I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 239

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Chapter 239
239: How Much Will You Be Offering? (1)
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The C-Grade Central Zone Council.
Though recognizable by name alone, Central Zone Councils existed everywhere across different regions. Since the Safe Zones concentrated in the Central Zone were primarily major cities, council members existed to manage those metropolises. And the council formed by those members was precisely the Central Zone Council.
In Dohyun’s terms, these weren’t NPCs living within the Black Gate, but rather individuals who had earned some renown in their respective dimensions and became council members.
In short, it was fair to say the council was a coalition formed by mid-tier races among C-rank Hunters who had completed their growth—an organization created to look after the Superior Races while ensuring the safety of mid-tier races.
However, as this history lengthened, they became so tightly bound that even different grades communicated actively through councils, and before long, the council’s power had grown far stronger than expected.
As a result, the council alone had achieved a standing nearly equivalent to that of the six Superior Races.
Yet ultimately, they could never surpass the six Superior Races in raw power, so it never escalated into direct confrontation. Instead, they developed a relationship of mutual consideration, each occupying different spheres of influence.
Because of this, the destruction of Safe Zones by Davy Jones meant they had already judged this crisis to be beyond their capacity to resolve.
“Sigh, how could such a thing happen?”
“Wasn’t Davy Jones a docile Zone Boss?”
“Hmm, indeed it was.”
Perhaps power had been maintained for far too long?
Spouting such foolish remarks in official settings had become almost routine.
But they had grown so apathetic they didn’t even recognize it, and their arrogance had blinded them.
“Regardless, this matter appears to have slipped beyond our grasp.”
“I concur with that assessment.”
“If we cannot intervene, we’ll need to borrow strength from the Superior Races….”
“Won’t the expenses become excessive?”
While the Central Zone Council members spoke thus, several of them couldn’t help but let subtle smiles escape.
They already possessed certain information.
Among the council members from whom Hezway had been seeking permission to recruit in advance, several were present here.
“As it happens, Hezeway Paraksarl from the Draxion Dimension has already formed the Deviants Attack Squad.”
“What!? How swift!”
“I heard they formed it even before Davy Jones made a move.”
At those words, several council members wore expressions of genuine irritation and muttered amongst themselves.
“Sigh, such a thing….”
“What were they doing when Davy Jones attacked Bamu? Tsk, tsk.”
“Indeed.”
“Aren’t the Superior Races supposed to be something special?”
Such remarks were vile enough to induce retching, yet no one here possessed the awareness to recognize it.
The council had already decayed beyond redemption.
Well, they would flatter the Superior Races and offer compensation when they resolved matters, but even that amounted to only a pittance.
Because of this, the council member who could be called the center of that body stepped forward and spoke.
“Since they’re essentially asking permission while saying they’ll capture Davy Jones, let’s subtly blame them while guiding them to capture Davy Jones as quickly as possible.”
“An excellent idea.”
“Most wise indeed.”
“As expected of the Council Chairman.”
They all laughed with hollow amusement and reached their conclusion. Within mere hours of Safe Zone Bamu’s disappearance, an official document arrived at Hezway’s desk.
It chided her for not capturing Davy Jones sooner and urged her to apprehend him with greater urgency.
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News of Safe Zone Bamu’s sudden destruction at Davy Jones’s hands—with no one able to mount a defense—rippled outward like concentric waves through every Safe Zone near the Central Zone that very day.
The Deviants Attack Squad, which included Dohyun, learned that Davy Jones had moved before the assault and immediately convened an emergency meeting.
No one had anticipated Davy Jones would act at all, much less that he would obliterate Safe Zone Bamu the moment he did. After five years of dormancy, why had Davy Jones stirred? The bewilderment was universal.
Yet the answer emerged far more swiftly than expected.
“Davy Jones has always attacked Safe Zones,” one of them began.
Several Superior Races had gathered here, and among them were five Celestials—the true architects of strategy. These Celestials, who functioned as the police force within the Black Gate, possessed the most comprehensive intelligence on Davy Jones of any faction.
Ines spoke first, laying out the foundation. As the Celestials proceeded with their briefing, Hawen Rapiz, the Healer of the Celestial Party, opened his mouth.
“Unlike other Zone Bosses, he didn’t attack when he was first born. But when the Attack Team disbanded, he struck the Safe Zones and vanished. In other words, it’s a pattern.”
When Hawen, the Celestial Party’s Healer, spoke thus, everyone could only nod in agreement.
After Davy Jones emerged as a Zone Boss and went into hiding, he eventually destroyed one Safe Zone within a decade of his birth. This made him stronger. Later, when a new Kraken was born, he left the Safe Zones untouched, hunted the Kraken, and then disappeared without a trace.
After Hawen finished, Vera spoke next, her expression far more grave than usual.
“That was five years ago. Following the pattern, he should have destroyed another Safe Zone after the new Kraken appeared. But he didn’t. As a result, C-rank Hunters gradually fell into the misconception that Davy Jones simply didn’t attack Safe Zones anymore.”
