Chapter 109

Luo Ning also showed a hint of an embarrassed smile; this negotiation was also not beyond his expectation.

There's no way; Dalaran's collection, especially concerning the guardians and forbidden spells, simply cannot be handed over.

Moreover, taking it away for people to view is basically impossible.

Moreover, speaking frankly, Dalaran isn't particularly eager to obtain the floating city; if the other side truly refuses, there's no need to pay such a high price to acquire this special energy.

"Mr. Luode, actually if both sides trade this special cloud, we Dalaran can also offer a high price.

"For example, gold coins, silver coins, or others; the magical items we Dalaran produce can all be traded." Luo Ning spoke.

If both sides treat it as a commodity purchase, it's actually more advantageous for Dalaran; magical tomes and such are still not likely to be handed over from Dalaran's perspective.

Being able to agree to let Luode go to Dalaran for reading and study is already a very good condition.

"Just leave it like this for now, Mr. Luo Ning; I currently have no intention of trading with your Dalaran." Luode shook his head and spoke.

Just kidding, the current Dalaran mages aren't pushed to the extreme, but once a large number of floating fortresses appear among the Horde.

The pressure will fall on the Alliance side, and the Alliance will transfer this pressure to Dalaran; a balance must be formed between the Horde and the Alliance.

If the Horde possesses a new weapon while the Alliance does not, then all Alliance races would not be allowed.

After they chatted a few more words, Luo Ning directly took his leave; after all, this Archmage could see that he wasn't particularly welcome here.

That night deep in the Queen's palace, Sylvanas and Luode lay side by side.

The Queen covered herself with a purple transparent blanket, revealing her lovely figure, perfect physique, and faintly visible silhouette before Luode.

"These Dalaran mages remind me of the arrogant and rude mage nobles from Silvermoon City before." Sylvanas, lying in Luode's embrace, spoke.

Isn't that right? As a former Ranger General, she led her ranger troops, which were actually looked down upon by these mages.

These high-and-mighty mage lords simply won't understand the common folk's thoughts; what they want is basically just to speak up.

They even feel that demanding your things is a great act of charity; you should proactively offer them.

"Hehe! They will come looking for me." Luode spoke.

"I know your thoughts; once the Horde's floating city takes flight, the Alliance will surely become very tense.

"By then Dalaran will either rejoin the Alliance and become its military force, or Dalaran must help the Alliance build a floating city." Sylvanas spoke.

"Yes, that's my plan; by then they'll have no choice but to come to me to buy this special flame cloud." Luode spoke.

"I want to remind you, Luode, I had some of my mages calculate; you and Kaido together producing flame clouds.

"At most it can support four floating cities; any more and you two would have to work nonstop, even producing flame clouds 24 hours a day." Sylvanas spoke.

Although it only requires expending stamina, moving your fingers can knead this special cloud into shape.

But for two people working 24 hours a day, the amount they can produce each day actually has a numerical limit.

Four floating fortresses are their limit: one for the blood elves, one for the Forsaken, one for the Horde side, and another estimated to go to the Beasts Pirates.

If that's the case, selling these flame clouds would mean the output is insufficient and cannot keep up.

"I've considered this; you're right, given my and Kaido's current abilities.

"At most we can sustain the consumption of four floating cities; any more and we two couldn't bear it. Actually I also have another method or idea for making a floating city." Luode spoke.

Actually, regarding the floating city, Luode still has a new idea, but this method requires using one of the Four Emperors, Big Mom Charlotte Linlin.

She is a Soul-Soul Fruit user; if a soul is given to a huge floating city, it can become a living, flying city that can run around.

Or put another way, Kaido and Luode produce a huge sheet of flame clouds, then compress them, letting Charlotte Linlin imbue the clouds with a soul, turning them into thunderclouds like Zeus.

At that point, this special living cloud itself can support a floating city.

However, this requires Charlotte Linlin to act personally; the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit has already been developed to the utmost by her, unlike some nun who can only play with children.

The ability of a fruit sometimes also depends on its user; if you give a weak person an extremely powerful fruit, they still won't become a peerless master.

Now, if Charlotte Linlin's Soul-Soul Fruit were taken out, frankly Luode doesn't have a very suitable person to inherit this fruit.

To use this fruit, one must possess strong soul power; moreover, even if one's talent is sufficient, wanting to imbue a huge floating city with a soul, or to imbue a huge flame cloud with a soul.

It is quite difficult; only Charlotte Linlin can do this. If the queen hadn't eaten the Yellow Spring Fruit, she could indeed eat the Soul-Soul Fruit, a pity.

Luode told Sylvanas his idea in full detail.

"Your idea is not bad; Charlotte Linlin's soul ability can indeed be used this way; she herself has created a fireball Prometheus and a thundercloud Zeus." Sylvanas nodded and said.

"Even an ordinary flame and a cloud can be endowed with power by him, let alone the flame clouds you and Kaido produced, or, according to your idea, let her directly imbue a floating city with a soul." Sylvanas nodded and said.

This method is indeed feasible; the Soul-Soul Fruit is truly useful, but among my subordinates, there really aren't any top-tier experts who can develop this fruit.

"This is the hardest point: if Charlotte Linlin were made into a death knight, her fruit ability would have to be stripped; even using a demon enslavement contract would require stripping her Soul-Soul Fruit ability." Luode said.

"Perhaps we can make some threats." Sylvanas rolled her eyeballs and said.

She suddenly thought of a possibly viable method. "Nothing can threaten him; her children, in her presence, are utterly insignificant, she wouldn't care whether they live or die." Luode shook his head and said.

