Arrivals 2

Not getting any response from the beauty showing her back to him when walking into the next room, Xiao Fan himself realised it might not be bad at all to just lay in bed and say to be recovering from a breakthrough.

So without further thinking, he answered whoever was knocking his rooms door ¨Who is there?¨ Like anyone would.

¨Is Xiao Fan inside?¨ Came a man's voice from the other side of the closed door.

¨Yes. You are speaking to him right now. What do you want?¨

And like they had thought it was the representative to one of those two superpowers; however, it was from the one Xiao Fan wasn't so fond of.

¨I have come here as a representative of the Bald Eagle Dynasty my name is Han Bai¨ The person behind the door introduced himself

Xiao Fan in the bed got small shivers from hearing someone from that nation had come to see him.

Even if they didn't know about him being the prison escapee, he didn't feel too good about joining nor mingling with the Bald Eagle Dynasty.

If possible, he would prefer to join the Liang Dynasty as not to have anything to do with the bald eagle dynasty, though this had the downside making finding his parents harder.

However, finding them would be feasible in a few years when he had the power to dictate what he wanted.

¨Xiao Fan greets the representative! But please wait for a moment there I have something I have to take care of before letting you in¨

The man listening to Xiao Fan on the other side of the door didn't think anything special about this.

The person he was speaking to was a genius alchemist, and surely he wouldn't be slacking for a moment if he had achieved inventing Greenheart at his age.

So he thought that he was going to hide his equipment and then let him in.

¨Then I'll wait for some time, but don't take too long¨

He would adhere to his request, but being the representative of Bald Eagle Dynasty, one couldn't make him wait for too long.

No more words were exchanged between the two after that.

Xiao Fan placed himself so that he was leaning on a large pile of pillows, looking like he was sick, but would still do his best to welcome any visitor.

Then when Du Lan came back dressed and with light makeup, he waited for her to get a chair next to the bed and then let the representative in.

Han Bai hearing them letting him in a timely manner wouldn't do anything special and came striding into the room.

Where a man was laying on his bed, and next to him, a beautiful woman was sitting on a chair.

Meanwhile, Xiao Fan and Du Lan also assessed this man who had come in.

The man was very standard build and wore administrative clothing, stroking his beard and assessing them back.

Han Bai was a low-level missionary in Bald Eagle Dynasty whose promotion into the mid ranks were tied to recruiting Xiao Fan during this mission.

If the mission was successful, he would gain an increase in rank while losing Xiao Fan means losing the possibility to rank up forever.

He was here to do his absolute best.

When he noticed Xiao Fan laying down, he already had his opening statement ready

¨First of all congratulations for your recent breakthrough¨ He praised the man he was trying to invite to join his side.

Xiao Fan after a thank you spoke to the man, who was holding his black beard in one hand the entire time

¨What for has the Bald Eagle Dynasty come looking for me? Is there a problem with your Greenheart?¨

¨How could there be something wrong with an invention you have made? Moreover, I haven't come for that. I have come for another proposition¨

¨Then let us hear it¨ Xiao Fan replied, faking out an impression that he was somewhat intrigued about their offer.

Since who wouldn't be interested in hearing a proposition from the Bald Eagle Dynasty?

¨As you know during this tournament people will be recruited by different parties and people...¨ He stated the obvious things.

Before going to the point.

¨However, the Bald Eagle Dynasty has felt that what you can offer to my nation is worth us coming to you. And offering a deal that would allow you to join us before the end of the tourmant¨ Han Bai spoke about his intentions in a very straightforward manner.

¨Im interested let us hear the offer Bald Eagle Dynasty has sent with you¨ He kept on the fake interest.

Han Bai seeing Xiao Fan being interested in his offer, calmed his anxiety a little and then continued.

¨The list is long, so I will give you the paper where everything is included¨ Han Bai spoke and got out a scroll that should contain the offer he was offering.

¨ I'll see to it today¨ He stated and then glanced at Du Lan ¨Du Lan could you get the offer for me¨

Du Lan, who hadn't been talking at all didn't reply anything and so quietly got up and received the scroll from Han Bai.

¨Thank you for your time, and if that doesn't interest you, the Bald Eagle Dynasty will still always be open for you¨ Han Bai said and left the room.

When Han Bai had left the room, Du Lan excitedly jumped onto the bed next to Xiao Fan and started opening the scroll.

¨What do you think will the Liang Dynasty give us a better offer or is this the best one?¨ Xiao Fan asked her a question on the side.

While saying so, she was still opening the scroll that was like Han Bai had said a lengthy one.

It was over a meter long.

