Chapter 55

"President."

"The other side knows far too much about us."

Ultear, her magic completely exhausted, forced herself up from the ground.

Watching Hades fall silent for a moment, her expression was somewhat unsightly.

Although from start to finish it had only been a fairly simple exchange of contact, the terrifying information the other side had revealed was anything but little.

First, they knew about the Paradise Tower plan — something only Ultear and Hades knew; even if Balam Alliance had a mole on the other side,

even if one of the Seven Kin of Purgatory was the other side's person, they still could not have known about the Paradise Tower plan.

Next was the other side's degree of understanding of Hades himself.

The other side's understanding of their own president was unexpectedly high. Perhaps from start to finish nothing was said, but anyone with eyes could tell at a glance that this was not the first time the other side had known of Hades.

Finally, the most terrifying point of all.

Balam Alliance's greatest secret — 'Balam Alliance' itself — the other side seemed to know it. That was the most terrifying thing.

"The Akatsuki organization?"

"Interesting. Since the other side says there will be chances to meet and cooperate later, then there's no need to worry about it."

Hades thought briefly, and quickly made his own decision.

That was: everything as usual.

After all, if one truly took the other side's words to heart, then Hades's side would be completely on the back foot, and many things would become timid and constrained.

The asymmetry of information was simply too great.

"Everything continues according to the original plan."

"Only, compared to the previous plan, keep one extra eye out."

Hades looked at Ultear standing before him and said: "Don't let some accident happen later and you not come back."

With that said, Hades said no more, and slowly walked toward the cabin.

In any world, intelligence is the most important thing.

Without intelligence, one is easily caught off guard.

Now, because Balam Alliance lacked intelligence, even though they already knew of the Akatsuki organization's existence, and even had just crossed hands with a member of the Akatsuki organization, they still could not do anything about the Akatsuki organization.

The only thing they could do was, probably, do nothing.

Everything proceeds according to the original plan; at most, keep one extra eye out, to prevent any unexpected situations from occurring.

"Yes, I understand."

Hearing Hades's reply, Ultear also nodded seriously.

'First the Whitebeard Pirates, then the Monu Sect.'

'Now there's that so-called Akatsuki organization.'

'There are simply too many variables.'

Gazing at the distant sky, Ultear's expression was somewhat complicated.

'Hades really is strong.'

'Fortunately, this time the other side had some reservations.'

Looking at the Pain and Konan figurines in his system backpack, Lin Cheng let out a slight breath.

In order to have enough presence, Lin Cheng spent a hundred thousand emotion points to accelerate the cooldown of his long-range summoning skill.

Skills with cooldowns can be accelerated; the first acceleration costs a flat hundred thousand emotion points, and to use it again before the next cooldown you need to add another zero on top of that, and so on.

This time Lin Cheng was indeed quite lucky.

Because up in the high sky, the other side had not at all anticipated the descent of Pain and Konan, so when Hades engaged in a brief exchange with Pain, he was constrained at every turn.

Otherwise, facing Hades and all of Balam Alliance under him, Lin Cheng would have had to send out all of his own powerful pieces as well.

Only with Ace and the full force of the Xuanwozhang Sect could they take down Balam Alliance in a relatively dominant posture.

'However, although there was risk, the gains were not small either.'

'Adding the emotion points I just farmed from Balam Alliance's side, I can do another Diamond figurine chance draw.'

Although some time had passed since the news reports of the full-scale war breaking out between Ghost Dominator and Fairy Tail, Lin Cheng's emotion points had not accumulated to much.