Cream hugged his arms and sneered: "how is it possible? Behind these shops, there must be a big consortium operating. This big consortium must have known the content of this competition in advance, so it specially imports a large number of demonized steel at a low price for hoarding. Wait until now after the announcement began a large number of price increases! Even if there is a special alchemist to refine magic steel, it will take at least 48 hours. Therefore, it is completely impossible to make magic steel by yourself. "
This result is understandable.
It is estimated that ELO would agree with this business idea of making a lot of money through large-scale activities. If he is given the right place and the right monopoly conditions, he may go too far.
But now, he is not the one who implements the monopoly, so he can only daydream about such things, and then scold the unscrupulous businessmen behind him.
"President, what shall we do now? To steal a piece of magic steel? "
Cream seems a little anxious. After all, it's afternoon now, and it's less than 24 hours from tomorrow's deadline.
The guilds on the street are still looking for them. It can be seen that these guilds should be planning to search for those imperial badges all night.
Su TA looked up at the slightly dark sky and said, "president, although I want to help, it's getting late now, so I want to go back to the hotel to look after my husband... Haven't we been wandering around the hotel all the time? I'll go back and look after it and come back soon. "
For Su TA's request, ello's eyes rolled, and suddenly his relaxed expression became very sad. He took a breath, then sighed greatly, waved helplessly, and said, "it's all right! Let's go back together. I've been looking for it outside. There's no way. Let's go back and have something to eat before we come out... Alas... "
Members, look at me, I look at you. For a while, I can't touch what my president wants to do. But now I have no choice but to walk towards the hotel together.
Back to the Moby Dick Hotel, as soon as you enter the door, you can see that several guilds who also live in the hotel are constantly discussing today's Guild championship. Similarly, I was worried about the requirements of this strange hunt.
Seeing that they were talking, ello also stepped forward and began to complain about the bad game. At the same time, he also ordered the fish hat on his head and scolded that his sponsor was definitely a fool.
When other guild members saw that arrow was so good at chatting, they naturally chatted with him happily. After eating together in the canteen, these guild members wiped their mouths, said goodbye to arrow, went out again and began to search against the darkness on their heads. It seems that I really intend not to stop until I find it.
Seeing that most of the other guilds left, only a small number of guilds went to the second floor instead of going out. Cream also seemed a little worried: "president, why don't we go out and look before it's completely dark? Now this situation is really -- "
"President arrow!"
Just when ello wanted to say something, a familiar roar came from the door.
The crowd turned around and saw that Viscount Ritchie Wald, the sponsor of the mermaid song, now rushed in from the door. When he saw arrow, he immediately opened his hands, as if to express enthusiasm and impatience.
Ello quickly got up from his desk and stumbled behind Brad. The Viscount, shorter than arrow, hugged Brad's strong arm and raised his head. When he saw Brad laughing at him twice, he immediately let go and bounced back.
"President arrow! How can you eat here quietly? Don't you say! "
Viscount Ritchie looked to the left and right, then said softly and excitedly with a nervous expression——
"Have you... Found the imperial badge?"
Arrow immediately put on a frown and shook his head.
"I'll go! Then how can you eat so happily here?! I thought you'd win! "
Seeing that arrow was completely helpless, viscount Ritchie was in a hurry at once. He slapped the table and shouted——
"Don't forget, I invested money in you! Don't tell me that this morning your guild will shine a picture in the clothes I made! And what annoys me most is that my siren queen didn't appear?! What the hell are you doing! I tell you, if you look at ello and hum twice in this game, "I tell you, if I didn't want to win, I wouldn't spend so much time helping you! I gave you the money, and you asked me to do this and that? Which sponsor is so tired, spending money and contributing? "
Arrow quickly bowed to him, narrowed his eyes, smiled and said, "well, I know our Viscount Ritchie is the best! You are the great man in my life! Without your help, what can we do with the mermaid song ~ ~! "
Anyway, viscount Ritchie always felt that he had no way to deal with the short man in front of him. This guy is obviously a man, but as long as he speaks well to himself, no matter how angry and dissatisfied he is, it seems that he can disappear in an instant. Moreover, it's really good and useful for him to beg for mercy.
Ruichi looked up and down at the former ello, and then hummed again: "I'm unlucky! I don't have much insight. Instead, I sponsored a small guild like you. "
After complaining, Ritchie said——
"A few days ago, according to what you said, I talked to the bosses of chambers of Commerce who also sponsored associations. We all voted for a small guild like you to advertise. There is no conflict of interest between us, so it can be said. "
"Just as president arrow said, the first batch of guild members who signed up did get some keepsakes. That is, in November last year, those guilds in other places signed up for the guild championship in advance and determined their number of participants. Then in March and April this year, they received some letters one after another. The letter says it's a gift from signing up in advance. "
Arrow nodded and said, "so what exactly is that gift?"
Viscount Ruichi put his hands on his hips and said, "what else can it be? One of the bosses showed me an empire badge made of magic steel. Yes, the badge I saw in the arena today! Two bosses even wore that badge to the opening ceremony today. I saw with my own eyes that the faces of those bosses had changed from the excitement at the beginning to the panic when they announced the scavenger hunt later! "
Arrow smiled, "sure enough."
Seeing that arrow showed such a mysterious smile again, the sponsor boss couldn't help asking, "what's the matter? You guessed? "
Arrow shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile, "I can't say I guessed it long ago, but it's roughly the same as what I speculated."
"The rule of the guild championship is that guild members who have been in this emerging guild for one year before registration are eligible to participate in the competition. In other words, one year before the official battle of the guild championship, that is, before November 1 last year, the required guild members have been gathered and registered, and it is impossible to add contestants in the following year. "
"In previous years, for those guilds that have determined their candidates in advance, they will give some small gifts as rewards, although they are generally just formal small medals or small badges. But I think this year's Guild championship is very important. Will some gifts sent by important competitions also have some uses? "
At this point, arrow flicked his finger at the Viscount Ritchie: "it turns out that it is."
Su TA frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "president, so this is what the host population said... There are a total of 99 badges scattered throughout the blue bay Empire?"
Arrow nodded gently, smiled and said, "that's right. I have said time and again that this is not a game, but a entrusted task. All our guilds know that the sponsor of the guild championship is actually the client. Since it is something sent by the client, it should be taken with us. I think many guilds must have received the badge in advance this time, and I'm afraid some of these guilds didn't bring this imperial badge. Others, I'm afraid, before announcing the real rules of the hunt, consciously or unconsciously publicized to others that they had such an imperial badge. There are also some, such as the sponsor bosses mentioned by Viscount Ritchie just now. They even regard these badges as an honor, wear them directly on their bodies, walk around and show off to people. "