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Chapter 283 sequel, making money

That's amazing, truly amazing.

Standing some distance from the battlefield, Guo Yixing watched the entire battle, and only three words remained in his mind—amazing.

As an explorer and a secret realm analyst, he naturally knew Barnes's weaknesses, but he was powerless to intervene in the battle between Frilian and Barnes. Forcing his way in would only make things worse.

Sure enough, at only 20 years old, he had successfully conquered two golden secret realms and cultivated to the same level as this old guy who is almost 300 years old as me. His talent is simply terrifying.

Although the situation on the other side is still unknown, the fact that he came to reinforce them means that the Divine Pattern Demon Clan has also been repelled by him and Senior Fu. However, the Divine Pattern Demon Clan will probably not give up easily, and certain safeguards must be in place to ensure the safety of Frilian and Philon...

Taking Guan Yi's combat strength, equivalent to that of a Divine Pattern Warrior, into account might make things much easier... "What?! Killed?!"

A few minutes later, Guo Yixing was stunned to learn from Fu that Guan Yi had single-handedly killed a member of the Divine Pattern Demon Clan. His mouth was agape, wide enough to fit a fist.

Before entering the secret realm, he had memorized all the information about it. In the previous battles, there was only one casualty on average every three battles between a Divine Pattern Warrior or a Divine Pattern Demon!

Those who have experienced countless secret realms, possess divine rune talents, and have access to secret realm intelligence are extremely difficult to kill.

How come Guan Yi killed one of them in their very first encounter?!

"The secret realm is fair. Although divine-patterned warriors and divine-patterned demons have a higher starting point than others and possess divine-patterned talents, if their opponent is an unexpected being, they will still die when their power is weak."

Fu patted him on the shoulder: "We don't need to worry about Frilian and Philon's safety."

……

"Calvin is dead."

Thousands of miles away, in a northern kingdom, beside a stream, the true form of the female divine-patterned demon, Ruien, sat on a blue stone and said to the thin man beside her, "Before he died, all my puppets were knocked unconscious. The one who did it was a female mystical warrior. She was quite skilled, but she was far from being able to threaten Calvin."

Besides her, there was also the extreme martial artist Fu, the five-patterned martial artist Guo Yixing, and a secret-patterned martial artist who went by the alias 'Ian' but whose real name was unknown.

“It’s this Ian.” The thin man beside him said hoarsely, “We and Calvin both know about Fu and Guo Yixing’s information. Only events beyond our expectations could lead to Calvin’s death.”

Of course, that guy, relying on his divine rune talent, always liked to do things that put him on the edge of a knife, so it's not surprising that he died. However, his divine rune talent was still useful, and we can't let it be lost so easily.

He died in the current secret realm, but I can revive him once I master the resurrection method there. Although that will probably be several years from now, and during that time his combat strength will be difficult to catch up, he'll still be competent as a scout.

"A magic that can reverse life and death? Be careful, or you might be punished by the goddess," Ryan said.

“No, it won’t happen.” The man shook his head and said, “How’s the assassination in Shutark going? I remember a few kids volunteered to go.”

“I made them give up,” Ryan said, his brow furrowing. “Yan Lu is there.”

“Yan Lu.” A hint of seriousness flashed across the man’s expression. “He really came, so Fu Ling probably won’t be absent either. It’s a good thing that the King and that cat were crippled by half, otherwise facing all five of them at the same time… especially that guy Yan Lu, would be a real headache.”

"Where's that bastard Ning Qing?" Rui En asked. "Didn't he say he'd deal with his teacher?"

"Absolutely no word from them."

"Tch, what an unreliable guy."

"Hahaha, hoping for a 'fake person'? We might as well hope that the goddess of this world will favor us." The man laughed loudly.

Ryan chuckled, "Based on the information we received before, it's really hard to say what might happen."

……

……

“Ian, Ian, have you noticed that Phyllen has been sulking ever since yesterday’s battle?”

"It's amazing that you noticed, Frilian. She's been sulking for a whole day and night."

