The cooks, butlers, and maids unloaded large platters onto the table one after another: fresh bread and chowder, sushi, grilled fish, unagi, and fried fish. It was an unthinkable meal for the Sky Plane cultivators, who felt like royalty for the first time.
With Immortal Skye offering the soldiers high-quality spirits to wash down free power gains, Roxy couldn't order them to do anything. Noting the situation, she turned to her host and spoke candidly: "Are you bribing our soldiers with power?"
"I'm not bribing anyone with power—power is all we have," Jake replied coolly. "We have eighty thousand pounds of soul meat. Serving anything else would be a hit to our resources."
A heavy blanket of silence fell on the table, muting even Gabriel.
Mass release ~ (3/5): This chapter is courtesy of MrGibberish for his Massage chair. Means a lot! The inspiration capsules from Cole and Monkyphil, the ghost readers *spooky spooky*, super nice comments from Gothictogo, Jesse_Love's, Darkfundip, and Slackr's golden tickets, Slothhh for his quote review, Adnanavaark because you're so consistent I just feel a need to thank you, and Intermoment, because you left so many comments I thought liking them all would drive you crazy. Thank you! XD