Chapter 59: Counting the Spoils
Inside Furnace Island, Medea was giving Nuo a lesson.
The alluring red-haired beauty crossed her arms, assuming the posture of a “veteran,” and said to Nuo with her chin raised:
“Men, you have to categorize them into different species. Most men are like stupid pigs, in heat 365 days a year, and can’t help but try to mount any beautiful female they see.”
“But there are also some rare species. For example, our esteemed captain, he’s like a proud feline.”
“It’s impossible to deal with felines by simply waiting for them to chase you because felines are basically lone wolves. But if you try to cling to them, you’ll only be seen as cheap.”
Nuo blushed furiously, wishing she could dig a hole and bury herself.
She and Eleanor naturally wouldn’t tell Medea about their personal matters. However, the latter had psychic abilities, and Nuo had been absent-minded these past few days, her thoughts practically written on her face. There was no way she could hide them from Medea, the veteran schemer.
“Then what should I do?” Nuo asked hesitantly.
“The important thing is to maintain a subtle sense of distance!” Medea wrote a line of words on the ground with a branch she used as a pointer. “Too close, and he won’t value you; too distant, and he will neglect you.”
“Only by using the methods of a female cat to deal with a male cat, first maintain a good distance, then casually flirt with him, making his heart flutter, and then quickly maintain a polite and distant attitude, letting him feel a sense of loss, then flirt with him again.”
“It’s like flying a kite, letting go and pulling back, letting go and pulling back.”
“This…” Nuo hesitated. It didn’t seem difficult to do this, but why did she feel like a scheming bitch?
Medea read her mind again and immediately scolded her in frustration:
“What do you mean scheming bitch? My God, Nuo, are you questioning the precious experience that love experts have accumulated over thousands of years!”
“Listen, directly licking his fur will never end well, confessing will only get you rejected, and being rejected will lead to being distanced!”
“Your current situation is already very dangerous, it’s like being hit on the forehead with a Lion’s Fang, and you’ll be split and cracked in the next moment!”
“Uh.” Nuo couldn’t help but laugh. “Your analogy…”
“How could I say such a thing?!” Medea also facepalmed in frustration, thinking that she must have been trained too hard by Asker before and brainwashed by his teaching content. She quickly corrected herself:
“Anyway, you understand what I mean. You can’t be too close to him, of course, you can’t be too distant either. The key lies in these four words: ‘keeping him at arm’s length.’”
Just as she was talking about her love secrets, she heard the girls’ exclamations from across the way.
The two hurriedly got up and ran over, and saw that countless boxes and cabinets had appeared on the open space, and more things were still being teleported in.
Asker walked to one of the cabinets and opened the door, revealing rows of neatly arranged potions inside.
Although they were all level I potions from the Gladiator Sequence and the Cornerstone Sequence, they were enough to solve the urgent needs of some members of the team.
“Wow!” The girls saw what was inside the cabinet and gasped.
Blunt Weapon I, Projectile I, Dodge I, Block I… Asker counted them with satisfaction.
For the “Weapon Master” bloodline, levels 1-5 were all potions from the Gladiator Sequence, which meant that he had all the potions before level 5.
He was the biggest beneficiary of this incident.
Of course, other girls also urgently needed potions from the Gladiator or Cornerstone Sequence, such as Eleanor’s “Crusader,” Sidlipha’s “Titan,” and Miel’s “Destiny Archer.” The former needed “Perfect Physique X” and “Block I,” while the latter two needed the Cornerstone Sequence’s “Strength X” and “Agility X” to lay the foundation.
Not to mention, after the team’s second expansion, they were about to enter the era of all Transcendents.
With a “whoosh,” Mia’s figure appeared from the air, she rolled and landed steadily, then stood up and let out a sigh of relief as if she was still in shock:
“That scared me to death, the demigod came so fast, I almost didn’t escape…”
Her eyes fell on the boxes and cabinets, and she immediately exclaimed excitedly: “Holy crap! We’re rich, we’re rich, we’re rich!”
