Chapter 116: Another Bet?
“Speaking of which, haven’t the Temple of the Heavenly God and the abyss started fighting yet?”
At ten o’clock in the morning, Kailun sought out Isabella to get the latest information.
He had been waiting for both sides to start fighting, but after waiting for so long, there was still no result, which made him very disappointed.
The two of them were strolling by the small lake. Along the way, Kailun could also feel the gazes of the princesses.
Vivian didn’t know when she had become close to Hilna, but she looked a bit like an owner, her status far above Hilna’s.
Using the authority given by Kailun, she often bullied Hilna in daily life, making her do laundry, wash dishes, and mop the floor.
Kailun didn’t interfere too much, he was waiting for the two of them to put on an interesting show for him.
Turning his head back, Kailun’s gaze fell on Isabella.
She was really too petite, her height barely reaching Kailun’s waist, she looked like a delicate doll.
“Your eyes are very rude. I told you, I’m an adult, please don’t look at me like that. If it were in my territory, I would definitely have someone gouge your eyes out.”
Isabella didn’t answer Kailun’s question immediately.
If she could beat him, she would definitely jump up and hit Kailun’s knees.
“Unfortunately, you are in my territory now, so doesn’t that mean I can do whatever I want to you?”
Kailun reached out and touched her head, messing up her gray hair.
Sensing Kailun’s somewhat aggressive gaze, Isabella wisely didn’t refute his words.
She only expressed her displeasure with her lively and charming eyes.
[Your words made Isabella slightly unhappy. Favorability -2, Total favorability 18]
It was really hard for her that she hadn’t dropped below freezing point after witnessing so many of Kailun’s evil deeds.
Speaking of which, there weren’t many normal people around Kailun. People like Saint Chrissy were all brushed from negative to positive through special methods.
Anna’s situation was similar, she was also on the passive side.
As for Little Princess Vivian, she had a mischievous personality, it was reasonable for her favorability to increase because of the scenes in her dreams.
“Tell me, tell me some information I don’t know, I’m quite interested in the war between the Temple of the Heavenly God and the abyss.”
Kailun didn’t continue to tease Isabella, if he went too far when her favorability was not high, it was easy to make her favorability drop to 0 or below.
For Kailun now, Isabella was just a useful tool.
Therefore, he didn’t pay much attention to her and didn’t even deliberately brush her favorability.
Actually, the favorability of “little girls” like Isabella was often easy to brush, he only needed to show a little more care and concern to have a chance to enter her heart.
Don’t look at her always putting on an unapproachable appearance, she would occasionally show envious eyes.
Thanks to their similarities in some aspects, Isabella was very close to Vivian, but recently Vivian had started to be busy with her own things, so she was left alone again.
She looked a little pitiful, should he find something for her to do?
Isabella, who was mentally mature, felt Kailun’s gaze and wanted to correct his misjudgment, but to avoid trouble, she still said patiently:
“The main reason why the Temple of the Heavenly God didn’t take the initiative to start a war is that other major forces are watching, to be honest, our Loya Ball can also be considered one of them. Not only that, the Temple of the Heavenly God seems to want to use this to deplete the abyss’s reserves and force them to act, after all, the second mine that the abyss has been operating for so many years has a home advantage. Although this home advantage is useless for the ninth-rank, it still has some impact on the rest of them.”
Isabella paused for a moment: “The reason why the abyss didn’t attack is even simpler, that is, their frontal strength is not enough to support a frontal battle. As far as I know, there are still several factions in the abyss, and they are not perfectly integrated with each other.”
Hearing this, Kailun skillfully touched Isabella’s head and said regretfully: “You might as well have not said anything, there’s nothing useful in your words.”
Isabella rolled her beautiful eyes at Kailun: “You just didn’t get the result you wanted, they’re not idiots, how could they start a war so easily?”
“Oh, you’re wrong about that. In fact, those two idiots are much crazier than you think, they would have started fighting long ago if everything had gone normally. The reason they haven’t fought now should be because of unexpected problems, and this accident is most likely due to my appearance.”
Kailun even smiled proudly when he said this.
Isabella naturally didn’t believe this statement. Although Kailun had already had a considerable impact on the Temple of the Heavenly God, it wouldn’t have much impact on their main decisions.
After all, Kailun didn’t have a ninth-rank on his side, even if the Temple valued him, they wouldn’t value him too much.
But looking at Kailun’s expression, she wasn’t so confident anymore. So Isabella thought about it and took out a gold coin from her arms: “Do you need me to divine once?”
Kailun shook his head: “There’s no need to use your ability on such small matters, why don’t you calculate whether the Temple of the Heavenly God will start a war today instead?”
Isabella was stunned for a moment and nodded slightly: “Okay.”
She flicked the gold coin with her thumb, making it draw a beautiful arc in the air…
……
“Slap!”
