The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

Chapter 454 The Value of Defective Products

The nobleman who got the machine from the auction was not very happy, because his money was spent on the machine and he could not buy many ray guns afterwards.

The poor nobleman regretted his decision so much after trying the ray gun himself.

"Damn it! We were tricked by Count Lucy!"

The nobles are important figures who maintain the stability of the kingdom, but they are also the biggest robbers in this land.

The young nobleman who had bought the machine for five thousand gold coins did not dare to transport the machine away at this moment.

The guards and soldiers he brought with him were easily knocked down by the ray guns at a glance, and only a few knights in heavy armor could barely face the ray guns.

The nobleman spent five thousand gold coins to buy the machinery and equipment, but he couldn't transport it back to his territory at all. He was very sure that the area around Count Lucy's castle was already full of black gloves from other nobles.

Just as Norton had robbed Count Lucy, other nobles were waiting to rob him.

But this young nobleman was not Lucy, and he had no ability to get back at the table.

"What did Countess Lucy say? She really won't send any guards! Doesn't she care about her reputation? Isn't she afraid that no one will do business with her in the future?"

The young noble kept asking questions to the attendants around him, but unfortunately, after the auction, Lucy ignored them.

The young noble refused to leave the castle, and Lucy had done her best by providing him with food and shelter.

"Who said I don't care about my reputation? Who did it?"

Lucy's face flushed as she suddenly appeared, startling the nobles who were gossiping.

Even with the thick skin of a noble, the young noble was still a little nervous when he was caught saying bad things.

Lucy knew at a glance that the young man in front of her lacked experience. He was not like Li, who took advantage of others and said that he was forced.

"I'm not wrong. Count Lucy held an auction but couldn't guarantee the safety of the participants. No one will believe you in the future!"

"I'm in a good mood today and I don't want to argue with you!"

Lucy lifted her legs and moved to a more comfortable standing position.

"Take your people and get your things and leave my castle immediately!"

Lucy waved and someone brought up a few wooden boxes.

After the box was opened, a bunch of ray guns quietly appeared before everyone's eyes.

The young noble didn't expect that Lucy could take out so many ray guns, and he immediately showed an excited smile.

"Thanks to Count Lucy for providing the weapons. My friendship with Count Lucy is as indestructible as a mountain!"

"Wait a minute! Friendship aside, I didn't say I was giving it to you for free. You have to pay for these weapons!"

The young nobleman's expression changed instantly. He had spent all the money he had with him, so how could he afford to buy Lucy's weapons?

Isn’t this just a joke?

Facing the young noble's disgusted look, Lucy didn't care at all.

Lucy took out a magic gun from the box and pulled the trigger at the distant city wall.

A fireball not much bigger than a fist flew out and only ignited a few rotten wooden boards at the base of the wall.

The power of this ray gun is pretty terrible and is nothing compared to the ray guns on display at the auction.

"Count Lucy! Not only do you humiliate me, you also want to blackmail me with these defective products!"

"Watch your words, young lord! If I really wanted to humiliate you, you wouldn't be wasting your breath on me right now, but would be crying for help in the dungeon!"

Lucy threw the defective ray gun in her hand to the young man opposite.

"This batch of ray guns is indeed inferior. The power is only one-fourth of the high-quality ones. The accuracy is also poor. The magic contained in it is only enough to be used a few times."

Lucy admitted in person that these weapons were defective, which made the young man in front of her very angry.

"However, because they are inferior products, the selling price is also very cheap. The price of each gun is only thirty copper coins."

The noble, who originally disdained the inferior ray gun, instantly brightened up his eyes when he heard that it only cost thirty copper coins.

A genuine ray gun costs more than twenty silver coins, but an inferior one is measured in copper coins, which is almost the same as giving it away for free!

The young noble rolled his eyes and felt that these weapons had great potential!

"Lady Lucy, I wonder how many of these inferior products you have left?"

"Of course, as many as you want~"

At first, no one understood why Li kept the production line of defective ray guns and stockpiled large quantities of these junky products.

Lucy, who had personally interrogated Lee, already understood how evil-hearted Lee was.

Li admitted that when a real war breaks out, expensive weapons will be difficult to deploy on the battlefield. Only things that people don’t feel bad about throwing away will become popular quickly.

The young nobleman who kept saying that he had no money in his pocket took off his boots, pried open the sewn soles, and took out two heavy pieces of mithril from them.

"Lady Lucy, these two pieces of mithril are worth five hundred gold coins. I want a thousand ray guns and a thousand militiamen with healthy limbs!"

The young noble was not stupid. As long as the weapons were useless, he still needed people who could use them.

Lucy raised an eyebrow and secretly sighed that Li had guessed it right again.

"I can give you the ray gun, but I don't have any people. As you know, all the people in this territory, except for the workers in the factory, have run away."

"Lady Lucy! You have close ties with the North, so it won't be difficult to get some obedient slaves. The price I offer is already very high!"

In the kingdom, slaves were indeed not worth much.

In this era of limited food production and scarce aristocratic industries in various places, the surplus population is truly redundant.

In order to reduce the number of people eating free food in their territories, many nobles would even start local wars under the pretext of competing for water buckets and wild boars to consume the excess population.

If it was not inconvenient to leave the castle, the young noble could take the money to the slave market and buy as many people as he wanted.

"I'm sorry, but the North doesn't produce slaves, and I can't help you. But I can allow you to take these ray guns away first, and when you can ensure your own safety, you can come back to take the new equipment. What do you think?"

Lucy made a good suggestion, and the young noble just thought about it and nodded in agreement.

It is a reasonable plan to leave the valuable equipment with Lucy and pick it up when you are able.

There was only one problem with this plan: whether Lucy could be trusted.

The young lord would have worried about this before, but after Lucy pulled out the cheap ray gun, the young noble was confident enough to take the gamble.

"Lady Lucy, I'll see you in a few days!"

"I'm sorry I can't see you off~"

The young noble who had stayed in Lucy Castle for two days left in a rage with his knights.

Standing on the city wall, Lucy could clearly see some vague human figures appearing in the fields in the distance.

Those people were bandits who tried to stop the young lord, and the familiar plot was repeated.