Chapter 643 - Charge (1/2)

Roland’s bottom line?

A monthly payment of one or two hundred gold coins, for a period of thirty to forty years.

It was already incredible enough to earn two hundred gold coins per month for patent licenses.

After all, it was a very delightful thing to just sit around and earn patent fees while doing nothing.

But it didn’t occur to Roland that the Goddess of Magic didn’t seem to know the first thing about money.

He even got twenty percent of the shares by offering his technology.

They even signed a divine contract.

He was truly in for a great treat.

But it was quite understandable. None of the Mages who worshiped Mystra were great talents. They weren’t even good at magic, not to mention things about business.

She didn’t have any knowledge in that aspect.

Naturally, Roland wouldn’t admit it. It was one thing if other people guessed his thoughts, but if he admitted it, he would be too cocky.

Holding back his laughter, he said solemnly, “My boundaries were exactly 80/20.”

“Is that so?” Mystra wasn’t bothered but said with a smile, “Whatever your boundaries were, consider this a gesture of friendliness. Offer me the good spells you find in the future, and you will be rewarded.”

“Okay.” Roland handed over the complete graph of the magic array. “We’re friends now.”

“Okay.”

Mystra accepted the graph and waved her hand, sending Roland away from her paradise. She seemed slightly impatient. After Roland was gone, the impatience on Mystra’s face was replaced by delight.

It was true that Mystra wasn’t a winner from a business point of view. No sane leader of a corporation would’ve given twenty percent shares to Roland for nothing.

But the problem was the gods were insane.

Or rather, they shouldn’t be viewed as ordinary people.

Mystra was speaking the truth. Money was useless to her. What she really pursued was interesting magic knowledge and novel magic theories.

Even if she made a fortune, she would still devote her money to those.

Essentially, she wasn’t a manager. She only needed to construct new teleportation arrays with divine power before the temples, which was easy for her. Operations and preaching were her believers’ responsibilities.

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She didn’t have to do much at all.

So, her boundaries were actually 50/50.

Bargaining was merely a chance for Roland to demonstrate himself and feel that he was victorious.

If he felt happy, it would be easier for them to get closer to each other.

She had been wondering how she could establish a closer relationship with Roland, and this would be a great start.

She had a feeling that Roland would give her even more surprises in the future.

She sat down again and read the magic array with such a happy smile that her eyebrows curved.

Roland’s consciousness returned from the paradise to the little church. He then clenched his fists in delight.

He had offered the teleportation magic array to the Goddess of Magic. If anyone ever asked, he could claim that it was the goddess’s gift, and nobody would dare to interrogate him.

After all… Interrogating a Favored for the goddess’s gift and robbing him of it would be absolutely disrespectful and might trigger a war among the deities!

Although Mystra wasn’t very famous among the civilians, the major forces all over the world had written records stating that this goddess was as good at fighting as the Life Goddess and the Goddess of Light.

The major forces dared not touch Roland, and the minor forces couldn’t touch Roland.

So, he could build the teleportation magic arrays confidently, knowing that he would be safe under the Goddess of Magic’s protection.

Besides, he would be earning money every month in the future!

He didn’t think he would ever be short of money.

He felt so good that the pores all over his body were singing.

Roland returned to his manor ecstatically and had a great time with Andonara. He didn’t teleport to the Realm of Devils until two days later.

The fourth breeding city had been conquered, and more “meat men” were saved.

This breeding city was quite large and had a population of more than three hundred thousand.

Also, most of the population were children and teenagers.

This breeding city was famous for its fresh meat.

After seeing the miseries in the city, the players beheaded all the devils they found, including two succubi.

Not all the succubi were neutral, just like not all human beings were good people.

The two succubi participated in the child abuse too. They manipulated the teenagers to mate with their mental power and then forced the girls to give birth nonstop with the species feature of the succubi. They also shortened the period of pregnancy from ten to six months.

It was even safe to say that they were the worst breeders in the city.

When Roland came here, he found that many girls looked like middle-aged women or even old ladies because they had been too worn out by continual childbirth.

Those things were livestreamed too.

Many pictures had been clipped and spread on the Internet.

In the eyes of many ordinary people, they were just regular movie scenes, although they were quite pitiful.

But in the eyes of many sociologists and psychologists, the pictures were all inferred by AI and were great research materials.

Then, they imposed pressure on the game company, hoping that it would release more virtual cabins so that they could conduct systematic research in the game. They found that it was too wasteful to use such a strong AI to play games.

The best stuff should be used for the greatest purposes. It was right to let the scientists take over.

The news immediately hit the headlines in all countries. Many other forces began to instigate trouble, hoping to force the game developers to submit the source code of the AI and simulation technology.

But very soon, the game company made an announcement.

It contained only a short sentence: “You’re not qualified to demand source code from us until you can understand this snippet.”

The snippet consisted of Yin and Yang exclusively.

Many programmers replaced Yin and Yang with o and 1, but they couldn’t understand it.

Roland found it incomprehensible too at first, but after he stared at the code for a while, those Yins and Yangs began to blur and ended up as a painting where a handsome green-haired young man raised his middle finger at him.

Hmm?