Chapter 206: Lan Fake Messes Things Up

“Then how many meteors like this can you drop?” Lan Fake suddenly asked.

“En!” Old Xie was stunned and immediately speechless. He then rubbed his vaguely aching head and said with a helpless bitter smile, “Now it seems, just this one is enough to suffer through. I estimate at most one more time, any more and I definitely won’t be able to take it. The consumption of Mental Power by this thing is really not small!”

“Then even with this thing, you can’t act arrogantly at all?” Lan Fake shrugged his shoulders and said. “However, the power of your strike is already comparable to a Saint Domain Mage’s ultimate move. If used well, anyone you hit won’t be able to take it, so it’s still not bad! I suppose when you enter the Saint Domain, that power will be terrifying.”

“En!” Old Xie nodded and said, “If I wait until I enter the Legend Realm, with the help of Star Fall, I fear I could easily defeat a powerful army! This thing really deserves to be one of the strongest Divine Artifacts on the Continent, it is indeed impressive!”

“When you enter the Saint Domain, it will take at least several decades, and as for Legend, at least a hundred years. You kid, just wait slowly!” Lan Fake shrugged his shoulders and said.

“It doesn’t matter, we can wait!” Little Siren Haiya, who was on the side, interjected. “For our Siren Tribe, a hundred years really isn’t much!”

“Haha!” Old Xie immediately laughed proudly. At the same time, he lovingly patted Little Siren Haiya’s head.

“En~” Lan Fake could only shrug his shoulders helplessly.

Subsequently, the three people rode the Wyvern back to the Castle. Old Xie took them into his room, and then first said to Little Siren Haiya, “This place is really too far from the South Sea, and I don’t have time to send you back for a while. Moreover, I have something I might need your help with. Can you stay at my place for a few days first?”

“I will follow you from now on, wherever you go, I will go!” Little Siren Haiya gave an answer that made Old Xie ecstatic.

“Haha, that’s great. Don’t worry, I guarantee you won’t suffer a loss!” Old Xie said, directly handing the sculpture to her, and said, “This thing belongs to you from now on!”

“Ah, how can this be?” Little Siren Haiya said anxiously. “This is a treasure you should control!”

“Alright, alright!” Old Xie immediately waved his hand. “I don’t know the Spells of the Star Elves anyway. This thing can only exert its greatest power in your hands. Don’t forget, you have to listen to me!”

“This, okay, I’ll listen to you!” Little Siren Haiya then agreed, and then solemnly took the sculpture.

“Then you rest first!” Old Xie said, closed the door, and then sat down with Lan Fake in another living room.

Old Xie first asked, “How did your talk with the Dwarves go?”

“Oh, they agreed to cooperate with us in all aspects. The materials you need will definitely be guaranteed the most ample supply!” Lan Fake first said with bold words.

However, although he spoke boldly, Old Xie saw that this guy’s eyes were a bit dodgy, as if he had something hard to say. Obviously, he was clearly hiding something. So, Old Xie tentatively asked, “Then, what conditions did they propose?”

“Oh, they want Goblin Mines, and the right to carve Magic Arrays on the artifacts they manufacture.” Lan Fake said with a bit of a guilty conscience.

“Damn it!” Old Xie was angry as soon as he heard it, and couldn’t help cursing, “I just asked you to buy things from them, who told you to tell them all my family assets? How can you be so stupid? Don’t you know these things need to be kept secret?”

“It’s not that I’m too stupid, it’s that damned dwarf who is too cunning!” Lan Fake then couldn’t help complaining aggrievedly.

Seeing this, Old Xie didn’t care to scold him anymore, and hurriedly asked, “What exactly is going on?”

“Sigh, it’s all my fault for being careless and falling for that dwarf’s trick!” Lan Fake then depressingly recounted the whole process.

It turned out that after the Dwarven Master Smith Piritz came here, he quickly and surprisingly discovered the traces of the previous battle. Because the big pit blown out by Old Xie at the city gate hadn’t been filled yet, plus there were traces of battle everywhere, although the bloodstains and corpses had been dealt with, the remaining traces couldn’t be hidden from the shrewd Dwarves. They quickly roughly analyzed the cause and effect, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, there must be a powerful Mage in the Castle, otherwise such an explosion would not have been caused. But they couldn’t imagine what Spell would have such an effect, so they became alert.

Next, Lan Fake came out to meet Piritz, and Piritz took the opportunity to invite Lan Fake for a drink, drinking the strong liquor Dwarves like most!