Still opening it more, she responded ¨I think the Bald Eagle Dynasty has the better offer; however, as I know your past we might not want to go there¨

¨Hmm¨ Xiao Fan nodded.

When the scroll was finally opened, they could start reading the offer from the first clause they had made.

First, it talked so many good things about Xiao Fan that he didn't even know so many positive things about himself.

And then it began telling what he would receive under the Bald Eagle Dynasty's banner if he would join their research team.

The first thing was, of course, a load of money that Xiao Fan didn't need anymore.

Then there were things about how his cultivation would be raised over the years, up to the Body Reunion realm before his death.

Furthermore, they also promised lucrative housing, security, research material, and even benefits to all his descendants in the form of a title and a piece of land.

The terms they were giving covered his offspring almost as much as it was covering Xiao Fan's life.

With this, he would be a midlevel lord and the title would be inheritable by his sons or daughters, and they would also have benefits when going to school.

All in all, the offer was one that no one should decline from if they were sane, except Xiao Fan.

Who after reading through the list of things that had also included some restricting things threw the offer off the bed not giving it another look.

On the other hand, Du Lan kind of wanted to pressure him into accepting this one since it guaranteed them to live a life of abundance.

¨You sure about not accepting that one?¨ She said, looking at the parer thrown into the corner of the room.

She knew his worries, yet it was tempting.

¨Although everything seems excellent on that paper I still don't want to go there if there is someplace else offers something even close¨

Then getting her to look at him, he reasoned his thinking a little.

¨Moreover, you know that us getting a middle-level position in an empire is not at all where we can reach¨ He smiled.

¨Okay, I might have been too greedy when seeing all the benefits, yet you do have a point¨

By now she had read some stuff inside his two books which she found just as fantastic.

And from reading them, she now knows that they shouldn't be aiming for any other spot lower than Emperor and Empress.

¨We will now wait for the other offers to start pouring¨ He stated and begun to discuss other important things surrounding them.

The very same day, other offers came asking for the same thing, and like they had thought the Liang Dynasty sent one to him.

However, the contents of the offer were something he wasn't expecting.

For unlike the other superpower the Liang Dynasty was only offering a tittle without land and spots to join their Royal Institue.

It was very cheap...

As if the Bald Eagle Dynasty's offer was a well-fed pig, the Liang Dynasty's offer was a bone of the pig and there wasn't even a piece of skin coming with it.

The only thing good in it was that unlike the Bald Eagle Dynasty's offer was that in the Liang Dynasty's proposal, zero things were binding him to them.

He would be taken into the Royal Institute, have a title of nobility, nothing else.

The rank in court they were giving him didn't even state that he would be forced to defend the Dynasty.

In simpler terms, he would be an autonomous lord inside the nation.

This did make the offer rise his opinion concerning joining the Liang Dynasty.

There was also the thing if he would ever want to go against the Bald Eagle Dynasty would there be no other choice than the Liang Dynasty.

Well, he could become guerilla, demonic cultivator, or other things, but those took way too long.

Du Lan, on the other hand, was much more against joining the Liang Dynasty, stating how much it had suffered during the last ten or twenty so years.

Stating things like how they had spent most of their resources yet gaining nothing, or that they were lead by a woman.

Which was weird to hear, for Du Lan was a woman, but she considered that woman leading a country made it weak?

Hearing about these things, it came obvious to him that studying the two dynasties had also been on her to-do list.

From what she then knew was that the bald Eagle Dynasty was the leading one, but if one was talking about confronting the Liang Dynasty, they might win, yet it would be a pyrrhic victory.

Discussing it, they decided to talk more with the representatives and see more of their stance.

They also had to account the other offers that were from people with power.

For example, there was an offer from a rogue master that was in the Body Limit realm to take him as his disciple.

Another offer was from a Reunion realm rogue master, who was a hailed as one of the wisest men in Ohin Continent was also interested in him.

Even a conglomerate spanning into both Dynasties sent him an offer that offered a position on their board and so much money that Xiao Fan had troubles reading the zeros.

Yet none of them hadn't been accepted by the time Xiao Fan and Du Lan were walking into the tournament venue for their testing before the tournament's first-round would start.

The first round would be a massive battle royal including almost a thousand participants that had entered the tournament.

Due to the sheer size of it, it would be held outside the city walls in a way that the viewing stands had been built onto the walls, and the battle itself would be taking in the slums.

This did mean that the poor people had been mostly cleared from the premier, and so it should be ready to be devastated by hundreds of battles starting at the same time.

When they were walking Du Lan was reporting about the first round for the last time to him.

Telling everything she knew, they arrived at the testing venue that was held in front of the massive gates that let people in and out of Hangzhou.