Global Era of Star trekking

Chapter 797: Chapter 419: The Ruins Market Reopens – Sixth Rank [Moon Spring]

Chapter 797: Chapter 419: The Ruins Market Reopens – Sixth Rank [Moon Spring]

Family Merit Hall, 71st floor.

With Song Chi’s current wealth, reaching above the 70th floor was naturally quite effortless, but to his disappointment, he never came across “Black Hole Dense Stone,” this type of special resource.

Too lazy to continue checking floor by floor, he directly inquired with the clan member responsible for the exchanges on this floor.

The status of someone working above the 70th floor in the Merit Hall could not possibly be low; they generally knew about all sorts of special resources.

Song Chi had not been holding much hope, but the other party’s response gave him quite a pleasant surprise.

“Black Hole Dense Stone, I remember we do have some, although this material is one of the top rank materials for enhancing the structural strength of ordinary starships. Just a trace added to a regular starship can greatly increase its durability, so this material is mostly controlled by the family’s starship manufacturing department!”

This answer surprised Song Chi somewhat, but still, he quickly expressed his gratitude and immediately summoned his warship to rush to the Interstellar Manufacturing Base.

…

The First Starship Manufacturing Base on Dragon Spine, located on the west side of Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain, was not far away.

As another important department under the jurisdiction of the Internal Affairs Hall, the First Starship Manufacturing Base on Dragon Spine not only handled the manufacture of the family’s transport class starships but also included Scout Class Shuttles.

Because every year, the members of the family who awakened required binding to standardized shuttles from here.

Just as Song Chi arrived above the base, this year’s newly awakened family members were orderly carrying out the binding of their own flagships. Looking down from the Vault of Heaven at those neatly lined up formations, seeing the uniform excitement and anticipation on every young man and woman’s face, Song Chi seemed to see himself from over seventy years ago.

Before he realized it, he had awakened the Seed of Torch for over seventy years, and now had become the captain of a Zhulu Warship, also a genuine high-ranking official in the family.

Reflecting, Song Chi controlled his warship as it descended, landing in the Interstellar Manufacturing Base under the curious gazes of tens of thousands of successfully awakened clan members, Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong descended.

“Seventh Prince!”

Because they had already been informed in advance, the head of the starship manufacturing department approached proactively with quite a few people to greet him.

Song Chi nodded, chatting with the other party while glancing at the clan members queuing to bind their shuttles in the distance, he asked:

“Are there any members with excellent talent this year?”

Hearing this, the stout and burly department head replied with a smile:

“Your Highness, indeed, there are a few promising talents!”

“One with an Orange Fire Seed, three with Purple Fire Seeds.”

“Oh?”

Song Chi hummed softly in response, and then asked:

“Are there any from the collateral families among these four?”

“Two of those with Purple Fire Seeds are from the collateral branches.”

Song Chi pondered for a moment before saying:

“I won’t overstep my bounds with people from other veins, lest it be said that I’m poaching on behalf of the Tenth Direct Vein. Bring the little fellow from the collateral branch over.”

“Yes!”

In a side hall of the starship base, two somewhat nervous young men and women were brought in successively.

Upon seeing Song Chi sitting at the upper end of the side hall, the two newly awakened family members bowed respectfully.

“Song An (Song Qian), we’ve met Your Highness!”

The base staff member who had led them here had already informed them of Song Chi’s identity and emphatically warned them not to anger His Highness Song Chi, so at the moment the two were somewhat restrained.

“Don’t be nervous, calling you here is just to inquire about some everyday matters.”

After speaking, he began to ask the two about these everyday affairs.

Eventually, he learned that Song An and Song Qian’s parents were both Torch Ship Captains of Second Rank from the collateral lines, starting off rather high.

In addition, he found out that Song An’s father was actually a well-known fierce member of the collateral lines; Song An was seemingly restrained, but in his words and between the lines, his aggressive nature was something he could hardly conceal.

In response, Song Chi was not put off; instead, he was quite optimistic.

Aggressiveness, strictly speaking, in the Era of the Starry Seas, this nature was the most commended and was among the types of captains most likely to rise swiftly.

After a series of everyday inquiries, he took out several orbs of light from the Ancestral Torch.

Among them were four Purple Components, six Blue Components, and a significant quantity of Low Rank Floating Land Origin, which he divided equally between the two.

Seeing the obvious surprise in their eyes, yet the reluctance to reach out, Song Chi said softly:

“Take them, consider them an investment from me, in the hope that you both will ride the wind and break the waves, and one day become pillars of the Song Family!”

“Song An (Song Qian), we thank Your Highness, we will give it our all to not let you down, to not let the family down.”

…

“Seventh Prince, I thank Your Highness on behalf of the young ones from our family.”

The department head of the Starship Manufacturing Department, who had witnessed the scene first-hand, expressed his heartfelt thanks to Song Chi after the two left.

Once upon a time, he too was such a youth full of hope, but since he had only average talent and other than the initial funds provided by the family, he received no other early investments. Nevertheless, relying on the initial funds from the family, he too became a Cruiser Captain.

Because of this, he knew very well the importance of initial investments for a newly awakened captain, and over the years, he also occasionally invested in new generations of the family.

For these veteran captains, these investments might not amount to much, but for the new generation of the family, it could be the key to a meteoric rise.

Song Chi shook his head.

“It’s merely within my power!”