Ultimate Supreme Soldier King

Chapter 1570 1565: Funds Received, Ten Billion

"However...""If I don't kill him, how much money can you put on the table to buy his life back?" Su Chen suddenly changed the topic and said.

This sharp turn was clearly something Harlow Nopheler hadn't anticipated.

He stared blankly at Su Chen and asked, "How much do you want?"

Su Chen raised one finger.

Harlow looked at Su Chen's single raised finger, and there wasn't the slightest hint of hesitation in his eyes. He nodded without a second thought, indicating to Su Chen that there was no problem.

"Alright, we of the Nopheler Family will pay this ten billion."

Su Chen: "..."

Su Chen was a bit stunned at this moment. Ten billion—the Nopheler Family really was overflowing with money.

All of a sudden he even felt a little regretful. He should have raised five fingers just now!

When Su Chen raised one finger, the price he actually intended to name was "one billion US Dollar."

But Harlow mistakenly took it as ten billion US Dollar.

Because the value of Duke Karloki was far from something that could be measured with mundane money.

So even if Su Chen had really asked for fifty billion US Dollar, Harlow Nopheler might only have hesitated slightly before agreeing.

It wasn't that he was unwilling to pay this money; he was mainly considering whether he could raise enough cash, and whether, if necessary, he could use some physical businesses to be estimated and make up the numbers.

But now the price Su Chen named was only ten billion US Dollar, and that sum was well within the Nopheler Family's capacity to bear.

Compared to Duke Karloki's life, this financial loss was negligible. If the Nopheler Family lost Duke Karloki, that would be the real catastrophic loss!

"Once the money's in this account, I'll let him go." Su Chen glanced at Duke Karloki and said.

"Alright." Harlow didn't hesitate at all and immediately instructed the old housekeeper. Ten billion US Dollar was a huge amount, but the Nopheler Family's foundations were anything but ordinary.

In many large multinational corporations, there were figures from the Nopheler Family's external network. So while gathering ten billion US Dollar was somewhat difficult, it wasn't an impossible task for the Nopheler Family; it was just that transferring that much cash would still take some time.

After five minutes of busy work, the full ten billion US Dollar arrived!

"Mr. Su… you can check your account now." Harlow said calmly.

...

"Ding-dong! You have a fund transfer: ten billion!" Only, the unit was US Dollar!

This was one of Su Chen's secret accounts overseas.

Looking at that string of pleasing zeros, Su Chen felt indescribably delighted—he finally had money again!

Ever since he left the Reverse Dragon Group, aside from some "fixed assets" he owned in Heavenly, today could be considered the first time his personal finances had become wealthy again.

Before this, he'd saved up over ten billion, and before he could even enjoy it, that money had been used by his sister-in-law to get him a wife.

It was a bit expensive, but his sister-in-law had used that ten billion to exchange for a wife as beautiful as a flower for him.

After spending so much time together, it would be fake to say Su Chen had no feelings for Lin Xi.

On this point, Su Chen even felt a faint trace of gratitude toward his sister-in-law.

Even though he couldn't understand what his sister-in-law was doing, it didn't stop that complicated love-and-hate feeling he had toward her.

If he ran into Long Lan again, he would definitely draw his blade on Long Lan without any hesitation. He wanted to ask clearly what Long Lan was actually doing, why she had to betray the Reverse Dragon, betray everyone!

No matter what the reason was, Long Lan selling everyone out, shattering the Reverse Dragon Group, and getting the vast majority of members killed—this was something Su Chen might never forgive her for in his entire life.

...

Back to business. Ten billion US Dollar—this was the second time Su Chen had gotten this rich, but money really didn't last. Just with Nishijiu Sharo and Diana's side, Su Chen would have to pay them back one billion US Dollar later. In the blink of an eye, the ten billion US Dollar he just got would lose a tenth, and there was no way he could feel truly happy about that.

Since he'd taken the money, Su Chen naturally had to keep his word. He spared Duke Karloki.

Right now, Duke Karloki no longer had the arrogance he'd shown before, because he had lost to Su Chen.

He still hadn't figured out how Su Chen, with only Saint Realm cultivation—just a Human Clan with first-class Marquis strength—

had managed to break free from the "Silver Cage" and defeat him.

The "Silver Cage" was Forbidden Magic of the Nopheler Family. Its power was so great that even other Bloodline Dukes of the same rank could barely struggle free from it.

In the face of the "Silver Cage," there was only one path: to surrender and be captured.

But not only had Su Chen broken free of the "Silver Cage," he'd even beaten Karloki half to death.

If Su Chen had possessed first-class Duke-level strength, Karloki might not have been so hung up on it.

But now he'd clearly seen Su Chen's strength for himself—it was only Marquis level. So why still wasn't he a match for Su Chen?

His heart was full of humiliation, but he was no match for Su Chen. Inside, Karloki was collapsing.

Especially since Harlow Nopheler had thrown away the Nopheler Family's face to save him. That made him feel even more upset and miserable.

"Alright, now let's go back and talk about that cooperation from before." Su Chen said lightly.

The information the Nopheler Family held was what Su Chen needed. This was also why he was willing to give up killing Karloki.

Karloki was someone he could indeed kill, but if he did kill Karloki, the Nopheler Family might very well refuse to divulge any information about the Werewolves to him.

Now that Karloki was alive, the Nopheler Family naturally felt endlessly relieved.

Su Chen likewise got what he wanted: from the mouth of the Nopheler Family, he learned about the Wolf Clan.

Although the information wasn't very complete, it was already rich enough for Su Chen.

Compared to the Bloodline, the number of Werewolves was much smaller.

Most of their people were hidden among humans.

Before a Werewolf's coming-of-age awakening, most Werewolves were no different from Ordinary People.

If they didn't receive enough external stimulation, some Werewolves might never awaken in their entire lives.

The journey of a Werewolf's awakening was full of accidents and uncontrollable variables.

Sometimes only when their lives were under threat would a member of the Werewolf Clan fully awaken.

After various tests, the predecessors of the Werewolves compiled a whole little manual of methods to identify and verify the existence of the Werewolf Clan.

But this method was extremely troublesome and required a considerable financial cost.

This was something Ordinary People simply couldn't afford.

Yet now, they had obtained the backing of a mysterious force...

Someone wanted to dig deep into the existence of the Werewolf Clan, and Su Chen happened to become one of the people involved. It was just that Su Chen's search for the Werewolf Clan and his efforts to understand news about them were completely forced.

Because the person he needed to find had been forcibly taken away by the Werewolf Clan.