The gold coin landed on the table, heads up.
“Ahhh! I was actually tricked, I’m going to kill him!”
In the carriage heading towards the Temple of the Heavenly God, the assassin girl was heartbroken as she looked at the gold coin on the table.
The gold coin on the table was left for her by Kailun. At first, Helena didn’t understand what was the point of Kailun doing this.
But as she replayed the scene in her mind, she realized that it wasn’t that she was unlucky, but that probability was on Kailun’s side.
If it were in the past, she should have discovered such an obvious problem long ago, but why didn’t she notice it?
Thinking back, Helena realized that she had been completely led by the nose by Kailun, as if she had been possessed.
This feeling of being played with made her very angry. In order to return to the Temple of the Heavenly God and report the Saint, she signed an extremely unequal treaty with Kailun.
However, this wasn’t the most excessive part, the most excessive part was that Kailun didn’t even return her dagger.
You know, her dagger was made from a dragon tooth, a proper eighth-rank weapon, it was a gift from the Pope.
The heartache made it difficult to breathe, she would rather Kailun take her body than her dagger.
“Damn Kailun, just you wait, I will personally take your head in a month.”
Helena glared at the gold coin on the table fiercely. After leaving Kailun, she returned to her original personality.
Next time she faced Kailun, she would use all her means. As long as she could kill him, she was willing to sacrifice everything, even using seduction, she was fearless.
“Don’t be silly, if you dare to touch Kailun, I will be the first to cut you down, understand?”
Saint Chrissy, who was sitting opposite Helena, rolled her eyes at her. If Helena wasn’t just talking, she would have slapped her.
She was just a knife raised by the Temple of the Heavenly God, she was still far inferior to her, the Saint.
Even though she had become Kailun’s plush ball, Chrissy could still look down at Helena from above.
“Traitor, you traitor to the Temple of the Heavenly God, everyone spent so many resources to cultivate you, but you betrayed the Temple. You are not only a traitor, but also an ingrate!”
The originally respected Saint had become the biggest traitor, Helena’s mood was not calm.
While hating the Saint, she hated herself even more, because even though she knew the truth, she couldn’t directly tell the Pope.
An unspeakable sin weighed on Helena’s shoulders, she desperately wanted to kill Kailun to seek relief, if possible, she also wanted to include Chrissy.
“Yes, yes, yes, I’m an ingrate, but don’t you have to listen to me now? Don’t you think you’re noble? If you’re so noble, tell the Pope directly that I’m a traitor.”
Chrissy, deeply influenced by Kailun, also learned his sarcasm.
Helena looked at Chrissy angrily: “You, you, you…”
“Don’t ‘you, you, you’, I ask you, what’s your name?” Chrissy, who had gained the upper hand, directly ended the topic with one sentence.
Helena: “…”
With just one sentence, she was completely silenced. Helena hated two kinds of people in her life, one was called Kailun, and the other was the kind of person who asked her name.
Biting her lip, Helena huddled in a corner with the gold coin.
She didn’t want to be an assassin anymore, she wanted to be a warrior, so that she could stab Chrissy in the heart with a sword.
……
“At our current speed, we will be able to enter the kingdom with the Temple of the Heavenly God’s bank the day after tomorrow. At that time, we will directly exchange the Golden Agreements for gold coins, and then buy magic crystals on the spot. However, I estimate that the local gold coins and magic crystals won’t be enough to meet our needs, so we have to go to several kingdoms. But we are all riding horses, so the whole process can be completed in half a month.”
On the way to the next kingdom, Dean Edlin, riding on a horse, was talking about her plan.
The deputy commander, who knew the inside story, smiled and said: “As long as you’re happy.”
The deputy commander was a veteran of the Silver Moon Knights. Although she was fifty years old, her combat power was even stronger than when she was young.
After all, not everyone reached their peak when they were young, for many people, they could only slowly increase their strength.
The deputy commander next to Edlin was the one who reached the seventh-rank after decades of hard work, but this was already her limit.
She saw a similar talent in Edlin as in Afra, both of them were favored by the world.
Not only them, there were many other talented girls around Kailun.
As a senior, she felt that she should guide these talented girls to become stronger.
At the same time, Steward Roden and the captain of the First Knights were in the Kingdom of Malaga, helping Kailun guard and manage the territory.
But she couldn’t help but smile when she thought of Kailun’s evil plan.
Such a good girl, but she had already fallen into Young Master Kailun’s trap.
She didn’t intend to tell Edlin the truth. As the deputy commander of the Silver Moon Knights, she was part of the Kailun family, and obeying orders was part of her honor.
“I’m always generous, when I make money, I’ll give you five thousand each, no, ten thousand… Forget it, I’ll treat you to a good meal, that’s more practical.”
