Ye Chenyang gave her a brief explanation. In the Core Circle, Awakeners enjoyed a relatively high degree of freedom.
Since none of the Core Base Cities within the Circle had walls and travel between cities was frequent, people naturally had a much wider range of activity.
Even if Awakeners didn't join the authorities or City Defense, they were still allowed to leave the city and hunt Calamities. This had also given rise to quite a few related industries.
The cores and certain body parts of Calamities were mainly used to make weapons,
and those weapons then circulated through the market, where Awakeners bought them to hunt Calamities. They could exchange the cores they collected for money, completing the cycle.
Where there was profit to be made, there was never any shortage of people willing to get involved.
But the farther one ventured into the deep waters, the higher the Calamities' ranks became. There was even a chance of encountering a Calamity Tide.
After all, the sea was a complicated place.
Even without a Mist Tide, the battles between certain sea tyrants alone could drive low-rank Calamities or Mist Creatures into a frenzy.
So the authorities had divided the inner sea into three tiers of activity zones, each requiring a pass.
Because of this management system, and because Base City No. 7 was on the front line, Awakeners had many more ways to acquire weapons.
Jiang Mian hadn't expected that while she'd been asleep, Ye Chenyang had already taken care of everything.
"You have to be there in person to apply for a pass. Let's head out in a bit. If we leave it too late, we'll have to wait until tomorrow."
She nodded blankly, then looked at the gun parts in the box.
"Brother Ye, this must have cost quite