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Chapter 244: Orange [Shadow Demon Cannon]
Chapter 244: Orange [Shadow Demon Cannon]
Song Chi's goal was very clear: the 60th floor and above of the Merit Tower.
He had already toured the first 60 floors of the Merit Tower several times before, and among them, there were no mental protection components of purple quality or higher, nor any negative state purification components.
He originally thought that this was due to the impact of the previous Soul Spirit Floatland expedition. However, after learning the relevant information about the Demon Buddha Continent, he realized that things were far more complicated.
However, because of this, he didn't have high hopes for the floors above the 60th in the Merit Tower.
A Grade 7 Life-Type Floating Continent possesses unimaginable resources. Facing such a floatland, the attitude of the clan elders was clear; if they could gain some benefits from it, they might be able to use it to promote their flagship to a Tier 5 Battleship.
Based on this, the mental protection components in the clan had likely been exchanged long ago, and the possibility of having any remaining stock was slim.
He arrived at the 60th floor of the Merit Tower, and as expected, none of the floors from 1 to 60 had any mental protection components.
With a hint of nervousness, Song Chi stepped onto the 61st floor, which required 150 gold merit points, and his account just met this requirement.
As he entered the 61st floor and scanned around, a clear surprise flashed in his eyes.
Compared to the 51st to 60th floors, which were smaller and smaller, the 61st floor clearly showed signs of spatial folding technology, with a much larger area and far more exchange counters than expected.
After checking around, he quickly understood.
Item Name: Vampire Marquis Source Blood
Exchange Price: 100 gold merit points
...
Item Name: Golden Armored Beast Source Blood
Exchange Price: 120 gold merit points
...
Item Name: Vampire Duke Source Blood
Exchange Price: 1500 gold merit points
...
Most of the items in these counters were source blood from Fourth-Rank and even Fifth-Rank creatures. Song Chi even saw the source blood of the Golden Armored Beast.
However, these source bloods, which were highly attractive to other Flame Heart Captains, did not interest him. He only lingered for a while at the counter displaying the Fifth-Rank Vampire Duke source blood.
Apart from these source bloods, Song Chi also saw a Wood Attribute Law Crystal, the lowest grade, and some orange and even red quality components. However, most of them were main cannons or energy shields, which were not useful for the Cobalt Number.
Furrowing his brows, Song Chi felt a sense of unease.
Subsequently, the facts proved that his intuition was correct. He toured up to the 69th floor but still found no mental protection components.
With one last glimmer of hope, he stepped onto the 70th floor of the Merit Tower.
Two minutes later, as expected, there were still no mental protection components. However, this time, he did not leave empty-handed.
Stopping in front of a counter on the 70th floor of the Merit Tower, Song Chi paused.
Inside the counter in front of him was a component emitting a bright orange glow.
Hmm... an orange ship-mounted secondary cannon.
Shadow Demon Cannon lv0
Quality: Orange
Characteristic: Shadow Demon
Characteristic 2: Secondary Cannon Power Increase by 45%
Consumption: 5 per shot (Mana Points)
Power: 6.2
No need for cooldown or charging
Upgrade Required: 10 strands of Floating Continent Essence (Zero Tier), 1000 Mana Points, 10kg Shadow Stone
{Shadow Demon: Each attack from the secondary cannon has a 1% chance to trigger the Demon-breaking effect, temporarily weakening the enemy unit's surface energy shield by 1% of its current shield value. The same energy shield can be weakened by a maximum of 10% of its maximum shield value.}
At first glance, a 1% chance seemed pitifully low, but upon closer inspection, it was not so.
Firstly, this was only the attribute at lv0, and once the reinforcement level increased, the values would certainly improve significantly.
Secondly, don't forget that this is a secondary cannon with no cooldown time. In continuous firing, the trigger probability is actually not as low as it seems.
He glanced down at the exchange price.
110 gold merit points
Seeing this number, Song Chi thought for a moment and then decided to exchange it. The Cobalt Number had been promoted to Tier 2 for two years, and its four secondary cannons were still only partially equipped, which did seem a bit meager.
Of course, before exchanging, Song Chi tried to go to the 71st floor, but the result was obvious. Even with over 200 gold merit points in his account, he was still stopped.
To continue to the 71st floor, he needed at least 500 gold merit points.
Upon realizing this, Song Chi instantly lost interest. 500 gold merit points was something he couldn't gather in the short term.
In the ancient star battlefield, although there were still over a dozen ancient corpses rivaling the peak of the Fourth Rank, it wasn't an easy task for the Cobalt Number to retrieve them. It was necessary to first establish safe routes, a process that wouldn't be completed in a short time.
