Chapter 569 - Raising The Price (1/2)

Qin Feng pointed toward the crystal pillar and said, “That’s a kind of consciousness crystal. You need to attack it with consciousness to be effective. If ancient warriors or another kind of attack hits it, then the energy stored inside would fire back toward the attacker!”

Wen Hai was startled and quickly took a step back.

Hong Lie was not sure if this was true or not when he heard it, but they would soon find out after some experimenting!

“Haha, thank you President Qin. If that gets opened up then you’ll be rewarded for helping out!”

Whatever these rewards were, Hong Lie did not specify but it would not be like the previously agreed 40-60 percent split, at most it would probably be just a few billions or so.

Qin Feng did not seem to mind, he was just going to sit back and enjoy the show.

He could remember that these kinds of crystals were used to create reflective s.h.i.+elds and they were a G.o.dsend against ultra beasts that only used their physical strength. With these s.h.i.+elds, their wielders were invincible in those situations.

However, these crystals were rare and could be mined conventionally.

At this moment, Qin Feng impishly glanced at Hong Lie whose gaze swept through his men until he was pointing at a fire ability user, “You go ahead and try!”

Hong Lie had ten C-tiers under him. Six ancient warriors, two gunners and two ability users. The fire ability user was not the strongest one and Hong Lie was only using him as a test subject.

“Yes, Sir!” The fire ability user nodded and walked a couple of steps forward. He stared at the crystal as he mobilized his consciousness before attacking.

It was a simple consciousness based attack, but the people around him could feel a strong wind kick up in front of the ability user. It carried no runes but a terrifying force that rushed toward the crystal’s surface.

The translucent appearance of the crystal pillar made it look like it was extremely fragile. Consciousness attacks were best used against living creatures, but if one had a strong enough consciousness, they could blast away crystals, solid rocks even, with ease using the amount of pressure they could put out.

That was why the fire ability user was full of confidence!

Soon something strange began to happen to the crystal pillar. As the consciousness. .h.i.t the crystal, the cylindrical object began to glow. It was not the whole thing that was glowing, only a portion of its lower half was and the glow was slowly moving up and disappeared when it reached five centimeters!

The pillar was about one meter in diameter and five meters in height. What good was a mere 5 centimeters?

The ability user was completely stunned.

He reacted quickly and said, “Boss, there’s a reaction but the previous idea was wrong. The crystal needs to be trickle fed, I’ll try again!”

“Hmph!” Hong Lie nodded in response.

The ability user mobilized his consciousness again, but this time instead of kicking up a violent blast he slowly trickled his power into the crystal.

The crystal began to glow again!

Five centimeters, ten centimeters…

Twenty centimeters, fifty centimeters…

The ability user began to turn pale, his consciousness had reached its limits and he was starting to dry up!

There was no way to go on, the ability user could only give up.

“Sir…” Even if he was a C-tier in front of his superior, he could not help himself from revealing a perturbed expression.

“It’s fine! Don’t force yourself!” Hong Lie had a foul expression on his face but he did not push the blame on him. His subordinate had already done his best.

“Sir, I’ll go this time!” The other ability user spoke up. He did not wait for Hong Lie’s approval and unleashed his consciousness.

At this point, the light from the pillar had already dimmed. When the consciousness was released, the pillar began to light up again but this time from the bottom once more.

This was when the ability user’s confident expression began to change.