The World Conquest: Giving Birth To Become A God

Finally, after trying multiple times and not getting another discount, Sira gave up.

"An ultimate material for a quota it is…"

Sighing, Sira paid 100 ultimate materials to Maximus.

As for the next quota, it would be for later.

Although the Zerg only needed energy to advance, it was not immediate but gradual.

To produce an absolute powerhouse, it needed ten to a hundred million years.

Walking away in disappointment, Sira took one last look at Maximus.

"Hmph! A stingy man!"

Looking at the lonely back, Maximus could only shake his head.

It wasn't that he didn't want to give further discounts, but he couldn't.

With the Overlords watching above, Maximus didn't dare to overstep his boundary.

Setting the price for an ultimate material for a quota was the greatest he could give without arousing suspicion.

"I can only do this for now…"

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A few days later, while Maximus was busy tinkering with his experiment, Liam barged into his lab.

"Did you solve the problem?"

"We solved it, Father. From now on, no one dares to say such things about our family again," Liam replied solemnly.

Being talked about in such a way, even the most composed Liam felt anger.

"It's good. How did you solve it?" Maximus asked without much care.

Whether his physique was known to others or not was not his concern.

To finish this trial ahead of time, he needed to use an enormous amount of energy all the same.

Furthermore, all the top powers of the Dimensional Alliance already knew it. What was the harm in everyone knowing the same?

Soon, hearing how Liam suppressed the whole crowd and gave them such a huge penalty, Maximus couldn't help but smile.

After he collected all these points, he could earn tens of quadrillions—a large chunk of what he needed to end the trial.

"This is good~."

"What do we do now, Father?"

"Just the usual."

"That—"

"Hmm? Is there any problem?"

"I needed a large amount of strands of causality from Father."

Carrying a debt of 10,000 points, most of the participants in the competition fell into a depressive state.

Much less paying it off—with such a debt, they wouldn't have enough points to exchange strands of causality to purify the infection of dark energy.

Having experienced a riot with the surge of their emotions, they knew they needed to eliminate even the slightest existence of it.

"Sure, just come here if it's gone," Maximus said, tossing a special container to Liam.

Over the years, the ether refiner he had already reached a staggering 5 billion pieces.

With 5 billion ether refiners, he could have 150 billion strands of causality every day.

Such a large output allowed him to accumulate 10 quintillion strands of causality in a matter of hundreds of thousands of years.

Converted to crystallized causality, it was 10 trillion.

Giving Liam a trillion crystallized causality should be able to last him tens of thousands of years.

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Continuing his work, soon the stronghold received news that the Shadowcrest family was offering credit allowing one to borrow strands of causality.

Celebrating in excitement, they hurriedly inquired about the conditions and requirements to avail the credit.

"Anyone is allowed to take credit. Then, based on your combat ability and potential, you could borrow as much as a billion crystallized causality at a time," Liam announced.

"A billion crystallized causality?!"

"This—insane!"

"I wonder how much credit I can get?"

"I'd be happy as long as I get a few million!"

"What about the payment? Is it still the body of a dark beast?" one of the crowd asked.

This had always been their pain point.

The body of a dark beast was very useful. From turning it into merit or ultimate materials, they couldn't get enough of it.

Using it to pay for their debt felt worse than cutting out their heart.

"It's still the same. Furthermore, because it's credit, the recovery price is only 90%," Liam replied.

"What?! Ninety percent? This is a scam!"

"I protest! We are not slaves; we are talents representing the future of the Aeon Plane!"

"You can't just defraud us like this! We also have dignity!"

"Hmph! Silence! It's up to you to take credit or not. I'm not your nanny to baby you whenever things are not in your favor."

"A talent? If you are the future of the Aeon Plane, then show me your worth! Don't just stand here like kids!"

Hearing Liam's scolding, the crowd fell into silence.

Used to the pampering of their families and sects, they couldn't adapt for a while.

Hearing Liam's words, they felt a surge of humiliation, indignance, yet, most of all, anger at themselves.

It seemed they had fallen to a very low point.

If they didn't want something, they needed to change and work for it.

Being scared of the dark beasts, of the unfairness of the world, of the rich and poor—all of it would be solved as long as they had enough strength.

Turning to the void, they couldn't help but clench their fists.

"Points, dark beasts, and strands of causality!"

Following the navigation guidance of the micro-surveillance bot, they ventured into the void of darkness, hunting dark beasts with red eyes.

The dark energy that intensified their emotions seemed to boost them this time, as they felt a heart of courage and fearlessness, with minds only wanting to kill and destroy dark beasts.

"Hmph! I'll kill and kill until I have enough dark beast bodies to slap that face of a leader!"

With newfound resolve, they brandished their weapons and fists, going on a killing spree.

Watching such a display of courage, Maximus couldn't help but smile.

"Good! Such courage. As expected of the talents of the Aeon Plane."

With more dark beast bodies, he should soon be able to surround the dark void domain with his 'eyes.'

If possible, he could even condense a few thousand tier-12 ultimate treasures before the end of this round.

"In a thousand years at most, phase two of the plan could begin…"