Liszt and the Giant Whale Guest currently have irreconcilable conflicts.

The main interests of the Giant Whale Guest lie in mediating the interests of various countries in the Narrow Sea, possessing irreplaceability and various types of unregulated industries.

Because of being located on the large island of Xilan in the Narrow Sea, it truly developed into the Sea Nightless Country.

It's equivalent to the upgraded version of Doringger plus the Golden Waters with successful nation-founding through financing.

Doringger is also a hidden member of the Narrow Sea Convention Organization, and once claimed a share in the Narrow Sea, being a supporter of this system. The pirate's loot was split sixty-forty, also sold in the Narrow Sea, feeding this system, allowing the East Sea and Narrow Sea to remain distinct.

Otherwise, in a lawless area like Heaven Port, there would be plenty of people interested in stirring up trouble in Doringger, and the fiercely competitive Narrow Sea wouldn't mind expanding to the East Sea to do business.

Although Doringger doesn't need to pay respects, it's said that in the underworld, harmony is precious.

The current Western Continent.

The North Sea is a war zone of the Northern Bay People along with the Northern Beastmen and the Western Continent, having been in chaos for over a thousand years. Its commercial value is limited, but the Giant Whale Guest is also playing in it.

The West Sea is a magical place, with an ancient covenant with the Ancient Divine Continent prohibiting anyone from crossing the West Sea in any form, encircling the boundary centered on Holy Tree Island, with no commercial value.

The South Sea, dividing the Western and Southern Continents, is connected to the Narrow Sea, forming an inverted T-shape, with its business being covered by the Narrow Sea.

In other words, the Giant Whale Guest is the real King of the Sea.

Although Doringger set up its own base due to the locational advantage of the Heavenly Harbor, the problem isn't significant; it remains a supporter of this system.

As Liszt came to power.

Leadership rods weren't handed over, books weren't handed over, nothing was handed over.

Not only setting up his own base, but also breaking the consensus that the East Sea couldn't have order, replacing the risky ship sailing with a membership buyout system to ensure safety, which increased the overall trade volume.

But this still didn't touch the soul.

Liszt also wants to build a Sea Nightless Country, with the end of commercial competition being cultural tourism and finance.

Xilan Island to the Western Continent is like Vegas to Emmerich, the largest gambling city, where the rich flaunt themselves, a must-visit for checking in, single parties, and revelry.

And Liszt wants to build a world gambling city, in simpler terms, it's like creating a gambling center in the Mediterranean, the Holy Roman Gambling City, encompassing the whole world.

The distance from Heaven Port is indeed a weakness, but it's also the only weakness. Western Continent people wanting to experience Far East encounters, just as Far East people want Western Continent to sit in Atlanta, when it really gets going, distance won't matter.

To solve the pain point of long distances, Liszt was already prepared to transform the Sea God... into a passenger cruise ship! A goddamn luxury cruise, wasting money maintaining it anyway, got to utilize the spectacle Lord Dor created by sucking the blood of the entire East Sea.

This goddamn ship comes with an experience service first—restaurants, casinos, theaters, clubs, all in one.

Hunger marketing to sell tickets! Enter the gambling city! Pilgrimage to the Cosmic Center!

By then, the Emperor would be crying to Liszt to give him a ticket, wanting to show off himself as a rich man.

With the boost on Shipyard Island in the East Sea, the cruise line will continue to be specially made, creating a complete industrial chain.

"Cultural tourism" is to go up against the Giant Whale Guest.

But this only touched a bit of the soul, not the whole soul.

Finance, financing, is the ultimate end of all things.

For every interest group, foreign capital investing in the group's stock and not receiving dividends is just a Ponzi scheme.

This trick, though not only for small players, is still played by those who aren't on the main stage.

But foreign capital purchasing property rights of group projects, lease contracts, market development, differing from stock investment, is market investment, and such revenue generation carries risks.

This is the real food of big shots.

