Chapter 128 - 1663-1678

Chapter 1663 Making Tons Of Deals

Knowing how these smugglers worked would greatly benefit him. And yet it was clear that just mentioning their name was a taboo, something that was considered an act against the law of this world.

"Why do I smell trouble coming out of you?" As Alons went to bring the crystals as promised, the lady nymph turned to Hye and asked, after a long gaze of sizing him up and down.

"I'm just curious to learn more about these outlaws," Hye simply said, while his eyes were fixed over the merchant who went into the grand building in front of them.

"It's not a big deal," the lady nymph said as if this was something known to many, "these are groups of merchants who went to the dark side, decided to smuggle goods under the nose of the authorities in any place."

"I know what smugglers mean," Hye rolled his eyes, "I want to meet one of them."

"Oh, you plan to expand your activities and even include them under your wing? What a greedy human you are!"

Hye was sure this lady was smart enough to guess what he truly wanted. And so he simply remained silent, and she showed a smile that wasn't like one on her face.

"Anyway, do you really plan to stay here for one month?" The lady nymph changed subject, evading speaking about smugglers. And this didn't escape Hye's senses, telling him how truly bad it was to just speak about them in the open.

"I need to gather as many crystals as I can before leaving here."

"Why do I smell a scheme? You must be after something if you want to stay for this long."

"I don't plan anything," Hye shrugged, "I'm just cornered and chased by these Hescsos. And who knows when the next time will appear, where I'll be able to acquire more crystals like this."

"You can make a deal with me and get many mines," she rolled her eyes, seemingly feeling bitter about not finalising this deal with him.

"I'm going to, but not right now," he didn't reveal any of his future plans about this, "tell me, by this month's end, the things I want will be ready, right?"

"Sure," she gave him a confident answer, even without thinking for a single second about it, "but you'll need to pay by then."

"Who told you I'm poor?"

"I know you are rich, but if you continue this way, you'll have to pay lots of your bones in return for the useless crystals. If you just make a deal with me and get as many mines as you like, things will be much cheaper in the end."

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Alons took almost an hour before returning back. The amount he brought was at least ten times the amount Hye got from the first merchant.

"I've added you as a friend, please keep in touch and I'll inform you whenever I gain any crystals. Do you want anything else?"

ραndαsΝοvεl.cοm Alons, like his friend, took Hye towards the next deeper sector. The passage was the same, with fewer people walking in that third sector.

"Thanks, crystals are everything I need right now," Hye didn't ask for anything else. He just wanted to solve this problem of his kingdom as fast as possible.

Realistically speaking, he knew just depending on others to get crystals, purchasing them with his bones, wasn't going to work. There was a limit to how much he could get from them. Yet this would solve the problem of powering up part of his forces.

He planned to protect his new zone with that defensive formation. But it seemed like there were holes in such a defensively tight system. So it was still up to his forces to defend his zone in the end.

The moment he established his zone, things wouldn't calm down. Hye knew such news would spread far and wide, and the Hescos would find a pinned spot for him to hammer.

Even if Hye didn't plan to make any trade deals with anyone at this zone, and even if he secured it with lots of portals, he still needed to go out and adventure the universe.

That zone would be a great advantage and disadvantage for him at the same time. And yet he never doubted or thought twice about walking back in this plan.

"Please wait here, I'm going to call for a friend and come back," like what happened before, Alons went inside a big building and vanished for a few minutes before coming back.

Such a thing happened over eighteen more times. The area Hye landed at was formed of twenty-one sectors. And now he was standing in front of the last sector, one that was so narrow to only have five grand buildings, filling a circular space with little streets and almost no one walking inside.

Hye already made lots of deals, amassed tons of crystals. And yet this wasn't enough. He kept recalling how massive his kingdom's population was, how huge his armed forces were, and so he needed tons of folds of what he gained here.

Yet when he arrived at the later sectors, the merchants there complained that the stocks of crystals in the entire world were running low. According to the last merchant, the one who accompanied Hye right now, the prices of crystals in the black market were going off the roof. And that was all thanks to Hye.

Yet the latter never felt any regret or anything like this. He wanted to gather more crystals. The merchant walking by his side told him that lots of dirty deals were happening right now to bring more crystals here. And Hye didn't care about that.

He simply walked by this merchant's side, ignoring all of his hidden remarks and accusations. The moment they arrived at the last sector separation area, Hye finally found something different.

Chapter 1664 Going Into A Maze

There were no lakes, but a big trench that surrounded the entire central zone. At the same time, there was a huge wall surrounding and lining up this area, with lots of guards standing there, seemingly ready to fight a brutal war at any given time.

"Just stay silent and calm, follow my lead and don't speak with anyone," the merchant by their side said in warning, "this place isn't welcoming just anyone. You have a name for yourself indeed, but no one knows about your identity yet. So stay cool and don't cause trouble."

"What's this place anyway?" The lady nymph was curious to know why this sector was having such special treatment. And even if she had a guess in her mind, she wanted to hear the answer to confirm it.

"It's a place that's only specified for the ruling families of our world," the merchant gave the same answer she and Hye expected, "no one is allowed to enter here without an invitation. And even with one, no one is allowed to go towards a place he isn't led to."

"That…" the lady nymph was surprised by this, yet Hye wasn't. Just from the strict security in this place he could tell how strong the defences were, and how serious these people were about defending themselves.

"Are they afraid of getting robbed or what?"

"No, we save everything in our inventories," the merchant paused, while a few guarding teams came closer to see what they were doing here, "but each central zone is led by one of the main families, one who is destined for a greater position later on."

Hye and the lady nymph got what he meant. The families owning the world were afraid of someone hijacking one of their direct descendants, asking for a scary amount of wealth or perhaps asking for anything else.

As the merchant dealt with these guards, Hye looked towards the walls and the many guards there. He couldn't gauge their power from his spot, but he could tell they were strong.

"What? Don't tell me you want to test your new power with them," the lady nymph chuckled when she noticed his fixed gaze over these guards, "don't! The weakest guard in such a wealthy world will be at stage two or three."

"Stage two?" Hye turned towards her, and she added in explanation:

"Each stage is equal to one entire apocalypse, equal one hundred levels, I told you that already," she rolled her eyes when saying these words. And before he'd ask for more intel, the merchant returned.

"Please follow me, don't wander around, don't ask questions to anyone except for the merchant we are going to meet," he whispered, as if he was telling some sort of a secret. And the other two nodded.

They weren't allowed to enter through the gate without a team of the guards moving with them. Just when Hye was questioning why this merchant warned them against speaking with these guards, the guards took the initiative to speak to them.

"Are you here to do something?"

"You look suspicious to me, what are you here for?"

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More harsh and mean comments came one after another. Hye got that they wanted to instigate a fight, ending up locking them up. To him, this was a bit weird.

He came here to pay his wealth in return for goods. And on top of that, he came with an invitation from that princess they were speaking about.

He didn't see any point in any of what they were doing. And yet he remained silent, ignoring any direct or hidden accusations, even little offensive comments.

"Sorry about that," as they went inside that area, the merchant led them to the second big building. It didn't have any walls or gardens, just looking like any boring business building, with practical design.

The following guards just kept their company till the gate of this building but didn't enter it. Hye thought they'd get replaced with more guards inside the building, but to his surprise he saw none.

The gate of this building led to a long tunnel, one that seemed to go deeper down the ground. "They are just doing this to see if there is any troublemaker in the ones coming here or not."

"They should have acted in more courtesy," the lady nymph wasn't any less insulted than Hye, "anyone hearing their harsh comments will act hostile in the end."

"That's why people like me are there, to remind and warn you against doing such a violation to our laws," the merchant was acting respectful and apologetic.

"Anyway, what's this place? Where does this tunnel lead us?" Hye shifted the topic towards something productive.

"We are at the main entrance of the Soras family's central auction house," the merchant said in introduction, "to get inside, we have to pass through the right tunnels every time. Or else this will trigger defensive traps."

"Tunnels?!" The lady nymph just questioned his words when they spotted a distant wide space waiting for them. The merchant just motioned towards them, didn't say anything and led them towards a small semi-circular room with around twenty different tunnels, each seemingly leading to a different place.

As they saw these tunnels, the two of them realised what the merchant was speaking about.

ραΠdαsΝοvεl.cοm "They don't need guards in here as they led us into a maze," Hye said in realisation, and admiration at the same time.

"It's not a crime to be cautious, right?" the merchant smiled faintly, while going towards one tunnel without any hesitation, "this way, please."

"What tells you we won't come later after memorising the tunnels we passed through?" the lady nymph asked after the sixth time they passed through the same gathering area of tunnels.

