Chapter 77: A Great Harvest of Treasures!
Dozens of military Hovercars started up.
Among them was a small luxury Hovercar woven in black and white, Ye Ze’s personal vehicle for the moment.
The Hovercars lifted off and swept across the skies above Longdu, giving everyone a bird’s-eye view of the most prosperous central city in the Central China Region, and indeed in the entire nation.
After quite some time, they passed through a magical barrier.
What appeared before them was a repository with an intense air of advanced technology, almost like a grand library.
Taking the elevator upward, most of the special training camp students could only go to the second floor.
Top students like Liu Anran, Chu He, and Duan Tianchen went to the third floor.
Only Ye Ze came to the fourth.
“Hello. Please activate your credentials.”
Upon arriving at the fourth floor, Ye Ze was greeted by an elegant woman in professional attire and black stockings.
The fourth-floor space was smaller, more like a high-end technology exhibition hall, luxurious and refined, with faint magic arrays glimmering here and there.
Only after activating one’s identity could one enter the fourth floor.
Ye Ze pressed his fingerprint to the scanner, and his personal information appeared. The number displayed under his Military Merit left the professionally dressed attendant staring in astonishment.
Sixty thousand Military Merit?
She had served as an attendant on the fourth floor for many years, and most of the people she had seen had spent years painstakingly saving up just enough sixteen thousand Military Merit to exchange for a single item.
And yet the young man before her, only eighteen years old, already had sixty thousand?
That was honestly a little frightening...
The woman in professional attire put on an elegant smile and dipped slightly as she gestured toward the treasures.
“This way, please...”
Even if this was the first time she had guided someone younger than herself, the respect due to him still had to be shown.
With that, she followed a step behind Ye Ze, keeping just the right distance as she diligently explained the treasures and helped him search.
“What category would you like to look at first?”
“Let’s start with summoning-type Skill Books, or contractable summoned beasts.”
“This way...”
As soon as Ye Ze voiced his request, the woman immediately led him over.
Very soon, rows of individual containers came into view, containing Summoning Skill Books, Ferocious Beast eggs, young summoned beasts, and more...
And most of them were of Legendary quality!
There were elves, elemental beings, Beast race creatures, undead, and even dragons and Magical Beasts of every imaginable sort!
Anyone else might have been dazzled on the spot, but fortunately Ye Ze had Eye of Insight...
He began by examining them one by one through the potential column.
Suddenly, a potential marked 【One of a Kind】 made his eyes light up.
“What is that?”
“That is a mechanical lifeform brought back from the Abyss. It is said to have come from another technological world, but... no one has ever been able to use it.”
Once he heard the attendant’s explanation, Ye Ze immediately understood why no one could use it...
Because the so-called mechanical lifeform in front of him was only the size of a thumb, had no ports or interfaces whatsoever, and looked more like a stone than anything else.
Ye Ze was almost impressed by the powerhouse who had brought it back. How had they even recognized what it was?
And through Eye of Insight, Ye Ze learned more.
This mechanical lifeform possessed terrifying computational power and astonishing energy conversion efficiency. It stood at the absolute top among mechanical summons!
But the problem was that it was more like a chip. It could not function on its own and needed to be paired with support devices from its native technological world.
But that world had already been destroyed by the Abyss...
So there was no solution.
Ye Ze gave up at once. There was no point dwelling on something he could not use.
Then, a special Skill Book caught his eye.
Ordinary Summoning Skill Books were all tied to a single race. Panda and Squirrel, for instance, both belonged to the Beast race.
But this Summoning Skill Book...Actually belonged to two races.
And both of them were rare races!
Dual-race summoned beasts were not actually uncommon.
For example, minotaurs were a common dual-race species of Beast race plus Human race, but their combat power was not much stronger than that of a single race.
Then there were certain drake-type species, combinations of a common race and a rare one. Their combat power struck more of a middle ground and was somewhat stronger.
But a dual-race combination made from two rare races was extraordinarily rare!
The rarer and higher-order the races were, the harder it was for a dual-race lineage to come into being.
