Daimon turned to see Thea who nodded, he didn't need to say anything, for the Black Empress to scan everyone in the room to see if there were some contracts that needed to be nullified.
Which was of course the case, the fat guy and the informant were the ones that required Thea to use her innate ability, the four half Stellar ranks were tied to the fat guy, so Thea first erased those contracts, which made the guy vomit blood.
Despite the riches and the fact that he had some decently strong subordinates, for being a mere slave merchant, he was just an early-stage Arch rank, and his battle prowess was super trashy, meaning he just advanced by consuming resources.
So, the backslash of the contracts breaking hit him pretty hard, unfortunately for him that wasn't the end of his suffering.
"You watch over these guys, we'll go make a withdrawal from this guy's treasury", said Daimon to Remi, which reminded him he had to come up with a nickname for the White Walker.
Remi bowed his head and then dragged the four half Stellar guards as well as the informant, who were being suppressed by his mana pressure, whole ignoring their complains and offers, he knew the result of trying to antagonize his now young master, they will lose their everything, whether they lived or not it will depend on how useful they can be, but that's a subject for later.
For now, Daimon kicked the fat guy sending him flying towards the door that led to the inner part of the mansion, he actually tried to resist accepting to be subordinated to Daimon, but after that little taste of pain, he accepted.
"Take us to your treasury, I already know the route but I don't have time to deal with all the traps on the way, deactivate them, if you even think on something funny, you are dead meat", said Daimon, which made the fat guy grit his teeth, but he still obeyed.
If the outer part of the mansion was luxurious, the inside was even more opulent to the point of being of bad taste, walls covered in gold, extravagant furniture and the like, the fat guy simply wanted to see his luxuries to inflate his ego, whenever he gazed at the rest of Raki.
Leaving that aside, and to the fat guy displease, he deactivated all the traps and safety measures as he led Daimon's group to his own room where his treasure vault was.
Needless to say, but there were a few women literally chained to his bed, which was to be expected considering the guy is a slave merchant, though Thea and Marlene normally didn't go out of their way to help strangers, as women they of course sympathized with those poor women, especially Marlene since that would have been the fate of her clan members, if Lora's stupid plot had succeeded.
The fat guy suddenly felt his throat getting dry, those two's dangerous gazes were set on his back, but Daimon interfered by saying directly to them.
'His life is worthless, Rita detected the aura of some nobles from the Clear Water kingdom, among them the Blackfin Duke, with this guy as the proof, miss Annete can take them down, he is dead no matter what, so don't waste your time'.
"Mm", a bit unwilling but understanding Daimon's point those two retrieved their murderous gazes, and treated the fat guy as a piece of rubbish on the ground, Marlene liked Daimon's idea more, because when she ended up becoming a slave, she was trafficked through the channel that the Blackfin family had, but there was no evidence, unless she wanted to testify personally, which was impossible, who knows if the White's ancestor would notice she is a member of the royal branch of the angelfish clan.
Though Daimon already told them, they were bound to clash, now it wasn't the time, right now Annete was using all the methods she had to get rid of dissidents, and gather more forces without alerting the strongest enemies, everything from the shadows, but with the fat guy testifying she could take down the Blackfin Duke on bright daylight, of course he won't be executed for this, but his position as Minister of defense would be stripped from him and then Annete could appoint someone that she and Vincent trusted, because the Blackfin were given their tittle by the king, if they fail the queen gets the right to determine who will take over, that's how things worked.
Ignoring the really dark future that awaits him, the fat guy with all the pain in his heart, took out a key and after following a series of steps, the many layers of the door of the treasure room opened.
Daimon had to give it to him, he really treasured his riches, there were three different layers of security, a key, an array that activated with blood and even a lock that was opened with one of the many rings that the fat guy used in all his fingers.
Not even a minute later, Rita's voice came from within Daimon's shadow, as she reported the result of her scan.
