Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Weren’t you supposed to bring supplies?
With so many resources, Logan had no intention of sharing them with Victor.
He first took out a portion worth a trillion and gave it to Barzini and the others, telling them to gather all kinds of cultivation materials and familiar treasures.
After all, resources and money only truly belong to you once you turn them into strength.
Barzini’s team didn’t let Logan down. In less than a day, they brought back all sorts of rare items.
Some were pieces they had collected over the years, and some were treasures they bought from big auction houses and trading firms in Saint Heart City.
Even after spending heavily, and with their sharp eyes, they still only found a dozen or so items that were truly useful for Logan.
Logan looked over the display and opened a box first.
A bright glow spread out, shining warmly on him.
Through the light, he saw two smooth jade stones lying inside.
"What’s this?" Logan asked, curious, looking at Barzini.
"Master, this is Spiritlight Jade. It’s a top-grade gem that only has a chance to appear in Legend-tier Blood Cultivation Realms. If you absorb it, it will expand your soul ocean. It not only increases how many familiars you can bind, it also greatly boosts the power of soul-type skills," Barzini explained warmly.
You could say this Spiritlight Jade was almost tailor-made for Logan and Lilith.
So Logan generously gave one to Lilith and kept the other for himself.
Absorbing the Spiritlight Jade didn’t take long. In just half an hour, Logan could clearly feel his soul ocean had doubled.
His last remaining familiar slot jumped from one to five.
As for Lilith, her change was even more obvious.
Unlike Logan, Lilith directly fused the Spiritlight Jade. A glowing mark appeared between her brows, and she gained a new talent from it.
[Spiritlight Mark: Increases the power of all mind-type skills by 100%. Does not conflict with other talents.]
Although this talent only does one simple thing, and it’s a bit weaker than [Demon Eye], it doesn’t clash with any other talent or skill—it stacks.
In other words, when Lilith turns on [Demon Eye] to boost her skills, the max boost isn’t 150% anymore, but 250%.
After this transformation, Lilith became, without question, the number one fighter under Logan.
Then Logan opened four more boxes.
Most of them, like the Spiritlight Jade, were treasures that raised his own core stats.
[Source of Mana Fragment: Grants the user [Magic Affinity], giving them the stamina to learn and cast familiar magic on their own. Number of spells you can learn: 4.]
[Cyclops Heart: Grants the user a strong body and [Battle Qi Control]. Lets you learn and use familiar battle skills on your own. Number of skills you can learn: 4.]
[Rainbow Dragon Reverse Scale: Grants [Magic Resistance], reducing magic damage from monsters by 20%.]
[Golden Dragon Essence Blood: Grants [Blood Regeneration], greatly boosting recovery and physical strength. Effect increase: 20%.]
Seeing the four treasures, Logan took them without hesitation.
Unlike using the familiar space array to cast skills, these items power up Logan himself.
After the waterfall ambush, Logan clearly felt the big weakness of familiar tamers: their own combat power is too weak.
Even with boosts from the familiar space array, if the familiar space can’t open, you’re just a target.
But if Logan himself masters some magic and battle skills, his reaction speed and options in sudden fights will improve a lot.
So while these four items can’t raise Logan’s top-end power, they can greatly raise his bottom line.
With that in mind, Logan quietly put away the four boxes and looked at the remaining loot: four ancient stone tablets.
Staring at the strange symbols and patterns on them, Logan turned to Barzini and asked, curious, "What are these for?"
"Master, these are familiar skill tablets. You can use them on a familiar to add one skill." Barzini sounded a bit awkward as he added, "It’s just... we can’t read the script on them, so we won’t know the exact skill until after we use it."
Logan nodded quietly.
For a familiar, having a wider mix of skills is also a kind of strength.
Every extra skill gives them one more option on the battlefield.
So Logan didn’t hesitate and split the tablets evenly among his four familiars.
In the end, each familiar learned a brand-new ability from the tablets.
Lilith got the skill Dreamspace, which can read and edit a target’s memories in real time, hypnotize their mind into sleep, and trap them in a dream they can’t escape.
