The Last King Of Darkness
Chapter 129 - 95: A Painful Shot

Chapter 129: Chapter 95: A Painful Shot

"Can you help me with anything?" Rod asked, his eyes gleaming.

"Um..."

Lauren was about to agree, but he held back what he was about to say.

"Legal, reasonable things."

Rod was somewhat disappointed; he had been hoping to get the Royal City to send him some peculiar items like "living flesh," "Puppet Wood," and "Resurrection Stone."

However, from his research during this period, these items were probably not standard legal materials; it was better not to mention them.

He thought for a moment and then asked, "What about Sun Stones?"

Lauren didn’t ask him what he needed the Sun Stones for, but merely said, "High-purity ones are not possible; those are used to make Holy Fire Elements."

Rod recalled the recipe for "Soul Ashes," which didn’t require a specific purity, just a complete Sun Stone weighing more than thirteen grams.

"Can I get those weighing more than thirteen grams?"

"That’s possible. We’ll make a request to the General Logistics Department based on the needs of the mission. How many do you need?"

"I don’t need too many," Rod thought for a moment and said. "Let’s start with five hundred."

Judging by Lauren’s expression, Rod guessed he might have said something preposterous, so he quickly added, "Four hundred would also be fine."

Lauren, holding his forehead, said, not very happily, "How about this, I’ll apply for twenty to start with, and we can see how it goes from there."

Although Rod looked very young, he was no naive child on the inside.

"See how it goes" ninety-nine percent of the time meant "no more, I’m just placating you."

He purposefully frowned and elongated his voice as he said:

"Is this how you treat warriors who risk their lives on missions? I didn’t have to agree to this; life at the academy is so wonderful, my classmates are so friendly, and our team leader Kashan is gentle and wise, taking great care of me, warming my bed every night. Why would I want to face those terrifying Doomsday believers?"

Rod heightened his tone, trying to conjure a sense of dread.

"You don’t know; they are really terrifying. The sight of them scares me to death, makes my heart skip a beat, my soul leave my body. Without four hundred Sun Stones weighing down my heart, I can’t even walk."

"All right, enough,"

Lauren interrupted impatiently:

"Fifty, that’s the limit. The logistics department definitely won’t approve more. Even the lower-purity Sun Stones have very wide usage, and we generally don’t issue them to individuals."

Rod immediately showed a smile.

Fifty Sun Stones meant fifty portions of "Soul Ashes."

The last invaders, with twenty Monster Souls, didn’t stand a chance; surely they’d stand a better chance next time with fifty, right?

But now wasn’t the time to be happy. Rod held back his smile and continued, "I need other materials, too."

"Name them."

"I need Star Light Ruby Powder."

Lauren seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, took a sip of water, and said, "That’s fine, how much do you need?"

"Let’s start with one ton."

Pfft.

Lauren spat out all the water in his mouth.

Rod looked at him with innocent wide eyes.

I’m quoting an outrageous price, you can counter with something reasonable.

"Fifty grams! Not a gram more!"

"At least half a ton!"

Lauren glared at him. "Are you planning to mix Star Light Ruby Powder with your rice?"

A lightbulb went on in Rod’s mind; that excuse sounded good.

You call me a black hole when it comes to food, right? Then I’ll eat just to show you!

"Exactly."

Lauren looked at him skeptically, and after a long silence, he said, "A hundred grams at most. Your Fire Spark hasn’t undergone a characteristic test yet. Without a standard answer from the Mechanical Research Institute, the logistics department won’t approve that much material."

Rod’s heart blossomed with joy, but he still pretended to look distressed and said, "All right, a hundred grams it is. I’m at a big loss here."

Lauren’s face darkened; a hundred grams of Star Light Ruby Powder could fetch thirty thousand silver coins on the market. If it weren’t for the mission being critically important and extremely dangerous, such approval would never happen.

"I also need Radiant Stones."

Lauren stared at him and said, "I suddenly think it’s not quite reasonable to send an excellent special student on such a dangerous mission..."

"All right, forget the Radiant Stones; just reimburse me for the True Silver Bullets and Thunder Stones used during the mission."

This request was reasonable, and Lauren agreed.

In the end, the deal was struck on the terms of fifty Sun Stones, a hundred grams of Star Light Ruby Powder, and unlimited reimbursement for True Silver Bullets and Thunder Stones.

Rod’s smile was nearly crooked.

Actually, his absolute bottom line was just to have the bullets and Thunder Stones reimbursed; the Doomsday believers had caused him so much pain that he longed to wipe them out, especially the Black Priest.

So, you like eating crap, huh? This time I’m going to give you all you can handle.

Rod felt extremely confident.

This was not only because he had grown much stronger, but also because of a very important discovery he had made in his recent research on the Dream Realm.

The "long-handled hook blade" left behind by the dead Red Spirits was actually an "Undying Spirit of Death."

One day, when Rod spontaneously placed the weapon on the Stone Platform, the "Undying Spirit of Death" option actually lit up.

At that moment, Rod was completely stunned.

He had only wanted to see if the platform could decompose it; he hadn’t expected the weapon to be the material itself.

"Undying Spirit" needed only the Flower of Humanity and an Undying Spirit of Death. With one Flower of Humanity already in hand and now the Undying Spirit of Death, he had all the materials he needed.

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