Chapter 1679 Going On A Shopping Spree
"And yet here you are throwing them right and left as you are throwing candies!"
"I have power here, you don't!"
"Let's see if you want to add the Toranks in the basket, adding a more ferocious enemy to your shortlist if you touched a hair of mine!"
This was Hye's guarantee. The entire universe knew of his dealings and tight relations with the Toranks. He wasn't that sure if the Toranks would risk a war against this world for his sake. But he had nothing else to bet on.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm "That's the same thing I'm here for," Terrance finally showed his real intentions, "why not ask your friends to come and help us then?"
"What for?" Hye was straightforward about his answer, "you have to give them a good reason to come."
"You are enough," Terrance seemed to stick to his threatening methods, even if they failed to achieve any result yet.
"I'm not something they will accept," Hye shrugged, "I'm basically under their wing. Why will they come and risk such a war for someone who is already theirs?" he paused, and before Terrance would add any stupid comment again, he slowly added:
"Not to mention if you dared to touch me, they'll come and rampage this world."
"No one is strong enough to take down my world!"
"Then stop acting like a pussy and start preparing for war," Hye continued to walk away, "and stop such foolish games. I'm sick of you already, so find another one to deal with me."
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He directed his last words not to Terrance, but to the ones watching all this. He didn't need to ask anyone to know that this meeting was arranged and watched by this world's leaders.
They were worried about the incoming war. And that told Hye how big the upcoming war was going to be.
"The bigger, the better," he evilly laughed inside himself whenever he imagined how big the next war would be. His intentions were grasped right by the owners of this world, but what could they do about him?
He had the Toranks empire behind him, and they already had the Hescos as their top enemy. So, it wasn't a good situation they'd dream to see themselves facing by joining these two opposing races together as their enemies.
Hye knew they wanted to lure the Toranks in to relieve the expected pressure over their world. "Even if you are successful and strong, merchants always think about limiting their losses and increasing their gains, tsk!" he mulled about this while walking out from this place.
This time, he didn't need to take any tunnel to go out. The corridor he walked through took him outside, without wasting any of his time.
"You are finally here," as he just came out, he saw the exhausted face of the lady nymph in front of him, "we need to hurry and leave this place. A big thing is going to happen!"
"I know," Hye wasn't as concerned with this war as she was.
"Why are you acting like this?" she was startled by his cold and uncaring response. But as she was carried out by what just happened to her, she missed a few tiny, and yet very important details.I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm
"Because it's futile to try and leave this world in legal ways," Hye rolled his eyes, and yet his words held a hint that the lady nymph grasped.
"Oh, that's why you were interested in those…"
"Yes," Hye interrupted her as he knew the two were closely watched, "but let's postpone anything for now. I'm sure we will be watched."
"Tsk! I never thought we would run into a prison when we came here."
"Don't say it like that! I gained lots of things in return, hahahaha!" He recalled the lots of things he brought while being in that auction. The staff alone was enough to boost his confidence in dealing with anything unexpected.
Even if he failed to find a way to contact the smugglers, couldn't leave this world before war, then it was nice to say hello to the Hescos and collect their bones once more.
After all, they were still his enemies. And in the middle of the chaos erupted by such a brutal war, he'd find a way to leave this world and go far from here.
The two moved back the same way they came from. None tried to stop them on their return, but it was clear how nervous everyone was.
They all acted as if they were in the presence of someone of power, or someone dangerous. Many watched him in particular, as if they were asked to watch every single move of him.
Hye didn't care about them, but the general atmosphere made the lady nymph a bit nervous. As they went away from the entire zone they were in, the lady nymph turned to him as she asked:
"Now what? Do we need to rent a room at a hotel or something?"
"No, we are going to visit more places," Hye didn't like the idea of resting, not when a war was heading towards him.
"Now?!!"
"We need to stockpile, make more connections."
"And attract more attention to us, right?" she rolled her eyes, "why do I feel like you are a magnet for trouble? Huh?"
"It's just a gift," he shrugged, looking around as he decided to visit other merchant families before times of war. He already emptied the stores of one family, and there were still more to empty their pockets out of crystals.
He wanted to amass enough, enough to arm up his grand army of warriors he carried with him all the time. Like this, even if he had to get into the war, he'd be more than ready for his enemies.
The lady nymph couldn't help but succumb to his wishes. The duo went to another place ruled by a different family, ending up experiencing the same.
They kept moving from outer sectors to the deepest one. Hye thought they'd meet up with the leaders of this family, or someone like that princess and Uncle Lam. But they only met with simple merchants.
Chapter 1680 War Of Wealth!
Hye didn't act polite, emptied the content of their inventories and stores of any crystal.
He did the same for other families, ending up without meeting anyone who mattered. He was sure by the end of his long visits that the leaders of this world already agreed to distance themselves off him.
He tried to collect any news about the upcoming war, about anything related to the Hescos expected time of arrival, numbers, the size of their forces, and such things that mattered. But he failed.
"They ordered everyone to not tell us anything!" the lady nymph complained from behind while they were exiting the elevator they took to visit the last family.
"You can't blame them," Hye shrugged, "the more they kept it secretive, the worse it was."
He guessed it right. The Hescos intended to deal with two annoying thorns at the same time. And after the last humiliation they suffered in that auction, more voices rose up in the higher council of their leaders to take rid of Hye and this world once and for all.
So they were amassing tons of their forces, moving any army that belonged to them in the entire region towards that world's location.
This world was safe by the protective shield, but its location was known far and wide. So it was expected to imagine how many forces were gathering towards there.
At the same time, Toranks kept a silent radar, and didn't even send a single message out to Hye. it wasn't because they were ditching him, but they knew such war would yield them great gains if they joined.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm And so they planned to stay quiet and bide their time, waiting till when the world leaders would find it impossible to defend their world, ending up asking for their help. By that time, they'd ask for astronomical prices to interfere.
As they planned such a thing, they started to amass their forces as well. Yet they kept these away from the expected range of battle, not far enough to interfere when they'd get the deal they wanted.
They never expected that the world's leaders depended on the fact that Hye was in the middle of all this mess. These leaders thought Hye would be the one asking the Toranks for help, never crossed their minds that Hye and the Toranks were already planning something different.
The Toranks knew Hye very well and knew how he thought about things. They were sure he was there to mud waters, then find the fastest lifeboat and abandon the sinking ship!
He didn't have any interest in this world to work to save it. Or else he'd be the first to speak with them the moment he learnt about the ongoing war preparations from both sides.
They were right, but Hye decided to take part in the upcoming war. He didn't want to save this world, but wanted to get a glimpse of how big wars in the open new universe were like.
He wanted to see such high end war by himself, to know what he was lacking. And as he rented a hotel room, one that looked like a small world on its own, he started to take out his warriors and fortify them using his crystals.I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm
He raised their level to level twenty. As for him, he raised it to level thirty. He knew he got a long road ahead of him if he wanted to have a strong force in the universe.
In his eyes, arriving at stage three was a must to be able to raise one's head against other forces. That was, of course, without counting the three top races in the universe.
To do so, he needed a scary number of crystals, a figure he didn't have or was even close to. He kept checking over the Crystal Heart from time to time, ending up getting disappointed.
"This heart… It takes forever to produce the crystals…" he noticed the small puddings grew during the past two weeks of his stay in that hotel. But in the end, there was still a similar distance to cross, if not more, to harvest the first crystals from it.
According to what he understood, this heart would take a fixed amount of time to yield results. He estimated it to take roughly one month to produce crystals, and for high end ones, it might take half a month more.
This meant he had to plant tons of trees, and that needed him to spare lots of crystals.
"Hmm… They are keeping sealed lips even about when that war would start…" Hye wanted to know how long he had. If he got months, then he could plant all of his crystals into the heart. But if he got a few weeks, then it wasn't going to be productive this way.
