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Leaving aside the others in the Chat Group, over in the Dragon World...

Richard looked at the Nibelungen before him with mild curiosity. A Small Space that existed independently was indeed quite interesting. The entire Nibelungen was not large, only a few kilometers across at its widest point.

Seeing his interest, Xia Mi said, "If you like it, I can teach you the techniques for creating a Nibelungen."

"No rush. Let's talk about Odin first." Richard shook his head.

"What? Are you interested in Odin, sir? Are you willing to help me deal with him?" Xia Mi asked.

"Heh, there's no point in probing. Let's be direct. I can help you deal with Odin. You can have the Dragon Bone Cross, the Dragon Servants he has accumulated, and the Nibelungen. I want Gungnir and the Alchemy in his head.

"I can give you a copy of the Alchemy as well, and you can decide whether to upload it to the group files."

"Such favorable terms for me? Do you like me?" Xia Mi knew perfectly well that if they were going to deal with Odin, her strength was far from enough. At most, she could only watch from the sidelines. Richard would have to be the main force, so why was he giving her so many benefits? It was practically giving them away for free.

She had already prepared herself to accept no benefits at all. As long as she could deal with Odin and the Little Devil, she would not have minded paying a price.

"Heh..." Richard glanced at her chest. Though he did not say it aloud, the meaning was obvious. With that bean sprout figure?

Xia Mi gritted her teeth. If she could beat this bastard, and if she did not still need his help...

Of course Richard had not taken a fancy to Xia Mi. He was not that desperate for women. With his status in the Osiris Empire, what kind of beauty could he not have? There were even Saint Domain beauties who came knocking on his door of their own accord.

What he cared about was the opinion of his fellow group members. He did not care about those things anyway, so would it not be good to leave them with an impression of being generous and forthright? That way, they would actively invite him to their worlds.

Looking at the somewhat empty Nibelungen, Richard remembered that Xia Mi seemed to be a poor dragon. To evade the Secret Party's pursuit and the eyes of the other Dragon Kings, she did not dare make any major moves and had no choice but to work to support herself.

So he bluntly said, "You seem pretty broke. Want me to give you some support?"

Xia Mi gritted her teeth again. She knew she was poor, but did he have to be so blunt about it?

"Sure. Thank you for the kind assistance." She spoke through clenched teeth.

"Here. No need to thank me." Richard loved seeing her look like she was unhappy with him yet had no choice but to endure it. Perhaps he had suppressed his nature in the Coiling Dragon World for too long. Now, he was finally letting himself go.

With a casual gesture, he gave her a pile of gold coins, roughly estimated to contain several hundred thousand. He had plenty of these things in his Space Ring. They would only gather dust there, and he had not used them in a long time.

Looking at the pile of gold coins, Xia Mi did not know whether it was her female genes or dragon genes acting up, but the more she looked at those glittering little things, the more pleasing they became. She felt that this kind of humiliation could happen a few more times, and she definitely would not resist.

"Heh..." Seeing her reaction, Richard thought, A Scummy Dragon King really is a Scummy Dragon King. The Soul Healing Potion he had given her before was worth hundreds or thousands of times more than this pile of gold, yet she had not reacted like this then.

Xia Mi pretended not to notice his disdain and swiftly put away the gold, directly using her Authority to store the coins in her treasury.

"Alright, stop showing off. Was that the Authority of the King of Earth and Mountains just now?" Richard asked.

"Yep, this is Authority. Want to see more?" Xia Mi spoke as she manipulated the earth and gravity around them.

The King of Earth and Mountains naturally possessed Authority over earth and gravity.

As for the Spirit Speech, Spirit Wind King's Pupil, that Xia Mi displayed, it was obviously to conceal her identity. For Dragon Kings like them, as long as it was not World-Ending Words of Power, they could use various methods to imitate Spirit Speeches of other elements. Their tens of thousands of years of Alchemy had not been for nothing.

Richard observed carefully once more, then said, "It feels as if heaven and earth granted you authority. But after wielding it for tens of thousands of years, you must have gained some insights of your own, right?

"By now, even if you lost that Authority, you should still retain a certain degree of control over the earth.

"If I were to compare it to my world, it would be like someone who had comprehended laws."

"What about strength?" Xia Mi asked.

"How would I know? You have never gone all out, so how could I know? But judging from how you Dragon Kings could all unleash city-destroying power at full force in the original story, you should possess explosive power no weaker than the Saint Domain." Richard considered it carefully.

"Is there a 'but' coming?" Xia Mi saw that he seemed hesitant to speak, so she asked.

"There is. Although you can unleash city-destroying combat power, that is your limit when risking your lives. It cannot last, so it still feels somewhat inferior to the Saint Domain." Richard nodded.

"What about you? How strong are you?" Xia Mi asked. She had been extremely curious about this. Although she could guess that Richard was stronger than her, exactly how much stronger remained unknown.

Yet she did not refute either of Richard's assessments of her combat power. Richard estimated that his judgment was probably quite accurate.

These Scummy Dragon Kings were all useless. They boasted more fiercely than the last, yet their combat power was more pathetic than the last. They could be threatened by human technological weapons and chased down by Secret Party Hybrids.

"If you had asked before I came to this world, I would not have been able to answer. Comparing combat power across worlds does not mean much. Different worlds have different levels of influence over the material world.

