Chapter 8

“I want to find a guy called ‘Blackbeard’; as for his appearance, it’s roughly like this.”

“As for the reward, I am willing to pay this much money; I wonder what rank of mission this counts as.”

As he spoke, Ace handed the portrait in his hand to Mirajane, then emptied all the money he had on him.

Because the matter was urgent and time was tight, Lin Cheng hadn't had time to hand over the money laundered by the hundred-plus puppets to Ace, so he could only control Ace to rob the rich and help the poor along the way.

However, robbing the rich to help the poor really makes money fast.

Lin Cheng controlled Ace to pull off a job on the side, a case of dog-eat-dog, and the money he obtained was quite a bit more than the monthly salary of a hundred puppets working diligently.

Accompanied by the sound of coins falling onto the tabletop, a small mountain of coins mixed with paper bills was dumped onto the table by Ace.

Instantly, the gaze of everyone in the hall was drawn over.

“So much money!”

Natsu said from the side with some excitement: “With this much money, I could eat grilled meat to my heart’s content.”

“This is not a small amount.”

“Let me see…”

Mirajane took a surprised look at Ace, ignored Natsu who was shouting not far away, and then began to calculate the amount of money on the table.

Since business had come to the door, there was certainly no reason to refuse.

After about a few minutes, Mirajane finished calculating, looked at Ace, and revealed a gentle smile that said ‘this is a big spender’, saying: “A total of 1.36 million J, is it just to find someone?”

“1.36 million J, that is at least an A-rank mission reward.”

In the Fairy Tail world, mission rewards are also divided into ranks.

S-rank missions require a minimum reward of 5 million J, or even some special items.

And Ace directly offered a reward of over a million J; without a doubt, it was not low.

Among A-rank mission requests, it was also a very generous one.

Plus, since it was just to find a certain person, a target with relatively high safety, it was definitely a top-tier request.

“Yeah, I only have this much money.”

“Then let’s entrust it to you in the form of an A-rank mission.”

Ace revealed a brilliant smile on his face and said: “By the way, I haven’t introduced myself yet.”

“I am a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, Second Division Commander, Portgas D. Ace; just calling me Ace is fine.”

The script had finally reached a key point.

Lin Cheng, who had been remotely controlling Ace from a distance, looked at Mirajane and the other Fairy Tail members within Ace’s line of sight, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

From the moment Lin Cheng controlled Ace to dump all the money on the table, the emotions of the surrounding Fairy Tail members were stirred by Lin Cheng’s actions.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining XXX emotion points.]

System prompts similar to this almost filled the entire notification panel.

If Lin Cheng hadn't already muted the notification sounds, he would probably have a splitting headache by now from the series of ‘ding-ding-ding’ sounds.

Almost all members of Fairy Tail were in the hall.

In just this short while, Lin Cheng’s emotion points went from five digits to six digits.

And Lin Cheng’s speculation was further confirmed: compared to ordinary people, strong individuals like mages can provide more emotion points, especially those mages with great strength.

Like Natsu, who is an A-rank Class Mage, he just provided Lin Cheng with nearly 4,000 emotion points at once.

However, these were just appetizers.

Lin Cheng hadn't just been waiting for the growth of emotion points over the past month; he had been planning every day how to harvest them.

Now, introducing himself through Ace’s mouth was a relatively critical point.

Of course, Lin Cheng also knew clearly that a simple self-introduction could never earn many emotion points; there needed to be a point of comparison.

And not long after, Phantom Lord, which had one of the Ten Wizard Saints sitting in command, was the best object for comparison.

‘Suddenly feeling a bit inexplicably excited.’

‘Next is the first big show to fool the entire Fairy Tail world.’

‘The Witch Cult was just a small test before; this time, it’s for real.’

Sitting at the tavern bar, a strange smile appeared at the corner of Lin Cheng’s mouth, causing Mengmeng, who had inadvertently glanced at him from not far away, to shiver instinctively.

However, when Mengmeng rubbed her eyes and looked again, everything became normal.

“I must have seen it wrong.”

Mengmeng carried the beer mug she had just filled and flew quickly toward the customer waiting for beer, muttering to herself: “How could Lin Cheng show such a terrifying smile?”

“Whitebeard Pirates, Second Division Commander, Mr. Portgas D. Ace?”

“Mr. Ace, are you actually a pirate?”

After hearing Ace’s words, Mirajane’s expression froze.

In Fairy Tail, things like pirates also exist, and they are symbols of illegality and evil.

Although their situation is not like dark Class Mage guilds, which are like rats crossing the street that everyone shouts to beat, it is not much better.

Not to mention coming to a light Class Mage guild to post a mission so openly; Mirajane felt that this Mr. Ace, who looked a bit abnormal, was joking.

Thinking of this, Mirajane smiled helplessly: “I’m afraid Mr. Ace, you don’t know our current situation; our Fairy Tail is currently in an all-out war with Phantom Lord.”

“As for the current situation, you have seen it, sir.”

“So, it’s actually not safe here; if you want to eat, Mr. Ace…”

Mirajane prepared to persuade Ace to leave, and was not even prepared to accept Ace’s request for the time being.

After all, Fairy Tail was currently in an all-out war with Phantom Lord and was at an absolute disadvantage.

There was really no extra energy to deal with the request.

She could only wait until the dust settled to see if Ace would still be willing to entrust the mission to Fairy Tail.

However, before Mirajane could finish speaking, everyone present could clearly feel the ground beneath their feet shake violently.

Even before people could react, the ground shook again, and this time, the movement was even more violent than before; one could even see small stones on the ground being shaken into mid-air.

Mirajane’s face changed, instantly becoming extremely ugly.

“Everyone…”

Before Mirajane could say anything, a girl not far away with long scarlet hair, looking exceptionally heroic, like a Valkyrie, suddenly waved her hand and shouted loudly: “Everyone, go to an open area!”