After the fiasco with the Sunils, Black Spider quickly approached Han Xiao's group, now known as Black Star.
At least that's what he wanted, so Ringo would clearly still call him Han. Of course it's to show closeness, it's certainly not him being petty, of course not.
The groups of players from both sides had already met, after all they had been following each other on the forums, so as soon as they arrived on the same 'server', they quickly joined forces.
Han Xiao knew this too, so he took advantage of the moment to try and profit from Ringo's players.
Unfortunately for him, the equipment the players were using was now standard in the group, and Ringo had plenty of money, so it was far superior to what Han Xiao could currently manufacture, leaving the man resigned.
'Fortunately', he can still sell knowledge, of course, players could already buy knowledge from the group, so Han Xiao's idea was a failure again.
Black Spider arrived and saw the Triple Six players snubbing the players from the mercenary group. Black Spider wanted to burst out laughing, but he held back, after all, he wasn't 'Ringo' at that moment.
Black Spider approached Han Xiao, who quickly composed himself and looked at him with narrowed eyes. "This guy didn't come all the way here to steal from players, did he?"
Of course, Han Xiao wasn't the only one who thought of that, Li Ge, from Han Xiao's group, seemed eager to run up to Black Spider and cling to him.
Look at the difference!
Han Xiao is good and without comparison he would have been a wonderful manager, but look at the Triple Six players?
Standard armor, knowledge available for low-cost exchange, Grade A scale missions...
Li Ge felt he had made the wrong choice, he should have been a Hell player! If he had been, with the power of the Temple of the Gods, he could have taken his entire guild with him!
Damn!
Even so, Li Ge already harbored thoughts of insubordination, he almost ran to ask to join Triple Six right there, but he felt that if he did so and was refused, he would probably also be expelled from the Black Star mercenary group.
He had already played Galaxy enough to know that the NPCs weren't static, Black Phantom would be deeply offended if he did that.
Seeing Han Xiao's eyes fixed on him, Li Ge knew he had already set a bad example last time, he could only sigh.
Ringo also didn't want to cause problems for Han Xiao's players, if they did, this guy would have a lot of difficulty advancing, so he spoke directly to Han Xiao's players -Before you think about asking to join Triple Six, know that we don't accept any outside players.
The group of players froze, were they spotted so easily by that NPC?
Han Xiao also seemed a little surprised, but also relieved.
Black Spider finally turned to Han Xiao.
-I heard about you from Ringo, he asked me to let you know that if you need help, you can contact him or go directly to the Floating Dragon.
Han Xiao froze, slightly surprised, but in the end he showed a serious expression and thanked him.
After all, he didn't know that Black Spider was Ringo, so he wouldn't make fun of him.
Just kidding, mocking a random Grade A super might land you straight in a coffin, if there's anything left of you after that.
Black Spider nodded, feeling amused inwardly, exchanged contact information with Han Xiao, and then left.
Hila and Rick were still there. Hila approached Han Xiao to talk, even though their relationship was much more distant. He had still been trained by her and had also saved Ringo from Germinal, so she was still grateful.
Rick, on the other hand, paid no attention to the female players, he knew they couldn't take their clothes off, so he lost interest. Instead, he had his eye on a Sunil warrior who looked like an Amazon, and Rick went straight to showing off.
Despite everything, Rick is still a Grade B and also handsome by galaxy standards, even a Godorian, albeit a hybrid, the woman was only a Grade C, besides which her 'masculine' style scared off most male Sunils, in the end, she became quite interested.
Rick almost cried, did you see? His charm still works! He just had terrible luck in Triple Six!
He almost went up to Black Spider to ask to leave, but seeing the man's hard, scarred face, Rick gave up immediately.
Forget it, he's already on that ship, all he could do was sigh.
//-//
On the other side, on Planet Groot, a clone of Ringo and Emma were studying a Prophecy Stone.
-Fascinating, these are the most interesting living beings I've ever encountered. They're practically individual life forms, seemingly independent, but their feeding depends on a group effort. Beyond that, that's all we know, it could be much more complicated than simple feeding.- Emma seemed very excited, looking at the stone through a magic microscope, able to see filaments of energy wandering through the 'stone'. The energy filaments moved with evident consciousness, although it was a limited kind of consciousness.
Ringo narrowed his eyes, thoughtful, in truth, he was thinking about something else.
He thought that these little guys emit psychic energy, but depend on these stones to survive, but what if... what if he changed the living environment for a living being?
To alter a living being enough so that its cells act as 'containers' while the individual's natural psychic energy would power these little guys.
In return, the guys would amplify the target's psychic power.
If Ringo could do that, wouldn't he be able to enormously amplify the power of mind-bound Supers? Psychics, mages, maybe even mechanics would benefit.
Wait, microscopic living beings living inside cells... was he creating Jedi?
Ringo was speechless for a moment, but the idea still excited him. He decided to try it, summoning the Psychic Demogorgon. He planned to work with it first, the first step was to transform the Demogorgon's cells so they could sustain these little guys.
When Emma heard Ringo's idea, she was just as excited as he was, already thinking about the implications, would there really be a symbiotic effect, or would these little guys become parasites?
Hearing her talk about parasites, Ringo even considered creating a biological weapon out of it, modifying these creatures to suck the mental energy from their targets until death.
Emma, on the other hand, was wondering if this could be integrated into her plants, giving them psychic powers.
Well, that would have to wait for the future, for now, he would see if his idea of symbiosis was plausible.