Chapter 115: 320,000 Black Market Bounty!

After making a big detour, he deliberately chose a remote corner.

Ba Jin Si anchored his magic alchemy cottage on the abandoned landmark stone pillar outside the town.

At this moment, Ba Jin Si, observing the outside through the projection window inside his magic alchemy cottage, felt somewhat uneasy.

He both hopes that the immensely powerful human wizard will find him.

Judging by the other's performance, their level and strength are not proportional.

As long as the other is willing, Ba Jin Si believes that returning safely to Sheng Lan De is no problem.

But he also doesn't really want that human wizard to find him.

Because that guy is from 'La Mo Er'.

Everyone in Sheng Lan De knows that half a year ago, the Dark Sun Church destroyed La Mo Er.

This guy, who takes 'La Mo Er' as part of his name, obviously has an extraordinary relationship with La Mo Er.

And what he does happens to be related to the Dark Sun Church.

If the human wizard learns from that wanderer that he is connected to the Dark Sun Church...

Probably...

"You seem a bit worried!"

Ba Jin Si, who was pondering the problem, was startled by the sudden voice and jumped up directly.

The 'Howl' in his hand almost discharged.

"Damn...

But when he clearly heard that it was the human wizard's voice...

Ba Jin Si's anger, rising with a scrape scrape scrape, was forcibly suppressed by him.

"Can't get angry... can't get angry... if I really get angry, my life will be over."

Ba Jin Si frantically warned himself in his heart.

Ta Ke lightly exhaled and slowly said.

"That wanderer said everything that should and shouldn't be said."

"You work for the Dark Sun Church, right?"

Looking at the human wizard before him, who was examining him with cold eyes.

Ba Jin Si, feeling his life threatened, finally couldn't hold back.

He suddenly raised his steam hunting rifle, aimed at Ta Ke, and let out a loud roar.

"Yes, I work for the Dark Sun Church, but so what?"

"I was tricked into going there."

"Those damned bastards said there was an ancient treasure trove, wanting me to repair the Frontier Gate, and they'd give me extra bounty upon completion."

"But after arriving there, I realized they wanted me to repair a forsaken otherworldly gate."

"If I don't repair it, they'll smash my head with a hammer."

"I can only submit!"

"In the end, I escaped, but my apprentices all died."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Do you want to use La Mo Er's laws to sentence me to death for working for the Dark Sun Church?"

Ta Ke examined Ba Jin Si for a moment before slowly speaking.

"You might as well speak slower and supplement some details."

"What do you mean?"

Ba Jin Si examined Ta Ke, still not lowering his 'Howl'.

Ta Ke then leisurely pulled over a chair from the side, sat down, and maintained the same height as the dwarf alchemist.

"Some people are contaminated by Dark Sun merely because their bodies and extraordinary ecology are polluted in a Dark Sun environment, but they resist the contamination; leaving the Dark Sun area, after some time it will gradually dissipate."

"But others are contaminated because they accept Dark Sun's power from deep within their souls; that is a faith of spirit and will."

"If you belong to the latter, when I first saw you, you were already dead."

"Being coerced by Dark Sun to work for them for self-preservation, I can't see what wrong you have."

Ta Ke's words left the dwarf Ba Jin Si stunned in place.

After a while, he then put down his steam hunting rifle.

"Sorry, my temper is a bit bad, mainly because it's too... dangerous here."

"If I didn't like to prepare many means before an adventure, I'm afraid this time I would really be killed by the Dark Sun Church people."

"Sooner or later, I will use my Howl to smash several more Dark Sun Church members' dog heads."

After muttering complaints.

Ba Jin Si began recounting the series of encounters he experienced after being tricked from Sheng Lan De to the deep mountain caves behind Black River Valley.

Although partly due to his greed.

But as Ta Ke said, at least he does not believe in Dark Sun.

"They stalk relentlessly; even not working hard will get you beaten to death on the spot—my two apprentices were beaten to death right before my eyes."

"I can feel that those beasts never intended to let us leave alive."

"Fortunately, I hid an extremely powerful teleport scroll using my beard concealment method."

"When the progress reached a certain stage, we cleared the transit station, only to find a fallen dragon lord there; this caused many powerful individuals in Black River Valley to go."

"As an alchemy expert, I was also assigned to do hauling work and such."

"During a break from a rather ordinary work shift, I secretly took a few dragon scales and teleported away."

I originally thought I was doing it very covertly, but I was still discovered by him.

They began continuously searching for my position in this area.

Then... then it was just that my hiding was discovered by you.

