What kind of game would be best?
Li Dong first thought of an action fighting game.
Its requirements included a smooth sense of impact, a good sense of strength, and near-real collision damage.
The size of the game should be about 100 million, and it should be a single console with a download fee of 10 yuan per download.
In truth, Eastern Jupiter also had a game industry, but it was on a small scale. There were very few masterpieces which could be considered excellent. On the other hand, if he produced a game with good sales, there would be a trend of numerous copycats, leading to a glut of near-identical games.
But after all, they were only NPC, albeit highly intelligent ones. Even if they were 99.9% similar to a real human, as long as they lacked that 0.1% of creativity and inspiration, their world would remain highly tedious and boring.
Hence, Li Dong strongly believed that his game would become successful, because things like creativity and inspiration were never lacking in reality.
…
About a month later.
Li Dong purchased a set of source code for a game on the internet from the real world, and after some slight modifications, his game was successfully created.
The name was The Brave Road of A Hero In An Alternate World.
The game had a total of nine regular levels and three hidden levels. Players would have to deal with up to nine bosses and could choose single or double pass mode. They would constantly improve their ranks and skills and upgrade their equipment in the process of leveling up..... The players would get stronger and stronger.
Moreover, there was a function that allowed the player to save their game data anytime.
There was also a rich variety of hidden and collectible elements.
Li Dong tried the game a few times and came to the conclusion that it was a boring game for killing time.
Of course, it was very boring for him. But for Eastern Jupiter, which had an undeveloped game industry, there would be many aspects of the game that were fun and interesting. Here, it could be considered a fun sort of game.
Li Dong immediately put it in the store of each gaming website, hoping to attract players to download it.
However, after three days, the game had sold a total of 317 copies. After subtracting the store commission rate of 50%, Li Dong only earned $1,585 for himself.
Obviously, this could not satisfy his needs.
"No matter how good a product is, if it's unknown, it will remain unknown. Seems like I have to advertise and market this game."
…
Xihai No. 3 High School.
After class.
Li Dong took out his mobile phone and walked to the center of the row, where there was a group of girls.
"Denen, Nishihara, Ishinaka, and Shangguan, please excuse my presumptuousness. I've been working on a game recently and I believe you all know that I've finished it now. But I don't know if it is fun. Only players of the game can give me the answer, so...
"Can you be my players and trial the game I made?" Li Dong said.
"Ryu, your game is done?"
Satoshi was very surprised. It was completed, and so quickly at that?
"Touki, I am very interested in your game. Please let me try." Nishihara Kaori reached out for the phone.
"I'll give it to Satoshi first. She probably wants to play it more."
Li Dong handed the mobile phone to Denen Satoshi. After all, she was his staunchest supporter.
Nishihara Kaori snatched her hand back and glared at him as her face swelled up.
"However, if you want to experience it right away, you can search for The Brave Road of A Hero In An Alternate World in the game stores and download it to your mobile phone for $10. Of course, if you don't want to spend any money, you can wait for Satoshi to be done."
"Only $10?"
Shangguan Feifei quickly found the game and clicked to pay for the purchase. "I'll just take it as treating you to the simplest meal."
"I've downloaded it, too."
"How's the game made by Touki?"
Nishihara Kaori and Ishinaka Mei paid for the download of the game and tapped the button to start playing. Soon after, they began to exclaim.
"Wow, the scenes and style of the game are so good. Did you really do this, Touki?"
"I killed a small demon and found some money and materials."
"Interesting! This game is very interesting!"
"I didn't think that Touki could make such a great game."
The yelling of these girls caught the attention of other students in the class.
"Why don't you guys try playing the game I made?"
"It's very smooth and the fights are explosive. Many of the combat moves were created via trial and error. The moves are very formidable and powerful."
"It can be downloaded for $10, everyone. Let's support it."
Li Dong did not give up on this precious opportunity to market his product; he advertised and sold his game to his classmates.
After putting in some effort during the ten-minute break between classes, he sold more than 30 copies of his game, and the response was generally very good.
"This game is so fun! Touki, you are a genius."
"The experience and feel when I deliver a hit is very enjoyable."
"This is the first time I played such an exciting combat game. Only Touki, the King of Underground Fighting, could achieve this."
"Touki, please accept me as your disciple, let me follow you and learn something. Something like your fighting techniques that will ensure that one is never bullied, or how to make fun combat games. Please teach me one of these!"
"Although I am a girl, I think that Touki's game is really good."
"I don't really like all that fighting and killing, Touki. Can you do another game that girls will fall in love with?"
"…"
From the chatter surrounding him, Li Dong could tell that most of it was positive.
He sighed with relief. This sort of praise that came straight from the mouth must be real. The game The Brave Road of A Hero In An Alternate World had good market potential.
He just had to increase the intensity of his promotions.
However, Li Dong did not have much in the way money or resources. The promotion method which he adopted was very simple. He would make full use of the resources around him.
He would let his classmates help to recommend and promote the product.
Then, it would be spread to the whole school.
After which, thousands of students would help to advertise and popularise it outside of the school.
Also, a major event was currently being held: the city's annual high school basketball championship, held in the capital of Shengjing. The event had already started with a bang. He had joined the school basketball team and had become the main player alongside the captain, Morido Shenli. Li Dong had the opportunity to go to each high school to participate in competitions. As they won one game after another, he also promoted the game that he made.
Such a scene was undoubtedly embarrassing: his victory was a total crushing of the opponent's team, yet he then remained on their home turf at the end of the match, desperately promoting his own game in the hopes that basketball fans attending the away-game would pay for the download.
For fans who had come to attend the game, this was a provocation, an insult—this was asking for a beating!
Even so, Li Dong needed a lot of money, and so he poured all his energy into publicizing the game. With every violent slam dunk on the court, he would scream, "Play The Brave Road of A Hero In An Alternate World, and you'll be able to slam dunk like me!"
With this shameless promotion, coupled with a good word-of-mouth reputation from the game's players, his success was brewing.
The final result was remarkable.
Two weeks later, the game The Brave Road of A Hero In An Alternate World had been downloaded more than 100,000 times.
Li Dong had earned a total of $500,000 for himself.


Through a mysterious portal, Chen Jin arrived at this strange place - a post-apocalyptic world where civilization had been destroyed. 

Consequently, he found -

A piece of metal scrap
A robot trash collector
A battleground
A city
A ton and more of gold
A copy of high-tech documents
A...
In short, Chen Jin found a planet.

When it came to the prices, negotiations collapsed immediately.

Hans wanted to sell them as a whole. The earliest disc could be traced back to 1991. That was a time when "Blizzard Entertainment" didn’t exist yet, and the company was still called "Silicon & Synapse."

The older the discs dated back, the higher their collection value.

He hoped to sell this set for 20,000 dollars. Now, just an early, original copy of "Rock & Roll Racing" was valued at 1,000 dollars. "The Lost Vikings" would also sell for that price.

The shop owner didn’t want to accept the whole set, as he felt that there was no market for these in Flagstaff.

There were many wealthy people in Flagstaff, but they tended to be here on vacation only. Their children didn’t go to school here, and those who liked to collect these discs were the young generations.

Hans searched for a few more gaming stores, and all of them gave similar replies. Even if there were some that accepted to buy them as a collection, their offers were low.

"I have to resell them, so you have to leave some room for profit for me. If not, who would I sell them to? I can’t keep them for myself, right?"

It was a logical answer. It was not that Hans and Li Du didn’t want the other party to make a profit, but only 5,000 dollars for a whole set of premium, collectible discs, that was just too little.

Hans couldn’t be bothered to negotiate anymore, and walked out. 

"So, what do we do with those discs?" Li Du asked him. 

"We’ll deal with them in Los Angeles," Hans said. "It will be easier there, just watch." 

Bringing the discs and guns, they embarked on their trip to LA.

Los Angeles was situated in the state of California. California and Arizona were neighbors, so it was a fairly short trip from Flagstaff. About 500 miles away, southwest of Flagstaff, was Los Angeles.

"Why are we driving there ourselves? Can’t we just rent a truck there?"

Hans shook his head and said, "LA is a large city—it will be difficult to deal with the leftover junk from the auctions. We might have to bring the junk back on our return trip."

This was one of the main expenses from storage auctions. They could not just dispose of their trash wherever they wanted. Because of this, the expenses could go up to thousands of dollars.

