Cheat Awakening

Chapter 389. Business Talks

BANG!

"Lewis!"

Elsa, fuming from the interruption amid their serious discussion, saw Sylphy flip the table which fell directly on Lewis's head and felt her heart skip a beat. After all, one of the two people who was crushed under the heavy table was the most important person in her life.

She rushed towards Lewis with all her strength, worry etched on her face. With an eye-opening display of raw strength, she single-handedly threw aside the heavy table, before frantically moving the scattered papers. Suddenly, a shirt collar peeked out from beneath the debris. With eyes full of anxiety, she grabbed the collar and pulled, expecting to see Lewis.

However, a frail old man with a pained expression emerged instead.

Seeing the source of all the trouble, though Elsa wanted to blast this old geezer, she restrained herself, remembering his status and past deeds. Instead, she merely tossed him aside like a rag doll and began searching for Lewis, whom she found a few seconds later.

"Are you alright, Lewis? Did you get hurt? Should I call a healer?" Elsa bombarded him with questions after giving him a light hug and letting out a sigh of relief.

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Initially, Lewis wanted to brush off the incident as minor, but seeing her extremely worried expression and noticing that she didn't even call him "Clan Leader" as usual, a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth involuntarily. He decided to tease her a bit.

After all, it was a rare occurrence for the normally stoic Elsa to display any emotion besides seriousness in front of him in recent years, and always remain calm no matter what happened.

"Elsa, I think my head is injured," He said with a fake painful expression. "I urgently need a full body checkup; otherwise, what would I do if I became a fool like my elder sister? I can't live with an empty brain for the rest of my life..."

"Hey! Who are you calling empty-headed? Just because Elsa's here with you, doesn't mean I can't beat you up!" Sylphy, a vein throbbing on her forehead at her younger brother's insult, stormed towards him while rubbing her fist.

If my suspicions are correct, many of our previously stalled projects could finally come to fruition." Tuchikava's excitement grew with each word, and by the time he finished speaking, he had already pocketed all four of the ores with different properties that Myne had unearthed from the hell dimension with great effort while waiting for Lewis' go-ahead to make a mad dash for the lab.

"Ahem, Mr. Tuchikava, could you please put those ores back down? They aren't our property yet, and someone might get the wrong idea," Lewis stated knowingly, his gaze glancing towards Sylphy. She was eyeing Tuchikava with clear disgust, her hand hovering over the chair arm beside her.

The moment Tuchikava dared to get up from his place with the ores, she wouldn't hesitate to smash the chair over his head. After all, her first impression of this crazy old geezer wasn't exactly favourable.

"Ah, my apologies! I was simply carried away by excitement. Please don't misunderstand me, Your Highness," Tuchikava stammered noticing Sylphy's reaction, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. He hastily retrieved all four ores from his robe pocket and placed them on the table before resuming his seat like a scolded child.

He then began scribbling in his notebook again, while eagerly awaiting Lewis to finalize the deal.

"So, Sis, before we discuss the pricing, could you tell me where you acquired them? If possible, I'd be interested in buying the mine itself. I'm willing to offer a 25% share of all the profits generated from it," Lewis, the ever-generous super big shot, didn't disappoint Myne and Sylphy.

As soon as business talk began, he immediately presented a deal so good it would be hard to refuse unless someone was wrong with the other party head.

Sylphy sighed and started playing her role according to Myne's instruction. "You're overthinking it. Do you truly believe I have the ability to unearth such peculiar minerals, something even geniuses like you are unaware of? These are remnants Myne left behind before he went missing.

He originally intended to visit you in a few days to discuss them, but you know what happened later, and it slipped my mind as well. It only recently resurfaced in my memory, so I came to you hoping to secure some funds to restart our clan's construction work. You know that place holds great importance for Aisha and me, and we had no intention of giving up on it"

With that explanation, Sylphy opened her storage bag and began extracting the remaining ores Myne had given her. There were four distinct types of orbs in total: Arcane Prismalith (13), Spectral Voidshade (2), Frostfire Frostcore (1), and Aetherium Stargleam (1).

These were all previously mined by Myne, and now they were poised to bring him a significant fortune, of course, only if Lewis could really understand their true value.

"These are all I have, and this is some of the information Myne left behind. Perhaps it can help you understand their properties." After handing over the parchment containing Myne's written appraisal of the four ore types, Sylphy fell silent, patiently waiting for Lewis' decision.

Tuchikava, practically itching to research these unknown ores, naturally couldn't remain calm at the sight of readily available information. He scurried behind Lewis and began devouring the parchment with wide eyes, fearing he might miss a word and suffer a substantial loss.