“Hmm.”
“Indeed.”
“The fact that he killed the Kraken but left the Safe Zone right in front of him untouched was the biggest factor.”
The Hunters who remembered that time could only swallow hard and acknowledge the truth.
He had hunted the Kraken yet spared the Safe Zone—behavior unlike other Zone Bosses. Some might have even begun to see him as an ally, since he’d eliminated a Zone Boss threat for them.
Through these accumulated factors, the C-rank Hunters had developed a preconception: Davy Jones was fearsome, yes, but not truly malevolent.
As this information unfolded, everyone sat in the Meeting Room with somber expressions. Though Safe Zone Bamu wasn’t a major metropolis, it had housed nearly ten thousand Hunters—all of whom had vanished in an instant. The gloom was inescapable.
Dohyun felt it too.
As Dohyun’s brow furrowed in clear displeasure, Hezway stepped forward before them and spoke.
“Following this attack by Davy Jones, we’ve received communications from multiple Safe Zones clustered near the Central Zone. They’re demanding to know why we didn’t capture him sooner.”
At Hezway’s words, everyone looked at her in confusion. During the last briefing, she had mentioned that Council members from various Safe Zones had shown resistance to capturing Davy Jones and seemed to be hinting at bribes while demanding countermeasures.
Up to that point, such behavior was routine. Everyone had simply accepted it as the way things were during the briefing. Hezway, well aware of such customs, had been making substantial preparations. But everything had changed overnight.
They were shameless, without question. The destruction of Safe Zone Bamu was truly lamentable, but it was hardly the responsibility of the Deviants Attack Squad.
Yet they dared to blame them for not capturing him sooner.
“They’ve lost their minds,” someone muttered.
“They’re just like our own kind,” another added bitterly.
Ines and Jerome, the two Party Leaders, responded with irritation lacing their voices. Jerome in particular expressed such disdain that he compared the Council members to Elves.
It was certainly a contemptuous remark.
Everyone was wondering how to respond when Dohyun asked a question.
“So did the Council just send the document as a notification and leave it at that?”
Hezway shook her head. No matter how corrupt the Council was, they couldn’t possibly pressure Hezway—one of the six Superior Races and effectively the princess of the Draxion Dimension—to such an extent.
So Hezway replied.
“It wasn’t quite a notification. They expressed regret, lamented why we hadn’t captured him sooner, and subtly gave permission to proceed whenever we wished.”
“Can we establish two-way communication with them?”
Dohyun immediately followed up with another question, and Hezway nodded, indicating it was possible.
However.
“Since we mentioned conducting the meeting via two-way communication from the start, they haven’t disbanded yet and are waiting for our contact.”
“Oh ho?”
As Dohyun grinned wickedly, Hezway and Ines, who had already experienced such a grin from him before, felt an involuntary chill run down their spines and shuddered. But the moment they realized Dohyun was on their side this time, something shifted—they felt inexplicably reassured.
In any case, after Dohyun posed his question with that knowing smirk and excused himself, Jerome, the other party leader, also turned to Hezway with a question.
“So we’ll gather our opinions in this emergency meeting first, then proceed with the two-way conference?”
“Yes, that’s my intention. That’s why I called this emergency meeting to consolidate our views….”
As Hezway spoke, Dohyun interjected.
“Would you leave this negotiation to me?”
Jerome looked at Dohyun with a hint of bewilderment at his confident demeanor.
While Jerome could place absolute trust in Dohyun’s combat abilities and talents, he wondered if he was equally skilled at negotiations. When Jerome glanced at the others, he saw that both Ines and Hezway were already nodding in agreement.
Surprised that Dohyun was proficient in negotiations too, Jerome watched him with wide eyes. Even Hanalin and Jiyuchan, now recovered and back to their senses, nodded in agreement.
“Negotiations are kind of Dohyun’s specialty, after all.”
“…How much will he squeeze out this time….”
Jerome remained silent as he observed Jiyuchan muttering with barely concealed anticipation. Though he had no intention of objecting, Jerome watched with curious eyes to see just how exceptional Dohyun’s negotiation skills truly were. Hezway, observing Dohyun, posed a question.
“Shall we connect right now then?”
“Yeah, I’m ready.”
“Understood.”
The moment Hezway heard Dohyun’s response, she initiated the connection through the screen just outside the conference room. It didn’t take long before they were connected to the Central Zone Council.
The communication began as the face of the Council Chairman, the representative of the council, appeared on screen.
-Hehehehe, it’s such an honor to finally meet with the members of the Deviants Attack Squad….
Cutting off the Chairman mid-sentence, Dohyun asked directly.
“How much are you offering for taking down Davy Jones?”
-…Excuse me?
“How much will you pay us for eliminating Davy Jones?”
-…What?
Even the Chairman, who dealt with politics as naturally as breathing, was left dumbfounded by Dohyun’s directness.
And watching Dohyun, Jerome realized something.
‘That wasn’t negotiation—that was extortion.’
“So it was blackmail, not negotiation.”

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