Chapter 602 - Trouble Comes Again (1/2)

Chapter 602 Trouble Comes Again

Now Charles regretted it.

Cornucopia had been wanted by the royal family and suffered huge losses, such that they had spit back all the gold they earned in the game, and even had to take money from reality and buy gold from players to fill the hole.

But the good thing was, as long as it was an organization, it was always possible to negotiate.

After paying a great price, Charles connected with the royal family, and again after paying a significant price, finally made peace with the Hollevin royal family.

Now Cornucopia could barely be considered a “royal merchant,” backed by the royal family to do business.

The connections were much better, but there was also less money to be made.

After all, if they earned a share, they had to give half the share to the royal family.

It wasn’t that Charles hadn’t tried to fight back, but the royal family had recently recruited several players into the royal bureaucracy.

These players literally used this game as a training ground for their “becoming an official.”

They were selfless and dedicated to the welfare of the royal family and the country.

They were still in a precarious position and hadn’t taken a cut at the n.o.ble cla.s.s.

But instead, their hidden hand was extended to the merchant cla.s.s, treating this as a millstone before doing greater things.

The big merchants of Hollevin were targeted by them, and along with them, Cornucopia, a players’ guild, the royal merchant of Hollevin, was also targeted by them.

Cornucopia had been impeded by them at every turn, and many of the businesses that were profitable and could be monopolized were destroyed.

For example, grain, salt business, and so on.

Then Charles finally understood why Douglas didn’t like to cross ordinary people or even made connections despite his status.

It was true that it was hard to produce talent from a poor family, but there were so many poor people that one genius out of a hundred was when the numbers were broken down, much more than the various second-generation rich. What was even more outrageous was that it was young people who were playing the game, and most of the young people who could save up 50,000 yuan and buy a virtual cabin were the elite in society.

Given a chance, they could prosper. When Cornucopia was targeted by these people, it became increasingly difficult to do things.

Previously, Cornucopia could sweep the entire Hollevin business circle, and that was because there was no advanced business operation experience in the feudal era, but now that other players who were also modern people had entered the playing field, the days of easy money for Cornucopia were gone.

Since the low-cost, high-profit business that concerned people’s livelihood was no longer good, they’d start a different kind of business.

They’d do high-end things.

The magical materials needed for Roland’s auto-repair technology, they had h.o.a.rded a whole lot of them and later “returned” them to the royal family.

So they planned to stay in the business of magical materials.

Only this time there was no more monopoly.

Rather, they would engage in differential pricing. Besides, Charles also realized deeply that personal strength and the overall strength of an organization was the capital to stand in this world.

Otherwise having any amount of money would be like wool on a sheep, ready to be reaped.

So when Roland’s Dragon Meat Reagent appeared, he knew very well that he had to get his hands on these things.

At least one for each of the guild’s core staff.

Otherwise, the gap with other combat players would become more and more obvious.

With this urgency in mind, Charles once again came to Delpon.

He came to this place where he felt some shame and helplessness.

He didn’t go to Roland right away but found Douglas first.

As a Chinese man, he was well aware of the important role that things like “favors” played in human relations.

“I want at least a hundred bottles of Dragon Meat Reagent,” Charles said seriously, “but my relations.h.i.+p with Roland is something you know well, so I’m begging you to hook me up with him.”

Douglas shook his head. “It’s not worth it.”

“What do you mean?” asked Charles, frowning. “Is our friends.h.i.+p, on this matter, not worth

it?”

“A true friend doesn’t threaten people with friends.h.i.+p.” Douglas shook his head helplessly. “Charles, you’re too egotistical in everything you do. You always think you’re doing the right thing. If we’re really friends, can I ask how many times you’ve come to visit my house since you were young, or how many times have we gone fooling around?”.

Charles frowned deeper. “Don’t b*tch about other things, just say yes or no.”

“No,” replied Douglis without hesitation, since the other had put it so bluntly. “I’ve never seen anyone beg like this.” Charles gave Douglas a good hard look and then left.

Roland didn’t know that Charles had made a trip to Delpon. He now spent his days crouched at the top of the Magic Tower, working on a way to split the dragon bones apart.

Dragon bones were just too hard. Even with a fierce blue flame of over 2000 degrees, it wouldn’t melt.

At best, it was just a little darker on the surface from roasting

At this time, Roland went to the Red Magic Tower again and asked if there was a way to handle the dragon bones.

As a result, the Great Elder shrugged. “No.”

“What about the other Magic Towers?” Roland asked.

“Also no.” The Great Elder explained, “Dragon bones are generally used to forge weapons and armor, and we don’t need either of those things at the Magic Tower, so naturally we don’t do any research on that.”

“That means… the Guild of Warriors might have such skills?”.

The Great Elder said with certainty, “Not perhaps, but certainly. But they claim to the public that they don’t.”

“Why?”

“Fear of retaliation from the dragons.”

Roland was quite surprised. “Then why aren’t we at the Red Magic Tower afraid? Great Elder, you dared to disclose the recipe of Dragon Meat Reagent to me.”

“Since when do we have the recipe for Dragon Meat Reagent?” The Great Elder blinked and laughed. “How come I didn’t know about this.”

Okay… Roland understood.