NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 53: Purchasing Qualification
After the Queens finished evolving, Xu Luo first went to the Divine Realm capital to claim his rewards.
He still had too few Earth Dragon Zerg, so he needed some time to prepare and accumulate enough forces before making a big move.
After verifying his identity and entering the logistics department's inner area, he coincidentally met the same senior as last time.
"Well done, junior!" The young man smiled at Xu Luo.
"I saw your monthly exam results. Your performance was truly impressive!"
"Senior, you're too kind," Xu Luo replied modestly.
"No, you don't understand what your performance means. Do you know how many ordinary students in the school see you as an idol?" The young man interrupted him.
"That includes me. Let me introduce myself properly this time. I'm Li Tian from Class 1, third year."
"I'm Xu Luo from Class 1, first year," Xu Luo introduced himself seriously.
"You have three rewards this time, including one rare item. You can choose any three things you need from the warehouse. So, do you have anything specific in mind?"
Generally, everyone's species had their unique evolution path, requiring different items for evolution. This had formed a unique industry chain, and the school was specifically collecting various useful items.
As high school students, they could often find what they needed in the logistics department.
However, Xu Luo's species appeared mutated to others, and no one knew what it needed for evolution, so Li Tian didn't dare to give random advice.
"I'll take a look first," Xu Luo said, not knowing what inventory was available or what suited him. He could only go through them one by one.
"Alright, here's the search catalog for you." Li Tian had to attend to other visitors outside, so he couldn't stay here the whole time. He simply gave Xu Luo the catalog to browse at his leisure, as the items couldn't be taken away anyway.
Xu Luo didn't mind and let him go about his business.
Looking at the items in the catalog, Xu Luo thought about coming back to sweep through here once he had accumulated some faith power.
Although rare items couldn't be bought, the common items were comprehensive.
Students could buy things from the school's logistics department, which was considered one of their benefits.
Xu Luo recorded some items he could use. Even if he didn't choose them now, he could come back to purchase them when he had accumulated some faith power.
After picking and choosing for a long time among the numerous items, Xu Luo randomly selected two from his shortlist as his choices for this time, then started looking at the rare items he could now select.
Li Tian had just opened the item selection permission for him; otherwise, he couldn't have seen them at all.
The school, being a massive force, had items collected by teachers, allocated by the Education Department, bartered or sold by students, and even directly purchased by the logistics department.
So the inventory was vast, not only in variety but also in quantity for each type.
Rare items were scarce outside, but the school had many.
However, many rare items that others coveted were useless to Xu Luo, so he quickly ignored them.
Compared to common items, the number and types of rare items were naturally much fewer, so the search was quicker.
Among these items, Xu Luo was interested in several, but he could only choose one.
Nano Alloy: A specialty produced by alien races, possessing extremely durable properties.
Murphy's Biometal: A living metal that can continuously devour matter to grow.
Demon Iron: Produced in the Divine Realm of the Human-Beast God King "Myriad Beast King," it's his specialty, containing demonic power, an excellent choice for crafting weapon nests.
These three materials were all rare items, with the third one even having records of Zerg evolution.
Xu Luo made up his mind; these materials were most suitable for constructing a Hive.
Ordinary materials couldn't withstand the corrosion when the Queens laid eggs, but rare materials didn't have this problem for now.
After making his selection, Xu Luo called for Li Tian.
"You've chosen?" After a while, Li Tian came over, somewhat surprised that Xu Luo had called him so quickly.
The logistics department had many good items, and usually, when students came, even if they couldn't choose, they would spend a long time looking. He didn't expect Xu Luo to finish so quickly.
"Can the rare items here be purchased?" Xu Luo asked the question he was most concerned about.
"Of course they can be bought, but you don't have the qualification now. You can't buy them unless you exchange for them," Li Tian shook his head.
If rare items could be freely bought and sold, those financial oligarchs wouldn't bow their heads to the Education Department.
It was precisely because rare resources were tightly controlled that even if they had money, they needed to pay a huge price to get their hands on things, and they might not even get what they wanted.
"What are the requirements?" Xu Luo's understanding of this world was too limited. Although he had been trying to learn about this world besides developing his Divine Realm, the time was too short, and this was a highly technologically advanced place with much to learn.
Because of this, Xu Luo actually lacked a lot of common knowledge.
"It's normal that you don't know as a first-year student," Li Tian didn't question his inquiry.
"If you take first place in a semester, you'll be rewarded with a chance to purchase from the logistics department. At that time, items within your authority will be open to you."
Speaking of this, Li Tian inwardly sighed imperceptibly. What's the use of opening access to him? He couldn't afford it all these years.
"So you can purchase once every half year?" Xu Luo nodded.
"Is it limited to buying one item, or how does it work?"
"As long as you have money, you can buy as much as you want. If you're capable, you could even empty out the logistics department," Li Tian joked.
But how could that be possible?
Even a financial oligarch couldn't empty out the school's logistics department, and there were restrictions anyway.
It wasn't possible for a child of a financial oligarchy to get purchasing qualifications, then have the oligarchy transfer large amounts of funds to them to buy out the logistics department's items and sell them outside.
Students' funds were monitored, and any large influx of external funds would immediately attract attention.
So basically, oligarchs would only provide initial funding at the beginning, and afterward, students had to develop on their own. At most, they might get some help occasionally, but it wouldn't be as crude as giving them hundreds of millions or billions in faith power for development.
The semester's first place still seemed distant, so Xu Luo didn't think too much about it. He chose one item and then exchanged two rare items of equal value for the other two, thus obtaining the three rare materials he needed.
He also sold the remaining eight rare materials to the logistics department, receiving 60 million faith power.
