Chapter 365: Two Hundred and Eighty Billion

As Saint Saint Saiwen unveiled the layers of his years-long scheme, Harald's pupils contracted sharply, his eyes filled with shock.

"Even the Red Count... is also your man?"

"How on earth did you do it?!"

It was not that Harald was inferior to the Red Count, but Harald knew well the arrogance of top-tier powerhouses.

For the Red Count, relying solely on his own strength, could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Luo Jie of the Luo Jie Pirates and Whitebeard of the Whitebeard Pirates.

As the supreme lone overlord of the seas after the end of the Rocks era, the Red Count's style of coming and going alone was known throughout this sea.

Looking across the entire sea, almost no one would dare entertain the thought of subduing the Red Count.

Such an arrogant, domineering, lone-wolf monster could never possibly submit to another.

How could anyone be willing to expend great effort and rashly attempt something that was absolutely impossible from the root?

Yet Saint Saint Saiwen not only did it, but actually succeeded.

"Here." Saint Saint Saiwen took out a pure gold ring.

"Pure gold, the pure gold that can keep one eternally youthful and grant immortality."

Upon hearing these words, Harald finally understood how Saint Saint Saiwen had invited the Red Count aboard.

For a powerhouse like the Red Count, the only weakness was lifespan, and pure gold happened to remedy this weakness.

Before the prospect of immortality, what arrogance of coming and going alone, what "Lofty Red," could all be ignored.

"You have... quite a few good things in your hand."

Harald did not have a particularly urgent desire for pure gold, as the Giant race already possessed a lifespan three times that of humans.

Harald, currently 142 years old, if converted to human age, would not even reach fifty.

However, the other Giant elders...

Such as Elder of Elbaf and Giant hero Yamahige: Senior Aruru, who is now 340 years old.

"Saint Saint Saiwen, you... you..."

Rarely seeing Harald with a shy expression, Saint Saint Saiwen was greatly surprised and simultaneously felt a surge of playfulness.

"One gram of pure gold, a few years ago the Celestial Dragons offered two hundred billion Berries; accounting for inflation, I'll calculate it for you at three hundred billion Berries."

"How many do you want?"

Harald's throat moved.

"Three hundred billion..."

Just to sustain the lifespans of Senior Aruru and the other, it would require six hundred billion Berries... Even so, this price placed in the outside world would likely still see countless people fighting until their heads bled.

After all, it is immortality.

Even if Saint Saint Saiwen raised the price to one hundred billion Berries, it would be entirely reasonable, with nothing excessive about it.

A pure gold ring, valued at only three hundred billion Berries; this favor, Harald must acknowledge no matter what.

But Elbaf at present simply cannot produce this huge sum.

Time passed quietly, and Harald's heart gradually became active: after all, he already owed Saint Saint Saiwen a huge debt anyway; adding a bit more seemed to make no difference.

At worst, let Loki go work for the Morning Star Group to offset the debt.

If Loki alone is not enough, then add Hordain to go as well.

Elbaf has many Giant warriors under its banner; simply send them all to serve under Saint Saint Saiwen.

Adopting a human-wave tactic of working to repay the debt, there will surely be a day when all debts are cleared.

"Two, I want two pure gold rings."

"Eh?" Saint Saint Saiwen blinked his eyes: "Just kidding. Two, right? Here."

Handing the two pure gold rings to Harald, Saint Saint Saiwen specifically added a reminder.

"Remember to keep it secret; I do not wish news of pure gold in my possession to leak out."

With Saint Saint Saiwen's current strength, even holding pure gold, he would have no fear of anyone coming to covet and snatch it.

But once the news spreads, there will be no peaceful days to speak of thereafter.

For before the temptation of immortality, no being in the world can escape; all will fall into madness, resorting to any means to swarm over.

Saint Saint Saiwen is not afraid, but what about those around him?

What about the big fat son born to Yamato in the future?

"Rest assured." Harald patted his chest to guarantee, then quickly added a sentence.

"Including today's six hundred billion, I have owed you... two hundred and eighty billion Berries in total."

The reason Harald was willing to pay six hundred billion to purchase two pure gold rings was that he was arranging his affairs.

In the unlikely event that he perished during the rebellion, with Senior Aruru and the other two elders present, Elbaf would not fall into turmoil because of it.

No matter how you put it—

After Harald became the Giant King, he worked for many years to drag Elbaf out of the quagmire; it cannot fall back into the abyss because of his demise.

To this, Saint Saint Saiwen could only wave his hand and say.

"No rush; speak of it when you have money."

In terms of Berries controlled, Saint Saint Saiwen might not be number one in the pirate world, but if the value of those several tons of pure gold is calculated, Saint Saint Saiwen is not only the richest pirate.

Even on the trading platform.

Probably only Dragon Ball users who control the Senzu Bean cultivation technique, and users of Green Grass backed by King Grey Wolf, could be compared with Saint Saint Saiwen.

Of course, there is also Warhammer World user Warhammer Girl, who cannot be judged by ordinary logic. Anyone else is simply trash.

Those who cannot even afford a pure gold ring priced at one million points are all trash!

Saint Saint Saiwen still said the same thing.

This generation of transmigrators is truly no good.

After giving Harald a few more instructions, Saint Saint Saiwen left the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Mythical Zoan Type: Nidhogg form, behind and departed through the spatial portal.

Watching Saint Saint Saiwen leave, Harald plopped down and let out a long sigh of relief.

He then quickly retrieved the list of Elbaf warriors, pondering who besides Loki and Haidin should be sent to work in Inazuma to pay off the debt.

Two hundred and eighty billion Berries is no small sum.

With Elbaf's current fiscal revenue, it would take a full twenty years of eating and drinking nothing to completely repay this massive debt.

And that doesn't even include the interest!

At first, Harald thought Saint Saint Saiwen had set him up, but upon learning Inazuma's annual fiscal revenue, he finally realized the truth.

Saint Saint Saiwen was simply accustomed to spending lavishly and didn't regard the two hundred billion Berries as anything significant.

Indeed, Inazuma monopolizes Sea Prism Stone products on the high seas, Hone Island has gold mines, and even the legendary Land of Gold lies within Saint Saint Saiwen's territory.

With such vast assets, two hundred billion Berries truly meant nothing to Saint Saint Saiwen.

But for Elbaf, this was an astronomical figure.

"It's truly maddening to compare people."

Before long, Harald suddenly realized there was something even more important to do.

He hurriedly summoned the two elders, Aruru and Aruru, and explained the origin of the two pure gold rings, as well as the two hundred and eighty billion debt owed to Saint Saint Saiwen.

Hearing these words, Kiruru scratched his head.

"Working to pay off the debt is a good idea, but if all the warriors go out to work, who will build Elbaf?"

Aruru, however, smiled and accepted the pure gold rings.

"Saint Saint Saint Saiwen my lord does not seek this; what he wants is Elbaf's loyalty."

"The more we owe, the more at ease Saint Saint Saint Saiwen will be."