BXBX NOVEL Chapter 423: 146. Strong-willed as one wishes
Three days later in Union City.
Inside a single cottage in Sector 7.
At 2 PM in the afternoon, Noland Lee entered the study on the second floor, locked the door, and pulled the curtains shut.
He called for Denise Green in his heart while placing a heavy cloth bag on the desk.
“I’m here~” Denise Green appeared in the flickering light of the torch.
“Please have a seat, Denise Green. The Golden Commerce Guild has been busy for two days, and they finally sorted out the spoils. I took a trip to Cindy’s and brought back all my share of the spoils. Let’s check the accounts.”
Noland poured two cups of hot tea onto the table and then pushed the jingling money bags in front of Denise Green.
Denise Green picked up the cloth bag, opened the folding space inside, and glanced at the spoils within.
After that, she held a notebook in her left hand and an ink pen in her right hand, carefully reading through the characters on the notebook to prevent errors:
“After closing the pollution zone, the eastern Area 117 nearshore has returned to normal. The combat alchemists of the Golden Commerce Guild cleaned up the battlefield.”
“They found 160 undamaged boxes of Life Elixir, 72 boxes of Mutant Potions for maintaining biochemical soldiers, and 54 boxes of artificial bone cards from the wreckage of cargo ships floating on the sea. In addition, there were thousands of soul-absorbing crystals filled with soul fragments.”
Denise Green looked up and asked:
“Noland, are the Golden Commerce Guild sure that artificial bone cards are the mysterious material for making the Alchemical Cube?”
Noland nodded:
“Yes, that’s right. Cindy told me before I brought the spoils back. The Re-forged Association’s monopoly on the secrets of alchemical constructs lies in the artificial bone cards produced by Tatis. Since this thing involves the secrets of the Alchemy Cathedral, no artificial bone cards were included in the spoils allocated to me by the Golden Commerce Guild. They used Life Elixir to replace the artificial bone cards as part of my spoils. I simply asked them to replace the Mutant Potions they originally planned to give me with Life Elixir as well. Now, I only have a few artificial bone cards that I picked up from the sea.”
As Noland spoke, he took out a crystal clear and flawless transparent bone card from the drawer.
Upon closer inspection, it is possible to see that the interior of this artificial bone card, which looks like transparent mahjong tiles, contains hair-thin rune patterns.
It comes with the feature “Soul Link” but is not used to control the undead.
It cannot be used as a casting material for summoning undead spirits.
Its sole purpose is to help the user control lifeless metal creations with a “Soul Link”.
The core component of alchemical constructs, the Alchemical Cube, has always been tightly controlled by the Re-forged Association. The artificial bone cards produced by Tatis are the key.
With it, the alchemical construct controller can use the “Soul Link” to control alchemical constructs without learning Death-type magic.
The rune patterns inside these artificial bone cards are written in Undead Runes. It is these runes that give the artificial bone cards the feature of “Soul Link”.
The Tatis Empire strongly opposes research into Undead Runes, but in fact, Intelligence Officer 2 and Officer 3, who are in charge of researching biochemical soldiers, have secretly researched it all the time.
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Noland had gotten lazy about dealing with the almost schizophrenic Tatis Empire. As an empire, Tatis would be greatly influenced by its emperor. It is inevitable that the empire would become chaotic when the emperor himself could be heavily contaminated by extraterrestrial space pollution.
Noland placed the artificial bone card on the desk and nodded at the gentle beauty across the table:
“Please continue, Denise Green.”
“Yes. I’ll start counting the spoils in the folding space then.”
Denise Green picked up the bag, took out the metal boxes inside, and examined them one by one on the floor of the study:
“A total of 15 boxes of spoils, all Life Elixirs produced by Tatis. 750,000 pieces of Life Elixir in total. Converted into Ulnas gold coins, it’s 7,500.”
“This is only part of the total reward.
“Besides the Life Elixir that serves as spoils, we will have two more installments of rewards in the future.
“The first is the bounty for helping the Golden Commerce Guild repel Tatis invaders and extraterrestrial space pollution products. This part of the reward will be paid in Union Coins. The Golden Commerce Guild has to consult with the Alchemy Cathedral to determine the exact amount of the reward.
“The second reward is the payment for providing information to the Golden Commerce Guild. This part of the reward has been received, a total of 3 million Union Coins. Did I miss anything?”
Noland thought for a moment:
“No omissions. Oh, right, I’ll keep the soul-absorbing crystals that Cindy gave me.”
“Good~ I have no objection. I mainly use recovery magic power, so I generally don’t need soul energy. In the future, if you get any more soul-absorbing crystals, you can keep them.”
Denise Green rapidly wrote, and finally put down the ink bottle in her hand and passed the notebook to Noland:
“Okay, I’ve calculated everything. Take a look. We now have Life Elixirs worth 8,500 gold coins and 514,000 Union Coins in total. I’ve also recorded various miscellaneous items.”
Noland took the notebook, read through it, and praised with satisfaction:
“Very good, Denise Green. You keep the accounts very clear. With your help, I don’t have to worry about these numbers.”
Denise Green smiled, her lips curving up:
“This is what I should do, Noland. You work so hard to collect recovery magic power, I should do something for you. By the way, what are your plans for the future?”