?Chapter 948: 295. Unkind, Unrighteous


    The magic messengers from both sides sent out the letters.


    Dietrich was the first to receive a reply.


    After reading the content of the letter, he said:


    “Mr. Lonco, Sir Fagen Pong proposes to include a sum of cash not less than 50 million gold coins in the stakes of the contest at the Deep Sea Branch. What do you think? If you agree, the Fagen Lineage will recognize the contest stakes of the Deep Sea Branch.”


    Lonco said:


    “I think there’s no problem.” <div>


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    Selena also nodded, indicating no objections.


    “Whoosh…” Lonco’s magic conch appeared with a string of bubbles, cing a letter in front of him.


    This was the reply from Lonco and Selena’s father.


    Lonco opened the letter and his face inexplicably changed.


    Selena nced at the content of the letter, her expression froze for half a second, and a forcefully restrained anger shed in her eyes.


    Their changes in expressions were noticed by Dietrich and Bary Stone.


    Dietrich and hispanion exchanged nces, unable at the moment to guess what was written in the letter that made Selena and Lonco show such abnormal reactions.


    “Ahem.”


    Lonco coughed lightly, folded the letter paper neatly, and put it back into the envelope.


    He turned his head to look at Selena, but only saw his sister’s cold profile.


    Lonco felt a sinking feeling in his heart and silently sighed. Then he squeezed out a smile towards Dietrich and the others, and said:


    “It’s like this, Mr. Dietrich. The head of the Pomida Family, Sir Mingwaq Pomida, believes that the stakes of the contest from both sides are very reasonable but suggests changing the mode of the contest.”


    “Change the mode of the contest?” Dietrich was stunned:


    “Does Sir Mingwaq Pomida mean to increase the number of isles for exploration?”


    “Oh no, not that,” Lonco took a slight breath and said in a muffled voice:


    “My father suggests using a wizard duel instead of exploration of isles to determine the winner between the two sides.”


    “Duel…” Dietrich was somewhat taken aback.


    Rock Bone Warden Bary Stone hadn’t expected the turn of events toe to such a twist.


    It wasn’t that a wizard duel couldn’t rece exploration of isles.


    But the wizard forces of the Deep Sea Branch, specializing in deep sea magic and water magic, naturally find themselves at a disadvantage against the Pang Family adept in earth rock magic and metal magic…


    Using exploration of isles as the contest, the chances of winning were an even split between the two sides.


    But if it were to be a wizard duel, then the odds would be thirty to seventy.


    The Deep Sea Branch had only a thirty percent chance of winning, while the Pang Family had seventy percent.


    The three in ten chance the Deep Sea Branch had could be said to alle from external aid.


    ording to the stiptions of Law No. 1, the dueling sides could obtain assistance from outside, but the number of aids could not exceed one-third of the single side’s participation number.


    If it sent out ten wizards to duel, then at least seven must be members of the Deep Sea Branch, and at most only three wizards could be helpers from other forces.


    Unless those three auxiliaries could take on multiple opponents at once, if not, the Deep Sea Branch was doomed to lose.


    Why would Mingwaq Pomida put forth such a disadvantageous proposal for the Deep Sea Branch?


    Had his brain malfunctioned…


    Dietrich was stunned.


    This was no different from the opponent delivering their head for him to chop off.


    Joy flooded uncontrobly through Dietrich’s heart.


    He clenched his magic robe with both hands, pressing tightly against the corner of his mouth to prevent himself from bursting intoughter.


    But he quickly became vignt, wary of any tricks the Deep Sea Branch might be hiding.


    “Hmm… Mr. Lonco,” Dietrich feigned calm and asked:


    “Did Sir Mingwaq Pomida really say that? Then suppose we choose to contest with a wizard duel, what kind of external aid would the Deep Sea Branch send out?”


    Selena turned her head slightly, looking elsewhere, her demeanor extremely aloof.


    She gave up the right to speak, not wanting to answer this question.


    Lonco bravely said:


    “The external aid that has been confirmed is Nnd Lee Jarvis. The rest of the auxiliary choices have not yet been determined; our Deep Sea Branch may seek help from Hotams. Of course, we do not rule out other wizard forces being invited to assist us.”


    Bary Stone’s gray eyeballs trembled.


    He had actually guessed right about Nnd Lee Jarvis!


    Mingwaq Pomida indeed intended to use the contest as a pretext to bring the ‘Silent Maiden’ to the forefront!


    As an Enforcer with powerful Breaking Law abilities, their assistance could potentially realize the feat of one defeating many.


    Consequently, it was very possible that the Pang Family side would suffer a crushing defeat due to the intervention of the ‘Silent Maiden’.


    What Lonco referred to as “other wizard forces being invited to assist us” was definitely referring to the ‘Silent Maiden’!


    Bary Stone slightly rotated his head, ncing towards Dietrich Fegan with peripheral vision.


    A wizard who could be a family heir might be arrogant, but he would still have the necessary intellect.


    On hearing that Nnd Lee Jarvis would participate in the battle, Dietrich naturally thought of the ‘Silent Maiden.’


    Allowing such an Enforcer force to fight might truly render the final battle oue uncertain.


    However, if the Deep Sea Branch could invite Enforcers for help, so could the Pang Family.


    This was not a privilege exclusive to any wizard force.


    As long as the remuneration was generous enough, even getting the Grand Inquisitor of the Pure Light Court to assist was not an impossibility.


    After careful consideration, Dietrich wrote another letter to Sir Fagen Pong.


    Lonco also wrote several letters to his own father.