"Huh? Why?" After a fierce battle, Fu and the other two said goodbye and left, while Guan Yi continued to follow Frilian and Philon on their journey, cultivating, fighting demons, and doing various commissions to earn money.

Back in town from the wilderness, Frilian finally noticed that Philon was acting strangely, and pulled Guan Yi aside to whisper to her.

"It's probably because he couldn't help yesterday and could only watch the two of us fight from beginning to end. The proud kid's pride was a bit hurt."

Frilian was a little confused. Who didn't start out as a weakling? Philon, you're only 15 years old. Ian and I... well, although Ian is only six years older than Philon.

She couldn't empathize, but she was willing to try to comfort, so she said to Philon, "Philan, there's a dessert shop over there, shall we go check it out?"

Philon paused, turned around, and said, "Lady Frilian, Lord Ian, have you always treated me like a child? I will work hard to catch up on my magical shortcomings; you don't need to try to cheer me up with sweets or anything like that!"

Two minutes later, Philon was eating the sweet little cake, her eyes crinkling into crescent shapes with happiness.

Guan Yi found it amusing, while Frillie looked heartbroken: "Why... why did you have to use my savings to buy... the cake is so expensive, that money could at least buy a magic item..."

"Make money, we need to find ways to make money..."

Guan Yi empathized with the last sentence and looked at the text in the plan.

[Wealth: 298 Gold, 16 Silver]

[Kill Value: 47171]

[You can spend 500 gold coins to start the seventh infrastructure construction. Current resources are insufficient.]

[You can spend 10 gold coins and 100 kill points to start the fourth assessment of the prosperity of the Thousand Hands Clan. The current prosperity of the Thousand Hands Clan is 33%, which is less than 40%, so it cannot be assessed directly.]

Once the assessment is initiated, you will have one year to increase the prosperity level of the Thousand Hands Clan. If the prosperity level is not increased to 40%, the assessment will fail, and the required wealth and kill points for the next assessment will increase.

The prosperity of the Senju clan increases more and more slowly. After all, no matter how fast Guan Yi grows, he cannot carry the entire prosperity alone. The Senju clan also needs enough time to grow and reproduce.

A 7% increase in prosperity over a year is not very reliable, so it would be best to spend another year on infrastructure development first.

There is a shortage of money, with a shortfall of 202 gold coins.

Making money in this secret realm is too difficult.

Taking a legitimate commission only earns an average of a few dozen silver coins per commission. Although you don't have to give a share to Frilian, you have to split the money with Philon.

Even for a nobleman's commission, the reward is at most two or three gold coins. For example, in the anime, when Shutark impersonated his son, they only received three gold coins as payment.

Time waits for no one. Although the information about the battle with Calvin and Barnes should not be leaked, as long as the demon who controls the puppet has a brain, he will definitely deduce that Guan Yi is the key to killing Calvin.

If there is a next attack, it will definitely take Guan Yi as a variable into account. Guan Yi must use the Naruto world to achieve another leap forward before that happens.

'The quickest way is probably to borrow some money from those heartless rich guys.'

half a month later.

"A gold coin thief?" Philon looked at the notice posted at the city gate and murmured in confusion, "He has appeared in the last half month and many noble families have suffered losses. No one has seen his face, but it is speculated that he has magic to change his appearance and often disguises himself as a servant of a noble family to steal large amounts of gold coins."

If any mage accepts the request to capture and recover the stolen goods, the reward is... 100 gold coins?!

Her voice suddenly rose as she looked at Frilian and Guan Yi. Before she could speak, Frilian's eyes lit up: "As for tracking and finding people magic, I do have a few..."

Guan Yi nodded naturally and said, "The commission fee is really high. I wonder how much money that gold coin thief stole. He's worth catching!"

[Wealth: 2865 Gold, 59 Silver]

The richer you are, the stingier you become. You want to do something that costs more than 2600 gold coins with only 100 gold coins?

(End of this chapter)