Chapter 942: It’s Just Good Business

Chapter 942: It’s Just Good Business

Elisae hummed softly to herself as the conference ended, watching as both the High Mother and the AI left the room. She didn’t leave so quickly, however, because she still had some things that she needed to hand over to Clara. After they left, Clara turned to look at Elisae, a small smile on her lips. “So, you said that you had some inheritances of an ancient empire?”

In truth, that wasn’t the only reason that Clara had asked for Elisae to participate. In fact, it wasn’t even something that she knew about until after their initial conversation. What Clara was interested in was Elisae herself. The Queen blessed by fate, whose karma was so good that it was believed that the heavens themselves smiled upon her. Thanks to Clara’s connection with Dana, she of course knew the truth of the matter, but the influence of her karma was still very real.

Clara knew that as long as Elisae herself wanted this to succeed, luck would be on their side. When she learned that Elisae happened to have the remnants of a machine empire, she had to question whether this was something fated, or if Elisae had simply had so many fortunate encounters that she had something for nearly any situation.

Elisae nodded her head with that same smile, opening up her inventory. “Of course! When I got these, I thought about bringing them out into the real world, but I had the feeling that I shouldn’t. You never know what’s going to happen when you get mysterious technology involved!”

Naturally, this conference room wasn’t a part of Fragments of Acidia, so Elisae could not truly pull the object from her inventory. All that she could do was retrieve the object data to show to Clara.

Self Replicating Autonomous Drone - DAMAGED

This drone comes fully equipped with a digital synthesizer, able to break down nearby materials in order to replicate itself. It can be programmed or modified to carry out a wide variety of tasks, whether military or civilian.

- This drone has been damaged beyond the point of usability. It is recommended to find a Galactic-level technician in order to repair.

Chaos Fragment Cannon - DAMAGED

This weapon can be installed on any space-faring vessel, capable of releasing F9-level power. Most effective when directed at a single unit, but can be configured to affect a cone at F7-level.

- This weapon has been damaged beyond the point of usability. It is recommended to find a Fragment-level technician in order to repair.

Clara blinked when she saw the details of the two items in Elisae’s possession. She could immediately tell why Elisae wouldn’t want to bring them to the real world. If the drone happened to be repaired improperly, it could devour an entire planet while replicating uncontrollably. As for the cannon... the fact that it was a chaos fragment cannon meant that it used the power of the void.

F9-level... if I remember right, the ships on the boss’s ships are only F3, with the missiles getting up to F5. F5 is already lethal for medium-strength gods if they get hit directly, from what we’ve seen. In that case, F9 should be similar to the flagship cannons of major empires.

Looking at the two files presented to her, Clara was rubbing her hands together. Then, a thought occurred to her. “Why don’t you just use your domain of Wishes to repair these?”

Elisae, however, simply shrugged her shoulders at that question. “Honestly? I find so much random stuff like this that it isn’t really worth it to use wishes all the time. That would just be draining my divinity for something I probably won’t end up using. Especially when it comes to doing a job I don’t actually know how to do, like repairing this tech.”

“For situations like our previous hunt to get special materials for our weapons, the cost of creating those materials was more expensive than simply hiring a team to retrieve them. Especially since most of them were monster components or materials rich in energy.”

I couldn’t help but nod at that. “So it would be either buying low and selling high, or going on an adventure. Personally, I’d take the adventure.”

Tsubaki nodded her head in agreement. “I concur. With the strength of our group, retrieving rare materials should not be difficult.”

Dana gave a noncommittal shrug, turning and adjusting the display on a terminal near her seat. “Well, there are three types of resources we can go after. The first is ‘strategic resources’. These are resources that respawn like Mage Heart and Blood Heart. Their appearance in this game is somewhat random. You can have a strategic vein of iron on one planet, and on another, it might be a vein of divine gold. Every strategic resource is worth a large sum due to its theoretically unlimited supply. That also means that we’d need to explore to find those types of nodes.”

“The second type is ‘hazardous resources’. These are resources that are either innately dangerous to carry, or are in a dangerous environment. The environment can be anything from the nest of a powerful monster to the heart of an old star. Most of the materials that we needed for our artifacts came from this type.”

“The last type--”

“Monster materials.” Tsubaki finished, Dana nodding her head.

“That’s right. These made up the rest of what we needed for our artifacts. The materials from powerful monsters that can’t be easily slain. Their remains are highly sought after for a variety of reasons.”

Hearing her list out these three options, I briefly fell into thought. “Is there any way to detect if a planet has a strategic resource?”

Unfortunately, Dana shook her head. “Not without using a special vein scanner on the material itself. The scanner can tell whether or not a material comes from a strategic vein. But, without spending the time to mine up the initial sample, there isn’t a feasible way to get that information.”

“In that case, hunting for strategic resources would be too inefficient. For monsters... we won’t avoid them, but we won’t go out of our way to hunt for them, either. Let’s go for the hazardous resources, and we’ll just clear out any monsters that get in our way. Also, be sure that none of the materials we go after are hazardous because of memetic effects. The last thing I want is to suddenly believe I’m a potato.”

Dana chuckled slightly at that. “You got it, boss. In that case, I’ll make a note on the map of the known hazardous resources, as well as their value.”

As she said that, Lifre jumped up, running to the pilot’s seat.. “Awesome! Let’s go make some money! Wait... weren’t we able to buy the company because money’s not an issue for us?”

With a small smile, Dana explained. “We’re not getting these goods to sell them because we need the money. The goods are used to help us network. The boss’s goal with this business is to get in contact with some of the different tech advancements available in this world. To do so, we need to have connections in military, research, and government branches. Once all of that is achieved, we’ll be able to gain access to more technology like the Hyperlane Network.”

“Ohhh.” Lifre nodded her head. “In that case, let’s go make friends by beating up the baddies!”