Li Yao had now become thoroughly adept at interpreting magical knowledge.
It took only a few days to more or less finish interpreting the summoning magic array inscriptions. As for the manager of the jewelry store in Tong City whom he had contacted, he had been transferred directly to the provincial capital after handling Li Yao's business twice recently. The jewelry store had directly listed Li Yao as a "super VIP," and aside from his routine duties, the manager's main job was coordinating with Li Yao.
The altar Li Yao made this time was not solid...
Otherwise, he would not even have been able to afford the obsidian! The round altar had a volume of roughly nine cubic meters. Based on obsidian's density, the raw obsidian alone would weigh more than ten tons... Even low-to-mid-grade obsidian cost two thousand yuan per kilogram...
Li Yao shuddered! Couldn't afford it, couldn't afford it...
Mages really burned through money like crazy!
Fortunately, aside from the solid obsidian base at the bottom of the Summoning Altar, the rest was built from hollow carved stone bars. The interior cavity was used to construct the core hub.
Even so, he had bought six hundred jin of obsidian...
Since it was raw ore and he was buying in bulk, the jewelry store gave him a discount, selling high-quality obsidian to Li Yao for twelve thousand yuan per kilogram.
So the obsidian alone cost Li Yao 3.6 million yuan.
Then the various gemstones used as decorations and energy-node hubs cost him another 4.7 million or so. Altogether, he had spent more than 8.4 million this time... Li Yao's hands had trembled when he went to the bank to make the transfer! If Chen Xi had not given him thirty million earlier,
he would not even have been able