Faleau's mind was filled with doubts, but this situation was clearly very beneficial to the Gilded Rose. It intimidated the other forces and made the negotiations a bit smoother. They clearly knew that it wasn't the Gilded Rose's powerhouses who did it, but they still pretended to be ignorant and pretended that it was the Gilded Rose's punishment for those two unlucky fellows.
No one would directly ask about this matter. Everyone remained silent, believing what they believed to be the truth.
The negotiations went well. Using the Blue Devil Potion, they signed an exchange contract with quite a few mage factions. The Blue Devil Potion would be exchanged for a large amount of special materials that they possessed. Most of these materials were resources from other planes, and only the factions that controlled this plane would have them.
But everything didn't go smoothly. Some of these forces' conditions were very harsh, so Faleau could only give up.
Although he knew that the cost of the Blue Magic Potion was almost negligible, the biggest cost was the monster plane's materials. Apart from that, the cost of a bottle of Blue Magic Potion didn't even reach a thousand purple golds, and that was because most of it was given to alchemists …
But he couldn't start with that. Many of the materials needed were the same as plant materials in the monster plane. They could be said to be very cheap, but because they were rare in Noscent, the price was very high. The other side had the final say on how to price the Blue Magic Potion. It was just like how the Gilded Rose had the final say on the price of the Blue Magic Potion.
Faleau looked at the five-meter-long and two-meter-wide list in his hand. All kinds of materials were written on it, and after pouring mana into it, an illusory image would appear, showing what the materials looked like and their specific characteristics.
There were at least several thousand materials on the list, but right now, he could only trade for a little over a hundred with the Blue Devil Potion. Many of them were materials that even the trading powers didn't have. Every single one of them was extremely precious, but when he saw the amount required, Faleau felt a headache coming on.
Usually, a few kilograms of refined metal would be needed at most in auctions, but this list required thirty thousand kilograms.
Ten kilograms of floating gold ore could be used as raw materials for a True Spirit Magic Tool, and it would be a very extravagant one at that. But this list required 200,000 kilograms.
The first time he saw this list, Faleau's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. If he hadn't already seen several items on the list, he wouldn't have dared to even think about it. The most difficult one was the Eternal Dark Gold. Three million kilograms of refined Eternal Dark Gold …
One couldn't find that many Eternal Dark Gold Swords in all of Noscent, but the list had already been completed.
Holding the list, Faleau calculated the materials that he had already started exchanging. It would take about a few years for him to gather the minimum amount required on the list. However, there were still a lot of materials that he had only obtained in bits and pieces. It was no different from not having any at all.
Looking at some of the materials on the list, Faleau felt a headache coming on.
'That greedy and crafty Vampire only wants some Super Heavy Crystals. In the plane controlled by his family, the reserves are the largest. Apart from the fact that they aren't easy to mine, they are definitely the cheapest. That idiot actually gave me a thousand kilograms of Super Heavy Crystals for a bottle of Blue Devil Potion.
'Damn, a thousand kilograms of Super Heavy Crystals isn't even as big as a person's head. A cube of Super Heavy Crystals definitely weighs a few hundred thousand kilograms, and the number of Super Heavy Crystals on the list is eight million. If I want to exchange for enough Super Heavy Crystals, I won't even be able to do it in a thousand years by relying on Blue Devil Potions. Those idiots, they want to use those stones to get the Gilded Rose to give them a thousand-year supply of Blue Devil Potions?
'Damnit, but it would be troublesome if we didn't have the Heavy Crystal. Sir Merlin meant that the Heavy Crystal was in the first batch of materials. Among these mage forces, only that idiot's family controlled a plane that had the Heavy Crystal.
'Do I really have to go to the Earth Elemental Plane to mine? I can't bring it back if I mine there, and apart from Xiuban, who else could mine there? 'What a joke …'
The Blue Devil Potion was seriously in short supply, but Faleau was still worried. It was reasonable to say that the Blue Devil Potion could greatly increase the power of those forces and even speed up their plane conquest. They wouldn't refuse as long as they exchanged for some materials. But he had underestimated some people who were even greedier than Vampires, no, even more greedy than Devils.
A pile of stones that were usually used as flooring actually dared to ask the Gilded Rose for a Blue Devil Potion …
The transaction was progressing very slowly, and Faleau was getting anxious, but he also knew that his bottom line couldn't be broken. If he made the first move, it would be very difficult to trade with other forces in the future.
Just as Faleau was getting angry, a mage force from the southern part of the Odin Kingdom came looking for him, wanting to purchase the Gilded Rose's Blue Devil Potion, as well as other special potions.
"Sir Faleau, I heard that you want to use the Blue Devil Potion to exchange for some materials, so I won't waste words with you. These are the materials we can use for the exchange, see which one you need.
In addition, the Blue Demon Potion was a very powerful potion that transcended the era. Its effect on magic was completely unimaginable. Those who were as greedy as devils would only care about the little benefits in front of them.
