Olana sucked in a cold breath of air, while her body shivered faintly from time to time. The raw power represented by those black-grade bones was intoxicating.
She kept examining the bones while sending them back to her family in groups and batches, knowing that on the other end of the line, her family members were likely in an even deeper state of shock than she was.
According to her family's highly regarded evaluation members, the amount of bones Hye had sent over was staggering.
The value was beyond comprehension for a mere mortal or even a lower-tier world; it was enough to pay for one hundred thousand artificial planets or even more. The sheer weight of that wealth had fundamentally shifted the power dynamic between Hye and the merchant family.
The initial plan was for Olana to give him the planets and collect the price later, essentially acting as his creditor. Yet who could have known that he would leave them so heavily indebted to him instead!
