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All Chapters of Kingdom of the Weak: Chapter 421 - Chapter 430
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416. A Visit to the Alchemist Guild
Within the vaunted Alchemy Pavilion, there were different areas with different levels of access. There were areas for conducting business which was open to the welcome public. There were also areas that were forbidden to all but the loyal members of the Alchemist Guild. Above all else, there was a certain residential zone that only the upper echelons of the Guild and the families of their top leaders were permitted to enter. This was called the Inner Sanctum. Every so often, however, a certain young man from a certain leader’s family would have his henchmen haul in an unauthorized guest, usually tied up, unconscious, and/or crippled in terms of cultivation. Such a person had been brought in earlier that day, and locked in a private room, denied care or food until such time as she might yield. But almost nobody knew of it, while those who were familiar with such antics and kept it secret. After all, he was not the only one in the Inner Sanctum with private endeavors or secret
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417. Alchemist Woes
That day, dinner was late. “What’s taking so long?” an angry voice roared. “S-sir... we seem to have run out of food.” “WHAT? What do you mean, we’ve run out of food?!” “T-there’s nothing edible left in the larder...” “Then go buy more! Send out someone to buy some!” “S-sir, the p-petty cash is gone too. We... we need direct authorization to use money from the bank accounts or the treasury...” “WHAT? That’s impossible! How have you been managing this household?!” “I-it wasn’t my fault! It seems... we might have been... robbed.” “ROBBED?!” this came out in a frenzied roar. “Call out the guards! Arm the servants! Somebody is going to pay for this...! In blood!” “Uh... sir...?” there was a pause. “It seems... our armory was robbed too.” That night, the head butler was fired. *** The head butler’s duties fell upon the Deputy Head Butler’s shoulders and the man solved the immediate pro
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418. The End of the Matter
Over the next week, the markets at Scorched Eartch City went crazy. First, there seemed to be a major shortage of pharmaceuticals. Then, the Xue family abruptly began to sell everything they had. A lot of useful basic pills were sold at premium prices. The Alchemist Guild, upon hearing the news, immediately pounced on them and investigated those pills, but it turned all, all of them had been bought legitimately, and clearly found on their own records. The Xue Family was above susicion especially since pills weren’t all they sold. They sold everything! Furniture, houses, shops... even clothing and dishes were sold out in massive yard sales. “Y-you’re moving?!” Mu Hou quailed when he finally managed to meet up with Big Li and Little Li. “The entire Clan?!” “That’s right.” Xue Yueli answered. “B-but why?” “The city is getting too dangerous. The demons are coming, and anywhere highly populated is like a huge buffet for them. We need to go.
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419. Downtime
While Phoebe, Lydia, Sabriane and the other medical crews were rejoicing over the influx of medicine, George was groaning in bed. Every part of his body was aching, and several bones had been broken when they brought him back from his most recent adventure. Sitting next to him was a pile of scrap that used to be his Heavy Frame. It was so badly wrecked, Arnold took one look and immediately gave up on it. On the other side of him from the armor was the one good thing that came out of this whole ordeal; Raven sitting by his bedside, rubbing medicinal ointment into his injured back. This all came about from him trying to play hero several days ago. When Mu Bao was cornered and Mindy took her revenge, he was there to lend a helping hand... Some help he was! A single punch from a robed guy basically shattered his armor. George, refusing to be useless, instantly gave up trying to do any real damage and sought to impede the enemy’s escape, and so spent most of his t
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420. Desire for power
Captain Lance found George moping around after fully recovering from his injuries. “I know that look. It’s the one that says ‘I want to get stronger!’” “What?” George was startled out of his melancholy. “Don’t worry. Everybody goes through such times. Nobody is ever able to breeze through life without facing difficulties. It’s at this point that you pick yourself up and get stronger...” “Strong enough to match... her?” George asked, glancing back the way he was looking earlier. Lance paused and took a look. There was Mindy in the new training area... “Goodness, she’s strong.” She was crippled in terms of cultivation. Her bond-mate had practically died. Yet here she was ignoring the regular systems of using the gym machine by setting specific weights and using the entire machine as a barbell. What does a girl like that need cultivation for? She was already stronger than most martialists below the Earth Qi level. “She used to be
