As true as it may be that his metallic body makes it very difficult for him to be uncomfortable, he still praised his Life Ability, saying, "But the armor is definitely special. It has both physical and energy defense. Who else can be this lucky?"
After taking a beating from Greg and a week of fighting, the armor is still spotless. It is still glossy black with a sheen and not a scratch in sight.
This pristine state is mostly because of the forcefield barrier on the surface of the armor. This forcefield barrier is like a second skin for the armor and a third skin for him. As long as the physical armor beneath is functional, he can maintain the forcefield barrier by expending energy.
The forcefield barrier isn’t all-powerful and can’t block everything. In fact, its main job is to dampen the power of attacks before they reach the physical armor beneath it.
So attacks were meant to slow down after passing through the forcefield before touching the armor. It was the Reverse Metac that turned the forcefield barrier into a shield for blocking attacks to prevent them from touching the armor at all.
But even if the forcefield is breached and the armor is damaged by an attack, as it did during the fight with Greg, the armor can still heal itself of damage. It would just consume energy from him.
The armor can do this because he had used the Liquid Metal Metac when making it. This is why the armor is still in pristine condition after so much fighting. It is also why the armor can shift and create various kinds of armaments.
As he thought of this, he carassed the armor and said, "Just you wait until you become a Divine Metac. At that point, you might become a completely shape-shifting object that can turn into anything. I believe in you."
Unfortunately or fortunately, he was interrupted from his musing by another notification from his token. Without looking at the notification, he knew that it was about how someone had bought or sold his shares.
But just to be sure, he still took out the token to take a look at it. What he saw confirmed what he thought the notification was. This put a smile on his face.
He also saw that the value of his stock had increased to 56 energy stones per share. Since he had a total amount of 1 million shares, this has put his market value at 56 million energy stones.
This made him say in awe, "From 1 million to 56 million in a week. Since when did I become so popular?"
When he thought of how many people had been asking about him recently, he shook his head and said, "If I had known that becoming a captain was so good, I would have tried to become one a long time ago."
There was the fact that his market value is currently higher than Ivory, a rank 4 cultivator who is also a captain, but he didn’t think that there was anything out of place with that.
After all, he was more powerful than Ivory and also had more potential. So he believes that it is just right that he is valued more than Ivory.
Then he thought of how much money he could earn if he sold his shares now. This thought made his eyes light up as he said, "I bought 500,000 worth of shares. Now that it is 56 energy stones per share, I will earn 28 million energy stones. Plus the initial 1 million that I earned from selling the shares, that will make a total of 29 million energy stones."
He clapped in excitement as he said, "What a haul!"
He has earned a lot of money over many timelines, but this much money earned doing practically nothing felt different to him. It felt even better than the money that he earned through gambling.
There was also the fact that the money was earned based on how valuable other people thought his future was. This gave him a reason to be proud of the money.
But after getting over his excitement. He had a decision to make that he wasn’t sure about.
He said to himself, "Should I sell now and cash in? Or should I wait for it to become more valuable?"
He thought of this problem for a long time before he came to a decision.
With a decision made, he said to himself, "It is true that if I die now, all of that money will go to waste. That would be a shame."
"But as bad as losing the money will be, it is not like getting the money now will change much either. There just isn’t something that I can spend money on that will improve my strength in a short amount of time."
"So maybe I should continue to hold on to it until I need the money. What I should focus on right now is fusing energy threads."
After saying this to himself, he closed his eyes to focus on his energy threads.
Right now, he was sitting on the deck of the airship. The airship wasn’t running and was on the ground. He was the only one in the airship. The others were in the city recruiting people and guarding the city.
He stopped recruiting people because he doesn’t need the grade 3 merit points anymore. He already bought Level 3 Dao Status and Grade 3 Life insurance, so the value of his life has been raised far above that of normal rank 3 cultivators.
The Level 3 Dao Status raised the value of his life from 100 thousand to 200 thousand and finally to 400 thousand. His rank as a captain on a grade 4 mission also raised this to 800 thousand, 1.6 million, and finally 3.2 million.
The 10% due of the sect raised the 3.2 million to 3.52 million. Then his grade 3 life insurance tripled this to 10.56 million energy stones. In his humble opinion, that is a lot of money.