"Y-you're really taking it?"
Ye Qiyan looked at him strangely.
"Does this thing have an owner?"
"No, but it belongs to Order Heaven..."
"Are you from Order Heaven?"
"No, but!"
"I'm a bad guy. The kind who burns, kills, loots, and commits every evil imaginable."
Ye Qiyan tossed the core in his hand, then put it straight into his Storage Unit.
"I spent all that effort on the front lines here in Lu Cangxiao's Order Heaven, but I wasn't helping him defend his homeland, and I'm certainly not a mercenary who signed a contract with him.
I came here to make money.
If I can't get my money, I'll collect the interest myself.
Is there anything wrong with that?"
Alomqi opened his mouth, but Ye Qiyan cut him off before he could find the words to say.
"Even if there is, it doesn't matter. I don't care about any of that. Senior, what I care about more right now is that inside that Zero-Day Hero's belly... no, I should say, in Lu Cangxiao's hands, there's money that belongs to me.
I'm going to get it."
Utterly undisguised malice...
Everything he said was true, and it was precisely the attitude he ought to have.
Alomqi knew he had done nothing wrong.
On the front lines, he had fought with all his strength to kill Insect Emperor Mowus, single-handedly driven back the Predator Empire's Insect Queen, established defensive lines, and led people in expanding them, turning what should have been a protracted tug-of-war into a head-on clash.
All of this had been because of the young man before him.
Yet despite everything he had done, Order Heaven had failed to give him what he wanted.
Just fighting?
Indeed.
Fighting did make Ye Qiyan happy. Even though later using that [Glass Orb of