He knew in any war; loot was going to be immense and massive. Even if he ran low on crystals, the ones he'd fight, and kill wouldn't lack such a thing. But he had to obtain enough power first to kill them before dreaming about any loot.
"If they kept even such news secretive, then I would have no other choice…"
[My man! Don't tell me you are speaking on behalf of those greedy merchants!]
The other way he had was to speak with Silverlining, trying to get the news he wanted from him.
[I'm here to speak for myself, and I'm not asking for help]
[I thought so, hahahaha! I bet they are waiting for you to ask for our aid. This way they'll save their world without the need to pay anything in return. Those merchants… I hate them!]
[Don't curse them, after all you are a merchant, hahahaha!] Hye laughed, before adding, [I want intel about the upcoming invasion. What news do you have for me?]
[It's going to be epic!] Silverlining seemed to be excited about this, [According to what I learnt, the Hescos are amassing all the forces they own in the entire region! Not to mention they already bringing the help of tons of mercenaries, the same as the ones leading that world are trying to do]
Chapter 1681 The Trees Are Ripe To Harvest!
[Hmm… So, it's going to be a war of wealth…] Hye realised what Silverlining was trying to tell him.
[Tell me, what do you want to know exactly? Do you need me to secure a safe way out of this battle for you?]
[I may need that, thanks] Hye didn't ask for his help to do that, but he wouldn't say no to such an offer, [I want to know when the war will start]
[Hmm… That depends on who is going to launch the first bullet… It's hard to give a definite answer for that…]
[A rough answer is better than nothing] Hye knew this was going to be a colossal war, so it was hard to tell when it would start. But just from this, Hye already expected a relaxed timeline for him, the best result he hoped for.
[Give them six months!] Yet the answer that Silverlining gave was something that went beyond his wildest expectations. He thought they'd not stand for longer than three months, ending up having six if not more.
[This…]
[If you want a way out, I can try my best. As if smugglers aren't in that world]
[Do you have a way to contact them?] Hye's attention instantly shifted towards this point.
[Do you need them this desperately? I once had many deals with such shady people. But be aware, they'll sell their mothers for whoever will pay higher]
[I won't limit my life to such people] Hye wasn't a fool to trust criminals, [I want them for something else?]
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[Don't tell me… Are you still after crystals?]
[It's not like you supplied me with them and I said no] Hye blamed the Toranks race by such a sentence, something that Silverlining knew he didn't have a word against.
[Anyway, if you want, give me a week…]
[Don't take a month to return to me!]
[Since when did I act this way? Come on! I'm a man with a reputation I have to protect!]
[I know, I'm just saying…]
[I'll return to you in a week. You only want crystals, right?]
[That's what I need]
Hye closed the chat with him after speaking a little more. According to Silverlining, the Toranks were preparing for war as well.
"Six months… Lots of things can happen during such a long time…" Hye knew the entire situation would be hard to predict right now, "at least I have time… Let's plant more seeds then…"I think you should take a look at ραΠdαsnovel.cοm
He took out his crystal heart and started to scatter all the remaining crystals he had. He waited for a few days before the early batch he planted showed results.
When he planted the new seeds, he didn't use much higher bones this time, only the normal ones. He made sure the trees would grow fully, before he'd stop supplying his bones.
"I don't know yet what's the value of these crystals…" he grew the habit of watching his trees once per day, checking their harvest and waiting for the moment he could get his hands over the crystals.
What he noticed was that every crystal grew to a bigger size than any crystal he saw before. And they were all lined with weird lines, different in number, thickness, and colours.
He couldn't tell if these lines would stick with the ripe crystals, or they were just how the trees fed these crystals. He had to wait until the crystals suddenly started to fall on the ground, in a scene that was amazing and quite scary.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm "Damn! Get out here! Don't go down to the ground!" He knew if these crystals touched the ground, they'd grow to form other trees. He already missed many of them, ending up with many small plantings that would grow to be towering trees later on.
He looked at the number of trees that grew by many folds and couldn't help but shake his head in regret. "I can't stay forever waiting for them to ripe like this…" he knew this was possible because he was free.
But later on, and as he'd start to embark on the real big journey of his after receiving his protective formation and crystal mine worlds, he'd not be able to do it.
Yet he managed to save tons of crystals. Each tree yielded thousands of crystals, even tens of thousands of trees. And he got millions of trees to begin with.
In the end, he gained a scary figure of crystals, ones he stored in his inventory once taken out from this heart.
"It's really a treasure trove," when he looked at the scary figure in his inventory, he couldn't help but feel admiration towards this heart, "it took a month to give me such a result, but it's worth it!"
He knew if he widely spread planting crystals, planting billions of trees or even more, then his single harvest would be terrifying! He even doubted that he'd ever need any mine later on. But he decided to keep his cool and do things like the Romans used to do in Rome.
"So… These veins are left over them… I can't tell what they are used for…" he took out one crystal and started examining it. The one he held in his hands was covered with few dried-up lines, looking like veins with coagulated blood within.
In his inventory, different crystals were arranged there. Each held a different colour, a different value, but he couldn't tell their effects without trying them out.
The normal crystals were semi-transparent white in colour. But there were blank white crystals, and higher coloured ones as well.
He now held one white crystal, with a normal one in the other hand. Comparing the two together, there were many differences between the two.
The veins were one of these differences, and the size and heaviness as well. He didn't hesitate to swallow one, testing its effects on himself.
[Congratulations! You consumed one white grade universal stat crystal! You gained one hundred stat points to add as you wish!]
"One hundred…"
Chapter 1682 The High Grade Stat Crystals
Hye's body slightly trembled, looking at the one white crystal in his hand before adding in immense shock, "this is just a white grade crystal, and its effects are one hundred times more than normal ones… Damn! I need to hurry then!"
He didn't even check other crystals, as he was sure they'd give them much scarier results. He instantly took a large number of Holy Ones bones and started to let the Heart Crystal devour them.
The number of trees inside were in the tens of millions now. This was much more than the initial number of trees he planted at his first attempt. He feared that the already grown trees wouldn't get affected, but they absorbed the white mist madly, ending up raising the levels of their crystals and growing themselves a bit in size and height.
He didn't stop this time, kept adding more high end bones to the heart he held in his hands. The amount of power it absorbed was scary, devouring tens of thousands of bones by the end.
At some point, the heart in his hand stopped devouring any more. And Hye knew why. The trees inside grew by three folds in height, five folds in the size of their crowns. As for the number of crystals, he couldn't tell how much they increased, but was sure they increased by twenty folds at least, if not more.
The grade of all crystal puddings was now dark gold, showing a weird black lustre to them. He knew there were levels and colours beyond the dark gold one, but it seemed this was the limit of this heart.
"At least I'll gain a lot, hahahaha!" he laughed while taking higher grade crystals and started eating them.
[... You gained one thousand stat points…]
[... You gained thirty thousand stat points…]
[... You gained one hundred thousand stat points…]
He kept devouring his crystals, starting from green, then blue, silver, pale gold, and lastly the rare dark gold ones. Previously when he nourished the trees, he didn't overdo it, stopping midway. And now he was regretting this.
The dark gold one gave him one million stat points in one go! This was insane! Yet when he used his acquired stat points, he was frustrated by the crazy increase in the needed stats for higher levels.
"I'm now at level sixty-five…" he checked his interface, feeling like a merchant who got cheated on his most precious deal, "they told me I'll just need the same amount needed at the time of the apocalypse. But this… This is much more than what I consumed back then! And I'm halfway through!"
He was enraged by this. Yet when he thought about such a result, he knew other forces would also struggle to make a formidable force according to such rules.
