Chapter 626: Chapter 314 Fusion! Above SSS-level!_1 After going through the three event-exclusive rewards multiple times, Chen Mo eventually decided to lock in the Mind-reading Secret Technique. After all, relative to others, this ability would prove more beneficial to him. Whether for everyday use or fighting against enemies, it would bring him advantages. Only after he had chosen his event-exclusive reward did Chen Mo turn his attention to the War Spoils Shop. He had amassed a high number of victory points this time. He could redeem quite a few items, but he had decided what he wanted to redeem long ago. He was about to undergo his third-transition soon, and a pet contract was within reach. Naturally, he needed to get his hands on items that could maximize his Above SSS-level pets. Pet hatching needed a considerable amount of time. The Above SSS-level pet egg Chen Mo possessed would require nearly 100 million hours just for incubation. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to wait that long. Therefore, Chen Mo needed to get Incubation Stones to significantly reduce this time. The selling price of an Incubation Stone was as high as 50 million victory points, and each stone could reduce the incubation time by half. Quite a few would be required to reduce the 100 million hours of incubation to a bearable amount. Chen Mo had calculated in advance that if he used twenty-two Incubation Stones, he could reduce the incubation period to one day. Twenty-two Incubation Stones would consume 1.1 billion points when redeemed. Chen Mo had managed to accumulate 45,080,000,000 victory points this time, so the expenditure was still within his capabilities. Before redeeming the Incubation Stones, though, a more outrageous idea suddenly came to Chen Mo’s mind. If Above SSS-level already had defined grades, could an Above SSS-level pet also scale higher? Having thought of this, Chen Mo’s heartbeat sped up. An SSS-level pet alone could bring about a significant star level increase. If pets Above SSS-level were contracted, wouldn’t the advancement they bring be astonishing? Although it would be kind of a waste of his victory points if he failed to produce a pet Above SSS-level, Chen Mo wouldn’t bear to give up the opportunity to try, given that there was a chance. Thus, he decided to redeem six SSS-level pet eggs right away. It cost him a total of 1.8 billion victory points. At the same time, he used up his monthly discount limit and spent 20 eternal gold coins to get two bottles of Divine Fusion Agents from the Combination Shop. Combining these, he quickly had three Above SSS-level pet eggs. Chen Mo took a deep breath while looking at the three Above SSS-level pet eggs and threw them all into the combination column in front of him. The combination prompt swiftly sounded: "...You’ve put in [Above SSS-level Pet Egg] * 3!" "Checking formula..." 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞 "Identified that you’ve put in three of the same materials. Your talent has taken effect; you don’t need to know the formula for this combination!" "Starting quality check for this combination..." "This combination resulted in chaos quality, requiring a special material—Chaos Fusion Agent." ... Chaos Fusion Agent? It’s not in the redemption shop. Suddenly, an idea sparked in his Moluo’s Brain. Could Chaos Fusion Agent be made by combining three bottles of Divine Fusion Agent? Chen Mo, with this possibility in mind, immediately attempted to try it. Thankfully, he had plenty of eternal gold coins. He had more than 8,000 eternal gold coins before entering the event. After spending 1,200 on betting, he still had over 7,000, which was more than enough. He then used 3,000 eternal gold coins to purchase three bottles of Divine Fusion Agent without any discounts and directly dropped them into the combination column. The combination column really began to spin and merged the three bottles of Divine Fusion Agent into a single entity. With The Heavenly Path’s Hint sounding again, Chen Mo received the combination result. A bottle full of murky gray liquid appeared in the combination column. Upon further examination by Chen Mo, the item in front of him was indeed the Chaos Fusion Agent! At this point, Chen Mo understood how to synthesize items of divine-grade and higher. The cost was indeed high. Just a Chaos Fusion Agent required 3,000 eternal gold coins. Having obtained the Chaos Fusion Agent, Chen Mo didn’t hesitate anymore. He threw both the Chaos Fusion Agent and the three Above SSS-level pet eggs into the combination column. The combination started again. After three seconds, a pet egg emanating strange, murky gray energy appeared in the combination column. The Heavenly Path’s Hint sounded: "Congratulations, combination successful! Please retrieve your synthesized item—『Chaos-Grade Pet Egg』!" This is outrageous! There really is a pet egg that surpasses Above SSS-level. I wonder what level it will hatch into? Chen Mo could hardly imagine; he immediately checked the information of the pet egg. Chaos-Grade Pet Egg: A life born from chaos, a legend within legends. It is said to now be extinct but has somehow re-emerged. The creature within possesses a power capable of turning the world upside down; please handle with caution. Currently, there are still ten quadrillion hours until it hatches. Well, well! The incubation time is so outrageous—ten quadrillion hours! It could hatch at the end of the universe. Fortunately, Chen Mo now possessed Moluo’s Brain, an extraordinary intellect. He didn’t need a computer to quickly calculate the number of Incubation Stones needed to reduce ten quadrillion hours to within a single day. Forty-nine. It turned out that the terrifying