Chapter 232

Inside the inn room.

Imina's small lips moved, and she tore at the white bread expressionlessly; hearing Tang Zheng guess that she had bought this inn, her expression didn't change much.

Drip-drop!

The rain outside the window fell on the window sill, emitting a pattering sound.

Tang Zheng saw Imina didn't speak, smiled gently, picked up the spoon and drank the green vegetable soup on the table, and the room fell into silence again.

The atmosphere wasn't tense, but rather somewhat peaceful.

Imina stuffed the last bite of white bread into her mouth, her purple hair in front of her forehead lifted slightly, and she said with some disgust: "The commotion you made along the way is not small, my lord."

"I heard you suffered quite a few attacks from adventurers and mercenaries?"

Speaking of this.

Imina crossed her arms in front of her chest, looked Tang Zheng up and down with her amber eyes, and seeing that he didn't have any injuries, she raised her chin.

"Did the news reach the capital? What is the specific situation?" Tang Zheng's gaze flashed, ignoring the needle-pricking confrontation in Imina's tone.

After all, letting the other party stay in the capital for such a long time, and still dealing with an organization like "Eight Fingers," it was normal to have some dissatisfaction and resentment.

Imina rolled her eyes at Tang Zheng, a trace of worry appearing in her long, somewhat fierce eyes: "You didn't hide your action route and made such a big commotion."

"Seven 'Gold-level' adventurer parties, five 'Platinum' adventurer parties, one 'Mythril' adventurer party."

"The famous mercenary organization 'Death-Spreading Sword Group' with seventy people, and a mysterious assassin unit."

"So many people all died at your hands; currently, except for that 'Sword Genius' Brian, who escaped from your hands, no one survived."

Imina leaned forward, her beautiful eyes staring at Tang Zheng: "My lord, you tell me, is this commotion big? You just entered the capital, and all parties here already knew."

Tang Zheng was somewhat dumbfounded: "So many people died?"

The attacks encountered along the way were indeed quite a few, but they were all relatively scattered; the Green Leaf Witch could solve them easily alone, so Tang Zheng really didn't pay much attention.

He only paid attention when it came to the "Death-Spreading Sword Group," and that was because of Brian.

Think carefully.

The number of people eyeing the Empire's bounty was likely even more, but those solved by Tang Zheng were all not weak; the remaining group of people were just scared and didn't dare to make a move.

"I have already found Brian's location; should I send someone to kill him?" Imina's face flashed with coldness, and she spoke softly.

Brian's fame was very great, and it was said that his relationship with the "Warrior Captain" Gazef was also not bad; she was worried that Brian, who escaped, would bring trouble to Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng looked at Imina with some surprise, surprised that the other party could actually find Brian's location.

From this point, it could be seen that Imina could already mobilize the power of "Eight Fingers."

Tang Zheng shook his head: "No need; he is much more valuable alive than dead."

"How is the situation with 'Eight Fingers'?"

"With the strength you showed before, 'Illusion Demon' Sahulont is very honest and cooperative, and the entire security department is completely under control."

Imina carried confidence on her face; her own strength wasn't weak, and with Tang Zheng, a powerhouse in the dark, it wasn't difficult to suppress the others:

"The department heads of the other departments have also been contacted; because of the death of 'Fighting Ghost,' 'Eight Fingers' held a collective meeting for this."

Speaking of this,

Imina's tone became a bit more solemn: "Besides the eight department heads, a mysterious person presided over the entire meeting."

"The specific identity of the other party is unknown; only a few department heads should know. In addition, the departments are nearly independent, and controlling the other departments is more troublesome than anticipated."

After listening to the more detailed information about "Eight Fingers" described by Imina, Tang Zheng's face didn't show any surprise.

He already had some understanding of the situation of "Eight Fingers," and for such a massive organization, if one said there was no support from other forces in the dark, it was obviously impossible.

"Don't rush to control these departments. Just keep the 'Security Department,' an important department, in your hands, and you can have a certain control over the entire 'Eight Fingers'."