"That won't do, as the tunnel order shifts after each passing," the merchant said in pride, as if he was the genius behind such a defensive idea. And Hye couldn't help but inwardly sigh about how sickly suspicious these families were about their personal safety.

Chapter 1665 We Have No Crystals To Sell

"We are here," after doing this for five more times, they finally felt the tunnel was going up the ground. The two of them didn't know how come such long tunnels and paths were built under the narrow area of the central region.

"I bet these tunnels and mazes work for all buildings of other families," Hye commented, and the merchant just stuck to his silence.

The tunnel they were walking in ended abruptly at a big hall. Unlike the gloomy dark colour inside the tunnels, unlike the rocky cold nature of rocks making these tunnels, this hall was totally different.

The first thought that flashed in Hye's mind was that this was a palace main hall or something. Lots of gold colours appeared all over the place, with many statues and decorations, paintings on the walls, and even thick and expensive looking carpets on the ground.

The hall was hundreds of metres in length and width, with many big sparkling chandeliers hanging down from a dome shaped ceiling. Everything around told too much about how rich the owner of this place was, and he soon saw the owner of this place.

A big, thick wooden door opened like it was made out of thin paper, exposing a large group of vicious and strong looking guards. All of them got scars over their faces and exposed arms, armed up with heavy armour and wielding their weapons as if they were about to start a fight or something.

After a few hundred of these walked in, they surrounded Hye, the merchant, and the lady nymph in circular layers. And then more guards appeared, alongside a twenty year old young lady.

She wore a short dark blue gown, filled with shining fine scales like fingernails, wearing a long soft golden red cape that extended for metres behind her.

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She wore a thin yellow veil, with sounds of metallic ornaments hitting each other while walking, alongside the sound of high heels knocking on the ground like a woodpecker.

Without the need to ask, Hye knew she was the person he came here to visit. He could see partially through that veil, seeing her beautiful features, shining blue eyes, with long and curly brown hair that expanded to cover up her shoulders.

And yet he wasn't allured or tempted by any of that. To him, she was attractive in another way, seeing her as the gate towards climbing his way inside the ruling families of this world.

"I believe you are the human called Hye, right?" She stopped just fifty metres away from him, separated from him by ten layers of guards as if he was the deadliest villain in the world.

"It's me," Hye ignored such a crazy sense of insecurity this lady had, and didn't care about any of the hostile gazes of the guards that were issued at him without any reason, "I'm here for business."

"Hmm, I heard about what you did since coming to our world," the lady paused, "you are indeed hungry for our crystals."

"I just came out after ending my apocalypse," Hye shrugged, and she gave him a deeper look, as if she was sizing up.

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"It's my business."

"And they are my crystals!"

For a moment there, Hye felt like this young lady was acting a bit childish. And just before he'd turn around to leave, drop dealing with her family and look for others, the merchant who led him here cleared up his throat.

"My esteemed princess, he is here with tons of bones, ready to sell them to us in return for our goods."

"He got enough crystals already," the young lady still acted arrogant and stubborn, "I'm ready to negotiate about other goods, but not the crystals."

"Oh, don't tell me I emptied all of your family's stores," as she didn't show any sign of courtesy, he decided to switch to being rude and offensive.

"That's indeed true," yet unlike what he expected, she blatantly admitted it, "you made our people go crazy, even Uncle Lam next to you went to empty our stores from crystals. If they already sold you everything we got, how do you expect us to sell you anymore?"

"That…"Hye never expected he'd be faced with such a situation. He asked everyone he met to bring all the crystals they could, never imagined he'd end up looting all the crystals, ending up empty handed when he met this young lady.

He wanted to make a scary deal with her, not to just impress her, but also to impress the ones standing behind her. Like this he'd secure his way to the top, forcing her family's and other families' higher ups to come and meet him.

But right now, he was met with such a tight spot, one that he couldn't extricate himself from.

"Isn't there a big auction happening right now?" the merchant this princess called Uncle Lam suddenly said, making Hye look at the young lady in expectation.

"Hmm… You want him to take part there? But you do know he has to pay a heavy fee to enter, without any guarantee to buy anything."

"Oh, so this is what's really happening here then," Hye thought to himself, realising this little play this young lady was performing with him. Her family wasn't running short on any crystals, he greatly doubted that.

ραΠdαsΝοvεl.cοm Even if they ran short on them, a thing he never bought, then they could easily have asked him to wait until they replenished their emptied stores. Or better, they'd just buy all the crystals available in the market from other families and sectors, before selling them to him at a higher price rate or something.

Yet they weren't after the little scraps of bones he was throwing to them, they wanted to make a huge deal including tons of his bones.

Chapter 1666 The Crystal Heart

Not to mention he felt like this was kind of a test, a test to see how truly deep his pockets were.

Hye decided right on the spot to accept such a challenge and score a full mark on this test.

"What's the entry fee? How much do you need from my bones?" he directly asked for the price, before adding, "but don't mistake my intentions. If there aren't any huge amounts of crystals being sold there, then I won't take part in this."

"Oh, there is even something far more interesting than just crystals," her face beamed with a bright smile all of sudden, putting away the stern mask over her face and starting to look a bit cheerful and warm.

"I'm not interested in anything but crystals…"

"It's a Crystal Heart," she interrupted him. And when he showed a puzzled expression on his face, she added in explanation, "it's a portable space, one that can produce lots of crystals over time."

"Oh, like mine?" Hye tried to guess the true nature of this heart. And yet he wasn't that close to the truth.

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"It's a special space where you place crystals there and they grow trees," the lady nymph spoke in a weird envious and greedy tone, "consider it as a fertile soil, and crystals are the seeds."

"Is that it?!" Hye didn't get why even a lady green nymph acted in such a way, "it seems pretty useless to me!"

"No, you are gravely mistaken," Uncle Lam joined the talk, adding in a slow tone, "the space is boundless. As you gather up more crystals and plant them there, nourish the space with enough energy, you can harvest tons of crystals from these trees."

"That's not only everything," the princess chimed in, as if she and her uncle wanted to convince Hye to join this auction, "if you poured enough energy there, you could get higher grade crystals from them."

"That looks amazing and all, but… What's the catch?" Hye wasn't a fool. If there was something magical like this out there in the universe, then hearing about brutal wars going on for it wouldn't be a surprise.

"Well…" the princess seemed to get startled by Hye's sudden question.

"The problem is in the amount of energy required," the lady nymph answered his question, "it's as you guessed, this is too good to be true. Everything they said is true indeed, except for each crystal to rise up and grow from being a seed to a towering tree requires a huge amount of energy rich items. As for levelling the crystals up, you'll definitely need a treasure to do it."

"Hmm… I see," Hye knew this might be an annoying headache for anyone having this item, but not for him. Energy problem? He already had his bones to begin with. As for the amount needed, he didn't care about that.

If he had to exchange his bones with crystals, his easily acquired bones from battles that wouldn't stop or end, exchanging them with precious and hard to acquire crystals, then he was willing to do it.I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm

Yet there was another question and doubt he had to make sure of first before accepting this princess' offer.

"How long does it take for a crystal to become a tree, fully grown and ready to harvest?"

If the time needed was going to be long, then he'd not risk his bones for such a deal. He needed to plant tons of crystals inside this isolated space and provide tons of his bones all the time. If he wasn't going to harvest it in a short time, then it wasn't profit-cost effective.

ραΠdαsΝοvεl.cοm "That depends," Uncle Lam paused, thinking deeply about his answer, "according to the amount of energy you place there, the time needed to grow each tree varies. It also depends on the overall number of crystals you plant there, and the real goal of you."

"What do you mean?" Hye didn't get anything but a vague answer, "can you give me examples in numbers?"

"Hmm, that's hard actually," the princess cleared her throat before adding, "the shortest amount of time ever recorded was just one week. The owner planted ten million crystals at one go, spent a fortune to amass endless energy rich items and treasures, using them all to fasten the process of producing the trees."

"And? What was his gain?" Hye finally got a rough estimate about how long it'd take him to grow these trees.

"According to rumours, each tree produced one thousand crystal fruits in the end, with many coming out in higher grades on top of that."

"That's interesting," Hye started to get tempted to try out this item. He knew his bones would replace any high energy items. And if he went all out, using the high grade dark realm and Holy Ones bones, then he'd end up producing crystal trees in much lesser duration.

"How much do you need for me to take part in the auction?" Hye paused before adding, "you do know I can only pay in bones. So, you have to come up with a way to round my bones' value."

"We just need one million of such bones as an entry fee," the princess opened up the deal with such a scary amount of bones. She even took one of Hye's bones, a blue grade normal one.

"One million of these? How much will that item cost me then!!" Hye was taken aback. He didn't spend that figure even in all his deals so far.

