"Huh? No, this..."
Qian Daqiang, who'd been ignored the entire time, was dumbfounded all over again.
He wasn't the only one. Almost everyone present had been caught off guard by how quickly Lu Yan had backed down.
Usually, Lu Yan barely gave anyone the time of day, keeping his head down and focusing on equipment research.
From their conversation, it sounded like the bracelet contained Calamity remains—and quite a lot of them.
Otherwise, a mere forty percent of the profits wouldn't have been enough to make the man who'd overseen the Armory for years bow his head.
After all, labor was the most expensive part of producing Mutant Remains.
And Miss Xu had just mentioned the King of Cysts. It was the most expensive Calamity Core on the market, bar none.
Calamities with such high Sequences usually had no more than one individual.
There were plenty of these things, but they were mostly found deep in the Void Realm, where they were extremely difficult to capture. At the very least, it would take a Seventh-tier powerhouse to hunt one down.
And she had even that?
As a core department of the Alliance, the Armory's submission—through Lu Yan—meant it had pledged its allegiance.
Everyone knew that Xu Miao becoming the new Alliance Master was all but a done deal.
But the Alliance was a loose organization whose members banded together for warmth—or, to put it more plainly, a community of shared interests.
Besides keeping the Alliance running smoothly, the Alliance Master's most important function was controlling how resources were distributed.
Only enough benefits could keep the Alliance stable.
Yet this new Alliance Master had offered them almost nothing.
She also seemed quite domineering, openly saying things like "It depends on my mood." Add to that the rumors that she "ate people"...