Shadow Hack

Once Li Yunmu spoke, the densely packed slum dwellers occupying the colosseum followed the sound of his voice to find its source. Their eyes soon found him standing together with Brunhilda on the high platform of the third level. Immediately, each and every one of the slum dwellers raised their hands, took a deep breath, and loudly shouted the greeting with reverence on their faces.

“Respectful greetings sixth ancestor, respectful greetings sixth ancestor!”

Wave after wave, the voices echoed in an orderly manner as if the men and women had practiced it previously, and the sound resonated through the entire middle city.

When Li Yunmu heard the deafening sound and waved his hand, indicating the slum dwellers underneath to stand up. “Alright, all of you stand up. Now we will get down to business.”

The slum dwellers stood up while unable to hide the excitement from their faces. When Rat and Old Bastard had returned to the slums and spoken about the matter of recruitment, only a small portion of the youths had become extremely excited. The majority of adults still had many suspicions in their hearts. Since they had lived in Asura City from childhood, they knew that slum dwellers were the lowest form of existence and no one paid attention to them or cared about them.

If the sixth ancestor was really planning to get subordinates, why did he not choose the branch family descendants of the four great clans? Even if the majority of them would not agree to join him, a small portion who desired to raise their status would come to his side and follow him.

Even the most useless of branch family descendants were more formidable than the unarmed slum dwellers. After all, they were abandoned specifically because of being unable to awaken their bloodline ability.

But when they came to the colosseum and heard the word ‘people’ from Chen Xiu’s mouth, only one emotion remained in their hearts, and it was excitement.

They had been abandoned after birth and lived their life as the poor in lower city, where their existence was entirely dispensable. But at that moment, someone finally paid attention to them and wanted to recruit them.

Even if that person was the sixth ancestor who had obtained power in Asura City just recently and even if he was still a showroom commander without any troops or influence.

The poor people silently raised their heads and looked at Li Yunmu who seemed out of reach on the third platform, and a hint of zealotry appeared in their eyes. They eagerly waited for their new leader to say something.

“Now, you must earnestly and truly listen to what I have to say, because this relates to your future livelihood. I know you were abandoned and destined to remain at the lowest level from the time you were born because of your impure bloodlines, which made you unable to display your bloodline ability. You were destined to remain dispensable and invisible people of Asura City until the day you breathed your last.

“Some of you went to the colosseum to become fighters in order to survive, in order to get out and gain a narrow lease on life.

“But hear me now... From this moment onwards, your fates will change. Your life will be turned upside down. The whole Asura City will be shocked by your existence. All of you, you will no longer be the invisible people!”

When he shouted out the last words, cheers echoed through the colosseum, which took up half of the middle city. Li Yunmu used a hand to gesture the crowd to calm down, and the slum dwellers all quieted down so he could speak up once more.

“From the time Asura City was created, it was divided into three large regions. The middle and upper, these two regions form the foundation of the four great clans and the city lord’s mansion. Before, they administered all of Asura City, which was as it should be, but after the four ancestors rebelled and were killed, the four great clans lost their authority.

“This resulted in Asura City is being handed over to me and Ashbi. This means that now there’s only two sides.”

When saying the last line, Li Yunmu swung his sleeve wide, and a dot of light flew into the sky. It exploded in the air, forming a giant map of Asura City, which resided on an extremely gigantic.

When the slum dwellers saw the bright projection map, they sighed in astonishment since they found it extremely novel. Then, a black fog flew out of Li Yunmu’s hand and changed into a black pen that advanced toward the map to cut it. The Asura City was then clearly divided into two parts through the waist.

The colosseum lay at the edge of the division line, near the lower city.

“From this moment, the area above this division line is ruled by Ashbi and the four great clans, while the region under my control will be this part under the line, and it includes the lower city. All the places in this area is free estate for you.

“Naturally after forming the boundary, the entire region will undergo a transformation. Therefore, the first problem of manpower will arise. That’s why all those who possess innately formidable strength as well as those who are at the prime of their life must step forward.”

After Li Yunmu said that, he looked at the reaction of people underneath. The slum dwellers understood his words but did not know what to do.

There were indeed people who possessed formidable strength among them, but the crucial point was that even if the number of slum dwellers was extremely large, they would still have to spend at least a few years to completely transform such a large region.

And many things could happen in such a long time.

“I know what questions you all have. Given that the region is so large, how would you be able to reconstruct it in a short time? I have naturally prepared for this.

“All of you need to send your youth to work. This is the first requirement. Old Bastard will be responsible for counting the candidates.”

When Old Bastard standing at the front heard his name, he was stunned for a moment, then anxiously said, “Be at ease lord, your distinguished self can leave this matter to me.”

Li Yunmu nodded then continued. “The second matter is related to the field of martial skills. Previously, you all had no way to come in contact with the martial arts since you were the slum dwellers of lower city. But since you have become my people now, I will naturally spare no effort to find martial arts for you to cultivate, but...”

After Li Yunmu said the first half, the hearts of all slum dwellers froze, and their gazes focused on Li Yunmu, wanting to hear what exactly he wanted to say. Previously, only the descendants of the four great clans could learn martial arts, even if they were extremely ordinary. Regardless of how ordinary they were though, they were not something that people of lower city could access.

“Since you are now my subordinates, then regardless of whether you are male or female, old or young, talented or not, everyone will be allowed to cultivate. But these martial arts won’t be free and will need to be exchanged for with credit points. The source of these credit points will be the tasks you are about to undertake. Naturally, children aren’t included in this.”

His words were like a large stone falling into a calm lake and gave rise to large waves in the crowd of slum dwellers. They swiftly began to discuss the credit system with the people next to them in whispers.

When Rat, who was standing at the front heard mention of it, his small eyes began to shine, and the expression of worship appeared on his face.

He is really worthy of being the lord! Is there anything he didn’t think of?

Although Rat was not clear about the exact use of the credit points, it did not matter. When he heard that they could be obtained through manual labour, it was all that was important to him.

The credit points would presumably act like a currency: they could be obtained via investing what one has and then they could be used to buy things.

Among the slum dwellers, like any other people, there were all sorts of individuals, and so there were even some who wanted to reap without sowing. But after the launch of the credit point system, which could be used to exchange for cultivation methods, everyone would have to work and no one could take the benefits of others. In this manner, the sixth ancestors faction would quickly rise up.