Translator: AnubisTL
Purchasing the "Nicholas Star System Map" cost 20 million Blood War Points, while ten "Global Event Design Tokens" cost 5 million Blood War Points.
A standard three-star item typically cost around 100,000 Blood War Points.
A high-quality three-star item would be more expensive, around 200,000 Blood War Points. As for three-star rule items, their prices varied widely depending on the specific rule, ranging from 300,000 to 3 million Blood War Points.
Even the cheapest three-star rule item still cost at least 300,000 Blood War Points.
In total, he spent 25 million Blood War Points to acquire twenty-eight three-star rule items, including several that cost millions each. He also purchased a batch of useful two-star items.
With twenty-eight three-star rule items, this wealth could easily buy a commercial star once brought out of the Ten Thousand Races Arena.
In the galactic federation, the ultimate status symbol wasn't luxury goods like designer bags, but a presentable three-star rule item.
Possessing a three-star rule item was the minimum requirement to command any respect in the chaotic environment of the Galactic Federation.
The influence of rule items within the Ten Thousand Races Arena was vastly different from their impact in the Galactic Federation.
Among these twenty-eight three-star rule items were diverse types, some granting him near-omnipotent power—not through technology, but through the fundamental forces of the universe.
This power was beyond human reach, accessible only by exploiting the Ten Thousand Races Arena as a conduit to channel these cosmic forces.
Before the absolute authority of universal laws, technology seemed utterly insignificant. Even technology itself was merely a manifestation of these laws—how could it ever defy them?
The only disappointment was that the Blood War Points Shop only offered three-star rule items, with no four-star rule items available. In fact, there wasn't a single four-star item of any kind.
To date, he knew of only one four-star item: the city-building token held by the First-Generation Human Guardian.
Four-Star Item: City-Building Token
Apart from that, he had rarely encountered four-star items and was unaware of how to obtain them. Perhaps the so-called Creator was merely a player wielding a nine-star rule item.
The most expensive three-star rule item he had purchased was the "Remnant of the River of Time," which cost him a staggering three million Blood War Points.
At such an exorbitant price, almost no one else in the entire global event could afford it.
The rule item's effect was equally formidable:
[Item Name]: Remnant of the River of Time
[Item Star]: Three-Star Item
[Item Effect]: Opens a time-space gate to the previous day, allowing passage for up to seven people and lasting a maximum of five hours.
[Item Restriction]: This item involves time-space power. Use with extreme caution and heed the following:
Failure to return before the time limit expires will trigger a temporal anomaly. Time itself has a self-repair mechanism that often resolves such anomalies by stripping away the affected timeline. In other words, you and your teammates will be trapped in the previous day, doomed to repeat it endlessly, forever unable to see the dawn of the next day, until death. Any actions you take on the previous day will affect today. Only today's timeline is the standard timeline in the universe; all other timelines are either accidental or artificially created and are at constant risk of being purged. Avoid creating glaring temporal anomalies. For example, if news reports one moment that a certain star is celebrating its centennial anniversary, only for people to suddenly discover the next moment that the planet was destroyed yesterday, such a stark and unnatural discontinuity will leave you to face the consequences alone. No one will clean up your mess. Temporal anomalies do not alter anyone's memories. This means that any changes you make to your actions on the previous day will be observed by those who are attentive, and they will easily detect that yesterday's timeline has been altered. The time and location you travel to on the previous day are fixed: it will always be the place where you were 24 hours prior.
[Item Details]: You can travel to the previous day under the following circumstances to modify the timeline, thereby ensuring that subsequent events unfold in your favor.
When you're about to be killed by an enemy, go back to the previous day, find your enemy, and kill them. When you return to the present, you'll find your enemy has vanished before your eyes. When you're trapped in a hopeless situation with no escape, go back to the previous day, lock yourself in a sealed safe, and then return to the present. You'll find you've escaped the predicament because you're now safely locked inside the safe. When your confession of love is rejected, go back to the previous day and kill her. When you return to the present, you'll find no one has rejected you. You might even receive an invitation to her funeral. When you discover the Cosmic Big Bang is about to destroy the universe today, go back to the previous day and quietly enjoy five hours. You'll find you've gained five extra hours of life before the inevitable cataclysm, more than anyone else.
