Origin Player.

Chapter 834 The Peacock Princess
White Oak Kingdom.

Beneath a marquis's castle, a passage sealed for over a decade has been opened. During the first Emerald Expedition, the Tianhuo Star Group suffered a defeat, but they did leave behind some backup plans.

As the Quenching Pirates emerged one by one, Marquis Philip looked somewhat dazed. During the years he had disguised himself as a native and infiltrated Emerald Star, he had married and had children, and occasionally even forgot his former identity as Colonel Skyfire.

“I am a member of the Nyat family.”

"I have an obligation to sacrifice everything for my family."

The Quenching Pirates consist of 121 members: one ordinary legend, twenty heroes, and one hundred gold-level members. Their combined strength is comparable to that of the dukes and nobles of Emerald Star.

The leader of the Quenching Guild was roughly young, with sunken eyes and inexplicable bite marks all over his body. As a necromancer, the lives he had killed were both his power and his pain.

"Commander, what's the background of that new guy?"

The deputy commander, a one-eyed woman, said viciously, "If you ask me, we should just kill her. The equipment she's wearing might be the legendary Emperor's Mech."

The one-eyed woman clearly didn't care about the retaliation that might follow her killing the other person; she just wanted to sell the mecha, enjoy herself for a while, and then die.

"You better behave yourself!" Quenching warned sternly; he was the only one in the entire pirate crew who understood the girl's noble status.

Upon hearing this, the one-eyed woman lowered her head, but then gave the blonde girl in the crowd a sinister look.

At sixteen or seventeen years old, she naturally looked fair and beautiful. The girl wore a gold short dress that matched her hair color, and you could vaguely see the surface of her skin. She wore a colorless light mecha suit that clung to her delicate body. She had a pair of incredibly long and beautiful legs, and her figure was disproportionate to her age, making her appear quite tall.

The one-eyed woman was deeply jealous of the girl's appearance, but she coveted even more the "Emperor's Mech" the girl was wearing.

This is a special and rare model manufactured by the Imperial Court. Its overall performance is the best, almost without exception. The physical and mental pressure that the mecha puts on the mecha's resonance user is all borne by that father of humanity, the Emperor.

As a supreme being, the god of magic and resonance, and the sole supreme combat force of the Galactic Empire, the emperor's toilet was not used for nothing. For those devout mech resonance users, the "Emperor Mech" could allow golden beings to unleash extraordinary combat power comparable to ordinary legends. In essence, it was as if the mech resonance user was piloting a weapon unconsciously controlled by the emperor.

Of course, its cost is also extremely high, equivalent to three space motherships, and its owners are either very rich or very powerful.

"Kill her, she must be killed."

"So what if I am rich and noble? My God will grant me an eternally blissful death."

A hint of madness flashed deep in the one-eyed woman's eyes.

The Quenching Pirates verified their identities with Marquis Philip and then headed by sea to Surat Port as quickly as possible.

The Dragonblood Kingdom is preparing to reclaim the territory it once held during the reign of the Thorn King, and the Red Demon Duke and the Evil Mountain Duke are preparing for war with the support of the two kingdoms.

After three days, the Quenching Pirates followed the caravan to the port of Surat.

In just one month of colonization, the port of Surat has undergone tremendous changes. Thanks to the power of steel and the productivity of magic, its former medieval style has vanished without a trace.

Towering steel buildings stand tall on the earth, and thousands of caravans are constantly engaged in trade. Industrial products and high-end goods transported from Tianhuo Star are all the rage, while cartloads of spices and agricultural and textile products are transported from the port city to the main star. The Rhine Star Trade Group reaps huge profits from this.

But what's truly astonishing is...

These steel buildings are like a rapidly growing forest, which has spread to the distant mountains and rivers, with countless production lines being the branches and leaves of the forest.

"The Rhine Nest..."

The blonde girl looked up at the sign at the entrance of the port city. She activated the mecha scanning device, her pupils contracting slightly.

The top floor of the nest city soars into the clouds.

It was like paradise, with fresh air and even a large garden built with hydroponics and a huge dome. Sunlight streamed in through the huge arched windows, and the buildings were spacious and magnificent, full of Baroque luxury from the early classical period of the empire.

The middle layer of the hive city is like a maze.

The streets here are actually metal passageways and bridges between different floors, with almost no natural light, relying on artificial light sources for illumination, and filled with the smells of machine oil, sweat, and artificial fragrances. As the industrial and economic center of the Nest City, countless factories, foundries, and logistics warehouses are gathered here, maintaining production and transportation day and night. More than three million natives of the Dragonblood Kingdom live here, dedicating everything to it.

The bottom layer of the nest city is located underground.

Extending several kilometers downwards from the surface lies a true hell on earth, filled only with the occasional flicker of faulty lights, and teeming with deadly toxic gases from a mixture of industrial waste, rotting matter, and unknown substances. The ground is not soil, but a "surface" composed of industrial waste and garbage. The creatures living here live without laws, driven only by the most primal violence and the will to survive.

The entire Surat Plain was transformed into a city of sin.

It is no longer the beautiful city full of hope and representing the humanistic spirit of the main star, as reported by Tianhuo Media.

The Quenching Pirates split into ten groups to gather intelligence.