"But after coming to your world, I discovered that the stability of space here seems to be even weaker than on the Tara Plane. In other words, theoretically, I can display even greater power in your world than in my own.

"Still, the specific result depends on the degree of difference between the laws. At my level, law comprehension accounts for most of one's combat power. The laws of different worlds vary enormously and cannot be universally applied." Richard explained casually.

"You rambled on about all that. Just tell me the conclusion. How different are the laws of our two worlds?" Xia Mi waved her hand and asked directly.

"You really aren't polite. Fine, here's the conclusion. The laws of our two worlds are not too different, and most of the laws I have comprehended can still be used. As for my combat power, if I put in some effort, cleansing the surface would not be difficult. At the very least, the technological weapons of this era are ineffective against me."

Of course, Richard would not mention that the moment he arrived, he had carefully analyzed the world's differences and the degree of variation in its laws. He had even secretly used Divine Power to test the recovery speed of his Divine Power.

He had already addressed the world and law differences. As for Divine Power, without the Divine Power Ocean of the Coiling Dragon World, its recovery speed was astonishingly slow. He would have to conserve it in the future. If he could avoid using it, he would. Battle Qi and the laws he had comprehended should be enough.

"Cleansing the surface? Technological weapons are ineffective?" Xia Mi opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

Brother, she knew there was a gap between their strength, but did it have to be this huge? Xia Mi was starting to wonder whether this guy was bluffing just to scare her.

"What else? I'm a God Level powerhouse, after all. Even if I'm only a Low-level God, I should still have the proper level of destructive power, right?" Richard said.

A Low-level God was already this exaggerated. Would High-level Gods in his world not turn the heavens upside down? Could they blow up Earth, or even the sun? Xia Mi grumbled inwardly. This guy had mentioned in the Chat Group that High-level Gods were everywhere in the Divine Planes of his world.

Still, the stronger he was as an ally, the better. The stronger Richard was, the easier things would be for her.

"Fine. Since you are this strong, there is nothing much to prepare. Once my brother wakes up, we'll go kill Odin directly." Xia Mi made the decision at once.

Richard nodded indifferently. In just a few words, the two decided the fate of the King of Sky and Wind.

Since they still had to wait for Fenrir to awaken, Richard did not want to sit idle. He began asking Xia Mi to teach him Alchemy. Naturally, he was not asking for free lessons. He paid tuition. He gave Xia Mi the Earth-style Forbidden Magic he had collected as payment.

Xia Mi had not yet exchanged points for those forbidden spells from the group files, so this also saved her a sum of points.

Half a month later, Fenrir awoke. By then, Richard had only barely entered the doorway of Alchemy. As for the so-called Seven Kingdoms of Alchemy, that was still far off. He could not look down on Alchemy just because these Dragon Kings had pathetic combat power.

On the contrary, the more Richard learned, the more he wondered how such pathetic Dragon Kings had managed to create Alchemy as incredible as the Seven Kingdoms of Alchemy.

The Seven Kingdoms of Alchemy: Elemental Transmutation, Spiritual Reforging, Conceptual Armament, Temporal Reversal, Spatial Creation, Life Creation, and Causal Separation.

Xia Mi was only proficient in Spatial Creation and Spiritual Reforging. She also knew Conceptual Armament and Life Creation, but was not particularly proficient in them. She knew a little Causal Separation as well.

Spiritual Reforging was the technique needed for reincarnation, and every Dragon King knew it.

Even so, she was already considered relatively proficient in Alchemy among the Dragon Kings. The only Dragon Kings clearly better than her at Alchemy were Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire, and Odin.

Leaving aside the first three for now, Richard truly did not know what to say about Temporal Reversal, Spatial Creation, Life Creation, and Causal Separation. What right did these Dragon Kings have to possess such things?

This was no longer a matter of combat power. What did these things represent at a deeper level? The Laws of Time and Space, the creation of life, Karma Law and Fate. Which one of these was not a great divine ability? Even in higher worlds, they were not things ordinary Immortals or gods could come into contact with. Yet they were laid bare before him. The shock they brought Richard was simply overwhelming. It was as absurd as a primitive man hunting with a Gauss rifle.

Forget it, forget it. The answer was world differences. The answer was quantum mechanics.

In any case, obtaining them was profit for Richard. These were all things worth spending time and enormous effort on, things that could even serve as the foundation of his rise.

Compared to that, what did his little investment amount to?

Xia Mi did not know about Richard's shock. At that moment, she only cared about how well her brother had recovered.

After Fenrir woke up, he was confused for a while. Then he remembered his previous idiotic behavior and felt that something seemed off, yet he could not figure out what exactly was wrong.

Richard took the chance to examine him. His soul had already recovered by more than half. Fenrir could slowly recover the rest himself.

"How is my brother?" Xia Mi asked.

"Much better. His intelligence should have returned to normal. If you teach him some more from now on, he should be able to live normally." Richard said.

"Really? Thank you so much." Xia Mi was overjoyed. At the same time, she knew that without Richard's Soul Recovery Potion, her brother would never have been able to recover.

"Little sister, who is he?" Fenrir's voice came from behind them. He stared at Richard as if he had caught some blond punk trying to seduce his precious little sister.