Chapter 414: The Supreme Council Plans to Renege on Their Debt?

Sigh...

Sighing, Lan Qingyou resigned herself to picking up her card.

It was a reply from Chu Yuan.

Judgment: "Received."

Tower: "So you weren't asleep yet?"

Judgment: "It's only eleven o'clock at night, how could I be asleep."

Tower: "... You council members really work hard."

Judgment: "It's more accurate to say you, this grand Clan Leader, are too thorough as a hands-off boss."

Chu Yuan curled his lips.

One must know this is power we are talking about, and the power to manage an entire region and millions of people at that. This guy actually just let go of it just like that.

It's simply unreasonable.

But this was all the internal 'family affairs' of their race, and as an outsider, it wasn't appropriate for him to say much, so he never asked too much about it.

Tower: "Alright, keep up the good work. I can't hold out anymore, I'm going to sleep first."

Judgment: "..."

Sure enough, being a hands-off boss is better.

After reading Lan Qingyou's message, Chu Yuan roasted in his heart, and then forwarded the message to the council members' group.

Although Lan Qingyou verbally said she separated the council members and the Speaker.

But in reality, Durandal was also in this group and could see these messages.

"Upgrade materials... this is a bit difficult to handle..."

Daniel, the council member in charge of the materials warehouse, said this.

"Hmm? Can't we get them?"

Chu Yuan was taken aback.

The Supreme Council's warehouse should definitely have quite a few materials, why would he say it's difficult to handle?

"This is an agreement signed with the Witches. If the other party asks for it now and we don't give it, I'm afraid it won't be very good."

"The way you say it, it's not that I don't want to give it, it's that we really don't have it right now."

"Don't have it?"

"Yeah, previously building the Adventurer's Guilds and the Magic Arrays consumed a batch. Afterwards, the construction of towns sprang up everywhere, directly leading to materials in some places basically not being able to be collected. So there's nothing to give."

Daniel stated the reason why he couldn't give them.

Although he didn't know if what the other party said was true or false, for Chu Yuan, if Lan Qingyou needed it and this side couldn't give it, then it was a slap in his face.

After all, he played a role similar to a 'middleman' in this.

Even Lan Qingyou was somewhat willing to negotiate giving face to him.

Now dragging it out and not giving it, that was definitely not possible.

Therefore...

"If that's the case, then I won't care about what happens afterwards."

"What do you mean by this?"

Daniel asked.

"Nothing really, just saying. After all, everyone knows the Tower Witch's temper isn't very good. Even I can't guess what kind of things she might do."

Chu Yuan broke down the things that might happen and spelled them out, hoping this guy would behave.

However, evidently, since Daniel dared to be at odds with Chu Yuan, then naturally he wouldn't take his words seriously either.

He didn't even take Lan Qingyou, the Tower Witch, seriously.

"Hmph, so what if it's the Tower Witch. Even if their Witch Race got first place and got so many benefits, not having it means not having it. If she wants this batch of materials, she can wait. Wait until the warehouse has enough and have her reapply."

"Understood."

Daniel's words made Chu Yuan see another layer of meaning.

'Apply'.

Using this word meant he wasn't treating Lan Qingyou as a partner, but as a secondary existence.

This obviously went against everything in the previous agreement.

"In other words, this is the intention of the entire Supreme Council? @Speaker Durandal"

Thus Chu Yuan tagged Durandal.

However, Durandal might have been in a meeting, or might have been receiving someone, in short, there was no reply.

So this matter was left unsettled like this.

Nothing happened overnight.

The next day, after Lan Qingyou woke up, Chu Yuan, who had only slept for three or four hours, told her about this matter.

Tower: "In other words, your Supreme Council is planning to default on a Witch's wages?"

Lan Qingyou was now furious.

Receiving this kind of bad news right after waking up early in the morning, anyone would probably not have a good expression.

After all, this concerned her good mood for the whole day.

Now... it was gone.

Judgment: "No, it's that building the Adventurer's Guilds and those Magic Arrays previously consumed too much, and now the Supreme Council's inventory hasn't recovered yet."

Tower: "That's not right, how long has it been already, how could it possibly not have recovered yet?"

Judgment: "Who knows. Anyway, the reason given by the council member managing the warehouse is that everyone is currently building urban clusters, the required shortfall is really too large, materials can't be collected from below, so naturally there are no supplies in the warehouse."

Tower: "That has nothing to do with me, I just want my due share. Anyway, the previous agreement was signed exactly like this. Whoever doesn't plan to give it, then they shouldn't have any objections to me taking action."

Judgment: "I definitely have no objections."

They say the unreasonable fear the desperate, and Lan Qingyou, this Witch, belonged to the type who was both unreasonable and could take other people's lives.

So Chu Yuan, who felt he had lost face, agreed very readily.

"Right, that person managing the warehouse is called Daniel. I'll send you his photo later."

...

"This is really going too far! What kind of place does this Witch think the Supreme Council is!"

"Threat! A naked threat!"

"Does she really think her Witch Race got thousands of attribute points, actually daring to threaten the Supreme Council?"

As existences possessing Witches, they naturally knew the rumor outside about the Witch Race getting four thousand attribute points per person was a joke.

But in their eyes, this wasn't a reason for Lan Qingyou to threaten them either.

The current Supreme Council, because of the Adventurer's Guilds and the town clusters, could be considered to have completely established a firm foothold.

Otherwise, those rumor-mongers wouldn't have pulled in the tiger skin of the Supreme Council to increase the credibility of their rumors.

So in the eyes of some council members, the Supreme Council, having established a firm foothold, already had corresponding power.

A guy like Lan Qingyou, even as the Clan Leader of the top-ranked race, should show them due respect.

However, as soon as the other party opened her mouth, she talked about people dying, completely not putting them in her eyes.

This made the blood pressure of some council members who woke up early or hadn't slept yet soar, and they started cursing directly.

However...

"Even if it is a threat, what can you do? Inside Tarot Manor, there is a Diviner capable of divining others' coordinates with 100% accuracy. If she says people will die, then people will definitely die."

One didn't even need to look to know this was said by Chu Yuan.

To put it bluntly, he wasn't very happy with these people either.

The trade with Lan Qingyou was brokered by him. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him the 'middleman'.

In the end, these guys actually wanted to delay the other party's things.

Oh, so you took the highest-grade essence blood of the Star Dragon King and now you don't want to pay?

Where in the world are there such good things?