All Lu Yang needed to do now was negotiate with Tom, Jerz, and Roland. There was not much to discuss, really—it was merely an exchange of interests, depending on whether Jerz and the others were willing to make the trade.
Special Space.
Lu Yang sent invitations to the three of them. Before long, three beams of light lit up in the Special Space at once as Jerz and the others arrived together.
"President Lu Yang, you really know how to pick the right time to find us," Tom said.
Lu Yang looked at the three of them and asked, "So, how has the war been going?"
"Going my ass." Jerz glared at Lu Yang unhappily. "It's all your doing. We had Claudio beaten, but today you give him three million sets of equipment, tomorrow you give me two million sets. How am I supposed to defeat him?"
Lu Yang chuckled. This was his bargaining chip. The reason Claudio had managed to hold on lately without losing all his fortresses was partly because Claudio had money and banks backing him, but more importantly, because Lu Yang had supplied him with level 160 Dark Gold Sets.
Millions of Dark Gold Sets sold outside for several hundred yuan per set, yet Lu Yang sold them to Claudio at cost, only one hundred yuan per piece.
Some of those sets had been seized by Lu Yang from various countries some time ago, while the rest had been obtained by killing players in Sanyou Weimen's region.
With that equipment, Claudio had forcibly blocked Jerz and the others' attacks several times in a row. The two sides were now deadlocked. If this continued, Claudio's people had already begun farming equipment. Given even the slightest breathing room, the number of Dark Gold Sets Claudio acquired would be