"Since my opponent is a third-rank Phantom Knight, then I want thirty thousand elemental crystals each of earth, water, wind, and fire, plus a spatial equipment to hold them. Bring those elemental crystals over in the spatial equipment—as the price for my fighting above my rank..."
The moment Abyss Lord Sagus finished speaking, Zhang Tie named his price outright.
The price Zhang Tie named left the knights behind him in Xuanyuan Fortress utterly dumbfounded.
To ordinary knights, the price Zhang Tie had demanded was astronomical. But Zhang Tie knew that since Abyss Lord Sagus had been willing to send a Sky Knight to assassinate him, Sagus would never pass up this chance to kill him openly and honorably.
In the eyes of the Devil Race, an Earth Knight was not worth that much. But a human knight who had comprehended Sword Song on the battlefield, invented Torch Oil, Panacea Potions, all manner of explosive weapons, and resolved the food crisis in the war zone was undoubtedly a thorn in the Devil Race's side during the Holy War. As long as they could kill him, what did such a trifling price matter? That was the vision and judgment of a commander.
For things like elemental crystals and Silver Secret Treasures, the Devil Race, living underground, naturally had more ways of acquiring them than humans. To say nothing else, the number of Silver Secret Treasures possessed by Devil Race knights definitely exceeded that of human knights. One only had to look at the devil marshals Zhang Tie had killed before.
A third-rank Phantom Knight was merely another dish added to Zhang Tie's table. But how to use this moment to weaken the Devil Race as a whole, make them bleed, and draw Abyss Lord Sagus into a world-shaking gamble with him step