Chapter 198 - 198

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All the top executives of Liberty are having an unprecedented emergency meeting. It's the first time all top superpowers affiliated with managing Liberty are joining together for a meeting. The reason being that, Dianna is demanding that Liberty security to be outsourced to them. If not every time they are attacked in Liberty, she will increase the price of all the products by 100%. Her reason is that those responsible for the security on Liberty are letting the criminal organization attack GT. 

Of course, they all denied that they also know that the frequency of the attacks are increasing in fact, they themselves are powerless to stop it as the attacks are random, and the attackers are all hired guns. And they can't just arrest all mercenaries and criminals that don't do any crimes on Liberty yet after all it is one of their policies everyone is welcome to Liberty as long as they follow the rules of Liberty they don't care about their backgrounds. 

And besides, they are all guilty of ignoring the attacks on GT, but this time Diana, the Overall CEO of all GT Enterprise, is pissed. 

But they can't just give to GT the rights on Liberty security, it's just not possible. 

At first, they ignored Dianna's warning, and when Dianna increases the price by 300% because of the three recent attacks on GT in Liberty, they all woke up from complacency. They protested, but Diana just said if you can't afford it then don't buy it. 

Dianna no longer relied on human superpower as consumers as many alien races are buying their products in fact, over 80% of all GT products are sold to alien races all over Bright Galaxy, especially with the threat of Ganesh. 

And according to GT analysis, less than 1% of all advanced races in Bright Galaxy are their customers, and despite that GT has a long waiting order. And if not for GT being part of humanity, they won't have a chance to buy GT military products. Even Dianna didn't expect for their products to so in-demand that even with the capability of system factory its still not enough to supply all the orders they are getting, unfortunately Arc is not here to make more factories to increase their productions, it must be said that the current GT are capable of producing over a million commercial military combat drones a day, but despite that it's not nearly enough to supply all the orders they are getting. 

Arc already converted several multi-purpose manufacturing factories (MPMF) into combat drone productions for Dianna before leaving. He created a total of 10 MPMF for Grand trading to use because he foresaw that the more product GT has, the more MPMF is needed, but despite that, he can never imagine the combat drones popularity. Unlike mechs and sh.i.p.s, Combat drones are disposable products, and so the demand for it is huge, especially since it's effectiveness against fighting Ganesh is outstanding, the public enemy of Bright Galaxy. 

When Dianna increased the price for the Drones and threatened to stop transactions to all affiliated to Liberty management, they panicked. 

It has to be said the resale of combat drones of GT are at least 10x in the black market, and only humans are being given a special treatment of having to buy it at a discounted price and having a priority when ordering. Many aliens who are waiting in line are jealous of them. 

They now know Dianna is serious and pissed off by the recent successive attacks on GT in Liberty. 

In truth, Oda knows about the attacks but didn't take it seriously, even Dianna didn't take it seriously, but when their other products are being affected by the attacks, she was pissed. GT has many products, and Dianna is working hard to advertise it, many alien races especially like non-military products after all many aliens are not participating in the war with Ganesh, in fact, less than 1% of advance race are participating in the war, many didn't care about it especially those races, who are located very far away from Ganesh influence, and that was what Dianna is trying to reach, and she worked hard for it. But recent attacks are changing the minds of peaceful races in affiliating with GT. And that really pissed Dianna of. 

The only place the Greyman didn't attack are Messiah well after all attacking it is tantamount to suicide, and no mercenaries or pirates, no matter how brave they are, will not take a commission to attack it. Just the number of un-manned Mechs and drones protecting it numbered in millions, and if they manage to bypass it, countless doomsday cannons mounted on all the edges of Messiah are ready to send anyone to hell.

And if still by chance they still manage to bypass it, the 2-star force field generator would destroy anyone or anything that comes close to it. And if by miracle the still managed to bypass it, 5 mother drones and 10 million rank 5 and above droids are waiting for them. And if they still manage to deal with all of that well they can have it after all they deserve it. If they manage to stop the self-destruction, then they can have it. That's Oda's exact words when Dianna asked him about the security of Messiah, leaving Dianna and Tiffa speechless. 

After all, Messiah is GT's stronghold in space what Oda didn't mention is that if Messiah is breached, Legion will teleport into it to deal with all troubles, that's Messiah's last line of defense. 

"Ash give me the report…" asked Dianna.

"Most of the attacks come from outer Liberty, and only a handful are in inner and Central Liberty. The attacks mostly come from independent mercenaries or small-time criminals. Most of the attacks are small ones like throwing small explosives and discharging hand weapons such as guns and lasers. All of our outposts and warehouses and small stores are targeted, but none of the attacks are successful. Our drones and Droids can deal with it, but the problem is we still are clueless about the identity or the whereabouts of the mastermind behind the attacks. All of the mastermind discussions and transactions are done through VR and therefore were unable to monitor them. And we can't trace the money either as it was under the first bank." Said Ash. 

"Brutus, what about you? What have you learned about our mysterious enemies?" Said, Dianna.

There's been talk about some mysterious group who are so loaded with credits and were buying and gathering all information about GT, and this group also said to be buying all kinds of weapons and equipment in the black market no matter the price they prioritized alien techs anything that are not related to human technology. 

"So far, I haven't found any lead to them. I scattered several Shadow Unit groups to gather information and also to capture them if presented an opportunity. I also instructed them that they can kill anyone to try to stop them from capturing this individual." There a slight bloodthirst reflected in his eyes, clearly he too was pissed about the recent attacks as they haven't found any real clues regarding their enemies. 

Dianna nodded. "This is a tricky situation for us, as we don't have any real control in Liberty, well at least for now, and at the same time this is a trial for us, after all up until now, it's all smooth sailing for us. So this is a good opportunity for us to show our real capabilities and it's only getting harder from now. As I've just received intel that the oldest super race in Bright Galaxy are finally making a move." 

Brutus gasped.. He was no longer an ignorant man from Earth as one of the top executives of the Shadow Unit. He was privy to some secrets, and because of his job to gather information in Liberty, he knew and heard a thing or two. 

The oldest superpower on Bright Galaxy, the ruler of the biggest sector of the galaxy, this power is relatively obscured and quiet; they are also in possession of the biggest territory in Bright Galaxy that consists of several sectors and over a million planets under their rule. But despite that, they have stopped expanding or doing activities for hundreds of years, even when Ganesh are making a ruckus in Bright Galaxy, they didn't show any activity, so why now when Ganesh is quiet. 

"How accurate is the information?" Asked Brutus. 

"I heard it from one of our affiliated alien merchants. So it's pretty accurate. But why or what they are planning remains a mystery." Said, Dianna,

"Will this affect us?" Ask Ash. 

Dianna didn't answer the question but instead said. "We're taking the next step." 

"Are you sure? Isn't it too early?" Said Ash. 

"Although I said we were taking the next step, we were not doing it in one go but instead doing it step by step. It's better to start it early, as this will give us ample time to fix any problems that may arise."

Ash and Brutus nodded. Tiffa did not participate in the discussions as it was not her job to do so. 

"What do you think the top management of Liberty would do?" Ask Brutus while smiling mischievously. 

Dianna scoff, "I'm pretty sure they won't cede to our demands, after all, what I'm asking is not a small matter, this is not like the space elevator where only one power is affected, this time all of them will be affected and its equivalent to giving their rights on Liberty. So they won't accept it, but I'm sure they will compromise on other things if we ask for it." 

"Haha, I'm looking forward to their responses." Said, Brutus.

Editor: King of Mortals.