Paying one million bones wasn't an issue for him at all, yet he wanted to see why this auction was worth paying such a price to begin with. He was just going to be granted access towards the auction and wouldn't get anything at all in return for all these bones.

"You'll get a twenty percent discount over any deals going on there," she said when she noticed the prey she tried so hard to lure in was about to run away, "aside from this magnificent item, there are more precious and useful items out there. You are free to take part in any auction happening inside if anything picks your interest."

Chapter 1667 The List

"And my bones value?" Hye didn't give any answer to her words, and just continued to ask more, "and can I have a list of the items getting sold in the auction? You don't expect me to go in there and pay such a scary figure just for one item."

"I can get you a list of the sold goods," Uncle Lam said, confirming Hye's earlier doubts about his knowledge about all this from the start, "as for the bones value, we can agree to formulate a unified list for the bones you'll offer to pay with, editing the initial prices and increasing bids according to your bones."

"We also will update the auction interface of our family, so you and others can learn about your biddings and price paid," the princess said, adding more details, telling Hye that she and Uncle Lam were together in this, planning everything before this meeting.

Hye even suspected that Uncle Lam took them on a long tour underground on purpose of wasting more time. They had to think thoroughly about how to maximise their gains from this deal.

ραndαsΝοvεl.cοm "Cool," Hye took out his normal bones, starting from green grade all the way to pale gold grade, "you can take these and assess their value like you said. And you can also add this bone as well," he took on green grade dark realm bone as well.

If the initial price to join the auction would be one million blue bones of his, then he'd expect much higher prices for the items sold inside the auction.

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He didn't intend to leave empty handed. Even if the Crystal Heart sold here was a bottomless pit for his bones, he still wanted it. As for the little show he did just now, he did it to know what items were getting sold and get lots of details about them.

He knew anyone taking part in any auction would get such a list, but a much shorter one. He wanted the extensive edition of it, the one that only merchants and their closest customers would have.

"I'm adding you as my friend," Uncle Lam stepped up, placed his arm over Hye's shoulder. Then a notification popped up and Hye accepted it, "I've sent you an invitation to join our family's auction house. It's a private place, one that only selective individuals like yourself are allowed to join."

"Thanks," Hye accepted the invitation and next, a new interface opened up. In front of him, there was an empty page, with a few words at its top saying that he needed authorization to enter the auction house.

He turned towards the princess, and the latter shrugged. "If you are asking about the lack of authorisation message, then it's not my fault. You need to pay the fees to enter there."

"I won't pay a scrap until I read that list," Hye crossed his arms in response.

"I'm preparing it for you right now," Uncle Lam had to intervene, or else the two might enter into a fight or something, "I'm just assessing your bones and adding their value in the list."

"Fine," the two of them said at the same time, making Uncle Lam feel more pressure. As for the lady nymph, she stayed silent, watching how Hye and the princess were looking at each other in a challenging way.I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm

Hye wouldn't mind paying his bones to get what he wanted, but he'd greatly be stirred up if the person acted in arrogance while trying to take as many bones out of him as possible.

If anyone wanted his bones, they had to show him courtesy and act humble, show him the respect he deserved, even if it was one of the royal families here.

"It's done," after almost ten minutes, Uncle Lam said in a cheerful tone, "you can now access the list I updated. I added you there, so you can see it."

Hye opened the interface of the list from a small icon that appeared new in front of his eyes. A new list appeared, one that had too many goods, more than what Hye in his wildest expectations.

He thought as there was a short list of privileged individuals invited here, and the scary prices of these goods, then it was logical for the auction house to offer just a small number of them. Yet what welcomed him was a full list of many pages, exceeding fifty in total, with each page having around one hundred items.

"You can check any item you want by selecting it, and a new page will open with all the details related to it," Uncle Lam said, while giving the princess a warning look.

Hye ignored them and started to select the names in the list one by one. According to the instructions at the forefront of each page, these items were getting sold in order. The ones sold out would be removed, and new ones would be added.

"Does that mean this auction is going on forever?" Hye couldn't help but ask, and Uncle Lam explained things over to him.

The auction happened once per month and would remain open to add new goods to it for four straight days. Then the admission gates would be shut down, and the auction would be over once all the goods would be sold.

This was a very nice tactic actually. Hye knew this auction would have regular customers, but there were tons of new ones as well. Perhaps anyone seeing how crazy the prices were, would get tempted to sell his precious belongings, adding more value to this auction.

It was a nice move, one that Hye admired and took note of. As for the list in front of him, he just skipped through the first page, went directly towards the second page and started checking their goods carefully.

He started to read weird names, all were treasures that included artefacts, naturally born artefacts, manmade treasures, and even things that got weird powers and uses without fully understanding them.

Chapter 1668 Count Me In

The last set of items were related to things acquired from the outer battlefield. Most of these were unknown to this universe's people, and Hye had an instant interest in acquiring few of them.

Yet when he checked the allocated initial prices for them, he got an instant scare. The cheapest was one hundred million bones, and from the silver grade on top of that.

That was the initial price, not including the increases that would come from bidding. Just thinking about paying such an enormous price for things no one knew how to use was indeed quite unpleasant.

As he lost interest in buying any of these, he started to ignore any item that came from the outer world. The items shown in the list weren't arranged in any order actually, and he had to pick them one by one to see what they were.

"A chariot!" Just as he scanned through the pages, he found something that made him pause in focus. It was a chariot, one that was like the chariot he had, but greatly different, highly advanced.

His chariot accompanied him in all his adventures and epic battles in the time of the apocalypse. And yet it was still considered pretty low level compared to things he saw here.

The chariot sold was considered a mid-grade artefact, based on the standards of the universe. That meant it was very strong, highly advanced than his own chariot.

There were lots of details about this chariot, but barely enough for him to know what it could really do. It was mentioned there that this chariot could travel fast, looking like a gigantic ship, presiding over a cloud of some sort.

It also ran on energy, with dozens of highly advanced hearts to fuel it. It wasn't dragged by anything, just moving out using the weird cloud it resided on.

Unlike his old chariot, this one got stealth effects, a space of its own to store away his forces if he needed to. Hye didn't hate having an extra space to store his forces at. But the description of it lacked narrating the skills it could perform, despite briefing everything by saying it was a beast in any war, against any enemy or foe.

Hye loved it! It showed a short clip showing what it looked like, and from the first glance it felt like it was a brutal weapon of war. It was like a huge yacht, with a golden and black metallic cover. Even the twenty grand masts and sails were all in gold and black.

"It has cannons!" Hye noticed openings at the side of this colossal yacht, with lots of red thick barrels coming out from them. He loved it the moment he saw this short clip. But the price was indeed quite scary.

"Two hundred million silver grade bones? That's a steal!" He knew comparing this chariot's price with his old one was like the difference between heaven and earth. But he knew it must be worth its weight in gold.

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"Count me in," Hye decided to take part in this auction if he'd just get the crystal heart alone. But with this chariot, and even if he just passed through ten pages of the entire list of the auction goods, he decided to cut it short and check items sold one by one and decide on the spot.

He paid the fees to gain access to the auction. Unlike what he expected, he didn't need to go to any place or something to watch the show.

"Relax here then," the princess was now acting totally different than before, beaming her face with a smile that was so wide to make Hye doubt cracks would appear there, "you'll gain access to the entire auction from the interface."

"And the bidding? The payment process? How can I get my stuff?"

"Everything is handled by the interface," Uncle Lam answered, "you'll find options to bid on any item. Once the item is sold to you, you'll get a message to pay the needed price. Your bones will be deducted automatically from your inventory, and then the item will appear in your inventory."

"Nice," Hye picked a comfortable sofa and laid his body on it, "you can go and do whatever you want now."

"We'll send servants with delicious meals," the princess couldn't control her happiness anymore, went out while laughing like she won the lottery.

Hye watched all this and inwardly smirked. This was just the effect of him paying very little of his wealth. Bones? They might be something precious in the eyes of any superpower of the universe. But to him, they were just rocks he'd find in any battleground.

"You are crazy, do you know that?" from the side, the green nymph lady watched all this happening without saying a word. She knew Hye had much more bones than the ones the princess seemed pretty excited about.

And yet seeing Hye pay such an amount without batting an eye made her want to take more from him. If not for knowing that Hye wasn't weak, she'd even try to kill and loot half of his belongings.

ραΠdαsΝοvεl ƈοm The happiness that appeared on the princess' face was still lingering in her mind. "I want to feel such happiness," she thought to himself, thinking again about making a better offer about the crystal mines.

Hye ignored her and started to focus on the interface in front of him. Just moments before the princess and Uncle Lam left, the interface changed.