“Everyone, move these things into the house.” Asker said.
So the girls excitedly started moving things, and in less than ten minutes, they had moved everything away. Then came the happy unboxing session.
“3,000 pounds in cash!” Mia exclaimed as she opened a folder.
“This armor looks very powerful.” Sidlipha circled a suit of armor on a rack, touching and squeezing it. “It’s quite heavy.”
“That’s magic copper armor.” Asker said, “Magic copper is a high-grade mineral, in addition to its hard material, its most important characteristic is magic resistance.”
“Wearing this full-body magic copper armor, all supernatural powers cannot affect the wearer inside, especially abilities like Mind, Spirit, or Desire.”
“Then who should wear this?” Medea asked, frowning.
Blocking her psychic abilities? This wasn’t a good thing, it felt like she had been cheating during exams all the time, and suddenly a classmate wouldn’t let her cheat anymore.
“Give it to Eleanor.” Asker said, “Control-resistant equipment should be given to the MT first. The meteorite armor can be given to Sidlipha to wear, stacking defense for the main DPS.”
After spending so much time together, the girls had more or less adapted to Asker’s strange terms.
For example, MT(Main Tank) mainly referred to the defender, responsible for attracting enemy fire; DPS referred to the attacker, focusing on dealing damage on the battlefield.
Everyone understood these terms, so they nodded in agreement with Asker’s allocation.
“What’s this?” Eleanor held a spear and a shield.
“Adamantine material.” Asker said, “Adamantine has similar strength to steel, but better toughness. Its main advantage is that it can be engraved with runes or magic circles inside, which can exert special supernatural abilities – however, they obviously don’t have any runes engraved, so they are just ordinary green-named weapons.”
“What about this?” Peggy picked up a short sword.
“The Church’s military titanium alloy material.” Asker said, “Both strength and toughness are better than steel, and it’s lighter.”
“Are there any battle axes? Are there any battle axes?” Sidlipha shouted eagerly.
“Dagger!” Mia held up a dagger. “Asker, what is this dagger?”
Asker took the dagger and looked it over and over again, then used a Spirit Identification Scroll. Finally, he concluded:
“It’s an ordinary dagger.”
“Eh!!!” Mia protested. “How is that possible? This dagger was also taken from that warehouse, how can it be an ordinary dagger? Are you sure you didn’t make a mistake!”
“Do you want to identify it yourself?” Asker asked back.
Mia threw the dagger on the ground dejectedly and continued to rummage through the boxes.
“Potion formulas, potions, cash…” Nuo was sorting out the odds and ends, and the more she sorted, the more shocked she became. She couldn’t help but ask:
“Asker, Mia, did you two rob the warehouse of some secret sect?”
“The Grand Arena of Constantinople.” Mia replied.
The girls looked at each other. After a while, Eleanor stood up and said hesitantly: “This isn’t good…”
“What’s not good about it?” Medea frowned. “Eleanor, put away your unnecessary sense of justice. I remember your next potion is ‘Perfect Physique X’? There’s a bottle in that cabinet!”
“If the source of this potion is questionable, I won’t drink it.” Eleanor insisted.
Everyone was speechless.
Asker facepalmed helplessly and thought for a moment before saying:
“Eleanor, I understand your persistence. But…”
He stood up and said eloquently: “If this potion hadn’t been taken out by us, do you know what would happen next? Constantinople would be captured by the Seljuks, and all these things would fall into the hands of the Seljuks.”
“Yes.” Medea also “understood” what he meant and immediately echoed. “The Seljuks are a very brutal nomadic people. Their war custom is to kill men taller than a saber, kill older women, and only keep young women and children to strengthen their tribe.”
“Every extra resource you leave for them will help them train one more warrior, and more innocent civilians will die in the future.”
Asker looked at her speechlessly. Aren’t you, Medea, also of Seljuk descent? Isn’t this scolding yourself?
Eleanor was stunned. She subconsciously wanted to retort, how do you know that Constantinople will definitely be captured by the Seljuks in the future?
