Walking towards the place with both my abilities activated, I hunted for zombies on my way there. I saw that the number of Lesser E-Grade was getting lesser and lesser. While at the start they were in abundance, now the number of E-Grade and Lesser E-Grade was more or less similar to each other.
'By the end of the year, I guess there would be no E-Grade left, or even D-Grade, to be honest. Most of them would be C-Grade and enhanced probably,' I thought as I wondered how I should approach this change.
While making people under my care strong is one of the things I should do, making them too powerful might create problems when I reverse the process. I need to be really careful about how to deal with this.
While I didn't have any means to search for the other leaves, I still had that Plant Laboratory Dungeon to look at. Maybe it can provide me with another clue to reverse the process. Hopefully…
'Hmmm I should look at [Second Space] as well. Since I upgraded it, the exchange increased to 36 hours.
Including the time I spent in the laboratory, a total of… ummm… about 150ish hours might have passed within the [Second Space]. The Crona plant might have stored a few Cronas now…
'Hmmm… maybe I should first check that space out,' I thought before finding a nearby building and then
'How long before someone attacks me, disturbs me or does anything to me?'
[2 Days: 12 Hours: 12 Minutes]
All right.
[Second Space!]
Using the skill, I entered the white room once again as Rhea's face greeted me.
"You have evolved your space, huh? Good. We should be able to get more time now," was the first thing she spoke to me before I moved towards the Crona plant.
[Tree of Crona(Uncommon)
Effects: Generates 15 Cronas per hour.
Current Stored amount: 2500 Cronas
Limitations: Can store only 2500 Cronas
Special: Evolvable(Require 50,000 Cronas to evolve)]
I saw that the Crona was filled up, and I immediately took the Cronas before proceeding towards the [Dungeon] Screen at the corner of the room.
I browsed through it before finding that I still couldn't really salvage this dungeon. Looking at the whole set of options and stuff, I decided that it would be better to use [Dungeon] only after I have collected at least 20,000 Cronas.
This time I kind of regretted selling that skill [Time Snatcher]... never knew I would be needing Cronas this much. Even Rhea didn't hesitate in asking me to sell it, so I thought maybe it wasn't that great of a skill.
'Though I am alive because of the club that I bought after selling the Skill only so I guess it wasn't really a bad investment,' I thought before pondering and turning at Rhea as I asked,
"Hey Rhea, is there any way to get more Cronas? Or maybe faster?"
Hearing my words, she pondered a little before speaking,
"There are various ways of doing that but…. Hmmm… let's see… Okay, there are 2 ways which are suitable for you to get Cronas if you can put in a little extra effort. That is other than the ones which you already have."
A sudden surprised expression appeared on my face as I looked at her and she began explaining the ways,
"The first is selling things. While an object itself won't give you enough Cronas but let's say the handgun you have with you or the sharp knife, those would give you about 5 to 10 Cronas. So in a way, as long as you can keep supplying enough weapons and other stuff, you can get some extra Cronas."
Hearing her words, I realized that it did make sense. Even last time I tried selling the shotgun there was a price tag on it. I guess the fact that it was so cheap that I didn't bother checking it again made me forget about the whole thing.
Though…
"What other things can be sold?" I asked with an interested gaze, and she pondered before speaking.
"Anything that provides a plus point to survival, protection, evolution and reproduction of an organism, I guess. The more powerful it is, the more it will be sold for."
Hmmm…. I wonder how many things fall into that category and how much would they be worth?
"Hmmm. What's the other thing?" I asked and Rhea spoke,
"It's not really something that I suggest, but since you are desperate for Cronas and you have already evolved the [Second Space] so I guess this should give you an option too."
There was a bit of hesitation on her face as she looked at me and I spoke,"what is it? Speak already."
She sighed before speaking,"Bring a living person and sell him or her to the [Shop]"
"..." For the next few moments, I just kept looking at her, wondering if what I heard was exactly the thing I heard.
"Umm… can you repeat that?" Just to make sure, I asked again.
"I said, bring a living person and sell him or her to the [Shop]," she said as she sighed and looked at me.
"Sh*t," I looked at her before speaking,"you could have told me that before," with a really regretful expression.
"You… don't feel bad about selling your own kind?" Though it was Rhea who was surprised with my behavior. Oi! Oi! It's you who suggested that. Don't make that expression now.
"No, I mean… well.. I just killed someone… he was a r*pist and I kind of hate those kinds of scumbags and all. If I had known I could get Cronas by selling him, I would have given him to the [Shop] long ago. Actually, it's making me regret not doing that now," I thought with a regretful expression.
Still… no worries…
A smile formed on my face as I realized that maybe I will find some more people there… though honestly… I should be wishing that I won't find any of them at all. But well… That's a fool's thought… at least given how this world is..
"Ah! Wait… what about the zombies? Will they be sold for something?" I asked, but Rhea shook her head as she spoke,"no. The zombies are more of a threat to almost everyone and, more or less, they are present everywhere in abundance now. No point in selling something that is already available."
It made me a bit sad, but I guess I know what to do next.
"You have a really creepy smile on your face, Michael," spoke Rhea, looking at me a bit horrified, but I just looked at her with a pondering expression as I spoke,
"Don't worry. I have my own rules and stuff when it comes to dealing with humans. Been doing that for quite some time now. If they have a chance of redemption, I usually give one last push to save them just for the sake of it before moving to what I have planned. Keeps me more humane than most humans."
I have seen some of them go beyond redemption. So down that even death would be a mercy to them.
"Hmmm… on that note, most of the humans… no, all humans are corrupted with Cessation Energy. Will that create any problem?" I asked again, and she shook her head as she spoke,"as long as they have some of their originality, it is fine."
"What about other races? If I come across another race and, well, let's say I end up selling them, will it create any problems?" I asked again with a curious expression. Though I don't think I will be that greedy to let a specimen or more like such a precious source of information go just for Cronas, unless, of course, I don't have any other option.
"Not really. Though that depends and varies from race to race and planet to planet," Rhea spoke and I nodded as kind of understood what she meant by that.
"Hmmm, so I guess, I kind of know what to do now. This makes going to that high school all the more necessary now," I pondered a little bit more about it. Though despite me needing Cronas, I guess I won't exactly be using this method for a long time, I suppose.
As soon as I start salvaging from the dungeon, I guess by that time, I won't really be needing to sell people in the [Shop].
"All right then. Anything else?" Rhea asked, and I pondered the number of things that I needed to do here before I left.
"Hmmm… a few things, but I guess I will need Cronas for that, so for now… nothing I guess," I spoke before standing up and then looked at Rhea as I spoke,"Meet you tonight then. I guess I can practice for about 50 hours per day now," and then vanished from there as I saw Rhea nodding.
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