Chapter 1355: Maybe… She Simply Doesn’t Like Us
After five years, Ten Kings Palace had lost all its great halls again.
The representatives from the top 10 tribes gathered in front of the ruins. They stared at one another in an awkward silence as they watched the injured personnel being carried out of the ruins.
“I heard Irina should be in Chaos City now, right?” a pale vampire asked in a hoa.r.s.e voice.
“I wouldn’t be surprised wherever she chooses to appear. It was just like how she suddenly appeared on Carapace Island, demolished the Ten Kings Palace, and emptied the gold vault five years ago,” an elderly spatial demon said in a low voice.
All the demons’ expressions became aggrieved and angry upon hearing that.
“But she had already emptied the vault and demolished five great halls earlier. Why did she come back to demolish the remaining five again today? Why is she so unreasonable?” a fear demon commented aggrievedly like a little girl who was bullied.
The other demons were furious too. They didn’t understand why the other five halls were demolished too. There was no other valuable stuff in the Ten Kings Palace anymore.
“Maybe… she simply doesn’t like us,” a demon standing at the periphery mumbled softly.
All the demons descended into a silence again. This excuse was so reasonable that they had no way to refute it.
“What should we do now? Irina is targeting our Ten Kings Palace again and again. She kills, burns, and robs without any regard for us, the top 10 tribes. Let’s declare war on the elves, otherwise I won’t be able to resolve my hatred!” a s.h.i.+varra said angrily.
A few demon representatives agreed instantly. They couldn’t stand the fact that Ten Kings Palace was demolished twice.
“Irina is no longer the princess of the elves now. Wouldn’t we be helping her if we go and attack the elves?” A vampire smirked.
“Furthermore, even though we all think Irina is the culprit, has anyone seen her with their own eyes? Did she leave behind any obvious evidence? If not, how could we say she has done it?” that vampire continued.
All the demons quieted down gradually. Now, they really had no idea how to avenge themselves. They could only continue to feel aggrieved.
“Since the Ten Kings Palace has already been demolished, I need to go back to report the situation to my tribe. As for whether we are going to continue to set up an office on Carapace Island, this will be decided by my tribe.” A pair of black wings appeared behind the vampire. He flapped his wings and quickly disappeared on the dark horizon.
“Cowards. We can’t depend on them.” The abyss demon spat toward the back of the vampire before speaking to the rest of the demons, “We, the abyss demons, are not going to let Irina off easily. We’re going to make her pay for what she did!”
“That’s right. We, the s.h.i.+varras, are not going to take this lying down, either. We don’t care who she is!”
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The destruction of Ten Kings Palace obviously became the most important matter on Carapace Island.
However, to the majority of the demons, such matters didn’t concern them at all. As long as the Ten Kings Palace’s protective amulets still worked and Carapace Island hadn’t sunk into the sea, the most important matter to them every day after they woke up was to earn money so they could save enough money to buy one protective amulet before the next month and continue to live a little more safely.
Earning money had never been easy on Carapace Island, so survival had become a difficult task too.
However, a saying “Catch crayfish if you wanna get rich” began to spread on Carapace Island recently. 50 copper coins for one crayfish became the latest get-rich-quick shortcut for the demons on Carapace Island.
Apparently, there were already demons who had earned thousands or even tens of thousands of copper coins within the two, three days. This was something unfathomable to the majority of the demons.
Therefore, even though the Ten Kings Palace had begun to conduct a rigorous search on the island, it still didn’t dampen the fishermen’s enthusiasm. The beaches were crowded with demons, and everyone was looking under every rock that a crayfish could hide. Some even jumped into the sea to search for them.
And Mag, who’d created this craze, was writing an announcement in his study as soon as he woke up in the morning.
“Are you planning to share the recipes of the crayfish?” Irina, who appeared out of nowhere to stand behind Mag, asked with astonishment after she glanced at the announcement on the desk.
“Yes. Enjoying happiness alone is not as happy as sharing it. The demons and inhabitants on Carapace Island and the Demon Islands would not be able to enjoy the crayfish after we left. How pitiful is that.” Mag nodded with a smile.
“You have never wanted to share any of your recipes when we were in Chaos City,” Irina said suspiciously.
“We have to earn money in Chaos City. I’m taking that I am doing charity here.” Mag smiled and put down the pen. He looked at the words that he had deliberately written with an ugly handwriting. The content was very simple. From today onward, he was going to recruit 10 apprentices and teach them how to cook crayfish. The teaching period was three days, and the charge was 500 copper coins.
The 500 copper coins were only collected for show and to eliminate those people who wanted to register for fun. Moreover, he was still going to do a selection for these 10 apprentices. He wasn’t going to take in any Tom, d.i.c.k, and Harry.
According to his agreement with the system, he needed to raise the crayfish’s prestige, and ensure the demons on the Demon Islands would maintain the habit of eating crayfish.
Now, the crayfish’s fame was already slowly spreading on Carapace Island. However, in order to maintain the popularity or increase its influence, the crayfish had to form a certain level of industrial cl.u.s.ter effect. Having more crayfish restaurants on Carapace Island was the simplest way.
8 am, which was time to purchase the crayfish in bulk again, arrived. Mag went out with the announcement, and he, too, got a shock when he saw a line hundreds of meters long. There were at least 500 demons lining up at the door. Was everybody joining in the beachcombing craze?
Mag stuck the announcement on the door before purchasing the crayfish as usual.
Kitar had only caught 20 crayfish last night as there were simply too many demons catching crayfish throughout the night, and he felt as if there were more demons than crayfish. He only managed to catch a few after he ventured to further locations based on his previous beachcombing experience. After receiving Mag’s money, he curiously asked, “What did you write on that, Boss? I’m illiterate, so could you please tell me about it?”
Many fishermen were also looking at Mag curiously. Literate demons on Carapace Island were rare.
“I intend to recruit 10 apprentices to a.s.sist me in the crayfish restaurant. Of course, I will be teaching them how to cook crayfish,” Mag explained smilingly.
“Will we be paid for doing this?” a demon asked.
“If you are selected, you will have to pay me 500 copper coins as school fees.” Mag nodded.
“We still have to pay?” All demons lost their interests upon hearing that. They could already buy a protective amulet with 500 copper coins. Being an apprentice here wouldn’t bring money, and they still had to pay money instead. They might as well use this time to go catch crayfish, and they could easily earn 100-200 copper coins for a few of them.