Remembering Blake's face on the communication screen, twisted slightly by excessive excitement before he hurriedly cut the connection, Benjamin clicked his tongue in amusement.
"What exactly did that guy experience on that plane? He looked like he'd stumbled upon a mountain of gold." he muttered.
Blake's frenzied purchasing spree after his return had indeed drawn attention.
He had come knocking without pause, nearly emptying his pockets to sweep up every last bit of Liquid Adamantine in Benjamin's inventory, then immediately placed orders for more than a dozen Mind Barrier Bracer units.
From the look of it, he had practically sold off his entire fortune.
Later, when it came time to pay, he found that even staking all his assets still left him short. He had simply handed over some precious biological samples and unknown materials he had seized during that Plane War to Benjamin at discounted value.
"Could he be planning to become a middleman?" Benjamin stroked his chin, guessing at Blake's motives, before shrugging indifferently. "Forget it. Let him do as he pleases. I've made more than enough anyway."
After mastering the core Element–Spirit Energy Conversion technology, Benjamin had finally broken free from manpower constraints when refining Adamantine. He could now rely on various cultivation-world formations to automate the refining process.
With an automated refining process, the cost of Liquid Adamantine became outrageously low.
Its primary raw material was merely ordinary gold. Through complex formations, it underwent conceptual purification and form conversion, and the only hard cost was the small amount of Military Merit needed to purchase the gold.
Even accounting for the enormous material loss during refining, the total cost of producing a standard one-year supply of Liquid Adamantine for a bracer was less than five Military Merit!
And how much had he sold it to Blake for?