After listening to the dwarf alchemist's explanation.

Ta Ke couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Truly a paradigm of wanting money but not life; even in that environment, he still thinks about dragon scales.

In this situation, Ta Ke only wanted to ask one thing.

"How many dragon scales did you steal?"

"What do you want to do?" the dwarf alchemist looked at Ta Ke somewhat warily.

"It's nothing, I'm just curious to ask." Ta Ke spread his hands.

"Three pieces!"

"What rank of dragon is that?"

"Fifth rank."

"A fifth-rank dragon isn't that high a level. It probably got injured, fled here, couldn't save itself, and eventually died." Ta Ke said that.

"Yes, that fifth-rank dragon had its abdomen torn open, the wound couldn't heal, and traces left on the scales and skeleton show that." The loud-mouthed Bajins confirmed Ta Ke's guess.

"Fifth rank, dragon bloodline, lord-level."

"Even if it's a human seventh-rank extraordinary being, if they're slow, they'll be skewered on the spot."

"Such a powerful existence still met a miserable death in a remote wasteland."

"Terrifying existences in the extraordinary world are still very numerous."

"Moreover, in the depths of the starry sky, there are also those indescribable existences."

Ta Ke sighed lightly.

Immediately, Ta Ke looked toward Bajins.

"A fifth-rank dragon, even after death, if the scales' characteristics gather together, there should be quite a few pairs of scales, right?"

"Yes!"

Bajins nodded.

"But those many scales will surely be stored in the safest place, the Black River Valley Steam High Tower."

"Hmm!"

Ta Ke just nodded with a calm expression; no one could tell what he was thinking.

Bajins still wanted to say something, but after thinking, he didn't say it.

"Your level is only 19 now; I'll continue to give you forging materials!"

"Once you reach second rank, we'll also be safer."

Bajins intends to continue fulfilling his contract, which would also make him more valuable.

"No problem, I was also just about to say that!"

Ta Ke nodded.

"Advancing earlier would indeed make us safer."

Opened the small door to the alchemy secret room.

As Bajins activated the source-energy steam engine, he set up the crucible.

Ta Ke also took out the second portion of leader-grade material.

"Are you really a person from Lamoer?" While adjusting the instruments, Bajins asked.

"What are you asking this for?"

"I'm just curious; you're so powerful, your extraordinary talent must be astonishingly high—why hadn't I heard of your name before?"

Ta Ke raised his eyebrows.

"The Lamoer steam knight 'Xiluoer', have you heard of her?"

"Of course I've heard of her."

Bajins raised his tone a few notches.

"A few months ago, in a duel among students of the Shenglande extraordinary academy, that steam knight Xiluoer pressed the opposing knight, who was one rank higher, to the ground—uh… you better not say, that knight's forehead is really hard, he smashed who knows how many reinforced marble slabs, yet still refused to yield."

Ta Ke laughed upon hearing that.

Xiluoer's personality is indeed very arrogant.

Doing such a thing is not surprising.

"Besides Xiluoer, there's another famous person from Lamoer; I don't know if you've heard of him."

"Who?"

"A guy called Ta Ke."

"Ta Ke?" Ta Ke's eyes narrowed slightly.

"That guy called Ta Ke… is he famous?"

"Of course…" Bajins chuckled.

"That guy is a 【blasphemer】; in the Shenglande underground city, even the gatekeeping dog knows about it."

"It is said that in the Shenglande black market, the blasphemer called "Ta Ke" has a bounty as high as 320,000 magic gold."

"320,000 magic gold? That high?" Ta Ke was stunned.

"Yes, that's exactly how high." Bajins nodded firmly.

"Many people are paying attention to Lamoer precisely because of the high bounty on the blasphemer from Lamoer."

So I'm strange; obviously your strength is astonishingly strong, and you also come from Lamoer, yet you have no fame at all?!

"Maybe...... it's because I haven't gone to Holy Orchid Virtue yet!" Take said lightly.

"Mmm...... there is indeed this possibility...... with your strength, going to Holy Orchid Virtue, you will surely become famous quickly." Bajinsi smiled.

In the midst of the discussion, Bajinsi quickly became immersed in the forging of chief-level materials.

Meanwhile, Take stood to the side, silently pondering this at the same time, while also waiting for his own chief-level materials that were about to be promoted.

The water of Black River Valley is very deep.

Just in the border town of Black River Valley, Take sensed that there were many undercurrents surging silently.

Only by promptly advancing to the second rank could Take swim like a dragon in this undercurrent.