"We shouldn't threaten her children, but rather threaten her own life and freedom. Sometimes we need to state some negotiation conditions." Sylvanas said.

"Oh! Then, Queen, please instruct me." Luode said while stroking Sylvanas's thigh.

"She indeed isn't willing to submit to you, so we can negotiate terms with her; now Whitebeard and Kaido can completely suppress her, so we don't need to worry that she'll cause trouble after gaining freedom."

Even she can be re-arrested anytime, anywhere; you can first talk terms with him.

"Let her work for you, set a time limit—for example, like me, any few years are fine—and promise her that once the time is up, her freedom will be returned." Sylvanas said.

The time limit of that previous treaty between myself and Luode can now even be said to be optional; if nothing unexpected happens, Sylvanas will choose to keep following Luode.

When Luode demonstrates enough power and brings Charlotte Linlin enough benefits, you won't even need to say much; she will voluntarily surrender to you.

"That's actually a good idea: bring her to the Azeroth world, let her see this new world, then agree on a three-year period with her; after three years, I'll release her." Luode said.

By then Luode won't believe Charlotte Linlin will leave voluntarily, because when the benefits are great enough, anyone will change; you failed to sway the opposition because your chips aren't enough! "Moreover, I don't know if you've noticed, Kaido has a special brother-sister affection toward Charlotte Linlin; although he suppresses her greatly, I can see it."

"Killing her would affect some of Kaido's mindset. You must learn to listen to your subordinates' thoughts." Sylvanas said.

"Hmm! I understand." Luode nodded and said, while at the same time one hand also rested on the queen's purple thigh.

"Want something stimulating?" the Banshee Queen said, then lifted the purple blanket.

"Of course, my queen." Luode lifted Sylvanas's chin and said.

As the pink aura inside the house grew thicker, both of their voices began to grow hurried.

Suddenly a violent spatial fluctuation came, breaking this ambiguous atmosphere.

"What's going on?" Xi'erwanasi immediately jumped up from the bed, threw on a sheer robe, and asked.

What intense spatial fluctuations! This feeling is just like! Just like! Over twenty years ago, when the Dark Portal opened.

"Our awaited moment has finally come, sorry, Your Majesty, Queen, but tonight our exciting game probably can't be played." Luode also quickly put on his clothes, picked up his staff, and headed toward the Dark Portal.

Opportunity must not be lost, once lost it never comes again!

After arriving before the Dark Portal, Luode without hesitation began to pour his own mana into it, simultaneously connecting with Leitesen on the other side.

"Mentor, it's time—now open the Dark Portal, quick! Let's get to work." Luode said.

On the other side of the Dark Portal, a voice slowly came through.

"I understand, Luode—I will now conduct the door-opening ritual, sending spatial energy inside; the spatial anchor is already in place, let's begin!" Leitesen of the pirate world also nodded and spoke.

Both sides began to exert force simultaneously; Leitesen and Luode began to simultaneously input power into the Dark Portal, and a huge deep-blue fluctuation began to appear on the Dark Portal.

Luode's left-behind positioning, which can connect the spatial coordinates of the two worlds, also began to take effect; the spatial anchors of the Aizelasi World and the pirate world were positioned together, and with Luode's power to traverse time and planes they were connected.

At this moment, a huge disturbance also came from the Dark Portal; at this moment, Xi'erwanasi also rushed over with a large number of mages from Gloomy City, immediately raising a magical barrier to seal off the spatial aura here.

"Get to work, Luode! I will do my best to help you seal off the spatial aura—outside there is such a huge disturbance." Xi'erwanasi said.

Is this the opportunity Luode has been waiting for? I never expected someone would actually reopen the Dark Portal—this is indeed a good opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime good opportunity.

"I still need some time, don't worry—I have mastered spatial energy very well; under my control, not much spatial energy will leak out." Luode said.

At this moment, ripples began to spread across the Dark Portal, green light began to appear, space has been connected, and now a huge interworld portal is being built, forming a permanent road crossing the two worlds.

Luode gently controlled the spatial energy, the spatial gem energy within two magic crystals was extracted; unlike the demon Kezhake forcibly opening the Dark Portal, consuming vast demonic energy and life force, Luode here uses the purest spatial energy.

It is both stable and safe, and under Luode's control, excess spatial energy will not leak out.

There is also a huge spatial fluctuation outside. Moreover, one would not imagine that on the Gloomy City side, a Dark Portal is also being opened simultaneously.

Luode's chosen timing is simply perfect.

The huge portal, at this moment burst forth a blinding strong light, ripples like splashing water appeared.

Luode clearly saw another world, the other side's Leitesen, and a large number of Beast Pirates members; at their forefront was Beast Kaido, and also the Death Knight Baihuzi.

"Hehehe! Hahaha, Luode, you brat finally opened this Dark Portal—we should now be able to come over, right?" Kaido, standing opposite the Dark Portal, excitedly asked.

"That's right, Father-in-law! Now the portals on both sides are open. You can come over, bring all the Beast Pirates members with you!" Luode said.

At this moment, the Dark Portal has completely stabilized, connecting the pirate world and the Aizelasi World.

"Hahaha!" With a loud laugh, Kaido was the first to cross the Dark Portal, followed immediately by the other Beast Pirates members and the Death Knight Baihuzi.

The Beast Pirates' people all looked curiously at this new world, a truly new world.

On the other side, whether Alliance or Horde, or any other immensely powerful beings, all felt it—beneath Stormwind City, the Dark Portal had been reopened.

The Burning Crusade began, and nobody realized that another world had also connected with Aizelasi.

(End of chapter)