Quel'Thalas, Sunlight City.
"So, the work I assigned you is finished?" Patrick raised an eyebrow. He had been startled himself when he received Kregan's message just now. This little Goblin had brought him a surprise: the task assigned to him earlier had already yielded preliminary results.
"Yes, Your Honored Highness the Regent." Gold Coins-Kregan spoke in a shrill voice, as though he wanted everyone in Sunlight City to hear the news. Then the little Goblin's eyes immediately narrowed to slits, his fawning gaze making all the Elves around him instinctively recoil in disgust. "My esteemed cash cow... oh, no, Your Honored Highness the Regent, I have fulfilled your first requirement. Shouldn't we settle this portion of my payment first?"
Goblins were greedy. There was no Goblin who disliked money. To Goblins, the clinking of coins was the most beautiful music, a sound that struck straight at the soul.
Mage Saidana had received the Sulfuron Hammer submitted by Gold Coins that morning, and had brought the Goblin to Sunlight City in high spirits to claim his reward.
As a ninth-tier Mage of Sunfury Spire, Saidana was a core member of the Magisters' Legion and an assistant to Mage Rommath. Rommath had valued her meticulous nature as a woman and assigned her to help Gold Coins-Kregan complete his task.
"This is the Sulfuron Hammer submitted by Gold Coins-Kregan." Saidana took out the Sulfuron Hammer and handed it to Patrick. She looked at the Goblin, who had become utterly obsessed with money, with disgust all over her face. "Lord Regent, this Goblin is far too dangerous in the laboratory. In just over twenty days, there were more than fifty alchemical solvent explosions, as well as over thirty incidents of fire element overflow while he was smelting ore. Countless pieces of experimental equipment were