Chapter 400: Chapter 400

Now there are human armies advancing, and Du You’s mission is completed. After all, doing other things in this world would not yield any more rewards due to the special nature of the power-up mission.

As for slaughtering, Du You had reached the second tier, so to kill first-tier creatures would be too costly for little gain. Therefore, Du You didn’t bother competing with other soldiers for merit.

At the most, Du You would cast a spell when soldiers were in danger to offer aid, while also testing the increased power of his spells. As for the summoned creatures, Du You had already recalled them all.

Using these low-level creatures for experimentation would not yield accurate metrics of their true strength.

Other soldiers offered no opinions about Du You’s actions. At most, they simply admired him.

After testing, Du You found his Holy Light Arrow Array indeed had much less power. An increase in level leading to a decrease in skill power was something he had not expected and wondered if others had experienced it as well.

Thinking back, Xi Qianxue had given him this ability, allowing him to choose one from three skills. He had chosen the Holy Light Arrow Array, and since Xi Qianxue wasn’t aware of Du You’s dark attribute, she probably hadn’t offered it to him intentionally.

It was also possible that Xi Qianxue herself was not aware of the interplay between the attributes.

Du You thought to leave it be. With the last resistance in the beastman city gradually being cleared out, he knew the current round of this world’s evolution had reached its limit.

Just as Du You was about to leave, a sudden uproar at the front caught his attention.

"General Du You, come quickly, we’ve found something strange!"

Du You walked over to see an unfortunate soldier wrapped in black flames, already dead. There was a large cross, or rather a cross-shaped totem, up ahead.

"Look, General. That is the thing we found. When we approached it, it unleashed these flames and killed two men."

Two men? Du You only saw one on the ground but then noticed a pile of ashes. It made sense now.

Looking at the black crystal, Du You did not approach it, but cast a disintegration spell instead. It took three disintegration spells to finally shatter the totem, which surprised Du You with its resistance.

Once the totem was shattered, the black crystal began to absorb the black flames.

Black Flame Iron Essence: Material containing Soul Devouring Demon Flames. It can be used for enhancing or creating skills.

"Soul Devouring Demon Flames, a completely dark attribute flame with a soul-scalding property, is considered one of the most lethal ones among dark flames. And it perfectly aligns with my attribute."

Du You was thrilled. He hadn’t expected an additional reward right before his departure.

"Is this made from the essence of Black Flame Iron? I remember the ore vein. Did the beastmen end up with it? They even crafted this. I wonder what they intended to use it for?" The beastmen hadn’t used this against him before, so Du You was unsure of its function and could only make guesses.

But since it was now in his possession, it was his.

Du You picked it up and spent two thousand ordinary crystal coins to law formalize it and store it away.

After examining it, Du You found that creating a skill directly using the Black Flame Iron Essence would be too costly. Thus, he decided to wait until he found something more suitable back home.

By complementing a suitable skill, the loss could be greatly reduced.

Du You didn’t have many red crystal coins. It looked like it was time to go to a world with more second-tier creatures and earn some money.

However, after this trip, Lin Yucha and Lin Yushi should finally be old enough for law formalization. After his long warfare and progression, Du You could feel the significant increase of Law Qi in himself.

After his last search of the beastman city, Du You found nothing else useful. So, after completing his mission and to the astonishment of the soldiers around, he disappeared into spirit energy particles.

When Du You appeared again, he was in a small courtyard, which they had rented when they first arrived.

Xi Qianxue and the others were not with him, but there was a note left on the table.

"Did she leave because she couldn’t wait for me to come out?" Du You laughed and shook his head. He indeed spent a long time inside. One day inside equated to a minute in the outside world.

As he had spent over a month inside, it equated to over thirty minutes, maybe even forty, outside. It would indeed be boring to idle around here for that long.

Du You sent a message to Xi Qianxue informing her of his arrival. Then, since he had nothing to deal with, he left the courtyard, returned it, and got on a self-driving vehicle to leave.

"I’ll rest tomorrow and go to the market the next day to see if there are any good things. Right, I need to replace my watch. Hunter’s watches are different from awakener’s."

Thinking of this, Du You quickly directed the self-driving vehicle to change its course as he didn’t want to be out dealing with things the next day.

After arriving at the school to replace his watch, Du You only had to register the exchange and the watch was replaced. From the outside, it looked no different, but the material inside was.

It is said that only the inner material could connect to the second layer of the Magic Network. Similarly, this consumed a lot more. The first-tier watch only consumed one normal white crystal coin per month, whereas the current one required a red crystal coin every month. Future high-tier watches might consume even more. Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭·𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢·𝗇𝗲𝘵

The amount of energy contained in one red crystal coin equates to a hundred white crystal coins.

Of course, that isn’t the actual calculation since the energy from a red crystal coin is not only more, but also of a higher quality. It’s a pity that the business of exchange between the crystals is not that prosperous.

Having replaced his watch, Du You finally left the school and flew in the direction of his home.

"Strange, whose private aircraft is this? It seems fairly luxurious." Just as Du You arrived home and stepped out of the vehicle, he found an extra private aircraft quite close to his house.

Had he not known this was his house, Du You would’ve thought that this aircraft belonged to the house. He pushed open the door, walked in and said: "I’m back, prepare something for me to eat." As he finished his sentence, Du You was taken aback by the scene before his eyes.