Chapter 201: Harvest and Camp Missions
After leaving Viola, Benjamin went straight back to his laboratory.
Click.
As the door was locked, the protective array in the laboratory was activated simultaneously, and the whole world became quiet in an instant.
With a thought, Benjamin solemnly took out the two space expansion bags that he had stuffed so full in the Frost Dark Realm that they had almost reached their capacity limit, and placed them in the center of the empty laboratory.
Crash!!
With the guidance of his mental power, the opening of the space expansion bag tilted, as if opening a floodgate.
The next moment, countless items emitting a chilling cold air poured out of the bag like a landslide or tsunami!
The first thing to emerge was the Yeti's core.
Tens of thousands of ice crystal cores, each emitting pure ice elemental energy.
They piled together, reflecting a brilliant and cold light under the bright lights of the laboratory, like a hill of diamonds, causing the temperature of the entire laboratory to drop suddenly by several degrees.
Next, there are various rare materials plundered from the Frost Dark Realm.
There is the "Essence of Ice" that is like solidified moonlight, the "Heart of the Frozen Earth" that exudes the power of the earth veins, and some unknown ice-attribute metals and minerals dismantled from the buildings in the Yeti city.
These materials were piled up like a mountain, covering almost half of the laboratory floor.
Finally, there are those scattered energy crystals and some miscellaneous items.
Benjamin stood in front of this "iceberg" of wealth, with a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.
He did not count each item manually, but activated the "Eye of Investigation" and connected to his magic network terminal at the same time, turning on the "Asset Evaluation" function of the military merit exchange system.
An invisible light curtain was projected from the terminal, slowly sweeping across the piles of materials on the ground.
Lines of data are rapidly refreshed, jumped, classified and evaluated on the light screen.
['Level 1 Snow Monster Core' detected, quantity: 98,452 pieces, expected to be redeemable for military merit...]
['Level 2 Snow Monster Core' detected, quantity: 7, expected to be redeemable for military merit...]
['Ice Essence' detected, weight: approximately 6.7 tons, quality: excellent, expected to be exchanged for military merit...]
[Detected…]
The data stream rolled down like a waterfall, and finally, at the top of the light curtain, it converged into a number that satisfied Benjamin.
"Total assessed value: 534,700 military merits."
This is just the value of those materials and energy crystals that can be quantified!
Then, Benjamin called up his combat record in this operation - the glorious record of killing an entire snow monster city.
Although most of them are only level one snow monsters, their terrifying number is enough to make up for the lack of quality.
After the system's automatic judgment and merit calculation, a huge sum of money was directly transferred into his account.
"Mission Merit: 138,900 Military Merits."
If he could sell these materials, the total gains from this trip would exceed 670,000 military merits!
This does not include the real "big heads" that cannot be simply measured by military merit.
For example, the "corpse of the fourth-level lava giant" lying quietly in the deepest part of his space expansion bag, still emitting terrifying pressure, and the massive "evil energy" collected in the two gourds, whose quality has reached the black level!
"Huh..." Benjamin let out a long sigh.
This trip to the Frost Dark Realm was just as he expected... no, it could even be said to be beyond his imagination!
Relying on the information gap, the rewards are so generous that they are unimaginable for ordinary wizards.
This harvest directly pulled him back from the previous "poverty line", allowing him to have the capital to squander again.
In the wizarding world, assets are an important criterion for measuring a wizard's background.
After all, a weak wizard is not necessarily poor, but a powerful wizard must be very rich.
The total assets of an ordinary wizard apprentice usually range from dozens to thousands of points.
A qualified first-level official wizard has total assets of tens of thousands of points, which is considered to be a considerable fortune.
The asset scale of a second-level wizard is usually at the level of hundreds of thousands of points, and a third-level wizard generally has huge assets of millions of points.
The value difference between military merit points and the "school points" commonly used in the Noren Workshop is about one to ten.
In other words, the value of the things that Benjamin could directly sell and exchange for military merit this time was equivalent to 6.7 million school points!
This is almost equivalent to the entire wealth accumulated by a well-known third-level wizard throughout his life!
However, after the initial excitement, Benjamin looked at the mountain of spoils in front of him, and compared the "fine gold" and "Red Dust Potion" on which he had once made his fortune, but he could not help but let out a sigh with complex meaning.
"Sure enough, for wizards, even war is only an occasional windfall. The most profitable and stable thing is always the monopoly profit generated by the knowledge in their brains."