They set off in the early morning. Following the west highway, they reached Kingman after two hours. After taking a short break, they continued on, with LA as their next stop.

The Iron Knight was able to demonstrate its strength in speed on this journey. After getting on the interstate highway, it accelerated and maintained a speed of 85 miles per hour!

Los Angeles, also known as the City of Angels, was the city with the second largest population in America, behind New York. It consistently ranked in the top three cities in GDP amongst all the major cities worldwide. 

Li Du had heard of this city since he was in elementary school, but had never been there before.

Before setting off for this country, his impression of LA was that it was an enormous city, with skyscrapers, luxury cars, mansions, movie stars, and a whole lot of people.

Actually, regarding population, LA referred to the whole metropolitan area and not just the city itself. If it were just the downtown area of LA, there were only about four million people, which was not that many. 

However, as a metropolitan area, it had a huge population. Places like Long Beach in Santa Ana had thirteen million people. There were even more people in the Greater Los Angeles Area, as the range was even wider: including five counties, it had a population of about eighteen million people!

During his university days, Li Du had yearned to visit Los Angeles. It was not because of the Hollywood stars or the luxurious lifestyle that it portrayed, but because the city had many famous universities.

Caltech, UCLA, USC, Pepperdine University: these were all famous universities that he admired.

A pity that regardless of his efforts, his grades had always been average. He had no chance of entering these famous schools, and ended up in that diploma mill.

However, now that he looked back, going to that diploma mill had also had its merits. If he had gone to any other school, he wouldn’t have encountered this little bug, and he wouldn’t have the ability to make the huge sums of money that he had now.

With his savings and his watch, his net worth had exceeded 10 million dollars. In LA, he was a considerably wealthy multi-millionaire.

From Arizona to California, the sky remained clear and the sunlight was radiant. The temperature was high as always.

The truck exited the interstate highway. Rows of skyscrapers appeared at the sides of the road. Afar were faint traces of a golden beach and clear seas.

Li Du exclaimed excitedly, "City of Angels, here we come!"

Hans remained calm throughout the trip. Returning to this city didn’t seem to have affected his mood.

Behind them came a Ford continuously blaring its horn. Godzilla pulled to the side to give way. The Ford drove up, and a white man shouted, "F*ck you! Get your truck out of LA, *sshole! Don’t block the road!"

Li Du was puzzled by his brainless shouting. "Is this guy crazy?" he said, irritated. 

Hans scoffed, "Welcome to the City of Angels—that’s the style of this city."

LA was thought to be the most complicated city in America, with many extreme personalities residing there explaining the nature of this city.

It gathered the wealthiest and the poorest people in America, the oldest of residents and newly-arrived immigrants, the most well-mannered and the rudest people, and lastly, the most educated and the dumbest people.

Immigrants from all over the world wanted to enter this city. It was the place with the latest trends, bikini-clad-babes, famous stars, beautiful beaches, snow-white mountains, skyscrapers, and wide, desolate fields. There was everything anyone ever wanted.

The movie storage facilities were near the southern suburbs of the city. They were relatively close to Long Beach, but far from downtown LA.

As this was Li Du’s first time in LA, he wanted to look around; they found a motel outside of town. They parked and stayed there.

Hans said that this auction would have up to 45 units, and would attract treasure hunters from all over America—especially those from the West Coast.

There were no three-man rooms, so they just booked two rooms. One was a standard room; the other was a king-sized bedroom.

"A total of 300 dollars, sir," the staff at the front desk said with a sweet smile.

Li Du twisted his lips to the side. This was right at the border of the city, and the room prices were already extremely high—what about those in the city center?

He received the room card after making the payment, and the staff passed a small box to him. It had a logo with the word "DUREX." Although Li Du had never used these before, he knew what they were.

"What is this for?" he said with surprise. "We’re not buying these." 

The staff gave him a knowing expression, and said with a warm smile, "This is free, sir. Have a nice day."

Seeing his face full of dread, Hans laughed out loud. "Haven’t you heard this? ‘Hollywood is led by the fashion tastes of LA designers and gay culture.’"

Li Du gave him the middle finger and said, "Bullsh*t—no way I would’ve heard of that nonsense!"

Hans said, "You can’t just gesture that as you please here—especially to men."

Li Du immediately retracted his finger.

"To survive in LA," Hans said, "don’t bother about the looks from others, and just do what you want. Also, go rest up. I’ve contacted a buyer. We’ll be setting off once we rest up."
 
 



They love gold, and they love silver. Even more so, they love gems that dazzle, like stars across the skies. 
Firearms, jewelleries, and precious metals; A collector’s world will not be complete without antiques.  
Storage auctions, old goods trade, re-estate sales and gold-digging. But the truth is, if one wants to make money, then the supreme way is through searching for the legendary treasures. 
Holding the fort, there’s an ocelot, a wolf, and an Andes condor. At the side, there’s a loyal hound, an irascible ape, and an African honey badger. Who said that you can only rely on humans when treasure hunting?! 

