Pirate Kingship-Chapter 859 - 513: Are You Willing to Trade Your Soul for This Roll of Toilet Paper? (Part 2)

When you seize this opportunity by selling off everything, you'll never feel the other party is coveting your capital. Instead, you'll be immensely grateful they value you, willing to help you earn big money, right?

After all, can a billionaire be short of those little things?

The mindset of both parties is exactly the same.

Byron just mentioned a name and instantly elevated the atmosphere, avoiding the degrading acts like the Genie of the Bottle who introduces himself and uses mind control.

Casually, he pushed a blank "Faustian Contract" in front of the Genie of the Bottle, giving him an innocuous smile:

"Just as the rumors say, my favorite thing is making transactions with people worldwide, Financial Street is my masterpiece.

And the 'Pawnshop No. 8' I personally manage holds all known commodities found in the world: treasures, intelligence, spices, knowledge, various transcendent materials, you name it.

Even ethereal things like transcendent abilities, beauty, health, time are in abundant supply.

So, sign a contract with me to become... the supreme client of Financial Street.

I can offer you three unequal trading opportunities.

Oh, by the way!"

Byron gazed deeply into his eyes with enchanting power and continued:

"Here I am called the 'Wishing Machine' by my guests, these three opportunities are akin to three wishes.

This is a chance only once in a lifetime, dear guest, please cherish it well."

Despite carrying a third of the Faustian Contract snatched by Great Pirate Flint, it ultimately fell into the hands of Abyssal Horror Dagon.

Yet Byron and Violet themselves mastered "Life Alchemy", so calling themselves a wishing machine wasn't incorrect to some extent; ordinary material realm matters were no challenge for them.

The Genie of the Bottle was stunned by Byron's boldness, his attitude shifted from "There's nothing here worth my attention" to "I'll seize the chance to spy military intelligence, to see what true wealth looks like in the New Continent."

Once his gaze fell on the Faustian Contract, he couldn't tear it away, and his eyes widened:

"Panacea, Alchemy of Transmutation, Book of the Beast Kinship (Volume I, II)...

agriculture technology Ridge Tillage, Composting Methods, revolutionary industrial technology Blast Furnace Ironmaking Technique...

military technology Whaling Copper-cased Cartridges, Bolt-Action Rifle, Pump-action Shotgun, Hydraulic Boring Machine..."

The Faustian Contract can use one's greed as a guidepost to easily project its power into anyone's inner world.

It can manifest in the spiritual world, and the material world, always firmly anchoring the other's greed.

Earlier, Contract Devil could easily guess George's first two wishes due to deceiving too many people.

Now, he himself, like a buyer forever caught by big data locking, couldn't escape the Faustian Contract's greed anchoring.

Just a glance at the Faustian Contract knows clearly what he desires, attack the weak point, always undefeatable.

The Genie of the Bottle's hands began to tremble slightly as they held the contract.

"How is this possible? Not to mention the Panacea allowing perfect immortality, there's also the Alchemy of Transmutation truly changing material forever.

Even the mundane technologies afterward are invaluable beyond measure.

During the wartime of Hightins, there was no ability for arms processing, reportedly most weapons were sourced externally.

If possessing these technologies, it's entirely enough to establish a super armory.

Our Eastern Continent has Whale Oil technology, but just one among many Miracle Objects, Cursed Objects. Lacking those Whale Oil firearms described as enabling ordinary people to use them effortlessly.

Ever since witnessing the Silver Law, I knew the New Continent's development path is entirely different from ours, it's surprisingly a Great Power belonging to mortals.

Aren't they afraid these things could threaten the rulers' status?"

What's most dangerous in the Eastern Continent? Knowledge!

What's most precious? Still knowledge!

Thus, guided by the Genie of the Bottle's greed, the contract revealed items all related to knowledge.

Originally, he didn't expect much from the closed and conservative knowledge of the New Continent, yet he was shocked from the start.

His immediate thought was, before real contact between both sides, find a way with a Cursed Object to halt the New Continent's technology progression.

Else when the Source Tide rises again in years or decades, meeting conditions for large-scale colonization, no one knows what form this continent might evolve into.

His second thought was a burning desire to bring every bit of knowledge home.

Sitting across the table, Byron watched firsthand as a Devil and an Angel emerged behind him, starting a celestial battle, arguing and fighting fiercely.

"Ha, the real show is yet to come."

The long poem "Faust" narrates the story of the Devil and the creator each leading Faust.

It essentially depicts the mix of chaos and fallen "beastly side" and the order and ascension "divine aspect" fighting over the free will and autonomy of "human nature".

A person must strive for "freedom" from the two tyrants of "the Id" and "the Superego".

If submitting to either side, one becomes a slave to the contract.

To become its master, one must become an independent "self", never ceasing to learn, always pursuing "freedom" and "truth".