CHAPTER 57: CHAPTER 57: VICTOR IS REALLY A GOOD GUY!

Two days later, at a watchtower 100 kilometers outside Saint Heart City.

A group of familiar tamers in noble clothes had gathered there.

They sat around a campfire, roasting meat, and tossed their space rings to the elder leading them.

The elder caught each ring and used his Mental Power again and again to check the resources inside.

"Theodore, resources worth 350 billion federal credits..."

"Raul, resources worth 410 billion federal credits..."

"Stryker, resources worth 470 billion federal credits..."

While checking the rings, the elder swept a cold look over the camp leaders. "Victor is set to be the future head of the Tattalia family. Even if you want to line your pockets, there should be a limit."

Then he fixed his eyes on Theodore, his voice flat. "Figure it out. Bring what you submitted up to 400 billion federal credits."

Hearing this, Theodore looked awkward, but still nodded. "I’ll take 50 billion worth from my private stash and give it to Victor."

Hearing the elder’s order, Theodore looked embarrassed but still nodded. "I’ll take 50 billion worth from my private stash and give it to Victor."

Seeing Theodore cooperate, the elder gave a small nod, then turned to remind everyone: "Same for you. If your resources are under 400 billion, find a way to make up the gap."

Then the elder kept checking the rings laid out in front of him.

Any ring with too few resources, he tossed back with a cold face and told the camp leader to make up the difference.

When he picked up the last ring, a hint of joy finally showed on his face. "Barzini, resources worth 1.58 trillion federal credits!"

He slapped his thigh and looked at Barzini with a kinder gaze. "Good kid. You’re the backbone of our Tattalia family."

Then his eyes swept over everyone, cold again. "Barzini earned the most this time. Let him go to the Genius Training Camp and deliver the first batch for Victor. Who agrees? Who objects?"

When they heard the delivery job would go to Barzini, the camp heads all changed their expressions.

But under the elder’s authority, they could only swallow their anger and hand their space rings to Barzini.

As the ruling faction of the Tattalia family, they were all greedy and knew how valuable this job was.

Adding up the supplies from the seventeen camp heads came to a total worth of 7 trillion federal credits.

Even if Barzini skimmed just one-tenth, he’d get 700 billion federal credits. That kind of money was enough to make these camp leaders take big risks.

At that thought, the camp leaders looked at Barzini with open hostility.

Barzini, looking smug, said in a cocky tone, "Brothers and sisters, you’ve all worked hard these days. I’ll be sure to report your efforts to Victor."

The message was clear: he planned to pocket the resources, and he would also snitch on them to Victor.

Once this kind of shady stuff gets exposed, someone has to pay.

So about half of the camp leaders snorted and walked off in a huff.

The others narrowed their eyes and politely tried to cozy up to Barzini.

Seeing Barzini getting along with the remaining people, the elder nodded with satisfaction and left alone.

But as soon as the elder left, the few remaining camp leaders dropped their smiles.

Theodore stepped in front of Barzini first, wearing a fierce look. "Barzini, the credit is yours now, but everyone should get a share of the benefits!"

Stryker stood beside Theodore and chimed in, "Right. You don’t want us brothers at each other’s throats, do you? Hand over thirty percent of the supplies to the group, and we won’t hold your little threat against you."

Barzini looked at his clansmen with a pitying smile. "Sorry, I am going to hold your threat against me."

As soon as he finished, a pair of bone wings appeared behind him.

With one powerful flap, he broke through their cordon and shot into the nearby forest.

Theodore, Stryker, and the others went pale. "After him!"

Seven camp leaders summoned their familiars at once—some rode unicorns, others giant dragonflies.

With all kinds of familiars backing them, the seven split in different directions to cut off Barzini.

Once inside the forest, Barzini quickly put away his bone wings.

Using the cover of the trees, he suppressed his aura and hid his trail.

The seven camp leaders chased for hours but never caught sight of Barzini, and they started to panic.

"Damn it! That son of a bitch Barzini is still so sly!" Raul lost his temper and smashed a centuries-old tree with one punch.

