Tang Wangong was furious.
Chu Xiaoang, a legion commander, would never have conspired beforehand with a brat like Qin Siyang.
Their joint effort to drive up the price had to have been improvised.
Most likely, they were probing the limits of his Administration Department.
He silently cursed Chu Xiaoang for being such a shit-stirrer.
The man was happy to stir up trouble just for the spectacle!
Chu Xiaoang surely knew there was a limit to the points Tang Wangong could offer Qin Siyang in this deal.
That was why Chu Xiaoang had driven up the value of the Thunder Snow Wolf materials, leaving less room to compete for the Titan Reed Inner Leaf Fragments.
Tang Wangong knew.
Securing the Titan Reed Inner Leaf Fragments and giving the Sequence Ability Research Hall under the Administration Department material to study would certainly be a major achievement.
But if that achievement required giving Qin Siyang so many points that it undermined the authority of the points system, he would receive no credit. He would be held at fault instead.
Within the Safe Zone, points represented not only an individual's god-hunting prowess, but also a means of attaining higher status.
To encourage people to leave the Safe Zone and hunt gods, the United Government had enacted laws that emphasized the importance of points, both openly and implicitly.
Especially when disputes arose between Sequence Ability Users, the United Government favored whoever had more points. That unwritten rule was common knowledge.
Countless Sequence Ability Users yearned for more points, higher status, and greater privileges.
The reason he, the minister of the Administration Department, ranked among the top three ministers was precisely because the Administration Bureau had the power to issue point-awarding missions.
The United Government's authority, too, rested on the fair distribution of points.
Even with