Three hours passed in the blink of an eye, and the system’s cold, emotionless voice rang out once more.
“Ding! The Most Powerful Pickup System upgrade complete!
“Ding! The Most Powerful Pickup System at your service!”
Although its voice was cold and emotionless, it nevertheless sounded like music to Meng Lei’s ears. He exclaimed, “The upgrade is complete at last! Hurry, tell me, system, what new functions have you gained?”
“Dear host, the basic pickup function has undergone a few changes after the system upgrade,” The system stated emotionlessly, “The chargeable functions Limitless Pickup and Brutal Plunder have been removed, while the following new chargeable functions have been added—Super Pickup, Super Plunder, and Super Enhancement.”
“Super Pickup, Super Plunder, and Super Enhancement?”
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An excited Meng Lei urged, “System, hurry and tell me more about these three functions!”
“Super Pickup: Picks up dropped items from designated existential planes, including but not limited to Divinity Crystals, Bloodlines, Laws of Nature Fragments, Divine Cores...” The system stated coldly, “This is a chargeable function and costs 100 Divinity Crystals per attempt.”
“Pick up dropped items from designated existential planes?”
Meng Lei’s eyes lit up a little as he asked, “Is this an improved version of Limitless Pickup? What does ‘designated existential planes’ mean? Do I get to specify the existential plane?”
“That’s right, host,” replied the system. Then it added, “By using this function, the host may pick up dropped items from any existential plane designated by the host.”
“I get to designate the existential plane? That’s just insane!”
Meng Lei’s spirits were rather roused up.
Limitless Pickup was a random pickup function. Just how many existential planes were there in the vast universe?
Billions! The rate of picking up something good was too low when one could only do random pickups from so many existential planes out there.
However, he could designate a specific existential plane as the pickup location instead with the new function. Now, that made the function way more monstrous!
If he designated the location as the Thunderbolt Divine Realm, then he would be able to pick up dropped items from the Thunderbolt Divine Realm;
If he designated the location as the Earth Divine Realm, then he would be able to pick up dropped items from the Earth Divine Realm!
If he designated the location as the Celestial Realm, then he would be able to pick up dropped items from the Celestial Realm!
Even if he were to temporarily put aside the issue of whether or not he could pick up decent dropped items, at least he definitely wouldn’t be seeing things like Anna the barmaid’s panties, a Fairy’s bra, and other kinds of eyesores anymore.
“This function is certainly powerful, but the price...” Meng Lei couldn’t help but gasp. The price was certainly very ridiculous, too.
100 Divinity Crystals was the equivalent of 1,000,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals. This meant that using Super Pickup once would cost him 1,000,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals—this was as many as one million times the cost of using Limitless Pickup!
How could the word “expensive” even cut it?
Meng Lei asked, “What about Super Plunder?”
“Super Plunder: Plunders anything from designated existential planes, including but not limited to Divinity Crystals, Bloodlines, Laws of Nature Fragments, Divine Cores...” The system stated coldly, “The cost of using the function depends on how powerful and how rare the target of plunder and object of plunder are.”
“As expected, it’s also an improved function, this time of Brutal Plunder.”
An excited Meng Lei exclaimed, “To think it can actually plunder anything from designated existential planes! It’s pretty terrifying once you think carefully about it—this means that I can even plunder a Chief God’s divine core if I so wish?”
“Yes, it’s possible, host,” replied the system emotionlessly.
True enough!
Meng Lei couldn’t help but gasp. This particular function was simply too monstrous—it could even plunder a Chief God’s divine core! This was practically... too frightening!
However, Meng Lei knew without even asking that the cost of plundering a Chief God divine core from a chief god must undoubtedly be an astronomical sum, way beyond what he could even imagine. It wasn’t something that he could plunder so easily.
“System, tell me about Super Enhancement.”
Meng Lei was full of anticipation. Since the previous two functions hadn’t disappointed, then the last one couldn’t possibly be a bad one, either.
“Super Enhancement: Enhances any object in the host’s possession, including but not limited to Physical Body Constitution, Spirit, Bloodlines, Divine Cores, Divine Weapons...” The system stated coldly, “The cost of using this function depends on the object of enhancement’s grade.”
“This function sounds pretty good, too!”
Meng Lei’s eyes were sparkling. He asked, “Can the function enhance even bloodlines, system?”
“Yes, it can.”
“If I want to enhance my bloodline, what would happen after the bloodline has been enhanced?”
The system replied, “The bloodline will upgrade by one grade each time the function is used to enhance it.”
“Upgrade by one grade?” Meng Lei was rather confused. “What does that mean?”
“Dear host, bloodlines are classified into different grades,” The system explained, “They are respectively the Mundane Bloodlines, Saint Domain Bloodlines, Half-Deity Bloodlines, True God Bloodlines, Ancient God Bloodlines, Supreme Bloodlines, and the Genesis Bloodlines.
“It is possible for the host to improve a bloodline’s grade through the use of Super Enhancement. For example, the host may enhance a Mundane Bloodline into a Saint Domain Bloodline, or a Saint Domain Bloodline into a Half-Deity Bloodline.”
The system’s explanation was an eye-opener for Meng Lei.
He wasn’t surprised at the fact that bloodlines had a difference in grades. After all, this was simply too common an occurrence.
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