He knew in his heart that this harvest, though seemingly horrific, was essentially a one-time event.
It is impossible for him to always encounter such a "good thing" as the collective withdrawal of high-level combat forces, allowing him to have whatever he wants.
This kind of opportunity can only be encountered by chance.
But the monetization of knowledge is completely different.
Just like the "fine gold" refining technology he demonstrated when he was an apprentice.
Because its attributes are too biased, its comprehensive evaluation in the wizard material rating can only be classified as "level five material".
But this means that while still an apprentice, Benjamin has already mastered an exclusive technology that is comparable to the core products of a fifth-level wizard!
Even if it is just "raw materials", its technical barriers and value are far beyond the imagination of low-level wizards.
Therefore, the speed at which Benjamin made money during his apprenticeship was actually close to the efficiency of a fifth-level wizard monetizing his core knowledge!
This was the fundamental reason why he was able to accumulate such terrifying wealth as an apprentice that made countless formal wizards ashamed.
"One-time plunder will never be as good as a sustainable monopoly."
This exaggerated harvest made Benjamin more determined to focus on studying knowledge.
The more than 600,000 military merits collected this time may seem huge, but it is just a drop in the bucket for his future practice and research.
This little bit of military merit might be almost consumed by a large-scale experiment.
The real wealth is still those things that cannot be valued.
"Unfortunately, the huge benefits gained at once prevent many wizards from seeing this clearly... I'll talk to Amy and Victor next time I see them. I hope they don't become combat wizards."
After figuring this out, Benjamin's mentality completely calmed down.
He started to sort all the materials on the ground into categories.
Those that were useful to him were stored separately, while those that were of no use to him and only suitable for exchanging for military merits were packed together and prepared to be disposed of at one time.
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The news spread quickly.
Not long after Jemin returned, all the wizards in the camp confirmed that Master Augustine, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, would personally "drive" the ship plane back to the intersection point to mobilize troops.
This means that for a long time to come, the camp will lose its top combat force, and communications with the top leaders of the main plane will be greatly affected.
In order to prevent any problems from arising during this period, the entire camp began a new round of construction and reinforcement.
Temporary fortifications were transformed into permanent structures, energy hubs were reinforced to guard against potential surprise attacks, and more advanced protective array nodes were constructed and activated...
Everything was being done in an orderly manner to prevent any unexpected problems from arising during Augustine's absence.
Against this backdrop, Benjamin was not in a hurry to risk going deep into enemy territory again.
He had a large sum of military merits, enough to support his experimental expenses in the next few years, so he was not in a hurry now.
He took the initiative to apply to the camp headquarters and accepted the task of building a protective magic circle node inside the camp.
This task was of moderate intensity, allowing him to gain stable merit while also allowing him to use the free time during the construction period to continue his research in his own laboratory.
Of course, in addition to no longer being short of military merits, there was another more important reason that made Benjamin temporarily change his strategy - he was pleasantly surprised to find that he seemed to no longer need to go out specifically to look for the "spirit of the mortal world"!
After all, in addition to the news about Augustine's deployment of troops in the camp, the wizards have also known about the recent changes in the Flame Frost Plane - the strange scene of the simultaneous evacuation of high-level combat forces of the two indigenous races, and it has spread quickly within the camp.
The combination of these two pieces of information was like a bombshell dropped on the seemingly peaceful wizard camp, triggering countless speculations, anxieties, and concerns about the future of the war.
All I can say is that even rational wizards inevitably like to talk about current affairs.
What's more, the current situation is closely related to their safety, so the attention is naturally higher, and what follows is an increase in the output of red dust energy.
Although it is still far from comparable to a normal society of living creatures, its efficiency has reached a considerable level.
"Is this anxiety? Is it fear? Or is it the mental exhaustion caused by speculating about the unknown?" In the laboratory, Benjamin silently analyzed the source of these "worldly auras".
However, the changes in the production of Red Dust Qi also made him realize that in such an environment, beneath the seemingly calm appearance of the wizards, their hearts are like volcanoes that may erupt at any time.
Based on this collection efficiency, coupled with the upcoming 30,000 reinforcements...
Benjamin secretly calculated in his mind that with the time he had served in the Flame Frost Plane, it was really possible for him to collect a sufficient amount of Red Dust Qi.
Therefore, the best strategy now is to consolidate ourselves in the camp and wait for the situation to change.
(End of this chapter)
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