234 The Power of the Crystal Scales (1/2)
More and more people came out of the portal. After Lin Yun and Suyass arrived, William, Xiuban, and Solomon appeared. They were then followed by Lys, Badrack, Sauss, and the others… It took about ten minutes before all twenty members of the joint exploration team reached the treasury.
Their expressions were all exactly the same. They were all stunned by the many chests of loot and the piles of magic materials. They all looked around like starving beasts looking at prey...
The atmosphere was too frightening.
”Merlin… Could… could you buy the entire Thousand Sails City with this?” Solomon stuttered.
”At least ten of it…”
Solomon held his breath.
”Worthy of Vaughn, worthy of Vaughn…” Lys rubbed his hands together, feeling excited and also relieved.
He had been feeling a lot of pressure for this whole trip.
The nine forces of Thousand Sails City had come out at full strength, an unprecedented event. As the organizer, Lys was under pressure that others couldn't imagine. Fortunately, this huge treasury was more than enough to vindicate his original recommendation.
But even though Lys was excited, he couldn't ignore his previous agreement with Lin Yun. He was rubbing his hands energetically, but he first said, ”Merlin, according to our previous agreement, you have loot priority when it comes to magic materials, it's time…”
Although Lin Yun hadn't cracked many arrays, he had saved the group many times. When they entered the Maze Array, if Lin Yun hadn't mentioned that they were going in circles in the body of the Void Python, no one would have noticed that they were pacing back and forth on the verge of death.
It could be said that Lin Yun deserved a double share of the loot or more, not just the right to choose first.
A few leaders parroted Lys' words.
”Right, right, Merlin, you go first, you go first…”
But, while everyone else was speaking in unison, one inharmonious voice interrupted.
”Hold on!” Fran was obviously the one that wasn't satisfied.
In the current joint exploration team, even the Archmage Suyass wouldn't object to Lin Yun having loot priority. Only Fran would object at this time.
”High Mage Fran, what are you trying to do?” Lys' tone was extremely cold. After all, he had a pretty good relationship with Fran before the exploration, or else he wouldn't have introduced Lin Yun to Fran during the first meeting.
But that introduction had gone all wrong.
And now, the relationship between the two had changed dramatically. Lys felt that Fran was becoming more and more unfamiliar to him, and sometimes he even doubted whether he had truly known Fran before.
”I'm not trying to do anything, but Lys, everyone knows the value of that batch of magic materials. You can't decide the owner of such wealth with just a few sentences, can you?”
”What do you mean a few sentences? Everyone, including yourself, Fran, already agreed that Merlin was in charge of cracking arrays. In exchange, he would gain the first pick of magic materials. If you had any opinion about it, you should have said it then. You didn't speak up then, yet you don't agree now, I naturally have to ask you what you are trying to do, Fran!” Since things had reached this stage, Lys was very blunt.
”Haha, I agreed?” Unfortunately, Fran was decided on setting himself against them. With such a huge batch of magic materials, the difference between the one who would pick first and the one who would pick last could easily amount to ten million golds. Faced with such a huge potential disparity, how could the shameless Fran put his reputation before the valuable magic materials?
”Lys, try to remember, did I ever say that I agreed? From the beginning, it was your group from Thousand Sails City talking among yourselves. Did you ever care about Suyass' opinion or mine?”
”You…” Lys was so angry that he was almost at the point of spitting blood. Fran indeed never had said that he agreed. The problem was that Merlin's loot priority had already been decided before they arrived. Even after knowing this, Fran still joined the exploration team. This was already a default condition of joining. Saying that he had never agreed was utterly shameless.
The problem was that Lys truly couldn't say anything to the shameless Fran...
”What? Did you people from Thousand Sails City think our Mercury Tower is easy to bully?” Fran complacently asked when he saw Lys' expression.
”Fran, you shouldn't say that much.” At this time, even Suyass couldn't keep watching from the side. But in Suyass' position, he had no reason to lessen his chance to get a larger share, so he only gave Fran a reminder before falling silent again.