Jason also stared at the baseball and baseball card on the box. He got closer and could see more clearly.
　　Although he did not see the signature on the baseball and the specific information of the baseball card, he can already determine that the two baseball collections are antiques based on the appearance of the color!
　　 Steven made another big deal in this cheap warehouse. The amount is definitely quite large, even amazing!
　　 Jason was very clear and sure in his heart.
　　 Thinking of this, his eyes immediately started to heat up, and his emotions became more excited.
　　Although all of this has nothing to do with me now, it will soon be relevant. In a few days, I can participate in this exciting treasure hunt!
　　 Hearing Welch's unfriendly answer and the booing of the people eating melons, Ye Tian could only shook his head helplessly.
　　 Then, he looked at Welch pityingly, and said two sentences in Chinese.
　　 "I had my heart turned to the moon, but the moon shines on the ditch!"
　　 Then, he smiled and said in English:
　　 "Mr. Welch, I really didn't expect you to be so enthusiastic about the title of stupid and idiot. Then please satisfy your wish. Please enjoy the glory brought by this name!"
　　 Hearing this, Welch was almost blown up with anger, his face turned blue and extremely ugly!
　　 At this time, he already understands that today, there is no good fortune, he even wants to turn around and withdraw, so as not to suffer everyone's ridicule!
　　 But is it useful to leave? The idiot's hat is not to be buckled on his head, I can't hide it!
　　Look at what baby this Chinese bastard dug up, right? Could it be the signature baseball of the "God of Baseball" Babe Ruth? Go dreaming!
　　 After satirizing Welch, Ye Tian immediately turned to everyone and said loudly with a smile on his face:
　　 "You must be very curious about what treasure I dug in this warehouse, so I won't sell it to you. I will announce the answer now.
　　 I'm only talking about two things, you can judge based on this, whether this fool and idiot hat gave Mr. Welch right! "
　　 Following his words, many treasure-diggers have been talking about it.
　　 "Whose signature baseball will it be? Looks like an antique collectible!"
　　 "Yes! I guess this kid has made another big deal!"
　　 Ye Tian's voice soon spread to everyone's ears again.
　　"What about the two specific things? One is the signature baseball of the famous Yankees star Paul Waner in the 1940s. This is the one that everyone has seen.
　　 The other is the baseball card of the famous Yankees star Red Ruffing. I believe everyone knows these two Yankees Hall of Fame players, so I won't introduce them again! "
　　 The scene is dead silent!
　　 Everyone was completely stunned. There was only a heavy breathing in everyone's ears, very fast, panting like a broken car, and many people's eyes were rapidly turning red!
　　 Even Welch, who was completely stupid, was the same.
　　 At this time, he had forgotten the humiliation, his mind was full of the two star-studded names, and his eyes were completely green, the same color as the dollar!
　　As a treasure digger, everyone present knows the price of these two collections, and naturally they also know the weight of Ye Tian's words.
　　 My god! This kid definitely posted it!
　　 Is he really the darling of God? Or is he God? Why is it all to him?
　　 Everyone is staring at the two baseball collections closely, their eyes are red, their eyes are extremely hot, and they are about to burn!
　　 Seeing the exaggerated reactions of many treasure-diggers, even if Ye Tian had expected it, he was still surprised!
　　 Fortunately, I didn't show Lou Gehrig's signature baseball, otherwise there will be riots here!
　　 Ye Tian's voice did not stop, continuing to impact everyone's emotions, and also ruthlessly impacting Welch's already fragile heart.
　　 "As far as I know, the value of Paul Wanner's signature baseball should be around $200,000, and Red Ruffing's baseball card is definitely worth a lot.
　　 These two treasures should be enough to prove that Mr. Welch is idiot and stupid! I believe no one will have any questions! "
　　 After speaking, he smiled and looked at everyone, especially Welch, his eyes full of disdain and sneer.
　　 Fight with me? You will die very ugly!
　　 At this time, many treasure diggers have come to their senses, and the warehouse door is immediately boiling.
　　 "God! Is this true? Paul Waner's autographed baseball and Red Ruffing's baseball card should add up to 300,000 dollars? It's incredible!"
　　 "It's definitely worth three hundred thousand dollars! Paul Waner has only been with the Yankees for one season. His signature baseball with the Yankees is very rare, and two hundred thousand dollars is definitely not worth it!"
　　 "Steven is still holding a box. Is it full of baseballs and baseball cards? If it is, then the value of this warehouse is probably extremely amazing, millions of dollars are possible!"
　　 After being shocked by the two collections, everyone also noticed the box Ye Tian was holding.
　　 Thinking that there might be precious baseball collections in the box, everyone almost fell into madness again.
　　 "Steven, can you show me these baseball treasures? I look forward to it!"
　　 "Let everyone appreciate these treasures! Can you also see the contents of the box? I think everyone is very interested"
　　 Many treasure diggers have spoken.
　　Without exception, everyone wants to appreciate these two baseball collections carefully, and even more wants to understand the situation in the storage box.
　　 Everyone has red eyes, what is in front of you is too tempting, the huge dollar is even more attractive!
　　 Envy and jealousy is good! Some people even start to flash other colors in their eyes, with a lot of content, including the fierce look, and the malice and greed that cannot be concealed!
　　 Ye Tian has been carefully observing the performance of everyone at the scene through sunglasses.
　　 At this time, he fully understands that he has become a target of public criticism!
　　 Fortunately, this is in a public place. If you change to a place with a small number of people, someone will come up and grab it.
　　On the streets of New York, people take risks for dozens of dollars! What's more, tens or even millions of dollars?
　　 Hearing everyone's proposal, Ye Tian smiled and shook his head.
　　 "These two collections can be appreciated. As for the contents of the box, I am sorry that I cannot display it. I believe you will have a chance to appreciate it in the future."
"Hey!"
　　 There was a sigh at the scene.
　　 At the same time, everyone has already confirmed that the box contains baseball collections, and it is very valuable, otherwise Ye Tian would not take it so seriously.
　　 Thinking of this, the fire of jealousy suddenly burned more vigorously! Almost everyone on the scene was completely ignited, making them lose their minds!
　　 Ye Tian's voice sounded again, was just talking to Jason and everyone on the scene.
　　 "Jason, you take these two baseball collections and let everyone enjoy them carefully. Remember, you can only appreciate it, and you are never allowed to get started!
　　Mr. Welch must look more twice, lest he have doubts about his stupid name, so that we can settle our dispute! "
After finished speaking, he immediately gave Welch a bright smile.
　　 "hahaha"
　　It is another burst of laughter, but there are many meanings in the laughter, which are enough to make people appreciate and be wary of!
　　 "Fuck you! You're a damn asshole!"
　　 Welch was completely mad, cursed angrily, and at the same time sent out a raised middle finger.
　　 He has no face to stay here anymore, his face has been completely lost!
　　 The fool and idiot hat is firmly buckled on his head, it is impossible to remove it!
After cursed, Welch immediately turned his head and left here. When he left, his eyes were filled with anger, and the fierce light flickered!
　　 Bastard! This is endless! You will pay for what you did today!
　　 Seeing Welch leave, Ye Tian just smiled and shrugged his shoulders, not caring!
　　 Next, he gave the two baseball collections to the ecstatic Jason, and asked Jason to hold them for everyone to appreciate.
　　 After Jason walked away, Ye Tian immediately said to the people in several second-hand stores:
　　 "You can visit the warehouse and estimate the price. Everything in it is sold, and the higher the price is!"
　　 As he said, he gave way and let people from several second-hand stores enter the warehouse.
　　 On the other side, Jason has been trapped by the surrounding water. Amidst enviable admiration, he shows off his baseball treasures! Nervous and excited!

Obs: This is a novel original in chinese, I only translated to english.

Ye Tian, who was in desperate situation, found that the world in his eyes had changed, becoming radiant and dazzling!

Antiques, famous paintings, gold, diamonds, and jewellery are all available at your fingertips!

The pirate treasures of Cocos Island, the Nazi gold in the depths of the ocean, the Mayan civilization in the jungle, the secrets of King Solomon, the disappearing Atlantis,….

They are no longer mysterious, but completely opened the door, just waiting for Ye Tian to explore and discover.

What are you waiting for?

set off!

´´ I am just an ant´´
It was what I thought while looking at the sky, during the time that he had been in the forest of Serefia he had seen all kinds of magical creatures; from the foolish and reckless Aqua rabbits to the mighty and brutal Skyr Ventis. I even got to see beings more powerful than Skyr Ventis, but even though they were prey I was unable to hunt for now; I never felt the way I feel now that I look at the beings that now argue high in the clouds.
The first one was very similar to a god of Mesoamerican culture, Quetzalcoatl god of the wind and the storm, to be honest the specific details of said deity are beyond my knowledge but at least I am familiar with the image of him; And that thing up there certainly looks a lot like it.
Thank goodness when I used hunter's book analysis on it, I turned out not to be a deity; just a being of immeasurable power. . . if I don't really feel better about it.
<Name: Eskaylos bringer of the storm.
Withering Thunder Thunder Emerald Serpent, Low Tier Three Star Class
age: 500 years, adult stage.
Elemental Affinity: Wind / Thunder
Collectible Materials: As one of the rarest species of magical snakes its entire body is of immeasurable value, its crest feathers are used to make various high-level wind element artifacts, its scales are used in creating enchanted flexible armor, its wings are used in the creation of high-level flight-type artifacts; Various internals of this creature are used in the refining of potions or fortification supplements.
Additional note: This being of immense power is completely beyond the scope of the current abilities of the owner of this book, absolute discretion is recommended and avoid all confrontation>
Even the stupid book thinks that thing is dangerous enough that it has to warn me not to take hostile action; It has to be a joke. . . confront that thing? I'm sorry but I haven't lived long enough yet.
I mean, surely the entire body of this magical beast is extremely valuable; but I doubt that I will willingly give any of those things to someone and beating them is not even an option.
I would like to say that the winged thing in front of the snake is less threatening. . . and it was, after all it is much smaller in comparison and I am not even able to distinguish much of its appearance from this distance; unfortunately when I used analysis on it my fear only grew.
<Name: Katya, protector of balance and justice.
Archangel with six wings, class three stars; maximum level.
age: 1000, indeterminate stage (to be immortal).
Affinity: Divine Power (Justice and Balance)
Collectible Materials: It's no secret that dark forces have used angel parts before to create powerful artifacts; but each and every one of these forces was wiped out shortly after this happened.
Additional note: Angels and higher beings of the celestial race are one of the most powerful forces in the multiverse. They are entities of order and light, due to their racial characteristics they are widely recognized and even adored throughout the multiverse; many worlds and races are under his protection.
WARNING: EVERY HEAVENLY BEING IS PROTECTED BY AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE INTERDIMENSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HUNTERS AND ANY ACT OF HOSTILITY TOWARDS THEM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.>
Holy mother of God, that's a fucking angel. . . I mean a glorious angel and think that they really exist. As if that wasn't enough, this particular one is a six-winged archangel, I have no idea exactly how strong he is among his race; but this is at the top level of the three-star class.
Damn everything in his description is scary, instead of some elemental affinity this archangel who apparently is called Katya uses divine power; I don't think any elemental power is much in comparison. Adding what was said in the materials section and the additional notes, it becomes very clear how ridiculously powerful the celestial race that angels belong to is.
Even if I put all that aside. . . There is a huge warning about not assaulting any member of the celestial race, even the interdimensional hunter association that I don't know has a protection / non-aggression treaty with them.
The words "WILL NOT BE TOLERATED" make the association's position on the treaty quite clear.
Normally with the little information available about the archangel I should be more calm for my safety; they do not seem an aggressive species. But at this moment I am witnessing how this being of justice and balance is quietly watching as the creature named Eskaylos who brings the storm slaughters an entire human army.
I hate to say it but the humans of this world are not weak at all or at least they don't seem weak, but for the snake it makes no difference. The fiery swords, the ice beams, the cutting blades of the wind or any other projectile and magic attack; they have left no visible wound on the creature.
But the same cannot be said of the human beings who fight it, thunder and lightning fall from the sky or are emitted from the mouth of the serpent, massacring and incinerating many human beings.
Many figures wrapped in enormous amounts of magical power soar through the sky in search of fighting Eskaylos, but they all fall in a matter of minutes; I could only witness his pathetic attempts to survive as the serpent went on a murderous frenzy and the archangel watched impassively. The archangel's calm only sent a chill down my spine.
The battle lasted only half an hour, in just thirty minutes the number of deaths went from tens to hundreds; during that time try to find a better place to watch the battle. Despite the fear that both the archangel and the four-winged serpent caused me, curiosity brought out the worst in me this time; I found an unusually tall, easy-to-climb tree near the battlefield from which I was able to get a better view.
First I have to say that when I saw the appearance of the archangel all thought in my mind literally stopped for an unknown amount of time, words simply were not enough to describe the ethereal beauty of this entity that represents justice and balance; I just know that by the time my thoughts returned there were at least 10 more charred corpses on the ground.
When only a small group of people were left wearing clothes one would normally see on church people, the archangel spoke for the first time since the serpent had started this massacre that he seemed to consider amusement.

