Chapter 11: Everyone Will Die

You looked at the staff in the dungeon hall and asked what rights a team possessed.

The staff smiled slightly and began to explain the obligations and privileges a team had to bear.

After listening through it all, you understood just two words: protection.

As long as a team was recognized by the dungeon hall, they could engage in activities that appeared legal on the surface but were actually shady behind the scenes.

For example, the team blood scam.

Or the scheme to trap and kill newcomers.

Of course, the staff wouldn’t openly mention these things, but you weren’t stupid—their hints were clear enough.

This also explained why, after the Dragon Fang team’s blood scam, the dungeon hall staff moved to stop professionals from gathering in crowds.

It turned out that the dungeon hall took a quarter of all the teams’ earnings.

Sure enough, your suspicions were right.

Behind the chaos in the teams was a coalition of vested interests within the dungeon hall!

But you had no intention of becoming an officially recognized team. On one hand, you didn’t want to make money through various scams.

On the other, you had only a few thousand coins on you.

And registration required 800,000 in free capital—enough to buy a batch of basic divine crystals.

After you declined, the staff’s expression didn’t change.

But she sternly warned you never to call yourself a team in the dungeon hall again.

In your case, you had only privately formed a small group of professionals.

You sneered at this and paid no mind.

With an assassin scouting ahead to explore and a priest healing wounds from behind, you began preparing to explore the Misty Swamp.

For now, though, you needed to raise your team members’ levels.

So you started leading them in sweeping through Knight’s Town.

Thanks to your strength, your teammates’ admiration for you grew.

Following the old principle that winning hearts required tactics, you deliberately created crises in the dungeon and then saved your teammates.

Your teammates grew ever more grateful to you.

Meanwhile, you established the Red Heart Team’s salute: every day when team members saw you, they had to give you this salute.

The team had no objections; after all, it was just a salute—what was the big deal?

This gesture was actually part of your plan.

Having observed this world, you realized that although extraordinary powers ran rampant and financial scams were everywhere,

the common people’s fundamental mindset was shackled, and true elite talents had become supernaturals chasing higher levels and power.

Research into mental communication and subtle social influence lagged far behind what you knew from your past life.

If you wanted to build a team loyal to you, you had to use your valuable past-life experience to help.

Starting with the salute, you fostered unity among your members, making them feel as one both in body and spirit.

Under your constant guidance and the subtle influence of the salute, your team became increasingly obedient to your commands.

To develop cohesion, you rented a room as the Red Heart Team’s gathering place.

During the day, the Red Heart squad farmed dungeons for materials to sell.

At night, you gathered together, sipping wine and venting about the madness of the world.

When passion peaked, you stood on the stage, flushed with fervor, delivering impassioned speeches.

Everyone will die.

Whether lofty supernaturals or the lowly commoners who toiled daily for money,

in the face of death, all are equal.

From this perspective, you began introducing the red ideology from your past life as your strategic foundation.

The people are the true masters of society!

The vast masses create everything in society—why then do they enjoy none of it?

Capitalists and corporations deprive the hardworking masses of their wealth through financial loans. Is it fair to sell a basic level-1 set for 100,000 coins?

Looking around, the majority of society is poor.

Are these equipment sets, skill cards, and divine crystals intended for ordinary people?

You passionately broadcast these mature ideological theories at the Red Heart Team’s gathering spot.

As they listened, the confusion in their eyes began to fade.

Especially under the influence of alcohol, they saw you as radiant with light.

Three days later, the priest Lin Xue pledged her loyalty to you.

You tried using your innate talent to communicate mentally with Lin Xue.

Ten days later, every member of the Red Heart Team had pledged their loyalty.

They came from humble origins, burdened with heavy debts, and under the crushing weight of terrifying interest rates, they saw no future for themselves.

But all that changed after meeting their captain.

The captain was right!

Their future was not just about survival—it was about pursuing ideals and resisting injustice!

Their future should be forged by their own hands, not wasted meaningless deaths under the attacks of debt collectors, their bodies becoming mere nourishment for others.

They were idealistic rebels, deserving the determination and confidence to pursue fairness and refuse to submit to an ordinary fate!

With that, you had achieved complete control over the Red Heart Team.

Only then did your talent truly begin to take effect.

In battle, you could command each member with precision, maximizing every teammate’s role.

On May 21st, Year 125 of the Supernatural Era, after all Red Heart members reached level 3, you began changing your team’s strategy.

After clearing level-3 dungeons by day, the Red Heart Team set out for the Misty Swamp to fight.

In the wilderness, the assassin acted as scout, leading the way with vision.

This let the entire team avoid risks, dodging powerful Abyss monster groups and lord bosses in advance.

Before truly leaving the safe zone, though, you brought the Red Heart Team to the black market to aggressively exploit the predatory loans and grim reaper loans there.

Personal consumption loans and loans for powerful teams had totally different outcomes.

The former allowed loan agencies to harass violently without restraint.

But when facing the latter, even violent debt collectors had to be more polite.

After exhausting the loans, all Red Heart members reached level 4.

Having signed an organ regeneration contract with the predatory lenders, you gained a large sum of money.

With that, you bought a batch of complete basic divine crystals nearby on the black market, raising your own level to seven.

Once fully prepared, the Red Heart squad began their advance toward the Misty Swamp.