Black Market

Rocket piloted the spacecraft toward another district.

"Leo, is there anything else you want to buy?"

"If there are any other special metals, perhaps we can take a look."

Leo toyed with the small piece of mixed Tricolor Void Gold in his hand.

If everyone looked more closely, they would notice that tiny Golden Beads seeped out of the Tricolor Void Gold, then slowly sank into Leo's palm.

"Uru is one of the signature products of the Void Land. Besides that, there are the bone marrow and cerebrospinal fluid of ancient Celestials, as well as brain tissue. However, none of those are for sale."

Karina explained it to Leo.

"Devan Group's experimental medicines are also found throughout the empire. Enhancers, treatments, and so on are all products of Devan Group. Perhaps they're related to these things."

Karina smiled awkwardly. "That's just my guess, but those things really aren't for sale. Besides, they seem to be consumables."

"So, apart from those things, Uru is actually raw ore mined from bones?"

Leo's spirits lifted as he asked.

"That's right. Uru is raw ore mined from skulls. There used to be a lot of it, but now it's truly becoming rarer. A great deal of refining is needed to extract Uru from the ore again."

"I remember Gamora saying that hundreds of years ago, mining this place was extremely difficult. Is that related to Uru?"

Karina paused. "Perhaps. Uru is extremely hard, but we went from having huge amounts of Uru ore to needing to search for it in the mines. Maybe some kind of change occurred."

Only then did Leo open his right palm in front of everyone.

A small, dark-gray Infinity Stone sat quietly in Leo's palm.

"What happened? When did you get an Infinity Stone? It seems we only passed