Chapter 61

And what do you mean by looking at me like that?

Rios found it increasingly strange, wondering what was wrong with Larry today. Ever since Mafa Merlin entered the room, Larry had been acting weird, and now he was looking at him with a strange gaze. Damn, it looked like he was pitying him...

Larry must have taken the wrong medicine...

Forget it, let’s not worry about him for now.

"That’s right, compensation!" Rios temporarily set aside Larry’s strange behavior and looked down at Lin Yun with a condescending gaze: "The provocation of the Gilded Rose has already crossed the底线 of the Viper’s Nest. Now, you have two choices: compensation, or becoming the enemy of the Viper’s Nest."

"Well, I think compensation is better."

"You’re smart." Hearing the other party agree to compensation, a victorious smile appeared on Rios’ face. Since Lin Yun entered the reception room, this Great Swordsman sat down for the first time.

"My demands are simple: five alchemy apprentices, each worth 200,000 gold coins, totaling one million gold coins. Additionally, I want to see the seized goods outside the Razor’s Cleft by nightfall."

"Wait, wait..." The Great Swordsman had already sat down quite satisfied, but as he listened to Lin Yun list the compensation demands, he felt more and more that something was off: "What kind of compensation is this?"

"Let me tell you, Great Swordsman Rios, do you really think the people of the Gilded Rose can be detained at will? Do you know that the five people you detained are the best alchemy apprentices of the Gilded Rose, each capable of bringing great benefits to the Gilded Rose? I’m not asking for too much with 200,000 gold coins each."

"..." Larry, standing to the side, had already covered his forehead, thinking, I knew it would be like this...

"Wait, you’re saying the Viper’s Nest has to compensate the Gilded Rose with one million gold coins?" Rios finally reacted after listening for a long time.

"Or what?"

"Mafa Merlin, you’re asking for death!" Rios stood up with a "thud," his already fierce face becoming even more terrifying as his scars twisted in anger.

"Rios, don’t be impulsive..." Larry, seeing the situation was wrong, quickly reached out to pull the Great Swordsman.

"Get out of the way!"

In his rage, how could a 9th-level Mage hold back a Great Swordsman? Rios raised his hand, and Larry was pushed against the wall.

Then, Rios grabbed the enchanted giant sword beside him, and raging斗气rose up. The giant sword, like a bolt of lightning, split the long table in the meeting room with a "crack." The residual斗气waves spread like a hurricane, instantly shattering dozens of chairs.

This was the power of a Great Swordsman.

Compared to swordsmen who only fought with their bodies, Great Swordsmen, who possessed斗气, were on a completely different level. At the peak of their cultivation,斗气was virtually indestructible. Even hard rock was no stronger than tofu in front of a Great Swordsman, let alone the tables and chairs in the meeting room.

Rios’ enraged strike displayed the full power of斗气.

But Lin Yun didn’t even move.

"The things you broke will also be compensated by the Viper’s Nest..."

"You’re asking for death!" Rios, already enraged, became even more twisted after Lin Yun’s words. The long scar on his face became even more noticeable, like a red centipede crawling on his face.

The giant sword, which had just fallen, was raised again.

And this time, the target was not a table or a chair, but Lin Yun, who was less than ten meters away...

The surging斗气rushed like a sea, crazily impacting everything around. Even the walls of the meeting room made "crack" sounds, with cracks spreading across them. Red斗气swirled around the giant sword, and with Rios’ roar, the sword fell heavily, carrying a faint sound of thunder...

At this moment, even Larry couldn’t help but change his expression.

Although Larry was a 9th-level Mage, he still had no resistance against a fully powered Great Swordsman. Even facing the residual斗气waves, Larry had to cast a magic shield to ensure he wouldn’t be knocked down by the斗气waves.

This was no longer a force that could be resisted at the Mage level...

Only a High Mage could stand against a Great Swordsman.

The giant sword, enveloped in斗气, fell heavily, but Lin Yun remained still, only softly uttering a short incantation. The incantation was very short and very light, and amidst the roaring sound of the giant sword, it sounded like unconscious mumbling...

But this mumbling incantation suddenly made the entire world quiet.

The giant sword, which fell like a bolt of lightning, suddenly stopped, as if an invisible hand in the air had firmly grabbed it.

No, not just the giant sword...

Even Rios, who raised the giant sword, suddenly froze, his face still twisted, his斗气still surging, but his entire body stood still, with large sweat drops rolling down his forehead. The feeling was incredibly bizarre, standing still yet struggling...

The meeting room suddenly became quiet...

Without the Great Swordsman’s roar or the raging斗气, a suffocating pressure filled the room.

The source of the pressure was the young Mage sitting there, who hadn’t moved an inch from start to finish...

"I said, every item you break will be compensated by the Viper’s Nest." Lin Yun slowly stood up, a smile still on his face, but his gaze towards Rios made the Great Swordsman feel cold from head to toe.

It was an extremely calm gaze...

No cruel coldness, no perverted excitement.

But such a gaze should not be directed at a living person. In Rios’ memory, only true butchers would look at a living person with such an extremely calm gaze.

Who is this Mafa Merlin...

Rios wanted to ask, but he couldn’t even do such a simple thing. In fact, after that mumbling incantation, Rios felt an irresistible force come over him, not only stopping his giant sword in mid-air but also binding his body in an instant.

Now, he couldn’t even move a finger, let alone speak.

Although his mind could still think, his body was out of control.

The only thing Rios could do was watch...

Watch the young Mage extend his right hand, watch his body slowly float up.

Then Rios felt an irresistible force tightly gripping his neck, lifting him higher and gripping tighter...

Rios wanted to struggle and cry for help, but the overwhelming force made him unable to move, let alone struggle or cry for help.

Despair and fear filled Rios’ heart. At this moment, all thoughts of being a Great Swordsman or a member of the Viper’s Nest were thrown to the back of his mind. If he could, Rios would rather never have entered this meeting room, never raised his giant sword.

At this moment, Rios finally understood why Larry’s expression had been so strange from the beginning.

It was because the person sitting across the table was a High Mage, and a powerful one at that, capable of killing a Great Swordsman with a mere gesture.

He had raised his giant sword in front of such a High Mage...

Rios wanted to beg for mercy, but he couldn’t speak, only to be lifted higher and gripped tighter by that invisible hand. In a daze, Rios already felt the dizziness brought by suffocation, and the shadow of death was getting closer.

"Go back and tell Soss to prepare two million gold coins." Just when Rios thought he was about to die, Lin Yun’s raised right hand lightly flicked.

In an instant, Rios felt himself like a cannonball, "boom" flying out. The walls of the meeting room couldn’t stop the terrifying force, and Rios felt a pain as the wall was directly breached...

After a dizzying spin, Rios was already lying on the wide Triumph Street.

Only then did Rios feel intense pain all over his body, as if every bone had been crushed by a boulder, with no part left unharmed. But at this moment, Rios didn’t care about the pain; he was breathing in large gulps of the long-missed air, as if not doing so would prevent him from escaping the previous despair and fear.

"Hey, Larry..." After casually throwing the Great Swordsman out of the Gilded Rose, Lin Yun turned around and looked at the 9th-level Mage, who was completely terrified.

Seeing Lin Yun’s gaze, the 9th-level Mage, who had been dazed, immediately jumped up and answered with astonishing agility: "I know, I’ll clean up right away!"

"Very good..."

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