A shining gold dot started to flash in the centre of the interface. It was pulsating, as if it was waiting for something. Hye waited for a couple of minutes before the flashing dot expanded, covering up the entire screen with a flash of golden light, before the interface showed a screen of a sexy lady standing on stage, with a table made out of ruby in front of her, and an item was present on top of it.

Chapter 1669 The Auction Interface

The item was covered with a thick brown fabric. And then the lady started to speak up.

"The next item we are going to sell is a very nice treasure, rarely found in our universe. This treasure is estimated to be a high-grade artefact, something that was claimed from the outer battlefield…"

"It's trash," the moment Hye heard this item came from the outer battlefield, and his interest suddenly plummeted. He didn't like taking a gamble, buying a piece of rock on the premise it might contain a heaven defying treasure inside.

As he lost interest in this item, he started to examine the interface again. The feed showed that the auction lady selling that item was taking most of the screen in front of his face. But there were more options there as well.

On the right side, he saw a long list of names, all started with a letter, followed by many question marks. It was the list of people attending this auction, and next to their hidden names, their races were mentioned.

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ραΠdαsΝοvεl ƈοm "Hescos are here?!" Hye was surprised when he spotted many Hescos race figures attending this auction, "don't tell me they allowed them to come here… That doesn't make sense…"

He paused, thinking about the great feud he heard before between the people running and owning this world and the Hescos race. The only explanation he got was that accessing such an interface didn't need the person to be really here.

"They must be out there at their homes, taking part in the auction, just like how I'm doing it right now," he felt this was the most logical explanation for all this. And then he started to read various names of many races, including his old friends and enemies.

"Dragons, Hectors, Selvators, and Berserkers are here as well… Last time I got my chariot from one of the Dragon races. It's a regret I can't get anything from them right now," he mulled over this, while recalling his past and long away encounter with the dragon big shot when he started the apocalypse.

Aside from this list, which contained thousands upon thousands of names, he found another section below the feed window. It was the one which he'd decide when to bid, how much he wanted to bid, and even use the buyout option of any item sold there if it was possible.

The item that was sold right now got an initial price of eighty million silver grade bones. He found the standard allocated bid increased by one thousand silver bones. As for the buyout price of this item, it was one hundred and sixty million silver grade bones.

"Hmm… So, the buyout price is double the base price of any item," he kept watching for a few hours without taking part in anything. From this, he noticed that any item with a buyout option always was double the base price of it.I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm

And yet, no one ever tried to buy out any item. First, the final price of any item with a buyout option always ended with tens of million silver grade bones worth price below the buyout option. It looked as if there was a tacit agreement between everyone to stop the bidding at a certain limit.

So there was no need to use the buyout option to begin with. Not to mention all the items he found with such an option were all things that came from the outer battlefield. As for other items, they never showed such an option except for rare occasions.

Hye edited the increased bid from one thousand to one hundred thousand. "I hate playing it slow," he muttered while then turning his attention towards the ongoing auction biddings.

He watched how the process worked. He got used to how to raise a bid using one's voice, shouting the increase of prices and such. But here, there were only bubbles of smoke appearing around the ground, showing the amount of increase by anyone, coupled with his name, number, and race.

The first ten minutes were always hectic. Lots of bubbles appeared like the sky was raining on them. Then slowly, the bubbles would decrease, and only less than ten bubbles would keep popping every now and then, fighting among each other to win the prize.

He noticed that the ones fighting over any item came from the three main races in the universe, with few coming from Dragons, Selvators, and a few other races he never met or heard about before.

The fight over each item would last for an hour or two. Hye started to grow bored from watching the same process happening over and over again, opened his inventory, checked the endless number of bones he had, before finally deciding to buy something.

He didn't join the ongoing bidding fight right away and went first to check the list of items. The list did indeed remove any sold item, showing only the one currently being sold as the number one item there. So, he didn't need to go through any trouble to find out the nearest interesting item he could make the best use of.

This item came from the outer world, but it had something that attracted Hye's attention. It got weird darkness energy exuded out from it. When he looked at its picture, all he could see was a dead rock, with nothing special or remarkable about it except its weird black colour and lustre.

It felt like any light would die the moment it touched this rock. From the description provided about it, Hye knew this was obtained from a recent colossal war, one that happened between ten war overlords from both universes, lasting for an entire year.

Hye didn't know what a war overlord even meant in the outer battlefield, but it seemed like it was a prestigious name. He checked the initial price of it, and it was just at sixty million only. Without the need to wait for the auction over it to start, he knew the buyout option was one hundred and twenty million.

Chapter 1670 Causing A Stir In The Universe

Hye didn't care about such a price. If he wanted, he could change the type of bones he'd pay with, reducing this number greatly.

ραndαsΝοvεl.cοm He tried, and if he changed the normal bones with a green grade dark realm one, then the one hundred million price tag would be as low as only one million. Not to mention he got billions upon billions of each grade of bones.

He didn't lack anything, and he wanted to buy this item to kill his boredom. He also wanted to see what items brought out from the outer battlefield were like.

His darkness power came from the other universe, which meant any item from the outer battlefield with darkness attached to it would be useful for him.

His wait didn't last that long before this item's turn arrived. The moment it appeared on the feed in front of him, Hye selected instantly the buyout option.

"And this time it's a treasure found in the outer battlefield. As you can see, it releases dark energy… Ahem, I'm sorry for that but it seems we have someone who got it using the Buy Out option! Congrats for him…"

Just as her words landed, many customers at their places looked in disbelief towards the screen. It was just as Hye guessed, a sort of tacit agreement between everyone taking part regularly at these auctions.

"He must be someone new, damn!"

"What a waste! He is quite impatient!"

"If he wanted it, he could have gotten it for a lower price… Who the heck is this reckless dude?"

Everyone experienced in these sorts of auctions felt like they were in front of a cub, a newbie who knew nothing about how the real world ran, how things were done.

But when they examined his name and details, they froze in their places.

"Damn! Is it that human who humiliated the Hescos?!!"

"No way! It can't be him!"

"Is it Hye?"

Many recognised the person with the human race title next to it. There wasn't a second human in the entire universe except for Hye, someone who was wealthy and strong enough to take part in such a high level auction.

When they started to investigate, paying part of their wealth in return for this tip, they got to know more about him. Just when they learnt that he paid his fees using bones they became surer of their earlier doubts.

"Hahahahaha! That Hye… I told them to not suppress him that much, hahahaha!" Silverlining was watching this feed just to kill his boredom. He was authorised to monitor lots of auctions, looking for anything that might be useful for the empire.

When he saw the human race words below Hye's hidden name, he knew it was him. And instantly he recalled the long debate that happened frequently inside the closed circle of leadership in his race.

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The latter couldn't refute such words, as he knew like others that without Hye, he would never have reached such a stage in authority inside the empire.

Silverining wasn't the only person attending this auction, other figures from the Toranks race were there, and they instantly recognised Hye for his human race title and bones.

And as they noticed him, others did, including Hye's enemies; Hescos.

"That son of b*tch! He is at that damn place!"

"I told you to take down this world before, right? But no one listened!"

"Why are you acting like this? Why don't we just mass our forces and hit these two together?"

"Let's contact our forces around that place, we need to give them a proper lesson. I bet an arm they let him in to just antagonise us!"

"Hmm… This is quite possible. Let's take it down then, at least we'll burn the world and kill that despicable human with everyone else."

Lots of discussions erupted when people recognised Hye. Yet the person who caused such a stir wasn't aware of any of that. And even if he did, he wouldn't feel any pressure.

If the Hescos got the ability to do it, they'd have taken down this world a long time ago. This move which he hoped for, happened without him intending anything from it. And if he knew, he'd just laugh to his heart content.

Hye watched how another item appeared on the feed, before he received a message about deducting the bones from his inventory in exchange for gaining one item.

When he got this rock out, he felt how huge it was! In the feed, it was lying peacefully on the table, looking as if it was small on the size of one's closed fist or something.

"It's like a giant boulder," he examined the rock that seemed to weigh at least tens of tons. It was five metres in width, ten in length, with an irregular surface that was filled with lots of protrusions and indentations.

It was pitch black, exuding a layer of black colour as it got a shield over it. He circled it, ignoring the next auctioned item. "I can't tell anything just from looking…"

He touched it, to feel how cold it was. Yet he didn't feel anything abnormal, nothing at all except for this coldness.

"I should try using my technique and darkness energy…" he thought, before starting to make a technique. Yet when he was just about to complete forming a circle, something changed in that rock.

To make this circle, he had to use his blood to control it. The moment his blood appeared, the rock started to vibrate, issuing noises like it was responding to a call or something.

