Where there was demand, there was a market, even if those demands could not necessarily be brought into the open.
"Looks like everyone's pretty busy."
Lady Lin was far from the only Explorer in other worlds. Just the dozens of True Gods and their affiliated forces likely had more than a hundred key worlds open at the same time.
So many worlds, so many resource sites, along with all the related industries, populations, cultures, religions, and countless other issues—all of it required vast numbers of capable people to handle.
Naturally, a market for the deployment and trade of manpower emerged.
And because Wanjing, the capital of the Eastern Kingdom, was so important, with so many factions maintaining offices or headquarters here, it naturally became a place for cooperation and coordination.
This sort of "trade in force" was clearly neither normal nor legal. But considering that banning it would only drive them underground and create a series of social destabilizing factors, the authorities had adopted a tacitly permissive attitude.
Of course, it would not do to conduct such business openly in the Inner Circle, under everyone's watchful eyes, so it was organized in this outer-ring district instead.
Similar places existed in every province, but this "Grand Bazaar" was undoubtedly the largest and had the highest ceiling. With most of the Eastern Kingdom's upper-tier factions maintaining a presence here, it could even indirectly influence the state of the entire world.
"Raise the stakes. Also, release some information. This time, we're recruiting publicly."
Lu PingAn found the staff working for his side. They were Savior Army cadres who had come with Lu Lu. They had actually been distributing materials and flyers at nearby outposts all along, hoping to recruit more factions interested in Mercury 42. But judging from the results, the response was