Chapter 716
After a few questions, Greem finally figured out Thunder Dragon Arms’ reason for still staying on Faen.
Arms had actually broken into the Dragoncliff and brazenly abducted eleven powerful dragons from the forest dragon tribe.
This iron truth caused the corner of Greem’s mouth to twitch upwards. His facial muscles were almost in a spasm from trying to restrain his laughter.
He had never thought that that one random move of his had caused the elves to suffer such tremendous losses. Greem felt extremely gleeful and exhilarated, especially after the beating he had taken at the hands of the Sword Saint.
The situation was apparent now. The thunder dragon had abducted eleven dragons of various grades from the forest dragons, but he didn’t have the ability to bring them back to Lance. It was easy for Arms himself to return to Lance, but it was impossible for him to take eleven dragons with him!
With no options left, Arms could only turn his mind to the only Second Grade adept he knew.
Eleven dragons, one of which was Third Grade, three who were Second, and seven who were First.
To think that he was the one to introduce such an alluring flight of dragons to Arms, only for them to fall into Arms’ pocket. Greem’s was currently experiencing intense internal turmoil. His handsome face wasn’t quite sure whether to laugh or cry.
Before Arms could agree to the offer with a brilliant smile, Alice followed with another sentence.
“…and for passing through the planar door, ten thousand magical crystals for each First Grade dragon, twenty thousand for each Third Grade, and fifty thousand for each Third Grade…”
“So expensive?” Arms’ smile froze on his face. He kept it up and said, “Very well, very well. That’s not a problem.”
Unfortunately, Alice wasn’t done speaking.
“…the same price for teleporting from the headquarters of the Witch Alliance to the Tower of Fate…”
Arms couldn’t even keep on a forced smile at this point.
“…and the same price again for teleporting from the Tower of Fate to Lance.”
This time, Arms’ face turned utterly green. His odd, narrow pupils filled with the anger of humiliation.
All these teleportation fees added together was already pushing toward a million magical crystals. Even if Arms were a dragon lord, he would have had trouble paying such a massive amount of money.
It was practically forcing a dragon to hang himself!
“However, considering Lord Arms’ financial situation, we can accept payment by installments, pawns, or pledges with other items. Of course, if Lord Arms is willing to join the Crimson Clan, the costs as mentioned earlier can be immediately slashed in half.” Alice looked at Arms with a big smile on her face, as sweet as an angel. Yet, Arms clearly saw on her back a pair of devil wings that couldn’t be any blacker.
“I could never bow my head before a weakling. That is the unchanging will of us dragons!” Arms still proudly roared even when he was cornered.
“What a shame, then!” The smile on Alice’s face was still the same, “Since you and your subordinates are not members of our clan, you are unable to enjoy the privilege of having the costs reduced by half. Given that case, Great Lord Arms, I wonder how you intend to pay us for the teleportation costs?”
“Er…”
Arms deflated almost instantly, despite his prideful and unyielding attitude just a moment ago.
For the first time in the past two months, he couldn’t help but regret how many dragons he had abducted.
If…if only a few less green dragons had chosen to follow him, then the financial pressure he was facing might be just that bit less. A million magical crystals. It was a million magical crystals! If he owned a million magical crystals, why would he have needed to spend so much time and effort to run to a different plane to rob those brokeass goblins?!
Aaaahhhhhhhhh!
He had been roaming Faen Plane with the cute emerald dragon over the past two months–as if they were on their honeymoon–even as he basked in the adoration and admiration of his subordinates. Arms had been up in the clouds over his personal charm and had been giddy with joy.
However, at this moment, the only thing left for him was unending frustration and regret!
With the hoarding habits of the dragons, he should be able to fill in the massive sum he was missing if he went to borrow from the cute female dragon!
When he thought of Iritina’s coy expression filled with admiration for himself, Arms hesitated.
The selfish and lustful nature of the dragons was known throughout the world.
He put himself in Iritina’s shoes. If he were Iritina, Arms would probably fly into a rage the moment he realized the dragon he liked had set their eyes on his hoard.
No! He couldn’t try to borrow anything from Iritina!
How about making the other dragon subordinates pay for their own teleportation?
If he did that, these dragons he had managed to draw to his side would probably leave him immediately.
It was a difficult problem no matter how Arms thought about it. The previously prideful and intimidating Arms instantly turned into a frustrated teenage dragon, unable to make a decision even after he gritted his teeth and pondered for most of the day.
“Lord Arms, we can accept other treasures as payment if you have of such things in your possession!”
“Dream on. You evil fellows; don’t ever think of getting your hands on my treasure!”
Like an ignited explosive, Arms immediately flew into a rage the moment someone even implied laying a finger on his treasures.
“Then… Lord Arms, I have another plan here for you to pay with contributions instead. Were you willing to give it a listen?”
At this point, Greem very clearly smelled a thick scent of conspiracy around the sweetly smiling Alice.
Ahem. Arms was in for trouble.