Chapter 315 - Set Up
Chapter 315 Set Up
Actually, Abel didn’t want Grand Duke Edwina to kill Prince Adolf because of him. He knew it was unrealistic to kill a person with such high status, but at least he wanted him to know where the threat was coming from.
Maybe in the eyes of Grand Duke Edwina, he was just Loraine’s boyfriend, who was also an alchemist with some special ability. Only a bit of respect and benefits was enough to get him to work for the Grand Ducal Palace.
“Tell Grand Duke Edwina I appreciate it. Also, tell Lady Carrie to quickly complete our exchange!” Abel didn’t say much about the 28 heads Steward Derek had brought. His voice sounded very monotone like he and Derek were just business partners, rather than close friends.
Maybe helping Lady Carrie to make her ‘Beauty Potion’ was the last service Abel would do for the Grand Ducal Palace to thank them for the care they had given him during this time. As long as Prince Adolf was still alive, Abel’s safety in the elf word wouldn’t be guaranteed.
Although Abel seemed to win his battle with the 8 elites very easily. The result might be completely different if Blood Yen Druid was given a chance to attack. Abel would no longer underestimate those druids, especially the ones with status. Their hidden weapons were too scary.
Abel didn’t want to use his life as a bet to hope Grand Duke Edwina could resolve the tension with Grand Duke Francisco. Since he had killed Grand Duke Francisco’s disciple, revenge would most likely be coming his way.
Actually, before Derek had brought in the 28 heads, Abel had already made his plans for the future and decided to leave the elf world after he found out about Blood Yen’s identity.
Before, Abel would have left directly, but he was not a person who could tolerate an attack without striking back. Plus, those ‘Beauty Potions’ were also very important to him, so he would just search for another suitable opportunity.
Upon hearing Abel’s change in tone again, Derek didn’t know how to react. Abel sounded very distant from him, and Derek didn’t know what he did wrong all of a sudden.
Meanwhile, Prince Adolf had just received the information saying the 8 elite he sent out were whipped out. This information was sent to him by his father Grand Duke Francisco’s communication circle, and he could tell his father was deeply disappointed at him.
However, Grand Duke Francisco was not disappointed in the fact that Prince Adolf had attacked Master Bennett. Nothing could stand in his way as a person of his status, let alone a mere Master Alchemist.
He was disappointed in the way Prince Adolf had handled the situation. He had used gold coins to hire someone to kill in the territory of his enemy. Now that Prince Adolf was exposed, it made a huge impact on their image.
By this point, Grand Duke Francisco just demanded Prince Adolf to go back as soon as possible. Things had already escalated so far, so he could just scrap his original mission. The tension between the two cities would just increase even further if Prince Adolf stayed in Angstrom City.
“Your majesty, Bernie from the dwarf’s Goff Family wants to see you!” The Prince’s steward came in and reported.
“Goff family!” Prince Adolf mumbled.
The dwarfs were not like elves or humans. There wasn’t much tension between the big families in their race. Let’s take the Goff family; for example, they were specialized in making weapons and exporting other goods. Most of the resources and day to day goods among the dwarfs were made by the Goff Family.
The Goff family was the ruler of the dwarfs’ economy. They were the only family doing business with the external world. Most of the elves preferred to do forgery. Only the Goff family had stuck to doing business with the external world for the greater good of dwarfs, so their status was extremely high among the dwarfs.
“Quickly invite him in!” Prince Adolf was quite excited when he thought about the Goff family, so quickly changed his words, “Wait, actually let me welcome him personally!”
“Young chief Bernie, welcome. Please, come in!” Prince Adolf opened the door and said with a welcoming bow.
Bernie bowed back, and said as he was walking in, “Prince Adolf, I heard you were in Angstrom City, so I just want to come for a visit!”
After both parties sat down in the guest lounge, Prince Adolf asked: “I’m just wondering, what had brought you here, Young Chief Bernie?”
“I wanted to exchange some Gold Jade Wood with Angstrom City, but they didn’t have enough since those things will take a long time to transfer. I heard Prince Adolf that you had some of them in your palace, so I was just wondering if I can provide ten thousand square meters of Gold Jade Wood for me!” As a Dwarf, Bernie preferred to just get to the point.
Upon hearing this, Prince Adolf felt a sudden lift in his heart. Gold Jade Wood was the best material for sword handles, and it was only available in the Double Moon Forest. In recent years a Begro City had spent a large amount of men power to exploit this resource but wasn’t selling too well.
Since he had just lost face in front of his father Grand Duke Francisco, he could make it up if he settled a beneficial deal for Begro City.
“Young Chief Bernie, we can definitely provide enough of them for you!” Said Prince Adolf with a smile.
“Amazing! I will need to get back to my tribe soon. I will send my tribe’s steward Luka to come here to discuss the deal, and I will come back in a few days to sign the contract!” Said Bernie with a big laugh.
Although this was a big exchange, both Bernie and Prince Adolf would still let their stewards discuss the deal with each other. They would only sign the contract once the result had been made. It would be a huge loss of face to nobles or a high-status person if they discussed a deal directly.
“Ok, I’ll wait for you here with my best wine!” Said Prince Adolf with a big laugh as well.
It seemed like everything was going smoothly, so Prince Adolf had changed his plans after he sent Bernie off. He decided to stay in Angstrom City for a bit longer to settle the deal.
Meanwhile, Abel did not enter the Dark World. He could feel the grand protection circle of Angstrom City was already starting to track him down. If it was not because of his deformed commander intuition, he would definitely not be able to sense this vague tracking
This tracking was coming from the magic circle control card. Although it was inside his portal bag, it could still send his location back to the Grand protection circle. He didn’t know about this before. It seemed like this control card was not really a good thing, after all.
The Grand Ducal Palace was still worried that he would do something stupid such as directly giving Prince Adolf trouble. Maybe the Grand Ducal Palace had underestimated him.
The next day, Abel was riding Black Wind outside of Angstrom City behind Lady Carrie. Lady Carrie was riding a mad wolf, which was supposed to be faster and stronger than a mount Wolf, but of course, it was still nothing compared to Black Wind.
The reason why a Mad wolf could not be a real mount was that it could only be ridden by its owner. The ‘Mad’ in their name did not only implied their fighting ability, but it also implied their nature.
The 4 elf lady druids following behind were the other members of the Lawland Squad. They were separately Lady Morris, Lady Jenny, Lady Marian, and Lady Muriel. They were also riding mad wolves, which suggested that they all had some kind of mad wolf summoning equipment.
Abel couldn’t help but sigh at how luxurious this Lawland Squad’s equipment was. He also had some one level up equipment, but those were beginner wizards equipment used by a novice wizard. They were nothing compared to the ones the Lawland squad had.
Abel was always seen as the one with the best equipment, but now all his confidence was stripped away as he looked at this Lawland Squad.they were fully equipped with magic weapons; even the bow on their backs was a top-notch ancient bow filled with tightly drawn runes.