Chapter 211 Beautiful Tactician (1/2)
Yang Ling left quickly after establishing an outline of a plan. He was going to return with the Magical Beast army sometime later, when the preparations were complete.
Scaling the mountain had been difficult, but descending was much easier!
Yang Ling immediately pushed a large distance forward with every gentle tap of his toes on the snow-covered ground. He did not make a detour even when he encountered slippery ice sheets or cliffs. He was confident in his abilities, making his way past the obstacles, fast as the wind.
Such a beautiful snowy field, it would be fantastic if I had a pair of skis here!
Yang Ling was overcome with emotion as he looked at the stunning landscape. He decided that he would get Goode to send someone to build a house near the lake after he tamed the Twin-legged Flying Dragons. The, he could come up to the mountains to ski or fish in the lake with Alice, Yuna and the rest when they had nothing to do…
Yang Ling summoned the Unicorn after he reached the base of the mountain, prepared to rush back to Wissen Castle at the highest speed possible.
In order to successfully tame the Twin-legged Flying Dragons, he had a mountain of things he had to complete. He had to send someone to look for gathering sites of the Vampire Bats and form an army of Self Destructing Bats. He had to send someone to get the fatal snake poison from the Medusas, and take the time to cultivate his poison techniques.
The Vampire Bats would be far from sufficient if he wanted to deal with the Twin-legged Flying Dragons with powerful battle capabilities. His true trump card was the miniature bombs tied to the bodies of the Vampire Bats. Unlike killing his enemies, the motive for Yang Ling attacking the Twin-legged Flying Dragons was to make them incapable of moving so he could tame them with his blood. Since that was the case, he had to remove the steel nails and spikes from the miniature bombs and rely on the effects of the poison instead.
According to the memories of the Twin-legged Flying Dragon, Dragon Bone Grass was naturally a little poisonous. After consuming Dragon Bone Grass over a long period of time, the Flying Dragon's resistance to poison was far superior to an ordinary Magical Beast. If he wanted to poison the Flying Dragons, he would require a powerful, or unique, poison.
The Wizard Techniques recorded on the stele covered many aspects, which included the method for cultivating poison techniques. In the past, as his energy had been tied up elsewhere, coupled with the limitations of his circumstances, Yang Ling had not paid too much attention to these relatively sidelined Wizard Techniques. He had decided to put in some last minute work in order to deal with the powerful Twin-legged Flying Dragon.
Wizard Techniques were mysterious, their effects rarely visible within a short span of time. But Yang Ling was confident that he would be able to create a good number of suitable poisons now that he had Flowing Venom's training notes as well as a large batch of ready-made poisons and ingredients. Of course, it would be even better if he was able to control the activation and extent of the poison using his mental energy, just like Flowing Venom had done!
Even though he had luckily managed to kill Flowing Venom, Yang Ling would still feel his skin crawl when he thought about his indefensible poison techniques and the terrifying Dragon Tongue Orchid. If he had a choice, he would rather face a sage level fighter like Elder Klive over a Lesser Sage assassin that was adept at administering poison!
The Unicorn was fast, and Yang Ling successfully returned to Wissen Castle in just over two days. Along the way, he had instructed his Magical Beast army to hunt dozens of Magical Beasts, obtaining over a hundred bottles of Magical Beast Blood Essence.
Yang Ling had just entered the castle when the tactician Goode hurried over. ”Sir, a few merchant associations have come to the town claiming that they signed a contract with you in Montson. Do you want to discuss this with them personally?” Goode felt bad interrupting Yang Ling's trajectory, as it was clear he was ready to rest in his villa. But he had no choice.
Over the past few days, a large number of merchants had arrived in town. Some said that they had signed a contract regarding the stone mines, some claimed that they had won the rights to the construction and management of a pier near Wissen Town in an auction. Some even said that they had reached a verbal agreement with Yang Ling in some areas of the territory's development, which made a lot of work for Goode. If this had been someone else, they might have long broken down in front of the merchants!
Yang Ling looked at Goode, who had bloodshot eyes, in confusion. He slowly understood what was going on with the latter's explanation.
As it turned out, after getting the news of the alliance officially expressing the support for the Magical Beast Territory, the merchants had rushed toward the Magical Beast Territory, hoping to be the first to sign a contract with Yang Ling. Along the way, seeing more and more of their competitors also journeying to the Magical Beast Territory, a few of the smarter merchant associations had opted to first send a representative to Wissen Town as quickly as possible.
Wissen Town was rich in resources. Whoever was the first to sign a contract with Yang Ling would naturally obtain even more benefits. None of the merchants who had grown their businesses were fools. None of them would bear to miss such a great opportunity.
Just like that, the merchants had arrived one by one just after Yang Ling had returned. In the end, the Shangri-La was almost packed to the brim with merchants. Even though Goode had expanded the villas and raised the price a full five times, the Shangri-La could still not meet the demand of the merchants. They earned a huge revenue every day, much to the elation of the calculative old butler, Murbaqi. He ran his calculations of the accounts every day.
Yang Ling deliberated for a moment before taking out a stack of contracts from his Space Ring. ”Goode, these are the contracts I signed with the large merchant associations back in Montson. Prioritize the relevant procedures. As for the other smaller matters, you can weigh each one and make the decision yourself!”
The development of the territory was important, but it could be taken slowly, compared to taming the Twin-legged Flying Dragons. Most of the issues had already been discussed with the large merchant associations like Harribell's Boulade Merchant Association and the Aragon Merchant Team. The smaller matters that followed could be handed over to Goode to deal with.
Goode was a little hesitant as he took the stack of contracts. The smaller matters that Yang Ling spoke of were all projects involving hundreds of thousands, some even millions of Purple Crystal Coins. Without understanding the other party's baseline, without Yang Ling's authorization, it was hard for him to deal with those matters.