy…”

As he spoke, Agreed unconsciously licked his lips. Then he drafted a special policy plan for the human kingdom and named it the 'Waste Utilization' plan. Agreed then closed his eyes with a smile and fell asleep again. The human kingdom was unaware that their fate had been clearly arranged at this moment.

Soon after, the founding ceremony was held in the southern border region. The country was named "Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races". Agred appeared at the ceremony and reviewed the troops. However, Agred actually hid a lot of his own side. During the military parade, only the gnolls, kobolds and lizardmen, wearing equipment engraved with runes, showed off their heroic posture in front of the envoys.

However, the human envoy seemed to be very dismissive of this. In his eyes, Agred's army was nothing more than a bunch of barbarians still using stone tools. But the other races were impressed by the military might of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races, after all, not all countries have such advantages.

But Bella, the patriarch of the witch clan and the strongest and oldest witch leader, who was observing the military parade with a magic crystal ball, suddenly leaned closer while staring at the soldiers' weapons. She carefully flipped through the book in her hand to compare them. At this moment, there was a familiar figure beside her, none other than Agreed's female apprentice, Ellie! She had actually joined the witches' organization!

Ellie, watching Bella hurriedly flipping through the pages, asked, "Is there something wrong, teacher?"

After leaving Agred, Ellie traveled to the human realm, where she encountered Bella, the matriarch of a witch clan. Bella immediately recognized Ellie's talent and, through a series of persuasive tactics, took Ellie under her wing. However, Bella seemed unaware of Ellie's relationship with Agred. Later, Agred realized that the witches' detection spells couldn't observe beings at the divine level because divine power naturally interfered with the observations of lower life forms. Therefore, Agred and his surroundings were disguised in the witches' vision, which is why they always looked down on Agred, considering him just an ordinary dragon. However, during this parade, the witches could see clearly because Agred, aware of this issue, deliberately restrained his divine power to allow them to see him fully.

Bella flipped through the ancient book, eventually tossing it aside, and said, somewhat puzzled, "The patterns on those armors look... a bit like the divine script 'runes,' but how is that possible? How could such precious enchanted scripts be engraved on the armor of a group of ordinary soldiers? What kind of being could have such a grand gesture!"