The next day, Perfected One Nagiko met Yue Wen in her office again.
"Your strategy of holding off for a while worked very well," she said with a smile. "The Immortal Sects looking to sponsor us are now generally offering two or three times as much as before."
After arranging for Hidden Dragon Pool to exchange Spirit Plants for sponsorship, Yue Wen had proposed asking the major Immortal Sects in Jiangcheng City for quotes, giving the Sects interested in sponsoring the City Heroes a chance to spend some money.
Perfected One Nagiko was always willing to take good advice. She immediately adopted the suggestion and made a round of inquiries among the major Sects.
But Yue Wen was not particularly satisfied with the quotes they ultimately received.
Perhaps these Sects had seen that the River City Team would be facing the Luo River Team and would very likely be slaughtered in two matches and eliminated, struggling even to put on a respectable showing. As a result, their offers were all extremely low.
Some Sects wanted exclusive sponsorship rights, in which case their offers might be a little higher.
But exclusivity meant they could only collect payment from one sponsor.
Even Yue Wen was dissatisfied, so Perfected One Nagiko thought even less of the money on offer.
After they discussed it, Yue Wen suggested waiting a little. If the River City Team won its first match in the Elimination Tournament, the value of sponsoring the team would rise dramatically.
Of course, that also meant taking a certain risk. If the River City Team was easily crushed by the Luo River Team in its first match, as most people expected, then with most likely only one match remaining, its sponsorship value would probably hit rock bottom.
The final result was just as