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.
"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.
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.
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