Heroes' Prison

Chapter 509 - 499: Disbanding the Hero Guild

Some people were still watching, after all, Huang Yi, the president, also held stocks in the Hero Guild, and if the guild lost, everyone would lose. But after checking the stock price structure of the Hero Guild, their hearts suddenly turned icy cold!

Previously, a person named "Liu Yi" owned 10% of the Hero Guild’s stock. This person was a stand-in arranged for Huang Yi; outsiders thought he was the God of Slaughter. But at this moment, countless people discovered that "Liu Yi" no longer held any stocks in the Hero Guild! His 10% had been sold off!

This sent out an incredibly dangerous signal. Even the Guild President no longer held stocks in his own guild, what kind of perilous state had the guild reached?

At this time, members of the Hero Guild began to sense that something was terribly wrong. A few days ago, the Vice President, Qin Shiyu, suddenly started a fundraising event, skimming wealth from the entire guild’s twenty million players; and now, the upper echelons of the guild had sold off all their stocks; Huang Yi also abnormally conceded defeat in the individual competition finals...

Each of these abnormal occurrences connected together immediately sent shivers down their spines!

At this moment, players of the Hero Guild felt as if they were caught in a massive conspiracy!

"Damn it! We’ve been deceived!" A male player from the Hero Guild, clutching his handheld photon brain, looked at the stock market information, and cried out with a complexion that turned ashen!

"What’s wrong?" At that moment, a woman beside him quickly asked.

"The God of Slaughter is a fraud, and not just him, Vice President Qin Shiyu is a fraud too! All those guild leaders are frauds!" the man swallowed hard, his voice trembling, "I finally understand why the God of Slaughter conceded. He never intended to win. The reason they were collecting funds from us was to bet on Miyamoto Musashi in the finals and make a killing! They’ve already abandoned the Hero Guild! Even all the stocks in their hands have been sold off. No wonder we couldn’t find the God of Slaughter these past few days. It turns out he’s already abandoned us. They’ve taken all the wealth and left our guild behind..."

At this very moment, numerous members of the Hero Guild all guessed this terrifying possibility!

Those who were still observing, now quickly joined the rush to sell off Hero Guild stocks, and the stock price plummeted!

On the contrary, the stock price of the Martial Arts Guild, where Miyamoto Musashi belonged, started to skyrocket sharply. Now any discerning person could see that it would be Miyamoto Musashi’s era in the future, he was going to reach heights even Dao Feng never attained, and he would deservedly become the number one person in the world!

The entire stock market suddenly formed a stark contrast of one dropping and one rising!

The martial arts championship had the global stock market in turmoil!

...

After leaving the battlefield of the individual competition, Huang Yi returned to the outside world.

The whole world was shocked by his recent actions, but no one could find him; he hid in a dark, damp corner.

Huang Yi looked up at the pitch-black sky overhead, surrounded by deathly silence, like being in Hell, abandoned by the world. He could fully imagine that in the days to follow, the entire world would revile him, labeling him with names like "fraudster," "traitor," and so on. He would face the harshest criticism in history, the true pointing of a thousand fingers, a real public enemy. Anywhere he went, he would hear voices cursing him.

But Huang Yi didn’t care. This was all part of his plan; he wanted the whole world to curse him, only then could he proceed with the next phase of his plan. Otherwise, he could have fought Miyamoto Musashi with all his might, losing honorably, but that would have disrupted his plan.

However, once his plan was fully executed, all these curses would automatically cease.

Just then, he received a system prompt—

"[System Prompt]: You’ve bet 34 trillion Gold Coins on Miyamoto Musashi; besides the principal amount, you have won 100 trillion Gold Coins. Congratulations!"

trillion!

Hearing this number, Huang Yi’s face finally showed a smile, which seemed so brilliant in the darkness, so out of place, like a blazing sun illuminating the pitch-black space.

With this, they could truly manipulate the economy of The Second World! This was an epoch-making step!

In the previous martial arts championship, he had used the entire guild’s funds to make a profit of 12 trillion Gold Coins; later, Qin Shiyu carried out the fundraising event, and the twenty million members of the Hero Guild cobbled together several trillion Gold Coins; Huang Yi also borrowed several trillion from Dugu Lengcang and the Xuanyuan Guild; finally, he got another 12 trillion from Thunder God! Altogether, they had amassed an unprecedented 34 trillion Gold Coins, all bet on Miyamoto Musashi’s prize pool.

