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Chapter 642 - 642 158 The Knife That Does Not Leak Water_2

642: Chapter 158: The Knife That Does Not Leak Water_2 642: Chapter 158: The Knife That Does Not Leak Water_2 “The charm of His Excellency the Count is enormous.

If someone else had taken up the task, it probably would have had another outcome.

However, now that the Red Dragon has become our Dragon, the Union Investigation Team may have a hard time explaining this.

Their visit this time is not well-intentioned.

Your Excellency should be ready to deal with them.”

Grand Duke Aefero changed the subject.

Though he seems to be reminding Hudson to be prepared, he’s also letting him know that since he has transformed the Red Dragon into a mount, he must deal with the troubles the Red Dragon had caused before.

“Don’t worry, Grand Duke.

The Union Investigation Team’s main purpose this time is to investigate the resale of military supplies.

The previous Fire Dragon Burns the Barn case is just a minor one part of it.

Our Logistic Department has already investigated all these cases.

It involves the dignity of the kingdom, and I’m not quite sure yet how we should deal with them.

Now we’re left with two options:

Either we accept the Fire Dragon Burns the Barn case, admit the negligence of the guard, and dismiss the selling of military supplies, and the kingdom compensates the Alliance for the losses.

The Noble who sold the military supplies will pay the bill for this incident.

Or, the Logistic Department hands over the evidence it has uncovered to the Union Investigation Team.

This includes the evidence of those who sold military supplies and those who hired the Red Dragon to burn down the empty warehouses.

Grand Duke, you are one of the witnesses.

From what we saw at the scene that day, there was no single grain or weapon remnants in the destroyed warehouse ruins…even the dust on the ground was scanty!”

Hudson unceremoniously tried to shift the blame.

There’s no chance he was going to be the scapegoat.

The target of the Union Investigation Team was the Alpha Kingdom, not the Red Dragon.

If we solve the military supply case, there’s no reason for the Alliance to keep pursuing the Red Dragon.

Rules are meant to bind people and not the Giant Dragon.

Once the evidence is tossed out, the Union Investigation Team won’t waste time on the Red Dragon.

After all, the Dragon Race still holds some cards on the Continent of Aslante.

Unless they’re really desperate, no Major Noble would risk retaliation by killing a Dragon.

What Hudson said previously to fool the Red Dragon was all nonsense.

Killing a Dragon stealthily might be something people dare to do, but publicly killing a Giant Dragon would make anyone worry about retaliation from the Dragon Race.

The power of the Human Alliance is just to show off.

The strength of the Giant Dragon lies not only in its battle power, but the high mobility is what’s truly amazing.

Dozens of Giant Dragons grouped together to launch a powerful attack on a single power.

By the time the Human Alliance reinforcements arrive, they would hardly have time to collect the bodies.

So long as it doesn’t go overboard, just merely retaliating against the involved parties, the divided humans will have difficulty mustering the courage to go into full-scale war with the Dragon Race.”

The hot potato was passed over to him.

The smile on Grand Duke Efiel’s face fell away.

He had heard that Hudson was tough, but he hadn’t realized how thoroughly he thought things through.”

It seemed that he gave two choices, but in reality, he dug two traps, and no matter whether you advance or retreat, you have to jump into a trap.

If it’s handled internally, face would be saved.

But the Human Alliance will surely not be satisfied.

They’re likely to force the Alpha Kingdom into making significant concessions before they will let it pass.

Handing over the evidence of military supply sale directly to the Union Investigation Team is undoubtedly a violation of the rules.

Not only it harm to the Kingdom’s face, but it would also arouse strong discontent among the nobles.”

“May I ask, Earl Hudson, how much military supplies have those guys from the North sold?”

The Grand Duke Efiel asked with concern.

The problem is not scary, what’s scary is the inability to solve the problem.

If the loophole is small, we can all work a little harder to fill it up.

“Respected Grand Duke, I’m afraid only they themselves know exactly how much military supplies they’ve sold.

However, I do have a partial list of their sold military supplies.

Just these incomplete statistics, if calculated at current market prices, should not be worth less than ten million gold coins.”

Hudson purposely changed the concept.

As the dealer of the black market, he knew which family sold the supplies, and how much was sold.

The statistics may not be 100% accurate, but they won’t be too far off.

Ten million gold coins sound scary because the current market trading price is artificially inflated by the Investigation Team.

On the contrary, if you claim the profits from selling military supplies, the numbers shrink to between 1.5 million to 1.8 million gold coins.

Split among the five clans, each family only gets over thirty thousand gold coins.

In just a few months, they made so much money, which indeed is quite excessive.

But this money was not swallowed by a duke alone.

The minions below were also sharing the benefits.

The appetite of the greedy Nobles of the North is just that large.

Overall, the nobles of the Alpha Kingdom still have some integrity.

Everyone did try to take hold of the logistic supplies of the Allied Forces, but they did keep their bottom line.

If not for that, we wouldn’t have been able to plug the gap immediately after receiving news of the arrival of the Investigation Team.”

The Nobles of the North ran the risk because there just wasn’t that much supplies at the front to help everyone cover the gap; on the other hand, their loophole was too big.

There wasn’t enough money to cover it up, so they had no choice but to give up.

Without worrying about details, Grand Duke Efiel, who was stunned by the number of ten million gold coins, pondered for a while and then said slowly: