Cheat Mode

Wang Dong had reasons for not activating this optional function of the Auxiliary System at a time like this.

For one thing, there weren't enough Low-grade Energy Crystals. He had only two units.

For another, in this life, Wang Dong didn't want to remain forever bound to the War Axe, now known as the Pond.

The Pond was only a third-generation ship, with severely limited growth potential.

Its quality was poor to begin with.

Before his rebirth, he hadn't had any other choice. But now, Wang Dong had higher expectations for his ship.

The Pond could only serve as a stopgap.

There was no need to waste Energy Crystals on it.

Wang Dong had made a plan for what to do with the Pond as soon as he was reborn.

First, he had to get the Pond—the original War Axe—into his hands.

The War Axe would bring a series of problems, especially the Jin Family's pursuit.

But the three additional modules, including the Mirage System, were too tempting for Wang Dong to give up.

Second, after inheriting the War Axe from Yuan Shu, Wang Dong had set himself one unbreakable rule.

He absolutely could not reveal his identity.

If he couldn't meet even that basic condition, Wang Dong would decisively abandon the War Axe.

Wang Dong wasn't some hot-blooded ordinary boy. He knew perfectly well which mattered more: his life or his wealth.

Of course, before abandoning the War Axe, he would remove several of its additional modules and hide them away.

Things had gone far more smoothly than he had expected.

He had to enter the Otherworldly Space battlefield several times to earn enough Source Points, then repair the hull and rename the warship.

Due to the Kindling Warship's Buffer Time restrictions, each trip to the Otherworldly Space battlefield required at least a month before it could cross through time and space again.

He had originally expected the process to take several months.

But thanks to the Yatai civilization's "wholehearted generosity," Wang Dong had achieved his goal in only a few days.

After upgrading both the armor and Skywatch Radar modules to LV.2, the Pond's standard modules—its main gun, armor, engine, and Skywatch Radar—had all reached LV.2.

At the same time, the Pond's overall combat power rating rose to LV.7!

The warship's publicly available basic information would also change from "Scout-class Destroyer (War Axe) LV.6" to "Scout-class Destroyer (Pond) LV.7."

Now it was safe enough.

Compared with the War Axe, rated LV.6 overall, the Pond, rated LV.7, was an entirely different warship.

Wang Dong had just spent a full 1,300 Source Points to rename the ship and upgrade its modules, giving the War Axe a complete makeover as the Pond.

At the average rate at which a Kindling Warship earned Source Points, 1,300 Source Points represented decades of effort.

With this change, Wang Dong had finally drawn a sufficiently clear line between the Pond and the original War Axe.

A line that would take at least decades to cross.

From now on, once the Pond returned to the home universe, no one would associate it directly with the War Axe.

He still had plenty of Source Points left, enough to upgrade one of the Pond's standard modules once or twice.

But Wang Dong didn't continue upgrading its standard modules. Instead, he turned his attention to the additional modules.

Whether it was the remote-control function of the Quantum Entanglement Brainwave Control System or the Mirage System's powerful concealment, neither could be replaced for Wang Dong at this stage.

So it was more worthwhile to spend his Source Points on those two modules first.

The Pond, with an overall combat power rating of LV.7, was already more than capable in the current Otherworldly Space battlefields.

Once a Kindling Warship's overall rating exceeded LV.10, its opponents in the Otherworldly Space battlefield would no longer be Level 1 interstellar civilizations, easy pickings like fattened prey.

Instead, it could even end up facing a Level 3 Interstellar Civilization.

To be on the safe side, he decided not to raise the Pond's overall rating any further for now.

In any case, his next priority was to keep a low profile, not charge out and take on enemies head-on.

"Raise the Quantum Entanglement Brainwave Control System from LV.0 to LV.1."

"Spend 200 Source Points and 1 ton of gas ore to upgrade the Quantum Entanglement Brainwave Control System (green) from LV.0 to LV.1. This will take 30 minutes. Confirm?"

"Confirm."

Remaining Source Points: 317.

"Spend 1 unit of Low-grade Energy Crystal to double the module's growth value?"

This time, Wang Dong chose "Yes"!

Once again, half of the only two units of Low-grade Energy Crystal he had on hand was consumed.

"Quantum Entanglement Brainwave Control System (green) (LV.1) upgrade complete. Current attributes:

Energy Consumption: 1 point/hour. Range: 0.05 light-years.

Requirements for next upgrade: 1. 200 Source Points; 2. 2 tons of gas ore."

Its range had increased by 0.04 light-years!

Without the Auxiliary System's doubled growth value, the upgrade would normally have increased its range by 0.02 light-years.

Clearly, additional modules gained more from upgrades than standard modules did.

That was one of the reasons Wang Dong valued additional modules more.

They had greater growth potential.

Combined with the Auxiliary System, a single upgrade had increased the Quantum Entanglement Brainwave Control System's range to five times what it had been!

Terrifying.

Now that was how a true cheat should be used!