The Highest Bounty

Chapter 203: Done Deal

When Elizabeth saw Gu Ding’s email, she immediately clicked on it. She did care about Gu Ding’s Ultimate Arts. If she could popularize it to the entire Hunter squad, it would be an effective blow to the Interstellar Pirates with high bounties.

When she opened the email, she saw that Gu Ding had not written much, just a few sentences. They basically told her that he did not need the Ultra Fire spark and wanted to make a deal for something else. Additionally, Gu Ding also told Elizabeth that the cultivation method of Ultimate Arts was extremely difficult and that people who had already begun cultivating the incomplete version of Ultimate Arts would not be able to cultivate it. Elizabeth was rather appreciative of his honesty.

Clicking on the attachment and seeing a long list of materials, Elizabeth’s smile turned into a wry one.

“Does that guy want us to do his shopping for him?” Midea, too, was speechless at the list. “Ninety-seven materials in total and five of them are Rank-13 genebeasts…”

“Let’s look at the list and see what we have. Then, we’ll get a rough estimate of what it’s worth.” Elizabeth gave the order and the rest got to work immediately.

About half an hour later, the warehouse had it all sorted out. Out of the ninety-seven materials, they had eighty-eight of them. As for the Rank-13 genebeasts, of course they did not have them. In actual fact, they were only four materials short of what Gu Ding and his crew wanted.

Elizabeth wrote the results in an email and included the estimated cost of the list in it. Most of the materials Gu Ding’s crew had put in the list were rare. Elizabeth knew at a glance why he wanted them–most of them were hard to buy.

Gu Ding, who had received Elizabeth’s reply, was pleased that most of the materials they needed were available. Nevertheless, when one added them up, they were worth far more than an Ultra Fire spark. There were not many materials, but because they were so rare, they added up to about six Ultra Fire sparks.

Gu Ding had Neptune reassess the price Elizabeth had given and it was actually reasonable. Elizabeth had quoted him with a price that was not too extravagant and most of the items were not valued at their highest auction price.

Elizabeth also made it clear in her letter that his version of Ultimate Arts was not worth that much, and that if they wanted the materials, they would have to exchange them for something else.

“Exchange those materials for something else? She’s the lord of a Cosmic Nation. Where are we going to find something that she doesn’t have?” After reading Elizabeth’s letter, Lilliath shook her head pessimistically.

“We have to take this opportunity to collect the materials. If we buy them one by one, we may not be able to gather all of them even after years.” Gu Ding was well aware that their list of rare materials was full of hard-to-get items, many of which Robert had listed before but were not available on many planets. “Neptune, is there any other way?”

“My Databank happens to have unlocked high-level restrictions since your promotion–I can access a large number of deity powers now. Even if she’s the lord of a 5-star Cosmic Nation, I believe she only has a limited number of Divine Connection powers.” Neptune finally had good news. “Tell her that we’ll exchange everything on the list for one defensive 2-star Divine Connection Tome and Ultimate Arts.”

The so-called Divine Connection powers were special abilities used by the deities. They could be evolved from original special abilities or directly formed through the cultivation of a Divine Connection Tome. Nevertheless, very few evolved their own special abilities and most deities obtained their Divine Connection powers through cultivating Divine Connection Tomes directly. Defensive powers were extremely rare in Divine Connection Tomes.

Gu Ding rephrased the email and sent a reply to Elizabeth once again.

“Divine Connection Tome?! He has a Divine Connection Tome, and it’s a defensive type?” Midea’s first reaction when she saw Gu Ding’s reply was utter shock.

“It seems like we still don’t know much about him. We’ve been paying attention to him, but we did not know that he owns a Divine Connection Tome.” Elizabeth was a little surprised too. She had paid close attention to Gu Ding from the very beginning and knew about almost every incident when he was in trouble. Hence, it was a little hard to understand where Gu Ding had managed to get the Divine Connection Tome from.

“It’s highly likely that he stole it from the Witch Tribe during his space-time backtracking encounter,” Midea voiced out her speculations. She could not think of any other place because they had paid attention to everywhere Gu Ding landed and everything he did.

“A 2-star Divine Connection Tome is similar in value to these materials which also means that the Ultimate Arts is free.” Elizabeth laughed covering her mouth. “We’ll profit from this deal.”

“That boy is pretty sensible, he did not ask us for more things.” Midea thought that Gu Ding was right to do this.

“I’m going to ask them what planet they’re going to stop by next and when they’re going to stop by there. Let’s try to close the deal as quickly as possible,” Elizabeth said and once again sent an email as a reply.

