Two months later, in Netherlux Mansion:
Maximus and Skye have been eating while discussing their harvest since they came to the abyss realm.
“So, how many crystal merits have you got?” Maximus asked.
“Only a few hundred million crystal merits,” Skye said arrogantly.
The ‘Origin’ Maximus passed to her is truly amazing.
Skye felt a thousand times more powerful than her previous life combined.
Fighting the abyss monsters was not only easier but also more enjoyable.
Her spells and skills seemed to be enhanced a thousand times.
Her mana also lasted longer;
Now, she could fight for a few days without taking any mana recovery potion.
During these months, Skye rarely went home and immersed herself in battling the abyss monsters.
“Tsk, you’re so proud with just a few hundred million crystal merits,” Maximus sneered.
During these two months.
Although he was not so diligent in fighting abyss monsters all day, he had various puppets to fight for him.
In the abyss realm, there is no security or surveillance whatsoever.
Casually buying millions of puppets, Maximus could sit back and relax, having crystal merits delivered to his door.
Although the puppets couldn’t directly convert crystal merits, they could collect abyss origin with a bit of modification.
Without the Etherium world origin as arbitrary, his scrupulous way of getting crystal merits went unnoticed.
“Oh? Then how much did you get?”
“Not much, just in billions…” Maximus said vaguely, not revealing the actual amount.
In truth, these two months after learning about crystal merit conversion.
He earned close to a trillion merit crystals.
Such a huge amount is enough for a normal tier 7 individual to get out here and be promoted to tier 8.
Of course, it was barely enough for him.
After absorbing almost all of it, he only advanced about 0.000001%.
Meaning even if he earned a trillion crystal merits per month.
He needed about three thousand years to be promoted to tier 8.
“So much?” She was shocked when Maximus said he earned billions in just three months.
Initially, she was already proud to earn a few hundred million.
But now, knowing that Maximus earned billions like nothing.
She couldn’t help but feel downcast.
As for missions like killing lord-level abyss monsters or wiping out elite-level abyss monster horde?
Skye still valued her life.
Those outrageous missions were for a group of tier 8 individuals or an apex sovereign to finish.
Even Maximus dared not provoke those entities.
It’s not that he is scared.
On the contrary, those lord-level or elite-level hordes are nothing to him.
He didn’t want to fight them, as he didn’t want to expose his strength.
Even killing them secretly would cause a commotion, with the possibility of an apex sovereign investigating the case.
Anyway, it’s only a few hundred million crystal merits in rewards, not worth all the trouble.
Meanwhile, seeing Skye a little downcast, Maximus tried to comfort her.
“It’s because I found a trick,” Maximus revealed a little secret.
“Oh? What secret?!” Skye asked excitedly.
The first trick Maximus taught him about absorbing merit crystals directly is so convenient.
Now, she didn’t need to wait for the world origin to help her absorb crystal merits.
She can do it whenever she wants.
Now, there is another trick.
It must be about condensing crystal merits!
“As you have guessed, it’s about the crystal merits conversion.”
“What?! It really is?!”
Although Skye already guessed it, she was still shocked.
She also tried to study this method of converting abyss origin to crystal merits in her previous lives.
However, even after countless deaths and trials, she didn’t succeed.
Even if she condenses the abyss origin, it is full of impurities and devouring energy.
Absorbing such impurities, you’ll have the possibility of turning into an abyss monster.
“Yes, it’s the crystal merits conversion,” Maximus nodded in confirmation.
“Can you teach it to me?”
“Unfortunately, I can’t teach it to you,” Maximus shook his head.
The most important process of abyss origin conversion to crystal merits is purity.
Maximus only had an expert mastery.
Besides the waste of abyss origin dissolving in the conversion process, there were also a lot of impurities.
However, he had his system to rely on.
His system can absorb any energy in all dimensions and convert it to system points.
It’s just a matter of how much and the efficiency.
“Is it about the unique purification method?” Skye nodded in understanding.
Since Maximus can’t teach it, then it’s only about the purification process.
After all, she spent countless years studying it and still didn’t succeed.
