My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 474 - 438: Mysterious Merchant (Long - )_2

"The counterattack is getting weaker, we’ll soon be able to break through the light membrane."

"Exactly, despite some twists, we’re ultimately going to open this transmission station, no telling what treasures lie inside."

"The treasure isn’t important; the key is that transmission array, which can transport to another world. Although unusable, if we decrypt it, we’ll find the coordinates at the other end, a world...speaking of which, Origin Star was also immensely powerful, with its footsteps across many worlds, if only it hadn’t encountered the Great Sovereign."

"Heh heh, right, but the palace connected to another world had been discovered long ago; we can’t receive rewards from the Great Sovereign, but hopefully, this newly discovered world will prove valuable."

With the final blast, the light membrane completely dissipated.

The alien Transcendents promptly ceased their efforts, leaving five to guard the outside while the rest immediately entered.

They seemed to understand "the station" well, not worrying about any mechanisms or traps inside, the Transcendent wielding the huge hammer led two others straight to the "Central Transmission Zone."

"Record the patterns of the transmission array immediately, and send it back to our clan for analysis,"

commanded the leading Transcendent as they hastened along.

They flew into the "Central Transmission Zone," raised their hands, and prepared to use spells to record the transmission array,

only to find themselves gaping in surprise.

"...wait, where’s the transmission array?"

...

Castle.

Tang Yu received a space ring and backpack from Nightmare, and ordered the Nightmare Puppet to head to the workshop for repairs—during its lure of the Single-Horned Giant Beast, it was impacted by some aftershocks, causing some damage to the Nightmare Puppet’s equipment and body components.

He carefully inspected the spoils he had collected.

Tang Yu activated the "Insight Eye," glancing over, and succeeded in decoding most of the treasures.

"Equipment, a total of twenty-five pieces..." Though it seemed few, actually more than 99.9% of the equipment had failed, at most being relatively sharp weapons or particularly sturdy armor.

"These should all be above grade A... The energy has drained now; they’re not powerful enough, but a little repair should do the trick... Just twenty-five pieces of A-grade equipment is already quite a catch for this trip."

The specially made rune longsword in his hand was only A2 grade.

The materials used were extremely precious, worth at least two to three hundred thousand Source Crystals, and more often than not, rare materials couldn’t be bought with Source Crystals.

In Tang Yu’s classification of rune equipment, A-grade equipment was already top-tier, divine weapons in the hands of someone at Awakening Tier Perfection... What made them even more valuable was that A-grade equipment was considered Pseudo Transcendent Divine Weapons. After nourishing by a Transcendent and adding core materials, they could transform into true Transcendent Divine Weapons.

Kevin had already forged an A3-grade gauntlet for Yan Dingtian, while the gauntlet currently used by Yan, made mainly from the corpse of the Evil Dragon Clan, was merely ordinary Transcendent quality, nowhere comparable to the primary material of the "Calamity Greatsword," thus the forged gauntlet remained a semi-finished product.

Once Yan nourished these two gauntlets to a certain extent and fused them together, a true Transcendent Divine Weapon would be completed.

This method was quite cost-effective.

"It’s just that the set of equipment Eileen inherited, even Kevin couldn’t understand it. At the Awakening Tier, it matched the very top A-grade equipment, but once Eileen transformed into a Transcendent, that set of equipment, whether it was the magic wand, clothing, earrings, headband, or crystal shoes... each piece was worthy of being called a Transcendent weapon."

Aside from equipment, he also found some artifacts, the most valuable presumably being a necklace with hundreds of cubic meters of space.

Tang Yu regretted not having inspected it closer before, or he could’ve loaded it with much more—though he actually didn’t have time to examine thoroughly; he could only simply judge from the energy fluctuations whether an item was damaged.

There were also some puppets.

Each was of a smaller size; Nightmare had only brought back one of each type for sample study.

Two types caught his attention.

[Honey Bee Puppet]: A reconnaissance puppet, capable of recording, high-speed flight, and concealment.

[Flying Crane Puppet]: A flying passenger puppet, capable of high-speed flight and moderate defense.

Tang Yu packed away the puppets, planning to take them to the research institute and decipher their blueprints.

