Hye stood in his place watching the discs that spanned for hundreds of metres off the ground, stretched for thousands of metres with their unique formation and line up.
The ground wasn't empty or flat but filled with grand buildings that stretched towards the horizon. The discs were linked to the ground by flashes of light, forming something like flexible tunnels.
From the flashing dots, Hye could tell how active and bustling the traffic was. This was the first time for Hye to see something grand like this, something that gave him an awe and deep admiration.
Hye was checking the entire world around, wanting to spread out his wings and start to fly. The place here was indeed special, and he was sure it must be part of a very large force.
Yet after the lady nymph and others got healed from the backlash of getting teleported here, she explained that this place was actually neutral.
That came as a true surprise for Hye. "Then… How come they built such a grand place without worrying over defending it? Don't tell me the big forces and races don't want this place! Even I want it!!"
"Hahahaha, quite funny, hahahaha!" she laughed, in a sweet way while leaning slightly over him, as she whispered, in a way to tempt him more than trying to hide what she was going to say, "this place is protected by the same type of grand formation you want to buy."
"This… But we came here, how come…" Hye felt like a cold bucket of water fell on his head. He thought that formation was impregnable and wouldn't allow anyone to jump over the area of space it protected.
Seeing his face made her laugh, "We already gained access from the owners of this world. Or do you think such a scarily expensive formation is weak or something?"
"Phew," Hye heaved a sigh of relief, "you gave me a scare just now. Ok, where shall we go? Are we safe here?"
"Luckily for you, this place doesn't have any good ties with the Hescos. It happened a long time ago, some sort of a big war erupted over this place. Then the owners had to establish the grand formation, ending up suffering tons of losses and they didn't forget their grudge even till now."
"Interesting," Hye's eyes shone brightly when he heard that, "I want to buy a place here then."
"You… Hahahaha! Fine, but you need to be ready for the crazy prices you'll hear. Besides… they may not accept your bones."
"No one can refuse my bones," Hye said as if it was something granted or something.
"Fine big boy, let's go around and take a tour then," she winked, "perhaps we can find a good place and live there for a period of time, wait until the heat over you get lowered."
"We won't stay here for long," Hye rolled his eyes, "I have a job to do."
"I'm in, if you forgot about that," she laughed again, and this time Hye remained silent.
She wasn't the only leader who came here with the folks from the impact. Yet she had to take care of many things. Hye stood by the side, leaving them to do what they needed to do, and started to gather intel about this place.
Hye wasn't delusional, knew that he had no real power. Since the apocalypse ended, he had no way to get his hands on the U stat crystals. And that made him currently lying at the rock bottom of the power scale in the entire world.
Yet he didn't feel any fear or worry. He knew without getting into a real fight, no one would know how truly weak he was. And all he had to do was to avoid any tough situation.
But he knew he was in front of a golden chance here. This place was like a gigantic market, one where tons of races and forces gathered. And so it was safe to expect seeing lots of hard to get stuff from the normal means.
So he started to listen to the side talks from the passersby. When Hye thought the sudden appearance of the Bringold impact folks here would attract attention, he was surprised to know that none even cared about them.
It seemed such a sight wasn't rare, and that didn't bring any attention from anyone walking around except for momentary gazes.
Aside from that, Hye started to listen to lots of useful intel about this place. As he guessed, this world was like a colossal marketplace. And to his surprise, he heard a shocking discussion about how this sight he was seeing expanded and covered up the entire world, as if it was made out of a single colossal city or something.
Hye then learnt about the presence of lots of big merchant groups, acting on a much bigger scale than any normal high-grade impact.
He didn't hear any detail about the goods sold there, but he could easily guess the type of these items. By the time the Bringold impact started to organise stuff here, he also knew lots of useful intel about this world.
It was called the Galnar world, one that was controlled by the descendants of five ancient races. These races weren't at any other place in the universe but here. And Hye realised that these five races were different from the ones he rescued twenty years ago.
The families of the five races were united, controlling most of the business running inside the world. Almost eighty percent of the big merchant groups and impacts working here belonged to them. And the rest had to share thirty percent of their stocks with them.
"I see you enjoyed your time while I was working," the green nymph lady gave him a blaming look, and Hye didn't feel any bad about what she said.
"Are you free now?"
"Planning to have fun with me or what?"
"We don't have that much time, at least I don't," Hye faintly smiled, "I want to go and visit the Bravity auction house."
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