Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 141: Setting a Trap, High Stakes Bet!

Chapter 141: Chapter 141: Setting a Trap, High Stakes Bet!

"Boy, did you hear the deputy chairman’s words? If you can’t prove your identity as a ’Level Nine Alchemist’, the Alchemy Guild will reclaim the alchemist badge you’re wearing."

River Sinclair glanced at Wyatt Barnes, his eyes filled with mockery.

What a joke!

There was no way he would believe that such a young brat could be a Level Nine Alchemist...

All eyes were now on Wyatt Barnes.

Even more people were waiting to see Wyatt Barnes make a fool of himself.

"None of you believe that I’m a Level Nine Alchemist?"

Wyatt looked around and asked indifferently.

While no one responded, the questioning gazes of everyone already told the whole story...

"You’re called ’River Sinclair’, right?"

As Wyatt looked at River again, a sly glint swept across his eyes unnoticed by River.

"Yes, I am River Sinclair."

River raised his head high, full of arrogance, completely disregarding Wyatt’s presence.

"What if I made a bet with you? Dare you to take it?"

Wyatt asked.

"Hmph! I have no interest in betting with you."

River scoffed, not knowing what tricks Wyatt was up to, but believing that a person who could become a ’Level Nine Alchemist’ at the age of twenty certainly wouldn’t be a fool.

"Hehe... A Level Nine Alchemist at the age of twenty, the most talented young alchemist of Crimson Heaven Kingdom? What a false reputation!"

Wyatt chuckled lightly, his face calm, but anyone could tell he was provoking River, as if mocking him for being ’cowardly’.

"Boy, don’t change the subject... Didn’t you hear what the Deputy Chairman said? If you can’t prove you’re an alchemist, you have to hand over the Alchemist Badge!"

River looked at Wyatt, with a ’I’ve already seen through your act’ kind of expression.

"When did I change the subject? The bet I’m proposing to you is in response to the Deputy Chairman’s request. I’m willing to bet that if I can prove I’m a Level Nine Alchemist, you owe me 5 million USD. In contrast, if I can’t prove it now, I owe you 5 million USD... Do you dare?"

Wyatt calmly said.

Five million USD?

Whoosh!

The gambling terms that Wyatt proposed were like a stone causing a thousand ripples...

The surrounding crowd was shocked!

Even the Vice Chairman of the Alchemist Guild, Lyla Wood, was showing interest in Wyatt...

Could he really be a Level Nine Alchemist?

If he indeed was, and had already been certified by the Alchemy Guild, why didn’t the guild that registered him report it to the ’Main Office’?

There were just too many questions in Lyla Wood’s mind...

"Five million USD?"

River Sinclair was taken aback.

Five million USD was not a big deal to him.

If he wanted it, the Sinclair Clan would definitely provide him with it...

After all, he was the ’genius alchemist’ whom the Sinclair Clan was focusing on developing, and he would eventually become a ’Level Seven Alchemist’.

However, he had only been a Level Nine Alchemist for a little over a year, and even when he performed Alchemy, he did it as a task commissioned by the Alchemy Guild to earn ’points’.

Currently, he only had about 3 million USD that the family had given him.

"So, do you not dare?"

Wyatt looked at River Sinclair, smiling, "So it seems you too think I should be a Level Nine Alchemist... Now, shouldn’t you take back your questioning comments about me, and admit personally that I’m a Level Nine Alchemist? At the same time, you have to acknowledge that I am a more talented alchemist than you! You, the most talented young alchemist of Crimson Heaven Kingdom, are nothing more than a puffed-up windbag!"

Wyatt had seen what kind of person River was from the moment he appeared...

River Sinclair, arrogant and dismissive, looked down on everyone.

Wyatt was forcing River into accepting his bet right now, banking on his proud personality, believing he would not admit to being afraid.

"Haha... So-called genius Alchemist, just a coward after all!"

Wyatt continued to fan the flames, breaking down the last line of defense in River’s heart...

Lyla Wood took a deep look at Wyatt.

Could this young man in the purple robe really be that confident?

"Fine, I accept! But, can you bring out five million USD?"

River finally agreed and looked at Wyatt with a sarcastic smile.

In his view, Wyatt had said everything just now with the intention of making him uncomfortable...

Now, he would expose Wyatt’s lies!

Five million USD, can you bring it out?

For a moment, the gaze of the onlookers all fell on Wyatt Barnes.

They had just been taken aback by Wyatt Barnes’s proposed wager...

Five million USD was not a sum easily coughed up by anyone!

Even for a ninth-grade alchemist, earning that kind of money would take tens of years at the very least...

"Are you sure you’ve accepted the bet?"

Upon hearing River Sinclair’s words, Wyatt Barnes did not hurriedly take out the check. He wanted to let Sinclair fall completely into his trap so that he couldn’t back out.

"What, are you afraid?"

