Chapter 723

"Hmm..."

After hearing the red-haired Director's words, the smile on Leon's face suddenly stiffened slightly, and then he nodded somewhat depressedly:

"Before, when Auntie Emma was preparing to perish together with the Goddess of Wealth, in order to enhance her own strength, the Goddess of Wealth directly swallowed my pendant, and even took away Auntie Peony's... *ahem*... Cursed Silver."

"Director, now I am full of auxiliary anomalous objects and have nothing that can directly kill a target. Next time you assign me a mission, I reckon I can only carry a sniper rifle to work."

"That won't happen. I let that crocodile bring you down here just to solve this problem... Keep walking forward, remember not to leave me too far behind!"

After looking at the gray, hazy sky overhead, the red-haired Director gave a whistle upward, scattering the flock of crows that were circling and refusing to leave, then stared at their flight path and walked toward the depths of the Dead Realm while holding Emma.

"Leon, although you lost the Holy Spirit Pendant this time, in reality, your harvest is actually not small. Whether it's the Lord of Desire-Dreams' fork, the Goddess of Wealth's tail, or that green bead that trapped Emma, they are all good things that don't lose to the Holy Spirit Pendant."

The red-haired Director, who had stepped onto the road of no return, said to Leon behind her while staring at the Death-Crow overhead without blinking:

"However, these few things you got are all a bit troublesome. The Lord of Desire-Dreams isn't dead yet, so even if his weapon is broken, you can't use it. The Goddess of Wealth's snake tail can only be considered a material and also cannot be used directly."

"The remaining bead doesn't have these problems, but that thing is for the Goddess of Wealth to use for herself, so the consumption is a bit too high for you. Without forty or fifty points of Leon Value, you simply can't exert much effect."

"Yes..."

Leon, who was following behind the red-haired Director, nodded and responded:

"That bead is called 【Ghost Green Dream】, an anomalous object modified from the 【Paradise】 that was shattered when the God of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry was defeated. It can temporarily support a jade world without an exit, and the more contamination value the user has, the more vast the supported world is. That snake spirit even directly supported an entire valley."

"Although I can use this thing directly, and can even take people in and out of the already supported jade world, if I put away the current 【Ghost Green Dream】 and re-activate it myself, the supported jade world would probably be at most a few dozen square meters, and the stability can't compare to the world supported by that snake spirit."

"In short, either it can't be used, or it's not suitable!"

After summarizing with a sentence, the red-haired Director continued:

"When you have good things but can't use them, you have to find an anomalous object blacksmith."

"And if you want to talk about the number one blacksmith, that must be Lord Taurus, but she is currently self-sealing in the General Bureau and can't help, so we can only find the second best."

The second best anomalous object blacksmith?

Leon blinked upon hearing this, then asked with some curiosity:

"Director, is that second best blacksmith in the Dead Realm? Is he a person from our Cleanup Bureau?"

"Hmm, he is indeed in the Dead Realm, and he was also a person from our Cleanup Bureau during his lifetime."

"..."

Wait! During his lifetime?

"Olivia! Ahahaha! You actually came to find me!"

In Leon's somewhat shocked eyes, a middle-aged old man with a slightly hunched back and a square, honest-looking head sat up from the coffin that the red-haired Director had pried open, and said with eyes full of joy:

"Since you came to find me, does that mean the Taurus of this generation is already dead?"

"Uh... Lord Taurus hasn't ascended the palace yet..."

"Tsk!"

After hearing the red-haired Director's answer, the square-headed old man was immediately greatly disappointed. He raised his hand to pull the coffin lid and wanted to lie back in, but was grabbed by the red-haired Director who had been prepared. "Don't pull my coffin! You hurry up and let go!"

The old man, who was suspected of having a grudge against Director Taurus, said angrily:

"Didn't I tell you? If she's not dead, don't come find me! How can you not keep your word?"

"Third Generation Lord, that wasn't what we agreed on back then."

The red-haired Director, who was pulling hard on the old man's coffin lid, shook her head and said:

"According to our agreement back then, it was that after you became the world's best blacksmith again, I would find time to come find you once and tell you this good news."

"Isn't that still the same?"

"It's not the same."

The red-haired Director explained:

"Third Generation Lord, something happened in the Bureau recently. The Aquarius Director of this generation covets the Watchtower Palace and wants to enter the Watchtower Palace by taking the opportunity to replace Lord Taurus as the palace sitter."

"In order to ensure the safety of the Watchtower Palace, Lord Taurus has already remained in the General Bureau under the protection of the other two directors to carry out a self-seal. She absolutely won't come out before ascending the palace, so you are the world's best blacksmith again."

"Is that so? That's alright then..."

After hearing the red-haired Director's explanation, the square-headed old man hesitated for a moment and finally didn't continue to cover his coffin lid, but asked reluctantly:

"Since she isn't coming out anymore, then it can barely be considered that you didn't break your promise... Tell me, what do you want to do by coming to find me this time?"

"Finding the best blacksmith, naturally, is to ask you to forge."

After taking out the snake tail and broken halberd that Leon had captured, the red-haired Director pointed at Leon and said with a straight face:

"Third Generation Lord, he is a cleaner who joined our branch last year. Just now, while executing a rescue mission, the anomalous object in his hand was destroyed, and now he lacks an offensive anomalous object."

"Do you think you can use these two things he captured as the main materials and customize a suitable one for him? If possible, one that doesn't consume much, one that an ordinary third-level cleaner can bear, and it would be even better if it could take into account future growth."

"Tsk... quite a lot of requirements!"

After muttering a sentence with a face full of displeasure, the square-headed old man stood up from his coffin, took the materials with a stinky face and began to examine them, then let out an "eh" of surprise.

"A True God's limb and weapon?"

After fiddling with the snake tail and the half-broken trident with his somewhat greenish hands, the square-headed old man's gaze fell on Leon for the first time, and he asked with a face full of confusion:

"This tail was just chopped off, right? Could it be that you ran into a True God's death match while executing a rescue mission?"

"Strange! You little fellow look so weak at first glance, and you are a newcomer who only joined the Cleanup Bureau last year. If you really stumbled into a battlefield where True Gods were fighting each other, I'm afraid you would have been killed by them in the time it takes to catch your breath. How could you capture such precious materials?"

"That's a long story."

After giving Leon a look that said "don't you dare pay attention to him," the red-haired Director quietly closed the square-headed old man's coffin lid, kicked the coffin on the ground far away, and then said with a smile:

"Third Generation Lord, while you help him forge things, I will tell you what happened. What do you think?"

(End of chapter)