"The Free City-States Alliance has backed down?"

Looking at the report in her hand and analyzing it a little, Edith was surprised to come to this conclusion.

The Alliance of Free City-States retreated, and they began to do business normally, but the Moore Commercial Federation did not, and instead stepped up its offensive, which made her a little confused.

Is it true that the Plague Church has not taken the bait?

In fact, this operation only caught the Moore Merchant Federation, but not the Plague Church?

Otherwise, with the influence of the Plague Church in the area of the Free City-State Alliance, how could the Free City-State Alliance retreat as soon as it suffered a loss...... No, it is possible!

There is already some evidence that the Plague Church's control over the Free City-States Alliance is not strong, or even weak, just as Cervantes was able to find the Plague Church's stronghold there 'casually', and that is not only the credit of the Church of Wealth, even if they were well-informed, it is impossible to be so quick and accurate.

And the actions of the priest added credibility to this, and made them realize that something was wrong in the first place.

It's not surprising that the Alliance of Free City-States has retreated now, after all, the forces there are very scattered, and although the city-states are connected to each other, they are not dominant, but reciprocal 'alliances', and there will be fights between the city-states, so this is not something to be surprised about.

However, instead of retreating, the Moore Merchant Federation stepped up its offensive, and in this era when there was no concept of a 'trade war', all but two countries became their battlefields.

Although there is no way to fight a price war with the Duchy of Sorrow, in terms of quantity, except for the goods that were hoarded at the beginning, the Principality of Sorrowful Wind is basically unable to compete with the Moore Commercial Federation.

The Mores Merchant Federation is a behemoth in its own right, and even today, it is still the leader of commerce on the continent of Mendes.

Even if the O'Gordon empire had not had a great advantage in the beginning, then which is the world's number one economy now has to be debated.

The Duchy of Sorrow was just a duke before, and the old duke always invested most of the tax money in armaments, and the background was not enough, even if he suddenly had technology beyond the times, it was difficult to confront the Moore Commercial Federation.

However, in terms of the quality of the goods, the products produced by the Duchy of Sorrow far exceed those sold by the Moore Commercial Federation.

The Moore Merchant Federation only buys and sells, and the quality of goods is uneven, so there are more people who are willing to buy goods produced in the Duchy of Sadness - this is the brand effect.

Although in this world with magic, the quality of hand-forged is not necessarily worse than that of mechanical forging, but in terms of price, the cost of mechanical forging is much lower than that of hand-forging, and adventurers and mercenaries like to use weapons and equipment produced by the Duchy of Sorrow, although the price is relatively expensive, but the quality of the items is also worth the price.

The maid didn't want to make a fuss, so the price was set at the beginning, not too expensive, but not too cheap either.

While allowing others to make money, it can also open the market through excellent quality and relatively low price.

So until now, the Duchy of Grief has been able to compete with the Moore Merchant Federation in terms of exports.

Originally, when a large number of hoarded goods were released, the workers in the related industries already had some dissatisfaction, but after the Principality of Sadness released the technology, their mouths were blocked.

If a trade war were to break out, many people would be affected, but most of the people affected would be the middle class, and the civilians at the bottom would be very poorly affected.

Because the low-level civilians don't have much money in their hands at all, even if there is a real trade war, they have nothing to lose!

The middle class with spare money in their hands will be affected, but due to this technological fire sale of the Duchy of Sadness, which has led to the fame of the Duchy of Sadness, coupled with the continuous investment of money in propaganda for a long time, the reputation of the Duchy of Sadness in the people is much better than that of the Moore Commercial Federation.

Therefore, this time the Moore Business Federation wants to fight a trade war with them, which really makes no sense!

Whether it is in terms of the quality or price of goods, or even 'fame', the Moore Commercial Federation is not as good as the Duchy of Sadness, if you want to fight a trade war with the Principality of Sadness, it is like spending ten percent of your strength, only two percent of the strength is on them, and the remaining eighty percent is shared among other people and countries, which is a typical thankless task.

Although the Merchant Federation of Moore is famous, the power that can actually be displayed is not worthy of their fame.

Edith wondered if there was someone behind it.

If there was no one behind them, then the Moore Merchant Federation would not have spent a lot of energy dealing with their Wailing Wind Duchy in such a place and at such a time.

Could it be that the Plague Church is behind this? Could it be that the people of the Plague Church have mixed into the upper echelons of the Moore Merchant Federation?

Inexplicably, such a ridiculous idea suddenly appeared in Edith's head.

But she quickly put this ridiculous idea behind her, because if she wanted to get into the upper echelons of the Moore Business Federation, it would have to be lurking for hundreds of years, could it be that before that, the Lady of Fortune had not seen it?

The great nobles have a lot of protective forces around them, and it is too difficult to want Li Dai Taozhuang, everything needs to be carried out quietly, and the possibility of successful implementation is too small.

Shaking her head, Edith was immersed in thought again, thinking carefully about what to do next.

Doing this means that the trade war is really coming, and the war was provoked by them, originally just wanted to fish for law enforcement, but instead of catching the Plague Church, they caught the Moore Commercial Federation.

This operation cannot be abandoned halfway, but can only be continued.

Since the Moore Commercial Federation is going to be tough, then they don't need to be afraid, just go up!

............

After listening to the report of the priest beside him, Cervantes frowned and whispered to himself: "Trouble......"

Just as Edith thought, he immediately thought that there might be something else behind the Moore Business Federation.

However, he is different from Edith, his mission this time is to grasp every possible clue, get to the bottom of it, and pull out the existence of the Plague Church and expose them to the sun.

He is only destroying some strongholds of the Plague Church now, and he can't hurt the foundation of the Plague Church, as long as the Plague Church shrinks, it will be able to recover in more than ten years.

This is not in line with his original intention, he came out this time with the purpose of 'killing gods', how could he make them retract?

Therefore, the Merchant Federation of Mor had to make a trip, but there, the Church of Fortune was weak and did not have the strength to support him.

And the last time he made a big fuss in the Moore Merchant Federation, many people remembered him, and if he went there again, I am afraid it would be difficult.

But he had to go......

The index finger tapped on his knee, and the black dragon closed his eyes and thought for a moment.

Soon, he opened his eyes and asked the clergy beside him, "Where are the nearest churches of Radiance, Justice, and Knowledge?"

After a pause, he added, "Forget it, tell me the location of the church of the Agricultural Church by the way!"

The clergyman was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, told Cervantes where those churches were, and watched him get up and leave.

Stunned as he watched the black dragon waving away with his back to him, the priest felt that he might have gone to the churches of those churches......

But where did he go and what was he doing?

Glancing up at the afternoon sun, the black dragon twisted his neck, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it has been raining in winter, but it turns out to be spring...... Oh, is it really the spring rain that is as expensive as oil?

With a casual step, the black dragon walked towards the churches of the churches.

He needed to get there for help from a few churches!