Testing the water (first part)

"Knock, knock, knock" the knocking sound on the door of a king-size bedroom within a mansion. It has been nearly a half year since Ballmon Bear come from the imperial city of the Storm Country. This mansion that used to be desolated a month ago, but now many new faces are currently doing exercise in an empty courtyard inside the mansion. Since he already recruits them from Diana's clan, he has to make full use of them. As for the assassinator that he hired to be his bodyguard, he seemed to forget about him already. Currently, he is thinking about a new plan on how to deal with Diana's clan current layout. With light knocking coming a sound from outside of his room, his train of thought was interrupted.

"Come in." With a hand lightly tap on the table, he leaves his teacup on the table again and calls the servant who is currently waiting outside of the room to enter.

After receiving permission to enter, a little thin man walk into the room. Seeing Ballmon Bear, who is currently sitting, and in deep thought. He did not want to disturb this god of death. He is very clear that among the three brothers of the Black Bear clan. Ballmon Bear, who has been always very low key among peers in the clan, is the most dangerous one and a very shrewd man who will do anything to get what he wants. It was said that his ugly appearance caused by a backlash of forcing to breakthrough to the elemental realm when he was in his 30 years old. It takes him 10 years to reach the middle stage of the elemental body refinement realm, yet both of his elder brothers are already at the late stage of the elemental body refinement realm.

It can be said that his elder brothers' future is limitless. Even the old man from Diana clan is only at the late stage of the elemental body refinement realm when he was already around 70 years old. Yet, the one that made him afraid the most is Ballmon Bear without a doubt. Although his body is mediocre in terms of cultivation, the heaven gifts him another thing as compensation. That is his brain. The Black Bear clan wealth has improved since he started doing business when he was in his twenty years old, so the clan almost left everything that related to business to him, Ballmon Bear, the third young master of Black Bear clan. No one knows what he is thinking when he suddenly came to the Sun city to deal with a nearly dead clan like Diana clan. He only left some words to the clan elders at that time that he wanted to clean the root of trouble for the Black Bear clan to raise in the future.

From his perspective, Ballmon Bear seemed to left the clan when almost everything was in his controlled. Why did he suddenly follow Diana clan to Sun City? Is he come here to destroy the Diana clan only hope? Even though he afraid of Ballmon Bear the most of the three siblings, he always feels there is something that was off the track...

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"Young master, I have our men followed closely with your instruction to buy all the materials from the supplier that was in contract with Diana clan. At first, they were not willing to sell to us, but with stick and carrot as per your command, they are willing to sell what they have to us. Now there is a new movement from Diana clan, they have purchased a huge amount of clear crystal liquid materials which is quite cheaper than those previous materials. Do you want to continue to interrupt the supplying point again?" He can only report and ask for the next instruction, although he already serves Ballmon Bear for almost five years, every time he meets with him he always feels there is a shadow always stare at him like a wolf watching its prey.

After looking through the report file, Ballmon Bear tap again on the table as if he was in deep thought. The thin-looking man does not dare to move at all, for he was afraid to disturb Ballmon Bear. Only a while later, when he heard long breathing from Ballmon Bear that he stole a glance at Ballmon Bear before he lowered his head again.

"Hmmph, they are changing from the finished products to the starting line. What did they want to do? Though the mineral for clear crystal liquid is hard to preserve, it could only be used to create many daily necessary for life. Yet, there are only a few craftsmen with the fire elemental in the imperial city who can make full use of it. It is just a waste of gold coins to spend on something useless. With that huge amount of materials, the loss without a doubt, will not equal to the gain.

What are they planning to do with it? Diana clan has never doing business with clear crystal liquid. Have they found a master to remold it for production? It is likely impossible to find one that willing to work for them.

The young man who used the flours to find out the assassinator. With his cultivation only at body refinement initiate stage, it is also impossible at such a young age to know how to use it." Those craftsmen that he has met before who can remold the clear crystal liquid are all old men in the capital. These materials will export to the imperial city, and the other cities will import the finished products from there. The clear crystal liquid might be cheaper compared to the finished products because there is a lot in stock for the resources. But, if one does not know how to use it, it a useless material.

From a high-end product to a useless material, even his brain was hit with a donkey sh**. He would not bough that many as the market for it is not high enough to earn his money back. If Diana clan really know how to use it, they could still afford to buy an entire mine even with their current situation.

So, there is only the other way, that was to bait him to compete with them to buy it. With all the materials that he bought, it can still be sold out and gain some wealth back. But, if he follows what Diana clan wants to lead him to, he would be doom when the price fall again. Why? Because there are plenty of mines that can produce clear crystal liquid every day, yet the output for what it can remold into quite limit and low in quantity.

"There is no need to fall into their cheap trick. Baldy, You can still buy the crystal glass from those suppliers that sold to Diana clan and don't forget to follow closely to their trend. If there is nothing else to report, you can dismiss now."

Just as the thin-looking man about to close the door when he left Ballmon Bear's room. He heard Ballmon Bear call out for him, again. He almost jumps when he heard the eerie voice from Ballmon Bear, it seemed someone is going to get unlucky.