"Those guys from the north always thought that our southern mages were greedy, but it looks like they were too stupid."
He looked at the 1st Rank Heaven Mage before him. He was wearing a gorgeous robe and had a very calm aura. He was definitely a powerful mage, and more powerful than most mages of the same rank. He clearly came from a force from the southern part of the Odin Kingdom.
Faleau was a bit puzzled. 'Why would a mage force from the southern part of the Odin Kingdom suddenly look for the Gilded Rose …'
'Don't the mages of the southern part of the Odin Kingdom always think that they are the most powerful place in the Odin Kingdom? It seems that they always look down on all the forces in the northern part of the Odin Kingdom. Apart from a few that could be put in their eyes, the rest were all called country bumpkins.
'The Sten Kingdom and the Andalusia Kingdom are barbarians in the eyes of the southern Odin Kingdom. Why would they take the initiative to negotiate with me?
'Don't they know that the Gilded Rose actually came from the Andalusia Kingdom?'
Faleau's doubts flashed in his mind, but he didn't have time to think about it. He saw a few materials that could be exchanged for, and the Heavy Crystal that he urgently needed for the first batch was impressively there.
After stabilizing his mood, Faleau pointed at two of the materials with a calm expression and asked the other side about their intentions before pointing at the Heavy Crystal.
"Sir Dick, how do you plan on exchanging for the Heavy Crystal?"
Dick had a smile on his face as he shook his head.
"Sir Faleau, this Heavy Crystal is relatively rare in Noscent. It would be too wasteful to exchange for it. I don't think it's appropriate to exchange for more, and you definitely wouldn't think it's appropriate to exchange for less. Thus, we'll just forget about exchanging for it.
"As for the Heavy Crystal, I plan on using another method. Ten thousand bottles of Blue Magic Potion in exchange for the mining rights of the Heavy Crystal vein for a year. Within a year, you can mine it on your own, and you can keep as much as you mine. Even the side products you mine can be considered a gift to Sir Faleau."
Dick's words made Faleau's hands shake. Shock flashed in his eyes, and he almost couldn't help shouting.
The Heavy Crystal vein that could be mined definitely wasn't like the Heavy Crystal of the Earth Elemental Plane. That kind of environment simply couldn't be mined. A vein that could be mined, and the other side didn't seem to care about it, could only mean one thing.
The reserve of Heavy Crystal was huge, so huge that the other side didn't care about it. Moreover, there was only a time limit.
Thinking of the huge puppet army and mining puppets in the Demiplane, Faleau was a bit stunned. It wouldn't take a year. As long as those mining puppets were dispatched, they wouldn't even need a year to mine enough Heavy Crystal.
The price was only ten thousand bottles of Blue Magic Potion. This was the price of rotten cabbages, a bit better than giving it away for free.
Super Heavy Crystals were the most abundant in the Earth Elemental Plane. You could find a large number of Super Heavy Crystals in any Earth Elemental Plane, especially in some places where the gravity was very high. Super Heavy Crystals were actually just ordinary crystals that contained earth elements.
But there was almost no way to mine in those places. The miners who wanted to mine had to be at least at the Heaven Rank, and their bodies had to be very powerful. This made it impossible to mine in large quantities.
The rest of the places that could be mined were in some special planes. Generally, these planes were relatively desolate. There was basically no life, but mining was not easy. The density of the Super-Heavy Crystal itself was very high, and it was very hard.
Under normal circumstances, mining Heavy Crystal veins would consume a lot of power, and a huge number of miners would be needed. Moreover, Heavy Crystal was very rarely used in Noscent. It was only used in a few places, and the current production was enough to satisfy all of Noscent's needs.
But because this kind of thing couldn't be produced in Noscent, and mining was very inconvenient, even if some forces conquered planes with Heavy Crystal veins, they wouldn't be bothered to mine them. If they had the energy to mine other things, the benefits would be even greater.
But this wasn't a problem for the Gilded Rose. In the huge puppet production base in Lin Yun 'Natural Demiplane, besides the first battle puppets, all kinds of mining puppets were also developed and mass-produced. Even in terms of technology, these mining puppets were a lot more advanced than the battle puppets.
More than half of the huge mining puppet army was slumbering in the Natural Demiplane, and only a small part was scattered in the various ore veins of the Gilded Rose. Moreover, these mining puppets were designed to mine Heavy Crystals when they were manufactured.
To other forces, it would take them at least twenty to thirty years to mine 8,000,000 cubic meters of Heavy Crystal. But to the Gilded Rose, which had a huge advanced mining puppet army, one year was a bit long.
"Sir Faleau, is there too much? How about 9,000 bottles? After all, you know that although the reserves of Heavy Crystal veins are huge, this kind of thing can only be purchased by some powerful alchemists or major forces, and the mining costs are too high.
