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Chapter 192 - 192 122 Homeland Episode_2

192: Chapter 122, Homeland Episode_2 192: Chapter 122, Homeland Episode_2 Upon witnessing this, Baron Katelai also inwardly lamented.

The Life Essence recipe was indeed priceless, even a fractured one holds significant value, but it was a hard item to let go!

Families with purchasing power have no need for it.

Families who do have need for it cannot afford it.

Although some of the medium nobles with shallow background also need it, their families are not large enough, the demand for the Life Essence is not significant.

They wouldn’t make a bulk purchase for over a decade, there’s simply no cost-effectiveness in spending a lot of money on this, is there?

Even Katelai’s own clan, due to the imbalance of cost and output, had given up on the research of this.

Cases like the Koslow Family, where they need it and can afford it, are very rare in the entire Alpha Kingdom.

“I can give up on the formula, but your family, if they figure it out, must sell it to me at a reasonable price in the future,” Baron Katelai tried to bargain.

If he hadn’t felt threatened and desperate to increase his strength, he wouldn’t have risked selling this stuff.

Choosing Hudson, in addition to considering the Koslow Family’s willingness to purchase, was more important due to their reputable status.

All of Southeastern Province knows that Baron Hudson is a man of his word.

They never deceive anyone in their dealings and they never breach a contract once it has been signed.

“No problem!

But I do want to state beforehand.

If the materials required to produce the Life Essence are too rare, I can’t guarantee the quantity.

Also, this Life Essence is restricted to your personal use only.

You are prohibited from selling it to the outside world.

This is a tacit understanding among major powers.

I presume you wouldn’t knowingly commit a crime and bring disaster upon yourself.”

Hudson responded without hesitation.

This type of strategic resource was never about making a profit.

Even if the profits were outrageously high, he wouldn’t dare to sell.

“Okay!”

With the final words of Katelai marking the end of their transaction.

The 20000 gold coins were naturally put on hold, Master Hudson was not so generous that he would have 20000 gold coins on hand anytime.

If he were to do that, the cash flow in the territory would probably run into troubles soon.

Putting things on hold was the royal road to deal-making.

As for whether to pay in cash or with goods in the future, that would be Baron Katelai’s choice.

Based on Hudson’s experience with debt, more than 90% of the creditors would choose to offset their debt with discounted goods.

Offering a “5% discount” was his biggest sign of sincerity to his debtors.

No matter what they bought from the Mountain Domain, they could enjoy the same discount.

Regrettably, the Mountain Domain is currently only selling iron wares.

There are no signs of any other industries, greatly limiting the consumer desires of his debtors.

Having seen off Baron Katelai, Hudson looked at the Life Essence recipe in his hand and embarrassingly realised he couldn’t understand it.

Professional magic terms are like a peculiar language from his past life.

Approachable only to insiders, outsiders were left dumbfounded.

He slapped awake the slumbering cub behind him, waved the parchment before Uncle Bear’s eyes a few times, only to receive an expression from Belsden as if he were looking at an idiot.

Instantly, Hudson realised he had done something stupid.

His pet bear, being a bear, would not be any more literate than him.

If it weren’t for the impressive ancestral lineage of the Earth Bear, which had left them valuable inherited memories, these lazy creatures might have grown up illiterate.

These secret magic terms were only created in recent centuries and didn’t exist in their inherited memories.

Naturally, Belsden was just as baffled as Hudson.

Originally wanting to ask Baron Katelai for a translation, in the end, Hudson held back.

Pride still mattered.

As the money hadn’t been paid out, just an orally made IOU and no fear of being cheated on the goods.

…

“Father, uncles, how much do you know about the July Club?”

He did not rush to discuss the Life Essence formula, but instead first showed concern for the July Club.

This wasn’t due to Hudson not having his priorities straight, but because of the current situation.

The incomplete Life Essence formula could be researched at any time, but if the July Club was planning something, it could happen very soon.

If he wasn’t able to gather more information, as the supplier to the July Club, he wouldn’t be comfortable.

“This organization is very secretive, born a hundred years ago, no one knows its internal structure.

But I once found a notation left by our great-grandfather about this organization.

It seems the founders of this organization were a group of disgruntled surviving noble heirs from the North who had lost their bases.

Their initial goal at founding was — to take revenge against the Five Great Houses in the North.

At the time, some even tried to pull us into the Club, but with the loss of our ancestral land and each branch of our family being in turmoil, this matter eventually fell through.

This information is a hundred years old.

After years of changes, the people who founded the July Club have all passed away.

The organization has probably undergone many changes since then.

If they just wanted revenge against the Five Great Houses and regain their lost bases, they wouldn’t need to proclaim toppling the Kingdom.”

Knight Sean’s words enlightened Hudson.

The Koslow Family was able to survive, surely the other Northland nobles would have survivors too.

Apart from those who moved south, some insisted on staying in the North.

The nobility’s relatives mixed and mingled, it wasn’t hard to find a relative to take you in.

Even if people opportunistically merge into the Five Families, Hudson wouldn’t be surprised.