Item Restriction: Seven-day cooldown after each use.
[Item Description]s: Use it wisely, and you'll become like a Creator, invincible in all your endeavors. But don't waste this item on trivial matters that will only bring you unnecessary trouble.
For example, if the winning lottery numbers are announced today, and you travel back to yesterday to buy a hundred tickets with those numbers, hoping to surprise the lottery company with a temporal anomaly, trust me, you'll indeed receive a surprise from them—though it might not be the kind you're expecting.
This item alone cost three million Blood War Points, making it a three-star rule item.
Not only was it the most expensive, but its item description was also the longest.
Five item restrictions, four item details—to be honest, he had never seen an item with such an extensive description. It was as if the system feared he was too uneducated to understand, so it went out of its way to explain everything in simple terms, making him feel somewhat insulted.
Apart from this, every other item he acquired was equally powerful.
If the forty million one-star items had greatly enhanced his firepower, then these fifty million Blood War Points had significantly boosted his overall capabilities—and by extension, his entire squad's.
Scar Dog reclined in his chair, idly twirling the bottle of chewing gum in his hand. He clicked his tongue and muttered, "I wonder if this item was designed by someone or generated automatically. Either way, the designs keep getting weirder."
"Who would ever imagine that this bottle of chewing gum would be a three-star rule item?"
Indeed, this bottle of chewing gum was the three-star item "Remnant of the River of Time."
Its usage was remarkably simple: pop a piece of gum into your mouth, blow a bubble, and when the bubble bursts, a time-space gate to the previous day would open.
The usage restrictions weren't particularly strict, but they were clearly unfriendly to some. For instance, anyone who couldn't blow bubbles with chewing gum would be left staring longingly at the item, unable to use it.
Moreover, the timing constraints were severe. No one could realistically blow a bubble when they were on the verge of death, their mouth filled with thick, sticky blood.
With only 18 pieces of gum in total, the "Remnant of the River of Time" could be used a maximum of 18 times.
"True," Scar Dog agreed.
Li Hao nodded in deep agreement. "And the item description is ridiculously long. To be honest, I barely understood it. I just got that it can rewind time to the previous day, and that's about it."
"In certain situations, this thing could be incredibly useful, right?"
"Useful? That's an understatement!" Scar Dog exclaimed, setting the bottle of gum aside with a look of awe. "Even with just its most basic function, it can practically guarantee escape from eighteen certain-death scenarios. And that's just the basic use! More advanced applications could yield astronomical benefits."
"And this is just a three-star rule item. What about four-star, five-star, or even six-star ones?"
"What kind of power would rule items of that caliber possess? They can't just let you say, 'I want a habitable planet,' and then have one materialize out of thin air in the depths of space, right?"
Chen Jiang, meanwhile, lay back in his chair, silent, his mind preoccupied with other matters.
Vacuum Bomb.
This was the set enhancement effect for his turret. During the recent global event, he had used the skill once, and it hadn't quite worked as he'd imagined.
This Vacuum Bomb didn't just remove oxygen; it drained all air.
The moment the bomb landed in the enemy camp, there was no sound. Then, over the next minute, a steady stream of notifications announced the deaths of enemy soldiers. Within just sixty seconds, the entire enemy force had been wiped out.
He went to investigate.
The corpses were a gruesome sight. Their eyeballs bulged, and tiny droplets of blood seeped from their ears and nostrils. When he opened their mouths, he saw their tongues covered in dense, mosquito-bite-like blisters, resembling boiling water.
Absolute vacuum—a vacuum even more powerful than that of space.
The effect was impressive, but it lacked the aesthetic grandeur of the Giant Super Annihilation Bomb.
And the fact that it left corpses behind was deeply unsettling. A proper Gentleman should never have to witness such sights. So, after using the vacuum bomb, he deployed a Giant Super Annihilation Bomb to vaporize the bodies, granting them a gentlemanly farewell. It was a hidden act of mercy, a Gentleman's inner kindness when forced to confront war.
Truly, he was a Gentleman worthy of praise.
(End of the Chapter)
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