“Damn it! ude Preston, how dare you!” The old mage inside the cave cursed loudly. The connection he has over a wolf under hismand that he used to spy on the mountain’s condition was cut off since the wolf itself have died


    Thest scene he had seen was the scene of hellfire burning and killing thousands of magic beasts at once


    There were still many magic beasts in the mountain but what does it matter? ude and his damned subordinates can just take a rest and repeat this tactic a few times


    The wolves under the old mage’s control along with the subordinates of the 6th fusion rank grey wolf might be more than a hundred thousand whenbined but so what? He can only use a small part of them to disturb the other magic beasts!


    Besides, there were only five grey wolves at the 5th fusion rank and tens of 4th fusion rank


    There were many 3rd fusion and below but even if he used all of them, ude might just ughter them


    Even if the old mage sends the 4th and 5th fusion rank beasts the result might still be the same because of the monstrous power of that ude!


    Things might be different if the old mage and his 6th fusion rank wolf personally made a move but that would almost be akin to suicide!


    If such a threat were to show itself, no doubt that the military or even the Magic Academies will send their experts!


    It was fine if the threat were only some low-level beasts but once beings of high levels appeared, the military would treat the matter with more seriousness


    “ude Preston… that damned bastard… how did he even get this idea?”


    The old mage clenched his fist. The thing he knows about ude all depends on the man’s reputation


    Only now that he is facing him did he realize that ude is indeed not ordinary


    Not only was his talent and personal power monstrous, even his mind is extremely sharp!


    The old mage thought that it was ude that created the n of using beast-luring powder when in ‘reality’ it was Rezen, an unknown little mage


    “This wouldn’t do… the n will fail if this goes on…” he muttered as he bit his fingernails


    After a moment of thinking, the mage took out a phone to call a certain someone


    “You know that we shouldn’t contact each other frequently, right? Make sure that you have a good reason for calling”


    “I do! You have to help me. That ude Preston is ruining the n! Take him back and assign other soldiers to spearhead the operation!”


    “I don’t know what ude did but I can’t do what you want”


    “Why not?! With your position, how can you not pull back a mere Captain?! You can just pull the strings from behind!”


    “A mere Captain? Are you stupid? You know his background”


    “He’s just an illegitimate bastard!”


    “Just? You really are getting old! If he’s an ordinary illegitimate bastard then fine. But he is not! He is the most talented mage in the Preston Family! Even the higher-ups are partial to him because of his monstrous talent!”


    “I don’t care! You have to pull him back, he’s going to ruin the experiment! Do you think any of us can afford that?!”


    “Shut up! Have you forgotten the difference in our status?! How dare you speak like that to your superior?!”


    “What? Do you think that I am the only one that would be punished if the experiment failed? What’s the use of infiltrating the military if we can’t even use your authority?”


    “Fuck you! I will see what I could do but for now, lie low and pause the experiment! If I act in the way that you want, I would blow my cover!”


    The call ended with that and the old mage heaved a sigh in relief


    There is a setback in the n and it has to be put on hold but he at least didn’t fail


    If the n was a hundred percent failure, his superiors would think that he was just being ipetent and they would most likely feed him to magic beasts


    Just thinking about it made the mage shudder in fear


    ———


    After dealing with the magic beasts, it is now time for the cleanup and Rezen hurriedly approached ude


    “Brother! Can I take these corpses?” Rezen asks anxiously


    With ude’s personality, he might just donate all of these corpses to the military and have the resources be given to the newbies


    “You can take as many corpses as you want. And oh, have you thought of the reward that you want to receive?”


    For ude, he couldn’t easily deal with all these magic beasts if not for the brilliant n that Rezen has ‘created’. This made him feel greatly indebted to him


    At first, Rezen wanted to feign humility but in the end, he is still a man of greed. If he were to try and refuse, who knows if ude would think of him as a pure good samaritan and not insist on the reward?


    Rezen’s heart would further shatter if he can’t receive the reward especially after ude killed that many magic beasts that didn’t even leave a corpse


    “Brother, I actually have a habit of nting. Can you get seeds of spirit nts for me? Anything is fine as long as they help a mage in their cultivation!” Rezen replied


    When he found out that he can also use normal seeds to nt, Rezen didn’t have the time to search and buy spirit nt seeds as he was busy with various things


    With ude’s connection, it should be easy for him to get Rezen some rare seeds, right?


    “Just seeds?” ude asks as if he felt that what Rezen was asking is too little


    “Yup? Why are you looking at me as if I was just asking for candies? They are supposed to be expensive, right?”


    Hearing that, ude realizes something. Rezen is just a young man that is ‘fortunate’ to have a fortuitous encounter!