He now knew why the higher forces were madly fighting over crystal mines. It was like a bottomless pit. After filling one's level, he'd have to start over, needing the same scary number of crystals to rise up!
Getting to level two or three? He realised how far-fetched and seemingly a long-term dream this was!
As this was a hurdle and a grand obstacle over everyone, he knew the old and mighty races and empires got better chances in solving and dealing with this.
"I got this treasure trove, and I plan to madly invest in it," he knew he wasn't like those tyrants, but he got his bones to support him. With his bones, he could turn this Crystal Heart into an endless mine that would bring him great results.
Just seeing such a grand harvest he'd have in one month or even slightly more made his heart palpitate. They were all dark gold crystals, higher grade than this even thanks to the weird black lustre they got. Not to mention they were surrounded by thick veins, almost covering the entire crystals up.
He knew he'd gain more than one million stat points from consuming these crystals. And to make sure how much stat points he needed to raise his warriors' level to reach level one, the estimated standard level of power of forces in the universe in his opinion, he started to consume crystals like crazy.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm "Fifty million stat points to rise up to level one…" he felt the same weird feeling when he first entered the universe's lowest level of power, zero level in his eyes, "that means… I'll need fifty dark gold crystals, five hundred pale gold ones… That's not bad…"
He knew he couldn't make his warriors reach such a level by the current crystals he got. But in a few months, he will!
He didn't waste his crystals anymore, planted all in that heart. As he did so, he noticed that the trees growing from higher grade crystals were much bigger and had thicker crowns than other trees. Without even supporting these trees with his bones, they grew up fast, and reached the same level of growth as other trees he planted before.
When he supported the heart with his bones, the overall consumption rate skyrocketed. At the same time, the trees that grew from higher grade crystals started to make others look like dwarfs!
"I shall be patient, invest in these trees for the time being," he muttered to himself when he saw such a result. The new trees were indeed amazing, and he was sure the number of crystals harvested from them would be at least twenty folds the usual harvest from the normal trees.
As for the number of bones consumed, the amount needed to let these trees grow to the fullest and produce the small sized fruits of theirs took tons of them.
Hye pushed all trees to produce the highest crystals they could bring. The higher-grade trees seemed to have much power than other smaller trees, as their highest crystal fruits were much bigger in size, with more black appearing than golden colour.
He knew this would yield higher grade crystals. Yet the number of bones he spent made him realise this was going to be a bottomless pit.
Chapter 1683 The Smuggler Group Leader
"I need to take part in the war, or else my bones won't satisfy my needs for one year!" He looked at the Holy Ones bones and decided to stop using them.
These bones, alongside the dark realm ones, were his most precious assets. He didn't have another means to get them, at least for now. So, he decided to stick to using just normal bones, knowing this would raise the total cost to something scary.
He knew this was just the beginning. If he kept increasing the number of trees, investing everything he gained and got into planting more trees, then it wouldn't be surprising to use billions of bones to let the trees just grow up.
He wouldn't care if this was temporary, as the results were great. But this was going on like a snowball, with every new planting, more bones would be needed.
"I now realise why this heart wasn't that popular and the previous owner didn't keep it," he muttered to himself, squeezing his temples while feeling the pressure already.
He was someone who had a magical solution to all this, and he was already feeling the struggle waiting for him in the near future. Imagining how the previous owners of this heart felt made him inwardly sigh.
[Hey man, are you there?] Just when he was feeling down thanks to the heart and bones issue, he heard the voice of Silverlining ranging in his ears.
[Did you get a link with anyone?] Hye now wasn't feeling the same thirst and hunger towards crystals. Instead, he was craving to get more bones.
But if he could get crystals in a fast way from the smugglers, then it'd help him a lot. After all, he decided to not just stand by and watch the upcoming war, but directly take part in it.
To do so, he needed to arm up and level his warriors to a sufficient stage. He didn't intend to keep his life safe; he wanted to crush his enemies and gather up lots of bones.
Yet things were never to be that easy for him! After all, wars in the grand universe were much different than the ones he used to experience back at the apocalypse.
ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm [Did I ever fail you? Hahahaha! I got a connection with someone who is active at your region]
[Hurry up then and let me speak with him] Hye wasn't in a good mood right now, [I don't want to waste time until the war draws closer, and he'll be gone with other smugglers]
[Gone? No, he is going to stay] Silverlining felt a bit weird, before he realised this was thanks to Hye's lack of experience in how wars were conducted in the universe, [Smugglers and other dark traders and dealers will flock this region for war]
[Come here? Are they nuts?!]
[They are smart! In any war, lots of damage will happen. Imagine having access to the grand vaults of the big families in this world, with no one caring about who steals what! Isn't that amazing?]
[But they are risking losing lots of their members, even all of them if they get in the middle of the ongoing clash between the two sides!]
[That's a risk they'd accept for sure] Silverlining paused, [Now, do you want to meet him or what?]
[He is here?!] Hye was more surprised by this. He thought only delegates and low levelled members of this smuggler group would be in this world. As for the big shots, they'd be far and safe from here.
[Told you, they are going to gather here to collect their loot]
[Arrange a meeting then] Hye was eager to get to know such a dark side of this universe, [Make sure it's somewhere secretive and safe. I got enough heat over my back]
[Let me speak with him about the details of the meeting and will return to you]
Silverlining took more time than what Hye expected. Instead of responding to him in a few hours, he took another week to do so!
During which, Hye kept nagging Silverlining about the response. All he got was to just hold on and wait, as the leader of this smuggler group was quite busy.
Hye didn't have anything else to do but to take out his closest warriors, the ones he trusted the most, the Soulers. He spoke with Lucas, ending up deciding to arm up a group of ten thousand first and let them rise to level two.
Hye got a weapon that could raise his power enough, but he wanted soldiers to fight and pave the path for him as well. Among everything else he got, the Soulers were considered the best.
He made a little mistake here, one that he'd realise later on. He was thinking about how to fight this war based on the apocalyptic rules, the old rules that didn't apply anymore in the new world of the universe.
He left Lucas to be on his side, promised him to strengthen him first then his vices.
During all this time, the green nymph lady was dealing with something that Hye asked her to do. He already made lots of deals with merchants from various families, and it was now time to collect the first batch of crystals from them.
She was out for a few days now, meeting up with lots of merchants. She'd collect the crystals from them, transfer them to Hye, while the latter would send them the bones as promised.
This was something these merchants asked to do, all of them actually. This was done to avoid any watchful eyes over Hye. And he suspected this was something that these merchants used to make deals with the smugglers and illegal merchants.
He didn't object to doing it this way. He knew he could do this remotely, but they insisted on sending someone to pick the crystals as they didn't have access to load them into their inventories.
What he didn't know was that all the merchant families here used the same method to watch the ones working with them.
Chapter 1684 The Level Up Mission
These families kept something that could track their inventories, so they'd detect if anyone stole something or made a non-sanctioned deal with any customer or smuggler like how it was happening now.
Instead of storing these in their inventories, they all had portable exterior storage devices. So, they needed someone to be present to receive them, and that was the lady nymph.
Hye kept tracking her activity, got to know about the deals she did so far. In the end, she took roughly one week to go around the entire place, visiting lots of sectors, and managed to collect a grand harvest for Hye.
The latter knew if he waited one month, he'd receive much more of these crystals, ones at higher grades on top of that. But he wanted to feel more secure and decided to arm up Lucas and his elites before doing anything else.
He didn't know any intel about what was going on, but he could already sniff gunpowder in the air.
"For any tight system, there are many who'll exploit loopholes in it," Hye sat in front of the many storage devices that the green nymph lady brought over to him.
Seeing these devices and much more inside his inventory was proof of how any rules would fail in front of the intelligence of people living in the universe. But he didn't care. He got what he wanted and didn't care how these merchants delivered him these crystals, or how they got them in the first place.