“That’s right. However, if you can condense the abyss origin, I can purify it for you,” Maximus offered.
“That’s great!” Skye replied in excitement.
She had long known the Etherium World Origin was a robber, almost pocketing all her hard work.
In fact, many knew this, even the apex sovereigns.
However, they can’t do anything about the purification, so they eventually gave up.
It seems that only a world origin can do such a thing.
Of course, A higher-level treasure, such as Maximus’ system, a remnant of a tier 12 treasure, can also accomplish this.
After the agreement, Skye became happier and ate vigorously.
…
After preparing, they were ready to go to the End Town headquarters.
Today is the annual trade exchange.
The gathering of all the outposts in the purgatory layer.
Around the unactivated teleportation array, tens of thousands of people chattered excitedly about the upcoming exchange.
“I will earn big this time!”
“Oh? Did you find any rare treasure?”
“That’s right. I found a tier 8 abyssalite core.”
“Hahaha, it’s probably worth around 700 million crystal merits.”
“Hiss, what about treating me after selling it?”
“Yes, I’ll treat you to a street-side stall!”
“Fuck, you’re so stingy.”
“This is my hard-won money. How can I not be stingy with it?”
The people waiting eyed each other as they talked about their harvest in the past year.
Some were happy that they found treasures worth millions and billions.
Some were a little sad as they got injured instead of harvesting something.
Some were also excited to see if they could have a harvest in the annual exchange.
Maximus and Skye just stood silently on the side, waiting.
Soon after a few hours, the array lit up as a tremendous amount of energy was released.
With a flash of light, the group of people disappeared.
The End town was left in the desolate, devoid of people.
…
Purgatory City:
Maximus looked around as people kept getting teleported.
“It’s better than I thought,” Maximus mused.
He had expected Purgatory City, the gathering place for all the outposts in the purgatory layer, to be dilapidated like the End Town.
However, seeing the prosperity and exquisite architecture, Maximus nodded in satisfaction.
Maximus would be disappointed if it were just a rough city like the End Town.
After all, in such a city, he couldn’t possibly earn much.
Walking around, uniform buildings were open for selling and buying all kinds of resources.
Looking at the various logos and names, the buildings here were basically top-tier guilds and organizations in the Etherium Realm.
“I wonder if I can also set up a shop for the Shadow Hunter Guild here?” Maximus pondered.
Having a guild store would allow him to hide his profits and wealth.
After all, he wasn’t just after some trillions of crystal merits.
If that’s all he could earn, he might as well fight the abyss monsters and earn crystal merit honestly.
What he wanted was at least a quintillion crystal merits.
…
After looking around, he finally found the Etherium Abyss Council building.
“Hello, what can I help you with?” the steward greeted.
“I hope to set up a shop in Purgatory City. What do I need to do?” Maximus asked straightforwardly.
“Please, come in. I’ll call the manager for a while,” the steward said hurriedly.
After a while, the manager came to them.
“Hello, I’m Marvin. I heard you wanted to set up a shop in Purgatory City?”
“Yes, that’s right,” Maximus nodded respectfully.
“Then please follow me,” Marvin invited.
While following Marvin, Maximus silently commanded his system to give him a scan.
The feeling emitted by Marvin was almost comparable to that of an Apex Sovereign.
Seeing that Marvin didn’t react, he heaved a sigh of relief.
It seemed even such a powerful individual didn’t detect his system.
Of course, he still didn’t have the guts to try this on a full-fledged Apex Sovereign.
[Marvin: Tier 8
Psychic Soul Law: 95%
Domain: Psychic Soul Domain
Physique: Psychic Soul Body (Unawakened)]
Marvin’s status was normal except for his progress in the law.
Reaching 95 percent meant his chance of reaching Tier 9 was over 50 percent.
Usually, the bottlenecks for the progress of law are 10%, 30%, 50%, 70%, and 99%.
Once you overcome all these thresholds and challenges, you can reach Tier 9 immediately.
Marvin only had to wrestle against a last hurdle.
And he could become one of the over three thousand fully-fledged Apex Sovereigns in the Etherium Realm.
“The background of the Etherium Abyss Council is really big,” Maximus thought.