"Oh shit he's a Tier 2 retreat!!" as soon as max released his aura the leaded commander retreat without hesitation.
It had to be known that on the Redlands skipping Tiers to fight others on a higher level was a bad joke that could get one killed.
The differences between Tiers was like a chasm and the chance of even a Tier 1 fighting a Tier 2 was nonexistent.
The others reacted to late as max met a Tier 1 intermediary fighter who slashed at him vertically with a sword he side stepped and elbowed him behind his back with all his strength breaking his spine.
He didn't turn around to check and advanced towards an agile early Tier 1 fighter who used a sword, the swordsman also slashed from his left in a swiping manner towards him. Max leaned backwards till the sword passed and watched as passed over his head slowly whiles taking some strands of hair and went behind the guy, he held him by his head and broke his neck.
Immediately he felt danger behind him and rolled to his back, soon after which a spinning axe passed by where he had been seconds ago.while standing up he picked the military grade knife he strapped to his leg and threw it at a bulky looking masked man who had the strength of a Tier 1 intermediary stage and was preparing to throw another axe at him.
The knife found it's way in the forehead of the axeman who then dropped off dead.
After dealing with three of his assaulters max retreated and took out the crossbow in his storage space whiles activating his sharp shooter skill he fired at another Tier 1 early stage spearman who was hesitating .
The poor guy looked down with an incredulous face to see an arrow in his chest as if he couldn't believe it.
The arrow was coated with blood qi so it had good penetration power.
Now there only two two on the opposing side left. Both had looks of horror on their faces when they looked at max because no matter how one saw it even if a Tier 2 could kill them all it wouldn't be this fast right?.
Max watched them in silence observing them
for a chance to finish them off. They to observed him but it was for an entirely different purpose.They just wanted to get away from this demon.
"Tell me, it was count Tiberius who sent you wasn't it?" max saw that they posed no threat so he started to engage in a conversation to lower their guard against him.
"I don't know what you are talking about" when max mentioned the count's name the Tier one peak swordsman's pupil contracted for a second. And despite the fact he try to hide it max saw it and new he was right the count really wanted to rob and kill him.
"Haa it doesn't matter if you deny it your time is up it's time to die" max moved right after he spoke. He headed for the flustered Tier 1 intermediary knight who swung his sword at him max evaded and activated the fire fist technique he already possessed, fire qi gathered around his fist as he punched the knight in his gut bringing him to his knees.
Max the guys own sword and slit his throat with it.
The peak Tier one leader was really scared he could see that max excelled in speed but he himself was good at defense this obviously was weakness.
'No as long as I can hold on I'll be fine.we've been fighting here for a while now it's a matter of time before someone eventually shows up'. as he thought to himself the leader had a bit of hope in his heart unfortunately for him what max said next bought him into the pits of despair.
"Am done playing time to send you on your way" max immediately pulled out a shotgun and shot him in the head blowing his head up.
Max took a deep breath and held his forehead for a bit, he would rather prefer not to kill if he could help it besides though it looked like he was having it easy truth was he had to calculate every move he made making it taxing on his mind power.
Max searched them took the valuables on them and left the street he was on. Sooner or later the city guards were bound to show up there.
Soon afterwards max arrived back at the first chance inn and payed the and hired his and grace's room for another two days he took a shower, ordered some food before grace arrived.
"How did it go did you people to fix up the shop and honest people to help out?"max asked her after having his meal.
"Yes master I made sure to fix the place and buy some furniture for the offices at the top floor. I also hired twenty people for now, . Il agreed to pay them 7 silver coins a month for now, they are honest and have a good record, seven of them are also educated and can handle sales i told them they would receive 15 silver coins a month.
"Good very good, get something to eat and rest for tomorrow we have a lot of work to do" max nodded in satisfaction as he looked at grace. Looks like she was smart and knew how to handle things.
Now he was almost out of money save for about 15 gold coins, he needed to meet those influential friends of Pedro and conduct a deal to earn money.
'Well let's leave it for tomorrow"as max thought to himself he made himself comfortable and soon fell asleep.
The next day max washed up dressed and went downstairs to eat with grace.
He ordered some white bread with milk and sausages for breakfast before leaving the inn with grace at his side with haste.
He went to Pedro's house and greeted the fat merchant before leaving with him to a high class restaurant for nobles.
