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Earl Gui Xingfu's extortion of thirty thousand Gold Coins was successful, and together with the twenty thousand Gold Coins advanced by Duke Zhi Ting, Suo Lun now possessed a total of fifty thousand Gold Coins. This sum was already sufficient as an estimated fund to hire twenty thousand mercenaries.
What followed was the wait for the storm brewing in the capital.
No matter what, the storm would yield a result.
While Duke Zhi Ting was still leisurely lingering in the seas of Chaos Stone Island, he was keenly aware that his good days were about to end.
His troops' obliteration of Gui Xingfu's naval forces was something for which an explanation was due.
Without implicating Suo Lun and Chaos Stone Island, the assault on the Gui Clan's naval forces would cease to exist, and it would simply become a one-sided annihilation by Zhi Ting's forces, a grave crime indeed.
