Chapter 196: Bumper Harvest
Under the world-destroying heatwave unleashed by the Level 6 Elemental Pool, the entire Abyss Snow City had turned into a gigantic sauna.
Steam billowed everywhere, ice and snow melted, and all one hundred thousand Snow Monsters became limp, powerless slush, temporarily losing all threat. Benjamin was like the most efficient harvesting machine; his figure left afterimages throughout the city, and wherever he passed, vast quantities of rare materials were swept unceremoniously into his Space Expansion Bags.
High-energy ice crystal ore, ten-thousand-year permafrost the Snow Monsters had used to build their city, the flesh and blood of certain polar creatures they had "raised"—
He did not even mind the trouble of precisely stripping one icy Snow Monster core after another from their melting bodies. After all, these were hard currency that could be exchanged for vast amounts of Military Merit.
His movements were astonishingly fast. In just over half an hour, he had stuffed the several enormous Space Expansion Bags he had brought to bursting, until they could barely hold anything else.
Yet after his ecstatic looting, Benjamin also felt a trace of regret.
He had practically turned over the entire core district of the city, but unfortunately, he had not found any strategic-level structure resembling the Lava Giants' "Incubation Pool."
Moreover, judging from the materials he had collected, most of the truly rare top-tier materials—those of Level 3 or even Level 4 quality—seemed to have been taken away long ago by the high-level Snow Monsters who had evacuated.
What remained in the city's treasure vault were mostly ordinary, low-grade materials of little value.
"Looks like they fled in quite a hurry, but they still took the important things." Benjamin understood, though he was not overly disappointed.
After all, such gains had already far exceeded his expectations.