"Hey, have you heard? The Association really went all out this time."
Lin Ke said animatedly, "The exam simulation was actually Masterwork: Myriad Transformations. They say it burns through billions just to activate it each time.
"And for some reason, the consumption this time was especially high—absurdly high. My uncle in the administrative office told me that after the exam ended, Myriad Transformations had also burned through 160,000 portions of Supreme Goodness Essence and more than one-third of the Association's stored Spiritual Substance."
"That absurd?" Frederick was stunned. "It was only an exam. It shouldn't have needed that much, right?"
"Who can say? They say Myriad Transformations was still running after the exam." Lin Ke shrugged. "Maybe our exam was just incidental. I don't know what major project the association's directors were using Myriad Transformations to calculate."
"With that much consumption, it would be enough to simulate a war between the Federation and the Empire, wouldn't it?"
"Hard to say." Hu Yun grinned. "If I were a director, I'd play to my heart's content first!"
"By the time you were satisfied, the Cooperative Association would be bankrupt!" The people nearby burst into laughter.
Once the subject came up, everyone eagerly began calculating the Myriad Transformations Tower's expenditure. After a lively back-and-forth, they reached a unanimous conclusion: this round had burned through at least the entire value of a small city...
"Hey, Ji Jue, what do you think?" Noticing Ji Jue beside him looking as though he wanted to say something but held back, Lin Ke didn't want to leave him out and proactively handed him the conversational opening.
Yet unexpectedly, Ji Jue's expression went blank.
As though he had just been jolted awake.
Soon, he forced out a smile as if nothing had happened.
"I don't know."
He restrained the