Milo Island, a dazzling pearl amidst the Starfog Sea.
That unofficial forces had actually built a free castle for commercial trade, and maintained it for countless years, was truly a marvel. Due to its low tax rates and strategic location, countless underworld merchants gathered here. The number of guests who came to this free castle each day was innumerable.
The Free Castle had a total of six floors, with the first four open to guests. Lin Lei and the others were currently in the main hall on the first floor.
"The Free Castle strictly prohibits fighting. It's very safe, so everyone, go ahead and scatter. Buy whatever you want. After you're done, we'll gather back here." Lin Lei looked around and said. His group had naturally taken him as their leader.
Everyone agreed. After all, each person had different wealth and wanted different items, so the group immediately dispersed, leaving in twos and threes.
"Lin Lei, I'm going to take a look around too," Olivia said to Lin Lei, then went off alone to explore the Free Castle.
Only Lin Lei, Dilia, and Bei Bei remained together.
"Boss, where should we go first?" Bei Bei was burning with excitement. He was now enormously wealthy, and spending money on things was what thrilled him most.
Lin Lei looked around and spotted the price tags on items at the counters lining the hall. The prices were all quite low, mostly under a hundred mo stones. Lin Lei remembered that back when he had been at Purplebud Castle, the castle had three floors, each corresponding to a different price tier.
He figured the Free Castle probably worked the same way.
"Let's go straight to the fourth floor. The floors are probably organized by price—the fourth floor will have the best items." Lin Lei and his companions weren't wasteful with money, but they understood that in Hell, the more expensive an item, the better it must be.
Bei Bei immediately took the lead, with Lin Lei and Dilia following behind as they climbed the stairs upward.
"There really are a lot of Island Guards," Lin Lei noticed. The Free Castle was filled with Highgod warriors in blood-red armor everywhere he looked.
Dilia laughed: "With so many Island Guards, even if someone wanted to start trouble, they wouldn't dare."
Lin Lei nodded.
Bei Bei studied the Island Guards carefully: "A whole group of Highgod warriors attacking together—who could withstand that? Of course nobody would dare cause trouble!"
"Even if a powerhouse could hold off the surrounding Island Guards, even more would probably converge on them. Milo Island has stood for countless years—it's no joke." While speaking, they had already arrived at the fourth floor.
There were guards at the fourth-floor stairway entrance. When they saw that all three of Lin Lei's group were Demons, and that Dilia was a Highgod Demon, they were allowed to pass without issue.
In the spacious fourth-floor hall, there were individual exhibition rooms displaying various merchandise. Every price tag was astonishingly high—the lowest was in the millions, while the highest exceeded a hundred million mo stones. In a place like this, ordinary divine-level powerhouses wouldn't dare set foot inside.
"Boss, they sell Death God Puppets here!" Bei Bei said excitedly.
"Death God Puppets?" Lin Lei immediately looked in the direction Bei Bei was pointing. Sure enough, there was a large exhibition room with several Death God Puppets displayed inside.
Dilia smiled: "Lin Lei, you finally found them."
Lin Lei walked over with a smile. He had wanted to buy some Death God Puppets for a long time—they could be used at critical moments to pin down an opponent and allow escape. However, Death God Puppets weren't something that just having money could get you. Lin Lei had searched in other cities before and never found any for sale.
"Hey, how much for your Death God Puppets?" Bei Bei was the first to ask.
The shopkeeper was a cold, composed young man with short black hair and purple eyes. He had been sitting with his eyes closed. Hearing Bei Bei's voice, he opened them and said indifferently: "The prices are clearly written on the counter. Look for yourself!" Then he closed his eyes again.
Lin Lei couldn't help but laugh. Such an attitude in business was truly rare.
"This man is counting on the fact that these Death God Puppets sell themselves," Dilia said with a grin.
Lin Lei nodded and glanced at the price list. The Death God Puppets were divided into three tiers based on body hardness. The highest-grade Death God Puppets had body hardness comparable to Highgod artifacts—they were extremely difficult to destroy.
Low, medium, and high grade. Each high-grade Death God Puppet cost 150 million mo stones!
That price was actually reasonable.
"I'll take the high-grade Death God Puppets. How many do you have?" Lin Lei asked.
The cold young man with black hair finally opened his eyes and looked at Lin Lei with a furrowed brow: "How many do you want to buy?"
"A hundred of them. Do you have that many?" Bei Bei said. Lin Lei glanced at Bei Bei—he hadn't planned on buying that many. Controlling a single Death God Puppet in intense combat required concentrated focus.
Generally, one person could only control one puppet.
Of course, if precise control wasn't needed, one person could manage several.
Lin Lei currently possessed four souls, so he could simultaneously control four Death God Puppets with precision. If his original body needed to fight the enemy directly, the most he could do was have the other three souls precisely control three puppets. Without precise control, he could manage far more.
The cold young man shook his head: "For high-grade Death God Puppets, I can sell you at most ten."
"Ten will do then," Lin Lei said with a smile. He was already quite satisfied with that quantity. "Also, give me two hundred of the medium-grade ones." Lin Lei planned to precisely control the high-grade puppets, while the medium-grade ones would serve as cannon fodder in dangerous situations.
The medium-grade Death God Puppets were priced at fifteen million each.
"Two hundred?" The cold young man shook his head. "I can provide at most one hundred."
"That works too." Lin Lei happily paid for ten high-grade Death God Puppets and one hundred medium-grade ones. The 2.7 billion mo stones spent on these puppets meant nothing to the current Lin Lei.
They had over two hundred billion in cash alone.
And the countless Amethysts Bei Bei had collected made them extraordinarily wealthy.