Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 31 Progress

In fact, within the fifth district of the Fiery Hell Realm, Mord's strength is by no means weak; in fact, including those who came later, he is enough to rank among the top ten.

The time for the largest influx of people into the Infernal Realm will be a year from now. At this point in time, it shouldn't be a problem to say that Mord is in the top three.

Most importantly, this guy is pragmatic and not stubborn.

In the simulation records, Hunzhen had encountered other domain experts of the same level, but most of these guys were arrogant and unruly, making them difficult to subdue. That's why Hunzhen was so concerned about Mo Decai.

"Don't worry, don't worry. We members of the Treasure Hunting Alliance were all kidnapped and sent here to scout ahead. We don't have any good feelings towards that lousy mercenary group that forcibly sent us here. Once we find the treasure, we can totally join the forces behind your Trench Squad. Then we'll all be family!"

Hunzhen patted Morde on the shoulder and said this, but Morde didn't believe him at all.

Maud knew that many factions used this tactic of sacrificing a pawn to explore, but what faction would use its own trump card as a sacrifice?

This type of tactic usually involves sacrificing a piece to scout ahead, then having the ace follow up and join in, securing the victory and smoothly ending the game.

Little did he know, the mercenary group that plundered Hunzhen had no idea they had won the lottery.

The rarity of geniuses in the Hengxing realm is so high that they captured two in one go. Originally, they planned to use these pawns as scouts, then have their core members find the remaining pawns based on their soul imprints, thus obtaining advance intelligence.

But now... their own people finding the person by following the soul imprint is undoubtedly walking into a trap. It seems they can't escape being purged by the great demon Hunzhen.

Morde was unaware of these things, but as long as Hunzhen didn't directly take action and stand on the opposing side, he wouldn't panic.

Before the barrier weakens, entry into the Realm of Inferno is permitted, but exit is not.

Using captured scouts can reduce personnel losses, but it's not without its advantages. The advantage lies in the fact that when exchanging intelligence through the virtual universe network, there is generally no concealment or withholding of information.

Conversely, this can also be used to request more support.

Hunzhen was well aware of Morde's thoughts, but he didn't take them to heart at all.

He had known for a long time that most of the forces targeting the Fiery Hell Realm were at the cosmic level, with very few at the domain lord level.

It's not impossible for a force of this caliber to find someone at the Hengxing level who can surpass him in the present, but it would be extremely difficult in the short term.

This is also the main reason why Maud compromised.

In fact, in the simulation, the two cooperated quite well—after all, they didn't find the treasure in the end, and there was no conflict of interest that required them to fight to the death.

If Yamu, the devoted fan, is Hunzhen's secretary in the Treasure Hunting Alliance, then Mord, with his combined strength and management skills, is the true deputy leader.

After that, the members of the Treasure Hunting Alliance gathered, brought back news of the Trench Squad, and received a promise from Mord to spare their lives, which further stabilized the morale of the Treasure Hunting Alliance.

It's not that they readily believe promises, but compared to raiders, this organization, which appears to come from a "big family," is far more trustworthy.

If before it was just a desperate struggle for survival, now it's a genuine sense of hope.

Time flies by.

Within the Realm of Inferno, the Treasure Hunting Alliance did not discover any special treasures.

Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you can only see the fiery energy surging like magma.

Even more disbelieving individuals, who overdid the excavation, were burned alive after being instinctively attacked by the Fiery Hell Realm.

The only noteworthy gain was the Flame Beast Crystal dropped by killing the Flame Beast.

In the process, as Maud said, they encountered more and more human groups.

Most of them were like Hunzhen and his group, who were abducted and used as expendable pawns; only a small number were elite advance teams of families, similar to trench squads.

Most of the abandoned players without affiliation were absorbed into the alliance.

As for the elite team, most of them didn't have the same sense of self-awareness as Mord, so in order to prevent information from being leaked, they were all wiped out by the "Elite Killer" team later established by the Treasure Hunting Alliance.

A small number of light-speed rails are attempting to grab a share of the market.

There is no third option.

Those powerful beings at the cosmic level probably never imagined that among the "vagrants" they had abducted, there would be someone who could rise up and establish an organization that would absorb a large number of vagrants.

They even wiped out the elites who were sent down to the countryside, preventing any news from getting back.

This process was naturally not without its challenges.

It's impossible for all elite squads backed by powerful forces to be law-abiding citizens; some might even be planning to infiltrate the alliance and undermine it.

However, nearly three months have passed, and this alliance, whose name is often taken lightly, has miraculously resolved the crisis one by one.

Anyone who intends to betray the organization will be made an example of beforehand, and even those who only intend to leak information about the organization will not escape the blade of reckoning.

In the process, the leader who could always solve the problems within the alliance with surgical precision became increasingly unfathomable in the eyes of others.

In just three months, the area of ​​the Infernal Realm, which the leader called the fifth district, has become impregnable, and the existence of the Treasure Hunting Alliance has even been tacitly acknowledged by many behind-the-scenes bigwigs.

After all, everyone knows that the so-called alliance will come to an end the moment it achieves its original goal of "treasure hunting".

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An organization that is destined not to exist for long, no matter how many people it gathers, is not worth fearing.

As for the ownership of the treasure, it is not something that a leader of a power with only a certain star level can control.

Its purpose is simply "treasure hunting".

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"Approximately 40,000. Even if we consume the maximum amount of Flame Beast Crystals every day, and each simulated training session lasts for ten years, that's the most we'll ever use."

The Realm of Flame Hell has no other resources except for Flame Beast Crystals.

Gradually, everyone began to accept that if there was a true treasure in this secret realm, it must be related to it.

In the simulation, the initially fearsome fire beasts gradually became resources indistinguishable from ordinary wild animals and livestock.

Continuing the record for the longest period of barrier weakening, approximately five years later, the Alliance's inventory contained one million Flame Beast Crystals.

Among them, from planetary level to cosmic level, the Flame Beast Crystals are divided into first-tier, second-tier, and third-tier. Even the rarest third-tier Flame Beast Crystals have a stock of more than a thousand.

In other words, in just a few years, this group of humans, at most at the ninth level of the Eternal Star Realm, slaughtered thousands of cosmic-level fire beasts.

This Flame Beast Crystal is only beneficial for comprehending the Law of Fire. Using Flame Beast Crystals of different grades takes about the same amount of time, but the amount of enlightenment gained varies by several times for each grade.

With the Sims as their leader and their immense prestige, even if they secretly embezzled a tenth of the Alliance's inventory over the years, they wouldn't face any criticism.

Unfortunately, corruption is limitless while consumption is finite; the rate of consumption cannot keep up with the efficiency of corruption.

Even so, Hunzhen had already successfully broken through the fifth level of Flowing Blade Like Fire a month and a half ago, and now he was approaching the sixth level, which means that he had successfully touched the threshold of the Law of Fire.

The Alliance's smooth progress over the past three months was undoubtedly due in no small part to the early exploration by the Sims.

To outsiders, his control over the alliance seemed flawless, but in reality, it was the result of the Sims being betrayed more than a dozen times.

Grateful.

Praise the humanoid.

(End of this chapter)