Back then, Rhea and her future husband both had two rings and could take on some pretty profitable missions—if they weren't afraid of dying, of course.
He was part of a big clan from his Empire. She had a really useful blessing and was from the rare Mystic class; she could've joined any major clan and gotten a bunch of missions.
So, the two of them focused on stacking up resources.
After saving up a lot, they used the underground market to buy an artifact from another planet—one that was banned across the entire Earth.
With some help from the underground, they found someone from the New Arcadia Empire who also wanted to escape—to the Solar Federation Empire, in his case. The guy had tons of enemies and was being hunted down. So, the plan was for both of them to swap identities, pretending to be each other.
