Chapter 394 - 366: Ultimate Building
After the meeting, Qin Ziwen took a stroll to the banks of the River of Spirits and pulled out the Cards he had recently acquired.
First up was the random Level 3 Advanced Building Card he had acquired last week.
He stood on the banks of the River of Spirits and used the Card.
The Card shattered, and a cascade of light covered the entire riverbank.
The brightness inside the Home was tied to the external environment. Ever since they had arrived underground, the Home had been shrouded in darkness. Jia Liangcai had people set up braziers, and torches hung on the walls at regular intervals, burning with refined Mosasaurus oil.
The Mosasaurus was enormous, so the amount of oil that could be refined from its body was immense. This oil had many uses.
Fuel was only the most basic use. It could also maintain weapons, tan leather, and act as a lubricant.
The burning Mosasaurus oil filled the air with the faint scent of animal fat, along with a strange, aromatic fragrance.
The light of the burning torches illuminated the newly appeared building.
It was a factory enclosed by gray outer walls.
The roof of the factory resembled a giant turtle shell, its top covered by a thin black membrane.
Its footprint was considerable, measuring a full 200 by 300.
A giant, horned beast’s head hung above the main entrance.
Its crude, primitive style was somewhat similar to the Giant Beast Breeding Center.
[Advanced Building · Level 3 Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant: Level 4 Corpse Decomposition Mycelium Mat, Level 4 Nutrient Processing Mycelium Mat, Level 3 Rot-Resistant Storage Mycelium Mat] (Special Effect: Food produced by the feed processing plant is more conducive to the growth of living creatures. Long-term consumption will accelerate physical development. The higher the quality of the ingredients, the more pronounced the growth effect.)
After reading the building’s effects, Qin Ziwen’s first thought was that salting food as a primary preservation method would become a thing of the past.
From now on in the Qin Alliance, salt’s purpose would be for seasoning, not as a primary preservative.
The demand for salt would plummet by more than tenfold.
The profits of residents in other Homes, who relied on Salt Well buildings as their main source of income, would plummet.
And what made them obsolete was just a single new building.
He picked up a torch and walked into the processing plant through the main entrance. Inside, the air was dry and utterly silent.
The floor was sectioned into neat, square depressions.
Patches of dark red mycelium mats grew at the bottom of these sunken basins.
’Is this the decomposition mat or the processing mat?’
He used Insight.
[Decomposition Mycelium Mat: A mycelium mat within the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant used for decomposing corpses. It prefers to break down bones, leather, and keratinous layers, but has no interest in flesh and blood.]
Qin Ziwen followed the path forward. After covering about a third of the distance through the factory, he found the sunken ground ahead was covered with a layer of pale yellow mycelium mat.
[Gourmet Mycelium Mat: A mycelium mat in pursuit of deliciousness. It secretes a special fungus that helps remove unwanted components from raw meat, allowing it to ’slow-cure.’ During this process, salt and other substances from the mat fully permeate the meat, making it savory and delicious.]
After walking two-thirds of the way through the factory, Qin Ziwen saw that the bottoms of some square pits were covered in a green mycelium mat.
’This must be the Rot-Resistant Storage Mycelium Mat,’ he thought.
He used Insight.
[Corrosive Mycelium Mat: A mycelium mat used to dispose of kitchen scraps and other excess organic waste. It’s not a picky eater and will consume anything, possessing extremely powerful corrosive properties.]
Qin Ziwen fell silent. ’What the hell is this Corrosive Mycelium Mat? Where’s my Rot-Resistant Storage Mycelium Mat?’
Just as he was about to leave the factory, he finally noticed the walls were covered with numerous dark red patterns.
They looked somewhat familiar.
[(Enchantment) Permanence: Within this field, the decay of all matter is slowed.]
’Interesting.’
Qin Ziwen narrowed his eyes, studying the patterns. He had a feeling this Enchantment could be useful in more places than just the factory.
There might be other places to use it. Of course, that was assuming he could master this Enchantment.
’I can ask Lorne later if he can replicate this Enchantment.’
He walked out of the factory, torch in hand.
He took out the random Level 1 Ultimate Building Card he had received from the map completion rewards.
It was an orange, metallic Card.
The Card was cool to the touch, its surface emitting a faint orange glow. The face of the Card depicted a question mark.
[Ultimate Building Card] Random Level 1 Ultimate Building.
He crushed the Card. A vast area before him was enveloped in a soft orange light, which even engulfed the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant.
[Related subordinate building detected. Link?]
"Link."
The moment Qin Ziwen spoke, the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant in front of him and another building behind it both dissolved into light.
Both streams of light merged into the orange glow before him.
Qin Ziwen looked back. Judging from the location of the second light source, it had to be... the Giant Beast Breeding Center.
’The Giant Beast Breeding Center, the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant.’
’They both start with "Giant Beast".’
’How had he never realized there was a connection between them? That they were part of the same series?’
When the soft orange light dissipated, a vast, sprawling, colossal structure, like a super-giant beast lying prone in the darkness, revealed a corner of its cold form.
The torchlight could only illuminate a single corner; the rest of it lay hidden in the darkness.
Its exterior was cold and pitch-black.
It resembled the hide of some Giant Beast.
It even had a faint texture that resembled scales.
In terms of its footprint, it stretched left and right, near and far, its boundaries extending beyond his sight.
Qin Ziwen used Insight on it.
[Ultimate Building · Level 1 Giant Beast Heavy Industry]
[Giant Beast Series Ultimate Building: Giant Beast Breeding Center, Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant Activated]
[Current Status: Sleeping]
[Giant Beast Series Bonuses: ① All activated building abilities +1. ② Moderately increases the mutation probability for incubations in the Giant Beast Breeding Center. ③ Long-term consumption of canned food from the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant has a small chance of causing a physical breakthrough to the Extraordinary realm. This breakthrough does not affect the use of Breakthrough Cards.]
[Ultimate Trait: Can forcibly convert any Advanced Building Card into a Card for an already activated Giant Beast series building.]
[Footprint: 700*600 meters]
(Note: When the building awakens, its internal factory functions will temporarily cease.)
After reading all that, Qin Ziwen had only one thought. ’Will someone please tell me what the FUCK "Sleeping" means?!’
’You mean it can *not* be sleeping?’
’It can STAND UP!?’
It reminded him of the Night Elf buildings from the Warcraft games he used to play, which could both produce units and fight.
Of course, the building was located within his Home, so any fighting it did would be limited to defending against external invasions.
Through Insight, he already knew the building’s footprint was 700*600.
Four hundred and twenty thousand square meters!
It was like a Giant Beast lying prone, spanning both banks of the River of Spirits.
The Ultimate Building itself didn’t seem to have any function—if you ignored the fact that it could stand up and fight. It was more like the apex of a Card series, designed to strengthen the Advanced Buildings linked to it.
One bonus was the +1 to all activated building abilities. The other was the epic-level enhancement to the unique traits of the linked buildings.
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