After Xu Lai expressed his willingness to accept York's surrender, York's hanging heart finally relaxed.
Moreover, as Xu Lai expressed his acceptance of surrender, the high-level orcs who were still resisting quickly dropped their weapons, squatted down with their heads in their hands, and were willing to become prisoners.
The ones still struggling with weapons are all real orcs.
In the stronghold camp, surrender is an extremely shameful thing, especially for the orc warriors fighting on the front line.
However, their leaders had already surrendered. They only listened to the heroes recruiting soldiers, and even threw away their weapons without saying a word.
Orcs like them are already at a dead end, and it is even less likely that they will have any good fruits to eat.
Xu Lai waved his hand and killed the orcs who were still resisting. Even if some of them regretted and wanted to surrender, they would still be killed.
Unless they can do the same as York, take out 1.2 million gold coins to buy his life, and smash Xu Lai to death on the spot.
No, ordinary soldiers, one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand is enough, Xu Lai doesn’t choose at all.
Orcs are known as paupers. They stripped the ogre warriors from head to toe, and they didn’t know if they could even find equipment worth 1,000 gold coins.
With a big wooden club and a rotten leather skirt, he relied on his brute strength and terrifying physique to completely ignore other warriors of the same level.
It’s a pity that I have no brains.
Xu Lai didn’t even understand. His hometown had been turned into such a mess and he didn’t have many soldiers left. What was the idea of not keeping these elites at home to breed offspring and then taking them out to die? .
You said that if you were the main force of the Revenge Army, Xu Lai would understand.
The key is that your 1,000 soldiers are still 1,000 infantry who move very slowly and will be abandoned as soon as there is danger.
It's obviously no different with you and without you, but I still rush to deliver it. I don't know why.
Borag still had some backbone. Even though he was so humiliated by Xu Lai, he still gritted his teeth and did not explode the gold coins.
Of course, maybe it’s not that he doesn’t want to explode, but that he really can’t trust Xu Lai.
It's a pity that Burlage has no diplomatic skills, otherwise Xu Lai would be willing to let him go even if he only offered 300,000 gold coins with such a stupid look.
What a pity, this guy is neither willing to surrender nor reveal the secret.
If Xu Lai hadn't been so smart, he would have spit out a few mouthfuls of blood from this guy.
So Xu Lai had someone beat him unconscious to prevent him from getting up and continue to act like a monster, and he also gave his head to Su Ya.
I have been helping Xu Lai guard the rear. Even though I personally led the team to the dungeon and cleared out the nearby wild monsters, my level has never been raised.
Although Burlage's level is not as good as Talosi and York, or even Jebadas, he is still a hero of more than 30 levels.
Killing this guy, Su Ya can get at least one-third of the killing experience, and the level will have to be raised several times at least.
For a battle of this scale, the battle settlement will not come for a while.
What's more, Xu Lai had already said that he would never let any orc leave.
Therefore, the cavalry team dispersed early, some chasing the wolf riders, and some chasing the big-eared monster king who fled in all directions. Elvi also wanted to lead the archangels to chase those flying far away. The roc and the thunderbird.
Xu Lai simply asked someone to take a bench and sit in front of York, staring at him as he wrote the confession himself stroke by stroke.
Unlike other orc heroes, York is a blue-faced man and is taller than the wolf rider leader Taloshi.
Of course, it is incomparable to those majestic Cyclops, but it is still over 3 meters tall. Even if it is kneeling on the ground, it is still as huge as a giant.
"Your Excellency Xu Lai, I have to remind you that what you said has no basis in fact. Count Aini is not as despicable as you described."
York took photos while As Xu Lai wrote, he couldn't help but refute.
No way, Xu Lai has no interest in knowing the truth at all.
He was too lazy to guess whether York would lie to him, let alone use the only condition to know the truth.
Therefore, he ignored the facts and directly used this condition to force York to write this confession.
In his confession, York wrote that he and the entire stronghold were bewitched by Count Ani, to the point of committing the capital crime of sending troops to the empire.
However, because he was grateful to the imperial hero Xu Lai for ignoring past accusations, he risked his life to write this confession exposing Count Aini's crimes.
The book records in detail the time and scale of several invasions of the stronghold. Of course, the most important thing is that it also records what kind of help Count Ani provided for the orc invasion.
Every one of them was made up exactly like the real thing. Even Xu Lai couldn't see any flaws.
This was not something Xu Lai could describe, he only said the first half.
The second half of the content was completely compiled by York himself. His only requirement was that it must be convincing.
What else can be more convincing than the truth?
York, as the top three generals in the stronghold, knows almost all the actions of the stronghold. What he wrote is completely based on the facts, which is certainly convincing enough.
Even Count Aini did not cooperate with the temple and resisted passively at the beginning of the orc invasion. Even the information revealed by the traitor and his subsequent connivance of wolf riders to plunder the territory were all written as evidence of guilt. Go in.
