Damned Healer-Chapter 525: Everything’s Ready

After a while, Camille asked Darian what he planned to do with the event recordings she had prepared for him.

"Send everything to the planets that were affected by Mallory's actions. With the Wube family's reaction—trying to stop everything without giving any proof otherwise—it became clear she was guilty." He spoke calmly, with a slight smile on his face.

"Most of those planets are allies of the enemy Spiritual Sovereigns. This will create friction between them and the Wube family."

Camille nodded. According to Darian's plans, Earth would start rising quickly. The enemies would use everything they had to harm them, and having this kind of conflict erupt among their enemies wouldn't help them at all.

Soon, all the recordings circulated throughout the entire universe. If before there were only rumors that a Spiritual Sovereign had been killed with Darian's help, now... everyone saw him killing two immortals directly, leaving no doubt.

***

Days passed, and a calm settled over all of Earth.

Within the Wube family, a major change happened once Vanh fully took over all power. At the same time, far from the spotlight, a witch hunt began internally in that family.

This reached Darian's ears because of the countless planets where they had business. Caliris was Darian's informant; she and the Soul Eater demons had an immense ability to infiltrate and blend into planets easily.

It wasn't against the rules to have spies, as long as they didn't interfere directly with the planet. So she created a huge hidden information network and sent him everything she discovered.

After that started, Darian met with Haruto and Veyle, giving the order to begin producing everything and bringing it all to Earth. With that, they would start hosting huge auctions for those things.

They were all kinds of weapons with cores and runic seals—something practically impossible to find, even if you had all the resources in the world to buy them.

On top of that, there would be terrifyingly powerful pills of all sorts of levels, so all kinds of people could use them. Even mortals could ingest some pills—the main ones being those with Primordial Yang, capable of drastically extending life or curing any disease.

The moment rumors about the auction spread, an uproar among the strongest planets in the universe began.

Aurix, known in the universe for being someone upright who ruled his race strictly, never allowing or covering up any irregular act, was appointed by Darian as the auction organizer. Everything would happen on his planet, and everyone in the universe could participate.

Yes, everyone. Darian didn't let Veyle sell the highest-level pills she could make. As for the weapons, they all came from another universe, where the materials used were too fragile, giving them a major flaw.

Even with a core and a runic seal, if, for example, one of Darian's allies used another, better weapon with the same runic seal, they could easily destroy the enemy's weapon. So he had no fear of selling those things.

Darian didn't bother going to the auction, leaving everything in his allies' hands. Meanwhile, he spent his days beside little Alear, with Niara and the twins, happily teaching her to talk and walk.

Darian felt a burning desire inside Niara when she was taking care of little Alear; realizing that made him break into a cold sweat. His life was always chaos, surrounded by danger. Because of that, he preferred not to expand his family now, or he'd live with even more worries than he already had.

Luckily—or not—after that door opened in his relationship with Niara, because of her extremely dense Draconic Bloodline, this wouldn't happen easily or quickly. That made Darian feel more relaxed.

A few days later, Camille returned to Earth with a huge smile. She showed Darian the profits, which were dozens of times more resources than all of Earth currently owned. Of course, disregarding the Wube family.

"Start buying Supreme Artifacts, training materials, and everything needed to help train our people. Don't hold back. We'll repeat this auction every three months. And since no one but us has these things to sell... we'll triple the price next time."

Darian said calmly while Camille widened her eyes.

"You think that's too much? Only a small number of people have these things; the others will feel like they're falling behind in terms of power for not having them. In fact, if someone with those weapons fights someone who doesn't have them, the disadvantage is massive. So even if we increase the price tenfold, they'll still buy."

Camille nodded with shining eyes. Darian would squeeze as much as possible from those people, without any mercy.

***

Six months later.

"Darian! Lady Caliris sent an emergency message. The other three Spiritual Sovereigns sent an order to all their allied planets in the universe. They're forbidden from participating in the next auctions."

Camille spoke with a furious tone. Three auctions had been carried out perfectly, and each one tripled the profits. There were so many resources that she got lost trying to decide what to spend on, since she had been appointed by Darian as the manager of everything.

"It was expected. Just like we have spies on other planets, they must have spies in our territory, selling information. They found out we were responsible for everything, and that it was being used to strengthen us quickly." Darian said calmly.

"Continue the auctions, but sell everything at one-tenth the price only for our allies. That will make those planets negotiate secretly with the buyers, giving them lots of resources. Earth won't gain that directly, but we're still getting stronger."

