<h4>1175 Another Round of Negotiations</h4>
It wasn’t that Lin Yun couldn’t craft a powerful puppet, but the puppet that could be crafted by a person couldn’t be mass-produced by the puppet base, they were twopletely different things.This was the difference between mass-produced goods andboratory goods. The time needed for something produced in aboratory to be mass-produced at reasonable cost might even be as long as an entire era.
The best way to improve the puppet base was to go to the Puppet ne. There, they could find all solutions to things regarding puppets.
Someponents that couldn’t be manufactured at a low cost in the puppet base might be found on the bodies of some unknown puppets.
At this time, Lin Yun remembered the nar Infiltrator that he had imprisoned.
Byron was going crazy. Lin Yun had imprisoned him with the power of the Demine. Let alone the Demiplen’s shadows, he couldn’t even merge with the space’s shadows. It was the same as Lin Yun drawing a circle he couldn’t leave and only being able to watch.
The ability he was so proud of waspletely useless. Getting out by force? What a joke.
The Natural Demine had the protection of the Eternal Dark Gold. It wasparable to the amount of Eternal Dark Gold existing in the entire Noscent. As time passed, the Eternal Dark God would merge with the Demine and it would be like the Demine itself had the properties of the Eternal Dark Gold.
Moreover, the radiance of the God Fire Ember serving as a sun enveloped the entire Demine and would cripple the abilities of nar Infiltrators.
Even a Heaven Rank powerhouse would be crushed to death in the Demine.
Lin Yun went to the ce he had locked Byron at and undid the Demine pressure imprisoning him. He saw Byron’s vacant gaze and his hair and beard reaching up to his stomach. It looked like he had lived as a savage for a few dozen years. His body was even emitting a stinky stench.
Looking at Lin Yun, Byron froze, even forgetting that the cage imprisoning him had already dissipated.
“Nervous breakdown?”
Lin Yun was a bit stunned, ‘How could this guy be an Archmage... And a nar Infiltrator... How could being imprisoned give him a nervous breakdown?
‘Those nar Infiltrators should be more patient than assassins. In order to infiltrate a ne, those guys could even turn into shadows and merge with the shadow of a nar Path. They wouldn’t eat nor drink, only maintaining this state which slowly used their mana over the course of several years.
‘It was all in order to find an opportunity. The record of the longest concealment had been 28 years!
‘The nar Infiltrator that left this record didn’t draw the ire of the ne’s ruler. Thetter even generously gave the nar Infiltrator the precious Magic Tool he needed as a present.
‘Turning oneself into a shadow and hiding for 28 years... How could a group of Heaven Rank powerhouses get angry? Even a powerhouse transcending the Heaven Rank felt that that guy’s perseverance had been quite good and gifted him a decently-sized ne.
‘But this guy got a nervous breakdown just from being imprisoned for a bit?’
Lin Yun watched Byron for a bit, but there wasn’t much vigor in Byron’s eyes. His gaze was vacant, as if his soul had been torn apart and his mind thoroughly copsed, turning him into an idiot.
Lin Yun sighed. He had managed to find a nar Infiltrator, and although he could only be considered an apprentice nar Infiltrator, this wasn’t something easy to find in this era.
As Lin Yun turned around, Byron’s eyes regained their vigor and his entire body turned into shadows, instantly disappearing.
Lin Yun sensed the fluctuation behind him and turned around, only to see Byron’s silhouette having already disappeared. He was already unable to discover Byron’s location by relying on his mana fluctuations, but he could barely figure out his direction by using the Magic Array and thew runes.
Lin Yun grinned and pensively looked in the distance before leaving while saying, “I’ll let you go if you can escape.”
Byron had turned into a shadow and his heart was filled with fear as he kept himself immersed within the shadows. As an insurance, he didn’t even dare to merge into the shadows of other things. Those trees, vegetation, mountains, he gave up on every single shadow and instead kept sneaking through the space’s shadow.
Only after feeling that Lin Yun hadn’t discovered him did Byron smile.
‘This terrifying guy is really too frightening, he was actually able to capture and imprison me. Fortunately, I was smart and came up with this method after thinking for a long time.