“The nearest administrative planet is about three hours away. Do you want to stop there?” Neptune, seeing Elizabeth’s email, inquired.

“Let’s stop there. The sooner we close the deal, the sooner we’ll feel at ease .” Gu Ding nodded.

“Are you not worried at all that she’ll attack us after she gets hold of the Divine Connection Tome?” Lilliath asked.

“No.” Gu Ding shook his head.

“Why?” Lilliath did not understand.

“That’s because I know that’s not who she is,” Gu Ding answered confidently.

After replying to Elizabeth with the time and place, Gu Ding immediately received a reply in return. “See you later!”

The planet that Gu Ding and his crew docked on was called Fister. It was an ordinary planet–just as inconspicuous as Cerule in the cosmos.

Their spaceship soon docked at the port. After getting off the spaceship, Gu Ding found it to be a peaceful planet.

At the port, the pace of life everyone was seeing moving in was slow and calm.

“We’re here! We’ll wait for you at the port.” Gu Ding sent a message to Elizabeth.

“I’ll be there soon!” Elizabeth replied quickly.

Gu Ding and his party found a tavern at the port. They sat down at an open-air table outside, ordered drinks, and waited patiently. At that time, it was already dark and the clear stary sky was a pleasant sight.

Before long, the nearby clouds in the sky began to change, slowly forming a vortex.

Moments later, a white light cut through the clouds and stopped on the ground. In the middle of the night, the scene seemed very unusual and attracted the attention of almost everyone who was dozens of miles around.

Under the white light, Gu Ding saw a woman in black robes slowly walking toward him. The brim of her huge, long gown obscured her face. This time, it was not a projection of her will, it was her original body. It was something Gu Ding had not thought of.

The people at the port looked dumbstruck at the woman walking out of the light. Many only reacted after a long while by saying, “A deity has just descended!”

Elizabeth soon found out where Gu Ding and his crew were and appeared before them in a flash.

Looking through the brim of her hood, Gu Ding saw her face for the first time in person. It was much more beautiful than in the photograph, and her disposition was very different under her black robes.

“There are too many people here. Let’s find a quieter place,” Elizabeth suggested.

Gu Ding’s original plan was to complete the deal right there, and they would each return to their respective places. However, he made no objections to Elizabeth’s suggestion. It was normal. No man could say no in her face.

However, Gu Ding agreed but not for that reason. It was because he noticed Elizabeth pulling down the brim of her hood in fear of being recognized.

They headed for a park near the port–it had fewer people and was perfect for a walk.

Once they were inside the park, Gu Ding found a spot in the field and sat down. “There’s nobody here, is that all right?”

“Are you not worried that I might attack you after getting my hands on the Divine Connection Tome?” Elizabeth asked Gu Ding the same question Lilliath had asked him.

“I wasn’t expecting you to ask me the same question as Lili.” Gu Ding laughed. “I’ll give you the same answer–no!”

“Why not? I’m a deity. I could easily kill off your crew,” Elizabeth added.

“I know that you are nothing of that sort. Just as you know, I’m not a heinous wretch,” Gu Ding spoke as if he knew Elizabeth well. “Besides, you gave me the Combat Armor. If it weren’t for our statuses, maybe we could be friends.”

“Friends…” The word seemed distant to Elizabeth. She looked up at the distant, starry sky. She fell silent as if recalling something.

“Let’s go on with the deal,” Gu Ding said after a while as he felt that she should have had more than enough time to recall what she wanted to remember.

Elizabeth handed over a wristwatch. “This is a wristwatch without a password. Though I know passwords can’t stop you, why don’t you count the variety and quantities of the items? Other than the purple energy crystals you use for cultivation, where you wanted ten thousand pieces, everything else is the same. I put one hundred thousand pieces of purple energy crystals inside instead. ”

Neptune instantly finished counting the items and immediately sent the Divine Connection Tome to Elizabeth’s mailbox.

Hearing a prompt in her mailbox for new messages, Elizabeth clicked on it and saw an attachment included within Gu Ding’s email. Just by glancing at two pages, she knew that the Tome was genuine.

“It’s a pleasure doing business with you! However, next time, we’ll be enemies.” Elizabeth turned away after frankly uttering those words.

“I know, I’ll try my best to escape Faye Cosmic Nation.” Gu Ding tossed the wristwatch into the air and caught it once more. After weighing it twice in his hand, he headed back for the tavern.