110: Chapter 110: Want the key? Trade half a city for it!

Looking at the Rank 7 City Lord who was high and mighty and overbearing just a moment ago, now panicking like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

The smile at the corner of Lin Yuan's mouth deepened.

He had gambled correctly.

A man with nothing to lose has nothing to fear.

Even if Lin Yuan lost the key, at most he would miss out on one opportunity, but for Thousand Faces, this was his life and livelihood!

"Wouldn't it have been better if you had acted like this sooner?"

Lin Yuan slowly withdrew some of his strength, but his fingers remained deathly tight on the crystal's vital point.

He looked at the sweat-drenched Thousand Faces, his tone becoming lazy:

"Want this thing? Sure."

"But I have a bit of a problem."

Lin Yuan pointed to himself:

"I am very greedy."

"Since half of this key was secured by me..."

"Then I want a piece of the pie too."

Thousand Faces took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the killing intent in his heart, his voice dark:

"What do you want?"

"Simple."

Lin Yuan held up three fingers:

"First, for tomorrow's ruins exploration, I will lead the team in, and I want fifty percent of the profits inside."

"Impossible!!"

Thousand Faces refused without even thinking: "I discovered the ruins, and the map is in my hands! At most, I'll give you ten percent!"

Crack!

Lin Yuan's fingers applied a bit of force, and another crack appeared on the crystal.

"You are in no position to bargain," Lin Yuan said coldly. "Fifty percent. Not a fraction less, or I'll crush it right now."

"You!" Thousand Faces was so angry his mask was shaking, and finally, he could only squeeze out a word through gritted teeth: "Fine! Fifty percent!"

"Second."

Lin Yuan smiled, opening his mouth wide like a lion:

"Fighting that big-eyed monster just now took a lot of effort, and my spirit has suffered immense trauma."

"I want one million mid-grade Source Stones as compensation for mental distress."

"What?!"

Thousand Faces almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

One million mid-grade Source Stones?!

That's mid-grade!

Not low-grade!

This is equivalent to draining half of the entire City No. 36's liquid capital!

This is fucking robbery!

"I don't have it! Absolutely not!"

Thousand Faces roared: "The entire City Lord's Mansion treasury has less than three hundred thousand stones! Even if you kill me, I don't have it!"

"You don't?"

Lin Yuan frowned, seemingly dissatisfied: "A dignified Rank 7 City Lord, how can you be so poor?"

"Then use items to make up the difference."

"s-grade alloy, high-level medicinal herbs, rare ores... anyway, as long as it's valuable, I'll take it."

As he spoke, Lin Yuan made a gesture as if he were about to crush the crystal again.

"I'll give it!! I'll give it!!!"

Thousand Faces was about to go crazy; he had never seen such a rogue, such a greedy young man in his life, who just happened to have him by the throat!

With trembling hands, he took off a spare storage ring from his finger, his heart bleeding.

Inside were the resources he had prepared to break through to Rank 8, as well as supplies he had spent ten years preparing for the ruins exploration!

"Catch it!!"

Thousand Faces violently threw the ring over.

Lin Yuan caught the ring with one hand and swept his spiritual power inside.

Whoa!

Good heavens!

Eight hundred thousand mid-grade Source Stones!

Three tons of S-grade Star-Patterned Steel!

And dozens of spirit herbs of Rank 5 and above!

How was this compensation for mental distress?

This was clearly hollowing out half of the old guy's family fortune!

"It'll do, barely."

Lin Yuan put away the ring, and the smile on his face instantly became much more sincere.

"What about the third condition?" Thousand Faces gritted his teeth, his eyes full of resentment.

"The third one..."

Lin Yuan pointed to the city beneath his feet:

"From today onwards, all commercial activities of the Yanhuang Alliance in City No. 36 will be tax-exempt."

"Also, don't send any more mechanical birds to my place in the future; they're very noisy."

Compared to the first two, this third condition was practically a drizzle.

"Get out!!"

Thousand Faces could no longer hold back; he was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would be driven into a Qi deviation by this bandit's provocations.

"It's a deal! Tomorrow at noon, bring the key to the mass grave north of the city! I won't wait for latecomers!"

After saying that.

Thousand Faces let out a cold snort, whipped up a gust of wind, and his figure instantly vanished from the spot.

He swore in his heart:

Just you wait! Once we're in the ruins, the moment the grand array opens!

I will definitely tear you, this vampire, into ten thousand pieces!!

I'll take back these one million Source Stones from your corpse!!

When Lin Yuan returned to the station humming a little tune, Ancient Sword Soul, Dragon Battle, Ji Hongyi, and the others were waiting anxiously at the entrance.

Seeing Lin Yuan return unscathed, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Captain! How was it? That Thousand Faces didn't do anything to you, did he?" Ancient Sword Soul asked hurriedly.

"What could he do to me?"

Lin Yuan smiled and casually threw the storage ring he had extorted from Thousand Faces to Dragon Battle.

"Take it."

Dragon Battle caught it in a flurry: "What's this?"

"I just had a 'friendly negotiation' with the City Lord."

Lin Yuan said nonchalantly: "He felt we worked hard defending the city, so he specially sent some consolation gifts."

Dragon Battle doubtfully extended his spiritual power into the ring.

The next second.

Clang!

The tower shield in his hand dropped directly to the ground, smashing a hole in the floor.

"Holy... Holy shit!!!"

Dragon Battle's resolute face was now filled with an expression of questioning life, his eyes nearly popping out:

"This is... eight... eight hundred thousand mid-grade Source Stones?!"

"And so much s-grade alloy?!"

"Captain!! Did you go to negotiate... or did you go to raid the City Lord's Mansion?!"

Hearing this, the surrounding Ancient Sword Soul, Ji Hongyi, and others were also stunned.

Eight hundred thousand mid-grade Source Stones!

What kind of concept was that?

This sum of money was enough to arm all dozen of them to the teeth; everyone could even be equipped with an S-grade divine weapon!

"Don't act like you've never seen the world before."

"Distribute these resources."

"One set of s-grade alloy battle armor for everyone, the best kind. Use the remaining money to buy medicine, talismans, and disposable forbidden artifacts!"

Lin Yuan looked up towards the area shrouded in mist to the north, greed resurfacing in his eyes:

"Get ready, everyone."

"Tomorrow at noon."

"We're going with that City Lord..."

"To that so-called Titan Ruins to make another huge fortune!"

Thirty thousand meters underground.

This was an absolute forbidden zone swallowed by darkness; for decades, no one had ever set foot here except for the core members of the City Lord's Mansion.

At this time, before a massive underground cliff, two groups of people were confronting each other across the void.

One side was the purple-robed, weirdly-masked City Lord Thousand Faces, followed by a hundred death warriors in uniform S-grade Shadow Battle Armor—the 'Shadow Guards'.

The other side was Lin Yuan, carrying a battle saber and looking relaxed, along with his fully armed Yanhuang Alliance national team (Ancient Sword Soul, Dragon Battle, Ji Hongyi, etc.).

"Lin Yuan."

City Lord Thousand Faces turned around and pointed to the void across the cliff, his voice icy:

"Take out the key."

"Let me say the ugly truth first: the moment the gate opens, there will be a burst of the Titan Race's guardian magnetic field. If those below Rank 6 can't withstand it and die, don't blame me for not warning you."