Jiang Shuang vigorously nodded.
Lucia took back her gaze and slightly nodded.
"Miss Lucia truth be told, as an Alchemist who had researched on physical bodies of various creatures if I really want and use my innate pupil technique then I can not only see your race but even your subspecies, but I respected your privacy, trusted you and didn't try to look further that's why I also expect Miss Lucia to have some trust in me, not even telling the race to me is something I didn't like that much," Rex said with a serious expression, somewhere deep he was really dissatisfied with it.
When Rex said this, he really wished that Lucia quickly interrupt him and tell him her subspecies, he wanted to know if she had long rabbit ears or fluffy fox tail. He was serious on the surface but was excited from deep within, so excited that he was barely holding back himself.
[Divine Words activated]
'What the…' Rex was dumbfounded when he saw the skill getting activated out of nowhere, his inner dissatisfaction and excitement disappeared in the next instant.
Rex almost forgot about this second Legendary Rank skill, it was an auto-active type skill that feeds on emotions to work, he was only able to activate it once and now was his second time.
'Well, at least now she would tell me her subspecies,' Rex thought but contrary to his expectations Lucia just bowed and didn't say anything.
'Did this skill got rusty? It even made Lerna stop for a moment at that time,' Rex thought.
[The skill just makes the targets believe what you say, it's more like hypnotizing someone's subconscious mind by mere words. At that time you told Lerna to stop and she stopped for the time the skill was active, the emotions the skill consumed were only enough for a powerhouse like her to stop for a moment.
Right now, the skill should have worked but the only thing it would have done is to let her know that you can see her subspecies if you want, that you felt dissatisfied when she didn't tell you about her race and you are not lying about it,]
'So tell me if at that time I had told her to kiss me as an apology then…' Rex said.
[Who knows? if the input was enough then….]
Rex smiled awkwardly, he was just joking earlier who knew it could do it. If he was really serious about doing something like that then he had Hallukinesis and Mind Control at his disposal.
'Dammit! why isn't it an active skill? If it was, then I would just tell my enemy that accept defeat and they would accept defeat without fighting,' Rex thought.
[If it was an active skill, then it's grade would be higher than Legendary,]
"Let's put an end to this matter for now, so Miss Lucia tell me are you interested in going to Beast God Temple with me? I will be taking Lerna there for the inheritance, if you want you can also come with us and acquire the inheritance," Rex said.
Lucia thought for a while then shook her head.
"I don't need anything at the moment, I would save this chance for the time when I encounter a bottleneck or when I am at a higher cultivation stage," Lucia said.
"I see, then Miss Lucia can tell me whenever she wants to go there… in the future," Rex said with a smile.
Lucia nodded then left.
"So now speak, what did you want to talk about?" Rex asked.
"Brother Rex I didn't want to bother you at the time when you want to go on a trip but I have both good news and bad news for the organization," Jiang Shuang said.
"Oh? then tell me the good one first," Rex said with his chin resting on his hand.
"The good news is that our bank system was a great success, our policy of people being able to deposit low-grade spirit stone and able to receive high-grade spirit stone of equal exchange-value worked and because they can only receive a limited amount of spirit stone in a fixed time interval, they made their clansmen and family member buy our ID cards, make bank account and deposit money too," Jiang Shuang excitedly said.
Rex's banking system was just like the banking system on earth, where the digital money was replaced by $$ money one can store in their cards. Just like once can deposit low-value notes in large amounts and withdraw high-value notes in less amount of equal value, people in the middle realm can also deposit low-grade spirit stone and withdraw high-grade spirit stone on the equal amount after a fixed amount of time.
Those people even thought that the one who is doing this business might be foolish as they asked their relatives and friends to use their name and deposit money through their account but what they didn't know was the more money they add the more profit Rex will make. His profit system was just like any other bank but… without any competitors to narrow down his profit.
"Just as expected, now when you start the loaning system only give loan to those who have are 2 Star or above, tomorrow we will do an announcement telling that any 1 Star ID cardholder could upgrade its grade to 2 Star if they spend more than 100,000 under the next week.
Only 2 Star cardholders can take the loan, doing all this will narrow the possibility of the people who plan to run away just after receiving the loan.
The amount varies depending on the thing they used for the loan but there will be some who would bring fake things or stolen material, if you found anyone like them then track them down no matter what, or more idiots will follow their example. So now… bad thing?" Rex said.
Jiang Shuang first nodded in agreement then spoke.
"Brother Rex, you remember that Young Master Zhu?" Jiang Huang asked.
Rex thought for a second and remembered who he was, Young Master Zhu was the same person who hired bandits to kidnap Jiang Qing to marry her when they were traveling from Corentis to Cold Heaven Sect.
