Hargrave

## Appearance

A bald old man with an aquiline nose and peculiar eyes. He wears a long black robe and sometimes emits icy energy.

## Description

Hargrave is a pinnacle World Master, one of the top 3 World Masters of the God Country Black Dragon Mountain. He is rare in the Black Dragon Mountain Starfield as a World Master acknowledged by an Origin Law, his being Law of Water. With his power and wealth, he is a 3 star client of the Universe First Bank. His power and status are the reason that his grandson, the 9th Prince of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, Brolin, has more authority and power than other princes.

### World Within a World on Cang Lan Star

Brolin promised Hargrave and the other elders from Black Dragon Mountain that he would obtain the Inheritance Crystal Ball from Kabu's Treasures and deliver it to Hargrave. When Brolin failed to get all 3 passwords due to Chakra obtaining one, Hargrave gave the order for Brolin to attack the Three Axe Mountain subordinates and rob them to obtain the final password.

> *Hargrey ordered, “Make the move against the Three Axe Mountain people, kill their leading people and steal their AI computers. See if you can get the last passcode from them.” Since acquiring the passcodes from the thunder castle, they naturally stored them in the AI computers, and transferred them into the virtual universe, informing their sector lord Jiang Tian Chen.*
> “Understood!” Brolin’s eyes gleamed, with a sense of excitement and madness, “Grandfather, relax.”*- Hargrey and Brolin*
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Despite this, Jiang Tian Chen was ahead of him and had already ordered Chakra to destroy the quantum computer containing the password and also sent people to kill Chakra to prevent Hargrave from acquiring the final password.

He eventually agreed to Jiang Tian Chen's 9 conditions in exchange for the final password, costing him almost all of his wealth. Unfortunately for him, Kabu essentially pranked anyone who sought the Inheritance Crystal Ball, as Hargrave discovered when he visited the Universe First Bank to obtain it and only received a recording laughing at whoever obtained the passwords.

> *Hargrey stood in front of the monitor. An audio file appeared on the display. Hargrey’s face was sullen as he tapped on the screen. In a moment, the audio file which has been stored for 10 million years started to play: “I’m extremely ecstatic to notify you, you’ve….. been duped! Hahaha, so how does it feel, you mad? Did you sacrifice a lot for the three passwords? HAHAHA, I definitely won’t give the three passwords to the same organization. I made you guys work like mad crazy for them and then ruined everything for you in the end. LOL~~”*
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> Hargrey fiercely clenched his teeth.
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> “PA!” with a furious wave of his hand, Hargrey smashed the monitor in front of him into pieces.*- Lord Wu*
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### After the Treasure Hunt

In order to gather the force of 220,000 warriors who fought under Brolin in the World Within a World, Hargrave counted on the support of a group of World Masters from Black Dragon Mountain. They lent their subordinates based on promises made from Hargrave and Brolin, but due to Kabu's deception (and Jiang Tian Chen's strict conditions), they were unable to fulfill those promises. The treasures that Brolin obtained had to be exchanged to attempt to make up for it, but still resulted in Hargrave losing his authority within Black Dragon Mountain.

While Hargrave was not particularly concerned with the loss of authority and power due to his own strength, he knew that his loss of authority negatively impacted Brolin, which caused him to feel guilty. To help Brolin obtain money, he searched the Black Dragon Mountain Empire information system for information on Luo Feng, who Brolin believed had multiple treasures and could be robbed, however each detail he obtained made him less agreeable to the plan. Luo Feng was from Earth, which Di Fan claimed was Three Axe Mountain territory. Due to Hu Yan Bo's techniques hiding Earth, it would take a long time to reach Earth (and they wouldn't know if Luo Feng was there in the first place). Next, due to Di Fan's presence, they would need at least a Domain Master to attack Earth, and he only had 3 Domain Masters under him. Finally, the treasure that he felt Luo Feng obtained, the Air Cutter Blade, had already been given away to a general of Three Axe Mountain, hence the new 100 life planets that Luo Feng obtained. With Three Axe Mountain's strength, there was no benefit for Black Dragon Mountain to attack them just to satisfy Brolin.

### Pinnacle Genius Battle

Presumably in part because of his decline in power and authority and in part because of his status as one of the 3 strongest World Masters in Black Dragon Mountain, Hargrave was ordered by Black Dragon Mountain to dedicate his time to training Stellar Level geniuses of the God Country in preparation for the Pinnacle Genius Battle. He angrily expressed to Brolin his embarrassment due to the performance of the representatives of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire in the previous Pinnacle Genius Battle, and noted the difficulty for their empire's top genius to rank in the top 10,000 of the Ganwu Universe Country.

## Trivia

* Novel describes his law as an Ice Mark on the forehead. There is no Ice Law and he is the only one who has Ice Law in the Novel so it is safe to assume that it was a typo or poor translation in the English Version.

> *Among the two, the center of Jiang Tian Chen’s forehead had a thunder mark while Hargrey’s had an ice mark, even though the two hadn’t unleashed any power, the entire large hall was still under the pressure of the thunder energy and ice energy’s influence.* - I Eat Tomatoes
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* The mark is described as '冰雪印记' in the novel, which is Bīngxuě yìnjì, which is literally 'ice and snow imprint'; there is also a World Master described later with the same Bīngxuě yìnjì, so it may be that the Law of Water is represented by this mark, rather than a drop or something

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Volume 6, Chapter 46 - Chapter 360
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Volume 6, Chapter 50 - Chapter 364
3. ↑ Volume 6, Chapter 36 - Chapter 350
4. ↑ Volume 6, Chapter 50 - Chapter 364
5. ↑ Volume 7, Chapter 24 - Chapter 388
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Volume 7, Chapter 25 - Chapter 389
7. ↑ Volume 7, Chapter 26 - Chapter 390