‘But who would have thought that this damned guy would take so long beforeing to see me. Could it be that he grabbed me to imprison me to death? Fortunately I tricked him and he won’t be able to capture me again.
‘Let’s find the entrance of the nar Path... Eh, damn, the entrance to the nar Path is actually in the air. Such a crafty guy... But it doesn’t matter, I already merged with the space’s shadow, the nar Path being in the air can’t stop me.
‘Hey, crafty and terrifying guy, I’m leaving, let’s never meet again.
‘Eh, should I get a hold of the nar coordinates? Forget it, I shouldn’t provoke that terrifying guy. Who knows if he will chase after me if I get a hold of the coordinates...’
Byron carefully sneaked, he even slowly drifted within the spatial fluctuations, slowly making his way towards the traces of the nar Path.
After three days, he reached the location Lin Yun had used toe in. There was a portal linked to the Raging me ne.
As for Lin Yun, he no longer concerned himself with Byron. Most of the Natural Demine was already under Lin Yun’s control. He only needed one more step to control the Laws here, but this was a very slow process and it would need Lin Yun toprehend them before he could control them.
But finding Byron who was moving within the space’s shadow was really too simple. He watched Byron sneaking like a thief for three days as he floated towards the entrance.
Lin Yunughed inside the puppet base and spoke to Shawn, who had been snacking on mana crystals due to boredom.
“Lord Shawn, it’s been boringtely, hasn’t it? I found something fun for you. But please don’t kill him, I still have a use for him.”
After saying that, he told Shawn the coordinates of that entrance and the idle Shawn immediately regained his vigor. He grinned as he floated to the entrance.
Shawn floated near the entrance, but didn’t find anything strange. He rolled his eyes and pretended to nap
A dozen meters away, Byron was slowly approaching the entrance and only rxed when he noticed that the strange Ghost Wolf didn’t seem to react.
He still didn’t react when Byron walked in front of the entrance and was about to take the final step to leave this ce.
He grinned and almost burst out from excitement.
‘Damn guy, I can finally leave this cursed ce. Damn, this ce is crazy. There is a guy that can discover and capture me, a huge base which seems to be mass-producing puppets with the lowest level puppet being at Level 30, there are also mages from the Quicksand Tower and Shadow Tower, yet they are all treated as the lowestborers, and they don’t even dare to resist.
‘I want to leave this ce, I want to return to Noscent. No, I need to find a ne where that scary guy will never find me...’
Byron joyfully merged with the shadows and followed the entrance’s shadow.
But just as he was about to step into the nar Path’s shadow, an undetectable dark golden light wall suddenly revealed itself, and Byron bumped into it.
“Ouch, damn, what is that...”
Byron’s silhouette was suddenly revealed, his head clearly bloody and his magic power unstable.
Byron suddenly quivered as he nced at the Ghost Wolf who had opened his eyes and was ncing right back at him. He then looked around and figured out that his shadow state had been canceled.
Before he could turn back into a shadow, he saw a sh of lighting from the eyes of the Ghost Wolf and he instantly let out a blood-curdling screech. He looked as pale as a corpse as he fell towards the ground.
Shawnughed heartily as he felt that he had found a funny toy. He chased Byron to the ground and entered his body. Then, Lord Shawn came out, his ws scratching his chin as he seemed to hesitate.
‘Merlin said not to kill this guy, that he had some use for him. What should I do if I go in and carelessly tear that guy’s soul apart? Forget it, I’ll just be very careful, yes, I’ll just take a look, that’s all.’
He once again got into Byron’s head, and a secondter, Byron let out a blood-curdling screech. His pupils dted and his body kept twitching on the ground, as if he was about to die.
Shawn cautiously drilled out of Byron’s head. He had wanted to take a good look at his surroundings, but he ended up jumping out immediately before fiercely pping Byron.
“Idiot, hurry up and stand up for me. Don’t y dead, the great Lord Shawn has pulled his punches. I know you are fine, damnit, you leave Lord Shawn no choice if you don’t stand up...”