The moment this happened, he noticed it. He didn't continue forming the circle or completing the technique, just let his blood drop over the ground while examining the rock.

Chapter 1671 An Egg!

The rock didn't stop buzzing after cancelling the technique. And that told him it was something that was related to his blood, not technique.

"Does it want my blood?" Hye knew that binding anything in this universe was related to blood. Yet he didn't know why the previous owner of this rock didn't try such an obvious way out.

He didn't know that everyone who owned this rock tried, including the ones running this auction. Yet they never gained anything back from doing this, not like Hye.

The secret behind this was related to his darkness energy. His blood was filled with darkness energy, not like any other being in the universe.

Hye's power was unique, not present in this universe, not that common in the other universe.

Hye dropped his blood over this rock, waiting for something different to happen. But as his blood fell, nothing happened.

"Don't tell me it's broken…" he didn't know why this rock buzzed when he released his blood and didn't do anything else after dropping his blood over it. As he got disappointed, he slapped it using his palm in a casual way, intending to take it back into his inventory and forget about it.

"Damn you! Let me go!" the moment he placed his palm on the surface of the rock, he couldn't retract it back. Some sort of unstoppable force appeared, pulling his hand towards the rock, fixedly pinning him there.

And then something new happened. The rock started to vibrate, while he felt like his wound was getting bigger, and his blood was getting sucked away at an alarming rate.

"Damn vampire rock! Let my hand go!" he tried to pull his hand with all the might he had, yet he couldn't. He hurriedly took out healing potions, ones he bought during the past twenty years using his bones, to make sure he wouldn't end up dying.

"Agh!" Yet for some reason, it seemed like what he did irritated the rock, ending up feeling like a needle was inserted inside his flesh or something. He shouted, tried to call for help, but no one was there.

"Screw it! I'll break free myself!" he started to release all his suppressed power, releasing his wings, and even taking out his glaive. Yet nothing worked. His glaive couldn't leave a scratch over the rock, while his wings kept pulling him hard away, failing in even letting his hand depart the rock.

As his attempt to drink the potion failed, he didn't do it again. The relief he felt back then was nothing compared to the pain that followed. And so he resigned to his fate, letting his hand on the rock, while examining it closely.

"It's shrinking…" This was the first thing he noticed after ten minutes. The size of this rock was huge at first, but now it looked a bit smaller. And that wasn't all.

For a reason, all the protrusions and indentations over its surface changed and started to fade slowly away. After an hour, the rough surface of this rock changed, to be soft.I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm

The size of the rock decreased by a huge margin. Right now, the rock was less than five metres in length, two in width. It was a bit lower than half of its initial size. But at the same time, Hye felt weak as his blood kept sucking dry.

"I hope something good will come out from you in the end…" as he ended up in such a miserable situation, he hoped this rock would give something great in the end.

His wait lasted for three more hours. By that time, the huge black rock with irregular surface changed into a big egg, oval in shape, with smooth surface, and dark blue colour.

Hye couldn't believe this rock changed and transformed into an egg in mere hours. The size of this egg was just equal to half his body when he showed his gigantic figure. And yet it wasn't even close from its original size or shape.

"An egg? Don't tell me something is going to hatch from it…" he was in the middle of his words when many things happened.

First he felt like the suction force that stuck his hand suddenly vanished. In addition to that, the egg started to shine again, not in black light but dark blue.

Before he'd celebrated the freedom of his hand, the egg suddenly rose over the ground, got surrounded with blinding dark blue light, before he saw nothing in front of him but bright blue and white light, and then he found himself on the ground on his back.

He felt pain on his forehead and touched it to find something slightly bulging there. The moment he felt this, he hurriedly woke up, found a mirror at this place, and started to examine his face.

"F*ck! It got itself into my brain!!!" The face that appeared in front of him was his, but with the egg outer shell, a small part of it, appearing from the middle of his forehead.

He could see thick veins twisting from that opening, surrounding the egg, looking like serpents or something.

Hye tried to touch it again, but he didn't feel any pain. He didn't feel he was hurt or anything. And still, he didn't feel that good either. He got a mysterious egg into his forehead, one that was initially a huge rock.

"I won't buy anything random from that damn auction again," all his attempts to try and get this egg out from his forehead failed. He tried to use his power, darkness energy, even taking out a sword and trying to dig it out. He didn't even bleed when he did so, as all the blood was absorbed by this egg.

ραΠdαsΝοvεl ƈοm He felt more weakness, and that made him recall how this rock reacted when he took a potion. Yet this time nothing happened, as if the egg turned blind eye towards what he was doing.

"Screw you!"

Chapter 1672 Bidding Battle

Hye kept cursing it over and over again, feeling like he got tricked or something. He returned to sit over the sofa, eating a few of his dried-up meals while returning to watch the ongoing auction.

Aside from the weird shape of his forehead, he felt nothing else. And that partially made him quite relieved and not anxious.

As he returned to check the auction, he began to be wary of anything sold there. He reread the description of each item, feeling that even the items sold from this universe were scarcely described.

He didn't like that. He kept watching without much interest, watching until the chariot he once noticed was about to get auctioned.

He looked at it, without any buyout price, with one hundred million base price. He knew this was going to be a bloodbath, as he noticed how brutal the fight over grand war weapons and items like this chariot was.

As there was no floor price for these items, it was expected the final price to end multiple times the initial price tags of them.

Hye sat on the sofa, eating from a plate filled with delicious fruit pieces. He was considering whether he should take the risk or not. Yet eventually he decided to give it a go.

As he decided to buy it, he changed the currency used to be that of his green dark realm bone. As for each increase, he decided to make it equal to one hundred thousand bones, which was an amount equivalent to ten million silver grade normal bones.

It was a scary increase without doubt, and he wanted to terrify those who were interested in buying this chariot. As he could tell, the long process of battling between these interested buyers was the thing that made the final price skyrocket.

Yet all his dreams and hopes, all his plans and machinations failed to guess what was going to happen. The moment the auction started; his name appeared as the one raising the bid in a scary way.

The moment his name appeared alongside his race in a bubble, many started to gaze at the screen in pure interest, while others looked in pure evil.

The Hescos were adamant at making him pay lots of price to get this item. It wasn't just limited to this item, but they got orders from high above to make every single item he'd bid on rise to a scary level.

The risk of winning the bet and paying tons of wealth wasn't existent in their eyes. They knew he was waiting on the sideline, fishing for what interested him. So the moment he'd move, he meant to buy that item no matter what.

As for the fear that he might not have enough bones, they doubted that. For twenty years straight, news about Hye exchanging tons of stuff with the Toranks spread like wildfire.

He never stopped exchanging things for his bones. And that meant he already had a ton of them. No one actually knew how much Hye had of his bones, not even his trusted allies, the Toranks, not even his closest friend, Silverlining.

Hye just started bidding when he noticed many were madly increasing the price. The chariot that was supposed to get sold at five hundred normal bone prices, five million dark realm bones, reached a staggering price of two billion!I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm

"They are insane," he blinked twice, looking at this chariot and the scary price next to it, "forget it! You want to play dirty with me, then let's see how you'll handle this…"

He next altered the price he'd increase, instantly doubling the price. It was a gamble, either he'd win the race over this awesome chariot, or they'd risk raising the price again and then he'd sit in his place, laughing on their misery.

ραΠdαsΝοvεl.cοm Paying such an enormous amount of wealth just for one item? That was indeed crazy. He knew if they fell for his trap, they'd pay a hefty price for this.

"He doubled it!"

"He is crazy!"

"He wants to scare us away, fearing to pay more…"

"Let's pressure him then… Who is going to challenge him back?"

"Screw this, I'm going to f*ck his wealth up! He killed and humiliated lots of my race and won't handle this!"

Most if not all of the audience were stupefied in their places the moment Hye raised the price in such a scary way. Yet when the sexy lady was about to call this for him, one of the Hescos race members raised the price, doubling it again!

"Hahahaha! No f*cking way! He fell for it, hahahahaha!" the moment Hye saw this and he couldn't control his laughter anymore, "do you take me for a fool? For half of this price, I can buy a fleet of grand chariots as much as I like, hahahaha!"

Hye knew this chariot was quite special and powerful, and yet he didn't like the idea of paying much more of what it was worth in return for just keeping his face.

Instead, he relaxed his back, looked in pure amusement while the sexy lady counted down till zero. "Congrats Mr. G from the Hescos race, this is by far one of our priciest items sold in our humble auction in the entire century! Thanks for making all of us witness such a huge wealth getting paid… What the hell? He declined the payment!!!"

Just in the middle of her enthusiastic words, she got a message that Hescos member declined paying the price he bidded.