Originally, Edlin wanted to show off and give everyone five thousand gold coins, but then she thought that five thousand gold coins was too much, it was better to treat them to a good meal.
There was no other way, she had been poor for too long, and now that she finally had the possibility of being rich, Edlin didn’t want to be extravagant and wasteful.
In order to earn more gold coins from Kailun, she even sold all the mentors from the Royal Magic Academy to Kailun in one go.
It wasn’t much, just fifty thousand gold coins, this money had already been deducted from the money she owed Kailun, she currently still owed sixty thousand gold coins.
In fact, Edlin had quite a bit of savings, adding up to about fifty thousand gold coins, but she had always saved it and never spent it.
She lacked a key catalyst for the special magic she was researching. According to her research, this catalyst was best to be a hard dragon tooth, and it had to be at least eighth-rank.
However, eighth-rank dragon teeth generally came from dragon corpses, so the price was always sky-high.
If she remembered correctly, the last dragon tooth sold at the Temple of the Heavenly God fetched one hundred thousand gold coins, and that was just the price of one tooth.
If you added the wings, horns, and scales, a whole dragon would be worth millions of gold coins, no wonder the Temple of the Heavenly God often hunted the abyss, this was simply profiteering.
Even if they didn’t hunt dragons, occasionally catching some elves and rare races to sell could also earn them a fortune.
It was impossible not to be envious. For Edlin, who would do anything for money, she also wanted to steal a dragon and sell it.
It was just a pity that most dragons were quite powerful now, there were quite a few seventh and eighth-ranks among them.
After witnessing Edlin’s stinginess, the deputy commander still smiled and said: “As long as you’re happy, but the price of magic crystals seems to have gone up recently, so we’d better hurry.”
“What? The price has gone up? Hurry, hurry, hurry, let’s rush to our destination overnight, I’ll treat you to a feast when we get there!”
Hearing this, Edlin was completely flustered. Now was a race against time, every hour she wasted, she would lose countless gold coins.
Thinking of the fact that the gold coins she earned were reduced, Edlin’s eyes turned red.
……
Amidst the hustle and bustle of countless people, the Kingdom of Xiya really calmed down.
But this peace only lasted for two days. When the third day arrived, the Kingdom of Xiya was in an uproar.
For Kailun, everything was developing in a good direction. The academies located in various parts of the kingdom were recruiting students in an orderly manner, and they were advertising free tuition.
No matter who it was, as long as they had the corresponding talent and were recognized in a certain way, they could study for free.
This outrageous move was seen by many as another form of scam, but with Kailun’s personal confirmation, people went crazy.
Countless people flocked to the Magic Academy, wanting to become a noble mage, but unfortunately, there weren’t many people with magic talent. Even though Kailun’s academy was free, many people couldn’t study.
So they settled for the next best thing and chose the Knight Academy and Warrior Academy, which were also free.
Although they were very enthusiastic, talent was always the cruelest reality. Even though the acceptance rate of the latter two was much higher, it was only 1% of the number of applicants.
Reality extinguished their enthusiasm, many people could only helplessly devote themselves to the construction of the kingdom.
It wasn’t because they were patriotic, but because the current salary was much higher than before.
The daily salary not only allowed them to eat hard bread, but also allowed them to save money to buy new clothes. If they worked a little harder, they could even see the hope of buying a house and settling down.
With this kind of publicity, many people from the surrounding kingdoms flocked to the Kingdom of Xiya. Among them, there were quite a few sixth and seventh-ranks, most of them came for the classes of Kailson, the eighth-rank mage.
At first, they planned to steal the knowledge and then return to their countries, leaving as soon as they broke through. After all, there was only one eighth-rank in the whole world who taught selflessly.
But when they had this thought, they had already fallen into Kailun’s trap. After breaking through from the sixth-rank to the seventh-rank, wouldn’t they want to break through to the eighth-rank?
Kailson had the experience of breaking through to the eighth-rank, let him teach you.
If there were one or two lucky ones who really broke through to the eighth-rank, wouldn’t they want to break through to the ninth-rank?
By just painting half a pie, Kailun could quietly win over many people.
Of course, this method naturally had many drawbacks.
But in Kailun’s view, as long as the advantages outweighed the disadvantages, it was enough. The benefits he gained from this could make the snowball of fate roll bigger and bigger.
In addition to free tuition, Kailun also sold books, magic books, at cost price.
He broke the norm and sold these once extremely expensive books at the price of blank paper.
Except for some sensitive taboo scrolls, all books below the sixth-rank were sold.
In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the merchants and let them print books in the country for free and sell them at cost price, Kailun gave them the right to export books, allowing them to sell them to other countries at a maximum of five times the cost price.
Although it was five times the price, it was also five times the price of ordinary books, so overall it wasn’t expensive.
Even the lowest class of people could buy a book with a fifth-rank magic circle if they saved money for a while.
