Chrysalis

Chapter 1215

[I really don’t think this is appropriate, Anthony.]

[What do you mean? You used to be a merchant, didn’t you? You’ve negotiated for us a ton of times and been fantastic at it. What’s the problem now?]

[I was negotiating with towns and cities that you’d conquered! It’s not exactly hard to force a fair agreement down their throats when there’s a set of mandibles locked around them!]

[I’m fairly sure there weren’t ants standing around with their jaws poised to behead your negotiating partners….]

[Not literally, you oversized ant! I’m just saying I had the upper hand in those talks. And I was only talking to other merchants and petty city lords, not brathians!]

[What’s the difference?]

[Brathians are… different! They’re just different!]

[I mean, how have you even met brathians? I thought you’d never been this deep in the Dungeon?]

[I haven’t. There’s brathians at every level and also on the surface.]

The old woman sighed and pinched her brow. How could she explain this to this obstinate insect?

[The brathians are famous for being skilled negotiators, even in Liria. They cut hard deals and would sell the scales off their own back for the right price.]

[So they’re ruthless when it comes to money. So’s just about everyone who doesn’t have six or more legs. The bruan’chii excepted.]

[It’s pretty much a religion to them! They don’t even live in kingdoms or empires. They form trading blocs, caravans and conglomerates instead. Their leaders are usually the best and most successful traders. I got fleeced by the brathians I met on the surface, what do you think is going to happen to me down here?!]

headache coming on. Then an enormous antenna

[Too heavy,] she grumbled.

you fail to come to an agreement, we don’t really care. It seems like they want to peacefully coexist with us, so that’s great, they just want to strike some sort of deal for our goods. If we can nab some cores

frowned. [They

ant shifted a

that, we make all our own stuff already. Even if there was something they could do better, we’d just

want to buy goods from you… and then onsell them to

the sum total of things I know about business and money mainly involve loans and

legs? Can ants do

with currency or trade. Alright? We depend on your wisdom and expertise once again. If you feel like you can’t succeed, then just stop,

Colony had done so much for her and her people, and asked so little in return.

are the brathian

been waiting for us to

[WHAT!?]

later, a bedraggled and flustered Enid shuffled into the meeting hall, her back aching and

was coming?] she demanded of the big ant sitting idly on

just told them we were

DID just keep

their own pace of doing things and that seemed to mollify them. That and the

it wasn’t slow…. Rather

the trick. How the ants managed to bake

at least some semblance of professionalism to her side of the negotiations, Enid approached the table and sat as gracefully as she could. She even managed to stifle

Sloan and Advant, namely, with Anthony still slumped comfortably in the corner. Across the

me they were dressed so well! I

I can’t

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