The Great Thief - Chapter 1789

Chapter 1789: Chapter 1789 - Half-Life Crystal

Chapter 1789: Half-Life Crystal

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

“This alliance…it’s like a joke . ”

Lu Li was trying to suppress his own anger .

“I know…I know . We’ll compensate you for your losses . We’ll cover the financial side of things for the attack . We’ll guarantee your victory . ”

Drinking Alone hoped to calm Lu Li down . He originally just wanted to freeload from Ruling Sword a little . He didn’t want to make them enemies .

“This I can accept . However, take back the shares that you gave us,” Lu Li replied coldly .

“Lu Li, why? Don’t do that . ” Drinking Alone was panicking .

“You think that we can defend three Strongholds by ourselves?” Lu Li coldly laughed and continued, “Won’t you also need us to deploy a part of our people to help you take down a new Stronghold as well? If you guys don’t want to take it back, then I will sell the 5% shares . ”

Lu Li hated this . He didn’t have a rock-solid foundation with Grand Hegemony as allies anyway .

Drinking Alone’s face went pale . He utterly hated his own boss, and utterly hated Lu Li as well . If this happened, then Grand Hegemony’s losses would be too great in this exchange .

Ruling Sword went easy on Grand Hegemony in the last competition, which allowed them to enter the top 100 . In return, Grand Hegemony gave Ruling Sword 5% of their shares .

Realistically, this was an overtly one-sided exchange . The shares were not worth it just for them to go easy . Even if it was 0 . 5%, it still wouldn’t be worth it . Under the advice of Drinking Alone, Emperor Hegemony decided to use this relationship to share in Ruling Sword’s Instance Dungeon strategies and other information .

Well, they proved to be correct . They managed to get what they wanted .

Ruling Sword sold quite a few Boss strategies to them at a low price . Their progress for Instance Dungeons quickly caught up and even exceeded some other mega-clubs as well .

Now, Lu Li didn’t seem like he was too keen on bringing them along for the ride . He wanted to sell

the 5% shares back to them, but it wasn’t the money that was the problem . It was about sending a message .

Grand Hegemony was well known for being a wealthy club . Many large corporations and rich people had invested into this club .

In the game, Grand Hegemony had purchased many lands and also invested in many small and medium-sized clubs . Many other old mega-clubs wouldn’t be able to compare to them .

If they really wanted to sell the club, the price might be as high as 6 billion . However, the market price was estimated to be around 4 billion .

5% meant 200 million dollars!

The 5% that Grand Hegemony gave Lu Li wasn’t just a verbal agreement, but was signed as an official document which was 100% effective . As such, Drinking Alone didn’t know what to do . However, he couldn’t do much, because it was them who had betrayed Lu Li’s trust first .

“I’ll go and talk to our boss,” Drinking Alone said quietly . He could see that Lu Li’s unsatisfaction far exceeded their expectations .

They thought that it wouldn’t affect the stability of the alliance since it would only be the first failure . Moreover, their alliance greatly benefitted Ruling Sword . They didn’t expect Lu Li to be so determined to part ways .

Drinking Alone wasn’t sure that their boss would be able to accept this loss, so he needed to go back and discuss this matter with him .

His relationship with Lu Li only existed because they partied up together once at the beginning of the game . Their relationship was quite shallow, but enough for him to be a liaison .

With an emotionless expression on his face, he watched as Drinking Alone left . After he left, Lu Li’s face instantly transformed into one with an evil grin . It wasn’t that he wasn’t angry, but that he had exaggerated his anger a little .

As soon as Drinking Alone opened his mouth and proposed his idea, Lu Li immediately looked for

new suitors for the Grey Valley Stronghold .

Even if Grand Hegemony didn’t want this Stronghold, there were many others who did . Lu Li promised the Life Alliance that they would give them a Stronghold of their own . However, because of external investments, the capital needed to attack Strongholds grew much higher, so they hadn’t been able to do that .

Lu Li always honoured his promises, so it was only a matter a time . Now, the time had come .

Life Alliance’s warfare capabilities might not have been able to match up with Grand Hegemony’s, but both clubs were wealthy . At the very least, their financial capabilities gave them the right to compete for Strongholds .

However, he was serious about dissolving the alliance with Grand Hegemony .

Lu Li’s personality was actually quite dominant . Unless it had to happen, he didn’t allow for uncontrolled things occur happen .

Grand Hegemony betrayed him, which rocked Ruling Sword’s foundation and hold in Grey Valley . Who knew what would happen the next time?

Lu Li didn’t want to take this risk . He also didn’t need to take this risk .

For Ruling Sword, the alliance with Grand Hegemony was expendable . As for the 5% shares, that was a bonus . Lu Li didn’t plan to just nicely give them back either . He wasn’t that nice .

Grand Hegemony was obviously not happy to receive this news . However, they couldn’t do anything about it .

They could give the second Stronghold in Grey Valley to another club, for example, Glory Capital . Perhaps they might be able to sell it for a decent price, but this notion was immediately stopped by Drinking Alone . He was even willing to leave Grand Hegemony to make a statement .

Emperor Hegemony was considering this possibility .

Drinking Alone was only one of many vice-presidents in the club . In terms of competitions, he had only participated in a few . As for the impact on the club, it wouldn’t be too significant if he did leave . However, he did have a good relationship with Northern Tang Dream .

With the departure of Drinking Alone, Northern Tang Dream was also likely to leave . Furthermore, everyone who had a good relationship with Drinking Alone would also be likely to leave if things weren’t dealt with properly . If that happened, Grand Hegemony would be falling apart .

Emperor Hegemony couldn’t bear the burden of the club breaking apart . Lu Li could act like a spoiled brat, but he could not .

This was because Ruling Sword was Lu Li’s and his alone, while Emperor Hegemony was only managing the enormous capital for Grand Hegemony . Therefore, he had to deal with external investors as well .

To give up on the second Grey Valley Stronghold and turn to a new target was what the body of investors wanted, but the price to pay to make this happen was enough to completely tear Grand Hegemony apart .

Neither Ruling Sword or Grand Hegemony would feel nice about it . The only one rejoicing was probably Half-Life Crystal .

In the beginning, they were mere herb collectors who were poor and weak . Anyone could have bullied them . Because of the bullying that occurred in-game, her and her sisters shed many tears . It was under Lu Li’s guidance that they established the Life Alliance .

After the establishment of Life Alliance, they quickly became one of the biggest groups at that time .

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