Chapter 754: Tier 7 Scientific Philosopher King

After a few hours of intense bidding, all items on the list closed, allowing the highest bidder to claim each item.

"How is the new format of the Altier Auction, everyone? Were you able to buy everything you need?" Primos asked with a smile.

"This type of auction is really unique and interesting."

"We are already looking forward to the next Altier Auction, Lord Primos!"

This auction let them harvest much more than the regular auction. While the former only offered special items and treasures, the latter let them choose and request what they needed, whether common or rare.

Nash and the members of the Eternal Star Alliance were also full of smiles. At the auction, they spent a total of 28 billion Chaos stones, plus rare treasures and materials worth 4 billion.

Auctioning the materials used for a dimensional-scale dark gate, Nash was able to exchange 25,000 units of mother core ships. With the addition of the existing mother core ships of the Eternal Star Alliance, they would have a total of 75,000!

Imagining what he could do with them, Nash couldn’t wait to return.

Besides the mother core ships, Nash was also lucky to buy two common expandable treasures, Stone Heart Obsidian and Rainbow Water Sea. Like the Breathing Earth Loom, both could expand endlessly using energy or matter.

Unfortunately, while they could expand without limit, their properties were a bit lackluster. Besides the Stone Heart Obsidian being a bit hard and the Rainbow Water Sea being colorful, they had no additional effect.

Of course, while they didn’t have an extraordinary effect, their utility could further perfect the dream land he hoped to build in the future. With earth, stone, and water, he was only missing a few components.

Additionally, using 1 trillion units of dark energy purification devices, he acquired enough array materials, Star of Elements, Star of Laws, Star of Voids, plants, and animals that could further enrich their Eternal Residence.

Next, the majority of what took up their Chaos stones were the battleships.

Spending a total of 10 billion Chaos stones, he was able to buy 100 thousand SSS-class battleships, 1 million SS-class battleships, 100 million S-class battleships, and 1 billion A-class battleships.

To the Mechanical Race, as long as one had money, they could mass-produce such a grade of battleships in a short amount of time.

Although they paid a premium, it could help further accelerate the reorganization of the Eternal Star Forbidden Zone.

As for X-class battleships, they were too expensive to be worth it. Such battleships were merely for show, helping those who lacked the strength to conquer above their level.

Among these teams, the largest customer of the X-class battleship was the three little major alliances, which had now unified and called the God Emperor Knight Alliance. Spending over 30 billion, they managed to buy 300 X-class battleships, about 100 million each with the discount.

Such an all-out effort was obvious for everyone to see. It seemed they were already getting desperate to own their own dimensional teleportation array.

Finally, under the coordinated operation of the other members of the Eternal Star Alliance, they bought all kinds of materials totaling over 15 billion Chaos stones!

15 billion Chaos stones’ worth of bulk materials that could be bought using Void Source Crystal were spent just like that. It’s not that they didn’t want to save, but simply because they didn’t have enough time to slowly search for such things themselves.

Instead of looking for and mining these materials, wasn’t it better to go into an unexplored domain area and rake in money?

As for the industrial mining mother hub, it was far too slow for their current needs. They weren’t just building a territory, but stabilizing an entire Forbidden Domain.

If they wanted to catch up to those major-level teams, they could only use money to offset time.

"However, compared to us, the Grand Race Sovereign Alliance is truly bleeding." Nash mused, looking at Escanor.

They had only spent about 30 billion in total, while the Grand Race Sovereign Alliance spent over 500 billion! They basically pooled and spent all their money for the final push.

Once they digested these resources, their strength and foundation would, without a doubt, catch up to the major teams, even surpass some of them. The might and wealth of large numbers was truly astonishing.

Of course, the ultimate winner of this auction was still the seven major teams. Using Chaos stones to harvest them in the first batch, then using the items they bought before to harvest them a second time.