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"Lucas, step forward and empty each storage device of their crystals and use them," he waved his arm, watching how his most trusted aides, the one who kept his company for a long time, worked over these devices and took crystals out of them.
"My king, I can't step beyond level one," after replenishing his stats and bypassing level zero and one, Lucas suddenly stopped.
Each device contained tens of millions of crystals, and there were hundreds of these devices already. Hye knew he might be the owner of the greatest number of crystals in this world right now. But to him, this wasn't even enough!
"What do you mean?" Hye just let himself enter level one and didn't try to push his level beyond that.
"There is some sort of a test required to get past that level," Lucas shrugged, "I can't raise my power beyond that."
"Let me see," Hye grabbed one storage device and started emptying the contents of the crystals. Each device was different in shape, with many looking like sci-fi helmets or small pieces of armour.
To unlock it, he simply would touch a small red button and all the crystals inside would be taken out. He'd gain total control over these devices if he wanted, store anything inside.
Hye didn't pay to obtain these devices, despite knowing they must be quite pricey and hard to obtain. He was sure such devices would be a hot commodity in the black market, something that wouldn't be easily sold in this world or at any other marketplace.
The inside of each device varied, but in general there were lots of slots there. They worked like the inventory did, with the ability to add up to ten thousand similar items together at one slot. This was a sign on how these devices were lower in efficacy compared to the standard inventory.
But they could be stored inside anyone's inventory, or carried around just like how the merchants did. As Hye took out crystals, he started to madly absorb them. And his stats increased at a fast pace.
The sparks that came out from his fingers started to grow and come from his four limbs. It was an amazing feeling when he hit the ceiling of level one, paying almost one billion crystals to do so.
"Damn! The number of crystals needed is increasing by each level…" he now realised how this looked like a more desperate bottomless pit.
But that wasn't his current issue right now. Whenever he hit the ceiling of level one, he saw a message that made him feel more powerless.
[Attention! You already hit the ceiling of level one! To proceed, you have to take part in one outer battlefield expedition and succeed in winning it! Be aware, your performance in that expedition will determine your final rewards. Good luck!]
"F*ck you!" he knew he wouldn't be able to raise the power of his army of warriors beyond level one. And that was quite frustrating.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm He thought he could elevate his men's levels as long as he secured enough stat crystals. But it seemed this wasn't the case. Even if he got enough crystals, he wouldn't be able to do much with it!
When he calmed himself, he realised how this made logic. If anyone could level up himself and his closed circle of fighters, then many would have already hit the ceiling power of this universe. Yet he didn't hear of anything like that happening.
The highest level of power he heard before was at level four and five. He never heard of a single one reaching level six.
As the number of crystals needed increased madly from one level to another, he also expected the level of difficulty of each upgrade test increased as well.
This made sense as well. Like this, the system and those behind it would keep everyone in the universe training and growing their powers all the time.
Everything made perfect sense to him, but he still couldn't help but be frustrated over all this. He knew his power at the upcoming war was greatly diminished this way, and he wouldn't have the same freedom to fight as he thought before.
"If I can't make it using quality, then I'll make it up using quantity," he thought back to his Crystal Heart, and decided to not care about any expenses or bone consumption for the time being.
"My king…" Hye got distracted and went silent for an entire hour. He was jolted awake when Lucas spoke, "is everything alright?"
Chapter 1685 Spaceships!
"Sure," Hye nodded, "leave your upgrade mission as it is for now. We are going to raise up your vices, then your chosen warriors…"
Hye started to feed crystals to a team of a hundred soulers first. This wasn't much, but he decided to let them work as his personal guards from now on.
As for the rest of the soulers and other warriors, he decided to wait until his Crystal Heart would yield crystals after a few months and a few rounds. He planted the remaining crystals directly at the Crystal Heart, supplied trees there with tons of bones, ending up to form lots of new trees.
He didn't care at this point by any bone consumption, but stuck to using only normal bones, spending tons of them to nourish these trees and make them reach top stage.
"It's a pity they are all normal crystals, tsk!" he knew they'd all yield dark gold grade crystals at the end. But if he had a way to make them produce better crystals, he'd not hesitate to do it.
After doing all this, he had nothing else to do but to wait. The merchants he dealt with were quite eager to repeat this again, promising to prepare a grander number of crystals next time in one month.
So, he had to wait for them, wait for his Crystal Heart's trees to get ripe to harvest, and also for Silverlining to return back to him.
As he had nothing to do, he started to grow interested in learning about warfare in the universe. He searched the system interface and common market for such news, ending up purchasing tons of memory beads and stored intel.
"Hell… Is this how they fight?!!!" just after going through part of these beads, he couldn't help but freeze in his place, feeling more pressure over him.
From what he read; he knew he got it all wrong! The way the big forces fought in the universe was something that was much different than what he used to have back in the apocalypse.
Here… It was mainly divided into space and ground fights. Ground fights were a thing he was much experienced at, having tons of warriors on his side to aid him in crushing any enemy. But the case was different when it came down to the space battles.
"Spaceships? Not only the ones I used to receive from the Toranks but totally different types?!" The beads he saw contained lots of videos about old battles between superpowers in the universe.
When he saw the first video, he realised all his thoughts about the upcoming battle were mere dreams and illusions. The scenes he saw in that video, and the later videos he watched, made him realise how small his power was compared to the powers of the great empires and forces in the universe.
The beads he got spoke about how these spaceships were operated. They were like his chariot in the general concept and got hearts that fueled them. But unlike his chariot, the ones in the universe had to power up these hearts using their powers.
The higher the level of the small army operating one spaceship, the deadlier the spaceship was. And that meant the bigger the spaceship was, the much more fighters it got to operate, the deadlier it became.
Attacks that could rival the ones he experienced before from the star weapons back at the apocalypse came out from these spaceships like a never-ending flood! He couldn't help but recall the time when he fought against thousands and tens of thousands of these star weapons, and how they needed lots of contribution points from the judges, the dirty angels, to operate them.
He now realised they needed contribution points as the levels of those angels in the apocalypse weren't enough to power up a single weapon of them. It was like the countermeasure placed by the system, to make up for the limitations enforced over any of these angels.
"Hmm… To make things worse, only a handful of impacts are monopolising making and trading these spaceships… And to many, they are far fetched dreams to reach than raising their level up!"
Hye knew things weren't going to be easy for him as he previously imagined. The spaceships were considered a very hot and crucial asset to any big force. And he knew even if he asked the Toranks for help, they wouldn't do it!
Spaceships had a long list of versions and sizes; each would serve a different role in the big wars. There were many small sized ones, with very fast speed and the ability to evade attacks and traverse long distances of space easily.
Yet their firepower wasn't that much to begin with and couldn't make an impact in any war alone. The medium sized spaceships were something that would act as the connecting dots and kinks between these small sized ones and the much bigger ones.
The small sized spaceships got decent firepower abilities, with moderate speed and evasion responses. They could host tens of thousands of fighters, with lots of small guns and few big ones.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm The biggest spaceships were called the Flagships, the Destroyers, the Boomers, and other weird names that reminded Hye of sci-fi stories he read back on Earth.
Each had a role to play, and a giant army must have many of these to facilitate various operations, either on space or on ground.
Hye looked at all this data and got the feeling that his options to take part in such a grand battle were quite limited.
"I either have to persuade those leading this world, to let me board a spaceship with my warriors… But I doubt they'll allow such a thing to happen…"
He realised why the leaders of this world acted in such confidence and calmness towards him. They didn't try to get in contact with him again, as if they were sure that he would be the one approaching them first.
