After saying this, Hestein bypassed Ella and walked away. Soon after, Amy held the wall and walked down step by step. Ella hurriedly ran over and held her: "Amy, don't move around. I'll go find Paracelsus to show you!"

Amy gasped and tried to calm the beating heart. But she said, "It's okay, your majesty, I have no injuries on my body. I just felt like I had a nightmare. But what should you do now? If Hestein decides to attack with all his might, a group of pirates will not be able to stop much time."

Ella clearly understood all this. From Hestein's perspective, there was no problem with what he did: Otto's death frustrated the power of the princes in the north of Almany; the defeat of Qiqiu also greatly damaged the strength of the princes in the south of Almany; coupled with the invasion of the Black Death, the Almany Federation is now full of holes. Once Hestein and Alfred join forces to attack, the Almany Federation will definitely be difficult to resist. Therefore, the outbreak of the war is beneficial to the pirate kingdom.

But Ella's goal is different from Hestein. The expansion of the Pirate Kingdom has no meaning to her. Her goal is separated from the Seven Hills of the Almany Federation and the two empires of the Tianfang. From this point of view, Hestein's willingness to give Ella a chance to negotiate is already a great support for Ella.

Returning a huge amount of gold and giving compensation to it, while also potentially executing a duke. This is simply a nightmare-level difficulty negotiation.

——But compared to complaining, I can only try it with a tough bullet.

"I'm just clueless now. I need to know more information." Ella calmed down and said, "I plan to invite all the Almani merchants in Gotland to the banquet tomorrow night to see if they can ask any valuable information from them. Amy, what do you think?"

"Are merchants? Indeed, nowadays, Almani merchants have more contact with us than the nobles. But will they be too anxious tomorrow night? We don't know which Almani merchants are in Gotland now. If we didn't invite them accurately, many merchants wouldn't have come."

"I also want to send a message a week or half a month earlier, but Hestein didn't give me that much time. He has always been very decisive in military affairs. Although he had just told me about this, he probably had already gathered troops in Zeland."

This explanation to Amy made Ella become a little impatient:

"...I remember, Hestein was completely prepared this time! Damn, he must have made all preparations! Amy, our actions must be before his pace! He left Gotland tomorrow, leaving us with time to think about the plan until tomorrow night! I need to let as many Almani merchants as possible come to the banquet tomorrow night!"

Amy thought for a moment: "Your Majesty, the banquet alone may not attract too many people. Otherwise, your Majesty, I brought back some valuable new products from Aztland this time, and I just need to find sales. If I release this news, the merchants should be rushing to come."

"Good idea." Ella breathed a sigh of relief, "Just do it."

So, the news quickly spread throughout Gotland.

Paracelsus and Gottfried rushed over to hear the news.

"King of Sweden, I heard that you will hold a banquet to entertain the merchants of Almani tomorrow night?"

Ella was sitting in the study, frowning at the piles of documents about Almani. Faced with questions from Paracelsus and Gottfried, she said without raising her head: "Yes. What's wrong?"

"Did you forget? There will be an entrance ceremony tomorrow, and you will be present and awarding a golden crowbar and having dinner with the freshmen?" Gottfried said. "The students are looking forward to seeing you!"

"Ah...I forgot." Ella raised her head apologetically, and after a while, she shook her head again, "The situation has changed. I can only ask you two to welcome me to the newborn. The matter here is related to war and it is even more urgent."

"It's about war? Then it seems there's nothing we can do." Gottfried said angrily, "The students are probably very disappointed."

"At least welcoming the freshmen," Paracelsus insisted, "many of them came to see you. For example, Ravi kept asking me to bring her over."

"I'm really sorry, I don't have such energy now." Ella held her forehead, "Just thinking of a solution has already given me a headache. I'm afraid I can't sleep well tonight."

"Can't sleep well? Ah, if you don't say this, I almost forgot."

Paracelsus put two bottles of potions on Ella's table.

"These are two kinds of potions that the King of Sweden asked me yesterday, and I brought them both. The blue bottle is the potion to relax the mind, which may help you sleep tonight. It can be applied under your nose or you can drink it directly. If you drink it, it is recommended to take half a bottle at a time."

"Thank you... Paracelsus, just tell the freshmen that when I finish the matter at hand, I will definitely welcome them again."

Ella sighed and put two bottles of potions into her pocket.

"The black bottle is a potion that reduces appetite, so don't mess it up." Paracelsus reminded, "If you drink half a bottle of black bottle of potion, you will get anorexia, and in severe cases, you may even starve to death."

"Can you treat it? Paracelsus?"

"Yes, but I may not be in Gotland when I need treatment. In order to further refine the philosopher's vessels, I will go to the mountains and forests to live in seclusion in a few days. And I am afraid that the only one in the world who can remove this medicine is, so you must be careful, don't make any mistakes, King of Sweden."

"Is it such a powerful potion? It's just like a chronic poison."

Ella took the black potion out of her pocket again and swayed in front of her eyes.

"Parracesus, it's not enough that you can remove the medicinal properties. You have to teach this technology to your students. Otherwise, there will be danger sooner or later."

"It's not that I don't want to teach it. It's just that the process of preparing the antidote requires extremely skilled alchemy techniques. With the current level of students in the college, even if I tell the method, they may not be able to learn it in a while."

"Can Ravi she do?"

"Ravi? This... she hasn't officially started school yet, and I don't understand how skilled she is yet."

"Tell her that Paracelsus Ravi is the most talented alchemist I have ever met. Please be sure to give me all my gifts and not be reserved."

"Then...I'll try it."
Chapter completed!