Chapter 230: The Ten Arbiters’ War King (2/2)
“Actually, I don’t really know how to deal with you either. Having five-lined battle force at your cultivation really is amazing,” the middle-aged man said while eyeing at Lu Yin.
Lu Yin shrugged. “Tell me more about the warfront. What do I need to take note of?”
“There’s nothing much you need to do, mostly because no matter what you do, the beasts will still appear all the same. Just fight as hard as you can and do your best to stay alive,” the middle-aged man answered nonchalantly. His words sounded relaxed, but Lu Yin could hear the bitterness and misery implicit in his tone.
There were many ways to wage war, but against the astral beasts, the humans didn’t have many options. There were just too many of the beasts, and they also had numerous species with strange innate gifts. No matter how powerful their technology became, the beasts could never be fully stopped. The only way to hold them back was by paying the price with human lives. This was also the cruelest method. The command center for the warfront wasn’t safe either, because there were many beasts that could tear through the void or even crush planets.
“Tell me about Planet Conan, sir,” Lu Yin suddenly asked. After all, his destination was Planet Conan.
The middle-aged man nodded before explaining, “Planet Conan is one of the thirty seven protector planets to the right of the Erudite Flowzone. It was originally a very ordinary planet, but all of the native humans were forcefully transported away to fight in the Human Domain’s border war, so all of them have since left. All that remains behind are the local creatures that have no intelligence, so that planet is basically destroyed. The zone’s most powerful guardian there is Mentor Qu Ao from the Erudite Flowzone’s Yihuang Academy. He’s the director of that academy and is also a Hunter. Planet Conan’s guardian is Nappa, who’s a very valiant Explorer…”
With the pilot’s explanation, Lu Yin developed a basic understanding of Planet Conan as well as the general situation surrounding the Erudite Flowzone’s frontier. Planet Conan was one of the thirty seven planets on the right side of the frontier, and there were another thirty seven on the left and a hundred or so in the middle. These planets were linked together into a huge net that acted as the Human Domain’s main line of defense against the Beast Region, and each planet had an Explorer guardian protecting them. Additionally, each zone in this defensive net had a Cruiser, or sometimes, even a Hunter protecting them.
These powerhouses had either joined of their own will or been forcefully drafted. Of course, there were also prisoners on death row and other similar captives. The troops on each planet were also split into two groups: rangers and ordinary soldiers. There was also the cannon fodder, who were even lower ranked than rangers, and they mostly came from planets that were undergoing their evolutionary trial.
If Earth had not been protected by Lu Yin with his status as King Zishan, then Earth’s cultivators would have suffered the fate of being conscripted into a battlefield as cannon fodder. It would have been either a battle between the Great Yu Empire and other organizations or the even crueler Human Domain’s warfront.
Multiple days passed. Then, one day, the pilot told Lu Yin, “In front of us is the intersection between the Tempest Flowzone and the Erudite Flowzone. After we pass through this flowzone, the warship will stop at a space station for maintenance before entering the Erudite Flowzone. We’ll be at the warfront in no more than a day and a half.”
Lu Yin suddenly had a thought occur to him. “Is there a Mavis Bank at the space station, sir?”
He shook his head in response. “Not at the space station, no, but there is one on a planet that’s not too far away from it. Places like this flowzone intersection usually have Mavis Banks. What’s up? Do you need to withdraw some money?”
Lu Yin nodded. “I used up all of my star crystals when I became a peak Melder, so I wanted to withdraw some.”
The pilot said, “I’ll have someone take you there.”
“Thank you so much, sir,” Lu Yin said gratefully.
Not long after that conversation, Lu Yin boarded a small spacecraft and left the space station. He was headed towards a planet nearby while guided by a Limiteer.
The Mavis Bank was always overt about flaunting their wealth. They casually hung universal currency bills in front of their banks that anyone could pick up, treating it like waste paper. However, in Lu Yin’s eyes, that was exactly what the bills were.
After entering the bank, Lu Yin initially wanted to withdraw all of the star crystals available to him, but then, he suddenly remembered that he might not have enough space in his cosmic ring for it all. The largest one that he had on him was the one with 500,000 star crystals in it, which was his reward for doing well in the tournament. That ring only had enough space for those 500,000 star crystals while Lu Yin still had a total of 711,000 star crystals that he could withdraw. It seemed that he would need to keep his crystals in more than one cosmic ring.
At this moment, a girl with an elegant appearance walked over to Lu Yin, offered him a drink, and greeted, “Hello, Mr. Lu.”
Lu Yin was confused. “You know me?”
“You’ve become a celebrity throughout the entire universe! We all saw the Astral Combat Tournament. It was very exciting!” She then smiled. She gave off a very refined aura, and she had a pleasant fragrance about her. One could not help but view her favorably.
“And you are?” Lu Yin enquired.
The girl reached out a hand and said, “My name’s Mandy, and I’m the manager of this branch.”
Lu Yin extended his hand and shook hers. “I’m Lu Yin. Is there anything that you need from me, Manager Mandy?”
Mandy produced a purple crystal card and handed it to him. “This is for an account that our Mavis Bank has opened for you. Please accept it.”
“It’s purple?” Lu Yin was surprised. He’d never seen a purple bank card before.
“The purple represents a star essence account. We don’t give them out in the Outerverse and only do so in the Innerverse,” she explained.
Lu Yin now understood. Star essence was formed when star crystals were compressed to a certain degree. After being compressed, the resulting star energy would be purified before condensing into star essence. In terms of purity and quality, they were far superior to star crystals. The two could even be said to be incomparable. It was like comparing a common metal to gold, and the exchange rate between them was astounding.