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421. Sneaking Around on Xiao Yan’s World
By that time, the Xue Clan was already selling Mindy’s products to the Grand Luo continent. While the bulk of their family made it safely through the Portal and settled around Kara-Goth, the hundreds of clan members who remained in their homeworld set out across the continent and beyond selling home appliances and small airships built with Qi Formations. It was getting less and less profitable toward the end of the month as competitors suddenly flooded the market practically overnight selling imitation versions of appliances and airships using similar Qi formations, or in some cases, even better Qi formations than what Xiao Yan could manage. To keep growing their businesses the Xue family had to expand their operations to towns and cities farther and farther away. It came to the point that they finally had to call in their lone Sky Qi ancestor for help to bring their trade across to other continents, starting with the Grand Luo Continent. That was why the Grand Luo C
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422. One Month Later
A month passed peacefully.Well, not entirely peacefully. As more and more refugees flooded Fal’Herim and Kara-Goth, many spontaneous conflicts broke out. People fought for food, for resources, for space, for culture, for dignity, for attention, for fun, for the sake of bad tempers, or even for practically no reason at all. The Order of Light had their hands full bringing people in, and the Order of Steel had their hands full keeping them in line while the Order of Sand scrambled about recruiting more and more people to scavenge food in the Wildlands trying to keep everyone fed.Despite their best efforts, halfway through the month, the Xue Clan overshot them in the amount of food brought in. The sheer volume of trade they did in Xiao Yan’s world had risen to well over three billion Black in that month alone. Roughly one billion Black was spent buying food and herbs. The money spent was Mindy’s cut, but the effort was entirely theirs since Mindy herse
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423. Lakes and Fishing
Alani took action very quickly and very decisively. She sent messages and called for a Meet three days later. What happened next was fairly predictable. The big Lord Challengers mocked her, scorned her, teased her for being a weak little human girl, and... BAM! With a howl, one streaked leopard Lord Challenger went flying uncontrollably through the air. POW! “Uwooohh!!” an oversized boar went tumbling down the hill. BOOM! A giant ape was smashed face-first into the dirt. With roars, the rest of the Lord Challengers gathered at the meet all descended upon the little girl with a small turtle floating above her shoulder. KAPOW! WHACK! SLAM! In short order, the whole bunch of Challengers were wiped out, leaving Alani the sole candidate for the Lordship of Seven Lakes. “Congratulations... I guess?” George mustered. “Well done.” Reef told Alani simply. “The Deep Emperor bears witness. From now
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424. Xue and Zhao
At this point, Craggy Falls was really starved for skilled labor. There were plenty of refugees, but the biggest need for labor right now was for solar technicians, and most of those refugees couldn’t tell which way was up when it came to solar panels. They could be trained enough to install panels, if someone techier handled the tricky stuff. The bulk of the installation process had already been dumbed down to plug-and-play by Ermine’s best efforts. Even so, the work was delicate, precise and required the use of late Class 3 tools. Part of that was because Ermine had her autoforges churning out Nanowire Solar Cells designed to absorb the full sectrum of sunlight both visible and invisible. Already they covered roughly half the water surfaces of the Seven Lakes. These were enough to power all the aquaponics pumps and cycling systems, along with some few structures, for lighting and cooling and such. Given that they had spent five million Clira for that tech,
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425. Zhao and Kara-Goth
The plan for the Zhao family to take a quick look and then return failed miserably. It started when the Xue family invited them to go visit Kara-Goth. After all, there was nothing in the Dragon Empire that they hadn’t seen back on their homeworld, most of the human worlds in the Draconian Dominion were similar that way, except maybe for the airships, a legacy of the Quarin. No, the real fun was in the Wildlands! The minute they saw the new Arena at Kara-Goth, every notion of ‘a quick look’ immediately vanished. The Order of Light, the Order of Steel, the Order of Sand, the Adventurers, the Wilds, and even some daring refugees all had different styles of warfare and different kinds of powers, from martial Qi to magic to psionics or sheer brute physical strength. The Zhao easily blended in and took up a few duels and sparring sessions... That did it. They stayed there for the rest of the day and only went looking around the rest of Kara-Goth the next morning. T
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