After saying that, Shawn blew a gust of wind into Byron’s head and Byron seemed filled with energy. He fearfully crawled up and looked at Lord Shawn as if he was a Devil specialized in ying with souls.
“Devil, damnit, you are a Hell’s Devil, one of the most malicious Soul Sadists...”
Before he could finish his words, Byron held his head in his hands and rolled about on the ground.
Shawn had an unhappy expression as he pped Byron’s head with his ws.
“Moron, the great Lord Shawn is a Soul Walker, not one of those filthy Devils. How could those idiotspare to the great Lord Shawn?”
More than ten kilometers away, Daggeth raised his head as he seemed to have heard some faint mournful screams as well as Shawn’s cursing roars. He couldn’t help smiling.
‘Which idiot dared to provoke Lord Shawn? Even if you provoke Merlin, the one thing you should never do is provoke Sir Merlin’s demonic Magic Tool Incarnations. No, the most wicked Devil of Hell might not evenpare to these Incarnations when it came to torture.
‘But that’s also good, with someone attracting the attention of the newly arrived Shawn, we are safe and can properly enjoy our time here.
After three days, Byron cried and asked to pledge his loyalty to Lord Shawn. He then asked to join one of theboring groups.
Unfortunately, neither Daggeth nor Ds wanted to ept that guy. They said that they had enough manpower and didn’t need someone else. Thus, Byron could only use his expertise to go sort out areas that others couldn’t see.
Half a month rapidly passed and the news of negotiations between the humans and Beastmen soon spread. As for LIn Yun, he was naturally invited as one of the human participants of the negotiations.
Lin Yun could guess the results of the negotiations without even going.
The Raging me ne has gone through this disaster and both humans and Beastmen were still shaken. They didn’t dare to start another all-out war, who knew if it would trigger the Raging me ne’s source power again.
After all, that God’s body was still slumbering in the depths of the Raging me ne, and its souls hadn’t been annihted, who knew if Del Rovana would take another shot at causing a cmity.
They didn’t dare to fight, this was very important. And more importantly, the Raging me ne had gone through this cmity, the earth had been overturned and the sky had shattered, but there would be even more benefits after it recovered.
The energy storms rushing down from the torn sky made the Raging me ne’s environment even more terrible, and as the God’s body was devouring the source power of the Raging me ne, these chaotic energies started destroying the Raging me ne.
But the Raging me ne was now bing more and more stable. The chaotic energy storms started being slowly pacified under the effect of the Raging me ne’s source.
Like this, the Raging me ne’s mana would keep growing for a long period of time, and it would be a lot more diverse. This was the greatest advantage, whether it was to humans or Beastmen, it would make many resourcese into being.
The greatest benefit of the earth being overturned was that many precious resources hidden in the depths of the earth had now surfaced or appeared in the shallow depths of the earth where they could be easily dug out.
Moreover, these natural resources were very old and were resources on the verge of extinction. There were also metal veins of a few kinds of ores that required a lot of time to be nurtured.
The amount and quality of the resources in the Raging me ne had greatly increased.
Recently, more than thirty new veins of ore had been discovered in the Four Seasons in. Many precious resources were found and these abundant resources made the puppet base’s research greatly progress, the pace greatly sped up. As for the Grey Beastmen’s fort, this fort which already had the reputation of being the first formed city, it was weing more and more peopletely.
The patrolling puppets had all been upgraded to level 35 puppets, and every small squad of five was led by a Level 37 puppet.
As for the puppets in charge of those groups, they were a new kind of Level 39 puppet among them. If not because the materials needed were too high level, and because it required too much time andbor to be mass-produced, Lin Yun would have changed all the puppets within the Grey Beastmen’s fort to Level 39 puppets.
With these cold puppets as guards, no one would dare to cause trouble in the Grey Beastmen’s fort. After all, those puppets could only execute orders based on their settings, they didn’t care about the identity of the other side. During this time, three children of affluent Families had been killed. There was even a 9th Rank Archmage that protected a child of an affluent Family and tore a few Level 39 puppets apart.
