Chapter 770: Section 558: Can’t Look After Oneself
According to Sanda’s original estimate, Shuanglian had a high chance of success in retrieving the big guy.
He was most worried about the big guy’s personal safety during the struggle.
Unexpectedly, Shuanglian, who owned the Mage Tower, had suddenly lost contact and disappeared!
While Sanda paced around, full of doubts, Menshi knocked on the door and came in to loudly report.
"The mages at the Alchemy Workshop can’t sit still anymore, they have no intention of continuing to make potions. What should we do?"
Menshi brought back bad news.
The Alchemy Mages who were in charge of making potions at the Alchemy Workshop almost all came from the Honey Snow Tower and were students of Shuanglian.
Following Shuanglian’s orders, they had entered four Alchemy Workshops to vigorously produce the Dragon Power Riding Potion.
The news of Honey Snow Tower disappearing along with Shuanglian couldn’t be concealed.
In fact, these Alchemy Mages knew about it even earlier than Sanda.
Sanda said nothing.
"How can we get these mages to continue making the potions?"
Sanda found that he couldn’t manage it.
He lacked the authority and the funds to employ them.
Even if he wanted to spread false news to deceive these mages, it would be difficult.
Because Sanda had nothing to convince them with.
"Let it be then..."
Sanda sighed deeply.
Given the unclear situation, if Sanda were to deceive these people...
Not to mention if the deception failed, even if it were successful.
One day in the future, when Shuanglian returned to Snowbird Port with the Honey Snow Tower, she would definitely start a conflict if she found out.
Considering the current relationship between the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps and Shuanglian, they weren’t at the point where they could give false orders without causing anger.
This matter, if not handled well, could turn potential allies into enemies.
Sanda, after a long contemplation, felt it was better not to proceed with such risky moves!
"Just let them go. They’re not part of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps; we can’t control them," Sanda said to Menshi.
Menshi nodded, then immediately left the cabin.
Since the battle at the Alchemy Workshop, Menshi’s impression of Sanda had greatly improved.
Despite Sanda’s Black Iron Level ability, his bravery in battle had significantly enhanced his reputation within the mercenary group.
Thus, Menshi was now more willing to follow Sanda’s orders than before.
However, Menshi left quickly and returned even quicker.
He brought even worse news.
The mages left behind by Shuanglian at the Alchemy Workshop were rushing to Snowbird Port’s docks under the lead of several Silver Level leaders. They wanted to find Sanda and the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps for an explanation.
After all, their teacher had gone missing while searching for a member of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
Hearing this news, Sanda immediately had a mercenary send a message to Chi Lai to hurry back.
Among the Alchemy Mages left by Shuanglian, there were three Silver Level ones—a tremendous Transcendent force. Sanda had to gather all his strength and prepare for battle!
But merely recalling Chi Lai was not enough.
Chi Lai and Menshi, both being Silver fighters, would undoubtedly be at a disadvantage against three Silver Level mages.
"We can only hope for ’Lion Flag’s’ recovery. Now, we need him back in action."
Currently, the one playing Zong Ge was just an Alchemy Puppet, imbued with Deception and Disguise Skill and Anti-Intelligence Prophecy Skill.
But having the "Vice Captain" recover and step in did not lessen Sanda’s stress; rather, it increased it.
After all, an Alchemy Puppet is just a puppet and not as agile as a real person.
The more the Alchemy Puppet had to represent them, the greater the risk of exposure.
"If only Zong Ge could reveal his Golden Level Cultivation."
"At least, that would stabilize the situation in this division."
"The difference between Golden Level Power and Silver Level Power is substantial!"
"Zong Ge has already reached Golden Level and is more suited to be our leader than the squad leader."
"Shuanglian has disappeared, and our squad leader has been missing even longer!"
"To save his close associate, our squad leader has made no moves till now."
"That’s just irresponsible!"
"And it’s caused Zong Ge to fill in for him, going as him to the Ice Sculpture Royal Capital."
As time dragged on, Sanda became increasingly disappointed with the Dragon-man youth, and his impression of him worsened.
Sanda gritted his teeth to deal with the group of Alchemy Mages’ complaints, and did not forget to write a secret letter detailing these issues and send it out.
Sanda’s letter was soon in Zi Di’s hands.
After deepening cooperation with the Lijian family, the survivors had drastically improved their communication with each other through the Lijian family’s channels.
Zi Di quickly decrypted the secret letter, read it swiftly, and then handed it to the Zong Ge beside her: "The situation has changed."
Zong Ge read the letter, his expression also darkened.
"Shuanglian is a Golden Level Mage, and this time she also mobilized the Honey Snow Tower."
"This Mage Tower has a total of five levels."
"According to the intelligence we obtained from the Lijian family, before leaving the Royal Capital, the Honey Snow Tower had a conflict with three Mages from the Alchemy Guild."