"What’s unfortunate is that several Rune Language Books found inside the station, similar to ’Source Power Basics,’ discussing cultivation or application, are quite valuable but not what I was hoping for—documents on the era before the Third Epoch."

"The correspondence and such, written in a universal language with paper material that couldn’t compare to that of the Rune Language Books, was basically damaged and illegible... Well, since Earth once had a splendid civilization, one day we’ll be able to excavate its history."

Tang Yu shook his head.

After counting all the gains, the night was deep, and he began a new day of cultivation.

...

Days passed in a blink of an eye.

During these days, his efficient cultivation speed was still maintained.

According to the schedule, it was estimated that in about ten days, he would be able to reach the bottleneck of Awakening Tier Perfection.

Development of the territory was also proceeding in an orderly manner.

More and more survivors were settling in Green Shadow; the Municipal Department, through negotiations with other large sanctuaries in Tiannan Province, had exchanged resources for some top talents, and Green Shadow’s cutting-edge research team started to form.

After the Architecture Series spell development was completed, the Spell Research Institute began to collaborate with agricultural experts and Wood Series ability users to develop planting spells.

These planting spells integrated irrigation, fertilization, seeding, enhancing vitality, and promoting beneficial mutations.

Once fully developed, the crop yield of the territory could leap forward by two levels, and many Energy Fruit trees, which were difficult to grow and had long growth cycles, could gradually be utilized.

The adventurer guild gradually replaced some large sanctuary’s mercenary centers and became the preferred platform for large and small forces to issue commissions.

Moreover, the number of registered adventurers had exceeded 500,000, more than the total population of typical large sanctuaries.

Tang Yu was very satisfied.

Most of the territory’s affairs didn’t require his intervention, and he spent his days leisurely, occasionally signing his name, the rest of the time he was attached to the Nightmare exploring the Mirage Mountain Range.

And indeed, he was lucky to have discovered another "station."

This time, without any alien race attacking, Tang Yu controlled the Nightmare, scavenging the station thoroughly, inside and out, to the extent that even hundreds of cubic meters of space in his Space Necklace couldn’t fit everything, making him control the Nightmare Puppet to run few round trips.

Meanwhile, Nightmare No. 2, under his command, flew westward.

...

Western part of Daxia Country.

A small nation.

Here, it almost became a paradise for demonized beasts, with humans only able to survive in small-scale settlements.

Without tall walls or enclosures, these settlements were very crude, unable to withstand even a moderately large demon tide.

Only under the ground, several tunnels were dug for the Awakeners to escape when the settlements fell... such kind of fleeing was not uncommon in this realm.

The Awakeners had also grown accustomed to this kind of life.

Ghost Fire Settlement.

Home to hundreds of survivors, more than half of which were Awakeners—without stability, common people mostly died on the escape routes, making the proportion of Awakeners exceptionally high in this realm.

Two Awakeners in tattered leather armor had just returned from exploring the county town, finding some spoiled food that was still edible. With the constitution of Awakeners, diarrhea was unlikely, marking their harvest as quite substantial.

As a cost, three teammates would forever rest in the county town, but the remaining two had grown accustomed, only their conversation bore some sigh.

"The demonized beasts out there are getting stronger. My Combat Saber, sharpened from refined gold stone, couldn’t even cut through the hide of that Fire Wolf today. It seems it won’t be long before I follow in Ruan Jinnan’s footsteps."

"I’m in the same boat, even a Sovereign ability user struggles against a demonized beast of the same level. If you ask me, humanity will be wiped out sooner or later—we might as well take the chance and enjoy ourselves while it lasts."

Upon returning to the settlement, they suddenly saw countless people running crazily; they stopped an Awakener to inquire.

"Don’t you know? A mysterious merchant has come to the settlement, I heard that as long as you have Source Crystals, you can buy anything from him... don’t ask anymore, if you’re too slow, it’s over for you!"

They hurriedly went there and from afar saw that countless Awakeners had surrounded the place tightly.

Forced to stand at a higher spot for a view, they saw at the very center, a person cloaked in a black robe.

His face was unclear, holding a scythe, sitting on a warhorse with hooves emitting a faint blue flame, a sphere hovering five inches above his shoulder appeared both eerie and mysterious.

"Is he... the mysterious merchant?"