Chapter 1686 The Meeting
Without the need of trying to knock this door to see the result, he could imagine their answer. "They'll put the condition of letting the Toranks in this war on the table… Tsk!" he shook his head, knowing that his options diminished to just one, try to steal a ship from them in the middle of the chaos of the beginning of the ground assault.
This would be the perfect chance to do it. When the Hescos would come to invade this world, after crushing the space fleet of this world, then he'd get a chance to reap many gains.
Yet this wasn't the ideal solution for him. First, he'd miss most of the space battle, missing a great chance to watch by himself how great forces fight in the universe. Not to mention one of the good and easy ways to acquire spaceships was by invading enemy ships during battle, wiping out everyone on board, and replacing them with one's forces.
ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm Not to mention it was still quite risky to do it. As he thought about doing this, there were many dark forces looming in the darkness, waiting for their chance to snatch any opportunity like this.
If he, smugglers, and dark forces already sat their eyes over this point, the forces ruling this world would make enough preparations to not allow for such a thing to happen.
Even if he managed to claim such loot, secure himself a few spaceships, it'd be too late to use them in the war. And trying to run away using them would be futile.
The best result would be for him to get these ships as future investment, nothing more than that. And that made him quite annoyed and a bit frustrated.
He knew this would help him in later battles, but it'd also limit his confidence in securing his life in this war. He sat there, thinking about the other options he had, without knowing that fate had other plans for him.
[Great news! He is willing to meet you at the Dock 12547 in the sector 555]
[What?] Hye went silent for long hours, and even a few days. He kept thinking about this problem of his, forgetting anything and everything happening around.
Even when the lady green nymph came to check on him a day before, he didn't notice her presence, didn't notice even when she sat and slept on his bed for the night.
She kept looking at him, as if she was a girl looking at her dream man. She was falling totally into him, into his seemingly endless inventory filled with precious bones.
She didn't speak or cause any sound for an entire day. She just kept watching Hye, imagining him as a treasure chest, filled with endless wealth for her to grab.
[The smuggler you wanted to meet] Sliverlining paused, feeling puzzled, [Don't you want to meet him?!]
[Oh, sorry I was in the middle of something…] Hye thought about asking Silverlining about spaceship deals, and if his empire could provide him with few. But before he'd open his mouth to say anything, he saw the lady green nymph laying on his bed, exposing more of her hot body than ever!
"What are you doing here?" he ignored Silverlining for now, focused on the uninvited guest he found in his place.
"What? I knocked, and you didn't respond. I grew worried about you, and when I brought back one of the staff of the hotel, I found you standing in the middle of the room, looking into the ceiling without moving a single lash! I was worried about staying here to watch over you, is it my fault now?"
"..." he knew she might be telling the truth, but he didn't like being watched without feeling it. He lowered his guard, and luckily it was a friend who ended up here not a foe.
[Hey, are you there?] and as he was trying to get over the surprise of her presence, Silverlining shouted and jolted him awake from this.
[When will that meeting happen? How am I supposed to know him?]
[He is waiting for you in four hours. Just go to the Blue Wild Lady bar and ask for the man without a blue hat there. The bartender will lead you to him]
[Got it!] Hye closed the chat after memorising the details about the place and conditions of their meeting, "let's go, we have something to do."
"An adventure? Are we going to go away?" The green nymph lady knew she failed in seducing him with her body, and yet she wouldn't cling to such failure. She jumped off the bed, raced after him while the two left the hotel.
He didn't speak about anything except asking for a map of this world. She bragged that she knew this place by heart, and he doubted her words but still asked her about the location of their meeting.
"Wow! Such a faraway place… We can arrive there using common transport in just two days…"
"I want to be there in a few hours," Hye rolled his eyes, and felt like that smuggler was pretty cautious. He didn't just select a faraway place, but also made sure the time available for him was quite tight.
"Are we in a hurry then? There is a faster way to go there, but it'll cost you coins…"
"I have zero wealth of this universe," Hye realised he depended too much over his bones to just miss obtaining the coins of the universe. Yet he was sure if he took part in that war, collected loot, he'd gain tons of them. And that made him feel much bitter about missing his chance in this war.
"You have crystals, and they can be used temporarily for paying the fees," she told him first to use his bones, but he rejected that. He didn't want to attract any attention, especially when they were trying to sneak away from the watchful eyes that sat over him.
Chapter 1687 Going To The Meeting Place
She then tried to scam a few bones in return for coins, and he also refused this. He wouldn't do such a trade, not when he was sure he was going to get conned in the end.
In the end, he made an exchange with Silverlining for the coins. He got ten folds the amount she offered, and that confirmed his early doubts.
"Tsk! You are really stingy!" The two of them found their way towards a big portal area. It was operated to move people, cargo, and war supplies from one place to another.
As she said before, the price for using such a way was crazily enormous. Just for the two of them, Hye had to pay around thirty percent of what his green grade bone was exchanged for!
But he didn't care about that. The next time the portal leading to their destination would work was two hours away. They just stood in front of it, waiting for the portal to open. At the same time, the green nymph lady kept complaining about his refusal to do business earlier with her.
He totally ignored her complaints, took another interest in all the war supplies that were getting teleported at many portals around.
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This place was filled with lots of portals that were built on a large space on the ground. There were at least hundreds of portals here, linking this area with others in the world.
Not all the war supplies were cased and closed for any onlooking eyes. Hye could see many giant metallic machines, looking like robots or something. He could also see big fighter jet like weapons, which made him believe they were the rumoured spaceships.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm Their number wasn't that high compared to other war weapons, gears, machines, and supplies. But to him, they were enough to arm up an army of a hundred thousand warriors at least.
All he saw were small sized spaceships, as the medium sized and big ones were already flying in space. He resisted the urge to go closer and inspect these amazing war machines. And from just watching from far, he knew he missed a great chance before.
These spaceships were looking like his earth fighters. If he knew that, then he'd have asked old Gan and others from the research department to modify all the fighters, build their own fleet of spaceships.
"It's not too late to start working on this project," as he decided this, he opened a chat window with Lily, and sent her a message regarding this.
He tried to contain as many details as he could in this message. He knew as someone who came from another race than humans, she must have heard or known about the existence of the spaceships, the same case as old Gan and many others at his research department.
But he wasn't sure that any of them really knew how to build up one spaceship or learnt about the science behind them. Or else old Gan wouldn't have let such a chance slip by without asking him to try and make a few out.
"It's going to open anytime now," after two hours, the portal outer area was now filled with lots of people. Hye could see lots of them wearing uniforms, standing tall and looking strong and cruel. They gave him the impression they were from the military, and they were going there to operate these war machines.
What he didn't know was that the fight using spaceships wasn't limited just to space. Once the outer shield of any world was breached, war would extend to every corner out there. And so, the small spaceships would emerge in the picture, with their scary speed and ability to manoeuvre even in the toughest terrains.
The portal started to shine brightly next, with muffle noises coming from underground. Hye used many portals before, but these were just rudimentary types compared to this one.
"Let's go," the moment the portal worked, a bubble appeared, covering it up. It reminded him of something he witnessed before, a bubble that appeared back at the time of the apocalypse, one that took lots of his forces away and he never saw them again.
Seeing this familiar bubble again created doubts inside him, but he threw everything away and went towards it. The moment he passed the outer membrane, he felt a strong suction force, one that took his body like a flash and made him feel a little dizzy.
"It's much worse than portals at the apocalypse, cough! Cough!" As he arrived on the other side in a few seconds, he landed on the ground, feeling terribly bad.
"Space is very stable in the universe," the nymph lady was much better looking than him, at least she landed on her feet, "that's why using portals is expensive, and even owning them is much harder than owning a spaceship! Especially for those which could cross lots of sectors in space, linking far distant places together."
"Spaceships? What are these?" Hye's heart raced up the moment he heard what she just said. And yet he put on a mask of ignorance, asking about them as if he knew nothing at all.
