"I didn't say this is risk-free." Seeing that the other party had become suspicious, Rasul showed an expression of "I can't hide it from you" and replied, "Of course, at the right time, as long as your sword can hit the opponent accurately as we planned, the belladonna poison on the sword can indeed completely disintegrate all the spirituality of the Secret String within half a second."
"After that, the opponent will definitely have lost the ability to fight back. But before that, that is, during the half second when the poison spreads, it is not certain."
"Not necessarily?" Ask asked.
"Yes, not necessarily." Rasul explained, "Because no one knows what tricks a demigod might have to save his life."
"If Hidden String determines that he has suffered irreparable damage the moment he is stabbed by the sword, and immediately makes the decision to die together with you, then in the half second before his spiritual power is quickly exhausted, he may fully activate his own domain ability and cause fatal damage to you. In this case, Lord Belladonna Poison should save you, but serious injuries are probably inevitable."
"As expected." Ask was not surprised at all. "And you actually included 'Lend me this sword for 30 years' as one of the rewards for the mission. It's obvious that you are planning to shirk your reward if I get seriously injured and can't hold the sword. Shameless, really shameless."
"Look at what you said. If I really intend to turn against you later, no matter what conditions I promised you in advance, I can deny it in the end," Rasul said shamelessly.
"How dare you turn against Lord Belladonna?" Ask said in disbelief.
"Well, I really don't dare." Rasul began to have a headache. The guy in front of him was simply unyielding. Moreover, a member of the group had a master-disciple relationship with the arrogant Agrippina, so he had to treat the matter with caution.
"How about this, if you survive and complete the mission, the sword will be yours. If you are seriously injured or die, the sword will be exchanged for an equivalent amount of money and handed over to your team by Lord Belladonna Poison. How about that?"
"Okay." Ask thought for a long time and nodded in agreement, "But you have to let His Excellency Belladonna Poison be a witness."
"Okay." Rasul agreed readily.
So after some tough bargaining, the two finally reached an agreement on the remuneration.
At the same time, based on his understanding of Rasul in the original game, Ask was able to confirm that the final price negotiated was not Rasul's bottom line - he must have been mentally prepared to pay Ask the dragon bone sword as a reward.
Of course, there is no need for Ask to haggle over every penny and push the price to Rasul's bottom line. After all, the two sides still have a long way to go in their future dealings.
Therefore, the two men with ulterior motives, one with a painful expression of "I have invested a lot of money", and the other with a dissatisfied look of "it is barely acceptable", hypocritically finalized this cooperation.
Ask also mentioned Eleanor's request, and Rasul said it didn't matter, as long as the Secret String could be poisoned, you can do whatever you want with it afterwards.