After finding an item inherited from something called the interdimensional hunter association, Desmond begins his adventures by traveling between worlds, where he finds precious resources, battles all manner of magical beings, wins the hearts of more than one maiden along the way, and searches for the strength to keep safe what he values most; follow him while learning what a true hunter is.

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(Seymour's POV):
I have completed my preparations toward my short solo expedition towards the biome filled with purple apparitions... A corrupted forest...
I simply took three weapons that are enough for me. All three are handmade by Denzel himself, a halberd, a spear, and a staff.
These weapons have lightness and power combined nicely, giving out a decent balance in handling.
I left my room and went around the castle for a single lap first.
"Oh Seymour! Going out somewhere?" - Chesca
The person that called out to me was a girl that was wearing light clothing and is seemingly on a break today. She had short purple hair and a style that can make a person mistake her as a guy. That person is Chesca, she mainly acts like a guy at times but she's a powerful sniper with pinpoint accuracy and positioning. We have her and Mitch take the role of scout and sniping in combat.
"Yeah, I'm going alone so Allen will take charge of the castle."
"Ah, alright... Do you..." - Chesca
Have more bullets? Go ask Denzel...
Every time Chesca comes to ask me for something it would either be farming spots, or when she runs out of bullets.
"Do you have some snacks cause I'm a bit hungry right now and it's way off before the scheduled dinner..." - Chesca
"Uh, huh... You know that you can use the kitchen however you want right?"
I allow people to freely utilize the kitchen in case they get a little hungry. There are some snacks prepared for anyone to just snatch around.
"Really? Is it alright?" - Chesca
"Yeah, you can go ahead and take as much as you want. Be careful of choosing which ones though you might end up taking Denzel's tests. He's trying to make cola as far as I know."
"Alright!" - Chesca
Chesca starts walking towards the kitchen while humming. Ah, I should remind her.
"Chesca, contact Denzel if you run out of bullets. His handiwork will work much better than the ammo you're using."
Classes have a starter gift which isn't really the greatest thing in the world for some of us. For classes that require a weapon, you're just given a decent starting weapon and you can wing it for a long time. Within the four of us, me, Michael, Robin, and Denzel, we're given an arsenal of magic instead. We can fight in the backline but preference is everything here.
After going through the kitchen, Chelsea seems to be drinking Denzel's experiment bottle and is feeling blissful with the drink.
"Guess she got the right one huh?"
Denzel tends to be disorganized with his placement of experimental objects. It reached to the point where it's completely annoying if we end up trying the wrong bottle out of confusion.
There were times where the people who drank the experiments became nauseous for half an hour. Drunk or tipsy, and even became a bit sleepy for a long time. We had punished Denzel for playing around with the other members but, it seems like Chesca's bliss will confirm that it's safe to steal drinks from Denzel now.
I passed through the map room and noticed Allen and Julius playing chess. I didn't disturb them and went off outside the castle where I met Mitch.
"Yo! Practicing today?"
"Nope, I'm heading out to farm a huge amount of experience today." - Mitch
"I see, where are the others?"
"I don't really know since I'm moving around alone." - Mitch
"Alright, if you come back here before me just know that Allen is currently in charge."
"You're going out somewhere?" - Mitch
"Yeah, I plan to collect another item from a large item series."
"Zodiacs huh? That seems very difficult." - Mitch
I have already explained to them my intention of collecting the Zodiac series. They have yet to know what the effects of each one but each one will boost a single status significantly. For example, the Ophiuchus will boost my resilience to damage tenfold. Just having such an item greatly improves my stats. I have read a book that contains all thirteen zodiacs and their effects.
Having all thirteen zodiacs will increase all stats which are: Strength, vitality, resilience, agility, dexterity, tenacity, endurance, sustain, physical and magic negation.
The other three gives various effects like immunity to all debuffs, extreme increase in mana capacity, and balances all stats equally. It generally means that every single stat within me, will have an equal maximum. Any further scaling will distribute the stats all around.
Collecting the thirteenth zodiac will grant me a bonus effect. By a short movement of my body, I will gain the ability to stop time. It's not proven yet due to the number of theories about the active ability that requires all thirteen zodiacs. There was a list that contained all the possible abilities in collecting the artifacts.
The list goes on and on and contained very deadly abilities like a long time stop, future sight, invincibility, dimensional rift killing, and even mind control. The thing about using the abilities is that every person who has managed to collect the thirteen zodiacs often die by overuse of the abilities.
After a long way of travel towards the east, I had arrived to the corrupted biome. I momentarily explored the areas within the corruption because I was told that the huge chasm at the center would probably be the place where the zodiac is hidden.
The number of flying monsters were pretty extreme, I simply just used one ability to keep everything in check.
I made tall spikes emerge from the ground and aim it towards the monsters that are seemingly corrupted by something. What is this wasteland... Is there any chance of collecting any lore or information about this place.
The color of the biome is completely purple, the soil is goopy and the trees look pretty bad with purple leaves. The corruption is slowly spreading out at a pace of a meter per week. If my theory is correct, then the crimson should also be spreading towards somewhere... It'll be dangerous of it spreads to common ground.
"Purifying corrupted soil might be troublesome. I think we'll need to have an expert at nature magic but we don't have anyone excluding Karl. But there's also a chance that we would really require a Nature Nymph to purify the area. Not to mention we have to purify two areas."

The amount of possible chaos that would happen if this grass was to spread towards us is troublesome. It'll probably take a few years though.
I stopped worrying about the spread and walked around further. I keep launching various attacks by utilizing earth magic to raise up stalagmites and pierce through the flying monsters from the ground.
I didn't particularly have any issue on traversing the area if I can just insta-kill these monsters pretty easily. I manage to press forwards till I can see a town. Huh, why is there a town there?
I dashed towards the town and arrived there within a few minutes.
The town gate was closed and there was nobody that was responding.
"Anybody here?!"
A creepy silence flowed through the gate. The fact that the place simply echoed back to me was enough to tell that this is a ghost town now. It was proven true so I just took out one item that allows high mobility standards.
I threw a dark greenish pearl over the wall and waited for it to land. After landing, I instantly got teleported with an uncomfortable feeling of instant movement.
Jeez, I should close my eyes when using this for mobility but eh.
I started walking around the ghost town that had pretty much the standard stores that are essential to have economy. Stores are pretty empty and some have broken down quite well. I wonder if somebody built this a long time ago.
After looking around, I went to the central fountain to take a break.
"Wow, there's literally nothing here. I wonder if I could take a huge amount of free loot in this town..."
After thinking for a while, I decided to end my break as I saw a large library behind me. I tend to go to the libraries first because I need as much collectible information about this biome. The more information, the better we can handle living in this world.
After arriving to the library, I checked every single book to ensure I don't bring home a duplicate of what I have read already.
I found interesting books that contained information about living their life in this biome and experimenting on the new grass. Some books involve exploring the dark chasms that was generated by shadow orbs that are said to be celestial objects.
After finding about a dozen books I suddenly noticed a scream filled with pain.
"Wide-Area Detection!"
I immediately scanned the whole town to search for the scream which occurred somewhere within the east wing of the town.
"Haaah, I should just get to it..."
I went towards the location I felt the presence and the first thing I saw was a bunch of particles flying up to the sky.
"Help us!" - ???
"Uwaaaah! I don't wanna die!" - ???
They're surrounded and screwed...
The couple screamed out in terror as I try to push through the hordes of people that have purple stuff all over them.
"Right, let's clean this up..."
I raised my hand up high and activated a skill that isn't really meant to be used in dueling.
"Insidious Insanity!"
A large black orb formed and generated millions of spikes aimed towards the corrupted villagers.
The number of spikes reached about 150, each struck a corrupted villager until it died.
The couple was completely shocked to what I can do and starts fearing for their life even more.
"Are you gonna kill us?" - ???

