Chapter 744: Shuang Lian – I will Send You Away From Bu Quan!
The kingdom’s military pharmacists and alchemists surrounded Bao Li Gen, giving him a thorough physical examination.
Using a magic construct armament placed an immense burden on the user.
Bao Li Gen’s body needed to be constantly watched and monitored.
“Next duel, I want to challenge Long Fu!” Bao Li Gen fiercely shouted.
The event manager shook his head, “The time is not yet ripe.”
“We haven’t gathered enough data yet; we are uncertain of the construct armament’s stability in actual combat.”
“You went against the battle plan!”
“Currently, we are unable to determine whether your injuries are from your battle with Mo Gui Ji or were caused by equipping the magic construct armament.”
Bao Li Gen coldly snorted and turned his head around without responding.
He was a holy warrior chosen by the Dueling Godhead, and when facing other duelists, he fundamentally wanted to test his strength in battle and not rely on external power.
Bao Li Gen regarded Mo Gui Ji as his old enemy.
The best way he could respect an old enemy was to fight them with all he had while using equal external forces.
This kind of battle, regardless of the result, could satisfy him.
Regretfully, he was not just a duelist, but also a soldier of the kingdom. At the final moment, his supervisor roared into his ear that he had to use the magic armament construct.
After all, if he fought Mo Gui Ji to the bitter end, he would be seriously injured, and unable to heal those injuries completely in a short time span, which would influence his battle strength. Then, that would affect his plans for vengeance against the dragonman youngster, along with the military’s grand reveal of [Cold Pudding].
The supervisor also knew Bao Li Gen was a habitual violator of military discipline, so they endured their headache and eased their voice as much as possible, “Next, we have already contacted your next dueling opponent.”
“You will listen to this order!”
“You will use the magic construct armament from the beginning; thus, we will be able to gather enough data.”
“You want to deal with Long Fu?”
“He is indeed strong, but so long as the data is good, we are entirely capable of setting him as our third target of attack.”
“But before that, you need to cooperate with us properly.”
Bao Li Gen was gloomy as he firmly nodded.
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The Ice Sculpture Capital.
Long Meng’s training room.
The dragonman youngster asked Long Meng for guidance, speaking forthrightly, “Long Meng, you know my relationship with Bao Li Gen. After this duel, it is likely he’ll challenge me.”
“What should I use to deal with him?”
Long Meng smiled, “Easy, his great strength comes from the magic construct armament [Cold Pudding], then in that case, why don’t you buy a set of your own?”
The dragonman youngster was silent.
Of course this was a way of handling this. When he, Zi Di, and Cang Xu were discussing, Zi Di had brought this suggestion up.
But this procedure had obvious systemic problems.
First, would the military sell it to the dragonman youngster?
Zi Di put her in their shoes, “If it were me, I would consider Bao Li Gen’s mood and not sell it to his opponent.”
Cang Xu raised a second systemic problem “If we were really able to buy it and used [Cold Pudding] to deal with [Cold Pudding] successfully, even if he wins, it will nevertheless be an invisible harm to Long Fu’s prestige.”
“Think about Bao Li Gen’s showdown with Mo Gui Ji. Why did he wait until the last moment to use the magic construct armament?”
“If the Lord Commander is equipped with [Cold Pudding] during the duel, in the masses’ hearts, this seems to be cowardice behavior.”
The dragonman youngster felt awkward, “If I was in my fishman form, Bao Li Gen would be no problem at all. But in my dragonman form, I can only use battle qi…”
Zi Di frowned, “If we are going to upgrade your equipment, we would have to buy saint level equipment that can vie with the magic construct armament [Cold Pudding]. But if that happens, saint level equipment will deplete too much of your battle qi and you’ll be unable to last long in combat, it might instead become an enormous weak point.”
When Feng Lian used his saint level bronze mask, he was connected to his ship’s magic power reservoir.
Bao Li Gen had the magic construct armament [Cold Pudding], which had its own energy core.
Additionally, the dragonman form’s Bursting Explosion battle qi was also not good at recovery or battle qi reserves.
The dragonman youngster contemplated, “Then I’ll have to use many magic scrolls and alchemy crossbows to deplete it.”
This tactical decision was also weak against a suit of equipment like [Cold Pudding].
But there was no other choice.
“Lord Commander, perhaps you can ask Long Meng for guidance?” Cang Xu suddenly suggested.
After pausing, he continued, “This is an opportunity.”
“Not just Long Meng, we can also use this to sound out the powers that have good will with us, as well as our alliances of benefits.”
“Take a look at what they would do.”
The dragonman youngster first contacted Mi Fang and had the latter ask for help from the Jing Xiang Clan.
As it so happens, he still had the saint level devil transformation potion, which came from the Jing Xiang Clan. But this potion couldn’t be used publicly – it would allow the Jing Xiang Clan to become completely aware of the true relationship between the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps and Mi Fang.
Perhaps the Jing Xiang Clan could supply a second saint level potion?
But the Jing Xiang Clan only provided gold level medicine for a price. They asked the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps to increase the profits they gained from the mount potion business.
