'That little thief... is just as I expected. He is a third force besides Black Dream and Sea Abyss. We were fooled by them at the beginning... I really don't know how they obtained so much valuable information quietly and planned this...
"Although these daring thieves don't deserve to die, what I didn't expect is that they stole my Fountain of Youth not for themselves, nor for me, but for the afterbirth and Haiyuan? The purpose of getting the Fountain of Youth... was to exchange the afterbirth and Haiyuan's information with me, or even to pass on secret information... This situation is really a bit unexpected... I don't know where Haiyuan got his enemies from."
'Those little thieves need the secrets of Haiyuan and the afterbirth, probably because they want to conduct a deeper study on them. They want intelligence and definitely want to continue to sabotage Haiyuan... Haiyuan, who knows the situation of the nun in the church, is always a big threat to me. If I can stop those little thieves from causing trouble for Haiyuan without making any noise, it will also be in my interest.
"The church, the little thief, Haiyuan... and maybe even Black Dream... I am now... between these parties, and the little thief and the church are obviously hostile to Haiyuan. If I operate properly later, I may not only be able to regain the Fountain of Youth that originally belonged to me from the little thief, but I may even be able to obtain more spring water from Haiyuan..."
Sitting on the sofa, Edward thought carefully in his mind. At this time, he was accustomed to thinking about how to use the current relationships between the parties to make things for himself. After knowing that the main target of the thieves who stole the fountain of youth was not himself but Haiyuan, he did not hate the other party so much for a while. If Haiyuan really taught him Vanya's handle and forced him to do something dangerous in the future, he might be able to use the little thief to secretly trick Haiyuan.
After thinking it over, Edward immediately packed up all the paper tapes and telegrams at the scene, dealt with all the traces at the scene, then waved at the little monster on the coffee table that was torturing the ghost from time to time, and then slowly stood up. After seeing Edward's actions, the little monster immediately opened its mouth, sucked all the ghosts floating at the scene into its mouth in one breath, and finally drilled directly under Edward's cloak and followed him out of the room.
On the other side, in Adria, after Dorothy finished the telegram communication with Edward, she controlled the corpse to deal with the scene and then left the Whitestone Masons Guild. When she left, she left nothing except the money she paid and about 100 pounds for communication fees.
"Heh... Edward is probably guessing that my real target is Haiyuan and Afterbirth. This is good. I will show him my 'real intention' a little bit. If I trade with someone who can guess my purpose a little bit, he will feel a little more at ease."
Sitting on a chair in the cafe, Dorothy drank tea while thinking in her heart that the main purpose of her transaction with Edward was to obtain the secret teachings of the "Cup" to replenish her spirituality. However, when asking for the price, she did not directly say that she needed the secret teachings of the "Cup", but the secret teachings related to the Abyss and the afterbirth. This would give Edward an illusion that his real target was the Abyss Church, and that stealing her Fountain of Youth was just to force him to cooperate with her to fight against the Abyss.
Of course, Dorothy was not completely without ideas about the Abyss and the Afterbirth. All the previous signs showed that the Afterbirth seemed to be planning something, and they were always thinking about Vanya. It would be better if she could get some information about the Afterbirth and the Abyss from Edward.
After finalizing the business deal with Edward, Dorothy took a short break, then took out her "Wenhai Hangzhi" and placed it on the table. After opening it, she found the communication page belonging to a clockwork man, and after thinking for a while, she picked up a pen and wrote on it.
"Hello? Are you there? Have you had lunch?"
"I'm doing an experiment, so I don't have time. I just changed the spring a few days ago. After tightening it in the morning, I won't be hungry for the whole day. What do you want?"
Underneath Dorothy's handwriting, neat printed words appeared almost instantly, and Dorothy continued writing after seeing them.
"Nothing else, just the usual question of how your asset accounting is going? Are my assets enough for collateral?"
"Oh, well, I asked my subordinates to speed up the progress, and it's almost done now. After a full calculation, it turns out to be around 27,000 pounds. We are still 13,000 pounds short of the price to rent the blessed object~" Beverly's response quickly appeared in Dorothy's eyes. Looking at the result, Dorothy couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, and then she wrote quickly.
"Only 27,000 pounds? You didn't make a mistake in your calculations, did you? Mazar is the crown prince of a country, and his entire assets are only this much?"
"For an individual member of the royal family, twenty-seven thousand pounds is not a small amount. You have to think about the fact that there are so many people in the Baruch royal family, and the royal wealth is divided up by those princes one by one. In fact, no one gets much. Mazar, with his status, is the one who gets the most. What else do you want?"
Beverly responded to Dorothy's direct writing. Dorothy paused after reading it, and after thinking about the large group of princes and grandchildren of Adus, she couldn't help but feel a little relieved. After hesitating for a while, she continued to write.
"The difference of 13,000 pounds... I can't come up with that much money right away... Xiaobei, we have been friends for a long time, can you give us a little less? It's just a deposit after all. You've already given me so much less before, so a little more won't matter. I promise to return it to you in good condition after I pay you back."
Dorothy kept asking Beverly to write with a bargaining tone, and before long, the other party's response appeared on the paper.
"Okay, since you said that, I'll adjust the price with you. The previous rent was 10,000 and the deposit was 30,000. Now I'll change it to 13,000 and the deposit is 17,000. How about 30,000 pounds? This deposit is already symbolic. If it's any lower, I won't be able to argue with you."
Seeing Beverly's latest reply, Dorothy couldn't help but feel relieved. The other party only increased the rent by three thousand and reduced a large deposit. This was still acceptable to Dorothy now. In addition to Mazar's assets, she only needed to pay an additional three thousand pounds. This money was used as collateral, so she could also directly use some uncommon extraordinary props as collateral, so it was easy to solve.
"My friend, please help me prepare your blessed objects now. I may come to pick them up soon." Dorothy wrote on the page, and the other party responded very readily.
"Sure. As long as you pay the full amount, the items will be delivered to our bases in major cities immediately. The rental period is one month. As long as you don't damage them or do anything that harms the Craftsmen's Guild, you can do whatever you want... Oh, and you can also do anything that desecrates the core of the Order, but that's another matter if you can afford a fine of tens of millions of pounds."
"So in your craftsman's guild, the serious crime of blasphemy against the gods can also be exempted by paying a fine? However, the size of this fine...even the national finances of the big countries on the continent can't afford it..."
Looking at Beverly's response, Dorothy complained in her heart, and then after thinking for a while, she continued to write on the pages of the book.
"By the way, do you guys have a method for making a divine object?"
"Huh? Making a divine object?"
"That's right. It's the method of praying for the blessing of God and creating a divine object. A divine object is not something that can be created so easily. It should have some kind of...special ceremony..." Dorothy wrote on Beverly's communication page. After several failed experiments in creating a divine object by herself, she realized that she was lacking some key creation ritual.
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