"Oh, that's the main weapon in any way in the universe…" she paused, realised that he came from the apocalypse, and this was, by far, his first time venturing the outside universe.
"Listen…" she started to speak, speaking for an entire hour. Hye didn't try to interrupt her, even if he got tons of questions to ask, he kept them all buried deep inside him.
She wasn't just repeating what he already knew, but also was giving much vital intel about spaceships. According to her, the main problem in having spaceships wasn't in the way to obtain them, but how to maintain, repair, and most importantly fuel them.
To make them operate, attack any target and release their deadly attacks, they got the help of people on board. But to make it run in the first place, fly and move in speed, do manoeuvres, this all required tons of energy.
Chapter 1688 Arriving To The Bar!
It was just like his old chariot's heart, but each spaceship's heart would require a different quality of energy sources. Some even would require a very high source of power, one that wasn't easily obtained or found.
According to her, if crystal mines were one of the most heated places in the universe, then the mines of high energy sources belonged to the same very short list.
It wasn't only that, but the loot armies got after fighting at the outer battlefield would always contain high energy source materials. And that was something that highlighted the importance of such a place in the eyes of Hye.
He learnt too much stuff, but the bitter fact still remained. It was hellishly difficult to obtain spaceships in normal ways. There wasn't any impact willing to sell them to a force that wasn't widely known and strong in the universe. And such forces were already so strong and ancient, not like Hye's newly built human kingdom.
He knew this was going to be tough, but from her words he knew it was impossible. She noticed his silence, and the glimmer in his eyes when she spoke so she ended her words with this phrase:
"Don't set your ambition too high. There are few things in the universe that any force would consider strategic, and that includes these spaceships. I bet even if you offered the entire bone treasure you have right now to the Toranks, they won't even bat an eye to refuse your request!"
Her words might seem harsh, but they were speaking about the truth. Hye already knew how hard it was before she made the picture blacker.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm "Let's not speak about this then," Hye didn't want to dream about something he wouldn't be able to get. So he turned his attention towards a different matter, "we are close from the place of meeting. During which, don't speak or do anything unusual, ok?"
"I'm not a kid!" she pouted, and Hye heaved an inward sigh of relief that she got over the point of spaceships fast enough.
As he just said, they were a few minutes away from the place of their meeting. He opened the message of Silverlining again, to recheck over the information about this place.
Sector 555 wasn't any much different than the place Hye arrived here in the first place. It was filled with lots of flying colossal discs, each with many levels.
Hye asked around about the bar Silverlining told him about, and after an hour of looking, they finally arrived at it.
It wasn't in any of the flying discs but was on the ground. Hye considered it to be at the outer borders of this sector, and the place wasn't crowded with people like any other place he saw before in this world.
The place was beside a dock as Silverlining said. And weirdly enough, it was a huge military dock, one that was filled with lots of spaceships, small and even medium sized ones.
The dock was situated on the ground, not over any flying disc or anything. Hye guessed the reasons behind this was for security measures, and also for technical details.
He didn't need to go and inspect these spaceships personally to know how heavy they were. As the dock hosted tens of thousands of these spaceships, the weight of all of them was quite expected to be enormous!
He doubted any flying disc would be able to host them. Not to mention discs were built like towers, and that would limit the ability for these spaceships to leave and land on the dock efficiently.
The bar they headed towards was situated inside a mess of streets and alleys, one that made the two lose their way a couple of times already. Streets here weren't that organised, weren't even wide or properly paved.
For a second there, Hye recalled the slum areas in any big city or town on Earth before the time of the apocalypse. He didn't know why such a place existed without proper organising or patrolling units. Yet he felt more secure to meet that smuggler in such a place. It suited the dark deal he was going to make with him after all.
"This is it, really a place for such a meeting," the lady nymph couldn't help but chuckle when she saw the broken sign of the bar. The words written over it were old and parts of them were gone already, yet the two could clearly read the words despite that.
"The Blue Wild Lady bar… It's really here," Hye looked around, through the alley they were standing in the middle of.
The place was the perfect spot for any illegal stuff to be done at. First the bar took the lead of three alleys meeting together here, with doors leading to the three paths of escape if needed. As for the alleys themselves, they were all narrow, poorly lit, and seemed abandoned for a long time.
If not for them actively looking for this place, they'd have easily missed it! The sign was hung over a wooden slate above the door, with small metallic chains supporting it in place. Part of the chains got rusted and broken, ending up with part of the sign pointing towards the ground.
The door was grey in colour, without any handle or keyholes to open it. There wasn't any signal for it being the door of the bar they wanted except for that old sign.
"Let's knock then," As the two didn't find any doorbell, the lady nymph casually said.
"If no answer, let's barge inside ourselves then," Hye got another idea, which was to break the door using force and weapons. Even if this would attract hostility from people inside, he'd at least see what type of place he was heading towards.
Not to mention he used to see such entrance scenes in the old beads speaking about Earth before the fall.
"Yelling also works," just before the lady nymph would say anything to mock Hye's brutal method to enter, a voice came from a valley on the side of this building.
Chapter 1689 The Scarlet Harry!
They found a robust looking middle-aged man walking towards them, coming from the direction of wooden stairs leading to a private second floor..
He came out from the door leading to that alley, and seemingly he was one of the staff working in the bar. "I believe you want to come in, waiting for a friend perhaps?"
"Looking for the man without blue hat," Hye said the secret phrase that Silverlining told him about.
"Oh, then you are looking for me, hahahaha!" the man laughed, but Hye and the lady nymph didn't fall for it. As their faces kept stern and their eyes were like daggers towards this man, he finally stopped his mocking attitude and spoke in a serious tone, "the man you are looking for can't be met just by anyone…"
"He is expecting us," Hye shrugged, "tell him I'm here. If he doesn't allow us access to the bar, I'll just turn around and leave."
"And… Who are you?"
"Someone you won't need to know," Hye didn't say a single thing about his identity, leaving the man with nothing but the empty words he said.
The man sized Hye up and down, before shrugging and going away. It felt like he was telling him it was Hye's option, and the latter didn't mind that.
"If you want, you can come inside and wait for his answer," the man invited Hye and the nymph lady inside. Hye didn't object, followed the man without saying any word.
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He knew the smuggler would agree to meet him. But as he'd wait for the answer, it was better to get to know more smugglers and outlaws. Who knew he might need their help later on, when the sky would fall over the entire world.
The moment they passed through the door, a new world emerged in front of their eyes. Out there, all the alleys were badly lit, but inside their eyes were met with bright flashes of golden colour.
There were many lamps on the ceiling, lighting up the entire place like it was part of the day or something. The place was very vast, very crowded, at least having hundreds if not thousands of people.
They all looked robust, with many shirtless dudes and ladies out there. There were many tables, filled with lots of outlaws laughing, chatting, and sexy girls from different races dancing.
Hye saw many races out there, Giants, Dragons, and even Toranks and Hescos! He saw races he couldn't recognise. The two arrivals didn't attract much attention, as if they weren't even there. But Hye could already feel many eyes spying on him, like they were hungry wolves waiting for a prey to kill.
"Come out!" just with a snap of his fingers, Lucas appeared out of nowhere. The moment he came out, the entire place was filled with hot blazing fire, one that was more golden in colour than the lights in the place.
"Hey hey! What are you doing?!!!" one of the staff ran fast, while Lucas retracted his fire per Hye's silent gaze. The two were together for a long time, and they developed such tacit understanding without the need to say a single word.
Hye took Lucas out to make a statement of power, to warn anyone thinking about taking advantage of either him or the lady nymph. The way he did it meant he got strong warriors like Lucas, and the latter wasn't just a normal race warrior.