The guy stood in front of the girl and tried to protect her with all his life.
"You can take whatever you want and do whatever you please with me! Just don't harm her!" - ???
I retracted all 150 spikes and let all the corrupted villagers disperse into particles.
"You look interesting... I shall invite you two to the Asylum..."
I simply reached out for a handshake in which the guy returned it nervously.
"The name's Seymour, leader of Asylum."
"Ah, my name is William... This girl is Mea..." - William
Two youngsters huh... Well they look promising.

The technology has leaped to the point where people can fully dive into the virtual world. A group of friends joined altogether to enter the new game called "Survivor's Path". Their exploration begins with an announcement came to all the people who are now inside an experiment to show who can survive in a world of fantasy without any method to return to the real world.

Emeron Kingdom was one of the most powerful countries in the middle range (inside the mountain range : inner range; outside of the mountain range : middle range; beyond the continent; outer range). However, it was always in a consistent war with the second rank Gund Empire. If Dye remembered correctly, Gund Empire was designed to fit the image of Middle East countries on Earth.

She was puzzled. Vrenze City was certainly in a mutual relationship with Emeron Kingdom...what's with Gund Empire coming into the picture? She didn't pay much heed to the fact that the plot wasn't similar to hers, Hyouka is Hyouka, Earth is Earth. She wouldn't confuse the two together.

"These are...too much!" -Ynoir

"How can they be so despicable!" -Ynoir

"Dye! Let me beat them!" -Ynoir

Dye just twitched her eye as she typed a response. 

"Wait." -Dye

"The mapping will be done in a while, we can go then." -Dye

The masters were just too...concerned of their safety. Dye had never thought that they would actually betray Emeron Kingdom. She remembered that during Story Mode, all Players reaching level 50 would have to participate in the war between Emeron Kingdom and Gund Empire. Four classes had to support the upper hand of Gund Empire, while the other four had to support the upper hand of Emeron Kingdom. The ending was the same.

A peace treaty between the two kingdoms for a millenia. 

Although it seemed short, it wasn't short at all. The people in Hyouka could live for millenias. This only worked for the ordinary people, who could only live until 150 years. 

It was inconvenient for Dye and Ynoir to just leisurely wait for the map to assimilate, so Dye used the power of her eye to walk towards the platform. Actually, it was just the system giving out the traps' names above said things...and so Dye was able to safely go over. Ynoir quickly followed behind. When they reached the teleportation platform, the map was halfway assimilated. 

Dye immediately checked the stone slab. As soon as she touched it, a holographic screen appeared in front of her. She had never expected that, so she accidentally touched something on the screen. All of a sudden, the space warped. 

"Dye!" -Ynoir 

Dye looked at Ynoir, who was somewhere else on the teleportation platform. She teleported to Ynoir's side and held his waist, making Ynoir blush. 

Shameful! He was an Elven Ancestor! He was being held on the waist by a human girl!

Aaaah!

But he didn't reject the hold. It seemed that Dye knew more about the teleportation platform more than him. He had only known about teleportation circles after all. That thing was completely different. 

Soon, they appeared somewhere...dimly lit. A refreshing scent wafted through the doors in front of them. Dye rose an eyebrow as she heard a man humming. The voice was deep and husky. Ynoir didn't know what language the man spoke, but Dye knew.

It's Gund!

What was a Gund man doing in here?

[System Description]

[Teleportation Platform]

[Works on its own, can be linked with numerous teleportation platforms within it's reach. Divided into 3 levels, 1, 2, and 3. A specialty of the Gund Empire. Created by the Second Prince Jaglash Gund. Gifted only to loyal Gund Empire's Subordinates.]

[Teleportation Circle]

[Powered with energy stones (preferably space). Can only be linked with 1 other teleportation circle per circle. Created by the Elven People, idea from Elven Elder. Built in almost every countries and cities in the middle range.]

[Second Prince Jaglash Gund (Humanoid) (Harem-Collectible)]

[Second Prince of the Gund Empire. After meeting him, he will be a part of your harem. Hulio Ponto's Confidant.]

Harem?

Jaglash Gund?

'W-wait...what!?!'

Dye wanted to scream at the system right now. Jaglash Gund, Hulio Ponto's Confidant, was...a Harem-Collectible? 

[System Description]

[Harem-Collectible]

[Created to give players a sense of 'charming handsome and beautiful people'. Can only be found by chance, and not searched. Congratulations host for finding the first Harem-Collectible.]

She definitely didn't design this, and she definitely wouldn't design this. Though, the person they needed to confront was...Jaglash Gund!

So embarassing...

Liang Feifei, a fifteen years old young programmer, tried making her first game called The World of Hyouka. She somehow made some error in her coding judgement and got sucked into her own game.

Oh well, she could choose her own name and class...

But why is she titled as 'Master of All'?

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Red Ruby Champion. 

Similar to how the Red Ruby Lizard looks, the Red Ruby Champion comes in a stronger and taller body. Although the agility of the beast is reduced due to the weight, the Champion comes with an extremely sharpened tail instead. They carry the shape of three thick and hard scale that grew into the form of a blade.

And because the movement of a Red Ruby Champion is not as agile as it younger unevolved junior, the Champion attack is more than often executed by using its tail. But still, the jaw and the claws of this monster cannot be underestimated as well.

"Roar!" the Red Ruby Champion take a few steps forward before swinging the tail horizontally at Technos. This attack took many of its targets by surprise. With the attack came horizontally, half of them will choose to jump forward to dodge the attack. But when they did that, the jaw from the Red Ruby Champion will come to tear them apart.

This attack that kills nine out of ten opponents was executed to test how will this human reacted.

Forced to fight against this attack the Red Ruby Champion is so proud with it left Technos with two options. First, he can choose to leap across the attack that traveling along the path of his kneecap height and tried to withstand the assault from its jaw.

Or second, he can try to deflect that attack and end up with some injuries. But this option has no assurance he can remain standing after the hit.

Without too many time for him to slowly consider his option, Technos prepared himself for a leap. As he bends his knee slightly to push himself forward, he noticed a small pointbreak that will allow him to decide his next move.

Putting some force in his feet, Technos leaped. But instead of moving forward to where the tail blade passed, he jumped back to get himself closer to a tree! When the tail blade struck on the tree, leaves that soon to fall scatters and slowly descends from the tree.

That small opening when the tail is stuck on the tree allowed Technos to grab an opportunity and stabbed the tooth dagger on a yet to harden wound. A stab is all he needs for it to start the bleeding all over again. Crying out loud, the Red Ruby Champion struggles to pull it's tail out while dealing with the pain.

But Technos grabbed that opportunity. Instead of leaving when the monster cried in pain, he positioned that blade facing downward before using the tail as a jumping board to reach the monster's unprotected neck. With a stab from the back of the neck, the strike pierced through plus restrained the Red Ruby Champion from struggling.

Unexpected to him, instead of falling dead on the ground, it stills possess a small ember of stubbornness inside, and tried to attack the human by furiously clawing everywhere of its reach. Unaware of its range of attack, Technos was scratched twice.

Luckily, the attack did not go too deep into his flesh and bone. With a sachet of Green Crystal Powder following with Ruby Lizard Paste, he coated the wound with the powder first before putting the paste to act as glue. With not even 30ml of blood is spilled, he continues his attack using another remaining dagger.