As for their Family, they could only hope not to be recognized. They didn’t dare toe looking for trouble. After all, the news of Lin Yun’s strength had already spread around. And with the Intrepid’s energy source matter already solved, no one in the Raging me ne dared to provoke Lin Yun.
The emergence of the Dark Elves, Firerock Dwarves, and Ash Beastmen wasn’t very impactful, mostly because no one provoked them as they were all living in the Intrepid.
The might of the mana crystals cannons on the Intrepid was something that almost all the Heaven Rank powerhouses currently in the Raging me ne had seen. Especially the main cannon, it almost blew away the Holy Mountain in one shot. This wasn’t something a Low Tier Heaven Rank powerhouse could do.
Although the humans and Beastmen couldn’t help cursing at each other while participating in the negotiations, as well as taking the fight outside on a few asions, once the negotiations started, both sides came to the same conclusion.
The war had to stop. Especially since the current Raging me ne had enough natural resources for everyone. There was simply no point in starting a war over territory and natural resources.
What needed to be discussed was just how to distribute these territories.
Lin Yun was sitting at this huge heated round table with closed eyes, he simply wasn’t participating in these matters.
Apart from the Merlin Family’s territory, Lin Yun was now upying the original remote territory of the ck Iron Beastmen. That ce had sparse vegetation and the environment was somewhat vile. Aside from mineral resources, no nt could be found there.
That ce had now be even richer in mineral resources, but it wasn’t to the point of being shocking.
As for the Four Seasons in and the mountain range’s depression bordering the Four Seasons in, they were important areas Lin Yun was managing, and the mineral resources and vegetation had be frighteningly rich. The corrupted magic beasts and Demons within the depression had been cleared up and many magic nts that hadn’t been seen before were now growing there.
Unfortunately, no one would dare to make Lin Yun spit out that area. Lin Yun felt quite satisfied with these two regions. After all, the Raging me ne’s territory had almost beenpletely partitioned, the debate regarded some controversial areas.
And these areas were quite far away from Lin Yun’s territory, so Lin Yun didn’t bother to listen to these people’s discussions. After confirming his own interests, he didn’t feel like listening to them argue.
The benefits of the Ragingme ne, no matter how much one fought over it, they wouldn’t get much. The Four Seasons in had a nar Path leading to the Puppet ne. And the benefits of the Puppet ne were a lot higher than the entire Raging me ne. Lin Yun truly didn’t feel like pushing for extremely small benefits.
Unfortunately, Lin Yun had beenprehending the Laws with his eyes closed when someone brought the topic to Lin Yun.
The Shadow Tower and the ck me Beastmen were arguing on who that piece of contested territory belonged to. After discussing for a while, the Shadow Tower’s Heaven Rank powerhouse suddenly noticed Lin Yun ignoring everyone with his eyes closed.
Joseph rolled his eyes and sneered.
‘Mafa Merlin is actually not paying attention to what’s happening here at such a time. That’s for the best, the resources of the Four Seasons in are the richest. It’s like the warm spring among the four seasons, that ce is filled with even more materials.
‘More importantly, the Four Seasons in has almost no Magic Beast, there are only some puppets with unknown origins. Those puppets have no interest in valuable nts. This ispletely letting Mafa Merlin off cheaply.
‘Damn, that guy only needs to safely control the Four Seasons in and that basin to obtain a huge harvest. He is obtaining his resources a lot more safely than us. No to mention that he already established a city. The profits that arose there everyday could absolutelypare to a major city in Noscent.
‘That lucky guy... How did that foolish Birbo die? Not to mention letting Mafa Merlin off before dying. If Mafa Merlin died in the Holy Mountain, it would have been really easy for the Shadow Tower to take over his territory.
‘But now, our territories have yet to be confirmed. One third of the Four Seasons in was sandwiched between our Shadow Tower and the ck me Beastmen’s territories. It would be profitable as long as that bit of territory was snatched.
‘I believe that the greedy ck me Beastmen would definitely not refuse this suggestion. A third of the Four Seasons in clearly has more benefits and natural resources than the small piece ofnd on the edge of our territory.’