Camille nodded, still frustrated.

"One more thing. Get in contact with the universe's lowest-ranked planets... the fifty worst should be enough. Offer them deals, selling pills and weapons almost for free; also magic techniques at no cost. In exchange, they must officially announce to the universe that they'll join our Alliance. If they accept, force their leaders to come visit me. I'll see for myself who will truly be our allies or not."

Camille listened, surprised. "B-but... so many planets..." She stopped mid-sentence, understanding.

Why would those Spiritual Sovereigns care about the fifty worst planets? If all of them exploded this very second, they probably wouldn't even bother finding out what happened.

At the same time, she took a deep breath, fully understanding where Darian was aiming.

He had everything needed in his hands to transform those worst planets into high-level places in a short time. All it took was giving them resources and, most importantly, choosing a few to give them his Shadow Taming Codex spiritual technique.

With that, those people would be able to complete missions of all Ranks with extreme ease. Their planets would change from water to wine.

"We have a few allied planets." He continued quickly. "Once those fifty start rising and replacing the higher-ranked ones, the other weaker planets will beg to join us. We need at least half the universe on our side. But of course, I won't accept any planet whose leadership I don't like."

***

A month later, a delegation from the fifty weakest planets in the universe came to Earth to visit Darian in person.

Darian moved to the big meeting hall. When he walked in, everyone saw him with a relaxed expression, holding the hand of a small, cute Dragon girl.

She was already the size of a four-year-old human, even though she'd been born less than a year ago.

Darian sat in the central chair. Then little Alear gave a small hop, her wings flapping softly before she landed on his lap, resting her head on his chest and looking at everyone in front with a smile.

Darian gently stroked her hair, a satisfied expression on his face. She already had some understanding and was allowed to be there after promising to stay quiet and well-behaved.

Inside that meeting room, Darian saw that two-thirds were humans; the rest were Orcs, Elves, Ogres, and there was only one person from some nature-based race. The weakest of the universe belonged almost exclusively to humanoid races.

His eyes landed on all of them, his senses focusing on their karma. Darian didn't need to say a single word or discuss anything.

"Papa Dan!"

Suddenly, Alear spoke, pointing to a corner.

"Pretty big girl!"

Darian turned to where she was pointing… it was a very sturdy Orc woman, two meters tall. He was only sure she *was* a woman because she didn't have the long beard typical of Orcs, and because of the slightly stronger Yin coming from her.

For human standards, she was anything but pretty; but it was probably the opposite for Orcs. However…

Darian saw that her karma was white and pure, something absurdly rare.

Darian turned to Alear, and his eyes became serious.

She quickly put her hand over her mouth. "S-sorry…"

Darian nodded, pretending a bit of displeasure. But inside, he was surprised: she definitely didn't think the Orc was physically pretty, but she sensed that she was someone good on the inside.

He turned to everyone in front of him.

"You five," he pointed at three Humans and two Ogres. "Get the hell out."

The five narrowed their eyes and clenched their fists while standing up. They were about to argue something, but went silent immediately when Darian glared at them coldly.

"If you scare the little one…" he muttered dryly, and the five broke into cold sweat.

They quickly turned and left, silent and calm, not daring to scare the little girl even a bit.

"You're all approved. As for you…" Darian continued, his eyes focusing on the Orc woman. "I want you to be the general commander of all these planets and work directly under me. Alright?"

"YES!"

She answered with a booming voice, then widened her eyes in panic when she realized she overdid it. But Alear's cheerful laughter calmed her down.

...

After sealing an absolutely shocking deal — one those planets would never even dream of — Darian slowly returned to the clan building, after making a quick stop in the city.

When he walked in, Niara and the others turned to him.

There, they saw the little girl holding his hand, her tiny wings fluttering quickly while she enjoyed a colorful ice cream.

"Alear… did you make him spoil you again?" Lucy said, almost laughing.

Darian always ended up giving her whatever she wanted without thinking. And seeing that little one so happy, full of sugar in her blood, no one thought it was unreasonable.

Darian let out a small sigh. "Everything's ready on this side. Tomorrow we're heading to the other universe, and we'll be staying there for a long time. We'll farm Merit Points as much as possible."

"Papa Dan!" Alear heard that and turned to him, tugging on his sleeve with a trembling look, not knowing the words she wanted to say.

Darian looked into those eyes and spoke quickly, "We'll spend a long time there. Of course you're coming with us too."

Everyone sighed with a half-smile, getting excited as the next move finally began.