There was always someone better, always a sky beyond the sky.
Ye Qiyan wholeheartedly agreed with that principle.
The Resource Baron was strong.
His ability to create large numbers of high-level monsters from Basic Resources, the least valuable things to any Train Conductor-
That alone was enough to demonstrate his strength.
But this fellow seemed far too concerned with the resources he expended in battle.
Take the Gemstone People whom the Raven Demon had just bestowed death upon.
The moment he learned that the Gemstone People could die, the Resource Baron put them away.
He certainly wasn't concerned for his subordinates or items. He simply didn't want his possessions damaged here.
He was greedy, yet reluctant to use what he owned.
Perhaps, to this Resource Baron, trading meant getting more from others at a lower cost.
There was no right or wrong in that.
Because Ye Qiyan liked doing that too.
But this fellow was clearly taking stinginess too far.
"Resource Baron, come to think of it, people like you always like calling yourselves Mister this or Baron that, but what's your real name? Don't tell me it's Grandet?"
The Resource Baron looked ruefully at his severed finger. Counting the ring he had lost, he had already lost three gemstones.
"Tch... what a losing deal. But is that a Transcender's power? Interesting. You even have something like that. Seems the Platform Worlds you've been through really were dangerous enough. Otherwise, you couldn't have gotten your hands on that."
His finger hadn't healed, because it was just as Ye Qiyan had said.
The current Resource Baron was merely a Doppelganger.
He really was a cheapskate.
As a Doppelganger controlled by his original body, the power he could use was limited.
Once it was exhausted, this Doppelganger would be finished.
Because this