Aiming just on the softer part of the skin on the back limbs, Technos stabbed his dagger right into its pelvis. That attack took the monster by surprise before it fell on its ground. Reluctant to let a dangerous monster to threaten him, he jumps on top of the beast to remove his weapon before adding a strike on the Red Ruby Champion's head.

No longer struggling on the ground, Technos tried to touch the body using his left hand. As of how it should be, the corpse vanished inside the Left Wrist Guard along with an additional selection for him to choose. It comes in the shape of a hexagonal stone.

As he has no idea on what to do, Technos went ahead and swiped on the selection. The countdown came in once again to begin counting. When it finally reaches 100%, the left Wrist Guard went dim before the Right Wrist Guard flashes with something new in its selection.

Curious about the item inside his Right Wrist Guard, he swipes on the collectible materials to bring it out. Like how it was depicted by the Right Wrist Guard, this collectible does carry the look of a hexagon. But in term of quality, only valuable can be used to describe them.

The Hexagonal Stone is in fact, Ruby Salt. In this world, salt is no longer a cheap commodity that can be obtained everywhere, especially when the location they're now is in the middle of a forest. To enjoy the flavor of salt, only can either choose to hunt the Red Ruby Champion, or travel two hours out to search for the Salt Mine.

The Salt Mine is also sometimes called as the Medan Mine by the hunters because of the two mineral vein interlink with each another. But even if the Mineral Salt mined from the cave is edible, they're still a quality lower than the precious piece of Ruby Salt.

In fact, the Ruby Salt is twice more valuable than the Mineral Salt due to the lack of supply, the amount of time a Red Ruby Champion needed to produce the Ruby Salt, and of course, the number of Red Ruby Champion is low, to begin with.

As for their price, they can only be counted by weight. By using a traditional weighing scale that only available in the stores, they can measure their weight precisely depending on the item sold and bought. Worst of all, the business is handled by none other than those from the Elite Fortress Society, which monopoly sound really accurate here.

According to the Dominus Currency Trading Rate, a Dominus Coin can be used to purchase 10gm of the Ruby Salt. And for a gram of Ruby Salt, they can be exchanged with 2gm of Mineral Salt. Lastly, each gram of Mineral Salt worth 5pound weight of meats from a Red Ruby Lizard.

But the piece of Hexagon shape Ruby Salt is at an estimated 50gm weight. Which means, he will only need two Hexagon blocks of Ruby Salt to exchange for another Medan-Material Short Sword. With a smile on his face, Technos kept the Ruby Salt away in his Right Wrist Guard before continuing his hunt.

WIth his Left Wrist Guard no longer vibrating, he calls that a day. After all, he caught a total of seven Red Ruby Lizards and one Red Ruby Champion. Based on this profit alone, he collected 70pound worth of Red Ruby Lizard Meat, 20 Pound worth of Higher-Quality Ruby Champion Meat, 40 pellets of Ruby Lizard Paste, and one Hexagon Block of Ruby Salt worth 50gm.

Plus the collectible resources, he brought back at least a week worth of food home. As the house is only resided by himself at this moment, this amount of food will be too much for him to finish alone. For the sake of preserving his wealth, Technos decided to went over to the Store to executes an exchange.

Since the prices of Mineral Salt is heavily monopolized by the Elite Fortress Society, Technos has no choice but to trade according to the rates they're offering on that particular day. And today is one of the worst rates he'd seen in his life.

1gm of Mineral Salt for 9pound of Red Ruby Lizard's meat
1gm of Mineral Salt for 45 Sachets of Green Crystal Powder
1gm of Mineral Salt for 8 pellets of Ruby Lizard Paste

As their location is densely populated with Red Ruby Lizards, this affects the rates offered by the store against the seller wishes to exchange their merchandise. Although some other store offers might be better, the distance they had to carry the merchandise may cost themselves more.

Like how the others felt, Technos complains in the heart before he took the amount worth 10gm of Mineral Salt to be exchanged. But the moment he completed his transaction, a different staff came forward to adjust the pricing of the exchange once more before they close.

1gm of Mineral Salt for 11pound of Red Ruby Lizard's meat

"What the heck! Luckily I exchange the meat earlier!" some people that felt their action was a correct choice comment at the new exchange rate. He considered this issue is not related to him and left the store. With 10gm of Mineral Salt in hand, he went to another store selling weapon and armor.

By showing his Medan-Material Short Sword with a special Insignia on it, the shopkeeper allowed him to enter a private area only caters to Qualified Hunters. Inside here, their exchange currency no longer follows the material like Paste, Powder, or Meat, but Mineral Salt.

Still, the weapon he can exchange using the Mineral Salt is mere tools smelted by the craftsmen using the old world steel, with the durability is just slightly better than Bone Weapon. But in the world of a hunter, a little is what they need to keep surviving and give them the hope to return home.

 "Ah... My boy Technos, you're a Qualified Hunter now. Good job boy, Good job." the storekeeper of the private area praised the youth for his ability to obtain the qualification. In fact, he's the skillful weapon-master that lived alone and quietly beside Technos home.

He was also the person that teaches Technos how to use the weapon and hunt for monsters. If it's not because of the rule prohibiting random people to become a teacher, this weapon-master may already become a favorite instructor in the academy.

"Uncle Don." he greets the storekeeper politely. Following him from behind, Uncle Don took him to appreciates the weapon placed on the shelf for appreciation. Compared with the Lower-Quality Weapon, the item inside this private area is much well designed.

"Here, take this weapon. It will be my gift for you to pass the exam mission to become a hunter." When they reach a section with three knives, Uncle Don took one and placed them on the hand of Technos.

"This is a Throwing Knife. If you utilize them the way I taught you, it will be a marvelous weapon for you to land the first killing attack at the monsters roaming outside our Dominus Fortress. Take that to have fun, if you needed more, salvage some Old World Steel." the storekeeper pats his shoulder as he turned around left him there.

"Thank you, Uncle Don. I kept some of the Red Ruby Lizard's meat aside, so please come to my place to enjoy a dinner later." Technos bowed slightly to express his gratitude before leaving. After leaving the building, he went back home to prepare the food and awaits for Uncle Don's arrival.

Like a family, the two of them enjoyed their dinner. After he left, Technos sharpened his weapon for his next day uses before going to sleep. But as he was asleep soundly, he failed to notice what happened to the wrist guard.

A light circled the wrist and elbow part like receiving some signals. After continuing such a feature for four hours before returning to normal once more. When the sun rises from the east, the warmth came inside the room to wake Technos from his slumber.

He prepared himself and went to the academy quickly. With the First Examination is completed, his class from today onwards will be combined together with the others in the same sector before they were educated to face the Second Examination.

In this academy that compulsory to every youth in their sixteen years old to attend, the art of hunting, crafting, and exploration will be taught to them for their first three years of studying. Two exams are held each year to expel the useless students from the academy.

For those successfully pass their first examination, they're rewarded with the qualification of a hunter. And for those passes their second examination, they will receive a raise in their social standing. The higher they go, the better is the reward.

But all of these will be gone if one failed to pass the examination.

"Alright students. I believe all of you here received your Medan-Material Short Sword." unexpected to him, the class is filled with three instructors, and two hundred students including himself. But among the two hundred students, only seventy came from the Outer Fortress Society, and the remaining students are all from the Inner Fortress Society.

"Yes, instructors!" they answered the question immediately.

"Good, with the three of us here evaluating your performance, go out to the forest and capture something back. Your time limit is two hours. Points will be given according to what you bring back. The ten highest point students will be rewarded with a set of Old World Steel Equipment." one of the teachers stated.

When the Crack of Elon appeared in numerous location in Earth, monsters started to pour into the world crowded with humans. Under the attack from the monsters from the Crack of Elon, humanity perished.

Against the monsters that come in different shape, sizes, and intelligence, humanity fall. They sent explosive, tanks, jet fighters, and even nuclear missiles against their opponents, but nothing works.

In the end, only a primitive weapon like sword and spear works against them. But that was too late. The remaining survivors escaped. Remain on the run, they move from one continent to another, witnessing the changes brought by the monsters from Crack of Elon.

Unknown of how long has passed, humanity stands on their two feet once more. They constructed the Dominus Fortress, the last stronghold for humanity in an attempt to retaliate and retook the right to rule over the New Earth.