Seeing Wyatt Barnes behave this way, River naturally thought that Wyatt Barnes was intimidated. He chuckled, looked around, then turned to Lyla Wood, "Deputy Chief, please bear witness to our wager today along with everyone else here..."

"I, River Sinclair, make a wager with this ignorant lad. If he can prove that he’s a ninth-grade alchemist, I will pay him five million USD! If he fails to prove himself, he has to pay me five million USD!"

"Of course, the premise of this wager is that he can bring out five million USD!"

Towards the end, River Sinclair added...

It essentially meant that if Wyatt Barnes could not produce that kind of money, the bet would lose its meaning.

In his view, his stipulation was enough to expose Wyatt Barnes’s plot.

"The money, I can naturally afford... but I’m afraid you can’t."

Upon hearing River’s words, Wyatt merely smiled.

"I can’t afford it? Boy, I am a ’Genius Alchemist’ nurtured by Sinclair Clan, and acquiring five million USD is just a matter of a word for me. I see, this is your excuse because you don’t have five million USD in your possession, so you deliberately spoke those words. Isn’t it?"

River Sinclair’s face darkened, his scant worries vanished entirely as became certain that Wyatt Barnes couldn’t afford the sum. He believed that all of this was deliberate on Wyatt Barnes’s part to discourage him from accepting the bet, to embarrass and unsettle him publicly.

"What, caught red-handed? Nothing more to say?"

Seeing Wyatt seem slightly hesitant, River Sinclair sneered. "If you don’t have the money, don’t pretend to be wealthy! Be sensible and don’t waste your breath. Hand over your badge promptly."

Wyatt Barnes narrowed his eyes and replied carelessly. "As long as you can produce five million USD and hand it over to the Deputy Chief as the ’wager’ deposit... I, of course, will take out my five million USD and give it to the Deputy Chief. Sadly, you probably can’t cough up this amount..."

The smile froze on River Sinclair’s lips as he said, "Kid, are you still not finished yet? Fine, I’ll hand the five million USD to the Deputy Chief right now... Deputy Chief, I have three million USD on hand, can I borrow the remaining two million USD from you?"

With a flick of River Sinclair’s hand, a large stack of bank checks appeared out of thin air and were handed to Lyla Wood.

As a genius alchemist from the Sinclair Clan, River Sinclair was the only one among the younger generation to possess a Storage Ring.

Lyla Wood raised her brows slightly but in the end, said nothing and accepted River Sinclair’s check, nodding her head.

"Kid, do you see it? This is my wager, where’s yours?"

River Sinclair looked at Wyatt Barnes, chuckled coldly, and waited to see him make a fool of himself.

"Ridiculous! You claim to be a member of the Sinclair Clan but can’t afford such a measly sum of five million USD without borrowing... tsk, tsk."

Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but laugh.

"Enough chatter, where’s your wager?"

River Sinclair’s face fell, a sudden lethal urge to kill this boy rising in his heart.

This kid is too pesky!

"Watch closely, this is my wager... Even though I am a nobody, I don’t need to borrow from others to afford a measly five million USD."

Wyatt deliberately reached into his pocket, took out all the checks from his storage ring, and handed them to Lyla Wood, "Deputy Chief, this is my wager, please help me count it..."

Lyla Wood was taken aback for a moment before taking Wyatt’s check.

After counting for a while, she nodded, "Very well, it is indeed five million USD."

As she spoke, Lyla Wood’s gaze turned complicated. She had a hunch, all this was a trap set by this young man in the purple robe, waiting for River Sinclair to step into it...

He exploited River Sinclair’s arrogance!

This man in the purple robe was too formidable, he had completely capitalized on River Sinclair’s weakness.

Although, she could now almost confirm that this man in the purple robe was the ’fish that escaped the net’ from the Alchemist Guild, and indeed a ’ninth-grade alchemist’...

She was still somewhat looking forward to the scene where the young man would prove himself.

"Holy crap! It’s really five million USD, who is this young man?"

"Even River Sinclair wasn’t able to produce five million USD on the spot and had to borrow from the Deputy Chief... Yet he just casually handed over five million USD on the spot, it’s unbelievable!"

"He could afford to put forth so much money, and even proposed this bet of his own accord, could he really be a ninth-grade alchemist?"

"With the situation having progressed to this point, do you think it’s possible he would be so generous as to give money away to River Sinclair?"

"If he truly is a ninth-grade alchemist, wouldn’t that be astounding? An eighteen year-old ninth-grade alchemist, that would certainly be a first in our Crimson Heaven Kingdom!"

"It looks like we are fortunate enough to witness this holy moment."

...

The crowd of onlookers grew, anyone who entered the Alchemist Guild gathered around.

Those who were unaware of the situation became interested in the standoff between Wyatt Barnes and River Sinclair upon learning the details from the people near them, awaiting the critical moment...

These two individuals.

One, a renowned ’Genius Alchemist’ of the Crimson Heaven Kingdom!

The other, an absolute nobody!

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