Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

After a simple greeting, Yang Yu invited everyone to lunch and started talking to Glantham about the Hall of History.

Corola was beside them, thinking that Yang Yu and the others must have only reached the fourth or fifth floor and appeared here early because they couldn’t continue ahead.

When she heard Yang Yu say they had already reached the tenth floor but failed to acquire the Holy Sword, her first reaction was that Yang Yu must be bragging to the sky.

”You must be joking. Even we can’t strategize that fast, and you’re saying you guys can?” Luo Bei spoke bluntly, directly expressing his disbelief that Yang Yu and the others could strategize up to the tenth floor.

Facing Luo Bei’s disdain, Yang Yu calmly described the content and strategies for each floor in detail.

Reality felt like a series of resounding slaps on Luo Bei’s face, causing his face to swell completely.

Everything Yang Yu described matched exactly with what Dragon God’s Might had experienced and the details they had observed.

When Luo Bei saw the diary collected by Yang Yu and his team, he completely broke down: ”How is this possible? We have so many people here, yet we haven’t completed the strategy for the Underground Maze. How did you all...”

Gushan patted Luo Bei on the back, smiled at him, and carried him away, advising him not to embarrass himself further in front of everyone.

Yang Yu wasn’t intentionally trying to show off; he even withheld some information, not mentioning that they gave up the Holy Sword to collect all the pages and actively refreshed the Underground Maze.

”Reaching the last floor required a bit of luck.

The previously strategized Underground Mazes also taught me a lot.

If we had to brute force every floor, we wouldn’t have reached the tenth floor so easily.

We would have been far behind you all.”

Glantham leafed through the diary from beginning to end and returned it to Yang Yu, asking:

”Are you staying here for any particular reason? Do you have something you need from us?”

Yang Yu smiled broadly, ”I’ve accumulated some Legendary Equipment here that I can’t use. With your Dragon God’s Might having such strong foundations, could you trade us some equipment that suits us better? We wouldn’t mind a two-for-one trade.

Additionally...when we were strategizing the Hall of History, we learned about a prize pool in the Underground Maze with a skill scroll known as Taunt.

I wonder if that skill is in your possession?”

Glantham tilted his head towards Corola, who managed their treasures, and Corola shook her head, indicating they hadn’t obtained such a skill scroll.

Linglu Huakai keenly sensed something and took out a Crystal Ball, saying, ”It seems that aside from us, another S-Class adventure group has gathered enough keys to enter and strategize in the Hall of History. Should I investigate which possible S-Class adventure groups they might be?”

Yang Yu smiled at Glantham, ”Would Mr. Glantham agree? I’d be willing to offer compensation for this.”

”How about giving us the diary in exchange?” Glantham responded.

Yang Yu made no concessions, ”Could we trade something else? I’ve been interested in analyzing these pages and deciphering their writings for quite some time.”

”If you give it to us, it might be easier to figure out what’s written there,” Glantham proposed.

”Rather than letting you find out, I’d rather understand what’s written through my own efforts. You should have plenty of pages, and with your skills, it shouldn’t be hard to reconstruct a full diary, right?”

”True, but it’s rather troublesome.”

Yang Yu offered a compromise first: ”If you can agree to help with the investigation, I wouldn’t mind giving you the diary, provided I can keep a copy for myself. With your skills, making a copy on-site shouldn’t take too long.”

Glantham agreed to Yang Yu’s compromise: ”Deal. Linglu, contact our intelligence network; Corola, make a copy of the book.”

Yang Yu continued negotiating with Glantham, eventually getting him to agree to all his requests.

Yang Yu also took this opportunity to mention the issue of the warships. Hearing that Yang Yu had wrecked two warships, Corola, who was about to copy the pages, almost fumed in anger.

Even if Yang Yu settled the compensation on the spot with various items, Corola was still determined that next time she lent anything to Yang Yu and his team, she would be much more cautious.

Seeing Corola make copies of the pages, Gordon, the leader of Red Blood Rose, also boldly asked for a copy, showing interest in the writings.

With Yang Yu’s consent, Corola directly made two copies of the page’s text.

In truth, it was just a matter of arranging magic power in the style of the writing and imprinting it onto the pages using magic power, as if printing.

This process was quite tedious and required concentration, but for Corola, it was a trivial task to copy the text.

She only spent two hours completely replicating two identical diaries.

Glantham returned the original to Yang Yu since the diary was their prize, and taking it would have been inappropriate.

His earlier words had a probing tone.

Glantham gradually sensed the unique quality of the young man before him.

It wasn’t just luck that they had strategized through the Underground Maze so swiftly.

This man before him was undoubtedly pursuing something as well.

As Corola finished copying the book, Linglu Huakai had already gotten the results of the investigation:

”According to our intelligence network,

in addition to us, there truly are other S-Class adventure groups that have gathered enough keys.

It’s an S-Class adventure group active across multiple countries known as Dark Charm.

Several months ago, their movements suddenly ceased. The last time they appeared, they visited another S-Class adventure group that also completed the Lux Underground Maze, likely when they gathered the keys.

Recently, they reemerged, and they are also in Serti.”

Before Linglu Huakai could finish, Wanjing Zhuhua took out a Crystal Ball:

”Speaking of Dark Charm, while we aren’t exactly close, we somewhat know them. Let me contact them, and you can verify for yourselves.”

Wanjing Zhuhua casually handed the Crystal Ball to Yang Yu.

The Crystal Ball quickly displayed the image of a slightly mature, black-haired female elf who looked surprised to see Yang Yu:

”I was wondering who it was. Should I call you Potato Thorn or Yang Yu? Maybe it doesn’t matter. Why have you suddenly contacted me?”

Yang Yu came straight to the point and asked if they had acquired a skill called Taunt.

Black Reina thought for a moment and responded, ”Yes, I think there was a skill like that. You’ve come a bit late. I’ve already packed those items and handed them to the Chaoyang Chamber of Commerce. It might be challenging for you to find that skill now.”

At this moment, Gordon also fetched a Crystal Ball: ”When it comes to people from the Chaoyang Chamber of Commerce, I know quite a few as they are one of our collaborators.

To think, the first time I encountered you was due to the Chaoyang Chamber of Commerce...”

Yang Yu was still wondering why the name Chaoyang Chamber of Commerce seemed familiar until Gordon mentioned it. Then it dawned on him - wasn’t this the same Chamber of Commerce where he went looking for Iyas’s brother, the one known for trading slaves?

”I’m counting on you,” Yang Yu said thick-skinned.

Gordon’s Crystal Ball soon revealed an exceptionally beautiful orange-haired girl who flashed an incredibly charming smile, ”Prince Gordon, what instructions do you have for Liu Li?”

”Here’s the thing...”

Gordon recounted the events, and Liu Li quickly reached out to her family members to confirm the skill Yang Yu had mentioned, providing an answer in under an hour:

”Prince Gordon, we recently indeed received such a skill and auctioned it off.

Regrettably, that item has already been purchased.”

”Who bought it?”

”The Krengris family.”

Another unknown family emerged.

Where could they find this family?

Just as Yang Yu was contemplating this, Sena, who had somehow moved beside Lotcar, straightened up:

”Speaking of the Krengris family... I know them...”

Yang Yu silently frowned.

It felt like, if he successfully acquired Taunt, he would owe a lot of favors...

Maybe, he should just give up on getting Taunt...