My Spark Battleship: Phoenix
Chapter 5

Anchor of Fantasy (Please Bookmark)

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With boundless curiosity, Li Mu used his mind to open the detailed attributes of the Anchor of Fantasy subordinate module.

[Anchor of Fantasy: Prismatic LV1] [Feature 1: Fantasy Coordinate—Consumes Spark Energy to generate Fantasy Coordinates based on fantasy legends and stories.] [Feature 2: Fantasy Conversion—Consumes HuoZhong Source Power to forcibly convert non-Spark Creations into Spark Creations, including but not limited to Seedship subordinate modules, Spark City Miracle Buildings, Spark professions, Spark Artifacts, and other Spark Creations.] [Upgrade Requirement: 100,000 units of HuoZhong Source Power]

"This definitely surpasses red quality..."

After reading the detailed attributes, Li Mu's heart pounded like a drum.

The first feature, Fantasy Coordinate, could be put simply: it could generate coordinates for other worlds.

Seedships could use Dimension Shuttle to reach other worlds. These worlds were considered parallel universes of the Spark World, and the greatest value of Seedships was conquering the civilizations of those parallel universes to obtain HuoZhong Source Power rewarded by the Gaia Consciousness.

Compared to HuoZhong Source Power, Spark Energy was like dirt compared to gold.

HuoZhong Source Power could strengthen one's own Transcendence Level, enhance the skills of Transcendent professions, and raise the levels of Seedships and subordinate modules. In short, any Spark Creation with evolutionary potential could be strengthened with HuoZhong Source Power.

Although Seedships could travel between dimensions, no one could say which dimension they would end up in.

The Anchor of Fantasy, however, could directly generate the corresponding world coordinates from fantasy legends, allowing for precise Dimension Shuttle.

These fantasy legends included stories imagined out of thin air.

His first thought was whether the films, TV series, anime, and novels he had seen in his previous life could generate Fantasy Coordinates.

Thanks to Hyperthymesia, he never forgot anything he had ever seen.

Through the Second Origin HuoZhong that had replaced the Shipboard Spark, Li Mu quickly selected a movie, a television series, an anime, and a novel. He transmitted each complete story to the Anchor of Fantasy, and the Prismatic module immediately presented him with the option to generate a Fantasy Coordinate.

That meant his idea was feasible. A Seedship truly could use Dimension Shuttle to reach those worlds.

However, according to the Anchor of Fantasy's feedback, the stronger the world, the greater the Spark Energy required to generate its Fantasy Coordinate.

He did not have a single point of Spark Energy right now, so he could not generate Fantasy Coordinates for worlds that were too powerful.

Even if he could, Li Mu had no intention of going there. His Seedship was currently nothing more than decoration. Without Spark Energy or the ammunition required by its main cannon, no matter how formidable the Phoenix had once been, it was now little more than a metal coffin.

Therefore, the first world he traveled to had to cost little and offer great returns.

It also had to be a world he could handle with his own strength. He needed to earn his first pot of gold in that first world and get his Seedship moving. Only then could he enter a positive cycle of development. Before his first Dimension Shuttle, he had to improve his personal strength as much as possible.

Li Mu then looked at the Anchor of Fantasy's second feature. He considered it even more powerful than the first.

The books stated clearly that there were only two ways to obtain subordinate modules and Miracle Buildings.

Either a creation that was already powerful fused with a high-quality Spark, or something contained the intense emotions of countless people—hope, hatred, faith, affection. In any case, it had to gather the powerful emotions of innumerable lives.

Other than those two methods, no other method had ever been heard of.

Yet the Anchor of Fantasy could directly convert non-Spark Creations into Spark Creations such as subordinate modules and Miracle Buildings using HuoZhong Source Power.

The only limitation was that subordinate modules and Miracle Buildings created by the Anchor of Fantasy could not be upgraded.

Whatever quality and level they had upon creation would remain their quality and level forever.

Unlike naturally produced subordinate modules and Miracle Buildings, which could all be strengthened and upgraded with HuoZhong Source Power.

Though the Anchor of Fantasy's features were so tempting, Li Mu did not have any HuoZhong Source Power at all.

HuoZhong Source Power could not be traded. The only way to obtain it was to use Dimension Shuttle, conquer Human Civilization, and destroy Alien Race civilizations.

So there was no point in overthinking it. The most important thing was to earn some money and buy himself a HuoZhong weapon first.

After all, he needed to rely on his own Transcendent power to earn his first pot of gold in the first world.

He was a Frostfire Gunner. Ordinary firearms could not bring out the power of Frostfire Gun Fu at all.

Only HuoZhong Firearms infused with Sparks could maximize the lethality of Frostfire Gun Fu.

However, such HuoZhong weapons were extremely expensive. He could not afford even the cheapest kind.

His spiritual consciousness left the Seedship, and Li Mu began pondering ways to make money.

Early the next morning, Li Mu left his residence and headed to Frostfire City's Spark Camp.

Located right beside the city gate, this was where HuoZhong Professionals almost always came to sell whatever they gained outside the city. More importantly, it was also Frostfire City's only place for receiving outside merchant groups. Merchant groups traveling between cities brought all manner of strange and unusual goods.

The value of many items was uncertain, and quite a few people had struck lucky by finding hidden bargains there.

After arriving at the Spark Camp, Li Mu took all his savings and headed straight for the outside merchant group currently stationed there.

For the past few days, the group staying at the Spark Camp had been the Banshee Merchant Group.

They came from Banshee Underground City, a Spark City located in the underground world.

In overall scale, it was even stronger than Frostfire City.

After all, even Frostfire City had yet to establish a merchant group that traveled between different cities.

In the open area of the Spark Camp specifically designated for outside merchant groups, a gigantic pumpkin had appeared. Over ten meters tall, it had a bloody maw resembling a terrifying Halloween pumpkin, and HuoZhong Professionals constantly entered and exited through it.

Li Mu followed the crowd inside. The interior was dozens of times larger than it appeared from outside.

The inner area was packed with shelves, guarded by dozens of merchant-group guards scattered throughout. The ones handling payments in front of the shelves were not humans, but more than a dozen Starry Sky Banshees floating in midair. They were a well-known Human Race subsidiary species.

The Human Race had quite a few subsidiary species like them. They came from life-bearing planets across the universe.

Unfortunately, they had been captured by Spark Planets and ultimately became wandering races that fled into the Misty World. The races accepted by humans as subsidiary species tended to be less aggressive, suited human aesthetics, and capable of providing humans with considerable help and benefits.

Although there were many subsidiary species, only powerful human cities could have Alien Race subordinates.

At the very least, Frostfire City only had a handful of alien slaves.

Li Mu did not step forward to buy anything. He merely observed from the back. Of the goods on the dozens of shelves, he recognized some, while others he had never even heard of. With Hyperthymesia, he had practically memorized the entire library of the Spark Academy. If even he did not recognize something, few HuoZhong Professionals in Frostfire City would.

Thus, in front of every shelf stood numerous Spark Smart Devices containing the information for all the goods.

Customers entering and leaving would take a Spark Smart Device, select their goods, then exchange payment and merchandise with the Starry Sky Banshees after finishing their selections.

The Banshee Merchant Group's goods mainly consisted of specialties from the underground world, along with specialties brought from other cities along the way. They also purchased Frostfire City's specialties to take away, and offered bounties for certain particularly valuable rare resources.

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