CHAPTER 681: CHAPTER 173: TWELVE HOLY WARRIORS

Two days later, as dawn was breaking, Zhou Quan went eagerly to knock on Huang Que’s door.

Due to events from a few days prior, Huang Que was still upset with Zhou Quan.

"What do you want? Don’t bother me," Huang Que said irritably.

"Huang Que, don’t be mad, look, I’ve bought you something nice," Zhou Quan couldn’t wait to pull out a set of objects.

"What is this thing?" Huang Que glanced and noticed what Zhou Quan held was a few pieces of paper-like cards.

"These are called Twelve Holy Warriors Cards! They feature your favorite ’Flame Emperor Team’! The cards are really beautiful," Zhou Quan proudly presented them.

"What? Flame Emperor!" Upon hearing this, Huang Que immediately forgot she was mad and snatched the cards right away.

Huang Que really liked the "Flame Emperor", but the origins of the "Flame Emperor" were indeed very mysterious.

Young girls are always most interested in mysterious things.

The more mysterious, the more supporters "Flame Emperor" has.

Huang Que had inquired for a long time but hadn’t found any news about the Flame Emperor.

Zhou Quan’s set of Twelve Holy Warriors Cards really hit the spot for Huang Que.

The so-called Twelve Holy Warriors Cards are actually a type of specially made magic cards.

They feature this year’s twelve monthly competition champions’ character illustrations and personal profiles.

The magic cards are made from Beast Skin and are specially drawn with Beast Blood, making the characters on these special magic cards move.

Take the "Flame Emperor Saint Fighter" card of August, for instance, which vividly portrays the appearances of the two "Flame Emperor" members.

By just shaking the card, the "Flame Emperor" mini-illustration changes, unleashing the "Yan" specialized mist magic and "Emperor’s" wind slash.

"It really is the Flame Emperor, fantastic! Seeing it’s the ’Flame Emperor’, I’ll let you off this time," Huang Que was overjoyed, constantly fiddling with the card in her hands.

The set of cards was gifted to Zhou Quan by Yun Sheng for free, but outside, such a set fetches a high price.

A set of Twelve Holy Warriors Cards made from Beast Skin sells for as much as twenty Gold Coins.

After receiving the set of cards, Huang Que was indeed in a great mood and immediately forgave Zhou Quan, who was moved to tears and snot.

Not only the Twelve Holy Warriors Cards, but there were also a plethora of other items such as Twelve Holy Warriors Dolls, Twelve Holy Warriors Cards, Twelve Holy Warriors Mage Robes, Twelve Holy Warriors Cups, and so on, which filled the streets of Sky Wing City a few days before the annual competition started.

The noble daughters and wives of wealthy officials who came to watch the competition especially loved these trinkets, almost everyone had a set.

Some even bought dozens of sets wholesale, saying they were taking them back for their sisters.

These trinkets quickly caught the attention of relevant personnel at the City Lord Mansion, and eventually even alarmed the Sky Wing City Lord.

"Father, these trinkets were actually arranged by your daughter. I’ve given them a special name: Souvenir Merchandise," Tian Yiyu said respectfully.

"Daughter thinks this is a great way to boost the Arena’s performance and plans to expand heavily in the future since it’s much easier than relying solely on the Arena’s revenue," Tian Yiyu presented a ledger, which accounted for the money made from selling souvenir merchandise within just ten days.

"So it was you who came up with this nonsense, using cheap tricks to make money," Tianyidong, standing beside, said with disdain.

Recently, he also noticed that the city was flooded with various frivolous trinkets, all things that women liked.

Tianyidong was sure, men could never like those.

"Oh, why don’t you take a look then, at how much money these frivolous things have made, father, please take a look," Tian Yiyu said mockingly.

The Sky Wing City Lord took the ledger and was shocked. In just ten days, the sale of these frivolous trinkets alone had brought in over two hundred thousand Gold Coins.

Tianyidong hastily grabbed the ledger to take a look, and he too was dumbfounded.

"Father, this is just the beginning. I also plan to hire some storytellers to write down some of the most exciting scenes from the Arena, and then sell those. I have even decided on a name for it already, it will be called, Tianyi Gossip Weekly," Tian Yiyu explained the methodology Yun Sheng had once told her.

The Sky Wing City Lord and his two incompetent sons were all flabbergasted.

Merchandise, Tianyi Gossip Weekly, these terms were things they had never even heard of.

"Yuyu, where did you hear these terms from? Although merchandise sounds like it could make money, it still seems a bit risky," the Sky Wing City Lord said, confused.

"Father, these are all my own ideas. If you are worried about losing money, there’s no need, for I will bear all the profits and losses myself," Tian Yiyu looked utterly confident.

The Sky Wing City Lord thought for a moment. He truly had lost quite a bit of money on this daughter of his.

With Tian Yiyu’s abilities, just being in charge of the Yellow Wing Competition Zone was somewhat an underestimation of her, as a compensation, he agreed to her request: "Yuyu has a great idea, from now on, all merchandise and weekly reports of the Arena will be handled by you. You two brothers should cooperate with Yuyu as much as possible."

The two Tianyi brothers both looked sullen, but under their father’s command, they had no choice but to agree to the Sky Wing City Lord’s decree.

And so, Tian Yiyu gained the exclusive rights to the Sky Wings Arena merchandise and a series of weekly reports.

After leaving the City Lord Mansion, she immediately hurried to the inn to meet up with Yun Sheng.

"Yun Sheng, good news, I told father just like you said, and he agreed to let me handle this business," Tian Yiyu was actually still a bit dizzy at this point.

Yun Sheng had suddenly approached her, saying there was a lucrative business opportunity to discuss with her.

Yun Sheng’s business idea had a special term called "Fan Economy."

Tian Yiyu didn’t understand what "fans" meant, but she followed Yun Sheng’s advice and quickly found people to custom-make a batch of merchandise.

The first batch of merchandise was very limited, only one hundred sets.

At that time, Tian Yiyu was still doubting if those trinkets could really sell for such high prices.

But to her great surprise, the merchandise sold out in a flash, and some people even directly requested to reserve the next batch.

This immediately convinced Tian Yiyu of the viability of this new business, leading to her later visit to the Sky Wing City Lord Mansion to secure the exclusive rights.

According to the arrangement previously agreed upon by Yun Sheng and Tian Yiyu, if this succeeded, the income from selling the merchandise and the Gossip Weekly would be shared half and half between Yun Sheng and Tian Yiyu.

Actually, to be honest, this wasn’t the first time Yun Sheng had leveraged the Arena and competitions to make money.

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