The woman is an incredibly beautiful elf, she has a well-shaped body with red hair exactly the same color as blood, her eyes are the same color, she has extremely pale skin, almost as if she were sick, the most mysterious thing is the inscriptions that look like tattoos on her face, going from her ears to her mouth, including her tongue.
Normally this gives other people the impression that she is a fierce person, but the reality is different for Feicui Long, with just one glance he knows what it is about and even smiles a bit darkly.
With just one look he can tell who she is a descendant of, it is unmistakable, those inscriptions are the bloody sound seal, a mark of the descendants of the Superior God of Sound and the Superior God of Blood, a very powerful Superior God, at the level of the Supreme Gods in power and even higher, only below Adolf.
Normally the Supreme Gods or the gods with supreme divine authority tend to be the strongest of all, but this is because they are born with advantages. The first is that their divine authority gives them a great power advantage, especially against those who cultivate the same laws or laws that descend from those. The second is that they are the first existing beings to be born, although very rarely at the same time others are born, so they have the advantage of time.
The third and last is somewhat related to the previous two: having authority gives them greater affinity and even improves parts of their body permanently, while being born first means their bond with their law is stronger and more intimate because they were close to the first laws and were bathed in them. But also the great amount of time they have been alive has allowed them to enhance all this thanks to the above. Even so, this is not an absolute truth, there are cultivators without divine authority or even some with lower-ranked authorities, like superior or even minor ones, who through their talent, species, variant, leader type, title, etc., can equal and surpass them. This Superior god of Blood and Sound is one of them.
This Superior god was originally only the Superior god of Sound, he ended up killing the previous god of Blood who belonged to the undead clan and was an original vampire, taking his divine authority, because the superior god of the blood attacked first . He was someone special since he was a cultivator of the demonic path and no, he was not a genocidal maniac. Just as there are many shades of gray, there are also shades of black and white. You could say he was in the clearest extreme, doing whatever he wanted regardless of what others thought, but he did not kill senselessly.
The sad and funny thing at the same time is that this god survived both wars, the universal war and the rebellion... so why does he speak of this god in the past? It's because this god was very protective of his family and descendants, not letting them leave his small empire in the southern sector. But even so, here is a descendant and what's more, only in the earthly palace realm. It's something very revealing about his fate, especially if you consider that he didn't have a very good relationship with Adolf the traitor and what's more, he was...
A member of the mortal clan, he is an elf, it's obvious that he would become a priority target just because of Adolf's hatred. But also if Adolf wants to start a universal genocide of the mortal clan by order of the Feilou clan, then this makes him even more noticeable since even though he follows the demonic path, mortals tend to protect each other from external threats.
Although how they enter this star system, who knows, but they possibly come with the maximum realm allowed to enter this star system that the formation permits: the spiritual palace realm.
Feicui Long feels sorry for him, he is a great genius who even challenges him. Although it may not seem like it, many challenge Feicui Long, not as many as Fernando who was challenged due to ideological differences, but still many fools, brave ones, or geniuses try to bring him down. And although he has the image that challenging him means certain death since unlike Fernando who wanted to prove a point, he directly aims to kill from the beginning, in reality this is not always the case...
Everything changes with the Devouring Sovereigness, yes, the same one Fernando kills and devours along with 10 supreme sovereigns of the beast clan. She is one of the ones who challenge Feicui Long, not out of bravery, nor for being a genius wanting to face the strongest being in this universe, but out of stupidity. She overestimates her talent to an incredible level. Despite being a great genius, her fate is always to be humiliatingly defeated by him, with just three moves and Feicui Long holding back a lot.
This defeat creates in this genius a break in her ego similar to Lucretia's, but instead of stopping her from advancing, it generates a trauma and such a great fear of the emerald-golden dragon that she becomes obsessed with obtaining much power and vengeance against him. But since she can't go against the three clans of which he is the supreme sovereign, since unlike Fernando he can see everything in the universe, she goes after the clan most related to him, the beast clan, since after all, even though the dragon clan was created first, it became part of the beast clan. So taking advantage of the fact that Fernando wouldn't notice quickly and would kill her, she attacks the beast clan.
The rest of that is history that ends with her death. Feicui Long feels guilty toward Fernando and the beast clan, although neither Fernando nor the clan blame him, since after all, most would not expect that to happen. That is when he begins killing his opponents so that no one would ever challenge him again.
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Feicui Long shakes his head, removing the nostalgia from the past from his thoughts and focuses on the elf, saying: "Good morning, miss, this is Feicui Long, I have come to negotiate, for that, could you ask the others to leave the room and close the door, as well as activate the isolation formation for high-level business."
The girl looks at him with a bored face and says: "I understand you possess the Sovereign's Quartet, but you're only at a very low rank, I don't think it's necessary to do it."
Feicui Long smiles and says: "As a member of the Sound Clan San..."
The girl quickly lunges and covers his mouth, signaling her subordinates to leave, who know her well enough to understand she wants them to go and do what this man told them to do.
The girl then looks at him, releasing his mouth, and says: "You... how do you know that?"
Feicui Long smiles ironically and answers: "How do I know? Isn't it obvious? Anyone who reads the story of Ragnar the Heroic, the human hero and historian, will know about the Dregnar Empire, its tyrannical history, how it conquered many of its neighbors and terrorized others by annihilating and burning, especially about its servant clan, the Bloody Sound Clan, which acted as its executioner's hand, and how the Habsburg Empire, which was gaining strength and gathered enough power, with the help of enemy nations of the empire, managed to defeat it at a great cost and establish the Holy Empire."
