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Chapter 495: The Year's Promise
Chapter 495: The Year's Promise
Agreeing to Pan Ying's devotion wasn't solely due to her potential; the Pan family itself played a part in the decision.
Aside from other factors, the eight Zhi Lu Fleet Captains were not a minor force, and being in the Silver Disc Galaxy meant they could better gather various special resources and unique starry wonders that couldn't be converted into ship components for him in the future.
After some thought, Song Chi took out a 'Marketplace Access Token' from his Flame Ancestral Orifice and handed it to Pan Ying, explaining its basic function.
He wouldn't stay in the Silver Disc Galaxy for long, and the marketplace would be the best place to contact him in real-time.
Pan Ying accepted the token with a smile in her eyes and led Song Chi to the Pan family vault.
Pan Ying's devotion was just one of the conditions; the previous condition of selecting three items from the vault was also included.
When the two arrived at the underground vault's entrance, they were stopped by two Pan family members wearing special armor. Despite having only third-rank Guidance Technique, they possessed fourth-rank combat power.
"Elder, this person..."
Pan Ying waved her hand and explained, "The adult has agreed to help our Pan family. Selecting three items from the vault is one of the conditions."
Hearing this explanation, the two guards smiled and let them enter the vault without further obstruction.
The Pan family vault was not small, and one could still see its grandeur from its heyday. Unfortunately, although the vault was not small, many shelves were empty, with items occupying less than a quarter of the space.
Seeing this, Pan Ying's deep voice reached Song Chi's ears.
"The family has been spending more than it earns these years, and the vault is almost half empty. It's not like we deliberately took things out before!"
After speaking, the two began to explore the vault.
Red Energy Shield
Ordinary Orange Ascension Flame
Titanium Crystal - 60,000 pieces
Primordial Copper - 1 piece
...
As they walked, various items caught Song Chi's eye. Just as they were about to finish browsing the vault, something caught his attention, and he was pleasantly surprised.
"Is this antimatter core useful to you, sir?"
Song Chi nodded and, without waiting to finish examining the vault, took the substantial antimatter core.
This antimatter core was similar to the one he had obtained from the black hole in the Chutian Star Domain. After feeding it to the Antimatter Evolution Engine, its evolution progress should reach two-thirds, bringing it one step closer to the complete promotion of this Golden Holy Domain Quality engine to Black Grade.
A few minutes later, the two had completed their tour of the vault.
Song Chi's evaluation of the Pan family vault was simple: poor.
Compared to his own vault, which was still under expansion, the Pan family vault seemed meager. Not only were there no silver-grade wonders or components, but even red-grade components were scarce, with only four or five scattered pieces, making it a pitiful sight.
Perhaps sensing Song Chi's thoughts, Pan Ying also felt a bit embarrassed.
"Please excuse our poverty, sir!"
Song Chi shook his head, making no comment.
After some thought, in addition to the antimatter core, he also took the Primordial Copper, a versatile enhancement resource often needed in the Pantheonic Marketplace. He now had only one piece left, and with this addition, he would have two.
For his final choice, after a few seconds of hesitation, he approached the pile of titanium crystals.
Glancing at Pan Ying, he noticed her carefully looking at him with her crystal-clear eyes, which she quickly averted, but not before Song Chi caught a glimpse of the conflicted expression in her eyes.
After some thought, he only took half of the titanium crystals, 30,000 out of the 60,000 pieces.
From Pan Ying's reaction, it was clear that these tens of thousands of titanium crystals were likely the Pan family's last reserve. Although Song Chi's backing would prevent further suppression of the Pan family, transitioning from defense to offense and expanding outward would have to wait until Pan Ying's Guidance Technique breakthrough, officially becoming a Battleship Fleet Captain.
In other words, during this period, the titanium crystals that the Pan family could use for transactions were likely these 60,000 pieces. If Song Chi took them all, the Pan family's situation would become even more dire.
Seeing Song Chi take only 30,000 titanium crystals, Pan Ying's eyes turned into crescent moons.
"Thank you, sir!"
She took out an item from her body.
"Sir, there's also this..."
Song Chi turned and saw it was the Spatial Lock Seal component, which had been returned earlier.
Taking the silver-grade component, Song Chi's peripheral vision fell on the orange Ascension Flame beside it, and he turned to Pan Ying.
"Can I also take that orange Ascension Flame as compensation?"
"Yes!"
Pan Ying's response was almost immediate.
But Song Chi wasn't finished.
"As compensation, come back in two days, and I'll give you a red Ascension Flame in return!"
...
Song Chi's decision to use one of the five nearly mature sixth-rank Silver Apples to evolve the Ascension Flame wasn't impulsive but carefully considered.
From the moment Pan Ying accepted the master-servant contract, he had been contemplating this decision, and after weighing various factors, he made up his mind.
The primary reason, of course, was her potential. Obtaining the red Ascension Flame early would significantly enhance the combat power of Pan Ying's ship, allowing her to do more for him in the future.
