Chapter 147: The Five Great Calamities × V5 × the Hunter Association
As Joey learned more, V5's power and mystery began to unfold before him.
With only three days, Joey could hardly investigate anything. Besides, in this unfamiliar place, he had no good leads to follow.
So after stocking up in town, Joey drove back into the desert.
Still, his trip to Saherta had not been entirely fruitless.
After he brought up the Kakin Empire, the curious guard told him plenty of stories about Kakin circulating among the people of Saherta.
The Kakin Empire had been very powerful in its early years, but its king had once become obsessed with sacrificial rituals and poured vast amounts of manpower, resources, and money into them.
According to the guard, that sort of superstition achieved nothing. It only exhausted the people and drained the treasury, gradually leaving the country behind.
Although Kakin had gained a new king in recent years and was developing increasingly well under Nasubi Hui Guo Rou, even showing signs of gradually catching up with the Kukanyu Kingdom, it was still nowhere near their Saherta United States or the Begerosse United Nations.
It was not hard to tell from the guard's words that, in his mind, even the countries of V5 were divided into tiers.
Saherta and Berglosai were T1-tier, the first tier.
They were V5's leaders, powerful countries holding overwhelming advantages.
Next came the Minbo Republic and the Ochima Federation, with the Kukanyu Kingdom at the bottom.
Although the guard's ranking was somewhat colored by favoritism, it was not entirely unreasonable.
From the information Joey had obtained, both first-tier countries had found useful things on the Dark Continent and might have brought them home.
[Brion], with which Joey currently had the deepest connection, had been Saherta's target, and they