Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 325: Chapter 150: Gathering the Key Materials for Forging Divine Chosen Weapons and Su Li’s Vast Treasury

Will iron burn a fairy?

Su Li really didn’t know this, so he immediately took off the ring in his hand and handed it to Hilude.

The territory indeed lacked rings, but as the Lord, Su Li still had two perfect-grade runic rings equipped.

Once he removed the iron objects from his hand, he turned to look at this primitive maiden. Though she was only as tall as a four- or five-year-old child, her body was perfectly proportioned with a prominent bust and curves.

Her chest was like two small buns, exceptionally full with graceful curves. Despite her short stature, she had long legs seemingly due to her excellent proportions.

This was truly a perfect legal loli. Fortunately, Su Li wasn’t a lolicon, otherwise a lolicon would likely be stirred to excitement upon seeing her primitive attire, merely a vine and leaves covering her private parts, probably moving the vine aside to begin some thrilling knightly practice with her.

Since Su Li wasn’t interested in lolis and only favored tall, slender-legged women over 175cm, he remained calm and composed.

He said to Vidage, ”Hello, Water Fairy, welcome to relocate to my territory.”

Vidage puffed her adorable cheeks, looked at Su Li, and said, ”Your attitude towards us doesn’t seem very welcoming. We have to pay you humans two laurel gemstones every month. Shouldn’t we coexist peacefully? Why do you oppress us?”

Su Li laughed heartily and said, ”How can this be called oppression? At best, it’s tax. In the Empire, only death and taxes are inevitable. You’ve occupied such a large area of beautiful scenery, building a gem pool as your home. Shouldn’t you give me some feedback as a usage fee?”

Vidage stared wide-eyed at Su Li, asking, ”What about you? Where do you live? Do you need to pay taxes?”

”Me?” Su Li pointed to the giant stone castle and towering spires on the hill outside the forest and said, ”I live in the most strategic castle on the plain outside the mountain slopes. From here to the Gray Mountain Range in the north, it’s all my territory. So I don’t have to pay taxes, but everyone has to pay me taxes.”

”Then why do we have to pay taxes? Clearly, this gem pool was built by myself.”

Su Li could only shrug and say, ”It’s like renting a house. You can decorate it beautifully inside with gems and exquisite artworks, but that doesn’t mean the house or land belongs to you. The land and the house belong to their owner. If you want to use it, you have to pay rent. Do you understand?”

Vidage still shook her head and said, ”I don’t understand what rent is. In our world of water spirits, everyone is like family and we can all live together.”

Su Li suddenly laughed and said, ”Since we’re family, shouldn’t we share our good things? I’ve given you this beautiful area with clear mountains and fresh waters, fragrant with birds and flowers. What do you share with us? Kappa says I’m its best brother, so I’ve shared the three Magic Springs with it.”

Vidage frowned cutely at the somewhat naive Kappa. The big water otter, stretching its round head and neck, not yet understanding what was happening, said curiously, ”Yeah, Vidage, this human is different from other humans, he’s my best bond, and today I’ll take you to the other magic springs to have a look. With his command, those humans with sword and blade won’t chase us away anymore.”

Though Kappa was very capable in the pool, even able to use Water Control Technique to defeat a team of elite knights who entered the water, drowning them in the bottomless pool.

But on land, before it reached the vicinity of the magic spring, an elite knight with a sword and blade could chase it around in a panic, driving it to despair.

As for the Water Fairy Vidage, even mortal iron could burn her, and her combat ability was practically worthless on the shore, scarcely better in the water.

Unwilling to let Kappa be attracted away by Su Li’s three magic springs, she promptly said, ”I am the master of the gem pool, Water Fairy, controller of magic, banisher of metals, and I have many treasures. If you don’t take Kappa away, I can give you five pounds of Ethereum Gold every month. This metal is drawn monthly from the gem pool, settling from the clouds into the pool’s water. I have to banish them to keep them from burning other nature spirits, and if you like them, I’ll give all to you.”

”Ethereum Gold!”

”Ethereum Gold!”

Su Li’s engineering master and dwarf rangers immediately exclaimed in surprise, eyes wide as saucers, a bright blood red, gaze firmly fixated on the slender primitive maiden’s figure on the water surface.

Seeing them seem as though they wanted to devour the girl alive, Su Li knew he had once again stumbled upon a treasure! Ethereum Gold must be incredibly important.

So Su Li asked the dwarf ranger Dorglin behind him, ”My friend, what is Ethereum Gold?”

Dorglin’s loud voice resounded among the hills, startling a flock of waterbirds into flight and scaring a group of small sprites into hiding beneath the leaves.

In an excited and fervent tone, he said, ”Lord, Ethereum Gold, also known as Gronni’s Breath, is an extremely precious metal. It’s lighter than air and distributed in every realm. In its natural state, its density is less than air, so it exists in the form of a corrosive, sparkling gas or gas-liquid mixture above the clouds”