After Being Sold Out By The Empire, I Decide To Assist The Demon King
Chapter 101 - 100 Unfortunately, Yila is not willing to take the sacrificial route

Chapter 101: Chapter 100 Unfortunately, Yila is not willing to take the sacrificial route

"Duke, the letter from the Demon Kingdom arrived yesterday. Upon our trade team’s arrival, we can receive one hundred bottles of ’Bee Flower Snow Moon’ samples. They mentioned... if the sales performance is poor, we don’t need to pay gold coins for these samples."

Listening to his trusted aide’s report, the very youthful-looking Duke Novak lightly nodded to show his understanding. He gestured to the chair with his eyes, and immediately made his judgment: "Sit down... it’s obvious that this is Yila’s handiwork."

As always, Yila was still so confident.

However, Duke Novak also felt at ease. Although this trade deal had deeper intentions, making money was always a good thing. There was no need to lose something over another... at least it wouldn’t be a losing trade.

Duke Novak pondered over something. With his standard human appearance, he was the dream lover of many girls in the duchy... sixty percent of humans had blonde hair and blue eyes.

Even though he was quite old, he still maintained that charm.

Since the death of Duke Novak’s wife, he hadn’t had much interaction with women, seemingly devoting himself entirely to business and duchy affairs.

In the light streaming through the elegant stained glass window, Duke Novak placed the book in his hand aside... in this world, few nobles liked reading. Instead of enriching themselves with books, those fellows preferred eating, drinking, playing, and hunting.

Be it game or romance, both were of great interest to them.

But Duke Novak was different. He didn’t particularly love reading, but during his leisure time, instead of watching those boring and illogical dramas or holding noisy banquets, he preferred to quietly read a book.

"Draft a letter for me. Besides normal business exchanges, ask Yila Elkaras about his thoughts on the duchy and the empire’s war."

Duke Novak seemed to be contemplating something as he spoke.

The trusted aide standing in front of the table nodded, then sat on the other side of a round table. He naturally knew what constituted a "normal business exchange," roughly when to collect the goods and when to give a response.

Of course, there would also be some customary pleasantries... like asking about the weather.

This was the hallmark of letters in this world. When Isabella and Yila exchanged "parchment" previously, Isabella had said that they should skip those formalities because letters in this world easily turned into something like this—

"The weather today is nice; the sunlight is bright yet not blinding. I wonder if the light rain in dear XXXX Ms. XXX city still falls occasionally. Please take care in this changeable weather... Have you eaten?"

"Thank you for your letter. I too look forward to your reply, just as you feared, the rain in XXX city is indeed annoying, but thanks to you, I don’t feel unwell... When you wrote, I hadn’t eaten yet; I must have eaten by now."

Large sections of pleasantries with small portions of business matters.

When the trusted aide had finished writing about the ’Bee Flower Snow Moon,’ Duke Novak aptly reminded him: "Express some indignation towards Princess Isabella for Yila’s injustice, then ask if the rumors are true."

The so-called "rumors" naturally spread... the plan of Isabella and Yila, which involved scheming against nobles, the duchy, and beastmen, was rumored everywhere.

In the rumors, this master-disciple duo, who seemingly planned everything, was filled with the superiority of many bards and merchants feeling "enlightened among the oblivious."

From the perspective of normal state officials, the possibility of such events actually happening was very low. The truth was likely that Yila and Isabella almost severed ties because of the nobles’ meddling.

But, after all, it was Yila. If one of the people in the rumors was Yila, then no matter how outrageous the rumors seemed, they might indeed be true. For instance... topics related to "little girls?"

(Yila: I’ve said I don’t have a thing for little girls!)

"Understood."

The trusted aide said this while writing beautiful violet script with a delicate quill on the heavy parchment. He asked, "Actually, I’ve always been curious... why are you so concerned about Yila Elkaras, Duke?"

The trusted aide, writing about the delicate inquiry, didn’t understand why Duke Novak and his son both valued Yila so much. He asked, "Indeed, Yila was outstanding on the battlefield, a legend of our time, but we won’t let non-humans set foot on the empire’s battlefield."

The aide’s meaning was clear. He implied that even if Yila was allied with the empire, the Governor couldn’t do much on a battlefield between humans.

Unable to support "wings," unable to freely unleash "Wing Shattering," the Governor, though a powerful warrior, was ultimately just a regular combat role without that overwhelming oppressiveness.

"Won’t let non-humans onto the battlefield?"

Duke Novak questioned, then immediately shook his head and lightly laughed in denial: "It seems everyone is the same; whether you or Sir Fakir, you’re all similar... Yila Elkaras is not just the Governor."

"Or rather, Yila doesn’t need the ’Governor’ role to prove his achievements; it is the ’Governor’ that, due to Yila’s name, becomes a nightmare for non-human creatures."

Knowing it was hard to explain to the aide in front of him, Duke Novak lightly tapped the table and said, "Yila isn’t a powerful warrior but a cunning monster with immense power."

Yila gave him a feeling like a determined, advancing beast, always moving towards a direction as if nothing ever got in his way. No matter how you provoked him from the side, he wouldn’t care, but...

Be careful not to block the beast’s path.

But these parts, not to mention whether saying them would "boost the opponent’s morale" to some extent, wouldn’t be easily understood by the recording aide even if explained.

Hence, Duke Novak used a more straightforward possibility to explain—

"Yila is in the Demon King Territory now. Suppose he has already achieved control over the Demon Country and can freely manipulate demons to willingly die... do you know what that means?"

"..."

At this point, only the sound of the quill scratching on parchment remained in the room. The deputy officer realized the possibility... if hordes of demons willingly sacrificed themselves on the battlefield to supplement Yila’s Wing Pillars?

What kind of scene would that be?

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