Not only that, because they possessed a wide variety of treasures, resources, technology, and various other goods, 90% of the Chaos stones spent on the auction ended up in their pockets.

The major teams were truly veterans when it came to trading. Not only had they earned the Chaos stones back, they also bought out much-needed materials.

Thinking of this, Nash could only smile wryly. "It seems we still need to do a lot of catching up."

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Soon after the Altier Convention ended, everyone returned to their territories full of fighting spirit.

As they continued their migration, the Eternal Star Alliance began tabulating all their combined resources, population, technology, dark gates, dark plane shelters, Chaos Stone mines, cosmic elites, battleships, resource mines, etc.

The Altier Convention made them realize that the cohesion of the Eternal Star Alliance was still a little weak. They were even worse than the God Emperor Knight Alliance, which committed all their money down to the last coin.

While they were still calculating profit and interest, the others were already clenched into fists, ready to fight an all-out war.

Fortunately, it wasn’t too late. Calling another meeting, they began revising the contract they had signed earlier. From the 10%, 50%, 30%, and 10% share ratio, it was changed to 15%, 5%, and 80%.

This meant that instead of being able to split 60% of the Eternal Alliance’s revenue, it would be fixed at 15%. This 15% would be split among all the other leaders depending on their contribution, as their personal fund.

The other 5% would still be reserved for Nash to spend on his leisure, training, and anything he wanted.

Finally, the remaining 80% would fund the development of the Eternal Star Alliance. Nash could designate 50% of the budget, while the other leaders would decide on the remaining 30%.

Such a huge matter might have been hard to pass, but in their current situation, they no longer had the mind to think of anything else.

After signing the new revenue-sharing agreement, everyone left content and worked even harder.

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Half a year later, 10 months after they conquered the Forbidden Domain, all 511 top teams’ territories had relocated to the area.

Although the place was still chaotic due to the huge influx of dark gates, it was still manageable. Hiding in each of their Forbidden Zones, they weren’t affected by the harsh environment.

"We can finally begin the plan." Nash thought tiredly.

Coordinating the Eternal Star Alliance into the Forbidden Domain was a massive task that left him barely able to do anything else.

Fortunately, it was all worth it. The number of dark gates they gathered alone justified all their hard work.

18,720 dark gates! With the combined property of all 511 top-level teams, they managed to gather 18,720 dark gates.

With the triple yield of the Forbidden Domain, they could earn over 5.6 million Merit Source each day. Remembering when he had to ration a few hundred just to get by, he now began to realize the horror of quantity.

As everyone relocated to the Eternal Star Forbidden Domain, instead of immediately heading to an unexplored domain for an expedition, they stayed and began stabilizing the place.

Wealth sitting around was as good as trash that took up space. Thus, instead of earning more money, they’d better digest what they already had in hand first.

The first step in the stabilization plan was the dark gates. They not only needed to protect them but also control the direction in which they siphoned dark beasts.

Over the past six months, Nash not only coordinated with the members of the Eternal Star Alliance, but also worked with all the top scientists and professionals to deduce an ultimate weapon that could help them bridge the gap with the major-level teams.

Using almost a billion units of merit source and a dedicated virtual world for simulation, they spent over 25,000 years in trial and error, researching and studying to forge the ultimate weapon that could serve as a pillar to lift them up.

As for himself, someone who didn’t need much Merit Source to accelerate his thinking, took a more extreme route, accelerating his mind up to 50 million times!

It was only thanks to the runic space and the power of will protecting his spirit that he hadn’t gone insane.

50 million times acceleration in six months, with occasional breaks and assistance from the Eternal Star Alliance, yielded him over 100 thousand years of deduction and an ocean of knowledge he uploaded into the [Library Module System].

At this moment, Nash was like a changed man. Although his strength barely improved, the knowledge he possessed was miles ahead of every other individual.

"I should be at the level of a Tier 7 Scientific Philosopher King specializing in matter." Nash mused.