The Legacy System

For Eric, this was a greatly beneficial trade, but he had no intention of telling the truth to Secretary Zhang. After all, human nature, and especially the greed trait was extremely difficult to defeat.

The truth was that this piece of rug that the Auction House was using just to complete the interior design of the warehouse, was actually part of the hide of a Fire Qilin.

Even then this was a great material for Eric who wanted to use this part of the Fire Qilin's hide in order to make a soft body armor for himself.

The Fire Qilin was a semi-divine beast, so not even a Rank 9 evolver wouldn't even imagine of piercing its hide.

That soft body armor would help him save his life even upon receiving the attack of a Rank 9 evolver, that he had yet to encounter on Earth.

Without tarrying with the explanation, Eric turned to face the guy, as he said,

But as long as I give this to a friend of mine who is an artifact refiner, he could easily turn this into a good quality soft body armor, that would add up to my defenses!"

Since Secretary Zhang was willing to make such a bet, then for sure he had some sort of ability or magical device that would help him understand whether Eric was telling the truth or not.

Unfortunately, nothing could be said to be certain with people like Secretary Zhang as they were wild foxes that would never reveal their true faces and intentions.

Right now their interests coincided so they were working together, but should their interests collide, then they would become enemies in the blink of an eye.

Instead of cooperation, this was a use of one another as long their purposes were complementary. Eric needed the two statues and the rug, while Secretary Zhang needed the backing to become the new director.

In fact, Eric made a misstep this time, because his answer seemed just too clean to be counted as the truth, making the sly Secretary Zhang feel that Eric had lied to him without him understanding it. This chapter is updated by novelenglish.net . Firᴇ

Still, it was impossible for him to keep the rug or keep pestering Eric with questions any longer because it might displease Eric, and force him to pull back.

"Thank you very much for your explanation Esteemed Master, I will certainly keep my word. This rug belongs to you!"

Be careful though this is a one-time use, and if you use it for any untoward intention you will lose the opportunity to contact me at all!"

There was a great possibility of Eric completely forgetting, or neglecting his promise to him later because it was nothing but an oral promise.

"Secretary Zhang you know that in order for people like me to proceed in our path we need to have a clear and steady mind!

These words were more than enough to answer the doubts and suspicions in Secretary Zhang's heart, as he immediately tried to butter things up,

"It better not! Now I don't have much time to idle around and need to leave this place! Until we see each other again!"

This was an extremely important part of Eric's acting part, because only like this could he actually make this guy a bit more frightened, and work in more prudence.

This was an issue of great importance for Eric, as he needed a lot of antiques, historical articles, and the rest of those statues to gather some necessary SP points.

Not only had he found those statuses that carried quite a bit of SP points for him, but he had also found the Fire Qilin's hide.

In the meantime, Secretary Zhang quickly made his way upstairs, as he had been missing for quite some time and didn't want to raise doubts, only to be shocked once he did so.

What shocked him the most was the outcome of the night and the fact that all the big families were searching for that Esteemed Master.

But now he was faced with another dilemma, whether he should place his eggs in Eric's basket and keep their relationship a secret, or hug the thigh of a powerful big family, and try to set him up.

What's more, he had no idea of the relationship between Cui Xie and Eric. While he felt that there was something between the two, the way they acted made them look like total strangers.

The next day, the fact that Eric despite being a great Alchemist was in possession of a treasure that would make everyone's defenses impenetrable would spread through the country like wildfire in summer.

Of course, that was under the case that they were actually able to recognize Eric, and the treasure he possessed, which was practically impossible.

As for Cui Xie and the rest of the big families, they had arrived at the port not long ago and participated in a crazy shooting exchange, leaving more than 8 people dead, 13 with grave injuries, and 29 with light injuries.

The truth was that Cui Xie had managed to subdue one of them, with the thought of torturing him later to find out what he wanted to know, but that guy was killed by a blind bullet.

? One thing was sure though, this attack made all the participants fearful and comprehensive of the terrorist attacks from the outside, as the terrorists had brought more than 200 kg of RDX…

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