Chapter 439 Dark Gold
"Dark Gold Society?"
In the hotel room, Dorothy was sitting on the sofa, looking down at the "Wenhai Hangzhi" placed on her lap. Seeing Beverly's response to her on it, her expression became frozen.
"So... all this is the work of the Dark Gold Society? Judging from the name, this group should believe in Dark Gold, the god of the 'Stone' realm that Beverly mentioned before. It is said to be a purely commercial god. I remember that she said that the group that believed in Dark Gold was a business group, but how did it become the Dark Gold Society here? Is Dark Gold a god that they believe in at different times?"
Dorothy thought about this, and then she immediately picked up a pen and wrote down her questions on the "Wenhai Hangzhi". She took advantage of Beverly being "online" to ask her some questions. Otherwise, she didn't know how long it would take to see a reply after she went offline.
Dorothy quickly finished writing her question. She silently watched her handwriting sink into the page, and then quietly waited for the other party's response. Not long after, Beverly's neat and tidy print handwriting appeared on the page again.
"Oh, I didn't expect that you, my neighbor, would still be here so late at night. I thought you had gone to bed after doing my experiments so late. It's a rare opportunity for me to chat with you.
"Unlike the White Stonemason Guild, which believes in the God of Craftsmanship as the core of the order, Dark Gold is known as the God of Commerce and the God of Wealth. It is a god whose belief is very hidden and unknown to the public. It is one of the secret gods besides the Three Saints. Since ancient times, the group that believes in Dark Gold is the Merchants, and the Dark Gold Society is actually the result of the split and evolution of the Merchants. You can think of the Dark Gold Society as a group that evolved from the Merchants."
"From an inherited family? In other words, the Dark Gold Society and the Dun Shang Company have a hereditary relationship?"
Looking at Beverly's response, Dorothy touched her chin with interest, and then continued to write on the page, and not long after, Beverly's handwriting appeared on the paper again.
"In a sense, it is almost like that. However, if we say that it is a complete inheritance, it is not quite accurate. It is not only the Dark Gold Guild that has inherited the business, but also our Artisan Guild."
"The Craftsmen's Guild? Is there a connection between the merchants and the Craftsmen's Guild?" Dorothy wrote on the page in surprise, and the other party responded quickly.
“Of course, the Whitestone Guild’s business tradition actually comes from merchants.
"What you may not know is that the White Stone Craftsmen's Guild was not originally a strong commercial organization like the current one. The essence of the Craftsmen's Guild is the Craftsmen's Alliance, a platform for countless extraordinary craftsmen to communicate and inherit each other. The core is craftsmanship rather than trade. Although the Craftsmen's Guild used to have a platform for the exchange of various resources, the scale was not very large. It was only to meet its own needs, and it was far from the current level of undertaking most of the secret transactions in the entire secret world.
"For most of the Fourth Epoch, the ones who served as the trading platform for the secret world were actually the Merchants. Compared to the Craftsmen's Guild, they were a purely guild organization composed of various merchants, specializing in various secret trades. The god they worshipped was Dark Gold, the god of commerce, rather than the core of the order of the God of Craftsmanship."
"So... the real merchant union should be the Ton Merchants Union instead of the White Stonemason Union?"
"Yes, at least it was like that in the past. Four hundred years ago, the Ton Shangyi was the largest neutral merchant organization in the secret world, and this situation came to an end because of the split of the Ton Shangyi.
"Few people can explain the specific reasons for the split of the Ton Traders. Many people only know that it seems to involve some secrets related to Dark Gold. In short, on the day of the split, a tragic accident occurred among the top leaders of the Ton Traders. Two of the three Dark Gold nobles died. The remaining Black Coin noble claimed that he had become the Dark Gold Realm and had full control over everything in the Ton Traders. He also issued new regulations, and then the huge Ton Traders began to split.
"Those members of the Ton Merchants who did not obey the Noble Black Coin left the Ton Merchants in large numbers. The Noble Black Coin organized forces to retaliate. Just when he was executing a large number of traitors, the core of the Artisan Guild issued an oracle to the Three Golden Seats, which was very rare, requesting that all the defecting members of the Ton Merchants be protected. As a result, most of the members who left the Ton Merchants were absorbed by the Artisan Guild. While the Artisan Guild was able to expand, it also accumulated a lot of business talents.
"After the split, the Ton Merchants changed their name to the Dark Gold Society. Under the leadership of the Black Coin noble, the Dark Gold Society abandoned almost all the rules set during the Ton Merchants period, and used all means to carry out various secret businesses, expand into markets that had never existed before, and use all means they could think of to madly squeeze profits."
Neat letters appeared one by one on the blank pages. Dorothy looked at Beverly's replies with a serious expression. After reading them all, she immediately picked up her pen and started writing.
"Throw away the rules? Do whatever it takes? What does that look like?"
"To be specific, they can do anything for the sake of profit. The Dark Gold Society's business involves many areas that the Artisans' Guild would not be involved in, and the most obvious example is human trafficking. You should know that many secret spiritual accumulation methods require a large number of people as materials. The way to obtain human materials for these methods is to lure and capture them by themselves, or to buy them directly from the Dark Gold Society.
"The Dark Gold Society's activities are very extensive. They constantly capture ordinary people on the three continents and sell them to various secret organizations. This includes even extraordinary people who fall into their hands due to various reasons. These extraordinary people are more advanced materials.
"In addition to human trafficking, the Dark Gold Society also acts as an extraordinary trading platform like the Artisans Guild to provide trading services for other secret societies, but the content of the trade is more unscrupulous than ours. In addition to these trades, they also provide services such as loan sharking and hiring assassins. A large number of small societies involved in conspiracy and fraud are also related to them. They almost represent the ugliest and cruelest aspect of the secret world."
Beverly's words continued to appear on the pages of the book. Looking at Beverly's response and her description of the Dark Gold Society, Dorothy couldn't help but frown.
After being in the secret world for a long time, Dorothy had become aware of the spiritual accumulation methods used by those cults. One of the characteristics of their accumulation methods was to quickly acquire spirituality by directly exploiting human beings, the most intelligent creatures on earth.
For example, the blood-eating method of the afterbirth system requires human flesh and blood, the torture method of the Eight Points requires torture slaves who can torture and abuse for a long time, the Black Dream Hunter Group needs to devour human dream cocoons to raise moths, and the bone maker in the Nether Coffin Order needs to take human bones. Other "Silent" extraordinary people need human souls...
At a glance, this requires a surprisingly large number of informants. With such a large market demand, it goes without saying that the profits will be very lucrative, so it is necessary to create organizations that specialize in capturing informants and selling them to these informants, and the Dark Gold Society is obviously such an organization.
'Now I finally understand. The reason why those two guys wanted to take Brandon back was probably to sell him as a human commodity. Beverly said that if he was an extraordinary human, his value would be even higher.
"It seems that the Dark Gold Society can be said to be a black marketeer in the secret world."
Thinking like this, Dorothy had a general understanding of the Dark Gold Society. Then she picked up her pen and continued writing on the page in front of her.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
