Chapter 107: Interdimensional Arms Trade
2015-10-28
Author: Floating Tower
A highly complex teleportation array.
Although the barriers between many planes began to weaken due to the Saint’s Cataclysm, reaching the Bottomless Abyss was still quite troublesome. The special nature of the demiplane allowed Soren to bypass the troubles of the Astral Realm, ensuring that he could teleport to the interior of the Bottomless Abyss at any time. However, he currently lacked the power to waste on opening a permanent portal, so he could only construct a teleportation array that could be temporarily activated.
A low chant began to resonate.
Gloria and the Fallen Witch worked together to cast a spell, while Soren used his divine power to open a dimensional passage.
Unfortunately, not having mastered the divine ability of [Space Alteration] made this process significantly more difficult; accumulating divine power was rather annoying, and he needed to save wherever he could.
Recently, Soren also used it to master a combat-oriented divine ability.
“Divine Power Shockwave [Divine Ability]: Consumes 10 points of divine power to deal 120 points of divine energy shock damage to a single target, ignoring resilience saves, or deals 40 points of divine energy shock damage to all targets within a 30-meter range; this damage will directly knock back nearby targets.”
Divine Shield and Divine Power Shockwave.
These were two very important combat abilities granted by divine authority. Soren’s survival capabilities were already quite strong, so he chose to master a divine shockwave that could target single enemies as well as deal area damage. The main reason for this choice was that after mastering the [Killing] domain, one of his abilities underwent a slight mutation.
“Profane Language [Killing Domain]: Due to the influence of the Killing Domain’s power, the effect of Profane Language has changed, equivalent to the legendary spell [Edict: d*ath]. You can use it against a single target, or against all targets within a 30-meter range. When used on a single target, Profane Language will directly k*ll any target with hit points below 120. When used on multiple targets, Profane Language will directly k*ll any target with hit points below 20.”
Soren had not fully mastered the Killing Domain yet.
The power of divinity requires time to gradually merge; this newly acquired domain was still quite unfamiliar to Soren. However, just the abilities he currently possessed were enough to bring about a tremendous change in his combat power.
Divine Power Shockwave, dealing 120 points of single-target divine energy shock damage that ignores resilience saves. 40 points of area divine energy shock damage.
Profane Language, directly erasing life for targets with less than 120 hit points and erasing life for groups with less than 20 hit points.
Combining these two abilities, Soren was astonished to find that he actually possessed a direct k*ll capability of 240 hit points and a group k*ll capability of 60 hit points.
Of course!
The premise for the k*ll was that the target did not possess special power to be “immune to instant d*ath damage.”
After mastering these two abilities, Soren finally felt a bit like a deity. It’s worth noting that when the Saint’s Cataclysm erupted, those powerful gods with incredible divine powers caused the sky to collapse and the earth to shatter. In contrast, Soren’s combat ability seemed to still remain at the level of a Legendary Professionist. The gap above him was due to the divine abilities, capable of altering reality, changing space, and other such godly feats. Soren was still far from those immensely powerful divine abilities.
He could now be considered a deity with [Weak Divine Power]; his divinity value and divine authority value were sufficient, what he lacked was merely the accumulation of divine power.
Now, Soren was waiting for the moment when quantity would trigger a qualitative change!
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Bottomless Abyss. Land of Forgotten.
The surrounding space experienced a slight distortion, and soon, a portal opened before Soren’s eyes. A massive amount of equipment was brought out through the portal by a Stone Golem; maintaining such an interdimensional portal required consuming large amounts of power. Therefore, Soren did not dare to delay and quickly sent the gold and gems he had collected during this time into the portal. Two full chests of golden jewels. Valued at about three hundred thousand Gind, along with many rare materials only found in the Bottomless Abyss, all sent into the portal.
Weapons piled up like mountains.
Due to the sheer volume, the Stone Golem had to make dozens of trips to transport everything.
No one could individually transport so many weapons back. The volume was beyond twenty horse-drawn carriages, and even large storage spaces couldn’t accommodate them, but Soren had long been prepared; soon, his elite demons would transport them back.
One thousand two hundred heavy extraordinary weapons.
Thirty heavy cannons.
Various equipment and weapons suitable for medium-sized creatures, along with several types of war supplies.
Don’t ask Soren why he transported so much stuff over.
Since he had already expended power to open the portal, wouldn’t it be a waste to not bring back a little more?
The cost of interdimensional arms trading was significant; Soren himself was reluctant to open such a portal multiple times, and it was likely he would only conduct this transaction once this year.
Half of the weapons were meant to equip the elite troops of the Demon Avatar, primarily assigned to mid-tier demons.
The other half of the weapons were for arms trading; items from the Bottomless Abyss were either astoundingly expensive or could be obtained at no cost. Expensive orders for equipment from the Northern Witch had already put some strain on Modo’s treasury; thus, Soren needed to recoup some capital from the demons.
Interdimensional arms trading guaranteed at least 200% profit!
Except for the thirty heavy cannons designated for attacking the Gurenba Arena, nearly half of the remaining equipment was prepared for sale to other demons. The Bottomless Abyss had no armories, and the demons would surely be more than willing to exchange collected gold and gems.
Soren estimated that the pure profit should be over six hundred thousand Gind!
With the outbreak of the Saint’s Cataclysm, trade along the Southern Coast was gradually affected; the turbulent situation caused many nobles to abandon the enjoyment of luxury goods, and profits from tea, porcelain, and silk from the Eastern Kingdom were clearly not as high as before. He planned to use this transaction to cover all military expenses for the following year.
Town development, temple construction, maintaining a large army.
Simply relying on the output from Treasure Island and trade taxes was insufficient for Soren to continue amassing forces, so he intended to attempt interdimensional arms trading.
The most valuable thing in the Bottomless Abyss is souls.
Demons did not really care about disaster coins (Gind); ironically, those Gind, which were of little concern to the demons, had significant uses in the material plane.
Gloria had always wanted to reconstruct a Wizard Tower, and the Fallen Witch probably needed a tower of her own as well.
These things often cost over a million Gind!
Not to mention the potential future research on a Floating City and its astronomical costs; just the two towers for Gloria and the Fallen Witch made Soren realize he needed to find ways to earn some capital for his wives.
Modo’s treasury couldn’t afford it!
The stable situation of the Overseas Islands relied on a large army to maintain; more funds could only be sourced from the Bottomless Abyss.
………………(To be continued ~^~)
