"You refused to join me to wait for me to grow, and I'll simply show you how advantageous it is to join me earlier than late..."
Hye knew his place was going to be watched by others. They couldn't see through the defensive layer of the shield, and that was why he asked Lily to send the newly formed fleets outside, roaming and showing off their powers.
He stressed selecting the most famous figures from the races to join his side. It wouldn't serve any good if he just selected random folks that others wouldn't recognise.
The newly joined races added a nice number to his people here. Tens of billions of people from different races joined, and his capable friends took charge of relocating them.
The planets he already built were now filled with many people and had tons of cities and towns getting built. Hye instructed them to mimic the advanced setting of the world he once visited before coming here.
He wanted a dense layer of cities on the ground, connected with roads and portals, and also floating cities as well. His friends took his words much simpler than what he initially intended and just focused on building the ground cities and towns.
As for the floating cities, they knew it was built over a sophisticated and advanced tech, one they didn't have yet. So it was expected they weren't able to mimic that, not even try to do anything like it.
He didn't like that! He wanted to build something so advanced like the way he saw before. So he asked old Gan again, and the old man couldn't help but sweat when he heard what Hye wanted from him.
[I know you think of me as your wish maker, but I am not that type of person...] Old Gan kept speaking for almost ten minutes, explaining how he and his department got overloaded with tons of tasks recently.
According to her, the crystal mines were rich in this area. The space Hye controlled was already vast enough to contain tons of meteorites and planets, all were rich with crystals and other rare minerals.
The mining process started to run on full cylinders two months ago. And according to the news, they were producing one million crystals per week. It wasn't the best result yet, but it was better than nothing.
Hye didn't plan to take these and plant them in his Crystal Heart. He got tons of crystals planted as trees there and didn't lack any crystals for now.
Yet he knew if he openly supplied these crystals to his current population, crystals wouldn't suffice, not even close enough to satisfy the needs of one percent of his population.
"We just need time," he looked outside, towards the vast space, "and we need to find other ways to get people..."
He had already spoken with one of the big impact executives, but that man still didn't reply to him. Hye thought he figured things out and was on the right track when he got a message from that dude. But then, he got nothing back.
He tried twice to contact him but got nothing in response. He didn't know what went wrong out there, but he had no other way but to wait.
"Did I give him the wrong deal or what?" as he sat down on his throne in the big flagship he boarded and used as his main palance now, he couldn't help but recall that discussion with that man.
He thought he had him in his pocket back then. Yet it seemed things went out of what he expected, and he couldn't believe this was related to the offer he made back then.