He tapped his fingers against each other as he said, "If I remember correctly, you set an appointment with us last year for the next three years. A year and two months have passed since then, so you have one year and 10 months before the appointment. This mission should finish well before then, so you should be able to make it if you survive."
Loki immediately nodded in agreement and said, "I’ll surely be able to make it to the appointment."
He spoke calmly and respectfully. As for what was said or unsaid about how he should die during this mission if he wasn’t planning on making the appointment and joining the Thorn House of Commerce, he didn’t let that get to him.
It wasn’t false bravado. He was truly relaxed now that it seemed that this man wasn’t planning on killing him.
Instinctively, he didn’t trust what the rank 8 money cultivator said. But Loki couldn’t figure out why the man would lie to him when the money cultivator could make his move now and kill him.
If the rank 8 cultivator were to attack him now, no one would try to stop the murder. And even if anyone tried, no one could actually stop the money cultivator. Since the money cultivator wasn’t attacking him, he felt that he could relax.
In response to what he said, the rank 8 money cultivator nodded in satisfaction and said, "Good."
Then he said to everyone, "Let’s introduce ourselves. I am Money Body. I am the leader of the Thorn House of Commerce."
Nether Flame simply said, "Nether Flame."
The ant woman said, "I am Ant Hill."
With her done, Money Body said, "That’s done. Now that introductions are done and everyone is here, let’s go."
After speaking, Money Body stood up from his seat and left the room. Nether Flame followed him immediately.
Ant Hill also began to move. But as she passed Loki, she said, "It is good that I am not the weakest one here. But I don’t know if I should really be glad about that since you’re so unreliable."
Then she flew away from the room.
Loki watched her go and didn’t say anything in response to what she said. He only shook his head and said to himself, ’It is not as if I haven’t killed someone as strong as you.’
This thought made him chuckle inwardly. As he chuckled, he thought to himself in amusement, ’It is one thing for a rank 7 and a rank 8 cultivator to look down on me. But a rank 6 bug looking down on me is something unacceptable. It is unacceptable and hilarious.’
’It is not even certain who would win between the rank 7 death cultivator and me. But you’re jumping around like a bug.’
’Then again, what should I have expected from a bug? I guess it is your nature to fly towards a flame looking for death.’
As he said this, he too flew out of the room and went after the others. The four of them went to retrieve the items they would need for the mission.
They were given two items for the mission. The first one was the shield breaker. The second one was the outpost core.
These two items were so important that the sect gave each of them multiple copies of both items. They only need one copy of the two items to successfully complete the mission. But the sect gave them four copies just in case of a severe emergency.
After they got the four mission items, they left the small world and went to the outer rings. From there, they boarded a tubular void ship that would take them to Oceania.
The void ship was the size of a building with a hundred floors. But it was on its side, so it was longer than it was taller.
Another divine being was controlling this void ship. The divine being was on a separate mission, which was to escort them to the location of the mission and provide other assistance for them.
This divine being was a forger and a woman. She wouldn’t enter Oceania with them, and there was little danger for her mission, so she would be paid far less than they were.
In fact, her mission can succeed if theirs fails. So she was truly on a different mission from theirs.
The two sides didn’t talk much after they met. All she did when she met them was to allow the four of them to board the void ship after verifying her identity. Then she drove the void ship away.
The void ship was a divine item that could borrow the power of her Cave Heaven, so it moved faster than mortal vessels. Most importantly, it could enter the third dimension, so it could cover far more distance than it would in the first dimension.
Since the Cave Heaven that the void ship was borrowing came from a rank 6 divine being, and this rank 6 divine being possessed a smaller Cave Heaven than Loki’s, the void ship was moving more slowly than Loki could on his own.
The only advantages that this void ship possessed were that it protected them from attacks and had blended into the void for stealth transportation. This way, it would be difficult to notice them, and if anyone noticed them, it would be very difficult to get to them within the void ship.
Fortunately, Oceania was nearby. So they were able to get to it in a little more than 20 hours. With this information, Loki was able to glean some things.
He made some quick calculations in his head as he said to himself, ’This is a rank 6 void ship. The size of her Cave Heaven is 100 million square kilometers, and the amplification of her law fragments is level 6. This means that the void ship can produce 3,600 units of divine power with her Cave Heaven.’
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