Lord of the Sky City

Upon learning that he was soon to become a millionaire, Rocky was naturally quite excited, but he quickly contained his excitement and immediately set Thunderhawk City back into flying mode, heading straight for Gale City.

He had already agreed with Karina that after sending Wilton to the Sky Alliance, they would meet in Lingyu City. At the same time, considering his friendship with Berg, Rocky decided to set the location for the trade with the Ruby Chamber of Commerce in Lingyu City, ensuring that Lingyu City would earn a significant transaction tax.

Without conversation, a full week passed, and Rocky once again came to the airspace where Lingyu City was located, directly finding both Lingyu City and Rose City among the clouded sky, indicating that Karina had been waiting there all along.

As he took the skyship down to the skyport of Lingyu City, no sooner had he disembarked than he saw Berg, brimming with enthusiasm and with a smile reaching all the way to his ears.

"Rocky! Rocky, the great financier! I finally waited for your arrival!"

As soon as Berg saw Rocky disembarking, he burst into laughter and came up to meet him, then grabbed Rocky's arm, "Rocky, I finally waited for your arrival!"

"Are you waiting for me or the cargo on my ship?"

Due to their heart-to-heart conversation last time, Rocky was very familiar with Berg and wasn't surprised by his exaggerated performance at all, even jokingly asked back.

Unfortunately, Berg didn't care about the joke at all, and instead laughed heartily, "Both the same, both the same! You arrive, the goods arrive, the goods arrive, the money comes, so it's all the same!"

During this conversation, he pulled Rocky into the carriage that had been prepared beforehand and headed directly to his City Lord's Mansion.

"Has Karina arrived?"

"She arrived, long ago."

In the carriage, Rocky naturally asked about Karina only to find Berg showing a pained expression. Not only that, but his frown also bore deep resentment as he almost gritted his teeth, "That woman arrived a week ago!"

"What happened?"

Noticing Berg's aggrieved look, though Rocky had no idea what was going on, he couldn't help but find it funny and quickly asked, very curious.

Once asked such, Berg opened up and began to complain indignantly: "Rocky! Tell me, isn't Karina too much? After she arrived, I treated her well, worshipped her like an ancestor, I almost sent some male pets to serve her, and guess what? This woman didn't consider me one of her own at all!"

"All I did was ask her to share some of the captured robbers with me. Can you believe it? She turned against me on the spot and nearly drew a sword on me. If it weren't for the fact that I had several Void Magic Warriors as guards around me, you might not see me at all now. Can you believe how infuriating that is?"

Sitting across from Rocky, Berg gestured with his hands while speaking, vividly describing how Karina bullied him, with great animation and expressive detail.

Unfortunately, as soon as he finished speaking, Rocky burst into loud laughter, leaning back and forth, his stomach beginning to hurt from it.

In this shrill laughter, Berg's expression grew even more unpleasant, and his facial expression became gloomier, eventually unable to restrain himself from breaking into Rocky's laughter.

"What's so funny!"

With a gloomy shout, Berg rounded his eyes at Rocky, not understanding at all what was so funny about his plight and why it would make Rocky laugh like that.

However, in Rocky's view, he was clearly feigning ignorance!

He actually dared to ask Karina for a share of the captured robbers?

To be honest, after pulling a stunt like that, it's nothing short of a miracle that Berg hadn't been chopped to pieces by Karina. In the operation to annihilate the Wild Horse Air Pirate Group, Karina's only gains, aside from resolving her personal issues, were the captured bandits. Also, it goes without saying how important population is to a City Lord, right?

In such a situation, Berg actually had the audacity to ask Karina to share some of the bandits with him. Isn't that like trying to pull a tooth from a tiger's mouth? It's no wonder Karina wanted to kill him.

Clearly understanding how outrageous his request was, Berg wasn't really trying to get Rocky to judge the fairness of his actions, but rather, to drag Rocky into it; hence, he pitifully said afterward:

"Rocky, tell me, isn't Karina being too unreasonable? You wouldn't do the same, right?"

"What do you mean by that?"

After giving Berg a glance, Rocky raised an eyebrow, and instantly, Berg changed his demeanor, chuckling, "Rocky, I heard from Karina that you got quite some good stuff from the Wild Horse Air Pirate Group's base, so you surely wouldn't forget about me, right?"

"Of course."

With a slight smile, Rocky nodded directly.

"That's fantastic!"

Hearing this, Berg immediately beamed with joy and then eagerly asked, "Rocky! I heard you got a lot of Demon Materials from the Wild Horse Air Pirate Group? That's really great; I urgently need such scarce resources right now!"

"This... you better not think about it."

Seeing Berg so excited, Rocky really didn't have the heart to let him down, but he had to share his plans. He planned to sell the Demon Materials in Eternal City; as for other goods, he had already promised the Ruby Chamber of Commerce to sell it all to them, and Berg's Lingyu City could only get the transaction tax from this deal.

"You, you guys! How could you do this!"

When Rocky had finished explaining his plans, Berg's eyes widened in disbelief: "How could you do the same as Karina! Rocky, you can't be like this. Being a person, you must not be ungrateful!"

"Where have I been ungrateful?"

Berg's accusation was one Rocky was not willing to shoulder. He certainly hadn't been ungrateful. For instance, his current decision involved trading the goods taken from the Wild Horse Air Pirate Group at the Ruby Chamber of Commerce, yet he chose Lingyu City as the venue. This meant that Lingyu City could receive transaction tax for doing nothing – wasn't that his way of repaying them? Discover more content at empire

Back when Rocky had no money, Berg personally took him to the city's skyport to haggle prices, enabling Rocky to refurbish his fleet with limited funds. Rocky hadn't forgotten this kindness, hence his decision. Otherwise, he could have let the Ruby Chamber of Commerce trade directly in his Thunderhawk City without spending a penny, and still collect a transaction tax.

However, Berg clearly didn't see it that way. Subsequently, he looked at Rocky with a sulky face, grumbling, "Ungrateful wretches! Both you and Karina are ungrateful! Have you forgotten my contribution to defeating the Wild Horse Air Pirate Group too!"

"What contribution did you make?"

Upon hearing this, Rocky laughed, as defeating the Wild Horse Air Pirate Group really had nothing to do with Berg.

"I offered you advice and strategies!"

"No, you were just drinking the whole time; it was Karina and I who discussed everything."

"I, I... I cheered you on! Isn't moral support also a form of support!"