This Lich Needs More Money

Above the starry sky, a small spacecraft slowly passed by.

Amberxiu lay proudly in the cabin, humming a ditty that no one else had heard.

Huggie Stone sorted out the manuscripts these days, revised and revised them, and then transcribed them again. But the more he wrote, the more irritated he became, and he couldn't help but ask: "What kind of music are you humming? It has no sense of beauty at all."

Amberxiu mocked and said: "Isn't it as good as your mining voice back then?"

They had known each other for a long time, and Amberxiu had also obtained a lot of information about Huggie Stone. Before becoming a vampire, Huggie Stone was a dwarf miner.

Huggie Stone said disdainfully: "People have to grow. I have mined, but it does not mean that I will always be a miner."

"It's something to be proud of growing up as a writer of unofficial history. Is being the best-selling supplement of "Legendary Curse" something to be proud of?"

"You only see wild history, and you don't understand the literary accomplishments in it. I don't understand why you, a guy who has no aesthetics and only loves money, can get so many benefits? I obviously joined the Mourning Poets Society. It takes longer than you do.”

This is what Huggie Stone really doesn't understand.

He had been a member of the Dead Poets Society for a long time, and he had known Gareth even earlier, and the two had a stronger relationship. But now even the Headless Horseman Gareth has become the lich's best friend, not to mention that the lich has been able to bring together the big bosses from all over the world several times in the Dead Poets Society.

Everyone knows that he is greedy for money, and everyone knows that he deceives people and gods. Why do people always give him benefits every time?

I don’t understand, I really don’t understand.

Huggie Stone finally couldn't help but said to Amber Xiu: "Brother, give me some advice. I also want to be given half of my divine power, and I also want others to give me benefits."

Amberxiu turned to look at the dwarf vampire and said strangely: "You are not short of money."

Huggie Stone suddenly said excitedly: "I am poorer than you!"

Huggy Stone only owns the gold of a dungeon, but the lich's wealth can no longer be measured in gold.

Amberxiu said with a smile: "Poverty is relative. For a lich like me who has no artistic talent, wealth is the only wealth. You are different. As a great artist, art is enough. You are richer in spirit than me." It’s much more noble to raise a money-hungry lich.”

Huggie Stone gritted his teeth with hatred, but he still said to Amber in a low voice: "The richer you are, the less influenced you are by the outside world, and you can write absolutely neutral and objective history books, so you must be rich to be a historian! Master, please teach me, I also want to be a princess, queen or goddess."

"Reposting? What nonsense are you talking about?" Amber Xiu said very strangely: "Who did you see posting?"

Huggie Stone said excitedly: "You said no, just now, Aige gave you her Silent Night Pirates! Not to mention she promised to share her divine power with you after she becomes a god."

Amberxiu retorted: "In order to help Ai Ge become a god, I brought the mermaid goddess Yidrolo to interview her and get a chance to become a god. Then I conquered the entire volcanic sea area for her and helped her find a good place." As a believer of tens of thousands of fish, do you really think that I can have everything just by opening my mouth?”

Huggie Stone thought for a while and felt that it seemed to make sense, and then asked: "What about Apoptotic Rose? Now the Underdark is almost becoming your territory. What have you done for her?"

"With so many people dead in Lion, did they hang themselves when they got tired of living? Who summoned the Githyanki? It was me! There was a split within Lion, who supported Alan Watson, and who helped him raise a flag of rebellion? It was me ! Now that the orcs are beating the Lane people to the point of vomiting blood, who will provide the orcs with a large number of war weapons? "

Ambrose couldn't help but said to Huggie Stone: "You, a student of history, don't even think about these carefully. What on earth are you writing recently? Take it out and let me see it."

But Huggie Stone said: "No, wait until I die, or wait until you die, before these things can be published. The so-called final conclusion is the principle of historians."

"Wait until I'm dead, or you're dead before I publish..." Amber Xiu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Have you forgotten that you are a vampire and I am a lich?"

Huggie Stone was also stunned for a moment.

Wait, something seems wrong.

This rule cannot be applied to the undead. The undead are immortal.

However, Huggie Stone soon felt relieved. If the lich continued to play like this, he would either become a god directly or play himself to death. Sooner or later, he would be able to publish it, so there was no need to worry.

"Don't change the subject. Do you want to teach me?"

Huggie Stone still wants to know what kind of unique secret Ambrose has to make others automatically send money.

Amberxiu said helplessly: "What can I teach? I have always only had one principle, which is not to do business at a loss. Calculate your own costs before investing, and then predict the returns you can reap, and do whatever you can to make a good profit." , don’t do anything that’s not profitable, try to achieve a win-win situation and maintain a good cooperative relationship, it’s that simple.”

"A win-win means you win twice, right? You're already famous for cheating people and gods!"

Huggy Stone has heard about it, and now all the gods know that this lich specializes in tricking the gods, and more than one goddess has suffered a big loss from him.

Amberxiu shook his head and said, "That's not business, that's war. I won't show mercy to my enemies, but as long as you sincerely cooperate with me, I will definitely ensure the interests of the other party."

