After browsing the Direct Exchange Tab, he opened the Auction tab.
In it were treasures auctioned by the Apex Sovereigns.
Looking at the list of treasures, Maximus was not too impressed.
The items in the auction tab were treasures that could be found outside the dimension.
They were mainly meteorites, treasures,void beast carcass and some substances lost in the void, landing into the Etherium realm.
Thus, most of the treasures on the list were unimpressive.
However, some items still caught Maximus’s eye.
The Myriad World Mall only sold items up to tier 10.
As for tier 11, even the most common resources couldn’t be found.
Thus, seeing tier 11 treasure on the auction tab made him somewhat interested.
Over countless amounts of time, some tier 11 items unknowingly drifted and landed in the Etherium realm.
Although these materials were quite common, like some debris and metal in the void, they’re tier 11 resources nonetheless.
Maximus had been finding a solution to solve the bottleneck of the Etherforge Reactor until now.
Having these tier 11 materials could be a way of breakthrough making a more efficient and cheap device.
However, looking at the price quoted by the Apex Sovereigns, he couldn’t help but frown.
Just the cheapest tier 11 material costs a few sextillion merits.
It’s just the starting price; unless the auctioneer is satisfied with it, the bidding will continue indefinitely.
No wonder no one had bid on these treasures.
Buying and overpriced materials you couldn’t use was just a scam.
Seeing the names of the auctioneers, Maximus thought if he could barter with them personally.
Although he didn’t have enough merit, he had dimensional coins he could use in the Myriad World Mall.
Not only would it solve his problem, it would also be cheaper.
Suddenly, he noticed a cheap tier 11 plant.
“World tree?” Maximus fell into thought.
The World Tree is an ultimate dimensional treasure.
In the past, when he still hadn’t created the ‘Origin,’ he considered merging this treasure for his foundation.
Seeing that it was for sale in the auction tab, he fell into a daze.
Furthermore, it wasn’t only for sale; there was also a great selection of it according to age.
From the lowest age of billion years to the highest millions of epoch year World Tree.
Although the World Tree is an ultimate dimensional treasure, it was only in mature form.
As for the fragment of a World Tree, it was barely comparable to a common tier 11 material.
Furthermore, it needed to be at least a billion years to be even considered worthy.
The branches and leave of it could only be considered a tier 9 material at most.
After a World Tree reached a billion years, it would form a cubic meter of space like a small world.
This small world is not like the small world created by dimensional movements but a small world with complete laws.
Thus, it’s possible to create a small world with all the laws in all dimensions, which is over a hundred thousand laws.
However, to internalize even the most common and weakest form of law.
The world tree needed to have a small world with a square kilometer of space.
For rarer law and higher forms of law, more space would be needed to internalize it.
After internalizing over a hundred thousand laws, it would then be a complete tier 11 ultimate dimensional treasure.
If it could internalize all the laws with their highest form, the Origin of law, then it could possibly reach the highest realm.
In the past, he once considered nurturing a World Tree of his own.
Not only could it bypass the dimension he was living in, but it could also be used as one of the ultimate treasures needed for his tier 11 advancement.
However, the time and resources needed to nurture it were enormous.
With only billions of system points in the past, how dare he entertain the idea of nurturing this world-devouring plant?
Thus, as time passed, he completely forgot about the World Tree.
Seeing it again made him remember its properties.
Now that he could get quintillions of system points every day.
Wouldn’t nurturing a world tree with a few thousand of laws be feasible?
He also had enough resources that could buy specific resources to internalize the laws that were not available in the Etherium realm.
Thinking about it, he couldn’t help but be excited.
Calming down, he closed the Merits Hall.
He couldn’t afford anything for now.
Maximus needed to think of a solution to earn merits quickly.
“Mission Hall…”
It should be the place where he could actively earn more merits.
Opening the Mission Hall, he was greeted by dozens of missions.
[Population Expansion…(Details)
Clearance of Abyssal Aura…(Details)
Professional Development…(Details)
Exploration of New Knowledge…(Details)
Exploration of Other Dimensions…(Details)
Exploration of the Chaotic Sea…(Details)
Expelling the Abyss…(Details)
…]
Opening the population expansion, it was filled with various standards and rewards for population expansion.
It contained information on how much merit he would get depending on his degree of contribution, the quality of the population, their contribution to the world, etc.
As for the clearance of the abyssal aura, it’s the abyss leaked from the abyss realm.
The Curse Continent was merely the most heavily affected area.
The chaotic sea surrounding it was too affected that part of the Etherium Realm was teared apart from time to time.
These was also the source of abyss fragments near the Etherium Realm.
Abyssal Aura is like a virus corrupting the world, thus promoting the world’s origin to give generous rewards to clear it.
Professional development is for individuals to deeply study their profession or create new professions.
Not only could it help the World Origin comprehend knowledge, but it could also provide the Etherium realm with new and stronger arsenals.
The exploration of new knowledge is for the apex sovereigns to continue to discover and invent things like professional development.
From various experiments and synthesis, new knowledge could be found.
Another way would be to get books and knowledge from other dimensions.
Seeing this made Maximus click his tongue.
He now understood the sinister intentions of those apex sovereigns, especially the Lorekeeper Guild.
Maximus thought they were a bunch of nerds, thirsty for knowledge that they bought hundreds of quintillions worth of books from him.
Now, it seems that it was to earn more merit points.
Fortunately, there is a limit to this loophole.
According to the description, one needed to understand the knowledge and master it, at least through proficiency, before World Origin could give reward.
Furthermore, the more mastery one had, the higher the reward.
The World Origin didn’t seem to have the ability to comprehend, needing its inhabitants to spoon-feed it with knowledge.
Thinking of this, a smile quietly appeared on his face.
No one should know more new knowledge and master it than him in the Etherium realm.
If he shares this with the World’s Will…
Thinking of the merits he could get, he nearly couldn’t control his excitement.
As for the corresponding danger and consequences, he would think about them later.
Calming down, he turned his attention to the new mission tab.
For the exploration of dimensions, the World Origin would help open projections to investigate dimensions that it found.
A Virtual world would then be created by the Apex Sovereigns with the help of the World’s Will.
According to the degree of contribution, the World’s Will would give merits as a reward.
After the Virtual World is created, the world’s inhabitants would explore this world, treating it as a game, giving their rulers, the apex sovereign continuous supply of merits.
Not only could it bring new knowledge, it could also be a comparison subject of the World Origin.
Furthermore, it would forge a way for future dimensional invasion and conquest.
The Exploration of the chaotic sea is simply traveling and exploring the chaotic sea.
It seems that even within its own body, the World Will couldn’t see through the chaotic energy.
The World’s Will even needed the help of its inhabitants to explore the way.
The Expulsion of the Abyss on the other hand is about the fight with the abyss.
From sentry, information, material contribution, etc.
As long as you contribute to the fight in the abyss, the world’s will would calculate it and give the corresponding merits.
The rest of the mission was nothing noteworthy.
It’s just about planting domestication, expelling beast tide, and such.
After a brief overview, Maximus was not even interested in reading the rest.
The reward was too little for his interest.
As for the rest, it was simply a gold mine that could continuously give him enormous merits.
Calming himself down, he finally turned his attention to the Apex Sovereigns in the room.
Although it felt long, he only took a few minutes to browse through the Merit Hall and Mission Hall.
His expression was also masked through some disguise, so they didn’t notice his expression.
Quietly sipping their drinks, they waited patiently for him, investigating through the Etherium Alliance.
After organizing his thoughts, Maximus opened his mouth.
“Gentlemen…”