Chapter 1266 - Cleansing and Ritual (1/2)
‘No, I can’t haggle with him. That guy might not have been planning to hand John’s body to me at all and only gave me such a huge price to deter me. If we don’t accept, he’ll use that perfectly legitimate reason to hang John’s corpse at the entrance of Neverwinter City.
‘He will let the reputation of the Gilded Rose deter those bandits and other forces.
‘That must be it, he definitely doesn’t want to give us the corpse… But we can’t let him take it away!’
With these thoughts rapidly surging in his head, Pass made a decision.
With an embarrassed expression, he said, “Sir Mafa Merlin, this is a huge quantity and I don’t have the right to make a decision on it, nor can I take them out of storage. After all, these are high-quality materials.
“Please wait a bit, I’ll report to the family to hear their decision. It won’t take too long.”
Pass sent the list of materials back to the Rodney Family and obtained an answer in less than five minutes. It was a message from the Elder Council with one word:
[Deal]
Seeing that word, Pass sighed in relief. His main goal was to get John’s corpse back. He wasn’t bothered with the rest.
“Sir Mafa Merlin, the family has already agreed to your conditions, but there are too many materials and we need time. Please wait an hour.”
Lin Yun nodded and calmly waited.
An hour passed when a Spatial Door was slowly opened. A 2nd Rank Heaven powerhouse walked out from it and handed five Spatial Rings to Pass.
Pass took the Spatial Rings and handed them to Lin Yun.
“Sir Mafa Merlin, you can check the materials. Once you are done, the transaction can be completed.”
Lin Yun unceremoniously opened the Spatial Rings and checked the materials before inwardly sneering without saying anything.
Having received the materials, Lin Yun handed John’s body over to Pass.
“Sir Pass, please inform me if there is another bandit group like these Death Sickles. I’ll always be happy to help your Rodney Family take care of it.”
After saying those words, Lin Yun flew away and disappeared into the sky.
Lin Yun didn’t fly far before entering his Demiplane. He flew over the mana lake and crushed the five Spatial Rings over the mana lake.
The Spatial Rings exploded and the materials contained within rained down over the mana lake.
Then, Lin Yun condensed the mana lake’s Mana Water into a huge water dragon that wrapped around the materials. The extremely pure mana washed over the materials, and not only did it improve the texture of the materials, but it also had an even more important effect… It washed away all imprints left inside.
As long as the imprints were within the scope of normal Laws, they would be completely cleansed.
Lin Yun didn’t believe that these materials had imprints left by powerhouses who ignited their Godfire. Would the Rodney Family still negotiate with the Gilded Rose if they had that kind of powerhouse? A finger snap would have been enough to kill Lin Yun from several thousand kilometers away, and no one would have felt anything abnormal.
The Rodney Family clearly didn’t have good intentions when they straightforwardly agreed to pay the materials. They might have planned to dispatch people to ambush Lin Yun afterward.
Lin Yun was the true owner of the Gilded Rose. If he died, the Gilded Rose would be unable to withstand the Rodney Family. It wouldn’t be difficult to take it over at that point.
Unfortunately for them, Lin Yun had already expected the Rodney Family’s trick and had a plan against it.
The first thing to do was to cleanse the items. Unless the imprints were left by a powerhouse that could alter Laws like Agalon, no imprint could resist the cleansing of the mana lake.
After cleansing them, Lin Yun sorted all the materials once and a smile could be seen on his face.
The previous losses of materials and items couldn’t compare to the value of what he’d just obtained. These materials were twice as valuable.
Once they were processed into alchemy items, the benefits would be several dozen times greater.
Furthermore, he had used a corpse to rip off the Rodney Family, and the price he’d demanded was just at the limit of what the Rodney Family could accept. They would definitely accept after considering it, even if they weren’t pleased.
In any case, the conflict with the Rodney Family would definitely not stop there. The Rodney Family would have been humiliated if that corpse was hung at the entrance of Neverwinter City, and they would have continued to set themselves against the Gilded Rose.
They were anxious to bring the corpse back, and they would certainly set themselves against the Gilded Rose afterwards. Since the outcome wouldn’t change, he might as well extort the Rodney Family to recoup the losses of the Gilded Rose.
After thoroughly cleansing the materials, he stored them into a new Spatial Ring and left the Demiplane. Once he was out, Lin Yun opened a Spatial Door leading just outside of Neverwinter City.
Several Elders of the Rodney Family became enraged. Lin Yun had left Pass’ line of sight for less than a minute, but when they started the tracking array, they discovered that it was ineffective and that the imprints had completely disappeared.
There was no reaction from imprints on the Spatial Rings and on the materials, as if they had been completely erased in this short period of time.
Lin Yun’s Natural Demiplane was reinforced with several dozen kilograms of Eternal Dark Gold, which merged with the Natural Demiplane as it evolved. The Demiplane’s defensive abilities were unimaginably powerful, a kind of isolation defense.
Even if the Natural Demiplane truly became a world in the future, it would still be absolutely impossible for anyone to discover and go through the Natural Demiplane’s Planar Path.
Those imprints were nothing more than a joke…
“Damn, how did he discover the imprints? There were more than a million kilograms of materials at the very least! How did he discover the three imprints hidden there!?
“B*stard, that crafty b*stard, we actually let him take away all the precious materials! Our stock of materials is going to affect our stores!” an Elder angrily roared inside the Rodney Family’s conference room.
Another seemingly sinister Elder frowned and thought for a bit before saying, “I think that Mafa Merlin must have discovered that John was a Rodney. Why else would he suddenly kill John when he was about to cast a steel spell?
“He definitely wanted to capture John alive to negotiate with our Rodney family and ruthlessly blackmail us.
“Even with John’s death, he used his corpse to extort us.”
These words silenced everyone. After a few seconds, an Elder ground his teeth. “This can’t continue, we can’t let Mafa Merlin and his Gilded Rose continue to run rampant.
“Since the Death Sickle was crippled, we have to think of another method, we can’t let this continue. Since Mafa Merlin was able to rapidly discover these imprints and erase them, it means that his alchemy mastery has already reached a terrifying level.
“It was said that since its founding, the Gilded Rose has been relying on Mafa Merlin’s techniques. Even now, the Gilded Rose’s finest products are all made personally by Mafa Merlin. Those potions for Heaven Rank powerhouses all came from Mafa Merlin.
“We have to think of a way to get rid of Mafa Merlin. If we can’t kill him, we will have to keep suppressing the Gilded Rose, and if this continues, our family businesses will incur a loss. We might lose a huge share of the market for alchemy items in the northern part of the Odin Kingdom.
“We can’t do anything else regarding this matter… We must report to our ancestor. This already relates to our Family’s status.”
A few Elders looked at each other, and then, under the leadership of the Great Elder, they entered the depths of the Rodney Family’s territory. There was nothing alive within dozens of kilometers.