An Unexpected Opponent

Thus, he went to the third pulpit that contained another set of familiar rewards and paused a bit before speaking into the empty air;

"Can I swap a higher tiered reward for lower tiered ones?"

Then after three breaths he heard a rumbling before a scale balance descended from the roof of the rewards room, then the mechanized voice spoke once again; "Permission granted…"

"You can only exchange rewards gifted by the 'Pagoda of Ascension'…" It added.

Then after about another ten breaths, the mechanized voice once again spoke;

"Place the higher tiered item you wish to convert on the left scale…"

Min Hong then picked up the 'Deep Forest Mamba' beast core and placed it on the left scale of the scale balance…

"Place the lower tiered item you want as an equivalent exchange on the right scale…"