Chapter 26 (1/2)

“Have you lost your mind? Your offer is way too exorbitant.” Levis raised his voice in dissatisfaction.

“Please calm down, brother.”

“All right, I’m listening. What makes you think that I would accept such absurd terms? Liszt, my dear brother, you should know that while the black tulip is important for the family, it is not irreplaceable. We have another three varieties of tulip magic medicines.”

“I’m well aware of that, but I also know that the black tulip is better than the other three varieties. It will serve better as the pillar of the family.”

Magic medicines were marvelous and troublesome. They had to be sowed with elves, or they would gradually retrograde into common plants.

However, their value was not affected.

Magic potions, magic gear, and cultivation of spells and combat aura all depended on magic medicines. When earth knights hit a bottleneck in their cultivation, they had to break it with powerful magic medicines to become sky knights.

Every sky knight was a tank of medicines that had taken too many pills before they earned advanced combat aura.

Without the tulip magic medicines of the family, Leewilliam couldn’t have become one of the few sky knights of Archduchy Sapphire so easily.

So, Liszt knew that magic medicines were priceless, and that his brother, a talented earth knight, wouldn’t miss the black tulip for the world.

Pausing for a moment, Liszt said unhurriedly, “I’m too untalented to become a sky knight, but you are as gifted as our father, brother. I think your path to sky knighthood will be easier with incessant magic medicines.”

He then looked at Lvera. “Same goes for you, sister. I believe that sky knighthood is more important than a thousand gold coins, right? I truly hope that you can support the Tulip family as sky knights, brother and sister. As for me, I only want to earn more money and make my life better.”

When sky knights were mentioned, Levis breathed heavily.

He became an earth knight at 13, and he was 21 now. Everybody said that he would be the next sky knight of the Tulip family, but he knew the enormity of the chasm between earth knight and sky knight, which he might not be able to cross with all the family resources.

To make things worse, Lytton Tulip, his younger brother, was also talented.

Lytton’s mother was only a small noble, but her pillow talk was certainly effective. Almost half of the resources in Tulip Castle were given to Lytton. Levis’s heart bled every time he thought of that.

Shouldn’t the family dedicate all the resources to him so that he could make a breakthrough?

Squinting, he said solemnly, “Liszt, if you truly support me, you shouldn’t have proposed such harsh terms.”

“Let me put it in a different way. What if we keep the business regarding the black tulip amongst ourselves? I don’t think our lord father cares so much about a single black tulip.” Liszt implied that they could shun Lytton.

Liszt’s half-brother had always been condescending to him.

Liszt did not hesitate at all to keep him out of the deal.

Thinking for a moment, Levis asked, “Do you want to be part of this, Lvera?”

“I didn’t plan to, but since Liszt has invited me, why not?” Lvera was not as gifted as Levis, but she also craved to be a sky knight. “Don’t forget that I have elves, too.”

“Fine, let’s talk about the ratio of benefits.”

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