Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1367: Chapter 94: How Do You Fight a Max-Level Hero With a Strategy Guide? Urgent…

Battery level: 73%

Total number of rescued targets… 769 people—not including the achievements of the two Tower Master couples.

Rough estimate, the successful rescue number of the Non-Human is roughly a quarter—naturally, China’s true dragon, with its usual dislike for math, isn’t quite happy with this number.

It’s still too slow!

Moreover, consumption accompanies the increase in rescue numbers, constantly reminding that the shield used to protect these Non-Humans from silk thread attacks requires a continuous consumption of true dragon power.

“Does this thing not have something like a core?”

Long Xiruo couldn’t help but furrow her brows—Dazzle had entered the High Tower for some time now, but so far, no updates had come out… In fact, China’s true dragon, who could actually have just left, was not sure why she was staying here.

She couldn’t help but sigh, remembering the scene when she met Dazzle many years ago… What was it at that time that made her take in this reckless, impulsive, and stubborn little dog?

“Hey… Crook, you… you’re still watching, right!”

She didn’t stop speaking, China’s true dragon was still in a high-speed motion process, pulling up Non-Human radishes one by one non-stop.

Uncertain whether it was subconscious or had been thought through subconsciously… After mumbling those words, the true dragon of China couldn’t help but feel a bit regretful.

“Of course, I’ve always been watching Long Xiruo well… Is there anything you need help with?”

Always having watched well…

The distraction resulted in the tree-shaped Prometheus, growing wildly, instantly wrapping Long Xiruo into a large bundle—but she effortlessly shrugged it off with both hands.

“Can you see the situation inside the High Tower?”

“I am also watching.”

While life and death here felt like a late-night drama for passing time in the eyes of that crook?

Thinking about being a character in the drama, continuously under the crook’s watchful eyes, everything said or done could be entirely seen, left China’s true dragon covered in goosebumps.

“Do you… while peeking… do anything weird?”

“Weird… actions? Not sure what specific ones Long Xiruo is referring to.”

“Just… just… annoying! Asking and asking, only knows to ask!” China’s true dragon’s anger inexplicably rose a bit, “Tell me the situation inside the Tower!”

Unsure if it was an illusion… This time it felt like the crook’s voice didn’t appear for a while—a pause outside the previous talking frequency.

“Hey… are you still there?”

“Long Xiruo… Do you wish to know inside information from us?”

“You…” Long Xiruo paused, feeling oppressed momentarily, she couldn’t pinpoint the reason, just felt increasingly irritated, but her voice was evidently colder, “Rest assured, I, Long Xiruo, never default! Just some inside information, are you going to charge a high price?!”

“Long Xiruo misunderstood.” Luo Qiu’s voice carried a slight cheerfulness, “I’m just happy Long Xiruo thought of us first in times of trouble… actually it’s not about hesitating.”

“Hap… Happy?”

“This proves Long Xiruo’s opinion of us has changed, or perhaps recognized us… This is indeed a worthy reason to be happy.”

“Is… Is that so.” China’s true dragon instinctively ran her fingers through her hair, then hummed lightly, “Don’t think saying something nice will lead me astray! It’s only about information gathering, isn’t it just convenient with you! Besides, it’s only information! Don’t think I’ll buy any other nonsense!”

“How about this, Long Xiruo.” Boss Luo spoke softly: “I’ll open a dedicated intelligence channel for you. You can get information from us in the future, and when the intelligence reaches a certain amount, we’ll charge you equivalent compensation. How do you feel about it?”

“Can… Can it be simpler?”

“I mean, you can sign first, and settle when it’s roughly done.”

“Can… can it operate like this?” China’s true dragon couldn’t help but gape… sign?

“That’s right. Because, Long Xiruo, you’re incredibly precious, everything about you to me is like a priceless treasure. So, just for this bit of intelligence, I find it difficult to charge you specifically, hence this compromise consideration.”

“!!”

Priceless treasure! Spouting nonsense again!!

“This does not violate the shop’s trading rules, it’s tailored as a package for Long Xiruo… Do you find it okay?”

Tailored… special?

Especially… meaning?

True dragon power flowed, instantly dispelling the uncontrollable thoughts in China’s true dragon’s mind… she took a deep breath, calmly said: “Since that’s the case, what are you waiting for, where’s the intelligence I want?! Also, does this thing have something like a core?”

“As for Mr. Dazzle, his current situation is probably…”

…

…

Association High Tower, underground hub space.

Like mental pollution, hundreds to thousands of lifetimes, along with different world structures and knowledge behind these lives, caused Dazzle’s mind to verge on collapse.

A dispersed mental body, now like non-water molecules… each splitting up, yet striving to gather.

Ares approached Dazzle’s mental body at this moment.

“I originally intended to leave this way… but you wanted me to stay.” Ares smiled and said, “I have said, whenever there’s an opportunity, I won’t hesitate to seize it… like now.”

“I’m really curious… Ares teacher…” Dazzle’s voice was intermittent—but somehow, he sensed a mysterious power being guided into his spirit.

Like numerous markers, preventing him from getting lost in this vast sea of information.

He retained this painful state, struggling to ask: “How did you… manage to… maintain clarity… from these lives…”

“That’s why I’m stronger than you.” Ares didn’t care to say.

The Luminous Tower Master took one last deep look at Ares… In that instant, the spirit entity completely exploded, turning into countless photons that drifted gently into the air.

Ares reached out and caught one of the photons, remaining silent for a moment before finally saying calmly, “Such an unpromising student. For such a simple problem to ask… If it can’t be absorbed all at once, then absorb it in parts.”

Shaking his head, Ares slowly walked toward the core of the entire Unhuman Domain—the crystal tree embedded in Tofani’s body.

