"What a pity, still no news of the Terrax Stone, and other S-Rank Controlled Objects can’t be upgraded for now," Li Ming thought of this again.
He opened the backend of the Black Hole Hall, there was still no news about the bounty, so he couldn’t help shaking his head.
But the evolution of the Life Level and the overall leap in strength still made Li Ming in high spirits.
He took out the [Proof of Casting Star], this thing required ten million metal energy to control, and Li Ming had less than twenty million left, virtually drained.
Control, and then consume.
The Control Page popped up, with the profession [Great Mechanic] wrapped in dazzling colors, an all-too-familiar scene to Li Ming.
[Great Mechanic]→[Mechanical Sovereign]
[Mechanical Sovereign: King of Mechanics, possessing the abilities of [Massive Mechanical Construction] and [Super Mechanical Guard].]
[Massive Mechanical Construction: Can use metal energy to massively transform, repair, strengthen, and mechanize Controlled Objects.]
[Super Mechanical Guard: You can construct four Mechanical Bodies with the [Guard] Trait.]
At the moment of Professional Promotion completion.
Li Ming once again felt that tide-like surge of complex knowledge, directly crammed into his mind.
Merely consuming ten million metal energy was not enough to give him the true credentials of a real Casting Star Mechanic.
But that wasn’t what he needed.
Furrowing his brows for a long while, he carefully read the description after the Professional Promotion, with an all-around upgrade in his abilities.
Going from single Mechanical Construction to massive scale, mainly to save time, so he doesn’t have to touch them one by one manually.
But he’s not clear on how massive this scale actually is, for the time being.
Then there’s the number of Mechanical Guards, increasing from two to four.
This was quite surprising to Li Ming, as Mechanical Guards are indeed very powerful, although they consume a lot of metal energy, Li Ming never felt it was a loss.
However, before he obtained [Talos’ Heart], using [Thunderstorm Fervor] and bearing only 50% of the boost could overload the Mechanical Guards, limiting the burst duration.
But now with [Talos’ Heart], even with just 50% of his total enhanced power on both strength and defense.
With an A-Level Mechanical Guard’s Energy Level close to 100A, the Burst Level would exceed 30S, barely approaching the 30% development progress of an S-Level Life Form.
The reason Li Ming doesn’t compare to 30% is that reaching the level of an S-Level Life Form.
The boost brought by the Genetic Seed is considerable and cannot be compared to the usual development progress when judging Combat Level; it will mostly surpass that.
And there is also the Liberation Form, which can be further enhanced.
Creating an A-Level Mechanical Guard, however, would require consuming one billion metal energy. Is that a lot?
For the current Li Ming, it is quite a lot, but even at the most speculative prices on the Black Hole Network, one billion metal energy would be around ten billion Star Coins.
Ten billion Star Coins for a single S-Level Life Form, countless forces would likely outbid each other for it.
Of course, this combat power is due to the 50% boost from the [Guard] Trait; otherwise, it’s essentially still an A-Level Life Form.
Li Ming went through a brainstorming session; if he were to impart more Guards, they would certainly be of the highest quality material.
By conservative estimate, creating four Mechanical Guards would require at least 450 million metal energy or more.
"Still lacking in accumulation and foundation..." Li Ming clicked his tongue and repressed his thoughts.
Although he was extremely short on funds, this Professional Promotion still left Li Ming quite satisfied.
He then logged into Black Hole Hall and started carefully selecting the metal materials he needed to purchase.
Unlike the Black Hole Network, the marketplace in the Hall clearly indicated the suppliers, which also means that the buyer’s information could not be kept as confidential as on the Black Hole Network.
But Li Ming no longer needed to keep it secret, he found a large company called Star Mining.
Li Ming did a search; Star Mining’s main business was dealing with metal raw materials, reportedly owning over ten thousand mineral stars.
Li Ming’s purchase was a refined alloy steel, a metal with extremely versatile applicability.
A massive purchase order of nearly twenty-five billion shocked the responsible salesperson, who immediately contacted the upper management.
Li Ming had no special requests, only speed, and whether it could be cheaper.
His contact, with a wave of his hand, directly offered a 10% discount and took care of the transport costs.
"That’s more like it. Bulk purchases should come with a discount; Black Hole Network is really fucking rip-off..." Li Ming murmured to himself.
Seeing the other party so forthright, he didn’t hassle further and paid the deposit right away.
Via the transactions of the Hall, backed by its own credibility, there was no risk of a deal going south.
The other party promised that they would commission Giant Shield Company to transport it at the utmost urgency.
But to deliver to the coordinates he specified, it would take close to a month.
Li Ming made a rough estimate; just to reach the star coordinates given by Blackbeard would take over ten days, he didn’t expect much delay, so he agreed to it.
Meanwhile, Dark Night arrived at the top floor of a high-rise building by Twin Peaks without a sound, looking like a small-scale lab, filled with auxiliary mechanical arms and oddly shaped miniature Mechanical Bodies.
Dark Night seemed very familiar with the place, walking straight to the depths and looking at the figure with its back to him, "Ulysses."
"You’re here," Ulysses said as he stopped what he was doing and turned around slowly. He seemed to be human, even wearing glasses, approachable and ordinary.