He was a Souler! One of the deadliest and scariest races in the entire universe!
"Friend from far, you don't need to do all this to sit here," one race, a giant one with two curved horns on the side of the temples of his head, said as she slowly stood up, "come, let's get the pleasure of knowing you."
"Thanks," Hye didn't reject the invitation, turned to the lady nymph before stretching out his arm to surround her butt, "let's go, baby."
"..."
The lady nymph's face turned all green out of embarrassment. She gave Hye a weird look, while her heart thumped like never before.
Hye went with her towards the table of that horned giant, sat cross legged in a slow fashion, before pushing the all stupefied lady nymph to sit on his lap.
Then he started to touch her delicacies in a normal and casual way, as if he was used to doing this all the time with her.
"I come here frequently, but never saw your face before, who are you?" the horned man didn't beat around the bush, directly asked Hye even before the horned giant would sit beside him.
"I'm here on a business trip," Hye casually said, without giving any more intel or care to the horned man, "and I like this place. It reminds me of old times."
"You look young, at least younger than myself, hahaha!" a normal sized man said, while his long golden beard shook with his big belly. He looked old, but Hye knew he was dangerous.
Lucas stood silently behind his master, didn't bat an eye while meeting others' curious eyes with a stern and serious look, one that was filled with challenge.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm "You are a human, right?" another vicious looking giant said, with face filled with scars and one eye covered with weird circular glass cover that showed something shimmering down below, "since that human made a ruckus against the mighty Hescos, and your race members started to show off!"
This man wouldn't believe he was talking to the same human he was speaking about. But hearing this made Hye quiet pleased. He knew humans were pressured and looked down upon by many, if not everyone in the universe.
If his actions twenty years ago yielded changes, then he was both happy and proud about it.
"I'm just here for business," Hye paused, before looking at the staff member of the bar, the one who shouted at him when he summoned Lucas, "bring me something to drink."
"Bring him the Scarlet Harry," one said as a joke, but Hye nodded to the staff to bring the same drink this man mentioned.
Chapter 1690 The Smuggler
When the drink arrived, Hye saw a big glass cup, one that was the size of his head. It was filled with weird red liquid, one that was shimmering and shining with weird dancing blue arcs of lightning.
"Drink it, if you dare, hahahaha!" the same outlaw who suggested the drink in mockery laughed, and Hye shrugged before taking a sip off it.
The moment he did, he felt like his head was on fire! There was something that went into his body, started to quake and shake him from deep within.
He controlled himself to not tremble, while unconsciously squeezing one of the two perfect balls on the lady nymph's chest. Doing this made the latter faintly moan, before laying her head over his shoulder, breathing slowly while her eyelashes relaxed a little.
"Hey, he drank it, not you, hahahahaha!" seeing this made many laugh. But the fact that Hye tolerated this drink made them know he was someone who belonged to their circle, the vicious and tough circle.
Gradually the hype about Hye's presence died fast, and everyone returned to speak among themselves. Even on the table he was sitting on, no one paid him any more attention.
As he sat there, drinking the weird and explosive drink, he thought he'd get bored. But soon enough, something peculiar attracted his attention, making his eyes and mind jolt in attention.
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"... You can go and ask the old man, he is the one claiming to have a way to sell these damn ships…"
The talk on the next table was heated and loud. Someone claimed he could sell spaceships for anyone wanting them, but the price was something that stopped everyone from snatching such a big opportunity.
"Even if I sell one of my wings, it won't be enough to satisfy the price he asked for!" a winged giant outlaw snorted, while others laughed at his comment.
"These are spaceships! And they are the most valuable thing in the universe," the man who welcomed Hye here suddenly appeared. And for a reason, the moment he showed up, weird silence prevailed in the entire place.
"Come with me, he is waiting for you," he motioned to Hye to come, while the latter was still immersed in the act of toying and enjoying the lady nymph.
The latter felt peculiar and shocked at first, but ended up enjoying this. She knew Hye didn't have a sudden change in heart towards her, was just doing this to perfect his image as an outlaw as everyone else.
"Mate, don't bother," but before he'd stand up, one of those sitting on his table whispered, "the prices that man is asking for are quite scary and crazy! Don't think you can afford them."
"Thanks, but I'm already here anyway," Hye slowly stood up, trying to control the immense shock that stormed in his heart. The same smuggler Silverlining arranged a meeting with the same person who had access to spaceships.
This was like hitting the jackpot!
"He is waiting for you up there," the man who led them here in the first place stood at the stairs, seemingly unauthorised to step up with them.
"Thanks," Hye nodded to him, before climbing up. When he arrived there, he found a small wooden corridor, with just three locked up doors up there.
Hye was about to turn and shout at the man down below, asking him about the right door to enter. But he stopped when he heard a faint click, followed by a creaking noise of an old door opening.
"Come inside," a deep voice came from behind the door. Hye looked and all he could see was a poorly lit room, "don't lighten up anything. I love to stay in the dark."
"Suiting a dark person like you," Hye didn't hide his thoughts as he walked through the door. And the room inside was really poorly lit.
There were only three candles, flickering with faint light, in the middle of a big room. The light didn't hinder Hye from seeing through it, but he was surprised to not see anything about the man's features.
All he could tell was that this man had a big body, very muscular, and had many scars as well. As for his face, there was some sort of a black cloud that covered it, allowing no one to see the true face of this smuggler.
"I like your makeup," Hye motioned towards the smuggler's covered up face while sitting opposite to him. There was a small rounded table, made out of pure coloured glass, and the three sat around it.
"I heard lots of things about you," Hye didn't speak first, kept his silence for an entire minute, before the smuggler broke it, "are you really hungry for crystals this bad to start a war here?"
"I heard you are going to get lots of loot from this war, so you should be thanking me instead," Hye calmly smiled, eyeing up this amazing cover up gadget this smuggler had.
He knew getting to be known wasn't a good thing for someone like this smuggler, especially when he was leading a grand group of outlaws, when he was this daring to come into this world and act freely as if he was a clean citizen or something.
"Speaking as if you want a share," the smuggler laughed, and his laugh seemed weird. Hye was sure this smuggler was using another gadget to mask his voice. And as he thought about this, he couldn't help but doubt this was his true body.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm "If you are willing, why won't I accept?" Hye shrugged, and the smuggler kept his silence, making Hye feel as if a mountain was leaning on his chest or something.
He couldn't see his eyes, but felt like the two were glaring at him, sizing him up and down. "Hahahaha, little Silvy really loves befriending funny guys indeed, hahahaha!" the smuggler broke into laughter, "I like you! So, how much are you willing to offer from your lovely bones?"
Chapter 1691 Negotiating About Spaceships!
"I need to see what I'm going to get before considering giving you my bones."
"You don't want crystals?" the entire room's temperature suddenly dropped, "little Silvy told me…"
"I'm speaking about the other hot product you have," Hye paused, and when the smuggler didn't say anything, he added, "the priciest thing you are selling."
"I'm not a merchant!"
"In a way… You are, hahaha!"
"..."
The smuggler went into silence again, and this time he didn't speak for ten minutes. "What makes you think you can afford what I have?" he finally asked, speaking about the thing Hye was truly desperate to get.
Crystals were something crucial for him, but he got a way to solve this problem. As for the spaceships, this was a thing he'd dare to even steal in daylight if he got a chance.
"I'll ask you again, what makes you think you have what it takes to buy them?" The smuggler didn't directly mention the spaceships, but the two knew what they were talking about.
"Let me take a guess… You gained these from little Silvy, right?" Hye betted everything on these words. And surely he had his own reasons for doing so.
First of all, the smuggler seemed to not just be offering his spaceships to the highest bidders, or selling them for a scary price. He seemed to look for people with certain qualifications.