These are all facts, but Count Aini did not collude with the orcs at that time, and it was the descending hero who betrayed the information. These heroes, including Xu Lai himself, actually have no firm stance.
Had Xu Lai not escaped early and launched a full-scale attack on the stronghold, Xu Lai at that time promised to defect to the stronghold without saying a word.
It is impossible for him to give up his precious life for the sake of emotionless humans.
Other contents are mostly due to Count Aini’s decision-making mistakes and his simple desire to maintain his strength.
The entire content is considered to be 80-90% true and 12% false. However, this content of 80-90% true and 12% false makes it more reasonable.
"Haha, I don't care if he is despicable or not, you just need to complete what you should do, my Mr. York.
Besides, don't tell me that you are going deep into the grassland For thousands of kilometers, our great Earl Aini is completely unaware."
York was silent for a moment and then said: "That's because the envoy of His Highness the Beast King promised him that as long as he can regain the lost face of the stronghold. , he will no longer invade the grassland."
Xu Lai sneered and said: "So, I deserve to be the one who is sacrificed. I don't know who expected me to go to the grassland to help him put out the fire. ”
Although it was Ryan and Duer who came forward at that time, in fact, Aini definitely contributed and supported it.
Otherwise, given the relationship between Xu Lai and Count Aini, how could he be allowed to lead troops into the city, and how could Aini give Xu Lai the qualification to study at the military academy.
Now, Xu Lai was backlashed by what Aini asked him to do, but Aini jumped out and bit Xu Lai at this moment.
What's more, although the Beast King is the king, the reputation of the stronghold seems to be very high.
But by invading the empire, the stronghold has already violated the oath made to the Supreme King. It cannot be said that after a thousand years, the original oath can be ignored.
Since I can break my oath made thousands of years ago, so what if I lie to you again, Count Ani?
Even if he had not deceived Count Aini, Xu Lai would not have been able to exchange himself for the peace of the grassland.
Of course, York is saying good things to Aini now, but he is not really fighting for Aini.
It’s just that Earl Aini has a handle on the stronghold, and York is sensitively aware of Xu Lai’s idea of overthrowing Earl Aini from between the lines of Xu Lai’s words.
York just subconsciously did not want Count Aini to step down. It was more in the interests of the stronghold that he was on stage.
It's just that he can't protect himself now. He originally hoped that after a few words of criticism to this knight, he could at least get a more fair conclusion.
Unexpectedly, the human knights, who have always been fair and just, started to misrepresent themselves as horses.
After writing a eloquent confession, York signed his handprint, and he even rubbed his magic mark on it.
The reason why he is blue-faced is because his ancestors once had Titan blood, but it was extremely thin.
For this reason, he is one of the few talents in the stronghold who can master spells proficiently.
It's a pity that in the entire stronghold, only the Royal Court has a level 3 magic guild. It would be good to have level 2 magic guilds in other places.
After browsing it once, Xu Lai was very satisfied.
In this way, the surrender conditions of diplomacy are half completed.
The other half of the condition is 1.2 million gold coins, of which York wants to pay 720,000 gold coins.
The rules of diplomacy do not help bear the extra burden.
York's space ring actually contains a lot of gold coins.
For heroes with diplomatic skills, it has almost become instinct to store a large amount of gold coins and rare resources in the space ring.
Even Xu Lai has to put a lot of gold coins in his space backpack at all times. Firstly, he is afraid that he will not have enough money for diplomacy when he encounters suitable wild monsters.
Secondly, as a lord and a hero, Xu Lai has a lot to spend money on.
But for York, there is another important role, which is to use the laws of diplomacy to initiate surrender.
Of course, you can surrender without diplomacy. Even for high-level heroes, the gold coins required to surrender may be less.
But this verbal agreement is not protected by diplomatic laws.
Even if both parties sign a magic contract, let’s not talk about whether there is an unsigned magic contract that can be carried with them in times of crisis. Even if there is, the price of the other party’s breach of contract will be much smaller.
Although Diplomacy has already explained the payment of ransom, Xu Lai never took it to heart, because Diplomacy cannot make decisions for others.
If the other party wants to kill you, they may not value your gold coins.
However, the master-level diplomacy also activated three additional special effects. In addition to the added persuasion at the intermediate level, the additional effects that appeared at the advanced level directly knocked Xu Lai to the ground.
However, 720,000 gold coins is a huge sum of money after all. With York's net worth, he does not have such a large amount of cash in reserve.
As a last resort, the rare resources that could have been sold at high prices were directly liquidated by the diplomatic rules at a price of 75 gold coins per unit.
But in the end, York still took out the money, which meant that York gained a free status.
"Can I take this and exchange it with you for a few captives." (End of Chapter)