Almost every adventure group that came forward to visit spent a sum of money to purchase a batch of Demon materials.
With the help of the many adventure groups, the more than ten thousand Demon corpses exposed out in the wilderness were quickly transported away from their original location.
Thanks to this, the Red Dragon Team profited nearly four thousand Gold Coins from the deal.
This was also the largest single gain they had ever harvested in their history, and it made Gauss even more aware that, for powerful Adventurers, a Maze was an immense source of wealth.
This amount of money would be enough for an ordinary person to squander for a lifetime and still not use it up.
Especially in a small town like Gray Rock Town where prices weren’t particularly high, it would allow the owner to purchase a large amount of real estate, shops, and industries, becoming a local tycoon with wealth overflowing in one region.
For an ordinary person in a small town to accumulate such wealth, if his daily wage was 20 Copper Coins, even if he neither ate nor drank and saved every coin, it would still take thousands of years to reach this fortune.
But even if he included the time spent on the initial killing and the later commercial negotiations, he had only spent a few days altogether.
The gap between the two really couldn’t help but make people feel dazed.
Of course, in this world, the world of Adventurers and the world of ordinary people may look like they coexist, but in truth they are completely different worlds.
Although four thousand Gold Coins was a lot, once Gauss moved past his initial satisfaction, he soon calmed down.
He had long since passed the stage where he cared primarily about money; he was no longer the original youth of the small town who dreamed of spending decades of hard labor just to buy a single house.
Just as this experience illustrated, the importance of strength would forever outweigh money itself.
An Adventurer with strength would never truly lack money; at any time he could take commissions, hunt Demons, and earn profits that ordinary people could hardly imagine.
Precisely because of this, a steady stream of young people kept throwing themselves onto the path of the Adventurer.
For young people with no background at all, this road, though dangerous, was already the fairest Domain they could possibly access.
So after finishing receiving the other adventure groups, he quickly threw himself back into the practice of Magic.
The proficiency of the newly learned 5th-circle Spells Bigby’s Hand and Dawn also rose rapidly under his intensive training.
While he was immersed in practice, the other teammates who had entered Cultivation to break through started to wake up one after another.
Perhaps the experience gained this time had simply been too substantial, so everyone’s breakthroughs went relatively smoothly.
Albena successfully became a Level 8 Warrior.
As her Professional Level advanced, her body grew even stronger.
The Giant blood within her had indeed caused her to suffer some strange looks from others during the period when she left the tribe to live on her own, but for the Warrior Profession itself, it allowed her to be born already ahead at the starting line.
Compared to many special races, pure-blood humans did indeed appear relatively mediocre in Talent.
This didn’t mean humans were useless; humans’ excellent reproductive capacity and Intelligence level were, for a race, the strongest Talent of all. As long as the numbers were large enough, even if the vast majority of individuals were fairly average in strength, sooner or later one would still draw an SSR, or even UR-level, top card.
Returning to Albena herself, at Level 8 her innate Divine Power seemed to have been further liberated, and she also gained a Talent Ability similar to the Berserk of Half-Beastmen.
She named it Giantification.
It was somewhat similar to a certain Body Multiplication skill that Gauss possessed, but after Gauss personally tested it, Albena’s Talent Ability proved to be more comprehensive in effect.
Gauss’s Body Multiplication, after all, was merely a Skill, so it only multiplied his body; the increase in Power and explosive force was not particularly obvious. Albena’s Giantification, on the other hand, seemed to briefly activate the Giant Bloodline within her, letting her soar in Power while her body multiplied.
Of course, such a powerful short-term boost came at a price: for several days afterward she would be unable to use this ability again, and would have to wait for the Giant Bloodline to recover its strength before she could activate it once more.
So compared to Body Multiplication, Albena’s Giantification was more akin to the effects of [Dragon Species] and Tier Two Ghost Transformation, though in terms of raw intensity it might not quite match Gauss’s two trump-card Talents. By Gauss’s estimation, Albena’s Giantification was roughly equivalent to a Blue Quality Talent.
After all, its side effects were quite obvious, and it was unclear whether, in the future when her strength grew and her Giant Bloodline threw back further to its ancestors, her Talent Ability would see another round of upgrades.
But even if it remained at its current level, Albena’s Talent Ability was still enough to let her pull away from most Professionals of the same Level by a clear margin.
During the Giantification burst phase, Gauss was very certain that she alone could kill several Level 8 Warriors, and that even a Level 9 Professional caught unprepared would quickly fall into disadvantage.
If they failed to hold out until her blood cooled, they might even face the risk of being killed outright.
This was the domineering nature of Racial Talent abilities.
It was equivalent to a special treasure chest passed down through a person’s ancestors, generation after generation, via the bloodline; not every heir of the blood could successfully open it—only a few could use the key to unlock this chest.
The second to change markedly was Aaliyah; when she returned, she was already a Level 6 Professional.
Her hair had turned a moonlight-like, shimmering silver-white; her skin, originally fair, now seemed almost luminous, and her features and countenance had become even more refined.