Published: March 12, 2025
CHAPTER 526: Expulsion
Although Zhao Hai has made the Budah Family quite powerful on the continent through his efforts with the space, when it comes to connections, the Budah Family can’t even compare to some smaller noble families. It's simply because their foundation is too weak.
Now, the Budah Family does have some connections, such as with the Karlqi Family, Krook Family, House Rosen, Shelley Family, Versailles Family, and Iksa Family.
However, you must understand that these families are very powerful. Even the Iksa Family holds a duke's title. Although they have not become a grand duke and established their own dukedom, they are still an old noble family in the Aksu Empire. They all have their own circles of influence and connections, and the help Zhao Hai can receive from them is really not much.
Thus, Zhao Hai has always wanted to establish a circle of his own influence, and Milton and his group have given him the perfect opportunity for this.
Every major family on the continent has its own circle of influence, a network of relationships woven over many years. The Budah Family previously did not have this network, and Zhao Hai is only just beginning to weave one.
So, Zhao Hai places great importance on Milton and his group. After all, they were among the first to support the Budah Family, and he hopes to help them as much as he can.
In the following days, all the human merchants who attended Zhao Hai's banquet transported their goods to the Blood Lotus Shop, and Zhao Hai also gave them those anonymous crystal cards.
The human merchants understood that if they rushed back to the human race with magical beasts or treasures, they would definitely lose a lot along the way. However, carrying the anonymous crystal cards was different. As long as they put these cards in their pockets, they could claim they suffered losses, and no one would know.
These merchants were very grateful to Zhao Hai. Without him this time, they would have lost everything. However, the situation in Beast God City was getting tenser by the day, and they could not stay there for long. After delivering their goods to Zhao Hai, they left Beast God City.
Once these merchants left, Beast God City suddenly felt much emptier, which in turn frightened the other merchants, prompting them to prepare to leave as well.
The merchants Zhao Hai invited were all carefully investigated by him. They were generally medium nobles without strong backgrounds, and he did not invite those who had ties to the large nobles or the Church of Light.
When the Church of Light implemented this plan, they did not inform those large nobles, so those nobles were unaware of the situation and were also interested in doing business in the prairie.
Currently, there were still some merchants on the prairie who had connections with the Church of Light, but these merchants were in the minority. They were sent by the Church of Light to monitor the situation of the orc tribe.
When Zhao Hai investigated those nobles, he was very thorough. He had Cai'er check the backgrounds of the nobles he invited, tracing their family situations until he confirmed they truly had no ties to the large nobles and were unrelated to the Church of Light. Only then did he invite them; anyone he had even a slight suspicion of, he did not invite.
This batch of merchants who pledged allegiance to Zhao Hai was not small. Their shops were mostly located outside Beast God City in less desirable areas. When they left, it sparked panic among the remaining merchants. Coupled with the increasingly tense atmosphere in Beast God City, with more and more orcs and their increasingly unfriendly gazes, many merchants started to retreat, especially those from large noble families who could afford to lose. Some were already preparing to flee.
Of course, Zhao Hai wouldn't miss this opportunity. He sent Atai to contact those merchants to buy the goods they brought, though the prices he offered weren't going to be the same as with Milton and the others.