Today, the massive Advanced Unique Rank ship left the remote island and headed towards the boundary of the epic star ocean, where another small ship was waiting for its arrival.
Jacob stood on the deck in his signature black outfit, accompanied by Sofie, adorned in a silky violet dress, and the ogre Mic, who had an expressionless face.
Soon, another charming woman in a long white sleeveless dress embarked on the ship. She appeared exceptionally charming and graceful; she was none other than the Dark Marquis of the Dark City, Zoe.
At this moment, shock was written all over Zoe's beautiful face as she looked at the ogre standing beside Jacob. She was extremely knowledgeable and knew about races of the unique plains, so she easily identified Horn Ogre.
'How did he manage to subdue this fellow? No, where did he discover them? This ship is an even higher rank than my basic unique rank ship, which I got after spending so much wealth and connections. Just how many secrets is this guy hiding?' She was extremely curious about Jacob, and now she felt somewhat terrified.
She had received Jacob's message about them being ready to leave the epic plains and give her coordinates of this place. She had already tied up loose ends and was fully ready. She thought that they would be using her ship for this voyage, but now, seeing Jacob's ship, she felt she was thinking too little of him and was embarrassed.
"Welcome to my ship. I've prepared the best room for you. Please follow Sofie, and she'll bring you to it. If there's nothing else, should we start?" Jacob stated smilingly.
"I'll be in your care then. I hope you both have activated the secret dark mission. If you don't mind, Mr. Jack, I would like for you to accept this invitation to connect my ascending mission with yours, and then you can connect with Miss Sofie the same way. This way, you will benefit from mine, and Miss Sofie will be from yours, according to our Dark Noble Ranks.
"Furthermore, at that time, even if someone raised questions about this mission, we'd be in the right, and no one would dare to make things difficult for us," Zoe explained.
She was talking about the mission to ascend the plains, which only allowed to bring a number of helpers according to the dark noble rank. Although failing it won't have any consequences, the easy benefits will also be lost which was not worth it.
Furthermore, if someone cleared it alone, they would receive even more rewards, but ascending a plain was not an easy matter, especially when it came from the epic plains to the unique plains.
Jacob didn't reject this idea and accepted the invitation of Zoe, as for Sofie he had already learned all the rules and how these secret dark mission works so he had connected her mission with his long before Zoe came.
The benefits of this mission were quite generous, not only their dark noble rank will be raised by another rank, but Jacob will get a Dark Viscount Estate in the Unique Inner Dark City upon his arrival and also 1000 Dark Credit.
Sofie would get a small house in the inner city and 100 Dark Credit according to her Upper Dark Noble Rank.
The Dark Credits were the special currency of the Dark City allocated to only the personal members, and with it, they could access, and shop in the Dark Shop of the Dark City, only opened for the Dark City Personal members.
When Jacob saw this shop, he almost thought that he was browsing the champion shop as it was identical and almost everything was available. Once he ascends the plains, the dark shop will also upgrade to a unique rank. This made me excited. But his excitement was short-lived when he noticed the Dark Credits.
For joining the Dark City, he got 100 Dark Credits because he was a Dark Baron, while Sofie only got 10.
Furthermore, he found that Dark Credit could only be earned through Secret Dark Mission or by trading materials, medicines, pills, potions, etc., directly to the Dark City or Personal Members. They were not tradable between outer members or transferable.
Furthermore, anything bought with Dark Credit can't be trade with other than the Personal Members or leaked, this was the huge violation of the Dark City rules and punishment could be as serve as death depending on the value of item or knowledge.
Nonetheless, he knew as long as he could sell his stuff to the Dark City, he could earn as much as he wanted, and this was his specialty.
"Set sails," Jacob ordered Mic beside him, and he expressionlessly nodded before heading toward the control room.
"Why don't we control those women as well? Did you trust them?" Nyx's curious voice rang at this moment as she was talking about Zoe.
Jacob glanced at Zoe and Sofie leaving before he replied, "I don't trust anyone besides myself. As for them, Sofie is quite useful and refining her into a puppet would be a waste, I can't bother to found a new one. Besides, I want to see if she's capable of being loyal or just all the people of this world are cursed for being treacherous.
"Zoe is the same. Furthermore, even if I want her knowledge, I don't dare to take the risk because she is from the Dark City, and her dark noble rank is extremely high. According to the Dark City rules, every Dark Noble is being monitored by the Dark City AI, Dark Rose, through their Star Watches.
"If they died, the Dark Rose would send back those records to the headquarters, and the higher the dark noble rank, the more attention would be given to their death and cause.
"If they had died because of their own stupidity, then no one would care about them, and the matter would end at that. But if someone dared to scheme against or assassinate them, even if they were a member of the Dark City, it would bring endless trouble and punishment.
"Furthermore, to kill someone like Zoe, you need an excellent reason and evidence. That's why it's not worth it to kill her without any good reason. At least not until she makes a move first, then I torture her without worry. As for now, let's just see how she would handle the situation in the unique plains. As I said, I wanted to see if this world is cursed with treachery and greed."
A hint of coldness crept into Jacob's eyes when he thought about his several encounters with people like Hallberg and Ten.
"Why bother?" Nyx couldn't help but ask with uncertainty as she didn't understand why Jacob was even bothering to test this. Wasn't he a cold and heartless person who only put himself before others?
Jacob's lips rose as he looked into the endless star ocean ahead of him, "Lately, I don't know why, but my emotions are going through a strange change. I don't know if it's my imagination, but I'm beginning to reminisce about my past.
"If I want to reach my goal, emotions and relations will only slow me down. Whatever the case is, once I get the answer to this question, I think I won't have any sliver of hesitation to do the unimaginable, cruelest things!"