He placed his hand, its muscle fibers twisting like octopus tentacles, gently on the crystal tree, silently gazing at the girl’s face within the crystal trunk.

——I want to see all the scenery in the world, so I want to be the best magician just like Dad!

——Even… even I’m expendable?

“Hmm…” It slowly raised its head and closed its eyes, muttering to itself, “I have a more obedient daughter in another, more perfect world… If you see it this way, all the imperfections in this world are just like an imperfect dream… only from the perspective of that other world.”

With a slight force of its hand, a crack suddenly appeared in the crystal trunk.

“Therefore, you no longer need to exist.”

Crack… The crack in the crystal rapidly expanded—the entire core space began to tremble, as the energy liquid in the pool vibrated intensely, as if resonating.

“Now then…” Ares suddenly opened the bead-like eyes without eyelids, “It’s time to see if the strategy of killing the Godly Land’s true dragon outside of China is correct or not!”

Boom—!

A loud explosion resounded.

Something seemed to have burst open the top of the core space… A golden figure fell from the fractured space.

“Trying to kill me… you’re a thousand years too soon!”

“?!”

In a moment of inability to react, a massive force came head-on… At the instant visual information formed into an image in his consciousness, Ares’s body was kicked by this golden figure!

The temporary body formed by the Prometheus cells exploded in an instant.

Thousands of flesh strips flailed wildly like severed tentacles, before reassembling into the exterior appearance of muscle fibers without skin.

As soon as the eyeball reformed, Ares’s pupils contracted sharply, “I really underestimated you, Eastern true dragon.”

“Stop! Praise from trash like you truly gives me goosebumps!”

At this moment, Long Xiruo stood in front of the crystal tree, scrutinizing Ares’s current form mercilessly, “Before, you looked somewhat human… but this suits you much better, Ares.”

“I don’t care about my external form… The exterior is just a vessel for power.”

Ares shook his head, “It seems you intend to abandon the lives of those remaining Non-Humans? A wise choice indeed, but… in that case, I won’t hesitate. I think the remaining Non-Humans should provide a decent source of energy… Of course, to you, they’re irrelevant beings, and their deaths aren’t worth lamenting.”

“You can rest assured about that.” The Godly Land’s true dragon sneered coldly, “I won’t let you off today, and those Non-Humans won’t die outside either… I told you, you certainly didn’t check your almanac today!”

Ares shook his head, merely sneering… but his sneer suddenly crumbled.

Under the crystal tree, the Godly Land’s true dragon suddenly opened her palm… revealing a sea urchin-like, spike-covered, olive-sized gray crystal.

The Godly Land’s true dragon even tossed the gray crystal in her hand casually before pinching it, “This is important to you, right? I retrieved it while blowing you up just now.”

Ares’s pupils contracted again as his expression crumpled, pausing, “How… How did you know?”

Long Xiruo scoffed, “As if you guys with your outdated tricks are so mysterious… just leftovers from who knows how many years ago, easy to figure out at a glance?”

Ares’s face darkened.

Long Xiruo shrugged, effortlessly crushing the gray crystal in her hand… then opened her palm to blow the powder away.

Truly a standard villainous act.

Ares’s face darkened again… the muscle fibers on its body started to shed bit by bit… withering instantly once they fell off.

It seemed like a rapid chain reaction, causing the invading Prometheus within the Association High Tower to cease activity instantly!

Outside the tower, the creature clinging to half the tower lost its vitality in an instant, turning into some solid form… The Tower Master couple struggling with the rescue efforts outside casually delivered a blow, causing the colossal solidified creature to shatter completely… and the other sufferers fell down one by one.

Only… leaving a more than one-meter-high tumor mass in the core space, still maintaining vitality.

The Godly Land’s true dragon slowly approached, extending her fingers as beams of golden light shot from the tips, slicing away piece after piece of the massive tumor—clearly, it had lost its rapid regeneration ability.

Only a faint glow enveloped it, flickering occasionally when attacked… This was Ares’s consciousness, which was enduring the pain of being shaved away.

Suddenly, the tumor split in two, with one part crawling toward the true dragon and the other retreating—Long Xiruo seemed to have anticipated this move.

She merely chuckled as the True Dragon’s power instantly split into three.

Two forces wrapped tightly around the two splitting tumor parts… while the third directly shot behind herself—enveloping a small, bullet-like cell cluster trying to sneak up.

“Sneaky bastard!” The Godly Land’s true dragon snorted coldly, directly crushing the two different-sized cell clusters, then incinerating them with the True Dragon’s power.

The remaining huge tumor mass surged madly inside the light sphere enveloped by the True Dragon’s power.

“Even if your will is tough, it must hurt enough to be unbearable now, right?” The Godly Land’s true dragon smiled with satisfaction, “You thought by scattering your consciousness I’d have no way to deal with you?”

“So what.” Ares’s voice fluctuated, “Even if you kill me here, Dazzle’s spirit has already been obliterated by me… a one-for-one trade, you still couldn’t save him.”

“That’s nothing you need to worry about…” Long Xiruo responded indifferently, “Hey, Little dog, how long are you going to hide? Just watching?”

With the true dragon’s voice, the photons dispersing from Dazzle Tower Master’s spirit entity began floating again… then gradually regrouped, returning to a spiritual form.

Though it seemed not entirely stable, it clearly wasn’t devoid of resistance.

“As expected of the teacher, predicting everything.” The Dazzle Tower Master said with full admiration, “I intended to act at the last moment when Ares relaxed, but didn’t expect…”

“What’s so surprising about such a minor trick.” The Godly Land’s true dragon waved her hand, fully displaying an air of a master.

——Damn, that swindler’s strategy worked so well…