Chapter 350: The person in charge of the Nightmare corps
1.42 million Lord merits.
Hearing this number, Ace fell silent.
Adding the 45% forging and design fees, the total price exceeded 2 million Lord merits!
This amount of money, if used sparingly, was enough to support the Guardian Shadow for a year!Nôv(el)B\\jnn
You know, the Guardian Shadow had to provide protection for all Lone Wolves, a terrifyingly large number, and also pay the salaries of hundreds of Lords!
And that was just for one year.
Spending so much money to craft a longspear was a bit too extravagant!
After quoting the price, Mike, unusually, offered some explanation.
"Don't think that this longspear is expensive and not cost-effective. The materials used are all the best. It wasn't easy for me to convince Master Fool to do this, so the quality of this spear is guaranteed! In the end, if you miss the opportunity to spend 1.42 million Lord merits to craft a piece of equipment, you won't even have the chance to be a sucker!"
Ace glanced at Mike.
You know it's being a sucker?
Although his words were harsh, the logic was sound.
To fuse materials worth over a million into a single piece of equipment, ordinary people couldn't do it!
Only that master smith had the skill.
Ace clearly knew more secrets about Master Fool.
For one thing, the Killing Coffin, an SSS-level equipment, was actually crafted by Master Fool!
In other words, Master Fool had been secretly crafting equipment for the top powerhouses of the human race all these years, in exchange for something she desired.
Of course, Ace was very good at keeping secrets.
Even if Mike asked about such old matters, Ace would be indifferent and unwilling to say more.
As Mike had said earlier, while costing a massive amount of resources, the upper limit of this longspear would also be terrifyingly high!
It could not only accompany Ace's growth all the way to level 1000, supporting him in battles against demon gods, but after fusing with Ace's Sea of Truth, if there were any further opportunities, it might even be upgraded to SSS-level!
Money couldn't buy what the heart desired.
From the moment he saw the design draft, Ace had decided that he wanted this longspear!
Money wasn't the biggest problem.
The biggest problem was that Ace didn't have the money!
Ace mused, "2 million Lord merits..."
Mike interrupted, "Correction, it's 2,070,474.94 Lord merits."
He was always meticulous when it came to calculations.
"You don't have to pay the 45% forging and design fees for now, no interest! Just pay for the materials first, that's not too much to ask, right?"
Even though Mike was being unusually generous, Ace still had to come up with 1.42 million Lord merits.
This was by no means a small number.
Ace did the math.
From the short videos, he had received 210,000 Lord merits.
Later, Mike sold another one to Cedric for 200,000 Lord merits, giving Ace 100,000.
But that was only 310,000, not even enough for a fraction of the 1.42 million.
Cedric's order for short videos still had 1.2 million Lord merits unpaid.
In the best-case scenario, Ace could get 600,000.
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He was still short 510,000 Lord merits.
So, if he scraped together everything he had, he might be able to make it in time?
Actually, if Ace was willing to use what Calderon had left behind, this amount of money wouldn't be a problem for him at all.
But Ace was stubborn, with a "stone head" personality.
Mike knew very well that even within the united human race, negotiations involving the division of interests would inevitably be heated.
Everyone was working for the human race, and they were taking resources to fight the abyss.
If the Guardian Shadow took a bigger bite, the Nightmare corps would have to eat less.
There were only so many benefits, it was impossible not to fight for them.
And the basis of negotiation was equal strength.
To prevent the other party from being too strong and the Guardian Shadow being at a
disadvantage, Mike had specifically brought Shadow Three along!
This showed how much importance Mike attached to this person!
Pushing the door open, Mike laughed heartily.
His voice arrived before he did.
"I've heard so much about you, and today I finally get to..."
His words got stuck in his throat, unable to continue.
Mike's smile slowly froze.
Sitting in the hall were two people Mike knew.
One was Maxen, and the other was Joseph.
Mike: ???
The person in charge of the Nightmare corps?
This? This was it?
Hearing Thor's opening remarks, Joseph's eyes were filled with curiosity, and he asked with a
hint of surprise in his tone, "Oh? You've heard of me?"
Mike pulled Maxen aside for a private chat.
"Didn't I ask you to find the person in charge of the Nightmare corps? Why did you bring
Joseph?"
Maxen looked confused. "He is the person in charge!"
Mike looked at Joseph again. "Him?"
"Yes, him!"
After receiving Maxen's confirmation, Mike asked, "Joseph doesn't know I'm Thor, right?"
The fact that Thor had taken over the Guardian Shadow was only known to the top brass of the
Guardian Shadow and a very small number of top powerhouses.
Maxen shook his head. "He thinks you're Shadow Four."
"That's good."
Mike was about to return to the negotiation table when Maxen stopped him.
"Joseph is a close friend of mine, a brother who has been through life and death with me..."
Mike was taken aback. "Why are you suddenly saying this?"
He had to be wary of Maxen playing the emotional card!
"Screw him over good!"
Maxen gritted his teeth.
"Seeing Joseph lose money is more satisfying than earning money myself!"
That's our Stone!
Mike had already seen that Maxen had the potential to be an 'Arthas'.
Screwing over Joseph was essentially screwing over the Nightmare corps.
And Maxen was Morpheus's godson...
What a ridiculous situation.