This time, when entering the Lightless Zone, Su Xiao did not let A'Mu come along. A'Mu was better at dealing with powerful enemies, while situations filled with bizarre traits were its weakness. Even with its incredible toughness, the Evernight Empress was not someone one could survive by simply enduring her attacks.
Baha returned with A'Mu as well. Spatial abilities were not particularly advantageous against bizarre enemies either. Su Xiao sent A'Mu and Baha to Dawn City. In the southern district stood a branch of the City Bank. It appeared to handle financial business, but was actually an underground material exchange.
City Lord Xia chose to turn a blind eye to this. After all, it did no harm to civilians. At most, it allowed some Black Merchants into Dawn City. Compared with the benefits it brought the city, that was insignificant.
With her tacit approval, the bank president became the true controller of the underground exchange. After years of development, it had become the largest extraordinary-material exchange in this world.
Su Xiao had no interest in the exchange itself. However, to support an exchange of this scale and gain recognition from the merchant associations of Dusk City, Sacred Heart City, and Spirit Crown City, one needed a sufficiently deep stockpile of extraordinary materials. What Su Xiao truly had his eye on was the exchange's extraordinary-material vault.
To artificially create the "Sun Source Stone" later, he would need vast quantities of rare materials. Dusk City clearly lacked such foundations, leaving only this material vault as a target.
This time, Su Xiao was not planning to conduct ordinary "purchasing." He had no time to operate the exchange, so he would be more direct and brutal. As for the vast amount of extraordinary materials obtained this way probably not being recognized by the authorities,