"Why aren’t you getting those over here quickly?" Fan Jinghai urged impatiently, "There are so many on the ground, there must be thousands of pounds, right? Send someone to bring some over."
The principal gave Fan Jinghai a meaningful look, "We can take them, but it’ll cost money."
"What? Pay what money? Why should we pay money?" Fan Jinghai took a sip of tea, puzzled.
"To get things from her, you have to pay." The principal lazily glanced at Fan Jinghai, "There’s no way to get her stuff for free. That Blood Stopping Magic Potion and Defense Fruits cost quite some money, at least 300 million, I’d estimate."
Fan Jinghai spat out his tea in shock, "What? 300 million? You guys are really willing to spend!"
If it were him, he’d never spend that much money. As an Awakener University student, what’s wrong with freely contributing something of value, as long as the credit goes to them?
"You’re just spoiling the students too much." Fan Jinghai clicked his tongue, "And that plan too, paying the students as well."
"Students need money, can you not give it to them?" the principal chuckled, unbothered, "Besides, it was Su Ang who paid last time, Dean Li and I only contributed a little bit." Get full chapters from novel✶fire.net
"That Su Ang kid..." Mentioning Su Ang, Lu Jian’an couldn’t help but shake his head, "Ah, it’s a pity for that kid."
"Then just ask other students for some!" Fan Jinghai quickly steered back the conversation when it was about to go off track, "Didn’t she give each team a bunch? Find someone to bring a few over."
"Alright, I’ll instruct the teachers inside the examination room."
The principal connected to the wireless communication of the invigilating teachers inside the examination room, and an hour later, someone brought a few Concentration Fruits into the monitoring room.
"Principal, it is said that this thing can be eaten directly after peeling." The teacher conveyed the information they heard to the principal, "But as for its specific effects, no one knows."
The principal and others exchanged a glance, picked up a Concentration Fruit, and pinched open the shell.
Inside the hard shell of the red Concentration Fruit was flesh that was crystal clear like lychee injected with crimson dye, and within the reddened flesh, a golden thread seemed to be both still and gently flowing. When a fingernail accidentally pierced the fruit membrane, the golden thread suddenly transformed into countless gold powder, spreading within the flesh like stars sprinkling across the night sky, beautiful and enigmatic like quicksand.
The principal chewed it directly; the slightly sweet juice trickling down the throat was passable like fruit juice, but the more he chewed, the drier the flesh got, leaving only residue, which he spat out like sugarcane.
"What does it feel like?" Fan Jinghai couldn’t help asking.
The principal sensed something, a bit puzzled, "It doesn’t feel like anything."
Fan Jinghai hurriedly picked up one as well, peeled it, and chewed it into his mouth, and as the principal said, he didn’t taste anything unusual.
Seeing this, Xi Mingde and Lu Jian’an also tried one each, and as the juice went down, the two exchanged a glance, and then seemed thoughtful.
"Did you notice anything?" Seeing their expressions, the principal hurriedly asked.
"It’s spiritual power." Lu Jian’an said flatly, "I am a Spiritual System Awakener and have always been very sensitive to changes in spiritual power. Dean Xi is a B-level Beastmaster, no less sensitive to spiritual power than I am, right?"
Xi Mingde nodded, "This Concentration Fruit... can increase spiritual power."
As soon as these words came out, the principal and Fan Jinghai gasped simultaneously.
"Old Xi, you’re not kidding us, are you?" Fan Jinghai said incredulously, "It’s well known that spiritual power is innate and cannot increase! Even if it could, how could such an outrageous thing appear in an ordinary E-level instance?"
"You’re right; an outrageous thing shouldn’t appear in an ordinary E-level instance, so this fruit can only increase a small amount of spiritual power, suitable only for E-level Spiritual Power Users." Lu Jian’an nodded, "For D-level Spiritual Power Users, I don’t know how many they’d have to eat to rise to C-level."
"Then it’s useless to us." Fan Jinghai said disappointingly, "Spiritual power is not linked to skills, what’s the use of increasing a bit of spiritual power?"
"It’s useless to your Skill Department, but for our Command Department, it’s very useful." Lu Jian’an lightly tapped his chin, "If mass-produced, all E-level Spiritual Awakened on the market could become D-level Awakened, and if you insist on putting in the effort to cultivate, you might even nurture some C-level individuals."
"First the Blood Stopping Magic Potion, followed by the Defense Fruit, then the Frenzy Potion, and the Concentration Fruit... all things that let ordinary people who make up the majority at the bottom and E-level Awakeners advance further..." Lu Jian’an chuckled lightly, "This student is quite interesting."
"You almost made her sound like a flower." Fan Jinghai pouted, "She’s just a bit more impressive in the area of Magic Plants."
Lu Jian’an smiled without saying anything.
After confirming the effect of the Concentration Fruit, they continued watching the screen.
Inside the instance, Qian Qi calculated the remaining flags and confirmed that they could no longer accept teams, just as they were about to withdraw the task and go find Sheng Qing and others, they suddenly saw a team hurrying towards them.
"I heard there’s a hidden task here?" The team came aggressively, because of their superior strength, they took routes different from other teams, heading to places where there were more Magic Beasts, so they rarely encountered other teams.
After discovering there were no flags left, they initially planned to find another team to snatch one, but then they heard there was a hidden task here where they could get three flags at once, so they rushed over.
"Sorry, the hidden task quota is full." Qian Qi waved his hand, "Go look for other flags, I can show you where there might be remaining flags."
"Aren’t there ones right here?" One person keenly pointed to the box by Qian Qi’s feet.
These people didn’t know Qian Qi, at most just heard the name but never saw the real person, and since they were used to being self-centered due to their high level, they directly bent down to try to take a flag from the box.
Qian Qi stopped the person’s hand, "These belong to another team."
"Ha, even if you give them to another team, we’ll end up snatching them. Why bother?" The student sneered, reaching again for the flags, "Just give them to us."
"I only hand over the flags to those who complete the task, as for what happens afterward, I don’t care." Qian Qi grabbed the person’s wrist and, with a little force, pushed them five meters away.
The student’s teammates immediately eyed Qian Qi vigilantly, ice blades forming in their hands, ready to strike.
Qian Qi glanced up casually, and pointed at the surveillance above, "What are you doing, planning to attack staff? Aren’t you afraid of failing?"
With the mention of staff, the group of students dared not act rashly, and could only stand there, suppressing their anger, ready to snatch the flags from others later.