"There is another emblem hidden in the chest at the highest part of that rack, besides that, there is a large amount of trashy Arch ranked equipment, and around 25 billion of mana crystals as well as some average resources here and there", she calmly said as her shadow threads retrieved the chest she mentioned.
Daimon nodded, he asked her to only tell him about above average resources that will be useful the Risha sisters and the others, he didn't expect the fat guy to have top resources, otherwise he would have gotten full fledged Stellar ranks as guards instead of half step ones, but certainly he had a crazy amount of sea crystals or mana crystals as they would be called in the four galaxies.
"Two new incomplete emblems, not bad, more money is never a bad acquisition", mumbled Daimon as he took out the incomplete emblem and then casually threw the chest into to the ground, making its contents spill all over the place.
With a wave of Daimon's hand, everything in the treasury was sucked into his inventory, leaving only empty racks behind, unlike rings the inventory only used a slot for a same type of thing, so he could fit as many mana crystals as he wanted in just one slot, but he had to use a slot for each grade of mana crystals, but he used a little trick, which is leaving the stuff in the chests.
The system automatically classified the chests according to the grade of its contents, and so he had a slot for "Arch" "Half Stellar" and "Stellar" ranked resources, and the same repeated for treasures, pills, potions and the like, it was quite convenient.
The fat guy saw all the fruits of his efforts disappear in front of him in a blink and he nearly suffered a mental collapse on the spot, first of all, there was no sign of a spatial ring being used, and the effect was instantaneous, so for him it was as if his treasures all vanished into thin air.
Without caring about the mental state of the fat guy, Daimon and the others returned to the previous room, the slaves that were chained to the bed were drugged, so during all the time they didn't notice what happened, Remi was sent to leave them some money and administrate an antidote that will wake them in a few minutes, that was as much as they could do for them.
Daimon couldn't lose time with other people's problems, he had his own things to deal with, which included prevent this planet from disappearing, it wouldn't be too late to join all these mobile islands under Thea's flag, later after they had dealt with the Global Raid.
After Rita inspected the informant, a large number of tracking devices were detected and destroyed by Thea, only then the guy was knocked out and grabbed by Remi, the four half Stellar guards were terrified, someone that didn't care about the informants or offending the fat guy's backers, was either a madman or a person with an insanely high status.
And judging by the fact there were two high stage Stellar ranks, one with the outrageous capacity to completely control space, they were more inclined to the second option, and so they were worried that they will be simply killed to be silenced, that was until they heard Daimon saying.
"Accept the contract or die", he didn't need to speak twice before the four guys accepted, what a joke, they were natives of nomad tribes that with a lot of effort and luck outlived their peers, and even managed to enter the half Stellar realm, only to find a barrier that prevented them from keep going up, that's why they became the guards of the fat guy, naturally someone with high stage Stellars as bodyguards, would have resources to spare, especially considering they saw him rob their previous employer as well as the informant, out of practically everything they had on them.
The barrier of the inner part of the mansion was left activated, so that the slaves could safely leave after they woke up, Thea simply pierced the space with her spear and a portal that led to the Flying Citadel appeared in front of Daimon and the others, who jumped into it, disappearing from the mansion.
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At the outer ring of the Flying Citadel, Aisha and the others were happily chatting between themselves, while the young girls of the angelfish clan were curiously playing with the poor Blood Bat, under the supervision of the two elders of course, the monster pet was different to anything they had seen or heard off, it wasn't a magic beast to begin with, and it also had no fur unlike a normal bat, the Blood Bat was made out of condensed blood, it had a core which was fused into the emblem that Aisha acquired when she became its master.
A black portal suddenly appeared which took the young girls by surprise, they all rushed behind the two elders, until they saw Marlene coming out of it, she and Thea took the masks off inside of the dimensional tunnel.
"You know the process, take those two to the prison", said Daimon as he took off his mask too, his face became visible for all the presents, which made the young girls of the angelfish clan curiously gaze at him.
