Chapter 75: Chapter 70: Treasure
Remembering to include your roommate when something good happens?
Oh my gosh, we have a Saint in our dorm!
Ingrid laughed and said, “You’re afraid that Felix has ulterior motives towards you, so you brought us along to dilute the risk, and even reminded us to inform our parents of our whereabouts, so Felix would hesitate to act, right?”
Sonia shrugged, not denying it, “There is a bit of that consideration. But the treasure is real…”
Felix, watching Sonia talk eloquently, heaved a sigh inwardly, suddenly doubting whether his decision this time was an overreach.
In the morning when leaving the Meditation Building, Felix stopped Sonia, saying he had a fantastic opportunity to share with her.
But who was Sonia, really? She was a cunning woman who had struggled alone in the glitzy city of Jiale City, having seen the darkest sides of humanity, and she wouldn’t fall for such empty promises.
Scammers know to give small gifts before deceiving their targets; at least try to bribe me with gifts to lower my guard!
Sugar-coated bullets, sugar-coated bullets, your bullets don’t even have a sugar coating—who do you think you’re fooling?
After much persuasion, Felix finally convinced Sonia, but faced with Sonia’s constant threats of ‘forget it, I’m not participating’, he had no choice but to reveal his true intentions and cede the leadership to her.
The so-called treasure was actually an inheritance left by Felix’s mother. However, she had divided this inheritance into several parts, each with specific conditions that must be met, or else it would be impossible to claim the inheritance forever.
One part of the inheritance required possession of the “Slaughter Sword” Technique Spirit and at least Half-winged magic power.
Although Felix had Half-winged magic power, he had lost the “Slaughter Sword,” which was both a stroke of good, yet bad luck, making an otherwise attainable treasure suddenly as difficult as reaching the heavens.
At this moment, Sonia’s “Slaughter Sword” came into his view.
But Felix knew that Sonia would not relinquish her precious ‘Secret Sword Spirit Twenty-One’, so he proposed a partnership to her.
At first, he put forth a proposal he thought was very reasonable: a sham marriage. It wasn’t that he wanted to take advantage of Sonia, but he had researched her background and believed this was exactly the opportunity Sonia was looking for.
According to the Noble Emblem Law, any relationship recognized by the Noble House is legally valid. Felix knew that what Sonia most desired was a noble status that would allow her to live a dignified life in Jiale City, but the path to ennoblement was rugged and tough. In comparison, marrying into nobility seemed like a shortcut.
By marrying Felix, Sonia would immediately obtain the Vosloda Family Emblem. She could not only receive monthly maintenance funds from the family fund but also enjoy the family Mage training system. The “Dragon’s Belly Scales,” “Dragon’s Banquet,” and other Miracles would also be open to her.
Most importantly, she could use the Vosloda Family Emblem to bypass the residence restrictions of Jiale City, enjoy noble privileges, purchase property without restrictions, and choose her Profession without restrictions.
She could even change her mother’s residency from agricultural town resident to a resident of Jiale City.
Felix, putting himself in her shoes, knew Sonia certainly valued her mother, who had single-handedly raised her after becoming a widow early in life. If possible, she definitely wanted her mother to enjoy a good life sooner rather than later.
However, even if Sonia was exceptionally gifted, she would need at least a year and a half to deploy the Silver Wings and at least four years to deploy the Golden Wings. If she aimed to reach the Three-winged Holy Realm within ten years, she needed both luck and opportunity.
But more likely, it would take her twenty years to reach the Three-winged Holy Realm.
In recent years, the number of ennoblements had been decreasing, almost exclusively to those within the Holy Realm; no ennoblement, no emblem. Without a noble emblem, even if Sonia was exceptional, she could only enjoy her success alone in Jiale City. Without the power to move her mother’s residency, her mother was still subject to a thirty-day limit per year stay in Jiale City.
Civilians must stick to their civilian duties, while nobles have the privilege to soar.
Felix thought Sonia would happily accept, as it was akin to sparing herself twenty years of struggle.
After all, one could always divorce after getting married. Even though it would mean losing the Vosloda Emblem, by then Sonia would have undoubtedly accumulated great wealth and moved her mother’s residency to Jiale City. The divorce would affect none of her benefits or even her reputation—noble divorces are common affairs, and everyone generally accepts them without much thought.
But even after Felix outlined the advantages and disadvantages, Sonia still declined the proposal.
He could not understand why the clever and worldly Sonia would reject such a mutually beneficial proposal.
Interest, status, fame—weren’t these what she wanted?
Could it be that she was so confident that she could achieve everything through her own abilities in just a few years?
Or did she look down on me, Felix, and wasn’t interested in taking the so-called shortcut?
But since plan one failed, Felix could only suggest plan two: splitting the treasure.
Although the treasure was an inheritance left to him by his mother and, in theory, should not be shared with anyone else, regaining the “Slaughter Sword” wasn’t entirely impossible. Felix could have left the treasure for the future.
But Felix knew that everything in the world has an expiration date.
The restrictions placed on his mother’s inheritance were specifically to help Felix.
Whatever treasures he could open would provide massive assistance at his current stage, ensuring that Felix wouldn’t obtain power he couldn’t control.