"Don't forget to gather Coba and Kalle young master for me."

Ballmon Bear never likes the feeling of being so passive. He always the one who takes the initiative and leads his enemy into their demise. Yet this time, all of his pawns in Diana's clan were pulled because of the two idiots. He can only be waiting for this turtle to come out before he could use his butcher blade.

As for why he did not want to appear in the public that because he always afraid of his elder brothers' spy might come to the Sun City, too. They will never think that he had come to this city as there is an enemy stay within the city itself. There is a say that the most dangerous place is also the safest place.

If not because of his elder brothers seeing him as a threat to their competition as the family lord, he will never be willing to come to this backwater place. His plan to take the family lord position was nearly succeeded. Just a moment of negligence, his plan was exposed to them, his beloved elder brothers. He can only run away from their suppression so that there will be a chance for him to make a comeback.

Who cares about a clan that was already nearly destroyed by himself one. Since he had done it one in the past, he can do it again in the future. The first thing that came to his mind is to pocket Diana's clan wealth to improve his current situation. In the past, there is some of his prestige and friendship with Kalle and Coba clan young master when he had come to do business in the Sun City. Without it, he likely impossible to pull that trick as he has come here to do business and staying here for along time.

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"Where are you going?" Rosa, who had just return from the market with a handful of beast meats, vegetables, and many other ingredients, happen to meet William on her way toward the kitchen. William seemed not to hear her question as he is blankly stared toward the direction of the kitchen. Rosa wanted to wave her hand in front of his eyes, but with both of her hands are full. After thinking for a moment on how to bring back William to reality, a light pop up on her head. Since her hands are full, only then her feet are free why not use it. Just as she was about to use her feet to lightly kick William's leg to wake him up from his dream, William dodged to the side quite fast.

"So, you are not daydreaming at all, right? Give me a hand, don't dilly dally all day long." Rosa hand some of her ingredients in hand to William. The first respond William had was to avoid being kick by Rosa with his breakthrough and become a mid-rank body refiner that takes only a short of one month. Rosa also surprises with his breakthrough because of a human's body impossible to reach this stage without two or three years of hard training, there is only one explanation that he had trained in the past. Well, his body is also quite well built and the refine aura of a scholar when he is in deep thinking. He started to build immunity with a surprise attack from Rosa.

As for why he was absent mind, that was because a mission has been issued from the system. It has abruptly appeared out of blue, that why he can only ask White drake some questions. The system seriously pits him heavily this time. The first mission, it has issued, is to find spirit soil. And the reward is only a hundred points and a planting field with a penalty of being not able to receive any mission for an entire year if he fails to find it within three months. White drake said: "The only way to find spirit soil, is to find where spiritual herbs appear. But, there is a chance that the spirit soil exhausted its energy by spiritual herbs absorption for its growth. The highest chance to find one is to enter the deeper into the forest. There is also a chance that you won't find one in there."

He has just left the Amarilla forest not that long, yet now he needs to go to that dangerous place again. One more issue that he needed to adapt as soon as possible, or else Rosa might think he is an idiot. Well someone might be thinking you are an idiot if you suddenly stop your movement or talking in the middle of a conversation.

"Op, why don't you just put it in your storage ring? You are carrying so many things in both hands, quickly give them to me." William also gets used to Rosa shopping. She likes to buy many ingredients and fresh vegetables for her grandpa. As for why she did not use her storage ring to store these ingredients, he can only ask her. Well everybody has a huge appetite that including him. He started to feel that his body is changing as his appetite is also growing. Is it related to this world cultivation? It is the only answer that he could give.

Rosa looks at William as if he is an idiot. She also saw him using a storage ring, too. But, why did he suddenly ask these stupid questions? Right, come to think of it, he has lost his memory beside his name. So, maybe he had forgotten everything else, even this basic usage of the storage ring. "Don't you know that the storage ring can never store something freshly or a living object as it will make them deteriorate faster or dead."

Wait, little Rosy seemed to appear out of the blue and when she is sleepy, she also returns to William and then vanished. Don't tell me that he has the legendary spiritual storage ring, in which it had only appeared in the legend. A storage ring that can store living creatures. Who is he? Where did he come from? Someone who appeared in the dept of Amarilla forest and rescued her life, yet forget everything besides his name. When he regained all his memory back, he leaves me for sure.

Rosa looking at William who has brought her many surprises with her complicate feeling that she even forgets to hand over her ingredients from her hand. She had a feeling that some days, he might leave her and goes somewhere far away that she can never be able to reach. Will he leave me? No, I don't want that feeling, but can I stop him from leaving me? A dragon will never stay within a pond as there will be a day that it will leave to a bigger sea out there.

With her body that has many elementals that her grandpa does not even know how her future is. How can she be worthy of him? A man with such knowledge that she or the entire human race doesn't know about. Stop your wishful thinking, he will never be able to stay with you forever. After making up her mind, Rosa's complicated expression becomes ice cold and desolated.