Su Ye looked at the person on the other side who was having a bit of a breakdown and couldn't help but feel like laughing.
To be fair, this Qing Wu Fei Xue's potential is truly excellent. With a talent like Infinite Recruitment and Tier 10 troops, someone like her is exactly the kind of person that great families and Great Merchant Guilds would suppress the most.
Why?
Precisely because of her great potential. That's the reason. Once she grows up, she has a very high ceiling. Such individuals often either develop slowly on their own...
Without resources or help from others, no one knows what they will eventually become.
...or they seek refuge with Great Merchant Guilds or great families, signing even harsher slave contracts.
As for whether there are people who would help someone like this—there are, but they are very few.
There is only one reason: she has potential. Precisely because she has potential, she becomes the prime target for exploitation.
Qing Wu Fei Xue is aware of this too. Otherwise, why wouldn't she go to those great families and Great Merchant Guilds? But the conditions they offered were all at the level of a plaything.
This is reality!!
There's no such thing as "I think highly of you, I'll invest in you," and so on. It doesn't exist.
They will only see that your growth will threaten them, and that alone is enough to sentence you to death.
Meeting a benefactor is a matter of fate; not everyone is lucky enough to encounter one.
[Otherworld Traveler: One troop promotion card, one hero promotion card, and three Purple Blueprints for weapons and equipment. Sign the Subordinate Lord contract, and these will be yours.]
On Tang Wuxue's side, seeing that Su Ye hadn't sent a message for a long while, she calmed down from her breakdown and cursed herself for being so useless.
She wanted to work hard and prove herself, but the reality was that despite having a heaven-defying talent and Tier 10 troops, she couldn't even afford to maintain her own troops.
She wanted a better ranking and to obtain better resources before the novice period ended. Everyone only gets this chance once in a lifetime; once missed, it's gone forever.
The pressure in her heart was imaginable.
Ding!!
The chat notification sounded, and Tang Wuxue opened the message from Su Ye.
Upon seeing the message, her pupils constricted. Her eyes filled with shock and a hint of longing, and her breathing involuntarily quickened.
A troop promotion card could allow her troops to break through Tier 10 and become Sanctuary-level troops. A hero promotion card could even raise the ceiling of her Hero Units.
Not to mention the three Purple Blueprints, which were essentially hens that laid golden eggs.
Tang Wuxue's eyes were filled with a mix of conflict and desire. troop promotion cards and hero promotion cards were things that could be sought but not easily found; unless she obtained them herself...
...it would otherwise be impossible to get them.
If she couldn't get them on her own, she was doomed to never have them. But now, as long as she signed the contract, she could obtain them.
At this thought, a look of determination appeared in Tang Wuxue's eyes.
[Qing Wu Fei Xue: How do I know you're not lying to me? I want to see the specific attributes.]
Su Ye looked at the message from Qing Wu Fei Xue.
A smile played on his lips.
She's tempted. Being tempted is good.
Su Ye did indeed plan to cultivate an assistant. An Equality Contract? Only a fool would want that. What Su Ye wanted was an existence that was absolutely loyal to him; a Subordinate Contract was the most suitable.
Su Ye directly took screenshots of the hero promotion card and the troop promotion card and sent them to Tang Wuxue.
[Otherworld Traveler: Screenshot.jpg, Screenshot.jpg. Do they look good?]
Tang Wuxue opened the screenshots sent by Su Ye. Both images showed a fair, slender palm with a glowing card resting quietly upon it.
"They're real!!" Seeing this, Tang Wuxue's heart began to pound uncontrollably.
[Qing Wu Fei Xue: I'll sign!! Send the contract over!]
Su Ye looked at the message from Tang Wuxue, a smile on his face.
"System, consume one thousand origin crystals to manifest a Subordinate Lord contract," Su Ye's voice rang out.
[Ding: Consumed 1,000 origin crystals. You have obtained a Subordinate Lord contract: Eternal Contract!!]
A golden parchment condensed in the air. A contract drafted by the eternal will cannot be broken unless one can surpass the eternal will itself.
Once this contract was signed, Tang Wuxue would belong entirely to Su Ye.
Su Ye sent the contract directly to Tang Wuxue.
Tang Wuxue looked at the contract condensing before her, her eyes flickering. Once she signed her name, the final result would be her becoming completely Su Ye's vassal.
She would be unable to do anything to harm Su Ye—even thinking about it was forbidden. This was the domineering nature of the Eternal Contract.
Yet Su Ye could do anything to Tang Wuxue, including but not limited to treating her as a contracted beast, a sex slave, or a plaything; he could dominate her at will.
As long as Su Ye was happy, he could do whatever he wanted to Tang Wuxue.
Tang Wuxue took a deep breath and looked at the contract in front of her. There was no longer anything to hesitate about; if she didn't sign, her outcome wouldn't be any better.
The only difference was whether the main lord was Su Ye or someone else.
If she wanted to go further, she had to sign this contract. The only difference was signing with Su Ye or signing with someone else.
This was the fate of ordinary genius lords. Trying to make it on your own? Stop dreaming and go to sleep. Unless you're a cheater like Su Ye who lacks nothing, it's impossible.
Otherwise, even with a talent like Tang Wuxue's, the final outcome would still be obediently signing a contract.
Either that, or you just give up and stop thinking about going further or becoming a god.
Tang Wuxue was unwilling to just give up, but the path was right in front of her; she had no choice.
Tang Wuxue signed her name.
The Eternal Contract transformed into two golden lights. A large one crossed time and space to merge into Su Ye's body, while a smaller one merged into Tang Wuxue's. The contract was concluded, and a golden pattern appeared on Tang Wuxue's forehead before fading away.
Simultaneously, system notifications rang out for both Su Ye and Tang Wuxue.
[Ding: Subordinate Lord. Eternal Contract concluded. You have obtained a Subordinate Lord: Tang Wuxue!]
[Ding: Subordinate Lord. Eternal Contract concluded. You have become Su Ye's Subordinate Lord!]
Two different notification sounds rang in Su Ye's and Tang Wuxue's ears.
"Tang Wuxue." Su Ye raised an eyebrow and opened his status panel. A new Subordinate Lord panel had appeared. Upon opening it, he could view all the resources, troop strength, and territory size of Tang Wuxue's domain.
It could be said that a Subordinate Lord was completely exposed before their main lord; there was no such thing as privacy.
Whatever income a Subordinate Lord had was visible to the main lord; there was no way to hide anything.
Furthermore, the main lord could freely open a passage to the Subordinate Lord's territory, but the Subordinate Lord could not, unless permitted by the main lord.
"This is way too miserable," Su Ye remarked as he looked at the resources in Tang Wuxue's territory.
She had just over a thousand gold coins and only a few dozen origin crystals. However, she had eight hundred Hill Giants. Her poverty was purely due to the cost of maintaining them.
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