Chapter 3215: Risk Not Worth The Returns

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Azorheim, Temporal Cave Valley, Temporal Cave No. ES3030

There were three ways I could think of to stop the Seven Princes of Hell faction leaders from selling the rights to the Card World to the unknown Ruler Class force.

i) Outbid the unknown Ruler Class force and buy the rights to the Card World from the Seven Princes of Hell.

ii) Appeal to the Demon Merchant Code, claiming a conflict of ownership over the rights to the Card World.

iii) Capture all seven faction leaders of the Seven Princes of Hell dark faction and snatch the rights to the Card World from them.

I have to say, all three methods had their own pros and cons.

Outbidding the unknown Ruler Class force and buying the rights to the Card World from the Seven Princes of Hell seemed to be the simplest way, especially considering that my trip to the Realm of True Evil had brought me more fortune than I could spend.

Funny how just vegetation and parasite-infested fossils of the Star Turtle from the Realm of True Evil were worth multiple times the Demon Merchant Code’s transportation rights to the Card World.

No wonder no dark faction of the family even spared a glance at the rights to the Card World, despite them just sitting there in the Demon Merchant Code for several centuries. Especially after the failure of a notoriously famous semi-Ruler Class faction like the Ten Commandments, the risk-and-returns graph of the Card World had skewed. The risk wasn’t worth the returns anymore, making the Card World an undesirable investment for the Devil Merchants.

Instead of buying the rights to the entire realm, they left it as a more profitable open world. Instead of an entire organisation invading the realm, individual demon or devil merchants would simply travel to the Card World, looting it at their own risk.

Until a Devil Merchant, Belphegor, posing as a Demon Merchant, Ezra, ran into me. Hence, technically, if someone were to be blamed for causing the second demonic invasion of the Card World, then it was none other than me. And the addition of Corey only added fuel to the already burning fire.

So, it was kind of my responsibility to save the Card World from the second demonic invasion.

Be that as it may, buying the rights to the Card World from the Seven Princes of Hell Dark Faction was going to be hard.

The main reason was that our history made it impossible for the faction leaders to sell the rights to the Card World to me, especially when there was another buyer lined up who happened to be a Ruler-Class force.

Even if I were to outbid the amount the Ruler-Class force was willing to pay for the rights to the Card World, they wouldn’t agree to sell it to me. Because they wouldn’t risk offending a Ruler-Class force over a few pennies. I could bid twice the amount of the Ruler-Class force’s final bid and still not get the faction leaders to sell the rights to the Card World to me because the mysterious Ruler-Class force might have a reputation for being petty.

That goes to say that buying the rights to the Card World from the Seven Princes of Hell would not only require a lot of funds but also a big background, even if not on par with the Ruler-Class force I was bidding against, but at least enough to assure the Seven Princes of Hell that selling the rights to the Card World to me would not put them at odds with the unknown Ruler-Class force. Unless I could provide this assurance, they would rather sell the rights to the Card World to the Ruler-Class force at a loss.

I had the required wealth and strength but not the influence. However, I could borrow it. But the question was, who did I know who had the influence to keep a Ruler-Class force in check and whom I could trust enough to acquire the rights to the Card World with my money and then hand over the rights to the Card World without double-crossing me?

If it had been before I left for the Realm of True Evil, my answer would obviously have been that I knew no one who could influence a Ruler-Class force, forget about trusting them. But now, thanks to Dalie, I knew a force that could influence an unknown Ruler-Class force: the Snow Elven Empire. Since their new Empyrean happened to be my Bloodkin, I trusted them enough to help with this issue without double-crossing me.

Yes, even though the Snow Elven Empire was only a prominent semi-Ruler-Class force on the verge of becoming a Ruler-Class force, they had enough influence in the Dark Realm to compete in a bidding war with an unknown Ruler-Class force, thanks to their long history and alliance. The evidence of this was that they were able to monopolise all the Frosling in the Myriad Realms.

So, yes, if it were the Snow Elven Empire that had won the bid for the rights to the Card World against the unknown Ruler-Class force, then the faction leaders of the Seven Princes of Hell Dark Faction would not hesitate to sell the rights to the Card World to them.

Yes, with the death of the previous Snow Elven Empyrean, the theft of the Frosling Slaves, and the attack on the Heathen Stone Prison of the Snow Capital in the presence of their allies, the position of the Snow Elven Empire as the alliance leader had become shaky and the opportunistic ones were already making their moves seeing an opening.

However, now that the new Snow Elven Empyrean had become my Bloodkin and gained the prowess of the Primordial Calamity Daughter Gem, even though he was confined to the Heathen Stone Prison when in the Dark Realm, he was strong enough to overpower the whole alliance just by relying on his single perfect clone replacement.