A Tough Guy Becomes a Married Man

A Tough Guy Becomes a Married Man

Amber Xiu repeatedly stressed that the thing was not worth that price. On top of that, rushing it to the customer's door required building a Teleportation Array capable of transporting living creatures, and the extra fee would be even higher.

Though a tiny bottle could dissolve tens of millions of Gold Coins and store them in a special form inside that little container, it really was not cost-effective.

But Headless Bro insisted and generously added more money.

Amber Xiu could no longer find an excuse to refuse. He could only make another trip to Alchemy City, then purchase a genuine bottle of Living Mercury Solution under the stunned gaze of the young saleswoman.

Amber Xiu had inspected the goods. It was the real thing.

Then Amber Xiu returned to the Ancient Castle and built a teleportation magic array. After half a day, he delivered the item to Headless Bro and tearfully earned twenty thousand Gold Coins.

It was not that he was greedy. The unit price of the product had risen, so it was perfectly reasonable for his brokerage fee to rise proportionally, right? He could not possibly earn three thousand Gold Coins on a ten-thousand-Gold-Coin deal and still earn only three thousand on a hundred-thousand-Gold-Coin deal.

Besides, teleportation magic arrays were not cheap either—materials were cheap, but the technology was expensive!

A teleportation magic array built by a legendary spellcaster, plus the brokerage fee, and he had only earned twenty thousand Gold Coins. That was truly fair. Amber Xiu could pound his ribcage and declare that there was no lich on the entire continent who charged more fairly than him.

Looking at the gleaming Gold Coins clattering before him, Amber Xiu felt his soul achieve the greatest possible satisfaction. Fulfilling one's obsession was the only way a lich could feel pleasure.

Of course, it felt even better if he cursed those bean sprout idiots from the Silver Moon High Court while counting Gold Coins.

One day, Amber Xiu would make those bean sprout elves understand that driving up the price of potions would bring retribution!

Headless Bro's business was more or less wrapped up. Next, he should focus on Withering Rose's order.

A high-level undead capable of breaking through the walls of the Lyne Imperial Capital was no simple matter. Even drafting a design sketch would require a great deal of research. Besides, there were still two fake bottles of Living Mercury Solution. Amber Xiu did not want to waste them; perhaps he could use the Living Mercury to create a new design.

With financial support, Amber Xiu could be bolder with his experiments.

In the distant west, within a dark tomb beyond the vast sea, the glow of a Teleportation Array slowly faded.

The burly Knight extended two fingers and pinched up the glass jar containing the Living Mercury.

His headless body was terrifyingly tall. If Amber Xiu had stood before this Headless Knight, he likely would have reached only his knee.

He wore heavy black armor, its layers of magical patterns radiating mysterious light. A soaring Bone Dragon had been exquisitely embroidered onto the cloak behind him.

He was the Bone Dragon Family's son-in-law, the legendary Headless Knight—Gareth Arcanus.

He had only acquired the surname after marrying into the family. Before that, Gareth had merely been an ordinary human Knight who died on the battlefield. Betrayed by his companions, the man who should have become a war hero instead had his head severed by the enemy.

In the century after Gareth's death, more than two hundred heads were hung where he had once been executed.

The companions who had betrayed him returned as war heroes, became nobles, and spread their family line for more than a century. Then, over a hundred years later, Gareth sent every member of that family to the guillotine.

That massacre made Gareth the Lyne Empire's most wanted criminal. The strongest human empire dispatched an entire Paladin legion to hunt him down.

Gareth fought his way from the Lyne Empire to the Golden Country Salokma. Over five years, he battled across three thousand li, escaping from the hands of more than a thousand Paladins and beheading over a hundred of them. In the depths of desperation, Gareth advanced to the legendary rank, inflicting the greatest loss the Lyne Empire had suffered since its founding.

At the time, the Lyne Emperor had nearly summoned the ancestral Dragon Armor and used power beyond the legendary rank to kill Gareth.

