Chapter 429: The Nine-Glory God's stand Orb
"Hehehe, I am only the head of a small intelligence agency," Morgans said with a teasing smile on his face.
"Big News is merely a hunter group that gathers intelligence and does not need any strong individuals," he continued.
"How can it compare with the Five Elders, the most powerful people in our world!" he added.
Morgans heard the Five Elders' disdain but kept his playful expression.
A hunter group was an organization of hunters working together, officially recognized by the Hunter Association.
Hunters could collaborate to form groups and register them with the Hunter Association.
Big News was the hunter group formed by Morgans within the Hunter Association.
The major forces involved in founding the Hunter Association also had their own hunter groups.
These groups acted as factions of the major forces within the Hunter Association.
Together, they formed a large composite hunter group known as the official Holy Hunt Council of the Hunter Association.
This organization was under the authority of the Holy Hunt Council and followed its directives.
The Holy Hunt Council was the highest authority of the Hunter Association.
The Holy Hunt Council, in turn, was the most powerful enforcement agency of the Hunter Association.
Morgans was becoming increasingly bold!
At that moment, the two Five Elders in the conference room exchanged glances, and both could sense a trace of murderous intent in each other's eyes.
They were the Five Elders, the most powerful figures in the world.
Yet, they were repeatedly mocked by this common man.
Others in the room were also watching the spectacle.
This situation made them very angry.
However, they took a deep breath and held back their anger for the time being.
The current situation was somewhat overwhelming.
In the Hunter Association, and even across the entire World Government and Marines, they had no demigod-level combat power they could mobilize.
This lack became evident in the Senate, making them feel inferior.
Although the Marines had the Sun God King and the Ice Goddess Esdeath, these god-like figures would not act merely for their benefit.
Moreover, they could not be mobilized easily.
If a battle between gods broke out by mistake, the world would be thrown into chaos.
In the current sea, there was a tacit understanding that no one would lightly mobilize, or had the power to mobilize, such god-like beings.
Thus, conflicts were resolved, at best, by demigod-level combat power in the sea.
Without demigod-level combat power, they felt cautious in their actions.
At that moment, the two Five Elders looked at each other and suppressed their emotions.
They decided to endure a little longer.
They would wait until the treasure from the prehistoric ruins was thoroughly studied and a suitable match was found.
Perhaps then, the situation could improve, and they might even gain control over a god-like figure.
The sealed artifacts they had acquired, known as the Nine-Glory God stand orbs, held such potential. ( Stand = Substitute in this fanfiction.)
While the Five Elders pondered this silently, Morgans, not far away, had similar thoughts.
He was mocking the Five Elders now.
Though it was amusing, it risked earning their resentment, and they might look for chances to retaliate.
But that did not matter.
Greedy Island, created by Hisoka-sama, was nearly complete.
When the island opened, with sufficient intelligence, he was certain to come out on top.
At that time, if he obtained one of the ultimate rewards there—three powerful Lengzeng with demigod-level combat power—he could dominate the sea.
He would even dare to challenge the Five Elders directly.
While the Five Elders and Morgans made their own calculations, the conference room fell silent.
"Sōsuke Aizen seems very interesting..." a young man in one of the seats said.
He had neatly combed golden hair and exuded a somewhat enchanting aura.
When he spoke, the Five Elders and Morgans stopped their thoughts.
The Five Elders, in particular, showed a hint of nervousness in their solemn eyes.
This tension stemmed from their possession of the Nine-Glory God's stand orb.
The young man before them, named Joe Tlin, came from a dark organization in South Blue.
He was a devotee of Dio, the stand god.
He was also the only demigod-level combatant in the Dark Curtain Organization.
His strength came from a single leap forward.
He had been granted a half-god identity by the Stand God.
As a result, he possessed a terrifying stand called The World.
The Stand was a special power controlled by the highest violent organization in the Dark Curtain, called the Tarot Totem.
This organization had nineteen powerful individuals, all at least diamond-level hunters.
To the Five Elders, the Tarot Totem was either an institutional stand or one directly tied to the Stand God himself.
It was very similar to the stand orbs they had obtained from the prehistoric relics.
This similarity convinced the Five Elders that the source of the world's recent changes lay in the emergence of these prehistoric relics.
Dio, the Stand God, must have obtained similar relics, leading to his rapid rise.
Indeed, after acquiring the Nine-Glory God's stand orb, the Five Elders felt both excited and worried.
If the Dark Curtain learned of the stand orb in their possession, their two demigod-level combatants, or even Dio himself, might come to claim it.
Would they hand it over or not?
For this reason, they enforced a strict information blockade on the research of the Nine-Glory God's stand orb.
They feared the Dark Curtain would get wind of it.
"Since Tlin-sama finds it interesting, you can invite him to join the Holy Hunt. Then we can recruit based on our abilities," an old man with a thick beard next to Joe Tlin said respectfully.
He was Gudion, the president of the Sage Council, the highest authority of the Dark Curtain Organization.
As one of the most powerful figures in the Dark Curtain, he was qualified to occupy one of the two seats assigned to the Dark Curtain in the Holy Hunt Council.
Though he held great power, he still showed deference to Joe Tlin, a man with demigod-level combat power and a half-god identity.
"Whatever, such matters are not important. You can handle it yourself," a projection in the room said with a bored expression.
She was a beautiful girl with loose blue hair, shining red eyes, and a black decorative hat.
"Is there anything else? If not, let us end this quickly!" she added.
Hearing the girl's indifferent words, the others did not take offense at her casual attitude.
Though she appeared young, she was a rare demigod-level combatant in the sea.
She was one of the three highest combat powers in the Chaos Realm, backed by the Goddess of Chaos.
With such strength and backing, no one dared to challenge her.
"In that case, let Kong of the Iron Sun come forward to invite him," Mustache Five Elder Saint Topman Warcury said.
Though he did not understand why the girl, who usually acted ambitiously, showed no interest in recruiting the newcomer, it was fine.
The Five Elders did not wish to delve too deeply.
For now, they valued the new gem-level hunter more.
In the Hunter Association, they had no crown-level hunters to mobilize, so they could only rely on gem-level hunters to gain an advantage.
"Iron Sun?" Omi said, raising his eyebrows upon hearing Saint Topman Warcury's words.
Iron Sun was not the title of an individual but a large hunter group formed by the World Government.
Currently, the leader of this hunter group was Kong.
"Does anyone have any objections to Councilor Warcury's proposal?" Omi asked, glancing around the room.
Seeing no objections, the proposal was passed immediately.
Though a gem-level hunter was a legendary figure in the outside world, to the Holy Hunt Council, it was merely a routine matter.
Soon, the Holy Hunt meeting concluded.
At the headquarters of the Iron Sun Hunters, Captain Kong received a notice from the Holy Hunter Council.
( End of this Chapter )