"One week from now, spread word of the Mysterious Scientist. Keep it subtle. Make it look as though plenty of people are secretly searching for him."
"Especially Byrnndi World. Let it be known he's looking for that mysterious weapon."
Hades gave the orders in secret.
Byrnndi World had no idea Hades was already planning to sell him out.
But the main goal was to make the supposed Mysterious Scientist seem real.
By "subtle," Hades meant that intelligence this important could not be allowed to reach everyone.
Only the true powerhouses of the Underworld had a chance of hearing it.
That meant the New World's top powers, the World Government, and a select few others.
The World Pirates would never know the news had spread.
Even though Bingjack was well connected, he ranked only somewhere in the upper-middle tier of the intelligence world.
If the Kronos Kingdom and the other powers worked together to contain the news, the World Pirates would remain in the dark.
And even if they found out, they would not necessarily trace it back to Hades. As far as they knew, they were not the only ones searching for the Mysterious Scientist.
That was the intelligence gap Hades intended to exploit.
There was a reason he had chosen to wait a week before spreading the news.
By then, the World Pirates would have fulfilled his request.
They might even have received the Magnetic Storm Bomb.
And they would be preparing to make their move against the World Government.
Even if others learned of it, they would be too late. The news could also draw the attention of the World Government and other powers elsewhere.
Hades and the World Pirates operated on entirely different levels.
The World Pirates might once have been glorious, but that glory had been