Liszt set the matter aside and asked, "Have you found the lost civilization marked on the map?"
Lars Zhenli expressed his regret. "We can more or less confirm that the lost civilization should be somewhere in the coastal waters around Roaring River Estuary, but finding it is truly too difficult."
Dulaka Zhenli continued with a sigh, "The Moon Empire was a great civilization from thousands of years ago, yet even it vanished. That lost civilization must have long since perished beneath the sea. All these years, apart from Sapphire, there has been no activity on the ocean. Finding it in the sea will be extraordinarily, extraordinarily difficult."
Without money, one could not take a single step. Thus, they had set their sights on the nobles along the coast, intending to have the nobles invest in their research and excavation work.
Clear Water Sword Saint Yevich Shuihuasheng had agreed to fund them.
"Who knew Sapphire would launch a Pioneer Order? If we'd known, we shouldn't have rushed over here."
"Yet you still came."
"Yes. Our thirst for knowledge drove us here at a time when we should not have come, and we received treatment we should never have received." Xilaier Zhenli complained.
He remained bitter about becoming a prisoner.
Liszt did not care about the attitudes of the three Grand Magicians. He put away the hand-drawn relic map, along with the map research notes they had carried with them.
Then, utterly unhurried, he said, "I have accepted the relic map. Now, let us discuss the matter of the ransom for you three."
"My apologies, my lord, but the map in your hands is the only wealth the three of us possess. Not only do we have no spare money, we owe quite a bit of funding to several magicians. I fear