"Do you think I will believe it?"

"It's up to you to believe it or not, but you won't treat others as fools, right? There are so many people in the Mourning Poets Society who cooperated with me. Do you think any of them has lost?"

Huggie Stone opened his mouth to refute, but found that what Amberxiu said was the truth, and everyone who cooperated with him got satisfactory results. Huggie Stone seemed to have remembered something and asked excitedly: "Wait a minute, last time you said you had a business with a very high rate of return and asked me to invest in it, didn't you lie to me?"

Amberxiu said matter-of-factly: "Of course not. The drow airship transportation business has now been launched. It will start to make a profit in the first month. It will take at most half a year to recover all the investment costs."

It is difficult for a monopoly business not to make money, and in order to support this project, the elves have changed the transportation of many magic materials from magic circle transmission to airship transportation. The speed is slower, but the cost is much lower.

Because most magic materials have lively magic properties and contain huge magic power. If this kind of thing has to be transmitted through space, it will inevitably be affected by magic power. At least the quality will be reduced, and at worst, the transmission will fail and it will be thrown away. In this case, the elves need to carry out special encapsulation of these materials to isolate the magic from interacting with each other, and this cost is very high.

Airships don't have this trouble. The specially built warehouse cannot even penetrate the dark magic of the airship itself. It is a purely mechanical and manual warehouse. There is no need for additional packaging to transport magic materials, which can save most of the cost.

Although the speed is not as good as space transmission, the price is much lower.

Many merchants don’t mind waiting a few more days in exchange for better prices.

With this advantage, coupled with the vigorous publicity of the elves, the drow route has become the choice of many businessmen. As long as those drow didn't mess around on the control panel and cause the plane to crash, even half a position could make a lot of money.

This is the technical advantage. Others look at it with envy, but they can only be envious.

After hearing Amber's brief introduction, Huggie Stone quickly said: "I will vote, and I will vote now!"

"It's bullshit. I could use my connections to give you a share in the beginning. Now that the routes have been completed, I'm waiting to count the money. Now I'm adding an additional round of investment to get you? Do you really think that the elves can do this?" Charitable, they are eager to let go of additional investment and take all my share!”

Amberxiu now accounts for 60% of the route's revenue. The elves are very dissatisfied with this ratio, but Amberxiu has a technology monopoly, so they have no choice.

Once Amberxiu opens up the permission to invest, the elves will dare to spend a lot of money to dilute Amberxiu's proportion.

You can't let others add money and still take 40%, right?

The elves will take advantage of this opportunity to change the equity of the route to 28 or even 91, forcing Amber Xiu to become a minority shareholder. Therefore, this opening cannot be opened, at least until Amber Xiu has made enough money and needs to realize a large amount of cash for some reason.

Huggy Stone felt so regretful that he felt uncomfortable all over. What the lich said was true. There was clearly a golden mountain in front of him, but he missed it like this.

Huggie Stone thought for a while and then said to Amber Xiu: "Master Ultraman, do you have any other profitable business recently? You must take me with you. I will never doubt you again." !”

"recent?"

Amberxiu thought for a moment, and then said: "It's true, I just took in a group of mercenaries and planned to sell them to the orcs as cannon fodder, but I have been too busy recently and can't spare my time to deal with such small things. If you are interested, you can be the middleman..."

Umbershoe told Heki Stone about the Githyanki situation. The dwarf vampire did the math on his fingers, and realized that this is really a business that is sure to make money without losing money. When a Githyanki dies, they don’t have to pay pensions. The orcs pay for everything, and they only receive the money, and they don’t have to go to the battlefield.

Huggie Stone sighed and said, "You are really awesome. You turned the Githyanki into mercenaries just by diving with that princess of the Kingdom of Rage. This is the Goddess of Wealth's favor for you. Don't worry, I'll take care of this." We’ll split the money we make 50-50.”

"What are you thinking? It's me who found the Githyanki, and I got the relationship with the orcs. Even the subsequent teleportation will probably have to be handled by me, five or five? Twenty-eight at most, eight for me, two for you!"

"Only 20%?!"

"Forget it if you don't agree. Do you think there is any technical content in just being a liaison?"

"That's war. It's very dangerous. I might die."

"What's the danger in chatting through a magic mirror? Can the Lord of the Dawn whip you through a magic mirror?"

…

The two negotiated and haggled for a while, and finally settled on a 30-70 split, with Amberxiu taking 70% and Huggie Stone being dissatisfied with 30%.

Amberxiu patted his head and said: "Don't be too little. Others want to get 30% but they don't have this way. Moreover, this war will not end so soon. These mercenaries will be put to use soon. When the time comes, You can directly quote a high price, and the orcs won’t dare refuse.”

Huggie Stone felt that there was something in Amberxiu's words and asked, "What's going on? Do the orcs have an advantage now?"

Amberxiu chuckled and said, "Ryan will counterattack soon, and even if the orcs can block it, it will be a tough fight."

"how do you know?"

Amberxiu said confidently: "Because the Ryan people have approached me to discuss cooperation. Whoever I help will win this war!"