"Both Cai Jing and Master Da Bei are very secretive about the insider details of this battle, obviously they suffered a loss."
"With such combat power to deal with Da Dou, the Magic Chef, they should have had more than enough capability."
"But now Shuanglian and her Honey Snow Tower have both lost contact..."
"Could it be that she discovered Big Guy’s talent?"
In this regard, Zong Ge and Sanda shared the same concern.
As of now, Big Guy’s Bloodline hasn’t been precisely tested. But the survivors knew that Big Guy’s potential ceiling was at least at the Holy Domain Level.
Just this fact alone was enough to make Shuanglian change her stance and potentially capture Big Guy on her own and escape.
Zi Di did not continue to discuss this topic.
She looked at Zong Ge, "In the confidential letter, Sanda suggested that you should directly reveal your Golden Level Extraordinary power. What do you think?"
Zong Ge shook his head slightly.
"I am currently playing the role of the squad leader. Even if I exposed my Golden Level Extraordinary power, it wouldn’t help immediately with the current situation."
"The enemy is so strong that Shuanglian and her Mage Tower might have been attacked by the enemy."
"And I believe, this possibility is much more likely than Shuanglian discovering Big Guy’s talent."
"Just me or the squad leader alone being promoted to Golden Level is far from enough. It holds no threat to our enemies at all."
"Instead, it’s better to keep this situation hidden and use it as a trump card."
"In fact, we are not lacking in deterrence, are we?"
The deterrence Zong Ge referred to was when he, days ago, had singlehandedly defeated Jia Bing, and the Axe Gang leader and Lin, all three of whom were at Golden Level.
This feat indeed shocked duelist and garnered precious time and space for Zi Di and Zong Ge’s group.
Otherwise, they would have had no chance to go to Ice House City for negotiations.
The results of this negotiation also continued to buy them time and space.
Zi Di pondered, "Sanda said in the letter: Shuanglian’s students are unreliable. In that case, why not just shut down the Alchemy Workshop at Snowbird Port?"
"According to our new cooperation agreement with the Lijian family, we can completely use their production lines to mass produce Dragon Power Riding Potions."
Previously, when Zi Di negotiated with Mian licang, she didn’t know Shuanglian would come.
So, using the Lijian family to produce magic potions was explicitly included in the cooperation agreement between the two sides.
Zi Di even planned the Mercenary Group to secretly set up an Alchemy Factory.
After Shuanglian arrived, the cooperation on this project hadn’t officially started. The four Alchemy Workshops could restart, no need to collaborate with the Lijian family in such matters anymore.
Now, collaborating in this way would mean sharing profits from the Dragon Power Riding Potions with the Lijian family. They are not working for free.
For the survivors, this means less profit.
However, under the current situation, a little less profit doesn’t matter. Capturing this segment of the magic potion market is critical.
By accomplishing this step, Zi Di’s commercial strategy succeeded largely.
The survivors certainly won’t lose out.
With the channels they have secured and the endless War Merchants data base, they will definitely achieve greater commercial success.
And splitting some profits with the Lijian family is very worthwhile.
In doing so, the survivors could position the Lijian family in the forefront. If the duelist wanted to continue targeting the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, they would have to attack the Lijian family’s Alchemy Workshops.
This would undoubtedly deflect much of the hostile fire away from the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
In doing so, Zi Di also indirectly protected the Snowbird Port division.
Her face revealed contemplative colors, "Mage Shuanglian is an influential elder within the Alchemy Guild. Now that she has disappeared, can we leverage the power of the Alchemy Guild?"
Zi Di, who had previously leveraged Bu Quan successfully to undermine Shuanglian’s power, now wanted to try the same strategy to mobilize the Alchemy Guild’s power with Shuanglian and Bu Quan gone.
Not only that, key intelligence about the mysterious forces had already been handed over to the Lijian family. This intelligence would be reported up through the Lijian family’s channels.
Both Zi Di and Zong Ge highly anticipated the subsequent reaction from the Ice Sculpture Royal Family.
Currently, the prowess displayed by the duelists was incomparably superior to that of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
In this situation, both Zi Di and Zong Ge preferred to borrow external forces as much as possible. The more external forces they could use, the less risk and pressure they would endure.
"We must continue to move forward."
"The layout of our shops has already reached three-quarters completion. With the help of Sky Shuttle teams, we’ve saved a great deal of time and distance."
Zi Di expressed her views to Zong Ge.
As for the disappearances of Shuanglian, Bu Quan, and Big Guy, she could no longer worry about them.
This had far exceeded her capabilities.
This was a reluctant choice for Zi Di.
But Zi Di had no better solutions.
Neither did Zong Ge.
The Half-Beast warrior didn’t ponder or hesitate and directly nodded, agreeing to Zi Di’s subsequent arrangements.
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