Life and Death, Father and Son (A Silver Alliance Bonus Chapter for the Legendary Orange Cat)

Wanting what was in the bowl while eating from the pot was only human nature.

Minkler having ambition was a good thing. Ji Jue needed partners like that—sharp, driven, and never satisfied. If he got some slacker instead, where would he make his friendship money?

In return, Seven Cities—mainly Minkler's family—once again displayed their ability to win people over with money.

As one of the largest commercial hubs in the southeastern Endless Sea, Seven Cities saw astronomical sums of wealth pass through it every day. With the situation so tense now, it had also drawn in a vast amount of outside capital as a safe haven.

His family had been entrenched in Seven Cities for who knew how many years. They were practically one-seventh of the Alliance, and when it came time to open their wallets, they were even more generous.

At a time like this, Seven Cities needed protection. Its people needed to believe they would be protected. Seven Cities needed a war hero!

Minkler, the soldier nobody in the family had paid much attention to before, had suddenly risen in status. Having tasted power, there was no way he would let it go.

What he needed was an ally like Ji Jue—someone who would not threaten his position while also offering plenty of support.

The two sides hit it off immediately.

That very day, a large quantity of materials was transferred through Libra Conglomerate and dispatched straight from local warehouses to Coast Industry.

Beyond that, they also purchased a large batch of secondhand or scrapped alchemical items on their behalf, while assuring them that this was only the first shipment. More would follow!

As long as you didn't tell them to stop, they could renew for three years first.

Nobody came for nothing. Nobody worked for nothing!

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