Chapter 948 (1/2)

Chapter 948: 295. Unkind, Unrighteous

The magic messengers from both sides sent out the letters.

Dietrich was the first to receive a reply.

After reading the content of the letter, he said:

“Mr. Lonco, Sir Fagen Pongula proposes to include a sum of cash not less than 50 million gold coins in the stakes of the contest at the Deep Sea Branch. What do you think? If you agree, the Fagen Lineage will recognize the contest stakes of the Deep Sea Branch.”

Lonco said:

“I think there’s no problem.”

Selena also nodded, indicating no objections.

“Whoosh…” Lonco’s magic conch appeared with a string of bubbles, placing a letter in front of him.

This was the reply from Lonco and Selena’s father.

Lonco opened the letter and his face inexplicably changed.

Selena glanced at the content of the letter, her expression froze for half a second, and a forcefully restrained anger flashed in her eyes.

Their changes in expressions were noticed by Dietrich and Bary Stone.

Dietrich and his companion exchanged glances, unable at the moment to guess what was written in the letter that made Selena and Lonco show such abnormal reactions.

“Ahem.”

Lonco coughed lightly, folded the letter paper neatly, and put it back into the envelope.

He turned his head to look at Selena, but only saw his sister’s cold profile.

Lonco felt a sinking feeling in his heart and silently sighed. Then he squeezed out a smile towards Dietrich and the others, and said:

“It’s like this, Mr. Dietrich. The head of the Pomida Family, Sir Mingwaq Pomida, believes that the stakes of the contest from both sides are very reasonable but suggests changing the mode of the contest.”

“Change the mode of the contest?” Dietrich was stunned:

“Does Sir Mingwaq Pomida mean to increase the number of isles for exploration?”

“Oh no, not that,” Lonco took a slight breath and said in a muffled voice:

“My father suggests using a wizard duel instead of exploration of isles to determine the winner between the two sides.”

“Duel…” Dietrich was somewhat taken aback.

Rock Bone Warden Bary Stone hadn’t expected the turn of events to come to such a twist.

It wasn’t that a wizard duel couldn’t replace exploration of isles.

But the wizard forces of the Deep Sea Branch, specializing in deep sea magic and water magic, naturally find themselves at a disadvantage against the Pangula Family adept in earth rock magic and metal magic…

Using exploration of isles as the contest, the chances of winning were an even split between the two sides.

But if it were to be a wizard duel, then the odds would become thirty to seventy.

The Deep Sea Branch had only a thirty percent chance of winning, while the Pangula Family had seventy percent.

The three in ten chance the Deep Sea Branch had could be said to all come from external aid.