Even though the geopolitical advantage of the Narrow Sea is irreplaceable, capital itself prefers the Western Continent's own gambling city, or the Holy Roman Gambling City, encompassing everywhere, which is apparent at a glance.

As long as Liszt proves the market stable, a rise and fall in this way spells doom for the Giant Whale Guest.

The Giant Whale Guest is also dancing on the edge, thriving on the Narrow Sea Golden Family, Sea Power Dominator, mediating international conflicts to make it big, with the Four Kings of the Underworld, even being called the sixth permanent power below the Five Permanent due to having their own territory, calling themselves invincible. Once weakened, it's the strong nations of the Western Continent all serving you.

So now it's the Giant Whale Guest in a panic, sending Liszt a very showy invitation, equipped with forests and the Heavenly Dao, exceedingly mysterious, hoping Liszt would voluntarily stop growing.

That's why the Giant Whale Guest is frantically proving Liszt's instability, sending people to make trouble in Heavenly Port multiple times.

And that's why Ox retaliated, bringing Mermen brothers from the Mirror Sea to fight the underworld in the Narrow Sea.

As long as Liszt can prove his stability, he need not do anything, and the Giant Whale Guest's own operations will falter, their economy declining, surrounded and devoured like Ymir, gnawing down the Giant Whale Guest, directly Warhammering the Giant Whale, armored Giant Whale, goddamn advancing Giant Whale.

The game logic changes in the end to this:

The market is indeed hard to stabilize, the Giant Whale Guest isn't foolish, incredibly fierce, requiring Liszt to find a fated person for help. Who is fated with him?

"You are fated with me."

Liszt believes that as long as Lostra admits Heaven Port is their enclave, making himself the East Sea Governor, then everything would be completely stable, unmistakably stable.

That year, Doringger, taking the wrong medicine, sought the Yisu Country of the Southern Continent as their fated person, but their fate didn't work out.

The fate between himself and Lostra, this fate, works.

The situation now is very optimistic, a tailwind scenario, the Giant Whale Guest is being "served" by various countries, himself the hero of Aran as well as Lostra's first Black Glove, getting a real massage from a maestro.

Celeste's phone call was therapeutic, with hardcore work lasting a year; already heaven-bound, dominating one-eighth of the continent's Strength, going to the Tower of Winterless in Pedan to play with the Life Seat.

Peace in the Four Seas, one person is enough!

Akasa, in the end, would have to give himself a BLOWJOB.

"A strong endorsement is impossible, you know it inside, Aran suppresses Beima, the Beima East Coast bears all trade from the Far East, to speak bluntly, you, the King of the East Sea, only have the smallest piece of the East-West trade, head of the robbers in the distribution center. Don't overthink the role of the King of the East Sea. Officially recognizing you as the East Sea Governor is the same as declaring war on Aran, only a weak endorsement, an honorary title, can be discussed. I've already anticipated you pulling this move. With my boss's permission, I've included you in Mulong's energy projects, what more do you want?"

Celeste speaks plainly, also knowing Alicia has set out, just unsure where Liszt wants to send her.

So-called negotiation has to be two-way to be negotiation, but Liszt is purely better than people, now already side by side with the sun.

Liszt thought for a moment, also understanding the rule of inflating price to halfway, without some outrageous demands, even small requests are hard to agree on.

"Honorary title, okay, but now I am a close confidant beside Soloren, eh...

Alicia is my close friend. I must respect her personal will.

I can't dictate her actions, whatever she wants to do at Wind Anchor is her business, but I will always protect her, this is one of the two conditions."

Liszt believes Celeste, a woman of such a level, can understand his subtext.

Celeste certainly understands, this isn't handing over but sharing, what damn close friend's personal will.

"Of course, besides endorsement, she herself has no other use, a guardian angel wouldn't hurt. The second condition?"

Celeste considers this a bit troublesome, but within reasonable limits.

"Your current position is a vice-ministerial level, quite an authority. My second condition is, Agent Seventeen."

Liszt said in this manner.

"Ha?"

Celeste widened her eyes because she had no idea what Liszt was talking about.