ten quadrillion hours only required 49 Incubation Stones to shorten the incubation time to within one day. It seemed the most terrifying algorithm was indeed the multiplicative one; any large number could be reduced to a very small one with just a few divisions by a constant factor. The exchange price for 49 Incubation Stones was 2.45 billion victory points. The now wealthy Chen Mo didn’t hesitate and paid it right away. After redeeming the Incubation Stones, Chen Mo continued to redeem the growth food necessary for his pets. This also represented a huge consumption. Furthermore, Chen Mo also redeemed the items necessary for pets to break through each growth stage. However, the best breakthrough items sold in the War Spoils Shop were only suitable for SSS-level pets. Chen Mo needed to synthesize them up to chaos-grade to use on his chaos-grade pet. This means, for each stage, Chen Mo needs to prepare nine sets. The consumption in this transaction was enormous. Chen Mo spent all his remaining points and only just managed to redeem the advancement and breakthrough items needed for his pet’s growth stage. There are still two stages remaining: maturity and complete form. The prices are just too high. For the breakthrough materials in the maturity stage, even the SSS-level ones sold for an outrageous 5 billion victory points, more expensive than an actual SSS-level pet egg. In reality, many powerful figures from different Star Systems, even if they had SSS-level pets, usually only raised them to the growth stage. This was because the materials needed to upgrade an SSS-level pet to the maturity stage were too hard to obtain, far more difficult than getting an SSS-level pet egg. Fortunately, even without materials, pets could achieve breakthroughs over time through self-comprehension. The time needed varied based on the different stages. A-Class pets are the fastest. From the nascent stage, they reach the juvenile stage in one year, the growth stage in another two years, the maturity stage in three more years, and the complete form in another four years. Without consuming items, it takes a total of 10 years. S-level pets are next. From the nascent stage, it takes 10 years to reach the juvenile stage, another 20 years to reach the growth stage, 30 more years to reach the maturity stage, and 40 more years to reach the complete form. Without consuming items, it takes a total of 100 years. To max out an SS level pet takes 1,000 years. And an SSS-level pet takes 10,000 years. During this period, you can feed them growth-accelerating food to speed up the process. However, for SSS-level pets, it’s still very slow. To raise them from the growth stage to the maturity stage without advancement items, even with sufficient growth-accelerating food, their daily digestion is limited. At best, it would take ten years. If they aren’t fed enough, it could drag out to a hundred years! If you simply don’t feed them at all, then you’ll have to wait a long ten thousand years. As for pets Above SSS-level and chaos-grade, needless to say, their timelines would be even longer. Merely by extrapolating from the growth times of other pets, Chen Mo knew that a chaos-grade pet would take millions of years. It’s completely impossible to wait for it to grow and break through on its own; it still requires items. Although the victory points were exhausted this time, this month is the last month of the year. There are bound to be year-end activities; I can earn more then. And a chaos-grade pet is an unprecedented existence. Even if it only reaches the growth stage, its strength is probably immeasurable. After spending all of his victory points and taking a large pile of pet-related necessities, Chen Mo prepared to exit the instance. As he withdrew from the instance, the Heavenly Dao began to settle the betting rewards. The Heavenly Path’s Hint: The Demon Tower Expedition event has concluded in all competition zones. Your betting income is being calculated... The Heavenly Path’s Hint: You placed a bet in the fourth-transition competition zone, betting 1,200 eternal gold coins on a Solar System participant. The target survived for 24 hours, reached the tenth floor, and completed the ultimate exploration. You will receive a tenfold return on your investment. Furthermore, since the target ranked first in this competition zone after 24 hours, you will receive an additional fivefold earning. The Heavenly Path’s Hint: You have received 18,000 eternal gold coins! Chen Mo, who had just spent three thousand eternal gold coins, saw his gold coins increase by 19,200 instantly; 1,200 of this was the return of his bet. Chen Mo now had over 24,000 eternal gold coins. However, once he thought about having to synthesize such a large amount of pet advancement items to chaos-grade, Chen Mo felt that money still didn’t last long. As Chen Mo and Zhui Yi returned to reality, his information alerts went crazy. Messages from Alina, Yusheng Liuyin, and the Academy Alliance Leader were received. Both girls had guessed that the participant was Chen Mo. Their messages were mainly expressions of astonishment and didn’t ask any questions. Chen Mo didn’t bother to reply much. However, the messages sent by the Alliance Hierarchs were all seeking answers. Clearly, Jiang Yun and the others were eager to know what Chen Mo had done in the event instance. However, they didn’t intend to completely pry into Chen Mo’s affairs. They just hoped he could clarify what he was able to share, to satisfy their curiosity. Seeing Jiang Yun’s message, Chen Mo smiled, feeling that more money was presenting itself. He immediately left Zhui Yi in the room and, with a Divine Flicker, appeared in the Academy Alliance Headquarters Building.