"Are you sure? Refusing just to pay once will permanently give you a ban! Not to mention everyone else from your esteemed race will be lowered two entire stages in our evaluation system! Are you sure?"

The tone and attitude of the sexy lady totally changed when she regained her composure. It felt like she wasn't a merchant, but a vicious warrior, standing in the heart of a deadly battle, about to kill that enemy who dared to spit on her face!

Chapter 1673 A Nice Staff

"Fine," Hye didn't know what was going on. But as this lady said her words, she resented another payment request that also declined instantly.

"I know you and my world have many different views, but to renege on a trade deal… This is a big stain to your reputation, Hescos!" the lady spoke in a low and yet quite terrifying tone, gritting on her teeth while saying every single word.

Hye's eyes went wide when he guessed what happened, ending up entering into a chorus of laughter for a few minutes. He imagined that Hescos race member, sitting in his fancy mansion, sweating profusely as he'd get screwed later on by everyone.

Neither his race nor outsiders would show him any mercy. "This is what you get for trying to scam me, hahahaha!" Hye said amidst his laughs, only regretting not having a direct feed for Hescos' face right now.

"As that chicken acted this dirty, the item is reopened for auction again," the lady waved her hair, before adding in the old calm and seductive tone, "now, who is going to buy this chario… Oh, our esteemed human race customer just bidded with three hundred million of his bones… Who wants to raise the bid? Anyone?"

This time, no one dared to enter with Hye into a battle to raise the price. The blood of that Hescos was still fresh on Hye's hands, and everyone feared to suffer from the same fate again.

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The auction ended by him winning it by the initial price he bidded with. In his eyes, this was a reasonable price to get such a baby. He looked at it inside his inventory, while evilly laughing.

"I was about to get it for around seven times this price, but you acted quite impatient and arrogant," Hye laughed again, while imagining what the lady nymph would say if she was here.

Since he gained access to the auction, she was led away by Uncle Lam. only Hye was allowed to witness and take part in the auction and taking her away was just a normal procedure that Hye didn't think much about.

Yet what he didn't know was that she was taken away, towards a nearby military base on another level. She was asked tons of questions about what she was doing here with the human, with Hye.

The lady nymph never imagined that she'd be led to such a fierce interrogation place, facing a dozen fierce looking army generals. They looked a bit impatient and nervous, as if something big was brimming in the shadows, heading towards them.

The lady nymph didn't need to lie, she said how they arrived here. She didn't even hide the fact that one of her impact's bases got ambushed and destroyed. After all, the owners of this world could easily acquire such intel without the need to pay for any price.

News about such tragedies were destined to be widely spread all over the universe. People of the universe loved to speak about rumours, listening to tragic stories, and even showed much interest in learning more about what others lost and how they suffered.

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As for how Hye would react, she couldn't tell. She already guessed his true intentions of dragging the owners of this world into a brutal and bloody war against the Hescos. And she knew if Hye got the chance, he'd pour more fuel over the blazing fire.

The interrogation went on for long hours, with different generals paying her a visit, harshly speaking with her. The more they acted like this, the more she knew things were going down on a rollercoaster.

ραndαsΝοvεl.cοm She imagined how Hye would react when he'd hear the news. He'd not care about the miserable moments she lived through and would even laugh on how things ended up between the two mighty forces.

As she was getting squeezed for intel, and others went to verify what she said, Hye was leisurely watching the ongoing auction without taking part again.

He saw deadly weapons, swords, knives, but no glaive. When he opened the list again after another day, he found out there wasn't a single glaive entirely there. But there was something that he liked, a magic staff.

It was a staff made out of pure metal, pale gold in colour, with semi-circular red and black lines spreading all over it. The staff ended up with a gem like crystal, something that looked crystal clear in the picture.

Just from its look, Hye could tell how special this staff was. And it looked great. But what really picked his interest was its effects, skills attached to it, and the boost his stats would gain.

"Ten folds the stats as long as the holder is at stage five or below? I bet everyone will fight for this baby…" Hye read the description of this item quite thoroughly and with much interest and focus. Unlike other items, this came with a long and well explained list of skills.

The staff generally boosted the holder's stat, focused not on healing like he imagined, but on forming pure offensive attacks that would endanger anyone below stage 3 if it was used by him.

And that was mainly because he was still very weak to begin with. This was one of the rarest items he saw in the auction that could make a real difference in any battle, cross any gap in power between one and his enemies.

"I'll buy it!" he decided, without even caring about anything else. Even if there were few who wanted to make him pay a little more than what he did before, he wouldn't mind that.

This piece of weapon was equivalent to lots of U stat crystals, and he'd get to carry it, lend it to others if he needed to.

Yet he had to wait for almost half a day, watching useless and weird items getting sold.

Chapter 1674 The Plan To Secure What Hye Wants

Hye didn't take part in the auction again out of his curiosity. Every time he got itchy to do so, he'd scratch his forehead and get reminded by what he suffered thanks to being curious.

"He is bidding again!"

Just when the turn of this staff came, Hye didn't hesitate to start raising the price by three folds at the beginning. The initial price of this staff was equivalent to three hundred million of his normal bones. So, he raised it to reach nine hundred million, enough to scare most but not everyone.

"We won't let him have it this time. He made my friend and my race look bad!"

"I'm joining this time, and this staff will be mine!"

"I'll join to pour fuel in the flames and watch the show, hahahaha!"

Three different groups of people started to join the bidding this time. Each had their own motives, and the earliest to give up were the ones who wanted this staff.

The price rose up in just ten minutes to exceed four billion bones! That was indeed scary, the same price Hye let that Hescos member fall in his trap with. But this time, neither Hye, nor the ones who wanted to see more fighting, or the ones who belonged to the Hescos race or their allies stopped raising the bid.

Hye knew this staff would be sold at a scary price. So, he didn't flinch back and raised the bid over five billion bones in one go. The moment he did so, the ones wanting to breathe fire and watch it spread stopped out of panic.

They feared to end up the same as what happened with the Hescos members. So most of the bidders stopped, and only three continued.

Ironically, one of them belonged to the Hescos race. The other two belonged to the Hiant and the Scorchers races. The lady handling the auction had to stop it for a few minutes when it reached the six billion mark. She asked the Hescos race member to pay in advance a deposit, to not repeat the unfortunate event that happened before.

That member felt humiliation, but the moment he thought about Hye having it, he decided to pay the deposit.

"Let's continue," the sexy lady beamed with a bright smile, and then the bidding war continued.

After reaching the seven billion mark, only Hye and that stubborn Hescos race member continued to battle. When the price reached eight billion, the sexy lady had to stop the auction again and ask for another deposit. Yet this time he didn't comply, ending up with Hye winning the bid with eight billion.

"Phew! That was interesting," Hye wiped nonexistent beads of sweat over his forehead, "it seemed these folks think I got a low amount of bones. My absence in bidding made them think this way…"

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He could tell that the moment he took part in the last bidding and things went different. He watched lots of auctions happening, and nothing like this happened before.

That meant his participation stirred up more to take part and mud the waters. Hye took out the staff and started to examine it thoroughly, while deciding to take part in more auctions from now on.

Like this, many would get screwed up by him, or he'd win lots of biddings, ending up forming a scary image of how wealthy he was.

If the former happened, then he'd just make more examples out of people like that Hescos race member. And if the latter occurred, then he'd end up having lots of items.

He didn't intend on using any item without enough explanation. Anything that came from the other universe would be frozen inside his inventory for a long time, until he'd figure out what this egg was for.

As he decided that, he started to show up from time to time in the next auctions. At first, his appearance stirred more people to do the same. And that ended up with many troublemakers having either to pay huge part of their wealth to keep their faces or get expelled from the auction and would never return.

Gradually the image of Hye started to grow scary and become more mysterious. In the later biddings, not many joined, and only those interested in the items sold tried out their luck, all ended up failing for Hye's sake.

The latter spent close to fifty billion bones on many items during the next few days, shocking not only those who knew little about him, but also those who watched him a long time ago fighting in his apocalypse.

His allies and enemies were stupefied by what he did. And yet Hye seemed to not show any sign of slowing down. He kept appearing every ten items, buying one in a striking manner, before entering to silence for nine more items and do it again.

This started to become a pattern, and everyone watching this realised that Hye was just toying, playing as a kid, without even being concerned with any of the items he bought.

This just didn't help him avoid a hectic battle over the Crystal Heart, but it also helped in shielding his honest interest in this item. He paid huge wealth indeed but gained lots of items in return.

He bought many artefacts, varying from those which could be used by a single person to those who'd affect a large area of land and forces. He bought things no one knew anything about, things that everyone wanted, and even common things as well.