However, a fivefold profit was enough to drive these merchants crazy.
Kailun didn’t expect them to make a lot of money for him, he just wanted them to expand the influence of the Kingdom of Xiya, all of this was paving the way for his future plans.
It was no exaggeration to say that this was a storm sweeping the world, only a madman like Kailun dared to make such a bold plan.
If it were someone else, at another time, they might have been crushed by the surrounding countries long ago.
However, what were the surrounding countries of the Kingdom of Xiya doing? The Rose Kingdom was fighting the Madden and Kaz Kingdoms, the Kingdom of Malaga was taken down by Kailun in a week, and then Dean Edlin’s crazy purchases would also have a profound impact on the remaining countries.
From this point of view, Kailun had almost provoked all the surrounding kingdoms, but they couldn’t punish him.
The only one who could punish him, the Temple of the Heavenly God, had already suffered a defeat. With their main forces entangled with the abyss, the Temple simply couldn’t control Kailun.
In Kailun’s words, the time, the place, and the people were all in his favor, if he didn’t act now, when would he?
Kailun clearly knew what kind of impact his decision had on the world, no one could stay out of it during this period.
Now Kailun had thrown the problem to the other kingdoms. Facing Kailun’s actions, would they join in or close themselves off?
No matter what decision they made, Kailun would benefit, he was in an invincible position from the beginning.
The next step was to contact the Fox Spirit based on this, truly establish a connection with the abyss, and become the third pole of the world.
To put it nicely, it was absolute neutrality.
To put it bluntly, it was taking advantage of both sides.
As long as the first phase of the plan succeeded, Kailun would have this confidence.
Since someone could observe fate, then they would definitely know that the future center of the world was in the Kingdom of Xiya.
“Checkmate!”
Throwing away the chess piece in his hand, Kailun looked at Princess Hilna across from him with a little interest and said, “So, my beautiful princess, do you understand why I made this move?”
“I don’t understand.”
Hilna shook her head. In the morning, she was still glad that Kailun hadn’t bullied her for several days, but she didn’t expect him to come and play chess with her early in the morning.
Five games in a row, she tried her best in these five games, but she couldn’t resist Kailun’s attacks, and finally ended up with a crushing defeat.
“Doesn’t the princess have anything to say about the current Kingdom of Xiya?”
Kailun took off his shoes, put his feet on Hilna’s lap, and asked her to massage them for him.
“You’re asking about the Kingdom of Xiya?” Hilna was stunned.
“Otherwise? You don’t think I’m asking about the chess game in front of you, do you?”
Kailun shook his head with amusement: “Princess, don’t make me laugh, I’d rather expect you to fall head over heels in love with me than expect you to understand the chess game in front of you.”
“…” Hilna bit her lip, leaving faint teeth marks on her red lips with her teeth: “I would rather die than fall for you.”
“Don’t say such absolute things, or I’ll take it seriously. But speaking of which, does the princess really have nothing to say when she sees the current Kingdom of Xiya?”
Kailun propped his chin on his hand and stared into Hilna’s eyes, he deliberately used the title “princess” to provoke her nerves.
“I… I don’t understand…”
Hilna stopped halfway through her words, meeting Kailun’s provocative gaze, she bit the bullet and said: “Surface prosperity, underlying chaos, as long as there is an external force beyond our control, it will definitely collapse. Everything now is just a last hurrah, the final glory. When those forces with ninth-ranks come to their senses, they will definitely crush the Kingdom of Xiya.”
She wanted to say she didn’t understand, but a voice in her heart told her not to.
“It’s a considered opinion, you pass. Considering that you’ve been teaching Phils seriously recently, I’ll give you a chance, a chance to bet with me.”
Kailun saw Hilna purse her lips, knowing that she wanted to refuse, so he added: “After all, you have nothing left to lose, do you? Don’t tell me that the once proud princess doesn’t even have this much courage anymore.”
Bullying Hilna had become a pleasure for Kailun, he would properly educate this former enemy when he had free time.
When would he stop?
Of course, when she fell in love with him.
Was that possible?
Of course not, because Kailun would try his best to avoid it, because only Hilna, who hated him, was worth bullying.
Hilna asked: “What’s the bet?”
Kailun gently stepped on Hilna’s soft lower abdomen and put his foot between her legs: “Don’t ask about the bet, let’s decide the bet at the end, we can write it down on a piece of paper and have someone keep it beforehand. In that case, are you still willing to bet with me?”
These words meant that the bet could be anything.
As soon as he finished speaking, Kailun felt Hilna’s body tense up, she was tightly clamping his foot with her beautiful thighs, making him sink into endless softness.
Of course, as a bad guy, Kailun wouldn’t tell Hilna that his bet was to have her personally send Shirley to his bed.
He might not eat Shirley, but he definitely wanted to see Hilna cry.
Hee hee~
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