Chapter Thirty-Eight: Kotema's Past

"Are you kidding? Memphis, what kind of ridiculous delusion is it that you slaughtered almost all of Sword Furnace and still want me to serve you?"

"I'm not kidding, my dear Master Kotma, you should see the sincerity in my eyes. ”

With that, Memphis's eyes widened, as if he really wanted to show the angry Kirtma the sincerity in his eyes.

It's a pity that Kotma didn't appreciate this, and he didn't even have a lot of interest in looking at it.

"The sincerity of the merchant, this is probably the most ridiculous joke I have ever heard in my life, Memphis, you just said that you would sacrifice all of us as your newfound power, and now you want to spare me and make me loyal to you, and it is clear that I will not believe a single punctuation mark in what you say. ”

Kurtma's sarcastic words were literally slapping Memphis in the face, giving Memphis the urge to kill the damn old man with a magic firebolt.

But when he thought of his grand plan, he forcibly endured this impulse, and continued to persuade Cottma with a pleasant face:

"Why don't you believe it, my dear Master Kotema, we didn't work together well before? I got the benefits I wanted, and you got the opportunity and fame you coveted, and even the final termination was unilaterally enforced by you, not my treachery, and we can work together again, right?"

"Memphis, don't say any more, I won't promise you, you bastard who deceived everyone. Memphis continued to persuade with kind words, and Cotema could roughly feel his so-called sincerity, but as soon as he thought of those familiar people falling under the claws of Memphis and his minions, he did not want to respond to this so-called sincerity at all, "And what do you want this old man of mine to do? Do you forge a sword for you? Can your claws hold the hilt?"

As Cottma mocked, with the recommendation of time, Memphis's hand has begun to change to the claws of low-level devils, although it is still no problem to hold his staff, but if he wants to hold the hilt tightly, it is already weak.

However, he endured so many evil words from Cottma before, and naturally he would not burst out of this sentence, but shook his extremely unfamiliar paws, and said casually with interest:

"Yes, I can't hold a sword now, and of course I don't want to hold a sword, if I could, I wouldn't even want to hold this staff, but what does it matter, some people want to hold a sword, especially a sword forged by a master, I don't think they would mind paying enough for it. ”

"What do you mean by that? Memphis, are you not going to escape to hell, but are going to stay on the mainland?"

Memphis's words frightened Cottma, he couldn't believe that the words came from Memphis's mouth, a devil, even a devil transformed from a human being, actually wants to stay on the mainland, what kind of joke, is he not afraid of the hunt of the church?

"Of course, my dear Master Kotma, I have spent so much thought, so much cost, and so much risk to seek a chance to become a high-level devil, but not to eat mud in the abyss of no grass, this so-called devil's body is just a by-product of my pursuit of things, I don't want the power of the devil, but that permanent and healthy life. ”

"And I have to continue to enjoy it after I get endless life, so of course I want to stay on the mainland, and I also have to find a way to continue my business after solving this matter, make it bigger and stronger, become the biggest weapons merchant on the mainland, and earn enough to support my little cutie who will enjoy forever. ”

"And you, my dear Master Kotma, a swordsmith who is nominally a master and is now actually a master, is my greatest reliance on achieving this goal, so how could I possibly kill you, I can't wait to offer you like a god statue!"

Speaking of which, Memphis's eyes were full of fanaticism, and the mania for money almost scared Cortema.

"Promise me, Kotma, we will be the best combination, just like before, I borrow your master name to make money, you can rely on my resources to forcibly forge a good enough weapon, and you are now a real master, we don't need to cheat like before, we don't have to worry about being exposed and ruined, and I will have enough resources to supply you to the next level, even to the highest peak of the swordsmith, and all you need is to give me your soul and make me believe that you will not betray me." 。 ”

As soon as the words came out, Memphis simply pulled out his heart, and the sincerity in the words was overflowing, so that Cotema had to be shaken.

This made him think of the time when Memphis had just arrived in Sword Furnace Town and was about to start his so-called sword-forging industrialization reform.

At that time, because of the desecration of the tradition passed down from the ancestors of the swordsmiths by that reform plan, the few masters who were the only ones, and even the vast majority of the high-level and mid-level swordsmiths decided to follow in the footsteps of the masters and leave Sword Furnace Town.

In that case, Memphis' so-called reform plan is a joke with no hope of success.

It was at that critical juncture that Memphis found Cutma, who was also planning to leave, and promised a lot of profit, not only willing to share all the manuscripts left by Master Trick to read for himself, but also willing to provide precious materials for his own improvement at any cost, and all he needed was to pretend to break through to the master level and act as a façade for the sword furnace town where the swordsmiths left in large numbers.

Under such favorable conditions, Cottma succumbed, and he became an accomplice to Memphis's deception of the world, selling a sword made of precious high-grade materials as if it were a sword made of low-grade materials, disguised as a swordsmith, and using what was in Trick's manuscript to avoid being debunked by fellow swordsmiths.

With such a painstaking effort, the industrialization reform of sword casting in Sword Furnace Town, which has a sword casting master as its façade, has also been successful, and Memphis has earned a huge amount of gold coins, and even restored Sword Furnace Town to its original prosperity.

During this period, Memphis was indeed very kind to Cottma, and even often invited Cottma to his mansion for dinner, making the two of them as close as brothers, otherwise Cottma would not know so much about the Lord's Mansion in Memphis.

In the end, Cotema even really relied on the accumulation of resources to reach the edge of the swordsmith master, and finally relied on Mino's star chasing to successfully become a master, and even the termination of the contract between the two was automatically terminated by Cotema who couldn't stand the condemnation of his conscience, and then Memphis did not retaliate against him for this.

From this point of view, Cotema has made pure money in his cooperation with Memphis, and now he has a similar cooperation agreement in front of him, which can save his life, not to mention, and even because he has been promoted to the master, he does not have to worry all day because he is afraid of being exposed.

And with his own importance, Kotma has no need to worry that Memphis will default.

With such lucrative conditions, coupled with a case that has already been successful once, Kotma has no reason to refuse. (To be continued.) )