Chapter 237: The Curse Takes Hold, Topaz Begins to Suffer a Mental Breakdown!

"I won't deny that."

"But what I'm curious about is, why a scam of such grand scale..."

"... in the end, not a single person profited from it — not even the perpetrator himself?"

Topaz's move,

had piqued Jade's curiosity.

"Madam, I've already gotten what I wanted — being brought before you, to begin the next great gamble!"

Topaz replied.

"Then let's talk about this second great gamble."

"Tell me, what are you planning to wager this time?"

Jade asked with keen interest.

"My life."

"I bet you won't send me to the execution ground."

When Topaz said this,

he seemed utterly certain.

"Hmm... then what do you want in return?"

Jade countered.

"I want your Lan to come see me."

"I have something to say."

Topaz laid out his condition.

"And then?"

Jade pressed.

"I want money."

Topaz answered without hesitation.

"It can't be that simple, can it?"

Jade felt Topaz's demand was somewhat too simple.

"It's that simple — thirty Taanba coins, the price of half my life, no more, no less."

"Once I have that money, I can climb higher than you, hold more wealth than you..."

"I bet you won't dare give it to me, so, call him over."

Topaz resorted to the provocation tactic.

"Heh, interesting."

"Unfortunately, Diamond won't see you — no one can see him."

"So right now, I am Diamond's proxy, making decisions on his behalf."

"You're wrong."

"Thirty Taanba coins — I'll give them to you, and far more besides."

"Wealth, status, power..."

"The Company will give you everything you want and everything you don't."

"Kakavasha... is a fine name, but destined to be buried in the dirt,"

"yet you deserve to live, to create more wealth for us."

"Go on, pick yourself an outfit you like, and choose an identity to your taste..."

"Then make good use of them, child."

"May your schemes never Miss Bailu."

Topaz: "This is..."

Topaz: "Heh, it's the scene of me just joining the Company."

Topaz: "Looking back now, I was still quite green back then."

Topaz: "My vision was nowhere near as broad as it is now."

Stelle: "Scamming the Company and the Boshixue Society?"

Stelle: "Tricking them into digging up the corpse of the Worm Emperor beneath an empty desert?"

Stelle: "I tell you, friend, you actually pulled off something this huge!"

Stelle: "What's even more impressive is that you actually survived it!"

Stelle: "That really is badass as hell!"

Furina: "Topaz is clearly gambling with his life here!"

Furina: "Betting that the Company valued his ability and wouldn't kill him."

Furina: "But fortunately, Topaz won his bet!"

Boothill: "Not bad, kid — gotta say, you son of a gun really are something!"

Boothill: "Those brainless fools at the Company are one thing to scam, but the people from the Boshixue Society are no country bumpkins!"

Boothill: "A native like you actually managed to run circles around them..."

Boothill: "That really makes me see you in a whole new light, you bastard!"

Brother Dan Heng: "This is precisely why the Company values him."

Brother Dan Heng: "Likewise, Topaz's move was deliberate."

Brother Dan Heng: "Only by showing his worth to the Company could he possibly obtain what he wanted."

March 7th: "Um, hasn't everyone noticed?"

March 7th: "Topaz has already taken out the slaver who bought him before."

Stelle: "What's the big deal about that."

Stelle: "I knew long ago that guy wasn't going to survive."

Stelle: "Topaz has already risen to the IPC's upper echelons — would he show such great mercy as to spare that man?"

Stelle: "What surprises me, though, is that Topaz actually finished that guy off so early on."

Himeko: "Speaking of which, the woman in the video — she seems to be upper management of the IPC as well?"

Dr. Ratio: "This woman is named Jade, also one of the Ten Stonehearts, and her seniority is far greater than Topaz's or Topaz's."

Welt: "Jade....."

Welt: "Looks like another company elite who's quite difficult to deal with."

Hu Tao: "The IPC truly lives up to its name as the most powerful force in the universe — what a gathering of talents!"