novelGlobal Chapter 484: Fully Invested
Chapter 484: Fully Invested
Leon opened the cosmic shop and moved through it with focused efficiency, browsing quickly rather than lingering. He’d known what he needed for a while — the causality simply hadn’t been available in the right quantities until now. That problem was solved.
He started buying.
Earthbrick Fabricator(Uncommon – Tool, Set of 25) Draws moisture from surrounding air and soil, combines with earth element to produce uniform construction bricks at high speed. Self-powered by ambient mana indefinitely. Price: 450,000
Vendor:Mason’s Marvin
Stonepulse Quarry Drill(Uncommon – Tool, set of 10) Enhanced drilling device that extracts and processes raw rock into usable building material. Requires minimal operator effort and outputs ten times the yield of standard manual methods.
Price: 38,000 Vendor:Digsworth and Sons
Hundred-Hand Shovel Set(Uncommon – Tool Set, 200 units) Enchanted shovels that reduce physical resistance by eighty percent. The effective work output of one person becomes that of eight.
Price: 300,000 Vendor:Laborer’s Lenny
Hundred-Hand Construction Kit(Uncommon – Tool Set, 250 units)
Full set of enhanced construction tools — hammers, chisels, levels, trowels. Each piece reduces physical effort significantly and increases output precision without requiring skilled operators.
Price: 720,000 Vendor:Laborer’s Lenny
Waterline Conjurer(Rare – Infrastructure Item) Installs directly into ground. Draws water from underground sources and distributes through connected channels. Self-sustaining, powered by ambient mana. No maintenance required after installation, can install upto 100,000 outputs.
Price: 1,080,000 Vendor:Plumber Pete the Perpetual
Lightstone Cluster(Common – Item, bulk pack of 50000) Small stones that emit steady warm light wherever ambient mana is present. No installation or activation required. Place them and they function.
Price: 250,000 Vendor:Glow Greta
Seedbed Cultivator Orb(Uncommon – Item) Accelerates soil preparation and crop establishment in a designated area. Produces first viable yield within days rather than seasons under normal conditions.
Price: 95,000 Vendor:Farmer’s Friend Flo
Community Loom Set(Uncommon – Tool Set, 30 units) Enhanced looms operating at three times standard speed. Accept any raw fiber material and produce finished cloth at consistent quality regardless of operator experience level.
Price: 355,000 Vendor:Threadweaver Tilda
Road to Master Rune Scriber’s Complete Kit(Rare – Book Set and Tools) Five volumes covering foundational rune inscription from entry level through advanced utility applications. Volume one covers structural runes for housing — heating, cooling, water flow, lighting, and basic environmental protection. Volumes two through five expand into elemental, utility, defensive, and enhancement applications across a wide range of surfaces and materials. Kit includes inscription tools for stone, wood, metal, and fabric. Runes installed from this kit draw power from ambient atmospheric energy or personal mana depending on the installation method chosen. Can be inscribed by anyone who has studied the relevant volume to a working level of comprehension.
Price: 1,000,000 Vendor:Archivist Aldren the Thorough
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That last purchase made him pause for exactly one second before confirming it.
A million causality for books, he thought. A month ago that number would have been unthinkable. Now it’s just a line item.
He confirmed the purchase without further deliberation.
Everything materialized in the air in front of him — a substantial organized collection of physical objects arriving from nothing in quick succession and settling into existence. The Pyrans standing nearby went completely still as it happened, watching with the wide-eyed expression of people whose minds were processing something as impossible regardless of how many times they’d observed him do something similar. The murmuring that ran through the gathered crowd was low and impressed and carried genuine awe in it.
Leon barely noticed. He was already organizing.
He made a copy of the first rune volume immediately — his memory at its current level meant one full read produced complete retention, and the original needed to remain in usable condition for distribution. He kept all five books in his inventory, noting mentally that getting them into the right hands would require identifying people with both the aptitude and the patience for inscription work. That sorting was the clone’s task.
He also added one more item before closing the ring. An orb he’d purchased a significant time ago, the original motivation being something Ira had mentioned after one of their nights together — she’d said she wanted to learn his language, casually and directly the way she said most things, and the orb had been his response to that. It stored information in a format directly transferable to the mind of whoever used it, the contents in this case being a complete working knowledge of his native tongue. It had cost nearly a million causality when he’d acquired it and had a strict limit on how much information it could hold — his language had filled that capacity almost exactly, with very little room to spare.
The constraint on using it was intelligence. The stat needed to be high enough to absorb and integrate the transferred information cleanly, otherwise the process simply failed or caused damage. Ira had cleared that bar easily. Among the Pyrans, he estimated roughly half currently had sufficient intelligence to use it without issue, and that number would climb naturally as they developed further. The remaining half could learn through immersion and daily interaction, which was slower but worked perfectly well given enough time.
He gathered everything into a spatial ring — fabricators, drills, tool sets, orbs, lightstones, the loom sets, the waterline device, the rune kit, all of it organized and immediately accessible — and sealed it.
He held it out to his clone without saying a word.
Same mind. No explanation needed or useful. The clone took the ring, understood the complete context and intended distribution simultaneously with receiving it, and turned toward the areas where organization was most urgently needed.
Leon watched it go for exactly a moment, then turned back.
He found Seraphine’s hand and took it in his, the motion easy and without ceremony. Her fingers closed around his without hesitation.
He looked at her with a smile that was straightforward about what it meant and not trying to be anything else.
"Are you ready to go?"
Her expression answered before her voice did — the specific look she had when something she’d been waiting for had finally arrived, warmth and clear intent in equal measure, nothing held back or restrained about it.
"Yes," she said. Simply and directly, the way she said things when she meant them completely.
He was already beginning to open his portal when the voice cut in from the side.
"Leon."