NOVEL NEXT Chapter 24: Memory Metal
His parents were only space explorers. Although their salary wasn't low, they were risking their lives, and his monthly allowance wasn't much.
Motorcycles, a man's romance!
With his current Divine Realm output, he could actually afford one, but it would hinder the development of his Divine Realm.
"Forget it, I'll endure a bit longer."
Xu Luo dismissed the idea of exchanging faith power for credit points to improve his life.
He'd focus on increasing his strength first. Once his Divine Realm developed further and he gained more faith power daily, he'd upgrade all at once, moving out of his current apartment. Then he'd eat meat and vegetables every day, never touching those nutritional substances again.
Wang Xiaoling's recruitment was just an interlude. He encountered a few other factions trying to recruit him afterward, but Xu Luo politely declined them all. Some even resorted to threats, but he didn't tolerate that, just coldly smirking and letting them figure it out themselves.
After leaving school, Xu Luo boarded the maglev train and quickly returned home.
Through the game pod connection, he entered the World of Gods, but he didn't go directly to his Divine Realm. Instead, he first went to the Divine Realm Novice City.
After seeing various scams in the black market last time, he now only chose official stores to buy things. Although the prices were higher, it was safer, and even if there were problems, there would be proper after-sales service.
[You have a transfer, please claim it as soon as possible!]
As soon as he entered, there was a message in his inbox, along with an address.
Xu Luo claimed it, and it was indeed the one million faith power. The address should be where the school's logistics department was located.
Following the address, Xu Luo spent a little faith power to teleport there.
"This..."
Seeing the bustling mall, Xu Luo was a bit dumbfounded. He looked carefully, but he hadn't made a mistake!
He went in to inquire and found out he wasn't wrong. After explaining he was here to claim a reward, they verified his identity and had someone guide him to choose items.
In the mall, Xu Luo found it was indeed a dazzling array of goods, with all kinds of products available.
"Don't overthink it. These are items others have consigned here. Look, the ones you can choose from are here. Take a look yourself!"
The attendant led him to a warehouse.
"Take your time looking. When you've chosen, let me know, and I'll help you take the item out."
With that, he went back to his own business.
The items here were from the school's logistics department. The others were either other people's goods or items the logistics department had purchased.
Xu Luo could only look at these items; he couldn't take them.
Looking at the items here, Xu Luo couldn't help but marvel. As expected of a school!
They had everything related to Divine Realm development, not just basic resource cards, terrain cards, and species cards, but also a large number of skills, talents, and even divine spell scrolls, as well as rare species and resources.
However, it was noted that he wasn't eligible to choose those items. He could only choose from the ordinary items.
As he slowly browsed, Xu Luo liked several items, but he could only choose one, which made him very conflicted.
Talent Card: Fire Poison Can be fused with a species, allowing their attacks to carry fire poison. (95% compatibility with Mantis Zerg, can greatly enhance Mantis Zerg's damage capability!)
Talent Card: Mystic Ice Can be fused with a species, causing them to naturally emit cold, slowing enemies' movement and attack speed, and enhancing the species' defense! (89% compatibility with Beetle Zerg, greatly enhances defense!)
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Besides these, there were also strange ores like magic stones and spirit stones, each with special effects.
Moreover, there were some species whose genes could be extracted and fused with the Zerg. Although they couldn't evolve into new species, they could enhance their strength.
Finally, when he saw a rare metal, Xu Luo couldn't move on.
[Memory Metal: Contains a large amount of memory metal, from an unknown plane!]
This was the description of the card.
A resource card.
Memory Metal: Possesses memory function, capable of self-recovery.
[Ding! Discovered strange metal, can be fused with the Queen, giving all Zerg powerful self-healing abilities!]
Although he didn't get the Two-Headed Ogre Chieftain's self-healing ability earlier, fusing with the memory metal could achieve the same effect. This was like losing the plum but gaining the peach!
Without hesitation, Xu Luo directly chose this resource card.
If he were to buy it himself, it was marked with an internal price for school students: 700,000 faith power!
"Have you chosen? I'll get it for you!"
Seeing that Xu Luo had made his selection, the attendant didn't waste words and directly took it out for him.
"By the way, I also want the Fire Poison and Mystic Ice talent cards!"
Knowing he could purchase them, Xu Luo directly bought the two talent cards he had liked earlier.
"Fire Poison is 50,000, Mystic Ice is 150,000, a total of 200,000. Junior, as you're the New Student Champion, you get a 10% discount. The total comes to 180,000!"
Hearing that Xu Luo wanted to buy items, the attendant suddenly became enthusiastic.
"Junior?"
Xu Luo was stunned.
"Oh, I didn't mention. I'm also from Sixth High School, a senior this year. Just doing some work-study, you know!"
The young man didn't seem embarrassed at all.
Seeing his appearance, Xu Luo's mouth twitched. If he hadn't said anything, Xu Luo would have thought he was already 25 or 26.
"Students can do work-study too?"
"Junior, you don't know, do you? Even though you're the New Student Champion and have entered the elite class, that initial one million reward isn't nearly enough. Once you have more species and more subordinates, their food, clothing, shelter, and transportation all cost money. The Divine Realm needs to develop, followers need to be armed, you need to guard against others' invasions, there are occasional chaos storms, divine pestilences running rampant, the Divine Realm must have protection... All of these cost money! How much can you do with just the faith power provided by followers? You must develop side businesses!"
The senior student vented his frustrations, clearly having been suppressed for a long time.
Listening to this, Xu Luo expressed sympathy.
Fortunately, his Zerg didn't need such complications. They didn't require special living environments, and their food was uniformly just evolution points.
Otherwise, it would indeed be quite headache-inducing.
Food, clothing, shelter, and transportation - he didn't even need to solve the food issue himself. The Ephemera took care of everything, and he just collected faith power.
Although individual Zerg provided less faith power than their equivalents, they made up for it with their high levels now and their consistently fanatical level of faith. More importantly, their large numbers allowed Xu Luo to gain a lot of faith power without doing anything.
After getting what he wanted from the school store, Xu Luo quickly left and returned to his own Divine
Realm.