At noon on the fourth day of the Rule Period, Guan Tong walked out of Twin Star Bar.
Black Star was highly efficient with commissions and never delayed. Every time Guan Tong came by, he could collect fully charged Mind Power Crystals.
He stored six hundred each time, amounting to several thousand after a few trips. That was already a great deal for other Ascenders, but nowhere near enough for Guan Tong.
His own Mind Power Cap was close to a thousand, and he could convert quite a lot into reserves each day. Between self-conversion and external conversion, he could store around fifteen hundred a day.
That might have sounded like a lot, but given how much his abilities consumed, it was barely enough once he actually put them to use.
"Bzz, bzz."
At that moment, the phone in his pocket vibrated. He took it out and saw a message from Black Star.
"I got word through my channels. Someone has their eyes on you. Be careful."
Guan Tong replied, "I know."
Ever since he had left the bar, he had sensed something following him.
Not a person, but a miniature low-noise drone.
The palm-sized drone appeared well concealed and kept its distance from him, yet Shadow had still spotted it.
The reason his Mind Power consumption was so high was not simply because of combat. He kept Shadows deployed almost constantly for surveillance, scouting, and other tasks.
Even though those Shadows were small and did not consume nearly as much as a complete humanoid Shadow, they still drained quite a bit of Mind Power over the course of a day.
Guan Tong had good reason for doing this. He was now in an unfamiliar land, and because of his agreement with Yelena, he had been dragged into Xisiya's political