Chapter 206 - 206

v.5

While Arc and his group are in endless swamps, Gideon's team on the other hand, who recently finished a very invigorating fight, was back on the road, thier mission was another city called Cathedral, it was the home of the regions most prominent religious organization.

Gideon found out about it by talking and affiliating with other adventurers and merchants. Actually, they were able to figure out many other city locations, but this Cathedral and the religious organization named Hands of Cain are known for thier powerful artifacts and was also known for hoarding many unknown relics and artifacts recovered in many ancient ruins. They always pay the premium for every relic and artifacts they bought, making them very popular to the Adventurers and merchants, so it's not hard finding information about them. And the fact that this Hands of Cain is Hoarding many Artifacts and Relics is what caught their attention, so Gideon, along with 11 other Celeste, were tasked in investigating this Cathedral. 

Gideon and the rest are acting as merchants and adventurers that are contracted as bodyguards. This kind of group is very common in Eden. 

And registering as merchants is far more easier than registering as adventurers and considering that registering as an adventurer is as easy as making a new email account. While to become a merchant, all you need to do is pay and register a name for your merchant group and you will be a merchant.

Increasing your merchant ranks is also very easy, you just have to pay for it. 

And money is not a problem for them, as Arc's very first factory, the currency factory is finally able to be used again, and making a currency used in Eden is child's play. Eden is using metal-based currency, and so Arc made a ton of them. 

In fact, Arc has already forgotten about that little factory since he only used it very briefly. 

But here in Eden, where there's no one to really regulate the currency and bartering is very famous, making a ton of it is not a problem. They were able to convert it into Credits in any local banks, and the bank never questions where it came from as long as its authentic coins they would accept it. After all, only one power is capable of making those coins, and no one was able to duplicate it after so many years. In fact, since its creation, so as long as the coins pass thier automatic machine coin inspection, they never question it. 

Arc left the currency factory inside the Specter, so if anyone needs money, all they have to do is ask. 

And Arielle is taking advantage of it. She sent many Celeste disguised as merchants to purchase as many rare materials as possible and bring it back to Specter. 

And in just a few days, the number of resources they were able to acc.u.mulate was quite astonishing even for Arc. Again he praises himself for appointing Arielle as logistics and overall supervisor in Specter and Silva being her right hand. Silva also has a great experience in dealing with this kind of thing, so she was able to plan on how they can amass a huge amount of resources in the shortest amount of time. 

The money being the biggest hurdle was easily overcomed by the Currency factory and everything else is a walk in a park for her. With her experiences and Arielle's management skills, they become a dynamic duo in Specter. Even leaving Eve with nothing to do in Specter since everything is taken care of by the duo. 

Of course, they are curious about the technology that can perfectly mimic any type of physical currency. Especially the coins in Eden are made out of very advanced technology and magic. 

Yet Arc can easily copy it perfectly without any problems. 

With this kind of means, any world that doesn't have 100% digital currency and uses hard currency. Arc can easily make their currency and make off with tons of their resources without a problem. 

Gideon and the rest of Celeste also received enhancements using enhancement serum, Arc using the system he bought a rank 5 factory that can build rank 5 and below enhancement serum. 

It won't be able to make them as strong as his system personnel, but it's more than enough for the Celeste. 

They already have a good starting point being a warrior race. Their physiques are already far more powerful than an ordinary enhanced human. With the enhancement serum, it increased thier physiques even more, closer to a peek 1-star rank. Especially Gideon, his body is far more stronger than the rest of Celeste, and being hailed as a great warrior, he was given the most important task to protect Arielle. 

But now his job description has changed as Arielle no longer needs protection. But she needs a warrior to do her bidding, and to be honest, he was initially against it first, but soon he was able to accept it, and now he was even proud of it. 

Becoming Arc's royal guard was what motivates him the most. Now he also likes being on the field doing some warriors work, it reminds him of the time when he was still a rookie warrior when all he can think of is how to become a great warrior. So he trained harder than any other and bathed himself on the beast's blood that plagued his home planet. 

He experienced life and death too many times before, so this kind of thing is like a walk in a park for him and his warriors. Compared to his home planet's very hostile environment, Eden is like a Garden, just like its name. 

Of course, that doesn't mean he would be careless. Infact, he was very careful as everything they did reflected on whether they could be Arc's real royal guards. 

So they are taking every mission very seriously, and they leave nothing to chance. 

Especially since this world politics are very chaotic, the ruling power is always in conflict with other ruling powers, and war is a constant thing, and chaos reigns everywhere. Even in the city of Groma, which was at the very end of the continent, the chaotic atmosphere can still be felt. Bandits and scoundrels were virtually everywhere, waiting for victims.

It is one of the reasons mercenaries can be seen everywhere as almost every merchants who goes from one city after another relied heavily on mercenaries protection. And it was a good way to go unnoticed from the eyes of those in power while disguising as merchants and mercenaries.

And on their journey there are eyes watching them everywhere waiting for a chance to strike.

EDITOR: King of Mortals