528 Out of Luck (1/2)

”It is quite a coincidence…” Lahn had blocked Mark Watson's path. In fact, not long after Mark came to the camp, Lahn got a report telling him that Mark was looking for Mafa. Because of this, he positioned himself in front of the young mage's living quarters, planning to send Mark Watson away.

Lahn looked very disgruntled with the situation. He could hardly cover up his hostility as he looked at Mark. ”Mark Watson, you killed Merlins and then dare to come to our camp? I do not care what you came here for, leave immediately!”

Lahn could naturally guess that what had happened three days earlier had been orchestrated by Mark Watson.

”Haha, Sir Lahn, that is wrong! Your Merlin Family made the first move. They stole what belonged to our Watson Family. Back then, I only planned on looking into it and having them hand over what they stole, but I hadn't expected that they would be unwilling to admit they were wrong, even in death. Nothing can be done about this... I loathe those kinds of people, so I taught them a lesson…” There was no shame on Mark's face. He was actually looking at Lahn with ridicule.

In fact, only Mark knew the truth behind this matter...

He truly didn't have a good opinion of the Merlin Family, only a deep disgust.

”Alright, Sir Lahn, I don't want to keep wasting time on this matter. Please step aside, I'm looking for Mafa Merlin…”

Lahn glanced at the living quarters behind him and frowned. ”No way, High Mage Mafa is in the middle of…”

But before Lahn finished his sentence the thin young mage slowly came out of the barrack. And behind him was a sneaky Beastman carrying a Gold Essence Hammer with one hand as he massaged his eyes with the other, still looking sleepy. At that time, Lahn apologized, ”High Mage Mafa, sorry for disturbing you...”

”What's going on?” The young mage frowned. He looked rather irritated as he glanced at Mark Watson, before finally looking at Lahn.

Lahn was instantly scared when he saw that expression… He couldn't help feeling nervous. He had provoked him three times just in the Winter Plane, yet the young mage hadn't looked so pissed any of those times. Lahn glanced at Mark and explained, ”Mark Watson…”

”Very good!”

But Lahn was interrupted by Mark. The young Archmage disdainfully waved his arm and looked at Lin Yun with a cold expression. ”Mafa Merlin, I came to give an explanation to you in person. I made a special trip to your Merlin Family's camp to discuss a certain matter with you…”

”What matter?”

”You should know that three days ago, your Merlin Family resource collection team showed their poor upbringing and stole a large amount of materials from our Watson Family's territory. However, they have already received proper punishment…”

”Oh? Something like that happened?”

The exchange between Mark Watson and Lin Yun made Lahn react furiously. He flew into a rage and shouted with a flushed face, ”Nonsense! Mark Watson, you are full of sh*t!”

Lahn Merlin looked at Lin Yun and indignantly said, ”High Mage Mafa, this isn't what happened. Our Merlin Family possesses the most fertile area of the Horn of Fertility! How could we care about the Watson Family's pathetic resources? The resource collection team was transporting the haul back to the Flame Demon Fort, but when they passed through the territory of the Watson Family, their path was blocked. Not only were the resources stolen, but most of the people were injured, and two members of the team even died…”

Lahn had personally looked for the 7th Rank Archmage Captain and realized what had happened.

Hearing the other side distorting the truth once again, he truly went berserk.

'That damn Mark Watson is just shameless beyond comparison…'

”Haha, Sir Lahn, you can't make such irresponsible remarks, you have to back up your words with evidence. If you don't have any proof, please hold your tongue.” Mark dismissed Lahn's claims before turning to look at Lin Yun. ”Mafa Merlin, although your Family's resource collection team has already been punished accordingly, this is still far from enough. Your Merlin Family has to compensate our Watson Family for your mistake.”

”Compensate?”

”Yes… Take out a third of the land that your Merlin Family claimed here and give it to our Watson Family and we shall not look into this any longer.”

”Haha…” Lin Yun chuckled, his expression becoming grave as he looked at the chatterbox in front of him. ”Sir Mark, I have to say… Do you really think you are so great?”

Lin Yun was in an awful mood at this moment.

Before Mark had arrived, he had been in his living quarters researching blueprints, repeatedly having to toss them away one after another when he realized that there were problems with each one. This made him somewhat impatient. Still, he managed, with great difficulty, to find some clues. But he hadn't expected some loud, quarrelling voices to break out outside his living quarters.

At first, he didn't care why they were fighting. The only thing he cared about was that his train of thought had been interrupted...

Although he had accumulated enough experience after finishing the blueprint of the first component, he still spent a lot of time on the second one.