[Rudra: Now that you know how to bargain, I’ve gathered the top 15 guild leaders, families, and other allied forces for this call. So rope them in and secure future dungeons as well. You will need a solid bargaining chip to secure not only raids for now but future raids as well. Anyways, accept the call, and show us what you’ve got.]
Almond got some tips from Admiral Rudra on how to proceed with this and shortly got his call a few seconds later, which he promptly accepted.
Almond saw many old monsters and guild leaders with their eyes on him as he connected to the conference video call.
“Hello, seniors. Sorry for taking your time like this. I’ve only met some of you, but all of you know me already.” Almond smiled with a hint of cheekiness and said, “I’ll cut to the chase. I need to clear sixteen S-rank Dungeons before the battlefield of the mightiest opens.”
“This activity is important to make myself and my party members significantly stronger,” Almond emphasized the ‘significantly’ part as he spoke.
“That doesn’t matter,” Viktor said as he dismissively waved his hand. “What can you offer to make it worth our while?”
“Ahem, I’ll arrange my guild’s S-rank Dungeon for you,” the Blackstar Guild leader Ruyi Hexing said with a smile as her lipsticked lips made a charming arc. “My elder sister’s son Jian, who is in your party, was rather forceful about this, so well, even if you can’t convince me, I can arrange the dungeon raid according to your schedule.”
“One S-rank dungeon spawned in my guild’s territory yesterday, so I’ll do the same,” Damian Silverfang nodded with a faint smile. “Anya persistently told me the S-rank dungeon is important to you and the party, haha.”
“Same with me,” the 9th-rank Lightstrike Guild’s leader, a brown-bearded middle-aged man, said with a loud laugh. “Finn has improved a lot, and I do hope he gets stronger. Just don’t take him away from my guild, hahaha.”
Almond laughed in response before another person spoke, this time an old monster.
“You brat, I’m giving you my family’s S-rank dungeon, but I have a different condition,” Silverfang said with a grin. “Put my dungeon in your schedule. As for the condition, I’ll tell you when you get here.”
“Same from me,” Hiroshi Ryugiri nodded with a faint smile. “Just do a small thing for me, and you got the dungeon.”
Afterward, the Reben family head, Ioan Reben who had an S-rank dungeon also said he would agree as his son had told them of its importance.
Crimson Aegis Guild leader also agreed as his guild’s super rookie Ron requested him.
Of course, Almond knew this would happen because the super rookies had called their guilds and families who had S-rank dungeons about this while waiting in his courtyard, so he knew what all of them said.
And he knew all of them tried their best according to their position in their respective guilds or families.
But he still had to put the chip out.
“Well, you still need more dungeons, lil Almond,” Shiro-sen nodded as he smiled while caressing his head. “And we also heard you got something interesting for us.”
Almond chuckled and waved his hand, displaying digital-sparkling golden letters made with his Golden Haze Lightning energy in front of the screen for everyone to see.
[Bone Tethering Condensation]
“Bone Tethering Condensation…” Arjun Maheshwari raised his eyebrows. “Sounds like some kind of method.”
“It’s a very good method,” Almond grinned. “It can give a permanent boost upon learning it.”
“Spill us the info about this already, kid,” Paloma chuckled.
Almond cleared his throat and smiled, “Learning this method can permanently increase Strength by 10% and make your bones faster recovering and tougher naturally.”
“Is that so?” Liang Zhou narrowed his eyes. “Show us the method in detail, we’ll be able to verify it.”
“Indeed,” Shiro-sen nodded.
“If it can indeed increase Strength by 10% permanently, then it is indeed good,” Steelheart guild master nodded with a chuckle, “Well, I was going to let you have my guild’s S-rank Dungeon’s schedule because of Eliara’s plea, but we’ll still take this.”
“Of course, of course,” Almond said he quickly nodded with a smile. “I’m planning to share this with every one of you in exchange for letting me have a run in your Dungeons, current and future. I don’t want any items from your dungeon or any magic cores or crystals. I just want to kill monsters and hone myself.”
“And so,” Almond paused as he waved his hand, writing the details of the first level of Bone Tethering Condensation.
Everyone looked at the text with details on how to use Mana in a way such that it can be infused into structures of bone, and then enrich its marrow and flow from foundational to permanently improve their blood’s power and bone’s strength, acquiring a permanent 10% boost in Strength upon completion.
Some of the guild leaders and other leaders had their eyes glinting as they immediately tried to follow the method and succeeded in letting their Mana enter their bone after controlling Mana and manipulating it as said in the method.
Someone suddenly shouted and everyone looked at each other’s screen.
“What happened, little Jim?” Shiro-sen asked with a chuckle as he looked at Jim Torren, the guild leader of the 13th-rank Verdant Pact guild.
“I was fast, but senior Shiro still caught my embarrassment,” Jin wryly smiled. “I hurt myself in one of my bones as I tried that second step regarding tethering the bone tissues.”
“Anyway, Almond, I do not have an S-rank Dungeon in my territory, but I’ll notify you through Amir when we get one,” Jin smiled.
“Understood,” Almond nodded.
“Back to the topic, the method seems legit, and you’ve already shown us its details, so Admiral will send you the list of S-rank dungeons and you send him the schedule, so we can be prepared,” Ruyi said with a smile.
Meanwhile, Admiral Rudra’s eyes flickered, ‘So this is the chip…and since he said he got a better surprise for me, it’s obvious what it is.’
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Shaking his head, he faintly smiled, ‘You can fool most people here, but a few of those old monsters will notice that there’s more to this method than what you’ve shown.’
‘Now, will they expose it or keep it to themselves so they can talk to you about it personally is up to them,’ Admiral Rudra thought as he waited calmly, watching everyone’s reactions.