As night fell, everyone returned to the ship at the port, and the leader of the Quenching Guild reported to the blonde girl:

"Your Highness, the exploitation of resources and the utilization of manpower here are truly astonishing," the Quenching Guild Leader exclaimed. "Rhine Alexei is currently in the arena atop the Nest City, where many dignitaries from the main planet have come."

The blonde girl was taken aback. As early as the mid-empire period, the court had issued an order banning bloody industries such as "beast fighting" and "gladiator combat." However, because during planetary exploration, the planetary governors held power "second only to the emperor" in the private sphere, these bloody industries remained a gray area, proving difficult to eradicate.

"As expected, my sister's fiancé is no better than her. Since he's not a good person, it's only natural that he should be my servant, hehe."

Princess Peacock stroked her golden hair and squinted her eyes.

Her secret mission was twofold: first, to investigate the specifics of the pillar god worship within the Quenching Pirates; and second, to capture her sister, the Gem Princess's, fiancé.

"Doria, I will never allow you to be happy."

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Heavenly Fire King went to the Great Universe Star Cluster to participate in the Imperial Northern Frontier Lords' Conference to jointly discuss how to deal with the impending Zerg war. She also left all the divine weapons and positioning devices bestowed upon her by the Heavenly Fire King in the palace and spent a huge amount of resources to hold a purification ceremony to ensure that nothing went wrong.

In this way, no one would know whether her actions against her future brother-in-law would affect the position of the heir to the throne.

……

At the top of the Rhine Nest, all around is a sea of ​​clouds.

Jiang He watched the ceremony at the arena. As a representative of the tourism industry on Emerald Star, the beast fighting competition has recently become popular in the underground world of Tianhuo Main Star, and has also cooperated with some dark web sites to get involved in the gambling field.

The private combat slaves kept by the various Skyfire nobles have finally found a use, and as an intermediary, operator, and event contractor, Rhine Star Trade doesn't mind operating behind the scenes.

Under Francis's direction, a massive cash flow was channeled to members of Congress, and just last night, Congress passed a final bill—the "New Regulations for the Tianhuoxing Jewelry Market."

The entire jewelry industry in Tianhuo Star was coordinated by the Security Committee and then "contracted" to private operators. Various giant enterprises withdrew from the market. Due to expenses such as equity dividends, operating costs, and expansion investments, after splitting the profits with Francis at 30/70, the total value of Rhine Star Trade Group soared to 820 billion Star Coins.

The group alone owns two thousand jewelry stores.

Ten more gem mines have been discovered in the Surat Plain.

Next, Rhine Jewelry will expand into major habitable planets. This will take time because the governors have too much power, but they have no choice but to do so, since the market on Mars is already saturated.

Wuhe amassed 900 billion star coins and used them all to purchase the Time Leak Fruit, a specialty of the Time Leak Star Cluster. Consuming it causes aging and contains a small amount of time-eroding power.

One hundred Time Leak Fruits were delivered to Emerald Star.

Jiang He ate them one by one to strengthen himself.

As for the cost, the time loop can be restored.

[Hint: Sub-Mythical Eclipse LV1 → Mythical Eclipse LV1]
Jiang He sensed the changes and couldn't help but think to himself, "The perfect digestion rate of the sin of gluttony greatly reduces resource consumption. Only a few hundred billion is needed to enhance the three top-level energy properties from sub-mythical to mythical level."

Without the great sin of gluttony, he estimated that even tens of trillions of resources would not achieve the same effect, representing a difference of twenty to thirty times. Because of a previous projection, this estimate was highly authoritative.

In Jiang He's palm, gray chaos, black sin poison, and pale time erosion, three energies alternated and coexisted, even an ordinary strike could annihilate a legendary elite.

"My lord, please have a drink."

Beside the VIP seats, an extremely voluptuous young beauty bowed, amber-colored liquor shimmering slightly between her delicate collarbones. This was a complimentary item included with the purchase of the Time Leak Fruit, carefully selected by Wuhe according to the standards of the Immortal Pig.

"Unfortunately, there are only pigs, no immortals."

"All show and no substance."

Jiang He pointed a finger at the other person's lower abdomen.

The battle cry, sung with professional training, rang out, but as a Celestial Pig Hunter, Jiang He could clearly discern that the other party did not possess that unique charm of being aloof and arrogant, two-faced, struggling and resisting yet instinctively infatuated.

Therefore, when a magical sniper bullet comes...

Jiang He showed no intention of making a move, letting the young beauty named Nicole be blown into a pile of mud.

The bullet shattered on his body, posing no threat whatsoever.

The assassination attempt erupted, plunging the arena into chaos. The dignitaries of Tianhuo Star withdrew from the arena under the arrangement of the Dragon Blood Guard.

boom!
Above the sea of ​​clouds, a massive meteorite, having gathered its power for a long time, fell amidst unique crimson flames. The legendary magic, Crimson Nova, was powerful enough to destroy mountains and plains in an ordinary world with normal durability.

"Magic, is it?"

"If it can increase one's own energy, then it's worth learning."

Wow!
The whole world was filled with the fierce sound of the mighty river rushing.

A colossal, towering Dharma form materialized, and the mythical Hell Lord, with a fierce reach, reduced the massive meteorite to the size of a tiny pebble, forcibly quelling the violent explosion in his palm.

(End of this chapter)