Lan Fake was a drunkard, so naturally he couldn’t resist this temptation, so he started drinking with them. Although Lan Fake could drink quite a bit, he was obviously far from being a match for the Dwarves. After all, Piritz was a Sword Saint, while Lan Fake was a Mage, their physiques were far apart, plus the Dwarves drank strong liquor almost every day, and had trained a good capacity for alcohol, while Lan Fake was at most an amateur. One can imagine, Lan Fake competing in drinking with Piritz, wasn’t that seeking death?

As a result, Lan Fake drank and drank, and got drunk, and then he fell for Piritz’s provocation method, his big mouth didn’t hold back, and he told the whole battle, and the secret of the Goblin Mines was exposed to the Dwarves!

Then the Dwarf Piritz followed the vine to get the melon, asking how Goblin Mines were produced, so the Imp craftsmen in the Castle were also sold out by Lan Fake to Piritz. When he got excited, he even took Piritz around for a tour, letting the Dwarves see the exquisite skills of the Imps. Fortunately, the core components of the Goblin Mines had always been produced in the Mage Tower, so they weren’t seen by the Dwarves. Also fortunately, Lan Fake retained his last bit of reason, so he didn’t tell about Little Siren Haiya and Revelation. So Piritz only thought Lan Fake had robbed a Caravan that wanted to start a Rebellion, and didn’t know anything else.

Since the folk customs in this area are extremely fierce, Caravans and Robbers are almost hard to distinguish. Perhaps they were a Caravan just now, but in a turn they would become Robbers and start looting goods. So Piritz didn’t care about the dead Caravan at all, his entire attention was focused on the Goblin Mines and the skills of the Imps, how could he care about anything else! In this way, the matter of Little Siren Haiya was considered covered up.

Hearing that Little Siren Haiya’s matter wasn’t exposed, Old Xie breathed a sigh of relief, but still complained, “How could you so easily fall for his trick?”

“Sigh!” Lan Fake sighed, drooping his head and not answering.

Seeing this, Old Xie was too embarrassed to blame him too much, and could only shake his head and say, “Forget it, anyway I’ve used Goblin Mines quite a few times, presumably it can’t be hidden for long. However, you didn’t set the price too, right?”

“No, no!” Lan Fake hurriedly shook his head and said, “I don’t even know the bottom price of those things, how could I set it?”

“That’s good!” Old Xie nodded, and then asked, “Where is Piritz?”

“He has already left, but he left his deputy, you can negotiate with him!” Lan Fake hurriedly said.

“Okay, but it’s already late today, I’ll find him tomorrow. You arrange him well, absolutely don’t let him meet that Loya! Do you understand?” Old Xie instructed.

“Of course I know, you can rest assured.” Lan Fake agreed.

“Okay, let’s leave it at that then! It’s getting late, you go rest first, we’ll talk about things tomorrow!” Old Xie stood up and said.

“En!” Lan Fake nodded, then turned and left.

…

Early the next morning, Old Xie had breakfast in the Mage Tower and hurried back to the Castle. Then he immediately asked Lan Fake to arrange a meeting with that Dwarf envoy.

Soon, a sturdy Dwarf with a height of 130 was led by Lan Fake to the living room. This person was covered in Refined Steel Armor, looking like an iron can. Although that Armor weighed at least over a hundred jin, he was not affected at all, walking extremely naturally. In Old Xie’s view, just with this hand, this guy was undoubtedly an Expert, probably at least a Level 5 Warrior.

Sure enough, he walked over and introduced himself in a loud voice, “Hello, respected Castle Lord Your Excellency, I am the Dwarf Pangolin Knight small team leader, Jushi!” It should be known that the small team leader of Dwarf Pangolin Knights must be at least a Level 5 Warrior.

“Hello, Your Excellency Jushi, please sit!” Old Xie stood up to greet him neither humbly nor arrogantly.

“Thank you!” Jushi finished speaking, and sat on the chair with a relaxed face.

For him, this negotiation was obviously taking the initiative, because after two days of observation, he had roughly figured out Old Xie’s background here, including the production time and efficiency of the Imp craftsmen, based on these, he could deduce Old Xie’s cost bottom line. Moreover, he also knew that the kind of acid water needed to manufacture Goblin Mines was only produced by the Dwarves, it could be said, a complete monopoly position, at that time, relying on these two advantages, he could fiercely suppress the price!

It should be known that the reason Piritz left Jushi behind was not only because Jushi could fight, in fact, the main reason was that he valued Jushi’s ability in business. So it was not strange that Jushi could analyze these.