He didn't show a fixed pattern to anything he wanted to purchase, fooling everyone during the remaining days of the auction, without exposing his real interest or anything.

If they got any of this, then they knew how scarily wealthy this human was.

Chapter 1675 The Miraculous Crytsal Heart

Wealth was power, and with such wealth, even many who wanted to see him pay lots of bones in exchange for items started to think about making more deals with him.

Yet when everyone recalled that he was inside a place that was unreachable, they sighed in regret. Few of them were smart enough to contact the family of merchants running the auction, asking them if they could sell them the information of his location and how to contact him.

To their surprise, this worked! And when they bought the intel, they were shocked at first, laughed later on.

Hye was in the same world where that business family was. This made them realise how he gained access to such a high-level auction. And then news started to spread.

The ones who bought such news for a price, doubled it and sold it to others. Soon enough, everyone learnt about where Hye was, and from there they started to think of ways to maximise their gains.

It wasn't that every big force or powerhouse in the universe was lacking any treasure or artefact, interesting stuff and other things. But no one had access to Hye's bones, except for the Toranks who monopolised the entire market, drying it up all the time by offering scarcely few bones to sell.

The universe was hungry for Hye's bones. And so many started to contact this merchant family, asking for ways to offer deals with Hye. They offered many treasures, but the answer they got back was quite surprising for them.

"He just wants crystals?!!"

"Damn! Don't tell me he is planning to grow to be the fourth strongest force in the universe!"

"I have many unused crystal mines; will he buy them from me or what?"

Many started to respond differently about this. Yet Hye, the person who caused all, didn't know about any of that. He sat on the sofa, while meddling with the Crystal Heart he just acquired.

"Using this will make my kingdom rise without any problems…" he started to put huge plans for the distant future, all depending on how this heart would yield crystals in the end, "time to put it to use."

The Crystal Heart was a big, rounded ball, one that was almost in the same size as him in the giant form. He touched it, used the old method to bring anything in the universe, his blood.

The moment he did, the crystal shone brightly in pure black light. It was transparent at first, but now it got dyed with his energy, a sign that it got linked to him.

As the crystal got linked to him, he could see what was inside. As he heard before, there was a space inside, one that looked like a world of lavish green land, fertile soil, without a single tree there, only an endless sea of grass.I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm

"Time to test what they told me," Hye ignored the rest of the auction as the remaining items weren't that useful or interesting. He didn't need to stick to his act anymore, as he already got what he needed in the end.

He took out the tons of crystals he got, almost half of what he gained so far. He didn't want to risk using too many, ending up losing big.

In case this attempt failed, he knew he didn't suffer that much, and he'd buy more crystals from other merchant families in this world. Not to mention he was waiting for the merchants he dealt with to finish gathering up lots of crystals from various sources, illegal ways even if needed.

He didn't care about any of that. So, he took out the crystals, and the moment he did the Crystal Heart sucked them all.

ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm He watched what was going on inside that space. The moment the crystals got sucked inside, they turned into bolts of lightning that hit the ground fiercely. Then some sort of a hole appeared after the lightning hit, without anything growing out from there.

"Let's see how my bones will do," he decided to start up using green normal bones first. The moment he took those low-grade ones, the heart sucked them again. Yet this time lightning didn't appear in space, only thick fog that looked like the mist in the early morning covering the world.

The mist started to fill the space of this world, slowly finding their way into the soil. Hye didn't use more than one thousand bones and waited to see the results. And what happened next was quite shocking to him.

The first few minutes, nothing happened. Then slowly the holes started to show something green coming out from it. He thought this process would take a long time and was about to close his connection with this heart, store it away, and return after a few days or even weeks to inspect them.

Yet before he'd do any of that, he saw something miraculous happening. The green sprouts that came out from the holes started to grow widely, at a speed that was left to be described as abnormal.

The small sprouts grew to be trees in less than one minute. And then it stopped growing taller and started to grow a thick and lavish green crown.

It was quite big, at least spanning over tens of metres from his perspective. And that wasn't all. The bones' energy seemed to be enough to let little puddings appear at many branches, looking like they'd grow to form fruits of crystals later on.

"This… That can't be real, right?!!" Hye was instantly shocked, and looked at the amazing scene of tons of green trees that appeared and filled many parts of the world.

He used half of what he gained from crystals, just one thousand green grade bones. And that was the result. "I shouldn't celebrate too early…" he tried to calm himself down, "I still didn't get any crystal out of it."

He knew it was remarkable to grow such trees in such a short time, but he still didn't get any crystals from them.

Chapter 1676 An Interesting Offer

Hye had to keep feeding these trees energy, until they'd give him crystals in return. After that, he'd assess the entire process and determine if it was this heaven defying or not.

As he decided to go all out, he took the highest-grade bones he had, the Holy Ones bones. He took ten thousand of them, in batches of one thousand after one thousand.

Each time he took one batch out, the mist would explode inside, trees would grow slightly taller and would become thicker and more lavish. They'd grow more fruits, and yet all the fruits remained in pudding stage.

"What's wrong?" after spending this amount, he decided to stop. Something felt amiss here, and he felt like he was missing something.

Hye spent enough bones to grow up one hundred folds of the crystals he threw inside that heart. Yet he didn't get a single crystal out of any tree.

What made him doubt there was a catch to this treasure was the fact that even with all these bones, not a single tree grew up any fruit. All grew up puddings at the same size and shape.

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The only difference was in colour. There was a myriad of colours ranging from white all the way to pale gold. He felt like this was related to the degree of the crystals produced from the trees, something that made him recall the previous talk about this heart with the princess and Uncle Lam.

He was glad these trees were growing in grade, ending up yielding much higher crystals than the ones he threw inside. But what made him unsettled was the long time it seemed for these trees to take to grow up.

He wanted to ask someone, but he doubted any would help. They must have known about this defect of this treasure before selling it, so they'd not expose such a thing to him.

"I have to wait then," he decided to store the Crystal Heart away and wait for few days before inspecting it again. As he did so, he examined the list of remaining items, found nothing special that might interest him.

[There are lots of messages from many valuable customers, wanting to offer you different items for sale. Will you accept?]

Just before he'd close the interface, a message suddenly popped up with a soft female voice that rang in his ears. He looked at the interface then at the list of people who were there. "That's interesting… Let me see what they want to sell…"

Hye knew these customers must have approached the merchant family here and convinced them to let their message through. This must have come for a certain price, and he'd not be surprised if they ended up having part of the grand loot these customers would gain.

He knew how valuable and extremely rare his bones were. As they were the ones to approach him, he accepted their messages and started to read them one by one.

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Out of curiosity he accepted their offer and started to read their messages. But just from the first message and he got extremely shocked, even stood slowly off his sofa, with widened eyes out of his disbelief.

[I have a group of many unused crystal mines to offer for you. These mines are located at XY coordinates in the universe. They are rich in crystals, but the general situation there isn't that good. These mines are located near the border of our universe, close to the outer battlefield. Many battles erupt there frequently, and I couldn't keep the mining process running…]

The first message he got was something that was out of his wildest expectations. Someone was offering him a group of crystal mines, the most precious thing in the entire universe as he understood, the thing he deeply and desperately craved to have.

This man offered him such mines without even batting an eye. He was even sincere in describing the hardships he faced to keep these mines running, ending up suffering more losses than gains. He closed these mines, offered them for sale, but no one ever agreed.

No one wanted a piece of such hot cake, not in such dangerous spot of the universe. Unlike them, Hye didn't care about any of that.

Slowly his plans that were set into motion were already connected with such offer. Hye examined the price this man offered, and he found out that he asked for one hundred million of his silver grade bones.

Hye saw this price to be quite cheap, and that made him doubt the number of crystal mines offered. [How many do you offer?] he had to ask, [And from what race you are from?]

[I'm Lanster, from the Silver Giants] the man responded almost instantly, as if he was sitting on the respond window, [As for the number… I have around one hundred small sized mines, and almost fifteen medium grade mines. I have also one high grade mine, the one that's responsible for all this…]

This man was indeed quite talkative, quite straightforward and sincere. He kept speaking about how that high grade mine released energy in dense amount, reaching far and wide, reaching places away from these mines.

ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm Thanks to such rich energy, it seemed the forces from the other universe got crazy about. They kept trying to control the mines, ending up attracting tons of forces from the outer battlefield from both universes, turning the mine area into a bloodbath field.

Hye thought about this, before he tried to reach for anyone from this merchant family.

[How may I help you, esteemed sir?] another soft girl's voice appeared with a message that responded to his inquiry.

[I want to ask about this… Lanster… Is he someone trustable? Not one of those fake guys…] Hye was worried this would be all scams. But from the answer he got from this lady, he knew Lanster had a fine reputation.

