Chapter 691: Chapter 691

691: Chapter 677: Loss 691: Chapter 677: Loss Vortex Ore, or the “Devouring Sky Beast” bone fragments, are the local specialty that the Aus company treasures.

This ore isn’t even the bone itself but rather a “crystal” with some bone material permeating it.

Initially, someone discovered these bones and tried to mine them…

The materials from this level of monster were undoubtedly valuable.

But from the results, the mining was quite a failure.

Lu Ping’an used all his strength with a silver weapon and couldn’t even leave a scratch.

Just imagining that, he could guess how helpless the original miners must have felt.

But a big company is still a big company.

They spent money to hire a Rule-level master.

That guy went all out and successfully…

knocked off a tiny, fingernail-sized thin piece.

“…Damn, this thing is too exaggerated.”

Lu Ping’an looked at the small piece in the picture, not knowing whether to be amazed by the strength of the Rule-level Battle-profession, or by the outrageous hardness of this thing.

From the information, if the mythical giant creatures running around the world today are ancient beasts, this is probably an ancient Divine Beast…

the ancestor of ancient giant creatures.

The report also mentioned that this thing might not have been killed, as local explorers had not found its natural enemy.

It might have simply not adapted to the environment or died of old age.

“I wonder if those surface creatures can breach its defenses.”

Lu Ping’an thought while touching the bone.

With this kind of hardness, there’s no mining value.

Even if they recruited Rule-level “miners,” they probably couldn’t afford their overtime pay.

Moreover, no one could be sure that the bone itself had enough value.

But it was these small fragments that eventually made “mining” possible.

Anyway, those fragments were bones.

Since they were bones, they naturally had bone cells.

Since they had cells, they could be cultured and cloned…

Of course, this logic is quite nonsensical, and dead cells aren’t supposed to be revived, but professionals are inherently unreasonable and unscientific.

Under the financial support of the large company, they invited a Rule-level Healer team…

For this level’s Healer masters, there isn’t much they can’t do related to life.

Healers as the main force and Beast Tamers as the secondary, the team spent two years here, and what they finally produced were those bizarre creatures in front of them.

They were derived from the degenerated bone cells of that giant beast.

When given enough nutrition, they would reproduce on their own while subconsciously absorbing the “cells” from the source…

In the end, using this method, some bone fragments were extracted to become the valuable Vortex Ore.

This principle, in some sense, is similar to adding water to alcohol again and again, both of which result from repeated dilutions.

“This bone has been mined for at least seven years without any noticeable change.

The color in the areas where nutrients are repeatedly taken has only faded a bit…

At this rate, it could probably be mined for several hundred years.”

The giant beast fell, its flesh never rotting, and eventually petrified into stone…

The coal and petroleum on Earth are similarly created from the corpses of organisms, a process common in many worlds.

What’s abnormal is that all these years, the bone hasn’t changed.

Containing the marvelous power in just those fragments is incredible.

In front of them lies an infinite treasure and an immovable fortune.

No wonder the mining vehicles are so free and unrestrained…

As long as they clear out outsiders, everything they can’t take away still belongs to the Hod Company.

There were continuous sounds from the other side, with people still trying to see if they could knock off a piece.

Lu Ping’an had no such ideas as he truly knew how outrageous the strength of Rule-level was…

“If it were Hannah, she might be able to knock off a piece?

Well, the probability is small.

The gap within Rule-level is vast, and there is no comparability between someone on the edge of Rule-level and a ninth-order tough guy.”

Lu Ping’an tried the Life Illustration, and this thing could indeed recognize those “materials.”

However, when it came to the processing part, the feedback was “it can’t be pulled”…

If it were a smaller piece, perhaps there might have been a little bit of a way.

Lu Ping’an asked the manager about any previous inventory that had been stockpiled, but in this area, it was largely unknown.

Occasionally, a few masters came over to take a look, not believing it could be true, but the ones that left traces were very rare.

As for those bone residues…

Vortex Ore, after being separated from those mining slimes (as they were called internally in the Hod company), they quickly lost their traits of vitality and became genuine inorganic substances.

They should be suitable for making equipment and gear, but it seemed that they had lost the ability to become a part of a living creature.

In Lu Ping’an’s perception, these were just pure “stones.”

“A mythical giant beast could be devoured for several hundred years; this exotic trade is fascinating.”

In this way, the previously scattered mining areas in this region could be explained as possibly being those discovered fragments of bones.

“Would other areas have smaller pieces…

Never mind, don’t think about it, even if there are, they might have been taken away by Hod company already.”

Such huge profits can make capitalists utterly unscrupulous, and Hod company is undoubtedly a super-capitalist company.

They have already seen enormous profits in this world, so they show no mercy to outsiders, treating this world as their possession.

But from another perspective, this kind of profit-oriented approach can also be a good thing…

“So, the group’s first-tier mercenary corps is not in this world?”

“Yes, many famous masters left four or five years ago, leaving only second and third-tier corps behind.”

Hod company, once a multinational enterprise, has now probably become a multi-world company.

Their business scope is extensive, and their “territory” is quite vast.

However, in any case, the limited number of high-end combat power and elite corps cannot be replenished.

In this “already conquered” “peaceful world,” these high-end forces naturally have not stayed behind.

What would they have to stay for?

To bare their teeth at the local monsters?

They have already found a “Vortex Ore” business point and are now focused on doing it.

“In other words, Hod company doesn’t value this place?”

Lu Ping’an wondered, if it were a “gold mine,” top executives would probably stay here permanently.

From the manager, Lu Ping’an got some good news that there should be no Rule-level existence among the Aus people in this world.

“Actually, we’ve been running at a loss every year, huge losses…

We’ve only been getting the materials for five or six years, and when they’re brought back to our home country, their effects diminish significantly.

It’s hard to use them, and we need time to develop valuable products.”

New materials are constantly being born, but turning them into “products” and “goods” requires both time and luck.

There are gains, the specially-made weapons and equipment are valuable, but compared to the enormous investments, they can’t even be considered a small portion of it.

The local branch is probably going through a desperate period, trying to prove its “potential.”

However, development is not something that can be achieved overnight, especially when the “product” from this place might become scrap metal once it arrives in the Foreign Domain.

Just transporting the finished products back and forth to verify their sustained effects alone requires a large amount of transportation costs and time…

Many higher-ups in the company’s headquarters have already lost their patience.

This reality made Wang Xier and the others breathe a sigh of relief.

At this stage, the local Hod branch is at its most vulnerable and sensitive time…

Everyone knows that this world has potential, but with a huge investment every day and every month, it has been around a decade from start to finish.

If nothing comes of it from the 80’s to the 90’s, the decision-makers will “cut their losses” in time.

Otherwise, they cannot justify it to their major shareholders.

“In that case, it also means that reinforcements may come slower, or may not come at all.”

“And if we take it down…

maybe for Hod company’s headquarters, it would be just like losing a burden, and they may not necessarily launch a second expedition.”

“No, we must not harbor a fluke mentality…

We have to report it, their illegal Exotic Realm exploration, and their initiative to attack their own kind, letting the Eastern Country officials deal with them.”

Everyone knows that such things have no restraining power over multinational corporations, but it is always worth causing some trouble for them, making it impossible for them to directly interfere.