But afterward, the legendary Headless Knight suddenly vanished without a trace. Even the Lyne Empire could not find him. Such a legendary tough guy had suddenly become a son-in-law.

Fortunately, few people knew about this. Even the members of the Mourning Poetry Society did not know that Headless Bro from the chat group was the tough guy who had forced the Lyne Emperor to don a divine artifact and personally lead an expedition. Otherwise, the Lyne Empire would have been furious to death.

Gareth, who had once felled a thousand Paladins with a two-handed greatsword, now acted like a timid little acolyte. Clutching the bottle of Living Mercury, he tiptoed toward the wall.

He tapped several spots on the wall with his fingers, and several magical patterns immediately lit up. Then Gareth's chest trembled and emitted several rhythmic muffled thuds, causing the stone wall to slowly split apart and reveal a spatial portal.

Those simple actions involved password authentication, magic power authentication, and voiceprint authentication—three layers of protection. If any part of the three unlocks went wrong, what appeared after the wall opened would not be a portal, but a room full of love letters.

If his wife discovered it, those love letters would serve as a romantic misdirection and help him escape disaster.

Gareth had already changed professions from a tough guy who never hesitated to behead people into a crafty married man. If the Lyne Emperor learned of this, who knew what he would think.

Gareth walked into the portal with a focused expression. The next second, he appeared in another room filled with love letters.

That was right, he had prepared two rooms for the love-letter trick.

Even if his wife found the portal, she would still need to open another hidden door before finding the location of his real little treasury.

After twisting and turning through several passages, he finally entered the true vault, where a mountain of Gold Coins appeared before him.

Amber Xiu had haggled with the young saleswoman from Alchemy City for half a day over discounts of ten or twenty thousand Gold Coins. To Gareth, that was merely an insignificant sum.

Gareth opened the glass bottle and placed it before the mountain of gold.

Then Gareth extended his palm toward the mountain of gold.

Immense Dark Magic Power surged forth, dyeing the hundred-ton mountain of gold black. Gareth's chest let out a muffled thud, and he lifted the entire mountain with one hand.

Gold Coins scattered into the air, forming a whirling tornado.

The clattering Gold Coins fell with precision into the tiny jar.

The glittering coins vanished the instant they entered. The flowing torrent of Gold Coins continuously poured into the little glass jar, disappearing as if by magic.

The enormous mountain of gold completely vanished in a short time. Only the jar of Living Mercury Solution remained in the empty secret chamber. The gold would be stored in a special energy state, and even magic specifically designed to detect treasure could not sense gold devoured by Living Mercury.

Gareth carefully sealed the little glass bottle and said with emotion, "You get what you pay for. Brother Diga is an honest man. I can do business with him again next time."

Just as he was preparing to return in satisfaction, he turned around and saw a translucent ghost standing before him.

She was a peculiar undead spirit with a voluptuous figure, breathtaking beauty, and a pair of horns on her head—commonly known as a Dragon Soul.

The beautiful Dragon Soul crossed her arms and sneered at Gareth. "So, who did you say you were going to do business with?"

With a smack, the glass jar in Gareth's hand fell to the ground, and the Living Mercury immediately spilled everywhere.

"D-Darling... why are you..." Gareth stammered incoherently. He had never imagined that despite all his precautions, his wife would still catch him red-handed.

The beautiful Dragon Soul took out a Necronomicon, flipped to the final page, and quickly wrote a sentence.

[Pale Little Skeleton: Sister Rose, thank you for the tip. Next time, I'll invite you to Dragon Grave for tea.]

[Withering Rose: You're welcome. Consider the two Bone Dragons you gave me last time a return gift.]

[Pale Little Skeleton: Crown of the Headless Knight probably won't reply for the next few years, so everyone can stop worrying.]

[Tiga Ultraman: ???]

(End of Chapter)