Kerparos got Fission Clone, which briefly splits its body into three one-headed familiar clones. Each clone has the same power and skills as the original.
Nabo got Enlarge, which lets it swell in size for a short time, greatly boosting power and Stamina.
Red Feather got Refraction, which shifts its apparent position in space with irregular optical offsets. This creates visual errors for enemies, so targeted skills can’t track or lock on, greatly improving its evasion.
Seeing the four skills, Logan’s eyes lit up.
They might not look super strong, but they’re surprisingly useful.
With these skills working together, Logan’s four familiars can run a lot more tactics.
By this point, Logan fully acknowledged Barzini and his team’s ability.
Next, Logan opened a few more boxes. Most held gear like rings, bracelets, and chestplates.
They looked like ordinary luxury items on the surface, but Logan could clearly feel the unusual energy coming off them.
After he put them on, he realized the rings, bracelets, and chestplate seemed to be the same type as the Guardian Armor Principal Mark gave him!
[Familiar Tamer Set: Guardian of Order (8/8)]
[Set pieces: ring, bracelet, soft armor, chestplate, skirt armor, gauntlets, boots, helmet]
[Wearing 1/8: Gain the Blessing of Federal Order. All stats +10%, but any single stat increase is capped at 30 points.]
[Wearing 3/8: Gain the Federal Order Guard skill. You can raise a protective shield that blocks all damage for 10 seconds.]
[Wearing 5/8: Gain the Federal Order Seal. You can punish any enemy, restricting the target’s actions for 1 second, up to 3 times per day.]
[Wearing 8/8: Gain the Gaze of the Source of Federal Order. Awaken exceptional insight, greatly boosting your understanding in familiar tamer training, battle qi skills, and magic spells.]
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Seeing Logan complete the Guardian of Order set, Barzini and the others were stunned.
Stryker looked at Logan fully geared up and said with admiration: "The Order Guardian Armor that the Speaker of the Federation once gave away ended up with Master!"
Hearing everyone’s surprise, Logan asked why.
It turned out the Guardian of Order set was the personal gear of the first-generation [Supernova] when the Federation was first founded.
It followed that [Supernova] through countless battles, with endless damage and repairs.
When the first [Supernova] broke through to the Legend rank, the Federation spent 3% of its annual tax revenue to melt it down and reforge it.
Because so much hope and resources were put into it, the set was later renamed the [Guardian of Order].
The Federation even made a special artifact called the [Source of Order] and hung it in the Federation Parliament hall.
After learning all this, Logan felt more respect for the gear he was wearing.
It stands for humanity’s will to fight through blood and fire and build a new order.
So he quietly put it away, storing it in his familiar space to avoid drawing attention.
With his current mental control, he can open the familiar space anytime and switch gear fast.
Logan opened the last box. Inside lay a ring.
He picked it up and used his Mental Power to check what was inside.
Logan had always eyed the Tattalia family’s space rings with envy, so he spent a lot of Federation credits and had Barzini win a brand-new space ring for him at auction.
Its capacity is big enough to hold an entire football field. On top of that, the ring is packed with high-end materials for building familiar space. In both quantity and quality, they’re no worse than the batch Julia provided.
Over the next two days, Logan kept directing his familiars, busy reshaping his familiar space.
Since he had five extra contract slots, he didn’t hesitate and made a contract with the Black Ant Queen.
With this egg-laying machine in place, an ant nest soon appeared inside his familiar space.
Logan also picked out one thousand monster corpses from different species and fed them to the Black Ant Queen.
Watching her belly grow bigger and bigger, he couldn’t help looking forward to the birth of the [Black Ant King].
Meanwhile, at the Genius Training Camp.
Victor stayed quietly in his tent-palace.
These days, he would stare at the points leaderboard for about an hour almost every day.
Somehow, Yelena and Sawako were racking up points like crazy. In just one week, their points rose to the same level as Victor’s.
Seeing this, Victor ground his teeth, but for now there wasn’t much he could do.
Just then, his guardian walked into the palace. Victor stood up right away and asked, "Teacher, how is it? Didn’t you say the first batch of Blood Cultivation Realm supplies would arrive today?"
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