Established Pinnacle: The Enigma-Chapter 158 A Collaboration
?At least, his wives could be Gods in the future, at most, in a hundred or so years. And he could wait for the time no problem. It was nothing impossible for long living races.
Herara was also more than happy to learn of that and enthusiastically inquired in disbelief and a bit of hope mixed in, "Really? Is that really true? Could you really be Ancient Origins?"
"Of course." Allen nodded. He thought of something and cleared his throat, trying to take on a stern position, "Your highness, you want us to work for you?"
"No no no, I wouldn't dare, cooperation at most. I would like to cooperate with powerful Gods such as yourselves." Herara thought that as Ancient Origins, why would they lower their heads to a little princess like her.
With their talents, the Cloud Palace would more than accept them. Let alone herself, who was weaker than the Cloud Palace in every possible area. So she had to humble herself and throw away all suspicions.
Let alone the Radiance City, which was lower than the Cloud Palace in almost every way as well. Allen could feel her emotional state and could not help but be amused. But Enigma nudged him slightly, in case he forgot where he was and began flirting.
"You misunderstood. We don't mind working for you, for a while that is. In fact, as long as you can help us this one time, we will owe you big time." Allen sat up straight and sternly declared, throwing away the tease he had prepared.
An Ancient Origin owing her big time was not something small. Though she already had one, they belonged to the Hero Temple and temporarily worked for the royal family until their contract was over.
But if she helped them here, not only will she have two Ancient Origins owe her a favor, it also meant that these favors were for her and not the Temple or the royal family. Like a CEO of a large company owing you billions!!!
"Help..? If I can help, I'll do anything I can. Just mention it." Herara did not hesitate to take the given opportunity at all. She also prepared her heart, she knew this was not going to be easy at all.
"We are looking for an Origin Divine Crystal. Know what that is?" Allen went straight to the point. But he didn't expect the confused expression on the princess' face, as if she did not understand him.
"...A what?" Fixing her expression, she tried to think on what it was, but still failed. It was the first time she heard of such a thing. 'Is it something from the pioneering Era? Something important from the past?!'
"You don't seem to know what that is, it seems?" Enigma inquired with a slight frown on his face. His tone laced with light disappointment. This was bad for him, he doubted the system at this juncture.
"Forgive my lack of knowledge. I am not too well versed in History." Herara sighed lightly with a helpless expression. She wished she knew, but if it had to do with the previous eras, then she was clueless.
"It's fine, it's not your fault. There's no omnipotent Mortal in the infinite realms any way." Enigma smiled at her slightly, just to assure her, but Herara avoided his sincerity as she was lost in thought.
Enigma did not disturb her in case she remembered something. But he didn't stay Passive either. 'Buddy, were you confused?' He asked the system to verify if it gave him wrong information or not.
"The difficulty is S-Class for a reason"
"Princess, do you by chance have a hairpin you like very much?" Enigma ignored the system's not so helpful response, and decided to hunt for clues himself. It was right though, this was an S-Class difficulty for a reason.
"Hairpin? Yes, I used to have one." Herara thought for a moment and then responded positively. Enigma beamed with joy as the quest was at least heading in the right direction, or some direction.
"Used to? As expected. May I ask where it is now?" He inquired expectantly. Allen was not surprised as he knew what they were looking for specifically. And where they could potentially get it.
"With the Goddess of Hope and Truths, on Cloud Palace. May I ask why you are curious about my hair pin?" Herara responded truthfully, but was still confused confused. Why did they want her hairpin for?
"An oracle of a long time ago, told me I can find my cure on a hairpin treasured by the third divine princess." Enigma blatantly lied. He once again realized that he had a maxed out talent for bluffing.
"...I am really sorry, it's unfortunate that I can not take it back." Herara bitterly smiled when she heard him. 'At least he does not need it for something perverted... hopefully. Because I don't know what I'd do in that case.'
Meanwhile,
"Generating Sub-Missions"
"I. Trading With Gods: A loose God has descended and the Gods would like to see it dead. Find a way to kill the God and exchange its Divine Crystal with the Hairpin given to the Goddess of Hope and Truths"
"Reward: Hairpin ×1, a mysterious gift (You will definitely regret it though)"
"II. Protect The Fouth Prince: The Fouth Prince is a Protagonist of this Era, find a way to make sure that he survives and awakens his true potential. Also, be aware of the lowly regulator that is helping him"
"Reward: Karmic Divine Skill, Eye of Abomination" f𝑟𝑒ewe𝚋𝚗૦𝐯e𝘭.c𝗼𝓂
'These missions of yours are getting more useless by the day. Plus, if I wasn't here, how was he going to survive?' Enigma casually questioned in his thoughts, his eyes appraising the prince.
"His sister, at a cost of her life"
Enigma did not ask any more intel and waited for the princess to speak. Sensing the eyes of both young men, Herara cleared her throat and brought out her proposal.
"I would like for us to cooperate. Though I could unfortunately be of no use, I hope you can work with us in helping us attain the throne and we will reward you greatly." She said expectantly, waiting for their response.
"The rewards?" Allen interjected before Enigma could agree. Enigma had no desire for most things and felt like it would be fun to do something like that. And Allen knew that he would blatantly agree to that.
But he was different. He was idle, but dependable. He felt like if he was going to work, it must be worth it. Krishna was an example, he helped her get her body, in exchange, she would be his woman.
Or rather, she took advantage of him...
"I'm willing to give you Lapis City in the west, it's a high profit city with a powerful line-up of soldiers, gods and has a Demigod, me, watching over it. It's annul income is 300 million gold and owns a high leveled crystal vein and a god stone mine. It's also-–" She began stating her chips on the line.
But as she was speaking...
"Big sister, isn't that your main city?!" Reynolds immediately cut her off in shock. As her city, it was also her source of income, base of operation and future Divine Capital if she becomes Emperor of the Empire.
Herara did not even hesitate to shush him before going back to the what she was saying, she knew the importance of Ancient Origins. And if she could fulfill her father's mission, her city could instantly become a Tier 6 City. "Shh. As I was saying—"
"Enough. We agree, but, do you perhaps have any tribal races under your jurisdiction?" Allen cut her off. He was more than satisfied with the so called Lapis City. As long as he was not working for free. 𝐟𝓇ℯ𝒆we𝒃𝘯𝒐νe𝑙.co𝚖
"Unfortunately not, it's our second sister who has them." Herara responded calmly. "I can trade in some of my saved up resources for some of her powerful tribal races though. Just say the word, and I will fulfill it."
"That's fine." He still agreed. Hopefully, Enigma could find a new and powerful race for himself as well.
"I'll give you guys the rights to the city—" Herara nodded to herself in relief and was about to declare something else related to the City's ownership, but Enigma cut her off. For some reason, she felt small and insignificant today.
"I'm sorry, on second thoughts, can you just give us a small tribal village to manage?" He said with an apologetic smile. Herara's displeasure was doused by that smile and pitiful appearance of his.
"...Dude?" Allen looked besides him in surprise. He was fine eitherway, but aren't they losing out here? But Enigma did not want the so called current Divine Emperor to start up trouble with them because of this.
"It's fine. Just promise me something." Enigma smiled playfully at Allen. Allen has been with Enigma for a while now and knew that nothing good would come out from that smile. Thus he sighed.
"What?" But he still dared to ask.
"Don't take in a new wife this time."