And the Summoning Skill Book before him, though not yet of Legendary quality, contained two exceptionally rare races:
【Demon】 + 【Dragon】.
The Demon race, unlike the Abyss Fiends, was still one kind of living being. Common examples included devils, succubi, hellhounds, and the like...
Fiends, on the other hand, were born entirely from Abyssal power and stood in opposition to all worlds and all living beings.
A Demon-and-Dragon dual-race combination...
Ye Ze found that rather acceptable. After all, both races leaned toward darker, combat-oriented traits.
“I should remind you to look carefully. This Skill Book is only an Epic one-star.”
The attendant deliberately stressed the word “Epic” as she warned him,
“The only reason it was specially placed on the fourth floor is because this is the only Demon-and-Dragon dual-race Skill Book.”
Ye Ze nodded.
“That suits me perfectly.”
The attendant pressed her lips together.
One exchange of sixteen thousand Military Merit could have gotten him a Legendary three- or four-star Skill Book, yet he was using it on an Epic one-star?
She truly could not understand how these geniuses thought...
Ye Ze decisively took the Skill Book.
He was counting on Ultimate Summoning to bring him a pleasant surprise!
After that, he wandered into the item section and had his horizons thoroughly broadened.
One Legendary item in particular, shaped like a door, caught his attention:
【Door to Anywhere: Imagine in your mind a place you have seen. Once the door is opened, there is a chance it will lead to that destination.】
（Note: Places you have personally visited have a higher chance of being reached. The more complete the mental image, the higher the chance.）
“So they even have something like this...”
Ye Ze was immediately intrigued.
Still, using it to travel to places he had personally been to was clearly more reliable. Otherwise, the consequences were hard to predict.
Seeing his interest, the attendant immediately explained, “This item is currently on loan. If you want to exchange for it, you would need to wait about one or two days.”
Ye Ze looked surprised. “It can actually be borrowed?”
“Yes. After all, treasures exist to serve people. Any treasure that can help with frontline combat may be temporarily reassigned and borrowed.”
Ye Ze approved of that policy very much.
The fighting on the front lines was tense. With a rule that allowed treasures to be borrowed, countless lives would certainly be saved.
He continued walking and looking around.
Then his footsteps suddenly stopped.
“I want this one too!”
【Imaginary Foe (Legendary☆)】
【Effect: Construct an enemy in a virtual space. After defeating it, the user can obtain 100% of the experience and skill proficiency. Experience may be obtained once per day.】
Looking at the Legendary item, which resembled a silver Rubik’s Cube, Ye Ze’s face lit up with delight.
“This item is something special!”
In other words, any target Ye Ze had seen could be recreated in the virtual space and fought there.
And if he won, he would receive the full experience reward!
That meant that every day, he could gain at least one extra boss’s worth of experience!
And on top of that, he could test combat methods, gain battle experience, and more...
Ye Ze immediately took it.
Paired with his 【World Tree’s Crown】, his leveling speed would definitely increase by a huge margin!
After exchanging for two treasures in succession, Ye Ze checked his remaining Military Merit and took one final lap around the floor.
Then he exchanged for a third item:
【Legendary Equipment Upgrade Ticket: Can upgrade equipment below Legendary quality to Legendary quality!】
He wanted to upgrade the 【Spirit Pact Ring】.
The Copy skill effect was truly exceptionally useful. If it could be strengthened after reaching Legendary quality, that would be ideal.
With three treasures now in hand, Ye Ze’s mood brightened considerably.
This proved that his trip to the special training camp really had not been wasted!
This was a truly tremendous harvest!
He even still had a great deal of Military Merit left...
【You have exchanged for three items. Military Merit spent: -48000. Current remaining Military Merit: 15350!】
Just a little more, and he would be able to exchange for another item!
Under the attendant’s awed gaze, Ye Ze left the Demon Suppression Army Treasury.
Only to discover that almost everyone else had already left. Since he had picked out three items in a row, he had taken longer than the rest.
Only Wan Feipeng and Liu Anran were still waiting for him.
Liu Anran stood there with her arms folded, apparently having waited for him for some time.
“Hurry up. I’m going back to Linyuan City with you.”