Chapter 297: "My Dear Father"
In the dim room, the young boy in pajamas tugged at his clothes, with a look of extraordinary dependence in his eyes.
…The young boy stared at him as if he were a trusted elder, his hand unwilling to let go as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.
Su Mingan had already guessed about his identity...how could he be an ordinary down-and-out nobleman?
Whether it was the priceless At Stone hidden in the room, or judging from his previous experience...his identity couldn't be that simple.
And now.
The Grand Duke of the At Empire, the highest-ranking noble on the At, pulled me aside and said, "Everything is his order"?
He sat down, next to the bed, and stared at the young boy.
The young boy's eyes were very ignorant, like a child who has not grown up yet. Considering his age, he looked more like an aristocratic child who was bewitched by Su Lin.
...Then, what did Su Lin rely on to seduce the other party?
"Puller is dead." Su Mingan spoke first. He wanted to see the other party's reaction.
To his surprise, the other party seemed very happy.
"Really?" The young boy smiled and said, "Then we have one less obstacle. Congratulations."
Obstacle?
Su Mingan understood.
Pule, who is responsible for protecting the Duke, is not one of the Duke's own in his eyes.
This can only mean that... Puller is not loyal to the Duke. The object of Puller's loyalty may be the empire itself.
Then he didn't do anything wrong and killed his own people.
"My Lord," the young boy suddenly said, "everything is going quite smoothly. When those hunters are driven off the ship, I will give you all the Ater Stones you want..."
Su Mingan thought about it.
"Stone of Art, do you still have it?" he asked.
"You need it now? Please wait a moment." The young boy jumped off the bed and ran directly to the next room, looking very respectful of his order.
Su Ming'an followed the Duke to another room and watched him enter a password. With a "click", the door opened.
The Duke opened the door.
Su Mingan was a little surprised.
The condition of the Art Stone inside the door... was completely different from the previous ones he had.
Among them, the most different point is the size.
The Stone of Art he owned was a small piece, like a transparent gem, which could be stuffed into clothes or in a suitcase.
But the Stone of Art in front of him was being held up by a huge stone.
The boulder almost occupied the entire room, holding up the small Stone of At to a height close to the ceiling. The entire boulder was like a giant tray.
There was a ladder covered with a soft carpet nearby. The Duke climbed up, put on gloves, and then carefully took down the small piece of Stone of At that was supported by the boulder.
"This is the one I currently own." The Duke climbed down the ladder and handed him the Ater Stone, his eyes full of expectation, like a child eager for praise: "The rest are in the cargo hold, and they need the permission of the Soul Clan Hunter to be mobilized. You have to be careful. Without these Qatar boulders, the energy in the Ater Stone will dissipate within a day... Oh, yes, but if it's you, these energies should be fine."
Su Mingan saw that from the moment the Stone of At was taken down, it began to emit white gas, like ice melting.
The moment he took the Stone of Art, the steam coming out of the stone disappeared immediately, and the Stone of Art lay quietly in the palm of his hand, like an ice soul that never melts all year round.
The prompt of the system interface appeared in front of him.
[*You have obtained a special item (Stone of Art)]
[Stone of Art: ...]
[Number of uses: 2/2]
…
Just like before, the same hints indicated that the Stones of At that he had obtained successively were not any different, they were all the same thing.
However, the storage conditions required for this Art Stone were so extreme. If it was placed on such a large stone tray, the energy would dissipate once it was removed.
After thinking for a moment, Su Mingan figured it out.
The Stone of At probably originally needed this kind of storage method. It needed the huge Qatari stone to maintain its energy, a huge storage area, and this huge "At" to transport it.
It's not something you can just throw in a suitcase.
However, the energy of the Ater Stone, which would have dissipated once it left the Qatar Stone, stabilized when it touched his hand, and could be easily placed in a suitcase.
Even if he put the Stone of At aside again, its energy would no longer dissipate.
……I see.
Do you have a special ability that you can hide? Something like the ability to store gemstone energy?
This ability is very strange and should be related to one's identity.
The originally somewhat strange point was suddenly connected, and Su Mingan immediately understood the entire plan.
Once the nobles abandon the Ater in order to save their lives, the Ater Stone will inevitably be abandoned as well.
Because something this large cannot be taken onto a lifeboat.
The energy of the Stone of At will dissipate quickly. Once the energy dissipates, it will be no different from an ordinary piece of broken stone.
With the Duke's call, giving up the Stone of At is not an impossible thing.
Su Lin, the impoverished nobleman, was forced to stay on the ship because he could not get a lifeboat. After the only obstacle - the three Soul Clan hunters loyal to the empire - all left, he could completely control the At with his "certain power".
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