"But the value of Heavy Crystal itself is very high, but with the current alchemy technology, very few of them can be used in large quantities. Apart from laying floors in some special buildings …
"Oh heavens, Sir Faleau, you aren't thinking of using Heavy Crystal to pave floors, are you? "How about 8,000 bottles of Blue Magic Potion and 8,000 square meters of mining rights for a year. For a year, that plane will be yours. In any case, apart from Heavy Crystal, there isn't anything valuable in that plane."
Dick looked at Faleau in amazement. Seeing the expression on Faleau's face, he instantly understood that the Super Heavy Crystals were really used to pave the floor. Dick's expression turned a bit strange. Who would pay such a huge price for Super Heavy Crystals just to pave the floor? Just thinking about it was inconceivable.
After all, Super Heavy Crystal was indeed a good material for the construction of the Gravity Laboratory. Some special alchemy laboratories needed Super Heavy Crystal to pave the floor, but the amount needed was very small. There wasn't much of it, and it could be bought on the market. If he wanted to trade for a potion like the Blue Magic Potion that cost 180,000 purple golds, he would be able to pave the floor of Neverwinter City with it.
But he couldn't ask about this, so Dick didn't say much. He only agreed to the transaction as per usual.
After finishing the transaction, Faleau had even more doubts in his mind. This negotiation was much smoother than the previous ones, and it could be considered the smoothest one. Moreover, the Gilded Rose's benefits were even greater.
But the other side was a southern force of the Odin Kingdom, and their influence wasn't weak. Even if they weren't in the top ten, they could still be in the top twenty. Yet they took the initiative to discuss cooperation with the Gilded Rose, and the conditions were very generous. This was a bit strange.
And in the following days, everything seemed to be going very smoothly. The Gilded Rose wanted to purchase some relatively special land in the Odin Kingdom that could be used to plant some precious magic items. This kind of land was very expensive, and it was always in short supply. As long as it was on sale, it would inevitably be bought by familiar forces.
This kind of place wasn't like the kind of place where crops were planted. The latter was a manor with low level potion ingredients that could be casually bought. In this kind of special place, even a kilometer of land would be a hot commodity, and it would be very difficult for forces outside the Odin Kingdom to get their hands on it.
Faleau himself didn't have much hope, but because the Gilded Rose had recently stored a lot of purple golds. Even if they exchanged them for resources as much as possible, they wouldn't be able to spend so many purple golds. Purple golds that couldn't be spent wouldn't have much value to the Gilded Rose, so Faleau decided to exchange them for something else.
This was only an idea, nothing more. He used his relationship with the Gilded Rose to find some interested parties and negotiated with them, but there was no chance. Even if they offered a lower price, they would still sell to familiar forces. The Gilded Rose couldn't buy them even if they spent a lot of purple golds.
But in less than three days, a family that wanted to sell some special land took the initiative to come to their door. Although the price was a bit higher than usual, it could be considered a huge bargain for the Gilded Rose.
Even if Faleau was a fool, he would understand that someone must have done something behind the scenes. The Gilded Rose seemed to be developing very smoothly these days. Some people wanted to cause trouble, but they were quickly dealt with. Two days ago, the goods of one of the most remote branches of the Gilded Rose were robbed. In less than half a day, the robber's head was hung outside the city gates, and the stolen goods were sent back by someone.
'How could the Gilded Rose profit from so many good things?' Faleau felt a bit uneasy, helping the Gilded Rose for no reason, and he didn't even know who did it. No matter how he looked at it, this couldn't be considered a good thing.
He hadn't looked for Lin Yun for a month or two, but now, Faleau couldn't sit still and took the initiative to come to the Starry Sky College to look for Lin Yun.
"Sir Merlin, this is what happened. We still don't know who did it, who is secretly helping the Gilded Rose, and what they want, we don't know …" Faleau worriedly explained the matter.
Faleau worriedly explained what had happened, and Lin Yun frowned after hearing it.
The special Silence Curse, the bleeding effect, and the ability to do so many things in secret. No one had a clue, it was like a group of shadows hiding in a dark corner.
Hearing this style, Lin Yun instantly understood who did this. Apart from those guys from the Crown of Thorns, it couldn't be anyone else. Only the Crown of Thorns could have so many powerhouses with special abilities.
Moreover, the Crown of Thorns had been hiding in the dark for so many years, their connections in the dark were definitely not small. But Lin Yun hadn't expected the Crown of Thorns' network to be that powerful. It seemed that they could influence everything.
Moreover, to be able to obtain so much information without coming in contact with the Gilded Rose, this kind of ability greatly exceeded his expectations.
Thinking of this, Lin Yun suddenly understood. This was a small error in the information. Although the Crown of Thorns' reputation wasn't too good, it wasn't to the point where everyone was shouting at them. They had a lot of resources to research bloodline transplants, so they definitely had a lot of businesses behind them, providing purple golds and resources.
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