Zhao Longfei said calmly, "In other words, if anyone else wants to hire an assassin through the World-Destroying Church to kill you, they'll have to offer at least two hundred thousand bottles of Sequence Potion. If someone really offers that much for your death, I imagine anyone ranked above ten on the Snake Cards would be tempted."
Qin Siyang ducked his head. "Two hundred thousand bottles? That markup is outrageous! I'm not worth that much! Two thousand bottles-no, two hundred-no, twenty bottles of Sequence Potion would be a more reasonable price!"
Li Tianming said disdainfully, "First it's too little, then it's too much. You're full of nothing but complaints!"
"No shit! Who wants to die sooner? None of those people on the Snake Cards are pushovers! I only managed to kill Yamamoto Taro because Qin Yingguang killed his younger brother first. If they'd come at me together, I'd have been lucky just to escape! Now the price has gone up a hundredfold. If a Snake Cards Wanted Criminal stronger than him comes after me, how am I supposed to survive?"
"There's no need to panic quite so much." Zhao Longfei reassured him. "Two hundred thousand bottles of Sequence Potion would be difficult for any of the major powers you know to scrape together. Even the United Government's Sequence Ability User Management Department, which handles the distribution of Sequence Potions, couldn't divert two hundred thousand bottles without anyone noticing."
"Besides, two hundred thousand bottles of Sequence Potion would be enough to multiply the strength of the World-Destroying Church's followers stuck at Sequence Level Five several times over. If the United Government discovered someone secretly funding a heretical cult bent on overthrowing it and all humanity to that extent, it would deploy every resource at its disposal and pursue that person to