Fang Yuan had no idea that rejecting the other party's friend request had actually blocked a disaster.
At this moment!
Duke Lannister's Territory under the Gondor Kingdom.
"Boss, this is the corpse of a Mutated Shadow Demon Wolf."
"He was rather cautious and didn't accept my friend request."
The speaker was a short Human Lord, as well as the Deputy Alliance Leader of the Gondor Branch Alliance's Artisan Alliance.
The boss he referred to was Zhao Yu, the Alliance Leader of the Artisan Alliance's Gondor Kingdom branch.
He was also currently the most formidable lord in the Gondor Kingdom when it came to forging heroes.
"Oh~"
Hearing Wei Xu's words,
Zhao Yu wore a slightly gloomy expression.
"This guy refuses both hard and soft tactics."
"Use force, and he blocks me outright. Use persuasion, and he directly refuses."
"Damn it!"
"The Mutated Source Crystal and the rare item are too important."
"If I could obtain the Mutated Source Crystal and the rare item,"
"with my talent!"
"I might even be able to summon a Mutated Forging Master!!!"
"By then, I might be able to enter the main alliance!"
At this point, he paused slightly.
Then he asked,
"Can we find his exact location?"
But the answer he received was a shake of the head.
"Not for now!"
"The astrologer can only determine a general area."
"At present, we can only locate him somewhere in the Northern Region."
"We don't know exactly where!"
Hearing this, Zhao Yu frowned slightly.
"The Northern Region!"
"That area is no smaller than our Gondor Dukedom."
"Without an exact location, it really will be impossible to find him."
Wei Xu immediately continued,
"That place is not only close to the Bloody Wasteland, but also very near the grasslands of the Beastmen Faction and the Wilderness Territory of the Half-Elves."
"Going northwest, there are even the Vast Mountains, where dragons are said to appear."
"It's the most dangerous place in the entire territory of the Gondor Kingdom."
"At the same time, it's also one of the regions with the richest per-capita resources in the Gondor Dukedom."
"That's because there are extremely few lords in the Northern Region."
"Novice Lords who survive the first seven days basically choose City Migration."
"Those who don't are all drowned beneath the tide-like attacks of monsters."
"At the same time, any lord who can survive in the Northern Region—"
"every one of them is a top-tier powerhouse."
"Moreover, they're all lone-wolf lords who refuse to join alliances."
"Because of the dangers of the Northern Region, every lord who can survive there has developed persecutory delusions."
"Not only are they all unruly, but they'll also attack at the slightest disagreement."
"That place follows the naked Dark Forest Law. No territory will have two adjacent lords."
"If there are, then one is dead and the other is alive."
Zhao Yu heard these words.
He also sucked in a cold breath.
"No wonder!"
"Only someone that fierce could independently take out a Demon Wolf Corpse for trade."
"Forget it. We can't afford to provoke someone like that."
"We'd better avoid provoking him in the future."
"Fortunately, our Duke Lannister's Territory is in the southwestern part of the kingdom."
"It's impossible for him to cross half the kingdom just to attack us."
Wei Xu heard Zhao Yu's words.
He felt somewhat contemptuous.
Where had that willingness to pay any price gone—the one he'd shown when he saw the Demon Wolf Corpse?
But he didn't dare show it.
Because Zhao Yu's position was higher than his.
With the slightest scheme, he could easily kill him.
That was the law of the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield.
The strong survived.
Even a lucky fool who was strong was more useful than an unlucky wise man who was weak.
He could only grumble inwardly a couple of times.
Outwardly, he said,
"Alliance Leader."
"Actually, it's not that we can't provoke him."
"Although the Northern Region has the highest per-capita resources, they're all low-level Resource Points."
"There are far fewer high-level Resource Points than in the Gondor Dukedom."
"That's why conflicts between the lords of the Northern Region are so intense."
"All conflicts ultimately come down to an unequal distribution of resources."
"The Northern Region can't support too many high-level lords."
"So we can use that against him."
"We can spend some money to hire a few lords to explore the Northern Region and search for the location of his city."
"Once they find it, we can publish his coordinates."
"By then, the high-level lords of the Northern Region will naturally deal with him."
Hearing this, Zhao Yu's eyes lit up.
"That method will work!"
"Not only will it keep us from exposing ourselves,"
"we won't even need to act personally, and we can deal with him without spending too many resources."
Especially when he thought of Fang Yuan blocking him and refusing to sell him the Mutated Source Crystal,
Zhao Yu felt an even deeper hatred.
This was his chance to rise into the main alliance.
Once he entered the main alliance, he would receive preferential resource allocation and cultivation.
His future would be a bright, smooth road.
But now, he could only watch it vanish before his eyes.
They said that cutting off a person's path to wealth was like killing their parents.
On the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield, this was no longer merely cutting off a path to wealth.
It was cutting off a path to survival!!!
Thinking of this, Zhao Yu slammed the table and rose.
"Good!"
"Do as you suggested."
At this moment, a faint, imperceptible smile appeared in Wei Xu's eyes.
Clearly!
He had not proposed this plan with good intentions either.
He had his own little schemes.
But Zhao Yu's next words quickly crushed those schemes.
"Then I'll leave this matter to you."
Wei Xu opened his mouth, mumbling as if he didn't know what to say.
A hint of mockery appeared on Zhao Yu's face.
An Alliance Leader was equivalent to a feudal lord.
How could a local snake like him possibly see through such a person?
Wei Xu had no choice after receiving the order.
He could only grit his teeth and publish a notice seeking Fang Yuan.
He knew Fang Yuan's name, so he directly posted the bounty at the Mercenary Hall.
This was a rather special building.
It was specifically used to post bounties and hire people.
Very soon!
Some lords at the Mercenary Hall accepted the quest.
However, most people immediately chose not to accept it when they saw that it was a Northern Region quest.
But!
A few people were very interested in it.
They were the same people who had intercepted Fang Yuan at the Blue Star passage earlier—Blondie and the others.
"Huh? Boss, look. This name is Fang Yuan."
"Doesn't it sound familiar?"
"You forgot that quickly?"
"Were you beaten for nothing today? The student who slapped you was named Fang Yuan."
"It really is him. But this quest is in the Northern Region, and Fang Yuan is only a Novice Lord."
"Could it be him?"
"Why bother thinking so much?"
"Third Brother, didn't they just give you ten Griffins?"
"Fourth Brother, didn't you also get ten Wyverns?"
"They're all Orange Units."
Hearing this, the two of them nodded.
"The people above also gave us a mission recently."
"They want us to go to the Northern Region and look for clues about the Golden Flower Family Frontier."
The boss among them slapped his thigh.
"Then it's settled!"
"We can handle both matters at once."
"How about this? Accept the quest."
"While searching, investigate the area along the way."
"What if it really is him?"
"Then we might have a chance to obtain a Talent Scroll."
"Even if it isn't him,"
"completing this quest will still earn us a full five hundred thousand gold coins and three hundred Red Quality Source Crystals!"
Wealth stirred the heart.
Under their boss's urging,
the few of them quickly gave in.
"Good!"
"We'll search for him along the way!"
At the same time,
Fang Yuan's main city began its first upgrade.
The area of the first territory was delineated.
"Ding!"
"You have completed clearing the Monster Nest."
"There are no monsters in the current land. It can be designated as a territory."
"Ding! Territory designation successful."
"The current territory covers one hundred mu."
"Ding! Please name the territory."
"Lord Fang's Territory!"
"Ding! Naming successful: Wilderness Territory."
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