They went to a private room reserved for guest and max laid eyes upon four men of different ages.
"Max let me introduce you, from left to right Alpheus,Morris,Greg,and finally old man Zack the head of the merchants alliance in this city.
These are the most successful and influential merchants in the city of Miletus and even its surrounding cities,they are here to talk about the distribution and sale of your products".
To convince them that he had what they needed max had given some sugar along with spice,soap,perfume,canned foods and armor to Pedro to show them the products he was capable of providing them with.
"Ah sir max we have heard a lot about you from Pedro and we are truly interested in your merchandise. If sales are done well it can you and us rich" old man Zack replied to max with a polite smile on his face.
"Alright then let's get straight to the point I'll sell each of you 200 large bags of sugar with promised delivery by tomorrow morning. Send your men to come for it". max wanted them to know that he could supply them with what the wanted so that they could take the trade serious".
And indeed they looked surprised by the amount he could obtain for them.
They discussed a bit and ordered all kinds of goods including soap,spices and salt totaling more than a 5,000 gold coins before they ended the discussion on consumable goods.
"So about the weapons what do you need" max asked further, he needed a large amount of money so he was ready to trade if they were ready to pay.
"Sir max I would like about 1000 long swords and 800 sets of leather armor and 40'sets of steel armor can you provide them sir max? how much would that be" Morris asked immediately as if afraid someone would be ahead of him".
"Of course I can provide them but it will take some time latest by a week you can come for them. 5 silver pieces for a sword or spear and 10 silver coins for the common leather armor,10 gold coin for a set of steel armor.Max gave the price he had already prepared for them.
Weapons were needed on a large scale in the various continent as the was war almost every time in different kingdoms and empires and they were very expensive as there was no advanced smithing techniques and rate of production was slow.
"I also want 600 spears,300 swords and 500 sets of leather armor and 50 steel armors"Greg also made his his demand. And Alpheus also requested for a batch of weapons.
"I want 1500 swords,2000 pieces of leather armor and 200 sets of steel armor old man zack the most richest of the bunch and also the leader of the merchant alliance also made his demand.
Max was suprised by how rich the old man was and at the same time was wandering why they were all ordering such large amounts of weapons.
Looking at his face old man zack hesitated a
bit before talking "war is approaching from both the south and the east. The Spirit tree empire and the Red wolf empire are at war and so the neighbouring kingdoms are taking advantage and going to war against each other for territories and resources.
Two kingdoms the Brightstone kingdom and the Lucia kingdom are both preparing to invade us.We may be strong but for two 3rd level kingdoms to invade us is too much for Avalon forces to handle.We are buying weapons to arm our own mercenary forces and sell of the rest to small time baronets and knight families".
Both Pedro and max were shocked that Avalon was about to be invaded by two kingdoms of the same level. Especially the Lucia kingdom which was close to the city of Mildred, they could invade the city by sea and land.
'But all the same this might be a chance to strike it rich especially since to wage war involved burning large amounts of money' max began to think of all the products he could sell.
"Alright give me three days I'll try to get all your weapons available but you will have to pay half of the sum first also I want you to stop all trade with the Tiberius family. All the shops under you to should stop trade with them ".
"That's not a problem we'll pay everything that needs to be paid and about the count we will see what we can do about it"old man zack responded after a while the other nodded their heads in agreement they then took out various money bags and paid for the goods they ordered.
Max received more than 10,000 gold coins there.
"Then if you gentlemen will excuse me I'll take my leave I have important matters to attend to attend.
Max immediately left with Pedro to hire a smithing shop and melt the gold he had.
"Hey old man why don't we just force the kid to tell us where he gets the goods" after max left Greg suggested to old man zack who had been mostly quiet after the trade.
"U don't know but I've been investigating that boy since Pedro should us the goods.Had he been week I would have already made a move.
Count Tiberius sent men after him but they are all dead and there was a peak Tier 1 knight among them, the rest of the team was also not weak. Adding that to the fact that my men can't see through him I'd say he's like a Tier 2 or above powerhouse.
The others took in deep breaths when they heard this. Non of them ever considered the young man to be so strong.
"You better be careful let's just trade with him after all we still will reap a lot of benefits doing trade with him" old man zack said whiles the others also agreed.