Chapter 427 - 225: Invitation from the Di Feng Family
After pondering for a while, Baiyi didn’t reply to the message any further. Anyway, with the situation as it is, it’s acceptable to wait until the council voices its opinions before putting a stop to it.
As for resources in Dongwu City, there’s no turning back now...
No longer contemplating Sabo, Baiyi followed Jia Guan out of the City Lord’s Mansion.
On the streets, various official personnel were still cleaning up, with a large amount of blood being flushed into the sewers, filling the city with a slightly unsettling smell of blood.
The two words "massive reform" may seem simple, but the death toll across the Federation has already exceeded ten million. Particularly, the moment the council announced the reforms, hundreds of thousands died at once, and they were all Transcendents.
Compared to the reforms, the total deaths on the four battlefields combined can’t compare to this grand clearing.
If Baiyi had not displayed terrifying skills in battle, and if the knowledge he held wasn’t invaluable, only Dongwu City would have been isolated in this reform.
However, these are all normal occurrences.
When they arrived at the Adventurer’s Guild, it was much quieter than before. The flow of people was gone, and only a few remained in the vast guild.
Those remaining were staff who hadn’t rebelled; the rebellious ones were all dead.
Fortunately, the Knowledge Hall isn’t something controlled by personnel; otherwise, if it were impacted, that would be the real loss.
Baiyi used his Spiritual Power to perceive Dongwu City.
The Outer City District was full of celebration, as the commoners were genuinely celebrating the victory of the war for the first time.
However, the Inner City District was much emptier, with many mansions left with only a few ordinary attendants leading the financial department’s people in property seizures.
The current second-in-command of the financial department, who had followed Sabo for so long, learned quite a bit in the process.
At the very least, he had a keen sense of money and hardly needed any instructions to know what to do.
Another reason the inner city was empty was due to a large number of monster corpses being transported in, even though Dongwu City didn’t need such a vast amount of materials.
As a result, these had to be sold at about one-third below market price, leading many law-abiding Transcendents and businessmen to see an opportunity.
They almost converted all their gold coins into monster corpses and then used the teleportation arrays to sell these materials throughout the entire Federation.
This is also why the Federation’s gold coins remain valuable. Besides their inherent value, it’s mainly because of the many adventurers.
Such materials are indispensable, whether used for food or research.
Adventurers earn money from hunting, use it to buy other adventurers’ hunted spoils or treasures for growth, then go out to hunt even stronger prey. This cycle creates a complete industry chain.
The teleportation array isn’t far from the Adventurer’s Guild, located outside the leftmost city wall of the City Lord’s Mansion, in a large piece of vacant land. Five tower-like buildings, similar to the Knowledge Hall, stand there.
This structure has nine levels altogether, and there are no staff guarding it.
Top knowledge from the Star Federation is certainly not simple; these towers aren’t as small as they appear on the outside, hiding countless layers of space and numerous separate spaces within.
Moreover, they are equipped with installations for collecting payments and a series of other functions.
The setup solves most problems almost perfectly; the only downside is the requirement for Power of Space-Time.
Except for Legendary Mages, other Legendaries can only extract a small amount of the Power of Space-Time from spatial turbulence after reaching Tier Eight.
Otherwise, they can use Space-Time Stones to replace the Power of Space-Time, which is also why the teleportation fee is expensive.
Following Jia Guan into the central teleportation array, everything around turned illusory, as if in the Star Sea.
A cold female voice appeared.
[Identity: Jia Guan·Di Feng, Dongwu City·Baiyi, the teleportation fee for this session has been waived. Please choose a teleportation tower.]
[Available teleportation towers: Capital City, Xiling City, South Spirit City, Beiyuan City, Chaoyang City, Wuduo City, Red Lion City...]
The names of numerous cities appeared, almost encompassing all the major cities.
Although this magic teleportation array is powerful, it’s more expensive than the alchemy transmission array, so the latter connects more cities.
In terms of positioning, the magic teleportation array is military; alchemy is for everyday use.
As Jia Guan chose the Capital City as the teleportation point, the space trembled violently, and the female voice appeared again.
[Teleportation tower selected, Capital City, teleportation is about to begin, 3...2...1...]
Immediately after, the surrounding star points started to move, stretching into thin lines almost instantly, creating a dizzying sensation.
But Baiyi felt nothing; his powerful soul almost instantly and perfectly controlled his current body.
And after reaching the Golden Level in bodily attributes, Baiyi felt that his resistance was scarily high, at a level Alchemists couldn’t reach.
In just a moment, the slow-moving stars returned to stillness.
[Current location, Capital City teleportation tower, wishing you a pleasant journey.]
"Lord City Lord, this way."
Jia Guan smiled, guiding Baiyi out of the teleportation tower, where a powerful red dragon awaited not far away.
Baiyi was no stranger to this dragon; it was the Golden Middle-Rank Red Dragon, Tina Anderson.
She had become much fuller now, with none of her initial arrogance remaining; instead, she exuded a pleasant aura throughout.
Dragons cannot be enslaved, but the Di Feng Family is too wealthy; they gave too much. As long as there’s enough gold, it’s not impossible to temporarily ’collaborate’ with a dragon.