"The one whose father is an Alchemist in Alchemist Association's Golden Bird Continent Branch? I almost forgot about that idiot," Rex said. He also remembered that the incident at that time was one of the reasons Jiang Shuang agreed to his contract signing condition.
"Yes, his father has noticed the recent growth of Frozen Flame and also knows that I now work with you, he is probably thinking that we might go for revenge at his door later on and coupled with his desire to devour my organization in the name of the wedding he has started to make trouble for us.
Most of the channels of herb selling merchants have strong ties with Alchemist Organization, he probably did something so now they stopped selling anything to us. He is also opposing our product from the market so those who want to favor them are more buying or selling them in their area.
If I am not wrong, he must have tried to find the recipe of your potions by researching but when he couldn't do it, he may have told about these to his higher-ups triggering their greed to get the recipe because I don't believe that he alone can do all these things," Jiang Shuang said.
Rex shook his head.
"Why don't these guys want to live? Or do they think that they have nine lives and can just reincarnate again? The facts are in front of them and they still turn a blind eye to them… I can fight back with a noble without fearing Azure Emperor so do they think that I will fear a mere branch of Alchemist Association?" Rex didn't know how these people are losing IQ over the years.
"One more thing, back then we have killed Noble Kebel's people although he would need a lot of time to recover but he might take help from other nobles or maybe some other noble attack us in the future. Your trip to Myriad Beast Continent would take a lot of time and because Lerna is going with you, if they attack us at this time there won't me many people left to defend.
I have seen the City Defense System, made by you but if I am right it's only useful outside the city, if the enemy enters the city in disguise then we can't just use those big cannons to attack the enemy in the city," Jiang Shuang said.
Rex smiled at him.
'This Jiang Shuang sometimes act stupid but he runs his brain in the right way, City Defense System main strength is its destructive power to repel and wipe out the enemy with AOE type weapons that's why it is not suitable to be used in the city or else the citizen will be wiped out with the enemy and the city will also suffer some serious damage,' Rex thought.
"Don't worry, I of course thought of that. By the time I will leave this place, it will be turned into a fortress that cultivators under the Core Breaking stage cannot even hope to scratch. It's a matter of time until Predator series Combat Bots and Project Arms comes into motion, 15 days is a long time you know, as for this," Rex said.
Jiang Shuang nodded. He now had serious trust in Rex, so as long as he said it's fine he would believe it.
"Oh, I just remembered. There is something I want to ask about, do you how much this VIP card is worth?" Rex said as he took out a black metal card and placed it on the table. The card was one of the three things Rex obtained from Alfred's inheritance.
Jiang Shuang picked up the card and observed, the card had a symbol of two hammers crossing each other at the upper right except that it was black.
"What is it?" Jiang Shuang asked.
"I once got it from a Dwarf crafting expert, from what I know he was one of the twelve venerable and…" Rex told him the things he knows about Alfred.
After Jiang Shuang heard all these things, he carefully looked at the card again and his eyes shined.
"Brother Rex you hit the jackpot, I have never seen this card but I can guess what it is. All Dwarfian kingdom have the same VIP rank system, the lowest one is white then green and finally blue that are given out depending upon people's contribution. Normal, there are only these three rankings but there is one more rank which is not available to anyone but 12 Venerables who build the Dwarfian Kingdom above ground since then with the birth of every new Venerable title successor one card is given out.
The Venerable can use it for themselves, pass it to the next generation or gift it to someone, it doesn't matter. But the next card will only be given out once someone else had become the Venerable and the previous Venerable had lost the title or died, but after hearing your words… ascending is also included.
I don't know who Venerable Alfred was but he has probably given you his card before leaving. This card is priceless Brother Rex, you can enjoy many things in a Dwarfian kingdom for free and can buy things at a discount of 70% or more from any organization belonging to the Dwarfian kingdom," Jiang Shuang said excitedly.
Rex looked at the card, although its effect was limited to the Dwarfian kingdom but it's value there was quite high.
"Hmm… If what you said is right then it is valuable but won't people doubt it or show malicious intent if a human-like me go there and use it?" Rex asked.
"You don't need to worry about that, as long as you have this card you are a royal among Dwarfs so no one can question you that from where did you get the card it's taboo because for them it will be like questioning the authority of a Venerable and Brother Rex I can tell that this card is already refined. It has your spiritual mark so you don't need to worry about someone claiming it either,' Jiang Shuang said.
Rex nodded. After a brief talk with Jiang Shuang who didn't stop complimenting the features of the card for even a second, Rex left.