With his concession, this huge sum immediately earned three times the profits! Not only that, the Rose Prison scattered criminals all over the world, all the funds behind him, including number 2, number 5, and a host of others, all bet on Miyamoto Musashi winning! They all suddenly made three times the profit!

It can be said that almost half of the 100 trillion in Miyamoto Musashi’s prize pool were funds bet by Huang Yi’s side!

And as a result, nearly half of the 300 trillion Gold Coins in Huang Yi’s prize pool would be distributed to them!

This sum was entirely beyond everyone’s imagination!

If previously Huang Yi could influence The Second World’s economy, now they could control The Second World’s economy! With a hundred trillion Gold Coins in hand, any slight move could cause the collapse of The Second World’s financial system.

With this, the plan reached its first major harvest!

But this was far from the end!

Huang Yi was about to drop another bombshell! He wanted to thoroughly disappoint the entire world!

Next, he handed over the position of Guild President to a player called "Peerless National Scholar" from Rose Prison, and then he left the Hero Guild!

The next moment, a voice resounded throughout the Hero’s Continent—

"[Continent Announcement]: [God of Slaughter] has resigned from the position of Guild President and has left the Hero Guild."

The continent was shocked once more!

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief, as if stupefied by the successive heavy news!

This was the second time Huang Yi had resigned from the role of Guild President of the Hero Guild. Previously, he had left once when he was being hunted by Man Tian, a Celestial Realm Expert from the Half-Beast Holy Land, to protect the Hero Guild from any implications.

But this time, his action seemed to the outside world as a complete abandonment of the Hero Guild!

At this moment, the members of the Hero Guild felt their hearts sink to the bottom, everything seemed so illusory.

The scenes of Huang Yi leading them through one difficulty after another were vivid before their eyes; Huang Yi was their god, but now this god had betrayed them!

"Why does big brother have to do this? Why abandon us? If he wants money, we could just give it to him, why deceive us?" Some players were heartbroken to the extreme, shedding tears of sorrow! Grown men, crying like aggrieved children, one after another breaking down in tears.

The person they trusted the most had betrayed them!

But it wasn’t over yet, what followed were more bombshell guild announcements—

[Guild Announcement]: Qin Shiyu has resigned from the position of Vice President and has left the guild.

[Guild Announcement]: Sunset has resigned from the position of Dungeon Group Leader and has left the guild.

[Guild Announcement]: Knight has resigned from the position of Instance Group Leader and has left the guild.

[Guild Announcement]: Light Demon has resigned from the position of Head of the Mage Hall and has left the guild.

[Guild Announcement]: Little Riddler has resigned from the position of Head of Logistics and has left the guild.

...

In an instant, all twenty million players of the Hero Guild simultaneously received over a hundred guild announcements, almost all the high-ranking officials and core members of the guild had left!

This globally famed super guild, in that single moment, collapsed thunderously, existing in name only, almost disbanding!

The news spread from the Hero’s Continent to the whole world in an instant, countless media outlets reported the news immediately, causing a worldwide sensation!

This was bound to be an unforgettable day, the dual downfall of God of Slaughter and Hero Guild cast a shadow over the world.

The move by Huang Yi and the other executives to leave the Hero Guild also confirmed the suspicion that all the leaders of the Hero Guild were fraudsters—they indeed had run off with the funds painstakingly gathered by the twenty million members, abandoning the Hero Guild!

Things changed too quickly, leaving everyone unprepared. But the parties involved were nowhere to be found, no one knew where Huang Yi had gone.

Countless players’ hearts couldn’t calm down for a long time, especially those from the Hero Guild. There were those who cursed in anger, and those who cried in sorrow; the highly cohesive Hero Guild started crumbling from within, the hard-built guild was gone in a flash.

The new Guild President "Peerless National Scholar" quickly made a public speech, pacifying all the members of the Hero Guild and stating that they had already unifiedly reported the matter to the police, waiting for the investigation by the public security organs, and would definitely provide everyone with a satisfactory response.

Stimulated by this news, the stocks of the Hero Guild became almost like waste paper, plummeting by more than 70%, in just a short while, this once influential guild had met its end, leaving everyone feeling nostalgic and emotional.

And with such a heavy blow to the Hero Guild, the idea of defeating the Martial Arts Guild in the group finals three days later was almost a fantasy; hence, the Martial Arts Guild had virtually already secured the championship title of the group competition. This caused the stock price of the Martial Arts Guild to skyrocket crazily, doubling compared to the day before, with a market value breaking through two trillion US dollars, becoming the world’s number one!

In just one competition, the throne of the highest market value guild in the world changed hands from the Hero Guild to the Martial Arts Guild.