Chapter 1727 The Underground World
"Scared to get killed by them? Or fearing you won't satisfy their needs?" Hye laughed, as he knew his Soulers couldn't be easily controlled or kept by anyone except him, "don't fret. I'll send them with you, and I'll keep the tokens myself," he activated his turbo collection ability, sucking all the tokens back.
"That ability… You got that…"
"Anyway," Hye did that to just shock the man further, and add more mysteriousness around himself, "what's your decision then?"
"What else can I say?" the pirate king looked around, seemingly blaming his bad luck today. He came here and dreamt about getting more wealth and riches, yet he ended up losing his entire fleet, and now his freedom, "let's sign the contract. But I have one condition…"
"Which is?"
"I want to be known as the absolute ruler of that force… I don't mean to shadow you or something…"
"That's for the best," Hye nodded in agreement, "it's better to keep our relationship secret from anyone."
What he wanted to do aligned with what Hye had in mind. He didn't want anyone to know about his association with such an underground force.
"Great," the pirate king signed the contract by the title, not the name, "I love to be known by the Orange Sun Pirate King!"
"It's a very long name, boring," Hye rolled his eyes, "it's better to be known as the pirate."
"That's not a name!"
"Neither the one you provided!"
The two kept going back and forth until they agreed to call the man the pirate king only.
"Now, let me hear your thoughts about how to start," as everything played out the way he wanted, Hye invited the nymph lady here before asking the pirate king about his thoughts.
"What do you know about the underground world?" The pirate king didn't know where he should start, so he asked the most basic question.
"Nothing, start from the low bottom," Hye shrugged, as he knew literally nothing about this world.
"Fine… I expected so…" the pirate king then started to speak about the underground world, starting from its history, when did it start, who helped in evolving it, and what were the main changing points in its history.
Hye was surprised to learn that this underground world started first as a move to counter the expected invasion by the other universe. The universe leaders, who were known to Hye as the system's higher-ups, were worried when the first clash happened and they expected total invasion and defeat.
So they started first to care about building up a resisting force, one that could handle the resistance of the invaders and make their lives here hellish. They were the ones who established the underground world, and that was why they were still backed up by the system and supported it.
Their interface was different, as they got tons of missions to do. This was quite unexpected to Hye. He never thought the tasks done by the outlaws came originally from the system itself! It was like one burning his own house with his own hands, before struggling to put the fire down and repair the damage.
Yet he had no say in that. According to the pirate king, the underground world would sustain the system's support as long as the invasion of the outer universe remained a threat. And after such a long time, such a threat still continued and existed, and would continue to be present for unknown long centuries and millennia to come.
Aside from tasks and missions, and rewards granted from the system to them, there was ranking to the outlaws, their own marketplace, and even their own connection with each other.
It seemed like they got another version of the system, one that was established separately from the main system, acting as a backup version or something.
Hye got why the system higher-ups did it back then. And yet he couldn't get why they still allowed this to continue.
"Don't tell me they want them to act like a threat reminder for all the forces in the universe… To keep them trained on dealing with threats and dangers…" he muttered to himself, while the pirate king started to speak more about the current situation of the underground world.
No one knew when it started, but the big forces in the universe started to show interest in the various outlaw forces, nourishing and supporting the big ones, and making them act like their arms in that world.
They didn't just use them to reap more benefits from the rich outlaw side of the universe but also to hit their enemies without getting themselves into diplomatic issues and complications.
Even if a truce was reached, the two sides would still keep fighting using their outlaw organisations. According to the pirate king, there were few well-known names in the underground world who belonged to these big races and empires in the universe. They were known to everyone as the Ten Hell Lords, and he was far from being close to any of them.
To start there, one had to have lots of support, spend tons of resources, and deal with his followers as he was dealing with mercenaries. They would serve him as long as the promised pay was kept and would turn their blades at his back if they got a better offer or didn't get paid in time.
Things were very cruel out there and with the absence of all laws except for the law of the jungle and profit. It was a very disorganised, messy world, one that Hye knew it was best to leave to the experts and keep himself away from.
"... The currency used isn't the system or universal coins. We deal with profits, and no one will say no to anything that will make him stronger, or make him wealthy to purchase things to make him stronger. In other words…"
"The crystals are the mainstream currency out there, right?" Hye realised this was going according to logic. These folks were just mercenaries, and they adored strength to the depths of their hearts and bones.
So using crystals was expected, and the pirate king nodded.
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