Tang Zheng put the spoon in his hand into the bowl, smiled softly, and then said:

"Next, there are a few things that need you to do."

"Say it, what a hard life." Imina muttered, but a smile appeared in her eyes.

"The first thing, in the name of your 'Security Department,' secretly recruit magic casters to make up for the missing 'Six Arms'."

"Actually, I need you to specifically look for magic casters who have mastered the faith system, spirit system, and other systems—these three types of professional systems."

Imina was somewhat blank, not understanding why Tang Zheng did this, but still nodded.

Come to think of it.

Do magic casters actually have so many different systems?

"The second thing, through the 'Slave Trading Department,' buy a few slaves who have mastered the 'Wild Transformation' ability; there shouldn't be many humans who can master this means."

"Demi-humans are easier to master, especially some slave tribes captured from demi-human tribes destroyed by the Slane Theocracy; the Slave Department should have such channels."

Tang Zheng said here and looked at Imina.

He actually wanted to say the elf slaves captured by the Slane Theocracy from the Elf Kingdom, who were easier to master this skill.

It was just that Imina was a half-elf after all, so he changed it to demi-human when the words reached his lips.

Imina's expression didn't change much, and she nodded.

"The third thing, I need you to buy a few large warehouses in the territory of each of the six great nobles. Contact grain merchants in various places and transport all the moldy grain that can't be sold, as well as some rotten food, to the warehouses."

"These things can be arranged for people to do with the help of the 'Smuggling Unit'."

Imina continued to nod, but she became more and more puzzled; there was no connection between these three things at all, but looking at Tang Zheng's appearance.

Each thing was clearly a big move.

At the same time, Imina felt somewhat excited and happy inwardly.

She and Reynas stayed in the capital together, but the situations of the two were completely different; Reynas clearly had Tang Zheng's various arrangements and planning.

And she, besides controlling a security department, seemed to have been completely forgotten by Tang Zheng until now, and hadn't made any moves for several months.

Now.

Imina finally knew what she should do.

"Sorry for the trouble, Imina." Tang Zheng.

"These things are really more troublesome than the last." Imina muttered, her slender and slim figure had already stood up, and the two purple curved ponytail braids shook lightly.

"By the way, this is for you."

"These things need quite a bit of money; besides the first thing, don't use the money of Eight Fingers for the remaining two things." Tang Zheng picked up a magic leather bag from his waist and threw it to Imina: "Inside are gems; if there are any you like, you can choose a few."

Imina reached out to catch the magic leather bag, her emerald-white fingers pulled open the mouth of the leather bag, and a faint red light emerged from the magic leather bag.

"This is..."

Imina's eyes couldn't help but widen a bit.

The magic leather bag was filled with gems of various colors, mostly red gems, among which several gems radiated magical light.

Clearly, they were precious magic gems containing magic power.

Seeing Imina's surprised look that couldn't move her eyes away, Tang Zheng smiled softly.

Sure enough, women always like shiny things; this point was the same as the dragon race.

These gems were naturally the relics of the Ancient Red Dragon.

During Tang Zheng's journey to the capital, he would return to the lava zone at night, and it took a lot of time to finally find the Ancient Red Dragon's nest.

There were piles of treasures inside; the specific value.

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Tang Zheng couldn't calculate it; the cave was mainly composed of various gems, special red ores, and gold coins, but unfortunately, there wasn't a single magic item, which made him somewhat disappointed.

It was difficult to estimate the value of various gems and ores, and the same was true for the large amount of gold coins.

Because the Ancient Red Dragon seemed to like sleeping on those gold coins and gems, almost all the gold coins were melted by the high temperature, turning into small gold mountains piled together.

"This is what you said." Imina revealed a smile on her face, put away the magic leather bag and just moved forward, when she suddenly remembered something, squinted her eyes and turned her head:

"By the way, who are those two girls with you? According to the news I heard, they seem to have joined your adventurer party?"

