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"Leader Nie, you jest. This is the tax we've prepared; we didn't expect you to come early."
"A tax of five First Order Upper Grade beasts—do you think we'd believe you'd capture a Second-order Superior one?"
No one would believe that this was actually the tax. It was far too generous.
There's a huge difference between capturing five First Order Upper Grade beasts and a single Second-order Superior beast in terms of danger.
Zhang Zhengguo didn't have much time for careful thought and had to bite the bullet and say, "Actually, we have a somewhat presumptuous request: we'd like to use the excess value to exchange for some Spiritual Energy ore."
"Exchange?"
Nie Lin was taken aback. The West Mountain Villa camp indeed allowed vassal camps to make exchanges for weapons, medicine, gasoline, and Spiritual Energy ore.
While it was not on the scale of the Tree Domain, it was preferentially open to the most obedient camps.
But it was indeed possible to exchange.