Two days later, in the Breeding Sanctuary...
Five sixth-rank Silver Apples had fully ripened.
Song Chi took one and evolved the orange Ascension Flame into a red one, finally handing it over to Pan Ying, who was filled with anticipation and gratitude.
"Alright, go back into seclusion. Try to break through the Fifth Rank of the Guidance Technique in one go. Don't worry about the Annan Corporation; I'll handle it!"
"Yes, thank you, sir."
...
In the command bridge of the Heaven Ruin Skydome, Song Chi's gaze swept across the numerous orange components of the battleship.
Soon, he took out the second Silver Apple and evolved the Proportional Scaling Device component into a red-grade one, also enhancing it to level 60.
The brand new third trait was "100% Scaling Boost," which Song Chi had actively extracted using the Oddity Source Improvement Platform.
With this, the maximum scaling factor of this component reached 1000 times. At this scale, the Longfin Phantom Whale's corpse was reduced to just a kilometer in length, significantly reducing the space it occupied.
Next, he chose the Void Veil, the Life Support Pod, and the Aurora Warp Drive for the third, fourth, and fifth Silver Apples.
The reason for choosing these three components was very simple.
The Void Veil was chosen because its concealment effect was a permanent state, unlike the Mirage, which had a time limit. The permanent concealment state was obviously more valuable to Song Chi.
After evolving, the trait he selected was extracted from another high-quality concealment component, "Enhanced Concealment Authority I."
This trait had cost Song Chi considerable effort to extract, and its effect was straightforward. Other radars would have to surpass the Void Veil by one rank in both quality and enhancement level to detect its concealment effect.
For example, if the Void Veil was only enhanced to level 50, and given its current red-grade epic quality, a silver-grade sky-scanning radar would have to be enhanced to level 60 or higher to detect the Heaven Ruin Skydome's existence. Level 59 would not be sufficient.
At this moment, Song Chi directly enhanced the Void Veil to level 60, meaning that only silver-grade or higher sky-scanning radars enhanced to level 70 or above would be able to detect the Heaven Ruin Skydome in its permanent concealment state.
Of course, a gold-grade sky-scanning radar, due to its two-rank higher quality than the Void Veil, would only need to be enhanced to level 60 to detect the Void Veil.
Nevertheless, the trait "Enhanced Concealment Authority I" was undoubtedly an ultra-premium trait. If it were improved and applied to gold or black-grade concealment components, the Heaven Ruin Skydome would be extremely difficult to detect by other starships and radars in the starry sea.
The Life Support Pod needed no further explanation; it was a life-saving component.
Lastly, the Aurora Warp Drive, even with its orange-grade quality, had a short single-jump distance of just a thousand light-years. This time, to reach the Silver Disc Galaxy, most of the journey had been spent traveling.
After evolving it into a red-grade quality and enhancing it to the sixth rank, along with a trait that increased jump distance, the maximum jump distance of the Aurora Warp Drive skyrocketed from 1,100 light-years to 3,000 light-years.
With that, all the Silver Apples had been used.
As excited as he was when using them, Song Chi now felt equally distressed.
To be honest, he wished he could evolve all the orange components on the battleship into red-grade ones in one go, which would significantly boost the combat power of the Heaven Ruin Skydome once again.
However, the production speed of Silver Apples was a real headache. Even with the "Breeding Sanctuary Accelerator" trait, the interval between each Silver Apple production was still as long as two to three decades.
Given this premise, it was evident that it would take an extremely long time to evolve all the orange components on the Heaven Ruin Skydome into red-grade ones.
Song Chi knew that this was related to the rank of the Silver Apples. Previously, the production cycle of fourth and fifth-rank Silver Apples had been much shorter.
Boom, boom, boom! As these thoughts raced through his mind, a dense rumbling sound suddenly came from overhead.
"So, it's here already. That was fast!"
He quickly left the underground battleship summoning room and summoned the Heaven Ruin Skydome before rushing into the sky.
He had anticipated this attack but didn't expect it to come so soon.
In the sky above, by the time Song Chi arrived, eight Pan family Zhi Lu Fleet ships had already reached the scene, with their prows glowing as they continuously bombarded the dozens of Zhi Lu Fleet ships outside the Floating Land Shield.
It was only when they saw the appearance of the Heaven Ruin Skydome that the Pan family elders finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Before they could speak, Song Chi raised his hand, causing the Pan family members to halt their attacks.
At the same time, the three ten-kilometer-long battleships located deep in the starry sky also issued the same order, ceasing their fire.
Seeing that both sides had stopped fighting, the Heaven Ruin Skydome burst out of the Floating Land Shield.
After a short while, the four battleships successfully met in the starry sky.
In the battleship communication group chat, the Limit Battleship Captain from the Annan Corporation spoke up:
"Friend, the Annan Corporation has given you face, but now that the one-year period is up, it's no longer appropriate for you to intervene."
(End of Chapter)
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