Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 21 The World of Erosion

Dongyu Star is a powerful life-bearing planet that ranks among the top 100 most prosperous planets in the entire Eternal Starfield.

The location of the Dongyu Star slave market.

Qi Yuan, Lao Wu, and six other seventh and eighth-level stellar-level guards followed Hu Ge, constantly browsing and observing the various slave merchant groups' encampments.

Currently, among Hu Ge's subordinates, only Lao Wu has reached the ninth level of the Stellar level.

The other six guards were two eighth-tier stellar-level and four seventh-tier stellar-level.

Qi Yuan, on the other hand, with an ample supply of Dragon Vein Fruits, actually broke through again the day before his departure, successfully raising his realm to the seventh level of the Stellar level!
In just one year, he went from stellar-level fourth order to stellar-level seventh order!

When Hu Ge learned of this news, he almost thought that his and Qi Yuan's identities had been reversed!

As a direct descendant of the Ortega family, he possesses the enormous wealth generated annually across the entire planet Thunderstorm.

During this year, he used countless expensive treasures such as B9-level nutrient solution, which was only enough to barely advance from the first level of the stellar level to the point of almost breaking through to the third level of the stellar level.

However, Qi Yuan, the native slave he bought at random, only had a little bit of Wood Crystal and Earth Soul Liquid as food each month, yet he broke through three levels in a row and made rapid progress to the seventh level of the Stellar level!
With his Stellar-level seventh rank and the aid of his domain, Qi Yuan can now be considered a top-tier Stellar-level ninth rank martial artist!
Given this exaggerated contrast, it would be more reasonable to say that Qi Yuan is the master and Hu Ge is the native slave!
One stellar level ninth rank, two stellar level eighth rank, and five stellar level seventh rank, including Qi Yuan, who has comprehended the lightning domain and is a stellar level seventh rank!

Such a powerful lineup would probably be enough to sweep through an entire galaxy if placed in a more ordinary one!
However, this time they were heading to the extremely dangerous 'World Lord's World'!
In the Realm Lord World alone, there are countless competitors who participate in the trainee mercenary assessment, including many ninth-tier stellar-level powerhouses, not to mention the dangers of the Realm Lord World itself.

If they are not careful, they may be forever buried in the world of the Lord of the Realm and never be able to get out.

For safety's sake, Hugo decided to purchase several powerful ninth-tier stellar-level slaves before entering the assessment world.

To make this decision, he even sold a mid-grade third-tier psychic weapon that he had won from the seventh prince of the Eternal Empire.

Furthermore, they used the 100-year mining rights of Thunderstorm Star as collateral to obtain a huge loan of up to 300 billion Eternal Coins!
Now, with a huge amount of cash in his pocket, Hugo is incredibly wealthy and powerful. The first thing he asks is whether anyone has mastered a stellar-level ninth-tier slave.

However, when he heard the price offered by the slave traders, his high spirits instantly crumbled!
"What the heck? So expensive? Are you kidding me? Do you think I'm worth that much money from head to toe?!"

"Can't afford it, gotta go!"

Soon, Hugo honestly set his sights on ordinary stellar-level ninth-order slaves.

"Four ninth-tier stellar-level warriors from the Zhalin tribe, and two ninth-tier stellar-level mental cultivators from the Wuchao tribe."

After lowering his expectations, Hugo decisively selected the 'goods' he wanted.

The Zhalin tribe is a special race whose entire body, including their cheeks, is covered with ferocious black scales, somewhat resembling a humanoid pangolin. The Zhalin tribe possesses extremely strong strength and defense, making them very suitable for close protection.

The two Mistweavers, who had human bodies but strange heads resembling birds and beasts, were natural-born spiritualists.

After the handover of several newly purchased slaves was completed, Qi Yuan secretly used the system function to check their 'qualifications'.

To his surprise, one of the Mist Clan slaves had a base return multiplier of 29 times!
Qi Yuan went to Lanka with Hu Ge and secretly used the system's functions to observe many people.

However, apart from Hugo and the seventh prince of the Eternal Empire, whose base return multipliers reached over 30 times, I have not seen any others that can reach 30 times.

Other ninth-tier stellar-level slaves typically have a return multiplier of around 18 to 19, occasionally exceeding 20. However, this Mist Swarm slave's base return multiplier is a staggering 29 times!
Although it hasn't broken the 30-fold mark yet, it's still far beyond the average level of ordinary stellar-level cultivators!

"I wonder if Hu Ge is just lucky, or if he really has some special 'talent for recognizing people'? It's a shame he doesn't buy a lottery ticket with that kind of luck."

After completing the slave handover procedures, Hugo and his group went to the 'Cosmic Mercenary Alliance' headquarters on Dongyu Star to register as adventurers and apply for the 'Apprentice Mercenary Examination'.

Only then did they board the spaceship and fly towards 'Eclipse Star', the world where this mission was located.

Hugo and the others inside the spaceship were quickly reading through the content of this trainee mercenary assessment.

The assessment content was largely the same as the one that Luo Feng and others participated in in the original novel.

"Enter the Eclipse World of the Eclipse Star, obtain the stinger of a Ghost-Faced Scorpion and three Aurora Stones, and hand them over to the examiners at the exit to complete the mission."

The World of Eclipse is a small world created by a very famous 'Lord of the World of Eclipse' millions of years ago.

However, after the Lord of the Eclipse Realm fell, this small world was transformed by the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance into a place for training trainee mercenaries.

Their assessment this time involved completing two tasks: 'killing' and 'exploring' within the Eclipse World.

"The Ghost-Faced Scorpion's stinger can be obtained by defeating Ghost-Faced Scorpions in the Shining Stone Wasteland."

"Aurora Stone, a unique crystal rich in special energy from the Erosion World, must be obtained in the Aurora Corridor area."

"The environment inside the Aurora Corridor is too complicated, and it'll take too long. Let's go to the Glowstone Wasteland to hunt Ghost-Faced Scorpions first, and then go to the Aurora Corridor after we complete the mission."

Based on the information they had gathered, Hu Ge and his team quickly formulated their next action plan.

Meanwhile, in a restaurant room not far from the entrance to the 'Assessment World' on the planet Taishi, a group of people were waiting anxiously.

"Three Eyes, is the information over there reliable? We've been staking out here for so long, and we haven't seen the target yet!"

A burly figure wearing black standard battle armor and with four arms was chatting telepathically with his companion beside him.
"This is too expensive! The room alone cost me over a million Eternal Coins. I wonder if I'll be able to get reimbursed."

The companion he called Three-Eyes didn't even lift his eyelids, coldly replying, "If you have any objections to the task assigned by the boss, go ask him!"

"Damn it, I wouldn't dare go to the boss and risk getting into trouble."

The four-armed figure chuckled sheepishly, then cautiously transmitted his voice, "Hey, I'm telling you, this mission's target is no ordinary person; he's bound to have a lot of good stuff on him. We'll see..."

However, before he could finish speaking, the three-eyed companion's gaze, which was fixed on the distance, suddenly froze, and then he instantly stood up!

"Get ready, we've reached the target!"

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