She and Reynas had both thought about joining Tang Zheng's adventurer party, but were rejected by this guy.

"Want to meet them?" Tang Zheng shrugged his shoulders, then said: "I said, my adventurer party doesn't recruit people."

Hearing this answer.

A look of satisfaction flashed in Imina's eyes, and she waved her arm: "Forget it."

"Give me your hand." Tang Zheng suddenly said.

"Ah?" Imina was stunned.

Tang Zheng reached out his arm directly and grabbed Imina's palm.

A bit soft, and a bit cold.

This thought flashed through Tang Zheng's mind; his palm radiated a trace of pale white light, leaving a magic mark on Imina, and he released her palm again.

"You, what are you doing."

Imina's exquisite cheeks flushed, and she subconsciously took a step back, her voice somewhat nervous and stuttering.

"Nothing, a small magic; it will be easier for me to find you if there's anything." Tang Zheng said calmly and softly.

"Hmph."

Imina snorted lightly, her figure had already arrived at the window, she put on the raincoat again, jumped out from the window, and disappeared into the rain mist.

"Really, why do you have to go through the window?"

Tang Zheng complained, then a thoughtful expression appeared on his face, considering the next things.

The three things he gave Imina to do were all very important; since he had money in his hands and the "Eight Fingers" force that could be manipulated.

Why not use it!

Even if someone noticed, they would only investigate "Eight Fingers," even if they investigated the internal forces of Eight Fingers.

These three unrelated things couldn't be connected at all; at most, they would suspect the supporter behind Imina—that powerful magic caster who manipulated corpses and bone dragons.

As for him, this genius alchemist who could summon angels, of course, it was completely unrelated.

If these three things were divided into priority, the first one was the most important.

The purpose of the second thing was mainly for Tang Zheng to experiment with the magic ritual he obtained from the 'Forest Gnome' Doga.

The purpose of the third thing was to provide food for the goblins raised in the Tob Forest; after all, the more goblins there were, the greater the impact on the Tob Forest.

Tang Zheng didn't intend to let people notice the situation inside the Tob Forest, so he could only obtain food from the outside and provide it to those raised goblins.

And the first thing was also the one he cared about most at the moment!

Magic System: Pharmacist, Alchemist, Mage, Necromancer, Warlock

Believer: Priestess, Priest, Forest Priest, Divine Official

Spirit System: Wizard, Witch

Other Systems: Shaman, Summoner

This was the number of professions in each magic system he currently mastered.

When he obtained the 【Mad Mage】 profession, it was because he satisfied the prerequisite conditions for the basic professions of each system:

Magic System · 15lv

Faith System · 15lv

Spirit System · 15lv

Other Systems · 15lv

A total of 60 levels of professional level conditions.

Tang Zheng previously deduced that if the professions of each magic system reached level 20, a total of 80 professional levels, whether it could trigger a new high-level profession.

The reason for this deduction.

Was because if there was a second related high-level profession, then 【Unknown High-Level Profession】 + 【Mad Mage】 would occupy ten professional levels.

The remaining 90 levels, spread across the four magic professional systems, were only 22.5 levels.

Clearly, level 20 was the most reasonable, at least it was relatively reasonable in the game.

Result.

The current four magic professional systems stacked together already satisfied the condition of level 20, but didn't obtain a new profession.

While Tang Zheng was disappointed, a crazy idea suddenly popped into his mind; the possibilities that didn't exist in the game didn't mean they didn't exist in the Other World.

If the four professional systems were all raised to the level of the Tenth Rank, i. e., "64~70lv," could he obtain a new profession?

This was a situation that was impossible to appear in the game!

If it weren't for the 【Genius】 profession unique to the Other World, then whether it was the game or the Other World, it was impossible for anyone to raise four magic professional systems to the magic level of the Tenth Rank!

"I have to try once; even if I don't obtain a new profession, raising the four professional systems to the Tenth Rank is also in the plan."

Tang Zheng tapped the table with his fingers, his gaze flickering.

(End of chapter)