The story begins with Technos, the main protagonist that born with the lowest social status inside of the Dominus Fortress. To survive and climb up the ladder of upper society, Technos first needed to make sure he obtained the lowest qualification before starting to dream.

Qualified Hunter

And out of all possible luck, he found a lost technology that was meant to give humanity a chance to retaliates. But the issue is, Although that amazing technology work miraculously, seven hundred years still passed. How can it be possible for someone with no Ancient Language Proficiency learn how to utilize this lost technology instead?

[Author's Note]
This piece of a novel is my first attempt to see how good I fare in the Monster Hunting Writing Prompts. Hopefully, the quality of my story is satisfactory and enjoyable for my readers.

If you feel that it worth your time, please spam me with your comments, support, and critics, and if it doesn't, you may bash me or anything. 

Thank you again!

Han Fei invited everybody to a dinner when he had just arrived, which was rather eccentric in the Unknown Place.
But a rich man could do whatever he wanted!
When you're invited by someone to dinner, you tend to be nicer to them. That worked in every world.
After Han Fei showed his fancy culinary skills, everybody on the island was attracted to him except those who were on duty.
…
At this moment, Han Fei was sitting on the top of a tree with a strawberry in his hand.
You Lingyun leaped and landed next to him. "You can't win much appreciation with a dinner."
Han Fei said casually, "I know! It's just I'm an unconventional man, and I don't want to leave too bad an impression on them. When are we going to the Skeleton Shore?"
You Lingyun thought for a moment and said, "Anytime. As senior scouts of the Eighth Battalion, we're only responsible for daily reconnaissance. Many people go fishing in the coastal waters. It's dangerous on the sea, but not as much on the shore. So, there are a lot of people on the shoreline."
Han Fei thought for a moment. "Tell me more about the points and credits."
You Lingyun took out a pamphlet and said, "I'm here exactly to drop this off to you. You'll understand everything after you read it."
A moment later, Han Fei put on a grave expression.
The function of the stars and the difficulty of promotion were both greater than he expected.
Zero stars to twelve stars represented thirteen different levels. On the Scattered Stars Island at this moment, Xue Shenqi, the highest commander of this place, was the only person with twelve stars.
Those with zero stars received 200 high-quality pearls and 200 points each month. They were all not Hanging Fishers yet, and they would only work as hard laborers or coastal guards.
Those with one star would get 500 high-quality pearls and 500 points each month. They were mostly junior Hanging Fishers.
Those with two stars would get 1,000 high-quality pearls and 1,000 points each month. Most people could reach this level by making slow progress. Those with one and two stars were the main defenders on the coastlines of the Scattered Stars Island.
Those with three stars would earn 2,000 high-quality pearls and 2,000 points each month. They mostly worked at important places as lesser commanders. They were relatively strong, and they were usually intermediate Hanging Fishers.
Once they had four stars, they would earn 5,000 high-quality pearls and 5,000 points each month, which was a significant increase.
Those people were exclusively advanced Hanging Fishers, unless they were promoted for special reasons, or they had other identities such as refiner or alchemist.
It was said that those with four stars would receive the honorable title of Guardians of the Sea, which could give them a discount at stores.
Those with five stars would have 10,000 high-quality pearls and 10,000 points each month. The people in this rank could make different choices. For example, if they killed a hundred sea demons, they would gain the title of Executor of a Hundred. 
Here, the hundred sea demons did not refer to the regular Inferior Man-Fish, but the high-level and highly-intelligent sea demons. Although the Inferior Man-Fish were sea demons too, even killing a thousand of them didn't mean that the title would be given.
…
Under normal circumstances, those with six stars would have twice as much benefits and receive the title of Slaughterer. They could go to the sea whenever they wanted and return with spoils.
It also meant that one would be free if they got six stars.
For those with seven stars, they would be qualified to be promoted as a Centurion after killing a thousand sea demons. They earned their reputation through killing.
Han Fei gasped hard. He felt that his head was swelling when he saw the requirements for these promotions.
The requirements for three stars to become four stars were 300,000 points and five victorious defense battles.
The requirements for four stars to become five stars were a million points and the Executor of a Hundred title.
The requirements for five stars to become six stars were five million points, the Executor of a Hundred title, and killing more than ten level-49 sea demons.
The requirements for six stars to become seven stars were ten million points, the Executor of a Thousand title, and killing more than ten Half-Mermaid Heavenly Talents.
…
Han Fei felt that his blood was freezing. All those goals seemed too intangible. Earlier, You Lingyun had told him that they could only get one point every time. Then, how long would it take for him to accumulate a million points?
…
On the next day, Han Fei rose up eagerly, ready to set off to the Skeleton Shore.
However, he saw You Lingyun and the others right after he left the hut.
Han Fei asked in confusion, "Aren't you still on vacation? I can go there by myself."
Gu Daliang replied, "We have nothing to do anyway, so we'll just hunt some regular creatures at the shore."
Wu Xiaoxiao added, "Money is something that can be saved up. You can pick up an assortment of creatures at the shore of the Scattered Stars Island. They are mostly pushed to the shore after they are wounded, and we can take advantage of them after the ebb."
Seeing that they were all ready, Han Fei didn't say anything else.
As it happened, he wanted to find out how strong his new teammates were. They looked reasonably capable, but their combat abilities must be weakened due to their poor equipment.
Since he would be stuck as an advanced Dangling Fisher for a while, he should learn his teammates better and help them improve themselves as their captain.
Very soon, they reached the cliff. All they needed to do was jump off to reach the Skeleton Shore.
The Skeleton Shore was composed of sand, pebbles and mud. Broken clams were everywhere on the beach, which was a view that Han Fei had never seen on the floating island that had no continents or beaches.
Han Fei saw some bizarre-shaped rocks far away in the sea as if they had been stabbed into it.
You Lingyun said, "They're the remains of the ships from a long time ago, just like the fossils we saw on our way yesterday. However, those remains are bigger and still in the sea. Sometimes, we'll board them to pick up sea creatures."
Leng Hui said casually, "The tide hasn't ebbed yet. After the ebb, we can take a look at the ship nearby! But I don't think we'll see any good stuff. Most of the time, only shells will be attached to the ships."
Han Fei looked at the beach and spotted about five search parties. He couldn't help but ask, "Are they sea scavengers?"
Gu Daliang nodded. "That's right. Let's go to the way of the ebb. It's possible we'll pick up something good."
Following You Lingyun and the others, Han Fei ran to the part of the Skeleton Shore that protruded into the sea.
After running about ten kilometers, You Lingyun said, "Watch your feet. The tide has just ebbed ahead of us. There may be all kinds of creatures buried in the sand. They are even lethal if you're careless."
Han Fei nodded. Actually, he had already immersed his senses into the slowly ebbing water.
In the water, Han Fei saw the eerie red-and-yellow spiders with claws all over them, the yellow shells that looked like fans, and the hunched black worms that were made of thirteen sections…
Han Fei sensed a lot of similar creatures under the sand. They must be the sea creatures that You Lingyun just mentioned.
Before Han Fei started, You Lingyun and the others had already taken action.
The four of them almost took out their fishing poles simultaneously. You Lingyun darted out her fishing hook and caught a giant crab that was half a meter long.
<Name> Flat-Head Big-Eyed Crab
<Introduction> This is a carrion crab that likes to hide under reefs and sand. It will ambush any prey that passes by.
<Level> 38
<Quality> Normal
<Spiritual Energy> 596 Points
<Effect> It will help you recover your physical strength if eaten over a long period of time.
<Collectible> None
<Absorbable>
After the Flat-Head Big-Eyed Crab was caught, Han Fei realized why it was named that way. It had a completely flat shell, and its two big eyes, like glass balls, were stuck on the shell.
Shua!
A sword light pierced between the Flat-Head Big-Eyed Crab's eyes and killed it.
You Lingyun put the Flat-Head Big-Eyed Crab into her Sea Swallowing Seashell and looked at Han Fei. "Don't underestimate them. Plenty of rookies are killed by them every year. Even junior Hanging Fishers are sometimes injured."
On the other side, Wu Xiaoxiao was much more efficient. Her grasses slithered in the sand, and lumps of ice rose with frozen creatures inside wherever she walked.
Leng Hui had already entered his stealth state. Some sand was dug out every time he revealed himself.
Gu Daliang simply stood on the top of his shield and used it as a skateboard. He slid forward while he poked the hooks in his hands into the sand, dragging out all kinds of weird creatures.
Looking at how familiar they were with the job, Han Fei knew that they must've done this a million times.
Han Fei couldn't help but ask, "You seem to be fishing very hard. Are those things very valuable?"
"Not really. They're worth one point apiece. There are a lot of such creatures, and many people on the island like to eat them."
Han Fei was lost for words. "A level-38 creature is only worth one point?"
Leng Hui shrugged. "It's just regular quality."
Han Fei didn't know what to say. Even if it was regular, it was still a level-38 creature, and the price was too cheap… No, he had to catch several dozen of them and store them in his Forge the Universe as stock.
Han Fei's perception range was wider. After catching several dozen creatures and throwing them into Forge the Universe, he sensed that something weird and black was wriggling at the ebbing tide.
Immediately, Han Fei waved his fishing pole and caught the creature. He pulled it back in the next second.
Wu Xiaoxiao cried, "Hey, it's a King Worm! They're worth five points apiece!"
In Han Fei's eyes:
<Name> King Worm
<Introduction> This is a carrion creature that feeds on rotten flesh. It has a hard shell and enormous strength. It will roll itself into a ball to attack the enemy in case of danger. Its gallbladders can be used as medicine.
<Level> 39
<Quality> Regular
<Spiritual Energy> 612 points
<Effect> Inedible
<Collectible> Worm Gallbladders
<Absorbable>
This King Worm shrank into a round ball in midair and flew right towards Han Fei.
Han Fei frowned. What can I do with you if you're not edible? I might as well see how hard you are.
BAM!
Han Fei punched out and shattered the King Worm in the next moment.
Wu Xiaoxiao cried, "Captain, you just blew up five points! Get out of the way! Let me see if the gallbladders are broken…"
Searching the pieces for a while, she said regretfully, "Ah, it's broken."
Han Fei: "…"
Gu Daliang slid to Han Fei and said, "Captain, why don't we go easier next time?"
Han Fei didn't know what to say. "How much time will it take before you gather enough points you want?"
Wu Xiaoxiao said matter-of-factly, "Many a little makes a mickle."
Gu Daliang added, "If we're lucky, we'll get enough points to buy a high-quality spiritual weapon after a day of fishing."
Han Fei rolled his eyes. "Then how long do we have to fish to get an ultra-quality spiritual weapon?"
Gu Daliang paused for a moment and said, "Considering our current speed, we should be able to get one if we fish for ten days. However, if we want one with a sealed soul, we'll have to work for twenty days."
Han Fei narrowed his eyes. "Are ultra-quality spiritual weapons so much more expensive than high-quality ones?"
You Lingyun walked close and said, "That's also why everybody prefers high-quality spiritual weapons to the ultra-quality ones. The points can not just be exchanged for items but also be used for other purposes…"
Han Fei suddenly asked, "How much is a Basalt Conch?"
"A Basalt Conch?"
Everybody was briefly stunned, and Gu Daliang replied, "A Basalt Conch's hard shell can be used to make shields. They're a hundred points apiece."
Han Fei moved his hand and darted his hook out.
Wu Xiaoxiao exclaimed "Huh! You're very good at the Thousand-Mile Fishing…"
You Lingyun added, "You can reach so far…"
However, a big conch flew close in the next moment, and Gu Daliang's eyes widened. "It's a Basalt Conch. I'm on it."
Han Fei frowned. He had just caught it at random, and there were actually more creatures in the tide. He wondered why his teammates weren't diving into the sea, which did not seem particularly dangerous even though the overflowing thin threads of the sea spiders were rather icky.
This Skeleton Shore did not seem to deserve its fame at all!