    He naturally doesn’t know many things that only people with high social standing know!


    “Rezen, you might not know this but spirit nt seeds aren’t actually supposed to be that expensive, especially themon spirit nts like your vismian grass and soul-tearing peas. We have an abundant supply of them that we might as well really do treat them as candies”


    “There are too few people and groups that can sessfully grow spirit nts in a ‘normal’ way… since there are few demands on the seeds, they should be cheap products but of course, that is aside from the really rare seeds”


    “It was those ck-hearted corporations that made the prices of the seeds expensive to trick people. If it’s seeds that you wanted, I could give you as much as you want but I don’t think that is enough of a reward for your contribution”


    Rezen felt like he was a frog living at the bottom of the well. To think that there was actually such a thing!


    But thinking of it now, this situation was not that strange. Even in the ‘original’ earth that he previously lived in, giantpanies do the same thing


    Just look at the fewpanies producing insulin. Their mark-up is just insane!


    ude speaking like this made Rezen feel that this soldier is really kind! A man of character!


    He might be the most trustworthy person that Rezen has ever met!


    “Brother, you can give me as many seeds as you can. It would be better if this could be a regr thing but of course, I promise to pay for the seeds with spirit nts!”


    Although using seeds that are not bought from the system would take double the amount of time for them to grow, it would still be more profitable


    Besides, who knows when Rezen’s back would break if every four hours or so he has to harvest his crops then dig holes again to nt seeds and repeat the process constantly


    At least, by using seeds, Rezen’s back has more time to rest!


    “Alright, alright, I believe you” ude nodded in affirmation but Rezen still thinks that ude does not understand him


    ude might be thinking of just sending thousands of seeds to Rezen from time to time but that is far from enough!


    Rezen cannot possibly constantly ughter magic beasts for blessing points and lottery tickets. He would have to ‘recharge’ using mana stones


    But since there were misceneous rewards, he would need tons of mana stones


    To secure mana stones, Rezen would have to expand his business!


    “Brother, I’m serious. In fact, even hundreds of thousands of seeds are not enough. That’s why I need a constant supply and I definitely wouldn’t take them for free! I will pay using spirit nts!” Rezen spoke so seriously that ude has no choice but to believe him


    “Alright, I understand. If it’s you, I’m willing to pull some strings behind” ude agreed, and only then did Rezen feel relieved


    “Then brother, I will go and take the corpses now!” Rezen said both excited and impatient and ude can only shake his head before he received a call on his phone and he saw that it was the General


    Thinking that this is an emergency, ude hurriedly epted the call


    “General” ude greeted but the voice at the other end of the call sounds cold


    “Is the reports true? Did you use beast-luring powder in your n?”


    “Yes, General, why?”


    “Why would you do that?! Not only did you endanger your subordinates but also the Greenwood City!”


    “General, I made sure that the ce of operation is far from the foot of the mountain!”


    “And you think that because you did that everything is fine?! Do you really think that there is zero chance that no magic beasts would attack the residential areas or even the Greenwood City itself?!”


    “The powder we used is only enough to attract the low-level magic beasts, General!”


    “That doesn’t change the fact that you enacted a risky n! Besides, do you n to continue this massacre? Do you want to earn the wrath of the experts of the magic beasts?”


    “General, I know the limit. I wouldn’t kill enough to exceed their tolerance”


    “Captain ude, I know that everyone praised andplimented you. In fact, even I, have to admit that you are an amazing person but your thinking is still too naive! On our side, we have moderates and extremists, do you think that the beasts don’t have extremists?”


    “But General even the extremists wouldn’t…”


    “They are called extremists for a reason! You can’t judge them by normal standards especially since you are a high-level mage ughtering the low-level ones! I would expedite the sending of a sensory mage and they wille tomorrow. For now, just prevent the beasts from going down the mountain and don’t make any unnecessary moves. Do you understand?”


    “Yes, General”


    The call ended with a deep frown on ude’s face. The General’s words sound both logical and not


    Indeed, there are extremists in the higher-ups of the magic beasts but even they wouldn’t normally bat an eye even if there were tens of thousands of magic beasts that died from human hands


    Even if there is such an extremist, it was far-fetch to say that there would be a war that will happen


    ude can only think that the General also cares for the public although his heart felt suspicious


    Besides, ude is really a high-level mage ughtering the lower-level ones. Even if there wouldn’t be a war that would ur, there is a chance for an expert from the magic beasts toe and kill him in anger


    “Still… why do I feel this disturbed? It’s not like the General’s words werepletely illogical… just why am I like this…”