However, Asker had a long history of “being prophetic,” and he had also communicated with the fortune teller Zhang Sanfeng in private that day, so he might have already glimpsed some clues from the river of fate.
She didn’t have any evidence to question him now. If she did, she might be proven wrong in the future.
But Eleanor still had her principles in this regard, and she said stubbornly:
“This is consequentialism. Even if the result might be… uh, to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands, it was ultimately obtained through dishonorable means, I can’t drink it.”
“Isn’t this deontology then?” Asker said, both amused and annoyed. “How about this, this potion was stolen by Mia, so it temporarily belongs to her. Mia!”
“Huh?” Mia looked up from the box with a confused expression.
“I’ll buy this ‘Perfect Physique X’ potion from you for 100 pounds, how about that?” Asker asked with a smile.
“Okay, okay!” Mia nodded repeatedly.
Although she didn’t know why Asker had to buy the potion again when they already had it, as long as she got the money, everything was okay.
“Now this potion is mine.” Asker turned to Eleanor and said, “I’m giving it to you.”
“Asker…” Eleanor also had a dumbfounded expression. Are you treating me like a fool with this performance?
“In the end, it was still stolen…” She made one last effort.
“Come on, when you buy something in a store outside, do you ever worry about whether the store owner’s purchase channels are legal?” Asker said in surprise. “If something has changed hands a dozen times, and just one of those times was illegal, you wouldn’t want it anymore?”
“This is moral purity, Eleanor! It’s a serious mental illness!”
“I…” Eleanor was speechless.
Although there seemed to be nothing wrong with his logic, why did she still feel a little awkward?
She stared at the white bottle of Perfect Physique X potion, her heart in turmoil. To take it, or not to take it?
In the end, the desire to compromise and become stronger prevailed. Eleanor sighed and took the potion from the cabinet.
Medea, who was secretly manipulating Desire in her sleeve, breathed a sigh of relief.
The three girls went to take their potions. Sidlipha and Miel were both level 0 newbies, so there was almost no risk of losing control. Eleanor was level 1 and taking a different Sequence to advance to level 2, so there was a possibility of losing control, so Nuo went to look after her.
Asker looked at the list that Nuo had compiled, thinking about something, when Mia ran over excitedly and said:
“Asker! I just had a new idea! There are many places like the Grand Arena in Constantinople.”
“We can visit them one by one and loot everything. If a demigod comes after us, we’ll just escape to Furnace Island!”
“Okay.” Asker said, “Where do you want to go?”
“The Palace of the Golden Throne! The Hagia Sophia!” Mia shouted, “The Palace of Blachernae!”
This girl even wanted to go to Theodora’s bedroom… Asker silently sweated and said:
“First, the Palace of the Golden Throne and the Palace of Blachernae don’t have potions or supernatural materials. Except for the Grand Arena, which needs to give prizes to the champions every day, few places store a large number of potions or equipment.”
“Second, the Hagia Sophia does have them, but do you dare to go?”
“What’s there to be afraid of.” Mia said, “I’ll just hide in the semi-plane…”
“And leave the book behind?” Asker asked back. “A demigod might not be able to find it with a rough spiritual scan of the whole area. But if they focus their spirituality on this book, they will quickly find out.”
“Then they’ll take this book to the lab, set up a spatial confinement, and we’ll be trapped in the semi-plane and starve to death.”
“Then why didn’t that demigod just now…” Mia still wanted to argue.
“Because Sequence I potions and formulas are not valuable to demigods, they are just numbers representing wealth.” Medea said from the side. “Even in the supernatural gatherings outside, most Sequence I potion formulas can be bought as long as you have the money.”
“Sequence II will be a bit difficult, and Sequence III is almost impossible to buy directly, you can only get some clues.”
“If you go to the Hagia Sophia and steal their Sequence III and Sequence IV potions, the Church will definitely not let it go.” She sneered. “Wherever you disappear, the Church will completely seal off that place and search every grain of dust.”
Mia sat down on the ground dejectedly, sighing.
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