"According to Kloros's plan, he would have had Dark Shadow kill me first, then used this trap to take out Kinlock and the other pirate leaders. That would leave the Pirate Alliance leaderless and no longer a threat to them...
"No! That wasn't all. Afterward, Dark Shadow would only need to rally them, backed by the Second Prince's intimidating presence. He might even force the remaining pirate leaders into submission, take over everything the Pirate Alliance left behind, and gain an enormous force out of thin air...
I impersonated Dark Shadow to exploit the Dark God Temple's influence, but he wanted to turn around and exploit it himself...
"What a cunning scheme!"
After reviewing everything, Nie Yun quickly worked out most of Kloros's follow-up plans.
"Good thing I decisively chose to kill him earlier. Having someone constantly plotting against me behind my back would have been a real headache..." Nie Yun felt rather relieved.
You really couldn't underestimate the capable people of this world!
With a sigh, Nie Yun took out his Communicator. "Moshi moshi! Commander Flint, still alive?"
"Bzz... bzzz... cough! Cough, cough! Broke... broke a few ribs, but I won't die!"
Only after a long wait did a static-laced reply come through the Communicator.
"Good thing I was smart enough to take cover behind that mountain of energy crystals. Otherwise, I'd probably be done for!"
Although energy crystals were a high-density energy medium, their properties were extremely stable. Without a specific activation method, even a nuclear bomb exploding beside them could not detonate them.
It was precisely this characteristic that allowed them to circulate as hard currency across star systems.
After all... nobody wanted to go shopping with a pocketful of highly dangerous explosives...
If those ten thousand tons of energy crystals had really exploded, it would have