Chapter 584: Chapter 584

584: Chapter 564: Mining Area 584: Chapter 564: Mining Area Some things often only exist in fairy tales.

The beautiful expectations for the Exotic Realm and the large Secret Realm, vanished in just a day and a half.

Those open spatial rifts were like infinite black holes, sucking away everything.

Famous mercenary adventure groups?

No matter which one you are, there’s always a suitable battlefield for you here.

“The problem is, that feeling of powerlessness when facing the world alone…there is basically no solution, as there is a limit to personal strength.”

A large Secret Realm is like an eternally empty water-absorbing sponge, constantly drawing all human and financial resources around it.

Lu Ping’an began to understand why the outer roads and fortresses were so rudimentary, and all kinds of weapons and equipment were full of utilitarian aesthetic…any extra decoration was useless, and throwing in endless human resources still couldn’t build up a bubble, so why make it look so beautiful outside?

“A large-scale battlefield is the main battlefield between armies and foreign countries.

They don’t come out, we don’t go in, and we maintain a dynamic balance.”

“In a sense, our current Sixth Hole is just one of their logistics bases, and the constant emergence of new recruits will cause us trouble, so we need to get rid of them in advance.”

Under the guidance of the old stager, Lu Ping’an began his life as a professional Secret Keeper.

“Of course, you can also see us as another kind of miner…”

In fact, this is the main job that a normal Secret Keeper should do, after all, the number of Special Service Team members is always extremely limited.

Although eating the government’s food is relatively stable, the growth rate slows down a lot without the front-line resource supply, and for professionals, the growth rate is life.

Along the way, Lu Ping’an had already seen several Decree-level strongmen.

This was their true home.

Most of them were simply wild professionals who hadn’t even been exposed to formal training institutions, let alone Ancient City University.

Their life was about killing, hunting, and growing; simple and brutal, but also making people helpless and even desperate.

“Prioritize protecting yourself, the Magic Monsters are endless…”

The beast swarm on the ground had been showing off their prowess just a few minutes earlier, but in the hands of this elite harvesting team, they only survived for two minutes.

Lu Ping’an’s performance could only be considered mediocre, and he hadn’t even had the chance to fully deploy his battlefield before this one ended.

After introducing his identity (Special Service Team member and Ancient City University student), Lu Ping’an easily gained the temporary approval of the team, even Captain Cao took the initiative to introduce Lu Ping’an to some information.

This team was not strong…

by Lu Ping’an’s standards, a team of three 2-tier Battle-professions and two logistics could hardly be called strong.

Lu Ping’an estimated that if he went all-out, it would only take a minute.

However, they were well-suited for this battlefield.

When encountering Magic Monsters, the defensive-warrior types take the lead, scouts observe the situation, and the support behind does their job.

Without a powerful Elemental system output-personnel, which is too extravagant for this small team to afford…with their current configuration, they could still harvest Magic Monsters steadily and efficiently, turning them into materials.

“Materials with petrification properties don’t actually sell well in the market.

But medicines with petrification properties are a different story.”

At this point, Lu Ping’an was even a bit envious of the normal Magic Alchemist Path.

The multi-tiered underground Palace produced a variety of petrification-type creatures, from stone dwarfs to Stone Giants, and thus mass-produced petrification-type weapons and tools.

However, petrification weapons are not popular in the market, because they often fail to overcome the “opponent’s” resistance, resulting in ineffective attacks.

And if the opponent is a weakling who can be killed instantly by petrification rays?

Then there’s no need to use valuable petrification weapons.

“Constant Motion professionals can use petrification potions for practice?

Petrification potions, on the other hand, sell pretty well.

Short-term petrification skin-boosting potions are very useful, and Runner and Awakener-based professionals can reportedly use them regularly in their training.

It is said that the Awakener series of martial monks specializes in training various petrification abilities, and when their Cultivation reaches the extreme, they are called human-shaped diamonds, which are the epitome of strength and solidity.

“Don’t underestimate these petrification potions.

Their defense against bullets is surprisingly good.

Even if injured in a petrified state, it’s basically just a flesh wound.

Moreover, petrification has a certain self-repair ability.

Just clean the bullets away before Antipetrification, and you can basically ignore ordinary gunshot wounds.

It’s the best way to deal with low-caliber automatic weapons for low-level professionals.”

Many low-level professionals carry a bottle of quick-acting stone skin potion, which can work wonders when needed to take a bullet.

Sometimes, you only realize many “life hacks” for low-level professionals after encountering them personally.

In some sense, this is a Resource Point of the Ancient City, but the resources produced can only be found in the market by Lu Ping’an.

Lu Ping’an’s security company and the more than thirty Sealing Knights were allowed to act on their own.

However, not in Pit No.6….Lu Ping’an noticed that the guard here is still dominated by humans.

Pit No.8 is said to have mostly foreigners, more suitable for the knights under Lu Ping’an.

As warriors, they need battlefields and more income…..

The guaranteed income Lu Ping’an provides is not low, but they also need united credit-coins to arm themselves.

It’s worth mentioning that the “credit coin” mechanism that Lu Ping’an thought was a pit is actually quite popular in this environment.

“When I first came here, I saw people exchanging currencies privately.

I thought you didn’t new currency.”

“Heh, how could that be?

Our biggest problem before was that with money, we couldn’t buy good things.”

For middle and lower class Secret Keepers like Captain Cao, the level of spoils of war they can obtain is limited.

They can easily make money, but getting further resources?

The market might not be able to provide them.

Join the major churches?

Putting aside the side effects it may bring, those churches must want them first.

Who wants to invest resources in cultivating a middle-aged man with no potential to be discovered?

But inexplicably, these seemingly unpromising, “ordinary Secret Keepers” make up 99% of the professionals.

By the standard of ordinary people, their income is considerable, but it’s difficult to access higher level resources and many aspects of church monopolies are unreasonable.

They lack further opportunities.

The sky-high prices of Taboo items in the market actually hurt them most.

But now it’s different.

With “credit-coins,” they can buy “knowledge,” more advanced “Taboo rituals,” and even practical Taboo items.

A few old 2-tier professionals have successfully broken through this month.

Lu Ping’an’s previous perspective was looking up, but now when he stops, he realizes that many things are completely different from what he imagined.

For the new credit-coins, low-level professionals, who were originally worried about their livelihoods, are actually the most welcome.

Most of them have accumulated enough Eastern Country’s coin throughout their long hunting careers, and the current difficulties are not a problem at all, let alone…

“In half a year at most, the exchange restrictions between credit-coins and Eastern Country’s coins will be significantly reduced.

But credit-coins probably won’t be as valuable as they are now.

We need to spend our money as much as possible and convert it all into development resources.”

Seeing Captain Cao’s confident face, Lu Ping’an felt that he was much more confident about the future than himself.