Even though Song Chi had long issued the order for the half-step Fourth Rank humanoid alien to continuously explore safe routes, and a large number of humanoid aliens were now exploring with small planetary belt creatures, it would still take at least two years to establish over a dozen safe routes.
After all, the farthest ten-thousand-meter ancient corpse was nearly a hundred thousand kilometers away from the space wormhole exit.
Putting these thoughts aside, Song Chi exchanged for the Shadow Demon Cannon and didn't linger. He left the Merit Tower and returned to the Blue Moon Estate.
He only had seven days left, and he couldn't afford to waste any time.
In the free market area of the Market Ruins, inside the Cobalt Number.
After loading the Shadow Demon Cannon, he immediately began reinforcing it.
He spent hundreds of Zero Rank, First Rank, and Second Rank Floating Continent Essences, along with 120 Titanium Crystals, to reinforce the orange secondary cannon to level 30.
Since he had over six figures of Second Rank Floating Continent Essences, the reinforcement for the first three ranks was done without any delay.
After thinking for a dozen seconds, he decided to continue reinforcing it.
He used hundreds of Third Rank Floating Continent Essences, 420 Titanium Crystals, 2 strands of Fourth Rank Floating Continent Essence, and 1 Law Stone, ultimately reinforcing the component to level 40.
As for the attributes, Song Chi was only concerned with the "Shadow Demon" characteristic.
Shadow Demon: Each attack from the secondary cannon has a 20% chance to trigger the demon-breaking effect, temporarily reducing the current shield value of the enemy unit's surface energy shield by 10%. The same energy shield can be reduced by a maximum of 50% of its maximum shield value.
As expected, with the reinforcement to level 40, the effect of this characteristic became extremely significant.
As long as the luck wasn't too bad, it would basically weaken the enemy unit's current shield value by 10% every five shots. When fully triggered, the enemy unit's energy shield would always have only half the shield value in front of the Cobalt Number.
This effect might not be the best, but it certainly wasn't weak, and Song Chi was satisfied enough.
He didn't linger much on this and instead turned his attention to the Electromagnetic Thunder Light Cannon component.
This blue secondary cannon was the first secondary cannon on the Cobalt Number, and it was the primary component that earned the initial credit for exploring the Blo Civilization Ruins.
Although it was now somewhat lagging behind the Cobalt Number, it didn't require Titanium Crystals. Given that Song Chi had plenty of Third Rank Floating Continent Essences, and he could use the Three-Eyed Spirit Ring component for future replacements without wasting reinforcement resources, he directly reinforced it to the limit of blue components at level 39.
As for the Cold Light Heavenly Frost Cannon, it required Titanium Crystals. After some thought, Song Chi decided not to touch it. Although 2000 Titanium Crystals seemed like a lot, it wouldn't withstand many rounds of reinforcement for third and fourth-tier components.
His gaze shifted from the secondary cannon components to the Spirit Pillar component.
This component was currently only at level 30, unable to affect Fourth Rank creatures, which was far from satisfactory for Song Chi, who had a Fourth Rank Void Demon as a subjugated creature.
The attack capability of the Void Demon was already quite formidable. If it could be further enhanced with the Spirit Pattern and Totem True Body, its combat power would surge even more.
Therefore, just like the Shadow Demon Cannon before, he spent hundreds of strands of Third Rank Floating Continent Essence, 420 Titanium Crystals, 2 strands of Fourth Rank Floating Continent Essence, and 1 Law Stone, reinforcing it to level 40.
After reaching level 40, the component's Faith Pool increased to 300,000, and Song Chi successfully converted the Fourth Rank Void Demon into a worshipper of the Cold Moon Snow Python, successfully engraving the Spirit Pattern on its body.
In the future, as long as it was within the range of the Spirit Pillar, it could actively activate the Spirit Pattern or Totem True Body abilities, significantly boosting its combat power, equivalent to having an additional burst ability.
However, in addition to this, Song Chi noticed something. With the Spirit Pillar reinforced to the Fourth Rank and a formal Fourth Rank worshipper contracted, the Cold Moon Snow Python, a half-step Fourth Rank totem spirit beast, seemed to undergo some unknown changes.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
On his shoulder, the mini white snake continuously flicked its tongue, emitting a constant hissing sound.
Perceiving its agitation, Song Chi initiated a mental transmission to ask.
"What's wrong?"
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
The Cold Moon Snow Python continued to hiss, but this time through the Bridge of Minds characteristic. Song Chi understood its meaning.
"Are you about to advance?"
His face lit up with joy. This news was very uplifting.