Putting aside what these qualifications were, Hye knew he wouldn't apply to a single one of them. So he started to think about a way to get his hands over these spaceships, and his words were his way to get them.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm From what he learnt so far, it wasn't that easy to get a single spaceship in the universe. Even big forces would suffer a lot to get a single one. And here this smuggler was, being in such a world threatened by a war, and he was offering spaceships to anyone here.
This didn't make any sense. The first thing that popped into Hye's mind was that this smuggler here was trying to make trouble in this war. But which side was he standing on? And the most logical answer was that he was standing on the side of people living in this world.
Having spaceships was like having a mass destruction weapon. And then Hye thought about the means of this smuggler having these spaceships.
The answer presented itself to him when he spoke about Silverlining, mentioning him in a way that told Hye how the two were close to each other.
A smuggler, who was an outlaw, befriending someone who was working in the upper circle of a mighty race? One that was totally hostile to the Hescos coming to invade this world?
Everything became clearer to Hye's eyes. The Toranks were behind all this, and that made him dare to bet on this. If this was true, then he'd have a great chance to get a few of these ships. And if he was wrong, he wouldn't get anything but losing a chance to acquire such precious weapons.
As for trying to use his bones, it wasn't going to work. This smuggler was aware of this, and if his bones would buy him a ticket to own these spaceships, the smuggler would have started speaking about the price instead of repeating his rejection stance like this.
"You seem pretty close to little Silvy to tell you about this," the smuggler laughed, one that came after a long time of silence.
"It's not like how you are thinking," Hye shook his head, "these ships are here for me."
"For you?!!" the smuggler retorted back, "no way! You don't qualify to even take a single small one of them!"
As things turned in such a direction, Hye knew there was no going back, "then tell me, who is the biggest ally of the Toranks here? One who is also a big enemy for the Hescos as well?"
"..." the smuggler kept his silence, while Hye shrugged as he added, "you may think I'm weak, useless and powerless, but it's true these ships are sent here for me. You can't expect them to just offer these to anyone, and that's why they placed such hard to achieve conditions in the first place."
"If they wanted you to get them, they should have told me about it directly," the smuggler argued back, in a way that told Hye he still didn't believe him.
"Then let me know, is there anyone here who satisfies these conditions?" Hye already heard about this from down below, knew that no one ever went up and came down with a single ship.
He hoped these outlaws weren't lying about this, or else everything he said and acted so far would be for naught.
"That doesn't mean they are here for you…"
"As for the price," Hye didn't give the smuggler any chance to say his logical reasons behind rejecting him, "tell me, who is rich enough to match such a scary price of yours? Of course I'm not speaking about those filthy rich folks from the merchant families in this world."
Hye's words' meaning was clear. The price enforced on everyone trying to buy these spaceships was quite scary. He didn't know if this price came from the Toranks or from this smuggler, but either way he knew he had the ability to satisfy such a condition at least.
"You aren't that wealthy to purchase them," Hye was about to retort back, but the smuggler raised a hand to stop him before adding, "let's not speak about the big ones, the price of the smallest one is much more than what a human can afford."
"I'm paying with my bones!"
"Even so… You'll need hundreds of millions of your bones to get a single ship of…"
"Deal!" Without waiting for the smuggler to continue his words, Hye said, stretching his arm across the table, aiming to shake hands with the smuggler to close the deal.
"You indeed are insane!"
Chapter 1692 Negotiating With The Smuggler
The smuggler paused and hesitated for a few seconds, "this is just the price of a single ship."
"I want to know what's the price of a big one…"
"Big one? Hahahaha! You are indeed crazy, hahahaha!" The smuggler seemed to grow amused by what Hye said, "a single one will cost billions of your bones. As far as I know, you already traded for too long with them, spending tons of your bones. So you can't afford…"
"I can," Hhye slowly interrupted him, "I want one big, three medium, and a swarm of small spaceships."
"Swarm? Do you think I'm making a big impact on them or what?!!! Come on man! All I have here is just one big, two medium, and one hundred small ones!"
"Deal!" Hye didn't move his extended arm for even an inch, didn't flinch in closing up this deal, "are you going to shake my hands on this or what?"
"I need to write a contract first!"
"I won't sign anything before knowing when and where I can get them!" Hye wasn't worried about paying such a scary amount of bones. After all, the bones this smuggler was speaking about were mostly the blue ones, the highest graded bones he used with the Toranks over the course of twenty years.
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"Don't worry, human," the smuggler slowly extended his hand to shake Hye's, "once the contract is active, you pay what you owe me, then you are going to get to know the answer for that question."
Hye felt immense power coming from the smuggler's hand. It felt like he was a kid, shaking hands with a wrestler or something.
"What do I owe you? I owe you nothing!" Hye felt weird about the last words of the smuggler, and yet the latter didn't release his hand, as if he was taking it as a hostage.
ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm "Did you forget? Little Silvy arranged this meeting to get you crystals. I already…"
"Oh about that, just add them to the contract," Hye casually said, as if this wasn't something that would bother him.
"Are you sure? This will cost you a lot…"
"Compared to the ships? I hardly believe that!" Hye laughed shortly, "hurry up and finish the contract. And tell me where and when I'm going to get my ships!"
"As you like," the smuggler didn't comment on Hye's words, took a few minutes doing something in midair, seemingly formulating some sort of contract over the interface of the system.
Hye didn't know that smugglers and outlaws had their own interface of the system. It was a bit different than the one provided to normal citizens in the universe. And that was a bit peculiar.
If he learnt about that, he'd jump to the conclusion that the system supported the outlaws. And that was partially true.
The system higher ups saw in the smugglers and outlaws a way to resist any invasion if it happened. Even if they had many scums, and bad personalities, they were still considered a sizable and decent military power.
They weren't like usual high forces in the universe, and weren't guided by any rules. Even if they were bad, they were still linked and limited by the system.
There was some sort of a life threatening contract signed between these outlaws and the system. Up to date, the system higher ups never activated such a contract. But in bad times, when things would go south and the universe would lose war, this contract would bind everyone and force them to oblige to the will of the system higher ups.
They'd fight the invaders, and unlike the regular high forces of the universe, they'd excel at street type of battles. They'd give the invaders a hard time, one that'd let them suffer to control the universe, or much better lead them to lose such war.
"It's ready," the smuggler finally stopped what he was doing after half an hour, "I've written everything we agreed upon, and placed the price over the universal standard of your bones. As far as I know, there are four types of bones you used before, is that true?"
"I can pay with other types of bones," Hye paused, "higher grade bones that aren't recorded in your system."
"Oh, that means you want a discount then?" The smuggler wasn't stupid, he got what Hye meant by his words. Hye was going to use special types of bones that never appeared before in the market. And that meant in addition to their market value, there was an additional value added by their rarity as well.
"Not a discount, but a raise in their value," Hye corrected him. He knew if he aimed for a discount, he'd pay much more than what he would if he evaluated his bones the way he liked.
"Then how can we assess these?" the smuggler laughed in his unique and weird way, "you don't believe I'll trust your call on this…"
"It's easy," Hye shrugged, "just use the samples of bones I'll provide and put them on sale in the universe. The price you'll get will be doubled, and that will be the value of each bone."
"Doubled? That's impossible," the smuggler laughed again, "the best I can offer is a ten percent increase in the final price."
"Make it eighty percent then…" the two started to hustle around the final price of Hye's special bones, ending up increasing the price by forty percent after an entire hour of debating.
The lady green nymph watched from the side, feeling more shocked about all this. She knew Hye got lots of bones, but she never thought he had a much higher grade of them than the ones spreading across the universe.
And then a question popped into her head: if he had such a vast variety of bones, then why didn't the Toranks try to make better deals with him? If she was in their shoes, she'd definitely not let such a fat fish go away off her net.