205 Gamble with the treasure (2/2)

”Stay away from that plant, it's dangerous and poisonous”

Arrora quickly took her hands back as Don and Knight stopped walking to take a closer look at the plant.

”How dangerous?”

Knight's interest was piqued when he saw the tigress looking at the flower with a slight fear on her face.

”If you want to feel a horrible pain that couldn't be described in words in every inch of your body, go one and take a whiff of that Death's dust”

”Is there a safe way we can pluck it from here and plant it in our kingdom?”

Don became interested in the plant after he heard the tigress and wanted to try this Death's dust on someone.

”You can't pluck a fully grown Death's dust, however, if you really want to plant it in your kingdom, you can take those red seeds and grow it there but I will recommend you to keep it away from anyone who doesn't have an idea about this flower”

Hearing the tigress, Arrora searched for the red pearl-like seeds and collected them while staying away from the fully grown plant.

Eventually, Don decided to make a camp and rest for a few hours before continuing their journey.

”Seven hours remaining”

Don looked at the timer and reminded everyone.

While Arrora was making camp, she saw Knight and Don seriously discussing something.

”Do you really want to do this?”

Knight asked Don as he nodded.

”Yes I know it's a gamble but if we can pull it off, we don't need to fear anybody during the water spirit ritual”

”But we only have three of those”

”And I'm only talking about giving one, they don't need to know that we have three”

”Can I join you?”

Arrora finished setting up the camp and came to them

”Yeah, we should get a second opinion about your plan”

”Happy to help”

Arrora sat beside them and looked at Don

”I'm planning to put one of the purple restoration pills in the space ring we got from the board, so if or when they search through our rings, they may or may not want us to give them the pill”

She would be lying if she said that she's not shocked when she heard Don but she wanted to hear him why he wants to do that

”Why do you want to do that?”

”He wants to trade the pill for their protection when we root the water spirit, but what if they want to take the pill and the water spirit? Or what if they didn't want to make a deal at all but took the pill forcefully?”

Knight was not very happy about him wanting to gamble with the pill as Arrora thought about Don's plan for a few moments before speaking her mind

”It might work, look, water spirit and the pill are indeed very valuable treasures but if you compare the water spirit with the pill, most of them would take the pill because the water spirit is not as useful as the pill for a typical cultivator, or a sect, in your case ”

Don nodded hearing Arrora as she continued

”Your plan might not work if you take the pill to a king or an emperor because the water spirit will change their fortune and put the kingdom in a speedy growing path ”

The water spirit would form rivers, lakes, nourish the lands and change the barren lands into fertile lands. More fertile lands and water sources meant more agricultural productivity that could attract the merchants and create trade opportunities for the kingdom. However, as Arrora said, the water spirit was little to no use to an individual cultivator or for a sect, unlike the pill that could make them reach the grandmaster realm without any difficulty of facing a bottleneck.

”But what if they don't make a deal?”

Knight asked the both of them as Arrora shook her head

”It's very unlikely because most sects would pay a fortune to get their hands on a purple pill and since you are going to just ask for their protection, any sect would be happy to take that deal rather than trying to steal it from you and take a risk of making an enemy in the process, besides, even though the sects are greedy bastards, they tend to keep their word. So if you could make them give their word to protect the kingdom during the ritual, they would as they said ”

”I know it's a gamble but I have to take my chances because we certainly can't protect the water spirit during the ritual alone, even if we did, it wouldn't be without many casualties on our side”

With their current power, Don and Knight couldn't even protect their kingdom from a group of peak level masters or great masters, let alone protect the kingdom from grandmasters.

Hearing Don and Arrora, Knight let out a long breath of sigh

”Alright, since we are not alone anymore, we need the water spirit rooted more than the pill, we'll take this gamble”