The fifteen-minute betting period soon ended, and the gamblers returned to their seats.
After the earlier introduction and drawing of lots, the gamblers had a fairly clear picture of today's top-six round. The greatest attraction was the battle between the two Soul Engineers who had made a separate wager.
"Very good. There is half a minute left before the competition begins."
"The next ten hours will be grueling for you, but the ultimate winner will receive as many as fifty-four varieties of rare metal, five kilograms of each."
"All of these are controlled materials strictly regulated by the empire. Never mind being unavailable on the open market-even on the black market, they are treasures rarely seen."
That statement was indeed true.
Among this pile of rare metals, several were difficult even for Chen Ping to obtain.
One example was Jini Titanium Magnesium, a metal used to make High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools. It was the key rare metal for making zero-gravity levitation devices. A cubic meter weighed less than fifty kilograms, yet it was extremely hard and resistant to both high and low temperatures.
Without this rare metal, Chen Ping was powerless to sell Xu Jiujiu more detectors modeled after the Sun Moon Empire's high-altitude detectors, even if he wanted to. And the prizes for this competition included Jini Titanium Magnesium!
That was also why he had made up his mind to plunder that arsenal.
On Blue Star, wars were fought with industrial capacity. That saying might have been somewhat ahead of its time on the Douluo Continent, but saying that wars were fought with resource reserves was certainly not wrong.
Without those resources, even if Chen Ping had all kinds of ideas, there were things he simply could not make without the materials. What could he do about that?
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