"These guys are useless to me, you can have them watching over those girls just in case", said Daimon to Marlene as he pointed at the four half Stellar guards, he had Remi, and soon there will be another high stage Stellar becoming his subordinate, those four won't be able to make a change in the incoming war, but they can be good guards for Marlene's clan, since though they won't be participating, they are still part of the alliance.
"Mm", Marlene happily accepted, now if she left again, her clan won't be in a desperate situation, at least they'll have someone to look after them, naturally Thea will be modifying their contracts so that the two elders can order them later.
"You left to make a few questions and returned with four half Stellar ranks as subordinates, maybe I should have joined as well", playfully said Femi, her winnings from the exploration are just some resources and mana crystals, Tessa on the other hand had some lucky and got a few decent things, prior to meeting Daimon of course, because after joining his team, they even got to choose what they wanted from Aurora's treasury.
But they were surprised at how "easy" things came to him, which Daimon could explain with a single word "plunder", most of the riches he has amassed came from currently dead enemies, or those that dared to bet against him.
"Speaking of that…", mumbled Daimon as he took out the papers that the informant gave him earlier, the third question he made regarded the reaction that his actions caused between Marcus and the scheming guy.
And as he expected the recent news confirmed that an unknown group suddenly appeared in many mobile islands, and attacked some people, causing many deaths, which raised the danger level of certain areas of the outer zone of the Maelstrom Sea, especially because among the deaths there were people affiliated to some strong pirate crews, including the Devil Stingray pirates, and also Blackbeard pirates.
Everything because Marcus attacked the locations of Black Wave that he had knowledge off, without even confirming what they were, in his anger he blasted off, pubs, brothels, restaurants, stores, in other words places that worked as a source of income and as a tool for information gathering, where people from many places gathered.
'That idiot is really unstable, I wonder if it's a secondary effect of his system', wondered Daimon, he had to deal with the skirt chaser legacy of Abraham Van Helsing in a sense, according to Evangeline his luck with women was related to that as well, so it wouldn't be weird for those two, who are way more susceptible to the influence of their systems, to be influenced by them, while they also influence their systems to grow to their likings.
While Daimon and the others walked to the main residence, he turned to see Aisha and the Risha sisters to say.
"Calvin and the others aren't in the Maelstrom Sea either", the list of underwater places he got, practically overlapped with that Annete, Aurora, Armando and Thea had investigated for him, which included some ruins, and cities that sank during the many wars that happened through the years.
They have all been confirmed to not be inhabited currently, and there was just one location in the Maelstrom Sea known to have an underwater ruin, but there was nothing there, so unless Arianna was in some really isolated place, she wasn't in any of the four seas.
And Daimon knew she wasn't, because her description was of an open area, where a giant underwater castle surrounded by magic beasts, laid at the bottom, the water wasn't particularly dark and the castle could be seen from afar, that was Arianna's description.
As for Calvin and the others, they should have already raised waves, if they had landed on any of the four seas, but there was no notice that described people who looked or acted like them.
That being said, Daimon could confirm they were alive because he hasn't gotten a record on the log of the system, saying that the items from the store, which he gave them had broken, and those things would activate if they were in a life-endangering situation.
"Well, knowing Calvin he might be flirting with a mermaid or something", jokingly said Leslie.
"There was a division on the first layer of Neptune, Aleah and the little sister of vice principal Leeris were there as well as that lizard girl, so they might have been sent there", added Yvonne.
Daimon nodded, he hadn't seen the guys from the other galaxies back at the first layer of Neptune, with the exception of those that were related to Adam and Marcus, in other words demons and humans, Sera and Laila had those marbles that protected them, so it's obvious they had their own agendas in Neptune too, maybe they weren't meant to enter the second layer, unlike Marcus and Adam, though they were supposed to help them.
'My contract with Scarlet and the others is still there, so they should be fine too', thought Daimon, ultimately, he could only focus on what he could control, they still needed to visit Thea's territory before returning to the Elemental Sea, so that he can get what the hero left under the care of the Light Palace.
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