Chapter 19: Secret Patterns
In the underground first floor of the lord’s manor castle in Twilight City, boxes of crystal resin were sealed within alloy containers. After weighing, the alloy boxes were neatly stacked together.
The crystal resin obtained this time seemed modest, less than 1,500 kilograms in appearance. In reality, this was processed solid crystal resin, its value incomparable to the previously obtained liquid crystal resin or the crude energy crystals.
If sold within the Sea Race faction, these solid crystal resins would fetch only 500,000 to 600,000 gold coins. However, the Beast Race faction had always been poor at refining energy crystals, let alone deep purification of crystal resin. Thus, these solid crystal resins were worth over 3 million gold coins among the Beast Race, and they were in short supply with no market availability.
The batch of crystal resin Su Xiao had obtained earlier was all sold to High Commander Kane. While Kane seemed to give many benefits, careful calculation showed that his offers were more promises than actual gains. The tangible benefits were extremely limited.
Su Xiao was not surprised by this. That was High Commander Kane, the notorious old fox of Eternal Ring City. If the other party truly showed full sincerity, that would actually warrant caution. That guy Kane only used complete sincerity to lull someone before moving against them.
Extracting benefits from this old fox Kane was too difficult, leading Su Xiao to consider selling this batch of solid crystal resin to the Seven Great Families instead. Although there had been some conflicts with the Seven Great Families before, in a mission world, interests more often determined stances.
As for the attitudes of the Beast King and High Commander Kane, there was no need to worry. As long as Su Xiao didn’t sell this batch of crystal resin to the Tribal faction or those medium-to-small powers, the Beast King wouldn’t interfere.
Ascending to the first floor of the castle, Su Xiao sat down and summoned the Spotted Fox Clan’s Piro, entrusting him with full responsibility for this matter. As for entrusting Kaisa to sell this batch of crystal resin, while it would maximize profits, considering that he would need to stay in the Beast Race faction until the end of this world progression, it was better not to entrust Kaisa.
Once these gold coins were in hand, the payroll for the six legions of Twilight City would no longer be an issue. Then, allocating a batch of grain would allow Ergin, Harvey, Viper, and Evil Tooth each to lead one or two legions into battle.
Compared to the reputation points gained from legion battles, Su Xiao was actually more optimistic about the large number of evolution points the fungal carpet could bring. After all, this trip to Wind Sea Continent was both to complete the mission and to harvest resources. Although there were many powerful enemies this time, Su Xiao’s mortality rate in this world was over 30%.
But compared to the risk of going to the Eternal Light World, this time was truly not that dangerous. Because going to the Eternal Light World, Su Xiao’s mortality rate might reach 99%. This was no exaggeration. The world-destroying clans there were all imprisoned by the Ancestral Law Destroyers, and their hatred for the Law Destroyers had long exceeded all limits.
Not to mention that World Borer, Silver Queen, and the Queen of Agony were all locked in by Su Xiao himself. The hatred these three held for Su Xiao was both fresh and full, their enmity maxed out at every moment.
To break the deadlock, Su Xiao absolutely needed to obtain a massive amount of evolution points within this world, elevating Jila to a staggering height. Even so, using the insect race to flatten the Eternal Light World was still a pipe dream. Because by then, Jila’s task would be to hold off the incoming world-destroying clans, buying Su Xiao some time.
Within this limited time, Su Xiao needed to complete the trial of breaking through the 300-point attribute barrier, thereby stepping into the ranks of the Absolute Strong. That is, before entering the Eternal Light World, he had to meet all requirements for advancing to Absolute Strong, aside from breaking the 300-point attribute barrier. The total requirements were as follows: