Global Era of Star trekking

Chapter 1452: Chapter 743: The Deal (Part 2)

First, let’s not talk about the Zhu Tian Ruins Market itself. Just the Divine Tempering Fruit and the large number of high-quality enslaved species are extremely difficult to refuse.

The Wizard Civilization follows the path of meditation, striving to strengthen their spiritual power to master endless knowledge, and thus leverage infinite mighty power.

If the Seed of Torch and the Torch Warship are the foundation of the Torch Human Civilization,

then the research of knowledge and the size of the Wizard Tower are the foundation of the Wizard Human Civilization.

As for the factors impacting knowledge research, besides the Wizard Tower itself, the most important is the spiritual power of the wizard, and coincidentally, the Divine Tempering Fruit is one of the rare resources for enhancing spiritual power.

Although with the Pure White Tower Wizard Alliance’s foundation, it’s impossible not to have other resources that enhance spiritual power under their command, every new Divine Soul resource is evidently extremely important to them.

Moreover, the Wizard Civilization is renowned for its wizard enslavement army. Even though they have already conquered numerous Floating Lands, with their civilization footprints spread across infinite Star Domains, high-quality enslaved species are still among the most popular products within the Wizard Civilization.

The two sides reached an agreement on this matter once again. Subsequently, the Pure White Tower Wizard Alliance quickly dispatched multiple Sixth Rank wizards, including a Seventh Rank True Spirit Wizard, to join Brooke Benjamin in the ongoing Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

During this process, the high officials of the Pure White Tower quickly gained a further understanding of the Zhu Tian Ruins Market, and the more they understood, the more excited the group of wizards became.

The wizard system is essentially knowledge-centric. The more knowledge one possesses, not absolutely, but at least there’s a ninety percent chance that the more knowledgeable a wizard is, the stronger they are.

However, knowledge is evidently not that easy to obtain, often requiring thousands of years of continuous accumulation by a wizard organization.

In comparison, is there any place more conducive to acquiring various valuable knowledge than a public trading market where the myriad species of the Starry Sea converge?

...

Without paying attention to the changing sentiments of the Pure White Tower wizards at this moment, in the reception room, the Asura Emperor continued conversing with Vine Green.

"Tower Master Vine, I’ve heard of the wizard civilization’s wizard magic potions, but does your alliance have any of those universally applicable life-extending magic potions?"

"Of course, even mass-produced life-extending spiritual objects would do!"

"Mass-produced life-extending objects? With universal applicability? That might be..."

Vine Green’s quick shake of the head caused Song Chi in the Zhu Tian Ruins Market to let out a light sigh.

Life-extending objects are inherently hard to find. Although somewhat prepared for this result, Song Chi was still helpless.

However, he had the Asura Emperor ask again:

"It only needs to be effective for ordinary living beings with no power. Side effects are no problem, as long as they’re not too severe."

These two newly proposed conditions seemed to indeed remind Vine Green of something. His initial motion to continue shaking his head suddenly halted.

A few seconds later, Vine Green waved his hand and took out an object.

A potion, or rather, an alchemical magic potion of the wizard civilization, which was bright red and visually striking.

Utilizing his Eighth Rank Power within, the Asura Emperor could clearly capture the blood factor contained within the potion, evidently, it wasn’t merely a matter of color, but that it was a magic potion formulated from the blood of a certain living being.

Before the Asura Emperor could speak, Vine Green explained first.

"This magic potion is called Crimson Moon, with its main ingredient being the Blood of the Red Blood Clan. It leverages the vitality power contained in the blood of vampires, such longevity species, to achieve an life-extending effect."

"The Crimson Moon is divided into three grades: primary, intermediate, and high. The primary can extend life for fifty years, the intermediate can extend life for two hundred years, and the high can extend life for five hundred years. However, it not only affects Zero Rank creatures in the Starry Sea; once consumed, the creature’s genes will completely lose the possibility of a breakthrough transformation, meaning they can no longer transcend later on, and regardless of the potion’s grade, each entity can only consume one dose."

What Vine Green spoke of regarding these side effects, if heard by other living beings in the Starry Sea, would be absolutely unacceptable. Yet, Song Chi was entirely different when hearing the Asura Emperor’s repeated account.

No hint of an unpleasant expression surfaced on his face, but rather an intense interest.

The quest for life-extending magic potions was not for the Torch Ship Captains under the Dragon Spine Song Family, but for the researchers of the family.

In the current environment of the Song Family, as long as one can awaken the Seed of Torch and strives hard enough, there is essentially no lack of further advancement opportunities, and as long as one advances to Second Rank, their lifespan can reach three hundred years, with no major need to specially procure life-extending resources for them.

Those who are capable will certainly not stop at Second Rank, only advancing vigorously. As for those stopping at Second Rank without an inch of progress, the family needs Sixth Rank or even Seventh Rank such combat power to hold down the family. There’s hardly any need for training those who stop at Second Rank.

Song Chi’s pursuit of life-extending resources was always intended for those researchers in the family who have not awakened. Though they haven’t awakened, the research they’re responsible for is crucial.

For example, the complete set of production materials for Truth Mechanical Giant Beast that Song Chi acquired earlier, as well as the yet-to-be-completed Truth Mechanical Battle Star, require those family researchers in the research institute to have sufficient lifespan.

Imagine researching halfway, you’re on the verge of overcoming an essential difficulty, yet the main person in charge suddenly disappears; all efforts are mostly wasted, and such a feeling is overwhelmingly frustrating.

It’s not a mere example; over the past few hundred years, several research institutes under the Song Family have experienced such incidents, greatly affecting the efficiency of numerous family researches.

The main project lead can be temporarily changed, and all previous progress can be accurately recorded. However, for new leaders or researchers joining the group, understanding the project’s pace, including related principles, previous erroneous data, etc., requires time.

For this reason, the progress of various research projects has unavoidably been significantly impacted.

Individually, the impact on one project might be unseen, but when piled onto a large construction project spanning many projects like the Seventh Rank Truth Mechanical Giant Beast and Truth Mechanical Battle Star, the slowing progress becomes particularly evident.

Faced with such a situation, there’s only one solution, which is to extend the lifespan of the research family members.

Seeing the Asura Emperor was completely indifferent toward the side effects of the Crimson Moon Potion, Vine Green was surprised, but soon excitement replaced that mood.

This Crimson Moon Potion was a newly developed magic potion by the Pure White Tower Wizard Alliance not long ago, for which the alliance invested heavily. However, the final product’s limitation of "only Zero Rank living beings can use" directly halved this potion’s value.

If this transaction can really succeed, not saying that they’ll profit much in the short term, but at least they can gradually recoup the research investment. Over time, profiting through it isn’t impossible.

Of course, the Crimson Moon Potion’s side effect is there, making it impossible to earn excessively through it, but it’s still good to slowly recoup the costs, allowing the research department under the Pure White Tower Wizard Alliance to continue attempting to develop other magic potions using this fund’s return.

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Dragon Red River System, Dragon Spine Continent.

Research department under the Song Family’s Internal Affairs Hall.

Research Laboratory One.

"Have you heard? The family obtained a brand-new life-extending potion through special channels."

"It’s said that this potion can extend the life of us ordinary people by decades, even hundreds of years."

"Hiss, really?"

"Absolutely true. My uncle is the deputy director of the second laboratory. He said the highest-level life-extending potion can prolong life for five hundred years!"

"I need to hurry and exchange some. I’ve accumulated quite a bit of family merit over the years."