In a world where humanity lives in suspended space, children undergo a fishing test when they come of age. Those with immaculate talents have the possibility of becoming great fishing masters.
In the endless sea, every life is imbued with a sacred mission. There are fish that can fly, turtles that have absorbed the worldly essence, and whales that can devour the heaven and earth… There are also countless fishers. 
Fishing is an art.
There is an ancient saying: If you can't fish, you might as well be bait.

This was turning to be a good start.


Others followed and gave their rings to him. Unfortunately, the next ones that followed showed no results. 



Then the five representatives of the auction houses came at the same time and produced a shocking number of ten rings.


He scanned them all and found five ingredients ingredients for the agility potion and two ingredients for the strength potion. He was just one less short on ingredients for the agility potion. 


Next came the Zell family, with Marty giving the rings. Arthur can tell that this uncle of his looked confident. They were really trusting him too much and just prepared two spatial rings. He scanned it and was surprised to see the last ingredient needed for the agility potion. He took it out and the black wooden box at the same time.

Everyone was puzzled by the box but Arthur never said a thing and gestured for the next person to come.


Lastly, Princess Celica  went near Arthur and gave just two rings. He was just starting to scan the rings when Argon and Thea said something.

'Master, there is nothing worthy on the rings that she gave you. But the skill seed on his possession is suited for you. I know that he failed harmonizing it. Let her stay behind and make a deal.'



'Also Master. She has a special ability that may help you rank up. Better get close to her as the Zell family young heir.'





Arthur really don't want to make a deal with Celica. However, Argon will not make a suggestion without considering his Master's benefit. 



Arthur tossed back the rings back to Celica. He already made a decision.



"Stay behind little girl. I want talk to you about something. I am sure you will benefit more if you listen to what I have to say."




Celica nodded and went back to his unconscious guards.



"Now, I won't go back to my word and tell you who will recieve the three favors that I propose. The one who brought this black box, bring yourself forward".



Marty became nervous all of a sudden but maintained his calm demeanor until he arrived near the mysterious hybrid.



"State your name and tell me where did you get this black box."




Marty was dumbfounded because he can't really tell that he got this from his nephew. Although it will be the truth, it will just turn him into a liar, because no one will believe that this thing which caught the interest of a powerful hybrid was brought by a kid. 



"Sir, I am Marty Zell. My family deals with importing glass materials for potion tubes and other potion making equipments. My father told me that he received that as a gift long time ago. He said that there was a magical ingredient in there but he was not strong enough to entirely open the box. He tried, but just opening it a little bit made him unconscious for a month. He never tried again but he kept this as a collectible. Just before he died, he told me never to try to open this and trade for it if possible."



When he was done, even Marty partly believed his lie. Well desperate measure calls for desperate times.



Arthur was impressed by his uncle's improvisation. It really was one of a kind. He totally sold a bullshit story and you can tell by the other's facial expression.



"Your old man was a fortunate and an unfortunate man at the same time , Mr. Zell. If he ever pursued the interest of opening this box, then he may have been the culprit of the destruction of half the cities in this kingdom.


What is inside this box is the Nethermoon Golden Dragon fruit. This is always been the way to ripen a Nethermoon Golden Dragon fruit is to put it to a box made in Craven Crow Wood.  Why? Because until it is ripe, the fruit emits some kind of scent that will make you sleep until it ripens if you are directly near it."


When Arthur got this fruit, it was the day that Thea possessed him. Thea's passive ability, Mind Shield, will nullify any weak mind attacks and illusions so he was safe when he entered the Nethermoon Golden Dragon tree area.


When the fruit of this tree ripens, it will turn golden emits a very refreshing scent. Only one fruit can be taken in a lifetime, and it will definitely rank up your level and amplify the skills you have.


"I don't know if it is some kind of joke or a mistake that your old man got this. You deserve my three favors just because of this box. As for the others, what do you want in exchange for your herbs that I took out? I will see if I can do it."


"Sir, if you have a skill seed weapon for a hybrid with an ice element, I would like to exchange it for that." Ryan Allison was the first one to say what he wants. His grandson has an ice element so it is perfectly normal for him to request this.


Arthur was silent for a minute before taking out a white skill seed and tossed it to Ryan. 

"Thank you,sir".


"If it is possible, we would like to request a skill seed with a support type ability. Heal, Transformation or Boost abilities will do".


The request of the representatives of the auction houses astonished Arthur. It was not his business to meddle with their affairs but he can't stop being curious.

Arthur Zell, a promising young master of a business family, was kidnapped because of an artifact his family was trying safeguard.

       Negotiations broke down. Out of intense anger, the leader of the group who kidnapped him threw him to an unstable spatial tunnel.

       Arthur came back after disappearing for so many years, holding on to the humiliation of that tragic day.

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