[Rudra: Now that you know how to bargain, Iâve 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 youâve 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. Iâve only met some of you, but all of you know me already." Almond smiled with a hint of cheekiness and said, "Iâll 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 âsignificantlyâ part as he spoke.
"That doesnât matter," Viktor said as he dismissively waved his hand. "What can you offer to make it worth our while?"
"Ahem, Iâll arrange my guildâs 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 sisterâs son Jian, who is in your party, was rather forceful about this, so well, even if you canât convince me, I can arrange the dungeon raid according to your schedule."
"One S-rank dungeon spawned in my guildâs territory yesterday, so Iâll 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 Guildâs 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 donât take him away from my guild, hahaha."
Almond laughed in response before another person spoke, this time an old monster.
"You brat, Iâm giving you my familyâs S-rank dungeon, but I have a different condition," Silverfang said with a grin. "Put my dungeon in your schedule. As for the condition, Iâll 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 guildâs 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 Condensationâ¦" Arjun Maheshwari raised his eyebrows. "Sounds like some kind of method."
"Itâs 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, weâll 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 guildâs S-rank Dungeonâs schedule because of Eliaraâs plea, but weâll still take this."
"Of course, of course," Almond said he quickly nodded with a smile. "Iâm planning to share this with every one of you in exchange for letting me have a run in your Dungeons, current and future. I donât 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 bloodâs power and boneâs 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 otherâs 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 Iâll notify you through Amir when we get one," Jin smiled.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Understood," Almond nodded.
"Back to the topic, the method seems legit, and youâve 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 Rudraâs eyes flickered, âSo this is the chip...and since he said he got a better surprise for me, itâs obvious what it is.â
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Shaking his head, he faintly smiled, âYou can fool most people here, but a few of those old monsters will notice that thereâs more to this method than what youâve shown.â
âNow, will they expose it or keep it to themselves so they can talk to you about it personally is up to them,â Admiral Rudra thought as he waited calmly, watching everyoneâs reactions.
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