Feicui Long, looking at the girl's face, which grows even paler, then adds: "Besides, how can we ignore that Ragnar the Heroic mentioned the clan would probably continue to exist as the Von Habsburg family found them another use, and according to the books, all your characteristics fit: you have the hair exactly the same color as blood, the Bloody Sound lock, and on top of that, you're an elf. Besides, even though you're a beast tamer, the dual swords with those little holes made to produce sounds are another clear proof."
The girl is stunned. She thought no one would know; this was a long time ago, long before even the God of the Victorious Flame emerged after the union of the Trastámara Empire with the Von Habsburg House and unified the Holy Empire, defeating the mighty Lotharingian Empire... even Ragnar the Heroic is nothing but a figure from the distant past...
Feicui Long smiles, this time internally. With this, he had the emotional and psychological advantage in the negotiation. He didn't say anything about the lineage of the Superior God of Blood and Sound, Segovax Arecoraticos, while Isabella just looks confused. Her little one, who had looked very nostalgic, suddenly started talking about something she didn't know, but still, she didn't ask. She didn't want to ruin whatever was planned.
The girl had been through a lot. She had been stained with blood on the battlefield despite being only 35 years old, but this boy had broken her calm. Although much time had passed since the crimes her clan committed, they were still remembered by their fiercest enemies, who didn't know they were saved by the Von Habsburg family and renamed as the Lords of Bloody Taming, changing their style to that of tamers, no longer forced to hunt rebels or people from another empire but the mortal enemies of the clan.
The girl takes a deep breath and finally introduces herself: "I am Andrasta Arecoraticos. I come from a small house of Marquis level. What do you wish to negotiate, Young Feicui Long?"
Feicui Long nods, taking the announcement he saw and placing it on the table, then says: "First, I'd like to negotiate this."
Andrasta looks at him and says: "What do you want to do with the sale of slimes?"
Feicui Long quickly answers: "I would like an exclusive contract in this area, meaning they buy from me only. Of course, in exchange for this, I'll sell them 33.33% cheaper than the market price, so we both win, don't you think? You will take credit for helping in the crisis, just like this headquarters, so you'll gain a better position, and I will also gain certain benefits, not to mention that the guild will make more money by selling them at a higher price in the cities that need them."
Andrasta thinks about it, and it really makes sense, so she nods and says: "What else do you want?"
Feicui Long thinks for a moment and says: "I know the guilds union of summoners, tamers, necromancers, and golem and puppet creators has no sanctuary here nor any breeding zone, so they have to get the offspring from outside or go to the zones to collect them. So, how about if, in exchange for a 50% discount on all tamed creatures for me and the Skylion family, even those that don't come from here, plus 25% of the profits earned from the sale of each creature, we let them enter the sanctuaries, including the one between the family temple and the palace?"
Andrasta, hesitant, asks: "How can I be sure you can negotiate on behalf of the Skylion family?"
Isabella steps out this time and says: "Because he's my fiancé, the fiancé of Isabella Skylion. You can see it on his ring."
Andrasta takes out a device to calculate it using formations and inscriptions to perform the operations and sees that they will get good profits, so she says: "Alright, it seems like a good deal. Anything else?"
Feicui Long then says: "I'd like to buy about 9 arrowhead steel black-scaled lizards, regular and the white variant, the one with the 7 beams of light. How much would it be with the 50% discount?"
Andrasta, more relaxed with this last part, says: "It would be 35 silver coins for each common lizard and 15 for the variant, so 3 gold coins and 30 silver."
Feicui Long, a bit surprised by how cheap the variant is, says: "Why is the variant so cheap? Does it have a birth defect, or is it sick or injured?"
Andrasta shakes her head: "It's just that this variant is useless. It's supposed to be of support and control category, unlike the regular one, which is an attacker. Its support abilities are nonexistent, and its control ability is minimal. It's only able to temporarily blind. In addition, because of its acquired light element, its poison is weaker than that of the normal versions, so it's a case where the variant is detrimental to the species."
Feicui Long smiles ironically, not because he doesn't think this, but because it's obvious they don't know the potential this variant has… but still he says: "Alright, I'll buy everything. If you get more of this common variant, I'll buy them all. Also, if you find other variants or even other regular lizards from different nests, though it will be at another time."
Andrasta nods and says: "Alright, I'll reserve them for you. Is there anything else you need?"
Feicui Long shakes his head. Then Andrasta nods, and they sign a contract for the entire negotiation. Feicui Long is led by the same girl, a support member, or at least that's what he thought, since it turns out the girl is not a support member but a tamer who acts as Andrasta's assistant. She's a very cute and funny beast girl named Cynthia, who takes them to pick up what they bought, and they leave, heading to Isabella's house.
But not before Feicui Long stops by the market to buy more materials to fill the spatial storage boxes he brought with him, the ones that had been emptied due to all the construction, since he had already used up about 25 of the boxes he purchased.
Isabella asks him something: "Darling, why did you buy a weaker variant?"
Feicui Long calmly asks her: "Not everything in life is about attack power, darling. This variant can not only blind with its light attacks, but it can also manipulate light enough to make it pass through its body, becoming invisible, but also to other objects and beings, making it a very good support. Combined with regular ones, it could create a deadly rain for enemies who wouldn't be able to see."
Isabella falls silent and sighs, saying: "A shame you only have one."
Feicui Long looks at her and explains: "Yes, it's true that I only have one, but you should know that variations and mutations in any living being are things that can be inherited. That's why I bought 5 males and 5 females, including the variant. It's true it won't be 100% and depends on the rarity of these two things, but also, if you use two of the same variant, it will increase a lot. In common variants like this, it will become 100%. That's why I asked her to sell me any new ones if she found them."
Isabella's eyes light up. Now she sees the potential in this...
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They both return to the palace, where they will spend very sweet days without knowing that soon a storm will approach the family...