Chapter 1677 The Doors Are Locked!

Lanster was someone who always followed his promises, made lots of deals over years with this world's various merchant families, not just this one. According to the lady, he was one of the most trusted customers they ever dealt with.

[Thanks, I'll accept the offer, but… How will I own it? How can I get there?] Hye once read the good words about Lanster and he decided to accept such an offer.

He'd be crazy to even let such a chance slip by. He knew any dealing with anyone in the universe would be secured and guaranteed by the system. There shouldn't be any problem in his words, but there were little issues that troubled Hye.

For example, Lanster could pick any rocky planet and say this was a crystal mine. At the same time, even if his words were true, Hye wasn't that near to begin with from the outer zone of the universe.

He wanted Lanster to provide him with a secure way to head there, not to mention he also wanted to bring other people around.

[I have a system authorised ownership licence of these mines, stating clearly each mine's location, the estimated number of crystals by the last check a few months ago…]

As Hye asked, Lanster ran him down with long and very detailed answers. Hye was satisfied with all this, feeling that Lanster could be a nice friend.

[Let's add each other as friends] as Lanster thoroughly explained everything, even offering to send a detailed map of portals he could board to reach there, Hye asked instantly to add him as a friend.

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Lanster agreed at once. [So, are we going to make the deal?] he asked in the interface, not using the direct message feature between friends, powered up by the system.

[Sure, let's do it] Hye paused, [In addition to that, I want the detailed map, alongside all the forces you can provide for me]

ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm [Forces?]

[I'm willing to pay ten times the price you asked for in return for this] Hye had a plan in his mind. But he had to safeguard against many things. For example, he had to first mine these crystals and provide them to his forces. Then his forces would grow stronger.

Yet if his enemies moved fast, didn't care about the dangerous situation over there, or if the brutal battles at the outer battlefield expanded and reached his lands, then he had to join the fight.

He planned to drag the invincible protective shield to cover up that zone. He made up his mind, he would start colonising that area as the first base ever for his kingdom.

He was worried of the interval period he'd take to mine crystals, arm up his forces, and defend the entire region. So if possible, he was willing to hire any forces to support his stand there.

[I can't sell you anything, sorry…] After long minutes of thinking about this offer, Lanster rejected it.

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[Oh, for how long? And what about the losses?] Lanster seemed more open to speaking about hiring his forces instead of selling them.

[One year is long enough] Hye thought for a moment, [As for the losses, I can pay one hundred bones for each loss on your side]

[Agreed!] Lanster knew this was a grand chance, one that he'd be a fool to turn it down. He instantly formulated the contracts, sent them to Hye to sign.

Hye signed the contracts, and his hopes were elevated for the remaining messages he got. But unlike his hopes, he got only crystal offers from the rest of the messages.

"It's not that bad, after all I can't get any crystals from here for a long time…" he muttered to himself, acting a bit realistic and accepting such offers.

He didn't let any down, accepted all. He spent billions of his bones in these exchanges. But the beauty about this was that all these deals were supported by the system.

Once he added everyone as his friends, he could send and receive things from them. He sent the bones in exchange for tons of crystals. And now he was feeling more reassured about forming a good sizable force from his kingdom's armies.

"It's better to wait to see how long this heart thing will take before throwing away more crystals there," as he got his stocks of crystals multiplied by two digits, he thought about throwing more crystals as seeds into that Crystal Heart.

But he didn't do it, and wanted to first see how long this thing would take to produce fruits.

He spent long hours finalising his deals, before he stretched out his arms and intended to leave this place.

"It's… Locked!!" just as he was about to go out, he found out that the doors were tightly shut, sealed to not allow him to go out, "what's going on here?"

He was puzzled, and his vigilance rose up to an alarming level. He thought about using force to break this door, thought about using part of the gained crystals if needed to break this door and fight any forces coming to stop him from leaving.

But when he thought about everything, he did so far to curry this world's higher powers favour, he refrained from doing so. He didn't want to ruin everything he did. And so, he opened his interface, sent a message to the same lady he spoke lastly with, asking her about what was going on.

[Oh, I'm sorry about that. But let me check things for you and return later with a clear and satisfying answer] the lady seemed more respectful than the ones who locked this door on him.

Hye knew if they meant ill, and that was something he couldn't pinpoint a reason for, then they'd acknowledge what they did and refuse to open the doors for him.

Chapter 1678 Terrance!

But from his understanding of how merchants usually things did, there was one simple explanation for that. It was something that forced an evil smile over his face.

ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm "So the two tigers are issuing their claws at each other, hahahaha!" He knew the only logical explanation for all this was for a big war to be about to start, one between the world's owners and the Hescos imperial forces.

This was something Hye wanted to see. And if that was true, then he'd not mind getting locked here.

"That's why they separated us then," Hye then thought about the green nymph lady. She was led away on the excuse of his need to be private. But that seems now to be a false reasoning.

He guessed what happened to her, partially. If he was in the shoes of the ones leading this world, then he'd interrogate this lady, using the fact that she was just a simple merchant and wouldn't hope to enter in such a complicated conflict with the owners of this world.

But they misunderstood something… She might be a merchant, might think and act like one, but she got a valuable deal with him. So even if they tried to tempt her with riches, even threatening her with harsh promises and dangers, she'd not expose him out.

Hye didn't know if she was going to sell him out or not, but he didn't care. Even if they learnt about him drawing the attention of Hescos towards them, it wasn't like he was the one behind the long and deep enmity between the two in the first place!

In fact he'd use this situation to his advantage, offer them his services and help in any means. He didn't hesitate to send her a message, one that didn't get an answer for.

"They must have blocked any means to communicate with her, amazing," he confirmed his early guesses, knowing that she was under heavy interrogation all this time.

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He was right indeed. And he didn't know that by his message to that lady working as a call centre, he freed the lady green lymph from such a useless situation.

She didn't say anything useful, only saying that Hye was an old customer of hers. She was here to lead him across the universe, a paid service which she'd act as his guide or something.

The higher ups of this world didn't buy any of this. More news about the attack coming from the Bringold impact branch arrived to their ears as the lady nymph suspected. And yet none of what she said was false, none could be held against her or him.

She was smart to tell the truth and cover up anything about their real intentions of being here. They could only let her go, after discussing what they'd should do for a long hour.

"Sorry about that, Mr. Hye," just as Hye waited for one hour, pestering that call centre lady with many complaints, the door finally opened. A new face appeared there, one middle aged man, one who wore full body armour and seemed ready to go into battle at any moment.

He didn't give Hye any vibe of being a merchant. If any, he got the air of a ferocious army leader, a mighty general, one who lived through lots of battles and bathed in the blood of his enemies frequently.

"What's that for?" Even if he knew he wasn't part of the merchant family owning this place, Hye never showed a speck of change over his face. He just showed his disgruntled expression, one that could tell anyone how dissatisfied he was with such service and treatment.

"It's just something we had to do to keep our world safe," the general didn't hide the real intentions about what happened here, didn't even try to coat his words with anything.

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"I'm Terrance, the leading general of the forces defending my world," he passed by Hye as if he didn't care about him in the slightest, "I care too much about the safety of my home, my people, and foremost the survivability of this place."

"And?" Hye turned to face this general, crossing his arms as if he didn't care about what he just said, "what's that related to me?"

"The Hescos are after you, are coming here for blood."

"I heard you have a death feud with them, it's not like I started all this."

"And I hope you aren't going to be the one to put an end to this," the general looked in silence towards Hye, glaring in a threatening way towards him.

"I'm not your enemy, I'm here just to do business."

"Or use us as a decoy to escape, right?" Terrance saw through him, as if his thoughts were this easy to read. Even if the general and others behind him already saw through his intentions and plans, he'd never show any change on his face.

"I know you are here for business…" Terrance paused, sized Hye up and down, "but are you a friend or not… That I can't tell."

"And I don't care about your opinion," Hye turned around, intending to leave.

"You didn't ask about your girlfriend!" Terrance tried to stop him by mentioning the lady green nymph. But Hye never paused for a single second in his track, walked calmly as he said:

"I know you are sure she isn't my girlfriend."

"Aren't you worried about her?" Terrance started to follow Hye, continuing to threaten him using the lady nymph.

"She belongs to a trading impact," Hye shrugged, without even turning to look at Terrance or anything, "even if her impact is weak, it can bring your reputation huge damage if you did anything to her. So be my guest and try to see how much you'll screw up your world."

*Phew!*

It seemed the last words of Hye touched a bitter nerve at Terrace. The latter flashed fast, standing in front of Hye, blocking his path forward.

"I don't tolerate threats."