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Book 12 Qin Yu – Chapter 6 Battle For Control
+Previously on Stellar Transformations+
The clan leader of the Liu family had paid Qin Yu a visit, they’d wish to acquire his cooperation as an honoured guest to the fao to the deo Bay star ave thein return…
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The ancestor in question was Liu Ming Han, who at thislook He turned back to face Qin Yu and wore an embarrassed smile, “This request…I will explain it It’s true, Mister Qin, we do have a request But to ask of such…could be preposterous”
Qin Yu furrowed his brows, too much to ask?
If it is truly too lint flashed across his eyes, he knehy the foroods frohed dryly, “Mister Liu and Liu clan leader, I’m aware of my oers If I can help then I will, but let me be frank, if I cannot complete it, then it cannot be done”
“Of course, that’s obvious” The clan leader quickly replied
“Yun Lu, just be frank about it now” Ming Han gestured to the clan leader
“Yes, great ancestor” The fellow nodded, then asked, “This request is about the battle for control of the Teleportation Arrays This contest or battle is held every once a century, in a decade, the saain Mister Qin, please help us – Liu clan, claim control of the teleportation array”
Lines of confusion was shown as Qin Yu frowned, “Speak clearly, what is this battle for control over the teleportation arrays?”
The clan leader hurriedly apologised, “My apologies, I said it in a rush The situation is like this: each planet hasa teleportation array, the aly high nureat families have to compete for control over these teleportation arrays Only the triu family would have complete control over the arrays for the next century until the next contest”
Qin Yu pondered and understood, “Hm, I understand Now, I have a question for you too, how et of the three fah that the fellow paused for a moment “Liu clan leader, you do not have to answer my question, if you do not wish to I know…this question is a little too insensitive and blunt”
Ming Han gestured the clan leader to withdraw, “Don’t mind it at all Allow me to answer I see froht or cared that the clan would invest in gaining that ht?”
An aard s Han nodded, he already knehy Qin Yu asked such a question “Mister Qin, all you see, on the outside, our clan is bountiful and splendid, but underlying such large clan money is needed You do not see how uards, as well as the e annual expenditure! So hed, but continued, “In ter of the Liu clan, our revenue is only slightly above out expenditure each year For exauest of the clan It required one honoured guests’ token of authority, which is made and refined from precious ores worth ten thousand Then there’s the Voice Transfer Talisman bead worth about a hundred thousand, but it is rarely found in the market, so another more secretive method of acquisition had to be used That bumped the cost up to about three hundred thousand And finally, the ten high grade holy elemental stones which costs at least ten thousand This all adds up to several hundreds of thousands There also the yearly pay…” Qin Yu at last comprehended the situation Those several hundreds of thousands equate to several hundreds of thousands of low grade holy eleuest In our fae experts that have upkeep, and there are still tens of thousands of our disciples and children…Tell hed in mock horror, “In the immortal plane, for anyone to earn holy elemental stones, you need can do it in tays: one is byprecious spiritual herbs; the otherthe toll of any interstellar trader as they come here via the teleportation array The second reatest amount of revenue”
Qin Yu was silent after the elder’s e clan: if they did not e in business and did not control the planet’s teleportation array There wouldn’t be ive their services to that fauests But the least of their worries, with no holy elemental stones, how can the disciples and children of the fa rate would be extremely slow If the family eaken like that then other external powers could easily overrun the fae clan is really difficult”
His own Qin Clan had absolute military and economic superiority, and also they were the royal clan in the past, so loyalty within its population is relatively high There wouldn’t befrom its territories In this way, his Qin clan was the pinnacle of supre as the status quo is maintained, there wouldn’t be a problem
His family had it easy, because the competition wasn’t so fierce
In the ie and more powerful Not to mention theat the top of the Mystic Ie They would have to compete with other similarly powerful experts in the Devil and Demon realms Similarly, smaller local powers like Liu clan have to compete with two other fahts, he looked up at Ming Han “Mister Liu, please continue”
Ming Han gave his consent through his look, “Mister Qin, you asked me how much assets our family has? I will tell you As of present, our farade holy elerade ones? That’s about a hundred top grade stones
“Take this scenario: if there wasn’t any revenue, this hundred million would only last our family for one hundred years And do you knothe teleportation arrays for a hundred years?” Ming Han directed the question at Qin Yu “This…I afraid I do not know”
In fact, Qin Yu did not have the faintest idea how much inter-planetary teleportation tolls would cost, let alone how much the receiver of tolls would earn in a hundred years
The asker’s eyes shone with visible light “To use this planet’s teleportation array, the toll for the nearest planets is around four to ten low grade stones Further out, it would be about a hundred, and the furthest one requires about a thousand”
“Excuse me for a moment Mister Liu, how far can this teleportation array allow transfers?”
The fellow laughed withthe seriousness of the situation “How far will it allow transfers to and fro? The furthest distance in within the boundaries of the saalaxy, ha ha”
Qin Yu was stunned He knew the cost would be great, but not this great There were ten galaxies within this Indigo Bay star field, just passing through this star field would cost ten thousand So to go to the demon realm, it would cost hundreds of thousands, if notHan as about to continue, “The daily revenue froh the teleportation, would amount to tens of thousands, which means that’s about ten million a year So over a hundred years, that’s about one billion or so” Ming Han sucked in a sharp breath “Just winning over the control of the teleportation arrays for one hundred years is enough to let us be at ease for a few thousand years” That one billion stones was enough to cover all costs for the Liu clan for a thousand years
“I dare ask, Mister Liu, since the founding of your family, how many times have you controlled these…teleportation arrays?” Qin Yu probed
The fellow’s eyes shifted nervous as if he was somewhat too embarrassed to answer “Howtime – at least few hundred thousand of years! In all our existence, we have gained control over the teleportation arrays……only once!”
“What!? Once, only once?”
Qin Yu was previously only iant meteors “By the Gods! The Liu clan had been around for few hundred thousand years and they had tens of thousands of chances to coained control once…only once???” He couldn’t hide the shell-shocked expression fro on his face, “And there still called one of the three ‘great’ faaped at the elders, ere, indeed, quite e Han avoided his eye contact, sighed and looked up again “Mister Qin, could please notHan had a solemn look about hiained control…that was about a hundred thousand years ago All these years after, e family We’ve tried to do business with minerals, ores and herbs…but alas, over the years, the valuable ores and minerals have depleted! In the later years, we have had thison us!”
The clan leader nodded solemnly as well, “That is exactly it……Mister Qin, as you know, you apprentice – Liu Han Shu, is a low level junior, but if it was a hundred thousand years ago, every child of the Liu clan would receive a yearly stipend of a low-grade holy elemental stone However now, those eleiven to those children who co a suitable rank, will they get those stipends”
The two had spoken with such bitter tone that Qin Yu had nothing much to say