This was an archetypical shakedown!
The dragonman youngster contacted Shuang Lian and Bu Quan.
When Bu Quan heard this, she became very nervous and implored her teacher personally to help out.
Shuang Lian suddenly realized this was a good opportunity.
Thus, she invited the dragonman youngster to her study for a private chat, “I can subsidize several formidable gold level alchemy items, but the price is that you allow Bu Quan to withdraw from your Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.”
Shuang Lian’s gaze became serenely deep as her tone became ice-cold, “I can even gift you a saint level scroll, it can ensure you defeat Bao Li Gen. But the condition is that you have to completely leave Bu Quan’s life!”
Shuang Lian was worthy of being a powerful Alchemy Guild elder, she was rich, extraordinarily rich.
The dragonman youngster contemplated for a moment, then answered, “Lord Shuang Lian, I think there might be a misunderstanding between us.”
“Bu Quan is a friend of mine, she can help me, and I can help her in turn.”
“This is like our collaboration together, one everyone benefits from, isn’t that right?”
“If our friendship can be replaced by money and things, can it still be considered friendship?”
“Please revoke your test.”
Shuang Lian sneered to herself, “Friendship?”
Her mouth pressured, “Aren’t you worried you’ll lose to Bao Li Gen? You will disappoint countless people.”
The dragonman youngster shrugged his shoulders, “A true fighter never fears losing, they are only worried about cowardice. Defeat will indeed make queasy, and it will affect the mount potion’s sales volume.”
“But I believe the negative impact won’t be much.”
“After all, everyone knows the magic construct armament [Cold Pudding] is formidable. Me losing to it is reasonable, right?”
Shuang Lian coldly retorted, “I will give you time to consider, think it over well.”
He was sent out after this.
After the dragonman youngster gained nothing from two places, a Li Jian Clan envoy decided to pay a visit.
The envoy expressed Mian Li Zang’s inclination to collaborate, and that the Li Jian Clan was willing to provide a saint level foundation to help the dragonman youngster defeat Bao Li Gen. What Mian Li Zang wanted was the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps to keep working with the Li Jian Clan in the mount potion business.
The dragonman youngster was not present at the time, and Cang Xu’s desire was staunch. So, on behalf of the dragonman youngster, Zi Di communicated that they would refuse this proposal of collaboration.
Then they received equipment from Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s people: the Automatic Blood Bottle, Blue God Headband, the Sword Dragon Reverse Scale, and the Flowing Wave Armor.
They definitely didn’t send a request to Snow Bird Harbor City Lord for anything.
But it had to be said that since the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps and Snow Bird Harbor City Lord partnered up, the money they provided indirectly helped the latter rebuild the magician tower.
The relationship between the survivors and Snow Bird Harbor City Lord quickly escalated and underwent a qualitative change.
This equipment had once been of great aid to the dragonman youngster, without them, he wouldn’t have been able to defeat Teng Dong Lang.
After that duel, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps wanted to buy this equipment from Snow Bird Harbor Lord, even increasing their offer many times, but Snow Bird Harbor City Lord had no intention of selling them stubbornly keeping it in their hands.
This time, Snow Bird Harbor City Lord was loaning them at his own volition.
The dragonman youngster thought to himself, isn’t this just perfect?
Thus, he ordered Tripleblade to pay Snow Bird Harbor City Lord another visit to offer to buy this equipment.
The dragonman youngster’s opening offer was still the same, he wasn’t fiending for a discount.
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord nevertheless decided to push the price down to a normal range, simultaneously expressing his good will while also raising a request.
As it turns out, he valued the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ relationship with the Alchemy Guild and hoped that the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps would apply some pressure and ask alchemists to help rush the construction of the magician tower.
Although Snow Bird Harbor’s magician tower was being built, it wasn’t at a fast rate. Snow Bird Harbor City Lord was very anxious and running around in circles, wishing more excellent alchemists would join this engineering project.
After the dragonman youngster, Cang Xu, and Zi Di investigated, the former expressed he wanted to help Snow Bird Harbor City Lord.
Zi Di didn’t have any ideas.
But Cang Xu shook his head, “On the face of it, helping Snow Bird Harbor City Lord brings more benefits than harm, and can enhance the relationship between us once again.”
“But in fact, the harm might be greater than the benefits.”
“First, our true relationship with Snow Bird Harbor City Lord is not as harmonious as it seems. Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s true faction is the Imperial Secret Spy Agency, and he has always wanted to catch our arms merchant backer. Therefore, even if we help him energetically, we won’t be able to gain his genuine appreciation.”
“Second, we need to consider the royal family’s and other nobles’ perception. If Snow Bird Harbor City Lord is exposed as a secret spy in the future, how will others see our vigorous subsidizing of his magician tower construction? The future is undecided, and what we need more is to space out our relationship with Snow Bird Harbor City Lord.”
“In short, it is still far too early for us to take sides.”
“We are outsiders, we are arms merchants, this neutral identity is very useful.”