Dozens of seconds later, his expression returned to calm.
As a creature capable of reaching the Fourth Rank on a Third-Rank Floating Continent, Song Chi had never doubted the bloodline potential of the Cold Moon Snow Python. Therefore, he was actually somewhat prepared for this advancement.
However, after calming down, Song Chi frowned again.
He was, of course, happy that one of his enslaved creatures was about to advance to the Fourth Rank. The problem, however, was the obvious conflict in timing. In seven days, he would have to head to the Demon Buddha Continent, and in such a short time, it was clearly insufficient for a Third-Rank creature to complete the transformation to the Fourth Rank.
For a moment, Song Chi felt a headache.
After thinking for a long while, he finally used Heart Sound Transmission to force the Cold Moon Snow Python to suppress the urge to advance.
He had two choices at the moment.
The first was to leave the Cold Moon Snow Python on the Longji Continent, report to the clan, and have it occupy a Fourth-Rank Origin Eruption Eye, allowing it to attempt the Fourth Rank advancement on its own.
The second was to prevent this advancement for now and wait until after his trip to the Demon Buddha Continent.
The outcome of the first choice was clear. Without the Totem Spirit Beast, the Totem Spirit Pillar component would naturally be temporarily out of commission, and he wouldn't be able to rely on it during the upcoming trip to the Demon Buddha Continent.
The second choice, while it would waste this advancement opportunity in the short term, would still be a viable option given the Cold Moon Snow Python's talent and the resources Song Chi himself controlled. The chance for a second advancement would not be small.
After careful consideration, Song Chi chose to have it suppress the urge to advance, and everything would be decided after his trip to the Demon Buddha Continent.
After reinforcing the Totem Spirit Pillar, the next component was the Silver III Generation Ultrasonic Mana Detection Radar.
This orange radar was currently at level 39, which had always bothered Song Chi. As the eyes of a Flame Torch Warship, its importance was self-evident, and its reinforcement level should not lag behind other basic components.
A flash of radiance, and this component was officially reinforced to the Fourth Rank, with a significant attribute boost.
(PS: To avoid accusations of padding, I won't list the data.)
With the reinforcement of these components one by one, the other resources were still manageable, but the Titanium Crystals were down to about 1000. At least 600 would need to be reserved for high-quality mental protection components, so the available amount was actually quite limited.
After some thought, Song Chi considered the Plasma Guardian. As a single-entity shield that could save his life, he always activated it every time he recalled or left the Cobalt Number. However, the Third Rank was still too low, and reinforcing it to the Fourth Rank would be safer.
Soon, another 265 Titanium Crystals, a strand of Fourth-Rank Floating Continent Essence, one Law Stone, and several hundred strands of Third-Rank Floating Continent Essence were used to reinforce this component to level 40.
The number of shields it could generate reached 50/50, and the shield value of the Plasma Guardian increased from 306,000 to 3,230,000 points.
Song Chi was very satisfied with this shield value. He calculated that even a direct hit from the main cannon of a purple-quality Fourth-Rank warship would not instantly destroy this single-entity shield, giving him a moment to react and enter the Market Ruins.
"Phew!"
With the reinforcement of this component complete, this round of reinforcements for the Cobalt Number came to an end. Song Chi retracted the Cobalt Number and walked to the Fixed Point Deployment Platform on the inner side of the Market Ruins.
During the past month's trip to the Blood Float Continent, to avoid wasting time collecting Blood Bodhi, he had not opened the Market Ruins for trading. Now, he couldn't afford to delay any longer.
He was hoping to obtain the mental protection components he wanted from the Luo Fu Sword Sect, which backed Zhou Ping.
As for the trading item, it was naturally the Ten-Thousand-Year Lightning-Struck Wood.
The Fixed Point Deployment Platform, already reinforced to level 27, was quickly activated. Soon, nearly a hundred Void Portals condensed at the entrance to the Market Ruins, waiting for the star sea aliens to discover and enter.
On the second floor of the inn, the goblin Luke, who had been eagerly awaiting the nearly twenty-day-long Market Ruins trading, rushed out of the Market Guest Permit room, shouting and screaming, and hurried to the mineral resource exchange shop, anxiously wanting to conduct the next 2 million Terra Stones transaction.
Indeed, as the trading time between the two parties gradually increased, the Viscount's Manor behind him gradually expanded and broadened its sales channels, with the monthly purchase volume gradually increasing.
In just over two years, the monthly purchase volume increased from 500,000 to 2 million.
With just this one transaction, Song Chi and the Tenth Direct Line could earn nearly a million strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence. This was, without a doubt, cross-realm trading.
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