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95.67% Warfare's Ultimate Frontier / Chapter 155: Chapter 224 Li Xin And Li Guang

章節 155: Chapter 224 Li Xin And Li Guang

Even though the entire tournament had finished for quite a few weeks now, the elders and inner circle members of the Sun Alliance were still reviewing everything that had been going on in the tournament to decide who would get what prize. The prize pool that they had were large, far more than what they could ever hope to take in earnings as that was not the point of the tournament. This competition was devised by Sun Tzu himself as soon as he and Zhu Ge Liang rose to prominence to make sure that each generation would be able to be inspired by the previous ones and push them to become more motivated to become strategists.

This was a money-draining endeavor, but such was the price of propelling the entire community towards the future. Though the amount that they sunk into the competition every couple of decades would be astronomical to most other top-earning factions, they were able to do this because they could generate so much revenue to offset these costs. The Sun Alliance was quite a wealthy faction, but if they were compared to many of the other top factions within other communities, they would not even be in the top 100.

Most of these top 100 factions either belonged to the Jordsand faction who were all very powerful and domineering by nature. Or, from other relatively wealthy communities that got to where they were by exploiting their own or others who just so happen to wander into their reach. Many of them were not pleasant to be around and they had no wishes to change the way that they operate as they wanted to stay where they were above everyone else.

The main principle of the Sun Alliance was to never be like these people and instead use their wealth to benefit others of their own community. However, not everyone one of the top brass felt the same way, that was why some of them have become openly corrupt without their leader here.

Li Guang had been aware of all of this while his teacher, Sun Tzu, was here but what could he do but watch as most of these figures were his seniors for now. He had brought this to the attention of his master many times, but he did not do anything. Perhaps Sun Tzu had something up his sleeve, but Li Guang was definitely in no position to doubt his teacher. With that, he let the matter go but not without keeping an eye for the perpetrators.

While all of the elders were busying themselves with placing all of the participants and factions into rankings and special awards, Li Guang decided to pay a visit to Xuan Feng and Lun Hu. Although there were many other geniuses of their generation, he felt the closest to these two specifically. There were certain matters that he knew these two would be able to help him out with and now was a time where he really needed to get some input from other sources.

A problem had been bugging him ever since the aerial portion of the tournament, it was the Bair fighters and their mysterious intentions.

(LG) "What do you two think about the Bair fighters?" Li Guang asked with a depressed mood.

(LH) "They are great strategists, that's for sure. I don't think I have ever seen anyone who was able to outwit so many of our top-tier strategists so effortlessly not to mention all at once as well." Lun Hu said with a sigh.

(XF) "It is definite that they are not strategists from any normal faction. I have been thinking that they must be from the Jordsand community, though I have nothing to back it up." Xuan Feng said nonchalantly.

(LG) "That's just the thing, you two haven't been at the strategist reincarnation deathmatch yet, but I have. I have seen everyone that the Jordsand community has sent out and none of them had this style of warfare. I took the liberty of trying to remember every little thing about the Jordsand community that I had a brief encounter with. They were certainly powerful, much more powerful than the Bair fighters I'd say, but something is just not right."

(LH) "Look, even if there is something that isn't right, you must understand that they have already left. There is nothing we can do now to them even if we wanted to."

(XF) "Correct, do you remember that battle we had with Baron? The one where the Bair fighters first used their weird contraption to rain explosives down on us?"

(LG) "I have heard of it. That must have been quite an ordeal. To have won the battle and immediately get pounded by another unseen enemy right after."

(LH) "Yes, what of it?"

(XF) "I have heard that the gambling house reports of one of the Sun Alliance members striking it super-rich."

(LG) "Oh? Who is it?"

(XF) "Supposedly, it was someone by the name of Li Xin?"

(LG) "HIm? What did he bet on?"

(XF) "That battle I just mentioned? He bet that Lun Hu, Jie Zi Fang, Jiang Yan, and my combined army would lose close to half of our numbers before we won."

(LH) "Hold on, they weren't able to deal that much damage to us though."

(XF) "Let me finish. With the help of the Bair fighters, he got it pretty close to the actual number of casualties. This was a technicality, but he is now 30 million coins richer."

(LH) "What were the odds against him?"

(XF) "From what I heard, almost 2 million to one."

(LG) "I have faced off against Li Xin a couple of times while we were both fresh on planet 4, yet I never took him for someone who was able to have this level of perception. Or perhaps he just got lucky."

(XF) "I would guess the latter as well. Even a child would be able to guess which side to bet on. Yet he actively put in 20,000 coins. Could he have some connection to Baron or Zhang Da Zhi?"

The three of them chatted for a bit longer before finally splitting up to accomplish their own tasks.


章節 156: Chapter 225 Li Xin's Fortune

There were only a few more days until the results of the tournament would be announced and Li Xin had decided to pay Baron and his friends a visit. As soon as he went to their HQ, he was greeted by Baron himself who welcomed him in without a second thought. Though the two of them haven't been with each other all that much, Baron had always held Li Xin in high regard after he took the time to help a lost Baron. Currently, only Baron and Roxi were at the HQ and all the others were busy dealing with their own business. Roxi was still tinkering in her newly made temporary R&D room.

(LX) "So, Baron, I have some rather surprising news that I must tell you. It's about the tournament that you and the others participated in just a few days ago." Li Xin said with a face full of vigor that Baron had never seen him in before.

(BM) "Tell me. I'm dying to know what fortunes you have come across." Baron said while sitting right next to Li Xin.

(LX) "Well, do you remember that time in the tournament that you fought against the all-stars of Lian Po?"

(BM) "I have, they were something that I cannot really touch at the moment. They are way too strong not to mention their insane numbers of troops."

(LX) "Well, there are a lot of betting houses that set up all sorts of gambling opportunities all throughout the tournament. Well, I bet on that battle and it turns out I was the closest in terms of accuracy of my bet and the runner up was not anywhere near where I was so I really made a huge winning this time. I made nearly 30 million gold coins."

(BM) "No way, that's fantastic. What are you going to do with it all?"

(LX) "Well, as a sign of goodwill, I hope you can accept a small gift of a million coins." He said as he handed Baron a sack of many sparkling coins that could contain any amount of coins within it.

(BM) "One million coins is no small sum. Are you sure that you don't have anything else you would rather spend this on?"

(LX) "Not to worry, I spent only 20,000 coins to get 30 million. Quite the investment I would say. If I had lost that bet, then I would have only lost 20,000 I have much more in reserve even without this sum I just won."

(BM) "Why did you think we would be able to take out so many of the all-stars troops when it was mainly the Bair fighters doing?"

(LX) "Well, I don't really want to admit this but I am notoriously bad at gambling and that is why I have only ever been in a bet 5 times before. I lost over 100,000 coins the first 4 times and won 30 million on the fifth time. To be perfectly frank with you, I tend to overthink things and I have a very unique way of getting to a conclusion of a battle that is not very accurate most of the time. This time was the exception, not the rule."

(BM) "Well, that is rather interesting. I think I will accept your gracious gift. After the Grand Auction that the Sun Alliance held decades ago, we haven't really been generating a lot of income so this will be one thing that we will not have to worry about for quite some time."

(LX) "Where is Guan Yu, Yue Fei, the Meng duo, and the other 3?"

(BM) "Our two elders are out trying to up their rank again in the elder rankings. the Meng duo is with the Men of Meng faction doing something that requires all of them, they did not relegate any details to me. The other 3 are in the Australian community trying to get them to force William Bridges back. We hope to split up Wang Yi, Eumenes of Greece, and William Bridges so that we may have a higher chance of winning the aerial portion of the faction selection tournament."

(LX) "Oh, do you think you have a spot for me? Now that I have enough money, I feel that staying with the Sun Alliance will not really benefit me all that much anymore."

(BM) "Of course. Even more so now that you have contributed so much to our treasury. You will always be welcomed here."

(LX) "That is good to hear. I really hope that everything works out and we can be war buddies with each other. Anyway, I have to get going now, I have many things that I have to attend to that cannot wait any longer."

(BM) "Of course. Travel safely."

After this, Li Xin left Baron's HQ and made his way to do whatever he needed to do. Baron then proceeded to where Roxi was to inform her of the good news.

(BM) "Roxi! Good news. We just got a lot more funding."

(RB) "Does that mean that I will be able to train more R&D?" Roxi asked with a bright smile on her face.

(BM) "Yes, it does. I think we will be able to hire a mid-tier R&D specialist even without the help of Madam Zheng. We should still wait a little while longer though."

(RB) "That's fine. I'm content with everything the way it is now. I feel that I'm still in the discovery stages where I have a lot of ideas that I want to try out. Give me a few more weeks and maybe then a teacher is warranted. This isn't my first time doing this I'll have you know."

(BM) "I know. Just be careful and get a breather every now and then. Even if you don't need sleep or food, it will still be mentally taxing to do the same thing for long periods of time."

(RB) "Don't worry about me. I am very happy with where I am right now. Shoo! Let me work in peace." With that Baron left.


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