Xiao Ce smiled like a benevolent Buddha and said cheerfully, "Your Majesty, according to our earlier deal, then I won't stand on ceremony."
However, just as he was about to make his move, Queen Medusa's voice suddenly rang out.
"Wait!"
Xiao Ce paused and raised a brow at Queen Medusa.
"Your Majesty, you're not planning to go back on your word, are you?"
Queen Medusa said evenly, "I agreed to trade with you, but I never said I would hand over the entire foundation of the Snake-People Tribe."
Xiao Ce wanted something for nothing, but she was no fool.
After all, she was only borrowing the Heavenly Flames to evolve, not truly intending to absorb them for herself.
Xiao Ce glanced at the neatly arranged jade shelves in the distance, then looked at the cold and imposing Queen Medusa beside him and sighed inwardly.
What a pity. He still was not a match for this woman.
Otherwise, he could have said: Your Majesty, you wouldn't want to see the Snake-People Tribe wiped out, would you?
Sigh...
Forget it, forget it. It had not been easy for the queen to save up some dowry. He should leave her a little.
He wondered which lucky bastard would eventually benefit from the queen's dowry.
Oh, right, the queen had already caught his eye?
Then there was no problem!
Xiao Ce went from sighing dejectedly to grinning in less than a second, leaving the queen beside him utterly baffled.
What was wrong with this fellow? One moment he sighed, the next he laughed, as if he had been possessed.
Could it be that he was unwilling to suffer even this tiny loss, so greedy that he wanted to empty out the Snake-People Tribe's treasury?
Queen Medusa furrowed her brows and said gravely, "At most,