Chapter 216 - Ingenious Split (1/2)

Chapter 216: Ingenious Split

“Afraid that we’ll be scared by this bunch of corpse? Then I’ll really have to thank you for that!” SongZhong sneered.

“No no, I am afraid that you guys will be injured by the fleeing demonic beasts remnants!” The Naked Skinning Witch hurriedly defended herself.

“Very good! If that’s the case, go, scout, the surroundings. You can leave this place as it is!” As SongZhong said that, he waved his hands impatiently as though he was swatting a fly.

As the Naked Skinning Witch heard that, her expression changed. For SongZhong to do that, it was as good as taking away her rights to the spoils of war. After getting rid of these demonic beasts with so much effort, why does she not have the rights to the spoils of war? SongZhong and the rest barely put in any effort, and yet they could lay claim to most of the spoils. How would she not be angry?

Thus, the Naked Skinning Witch could not help but argue, “Sir, don’t you think you are too much? No matter what, they were all slaughtered by me. By what virtue do you lay claim to all the spoils of war yourself?”

“Hmph! You’re just a thief who cries thief!” SongZhong said with disdain, “You still have the cheek to accuse us of taking all the spoils of war? If we did not reach here in time, won’t everything here be taken by you?”

“This~” The Naked Skinning Witch quickly reacted and defended herself, “Ai yah yah, what are you talking about? Didn’t I just take some inner cores? All of these can be easily accounted for. I was just holding on to it temporarily. You are doubting that I will split it evenly with you guys?”

“Hmph!” As SongZhong heard that, he immediately retorted, “The inner core can be counted, but what about the herbs?” As he said that, he stared at the surface where the Naked Skinning Witch sowed the herbs from.

Everyone also followed SongZhong’s gaze and they quickly realised that something was out of the ordinary. Despite there not being any elixirs, the ground there is extremely fresh. It was obvious that something must have been taken away from there. In that instant, everyone came to a realisation that the Naked Skinning Witch had already reaped big profits.

Seeing how her plan was seen through by SongZhong, she was afraid that SongZhong would demand the herbs from her. “Ai yah yah, today’s weather is really good. You guys take your time. I’ll just patrol around to make sure that there isn’t any demonic beasts which escaped.” As she said that, she did not give the rest a chance to say anything and flew away. The way she flew away, was just like a guilty thief.

Seeing this scene, everyone was infuriated and there was nothing that they could do. From the get go, SongZhong only intended to incite hatred towards the Naked Skinning Witch. Thus, he only exposed the matter but did not settle the issue. Anyway, those things were inconsequential in his eyes. If those items could be used to exchange for the hatred towards the Naked Skinning Witch, it is also worth it to him.

Seeing the Naked Skinning Witch leave, everyone began to clean up the place. SiYun and SiYu were in charge of finding the herbs and precious materials. While Stone, Old Poison and Mu ZiRong were in charge of cleaning up the demonic beasts.

Usually, the body of a demonic beast would be taken care off completely. Including the skin, tendons, inner core, bone marrow and other useful parts. All of these would be able to be sold for a good price. Of course, the most valuable thing is still the inner core. Especially a demonic beast like the volcanic beast with no special traits, the inner core is tantamount to at least two-thirds of the whole demonic beast’s worth.

To handle the entirety of the demonic beast’s corpse would definitely yield the greatest value. But, it was also extremely troublesome.  Given Stone’s and Old Poison’s accustomed practices, to fully handle a large volcanic beast’s corpse necessitates at least an hour. To handle more than a hundred of them, who knows when they’ll finally be done.

As such, SongZhong suggested to only retrieve the inner core of the volcanic beast. The inner cores, herbs and precious materials will be split evenly amongst everyone else, and he will not take a single bit. He only wanted all of the volcanic beasts corpses.

After hearing SongZhong’s suggestion, everyone could not help but be startled. It was not because of SongZhong’s greed but it was the exact opposite; SongZhong was too generous. You have to know, if the spoils of war were to be split like that, SongZhong would only get the low quality things. The high quality inner cores, herbs and materials would have nothing to do with him. If they were to calculate the value of these items, he would definitely suffer a big loss. After all, the herbs and materials on the volcanic island were extremely valuable, not much less than the value of the volcanic beasts.

It was obvious he would suffer a loss from this, so why would he still suggest it? Everyone was all extremely puzzled and the sisters duo even asked him why. But, SongZhong only replied with a smile and gave no explanation.