Chapter 61 Darles's Considerations
After leaving the pond and walking into the woods, Baron Dales asked the person next to him, "Do you feel it?"
"I feel it, Lord Darles."
A great soul master behind him said, "There is a fluctuation of soul power in the bag that boy is carrying. It can only be a soul bone!"
Since Zhou Qing didn't want to expose the existence of the storage soul guide in front of Romantina and Xiao Wu, he didn't put the soul bone directly into the gray bag.
Storage soul guides are extremely precious. Xiao Wu currently has a lively personality, is a loudmouth, and talks nonsense, which can easily attract the attention of those who are interested.
In the original work, Tang San dared to use the "Twenty-Four Bridges on a Moonlit Night" at Notting Academy because his teacher was Yu Xiaogang. Although he was ridiculed by almost all the soul masters on the continent, the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family was his power and could still protect Tang San's early growth and reduce all kinds of unnecessary troubles.
As for guarding against Romantina...
Zhou Qing has known her for less than forty-eight hours. Although he wants to bring her into the group, he still needs to observe her for a while. It is impossible for him to reveal his precious storage soul guide to her right now.
The fluctuation of soul power in the soul bone and the attractive feeling can be sensed even by ordinary people, let alone Dales and others?
"Lord Darles, that soul bone should have been dropped by the Moo Spring Ox they hunted. They are really lucky." Another great soul master said, "How about we go back and kill them now?"
Romantina is the daughter of the deputy mayor of Notting City. Her identity is indeed a bit troublesome, but this is the Soul Hunting Forest. Although soul beasts over a thousand years old had been hunted down hundreds of years ago, she is not even a soul master. Even if she has honed her body to the level of a great soul master, there is still a chance of accidents.
What this means is that there is a possibility that they died in the Soul Hunting Forest. Moreover, the Soul Hunting Forest is not small, and their group could easily say later that they had never met them.
"No, I have a better idea."
Dales decided to obtain the third spirit ring first. "Those children don't look very old. Except for the little girl with long braids, whose skin is too delicate, she might be a child of a big family who has come out to gain experience. The remaining two are wearing coarse linen clothes and have rough skin. They should be pure civilians."
"Those two boys are fine, but if we attack that girl, something unexpected might happen. If that girl is really from a big family or a big sect, then if we dare to attack her, the guardian hidden in the dark will come out."
Suddenly, the expressions of the four great soul masters changed, and they had to suppress the greed in their hearts.
If it is really as the Baron said, then if they dare to take action and hide in the dark, they will be killed by a strong man at least at the Soul Sect level.
By then, even if they, including Baron Darles, were killed, no one would seek justice for them. Neither the Heaven Dou Empire nor the Spirit Hall would seek justice from the big sects and big families for the sake of four great soul masters, a quasi-soul master, and the lord of a small city.
Moreover, even if they really tried to snatch the soul bones, justice would not be on their side at all.
"From the fact that the soul bone is in the boy's possession, the little girl probably doesn't think highly of a hundred-year-old soul bone. But it's better to be cautious and not resort to violence. But I'm sure Romantina will take it away later. Currently, she's just letting the boy keep it."
Darles continued, "The little girl didn't like it. The boy got a soul bone, but he couldn't keep it. In the end, it fell into Romantina's hands."
“But even if it’s a hundred-year soul bone, if the news gets out, soul masters from other cities will go to Notting City to search for it, and there’s a chance they’ll even take a risk.”
Kill with a borrowed knife.
This was Darles' plan.
Expose the fact that Romantina obtained a soul bone, and attract soul masters and great soul masters from other cities to Notting City, thus muddying the waters in Notting City.
He appears again at the end and "cooperates" with Nottingham City to quell the unrest, while secretly further allowing the turmoil in Nottingham City to continue.
As a baron of the Star Luo Empire, Darles is also the lord of Falling Star City.
Compared with the numerous barons in the aristocracy of the Tiandou Empire who had no actual official position or salary, the barons of the Xingluo Empire had a higher actual status and even had their own fiefdom. Of course, Luoxing City was not his fiefdom, but he stood on the wrong side of Xingluo City and was squeezed out to be the lord of Luoxing City, a small rural city...
But even so, the actual status of Baron Darles is almost the same as that of some viscounts without fiefdoms in the Tiandou Empire.
His purpose of causing chaos in Nottingham City was also very simple -
The Tiandou Empire was already on the decline. If it weren't for the Spirit Hall's meddling, the Xingluo Empire, with its powerful military might, would have long since destroyed Tiandou and unified the entire Douluo Continent.
There is no reason to fight at the moment, but that doesn't mean a reason can't be created.
Notting City of the Tiandou Empire and Xingluo City of the Xingluo Empire, placed in the two empires, are insignificant small cities, not strategic locations. Even the top leaders of the two empires may not have heard of the names of these two cities.
But this doesn’t mean that small cities can’t stir up big waves!
Darles did not want to be just a small baron, but wanted to keep climbing up to become a viscount, earl, marquis, or even a duke.
Therefore, he had to find a reason for the Xingluo Empire's high-ranking officials to attack the Tiandou Empire. Given his poor cultivation talent, this was the only way for him to be promoted...
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"That fat pig's eyes are so obscene."
Xiao Wu glanced at the direction where Darles and the others left, her face full of disdain, "I can tell at a glance that he's not a good person."
Romantina didn't respond. Her eyes fell on Zhou Qing's back and she said, "You didn't absorb the soul bone and put it in the bag. The soul power fluctuations are obvious and have been noticed by Darles and the others."
“I actually forgot about this!”
Zhou Qing slapped his head and cursed himself for being careless, but there was nothing he could do. The storage soul guide was extremely precious and it was impossible to show it to someone who did not have the full trust of himself and Tang San.
However, if we just bring this head soul bone back like this, it will probably attract the attention of most soul masters along the way.
After exchanging a glance with Tang San, Zhou Qing finally took out the gray bag and put the soul bone in it.
"This is?"
Xiao Wu was surprised, "Why did you make your soul bone disappear?"
"Storage soul guide!"
Romantina pouted, "I didn't expect you to have this thing! Unlike other soul guides on the market, storage soul guides are priceless and are called antiques. You can't buy them even if you have money. The only person in Notting City who has a storage soul guide is probably the 'master' who is living a life of idleness in Notting College."
"Didn't a Soul Saint appear in the Holy Soul Village? Tang San and I obtained his legacy, which is this storage soul guide."
Compared with the covetousness that soul bones bring to soul masters, it is better to expose the storage soul guide. At least in this way, it will not attract the covetousness of other soul masters.
If the possession of soul bones were exposed in Notting City, many soul masters would probably take the risk.
And if the storage soul guide is exposed, some soul masters may not be able to resist the temptation, but at least most soul masters will consider whether there is some force behind them. In addition, he and Tang San obtained the yellow hundred-year soul ring at the age of six, and their soul power has reached about level fourteen or fifteen, which should be able to deter many villains.
But soul bones are different. The temptation that attracts people to absorb them is not something that ordinary people can endure!
The only thing they need to consider now is whether Nadales will turn back for this soul bone and attack them secretly?
(End of this chapter)
