Chapter 307 (1/2)

As the saying went, “Gentlemen can wait for a long time until they can take revenge, even for ten years.”

Frost was not necessarily a gentleman, but he was a type of “even for ten years.”

In order to take revenge of that time, Gerald had quietly endured for a long time while secretly planning and building a good relationship with several legendary strongmen under the Church of the Void Mask. For that, he had even lowered himself to help the knights train as a vivid textbook.

In the end, he had finally gotten the opportunity while waiting.

At the end of last year, Gerald had finally mastered his own strength. He had been able to control this power freely. Not only had he been able to change his size at will, but he had also gained many extraordinary abilities as well.

In addition to the human figure, he had essentially been a powerful legendary creature, even stronger than many dragons.

Frost had noticed the opportunity, so he had immediately launched his plan, encouraging Gerald to find himself a powerful mount.

According to Gerald’s original intention, he had wanted to find something like a Heavenly Warhorse. After all, this big man was honest, not greedy. However, Frost couldn’t let him just find a Heavenly Warhorse. Therefore, he had persuaded him again and again with something like, “The real strongman must ride a dragon to swagger through the street,” or “A hero must own a matched mount. The Heavenly Warhorse was not worthy of your identity as the head of the knights under the Void Mask’s Majesty,” or “First of all, a good mount must be able to help the master exert full strength. With your strength, only a dragon is suitable.” Frost had said countless sentences like those.

Although Gerald’s strength had greatly improved, his brain had not become smarter. On the contrary, his way of thinking had been more direct, or more straightforward because of his greatly improved power. If placed in some Xian Xia novels, it perhaps was equivalent to the innocent heart, or a “spotless conscience” in the legends.

He had originally wanted a powerful mount. After being encouraged by Frost, he had put down the scruples and taken his subordinates to the Mount Buried Stone deep in the Graystone Mountains. He had set up a huge boundary with humans as nodes to surround the entire Mount Buried Stone and then had gone to negotiate with Talay Stone.

The negotiation between the two sides had not been pleasant at all. It could be proven by “Buried Stone Hills,” which was directly converted from the former Mount Buried Stone after the negotiation. In the end, Talay Stone, who had been beaten black and blue, had bowed his head with a grievance in the principle of “a wise man who knows when to retreat,” and had become Gerald’s mount.

This result had made Frost very dissatisfied. He had originally thought that as an overlord of the Mount Buried Stone, Talay Stone should have a temperament of breaking rather than bending. He must fight to the end, and would rather die than submit. However, it had been unexpected that this dragon could take temporary setbacks, bowing down and willing to let a person ride him like a horse. The revenge that Frost had planned for many years hadn’t been taken completely, and that had made him really confused and secretly angry. Because of that, people who had come to the warehouse to get the goods had been frightened countless times.

Today, Leon had ridden the Green Dragon, Galstoby, to visit, and that finally had made his repressed anger to burst out. Therefore, Frost had run out and abused Talay Stone severely, ruining the old dragon’s fragile heart to pieces, and making him lose face in front of the same race. That had made him release his grievances that had been accumulated for many years. So he had suddenly felt that the sky and the ground grew, the clouds were whiter, the flowers were more vibrant, and the guys who came to receive supplies had all looked gentle, honest and kind.

Therefore, that night, a rumor had appeared in the Land.

“Did you know? Our warehouse keeper seems to be in a good mood today.”

“I am not blind! He actually smiled at me today!”

“Right! When I went to him to get things, usually his eyes could scare me to death. Today, he smiled… It’s creepy!”

“Not just a smile! When I normally get things from him, he would check again and again, even picky about something small like a needle and a thread. He was more serious than a housekeeper! But today, he actually only looked at the receiving list, then simply gave me the goods without a single word. It was incredible!”

“Guys, is it possible that he is in love?”

“It is possible! Look at his smirk. He really seems to be in love…”

“God! That cold-faced ass can also fall in love? What girl is so great that she can accept this guy?”

“She is infinitely merciful, saving people from sorrows and sufferings!”

“Let’s make a toast to the great lady!”

“Okay, cheers!”

Therefore, these words had spread just like this. As a saying went, “Truths can only walk, but rumors can fly.” Just in a few days, the rumors about Warehouse Keeper Frost having fallen in love had been flying around in the Land. There had also been several versions, even including an anti-ethical version that the lady had been his sister, Miss Graupel, and their sister Miss Snowflake had been acting as a villain role to break up them. Another female-oriented version said that the love interest was a bearded brawny man, and that Lord Frost was the bottom one… That one was hardcore…

Later, Frost heard those rumors, and he was incredibly angry. He searched like a mad dog to find out which bastard was fond of spreading all that gibberish. His investigation caused great turmoil, but all those things would have happened sooner or later.

After Leon’s visit, Sui Xiong had dealt with the events of the church roughly; then he had started to plan a major project—industrial revolution!

He had read a lot of online novels before time traveling, in which the travelers would often engage greatly in the industrial revolution. They would burn glass, produce guns, execute shooting lines, use cannons to attack cities, make steel in blast furnaces and synthesize fertilizers which were just like magic. The products of the modern industry would be invented and quickly promoted. The levels of productivity of the territories would rise rapidly. In a few years, they would catch up with the world’s advanced levels and even be able to smash the whole world with such a tiny territory.

Sui Xiong thought that he was not only a time traveler, but he also had such powerful abilities. On the basis of his abilities, he was confident that even when those travelers who had traveled through the history gathered together, he would be able to defeat all of them on his own. As everyone knew, most of the people who liked to climb the technology tree were from the novels of traveling through the history, so the protagonists were basically normal people with mortal physical bodies—since those mortals could do it, there was no reason that he, such a powerful being, couldn’t do it.

Therefore, he had been determined to retreat for a period of time, to bring out the industrial revolution first!

Well… what should he start with?