Having analyzed Aroshia without success, Black Spider prepared to leave.
As for Crimson? He quickly abandoned the chicken, the reason he left it with Price wasn't to make the child's life difficult, although that would also be funny, but because the more Price's power grows, the more its effects become apparent.
His power can connect with others in more than one way: empathy, affinity, attachment... everything grows as you get closer to him. In short, Price becomes more pleasing to the eye the more time you spend with him.
Twenty years may be a long or short period, but he hopes that by then, Crimson will have grown attached to Price to the point of becoming friends, in that case, acquiring a Fire Mage who can reach Grade Calamity on his own for 500 Enas would be a bargain. He literally bought him for the price of a chicken.
As for the chicken's personality problems? Well, they'd have plenty of time to "adjust" him.
Ringo also took a look at that guy, he was a loudmouth, that's true, but he wasn't really a bad guy, he was just raised in a culture where despising those who are different is the norm, so he believes there's still hope for the chicken.
Whether Crimson manages to stop being a chicken or not doesn't matter to Ringo, he only hopes that he'll get a positive response.
Leaving the chicken aside, Black Spider joined the Trihexa with his crew.
Trax returned to his stoic expression, pretending nothing had happened, but when Rick approached for a drink or a chat, the beastman didn't snarl at him, a fact Black Spider considered a positive.
The Trihexa also received a new paint job, in addition to the Triple Six symbol, it now featured the Floating Dragon symbol painted in a greenish-silver color.
Even the uniforms now carried this symbol alongside the T6.
Ringo just wanted to tattoo that on the crew's backs and shout. "Ames will be the Pirate Queen!"
As for pride and shame? Excuse me, is it edible?
He doesn't need to pay anything, he just needs to help find Aesop and the benefits are extremely high, his reputation has increased, his security has increased, resource channels that were previously unavailable to him were opened and he can activate the "summon the dragon mommy" button at any time.
If Ames asked, he was willing to call her "Mommy" right there.
Trax and Rick were unaware of their captain's shameful thoughts. If they had known, Rick might have jumped up and screamed along with Ringo, while Trax, on the other hand, would have preferred death to doing something so shameful, that is, if he hadn't been drunk as a skunk.
He, Rick and Wilsander quickly became "brothers" after drinking enough, going out and causing so much trouble that Jenny had to show up and beat them up to take them back.
When Trax woke up the next day, he pretended he didn't remember anything, but as a Nightmare, Ringo knew he was just hiding his shame.
In short... the Triple Six crew was getting stranger and stranger.
Black Spider had accepted a mission on a planet that interested him, the radiation levels were quite high, yet there was a great deal of life, including intelligent life.
The mission's objective was to obtain an extremely potent type of rare metal, Maktru, a metal with remarkably powerful energy-conserving properties that could be used to create Grade A items or even as part of Grade S equipment alloys.
Due to the planet's high radioactivity and concentrated electromagnetic fields, it is very difficult to determine where the mines are located, most machines are quickly destroyed when they get close.
The planet is also enormous, even larger than Jupiter from their former world, but it is pure solid earth and the gravity is also very strong, to the point that most beings are flattened into a paste of flesh just by landing there.
Furthermore, the inhabitants are also extremely fierce towards the "aliens", due to several previous conflicts, most "aliens" are killed on sight. This wouldn't be a problem if these guys didn't have Grade A-level aliens among them.
Their tech tree is still at the tribal level, most of them are Pugilists, but there are some Espers.
Of course, if that were the case, the planet would have been attacked by planet-level weapons long ago, but the problem is that their low technological level acted as a protective umbrella, preventing advanced civilizations from directly declaring war.
Furthermore, there was more than one group interested in the resources of that planet.
In the end, all the groups reached an agreement: to send small groups of people to loot in secret. If anyone was caught, the advanced civilizations would immediately deny it, saying they had nothing to do with it.
An emissary from Godora had approached Black Spider. Initially, he thought the Godora mages had discovered something about his connection to the Godorian Hybrid, but he soon discovered he was wrong. With his Calamity Grade strength proven and as a member of the Floating Dragon, he became a good target for cooperation.
Black Spider quickly accepted after discovering the entire development, but the reason wasn't the money, which was plentiful, a kilo was enough to buy a fleet, but he had his eye on the metal itself.
Whether he would sell it or not would only be a small fraction of what he would get.
This type of rare material would be great for building armor and weapons, he already had plenty of Void Dragon Bones and if he accumulated more of these "goods", he could craft some fine things for himself and his "family."
The planet was located right in the center of the Hyde Star System, the most chaotic zone of that star system.
The Colton Star Cluster consisted of many different Star Systems and Godora's territory was in the Gavin Star System. On the star map, Godora was located in the southwest of the Colton Star Cluster and shared borders with three other Star Systems, the Fawn Star System, which was controlled by the Sacred Stone and Black Crow, the Skywalker Star System, controlled by the Hutt Civilization, and the Hyde Star System, which did not have a dominant party.
The Hyde Star System was in a state of conflict and a high-level local civilization had not yet emerged. Its development could not be compared to a Star System governed by a civilization, but the entire Star System possessed abundant resources. Whether mining or energy planets, there were enough resources to last for thousands of years.
Hyde's geographical location was quite special, as it was connected to the territories of six different high-level civilizations. In the eyes of these high-level civilizations, Hyde was undeniably a piece of fat meat. Regardless of whether it was because of its resources or strategic location, it was a region they had to fight for. The six high-level civilizations expanded their territories and each occupied a part of Hyde.
Hyde was not under the control of any single civilization and the six high-level civilizations treated Hyde as a new land to be conquered. They divided Hyde, but since they could not agree on the borders of the division, conflicts were extremely common among these six civilizations. Hyde was a key point in the foreign relations department of the six civilizations and none of them were willing to back down.
Of the six civilizations that attempted to divide the Hyde Star System, Godora and the Hutt civilization were included. Because these two civilizations shared a border, the conflict between them was extremely intense.
With that goal in mind, the Trihexa quickly accelerated toward Hyde.