"Our group is too easy to spot. Split up and chase. If you find him, tell everyone right away." Stryker’s eyes were ruthless—he already wanted Barzini dead. "If we have to, kill him."

Everyone went quiet and nodded.

The seven split up, and the search sped up a lot.

Soon, Raul was the first to find Barzini’s trail.

He followed a small forest path, searching carefully, and soon came to a waterfall.

But no matter how hard he looked, Barzini seemed to vanish into thin air—no trace at all.

"How is that possible?" Raul kicked a big rock to pieces, furious.

"Why not?" Logan’s voice came from behind him.

Hearing the strange voice, Raul turned right away and saw Logan with a dozen insect monsters behind him, already surrounding him.

Facing more than a dozen master-tier monsters, Raul didn’t rush in. He quickly pulled out a rune stone, ready to cast an energy shield.

But before he could crush it, a huge spray from above the waterfall poured down on him, soaking him to the bone.

"Blizzard!"

"Blizzard!"

"Blizzard!"

Kerparos stood above the falls, the spell already ready on his lips.

Three Blizzards, together with a surge of river water, slammed into Raul and froze him into an ice statue on the spot.

At that moment, Red Feather the horned hawk reacted fast. It snatched the rune stone from Raul’s hand with its beak and dropped it into Logan’s hand.

Logan took the rune stone, looked at Raul still struggling inside the ice, and ordered the insect monster legion behind him, "Push him under the waterfall and keep casting ice skills."

Like that, Raul didn’t even have time to summon his familiar before the monsters Logan had placed moved him right under the falls.

Now Raul had to bear the pressure of a hundred-meter waterfall while also being frozen again and again.

Whenever he tried to force open his familiar’s Blood Cultivation Realm, Lilith, Logan, and the Black Ant queen would hit him with Mental Power attacks and break his focus.

Raul had never fought a battle this frustrating.

For twenty minutes straight, he didn’t get a single chance to strike, while Logan blasted him with at least a thousand freezing spells.

Soon, the crushing pressure and the biting cold broke Raul’s will.

A heavy drowsiness swept over him, and he blacked out.

Seeing this, Logan and Lilith both cast the [Enslave Mind] skill.

After taking turns casting [Enslave Mind] more than thirty times, Raul was finally brought under Logan’s control and became his servant.

When he thawed and saw Barzini again, Raul opened his mouth but said nothing. He knew there was no turning back.

"Master, I can reach the others. Why not bring them under you too?" Raul’s meaning was clear: they should share the risk and reward—he didn’t want to be the only one paying the price.

Logan saw Raul volunteer and nodded, telling him to lure someone over.

Soon, Stryker followed Raul to the base of the waterfall.

Just like Raul before him, Stryker looked tense and impatient.

"There are signs of Barzini here, but how did he disappear?" Looking puzzled, Stryker stepped through the waterfall to check what was behind the curtain of water.

But the moment he stepped one foot through the water curtain, he saw a terrifying sight.

Behind the waterfall, the dozen or so insect monsters under Logan’s control were all hiding there.

Stryker was practically face-to-face with them—another few inches and he’d be nose-to-nose.

The sudden encounter startled him, and he pushed off with both feet to bolt.

Raul wasn’t about to miss the chance to drag Stryker into this. He kicked Stryker in the butt and shoved him right under the waterfall, pinning him there.

At the top of the falls, Kerparos instantly unleashed the fully charged triple Blizzard.

Just like that, before Stryker could even pull out a rune stone, Logan and Lilith had him enslaved.

After that, with Raul and Stryker working together, plus Barzini luring targets in, the Tattalia family experts who came chasing all ended up as Logan’s servants.

And of course, the resources they’d skimmed all landed in Logan’s hands too—worth as much as 3 trillion federal credits.

Counting the space ring on Barzini, Logan now controlled Blood Cultivation Realm resources worth 10 trillion federal credits.

That’s almost half a month of monster resource output from all the master-tier Blood Cultivation Realms around Saint Heart City—a crazy number.

With such a huge windfall out of nowhere, Logan was grinning from ear to ear. "Victor, you really are a good man!"

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