: 194. A few genuine items


    Nnd Lee and Denise Green followed Nelly, wandering around the archipgo’s east side until noon.


    Nelly arranged lunch for Nnd and Denise at the Exchange. After lunch, Nnd and Nelly learned some things, ultimately leaving the Exchange under the pretext of “needing to consider more”.


    After looking around all morning, they found over 300 inds with prices below 100,000 gold coins.


    Besides Snow Mountain Ind 1, which had been depleted of its mineral resources, the other inds were all small with a width of less than 10 kilometers.


    Developing and utilizing these small inds was difficult due to factors like their small size, remote location, and numerous underwater reefs. Large-scale projects such as Magic Eco-farms, Magic Water Purification Facilities, and ports could not be established on these small inds.


    The security in the east side of the archipgo is another important factor impacting ind prices.


    The Deep Sea Branch is responsible for providing security services.


    There is a Magic Outpost every thirty kilometers, a drone-type facility floating on the sea surface and patrolling between the inds.


    Magic Servants work within the outposts.


    When a conflict arises, the Magic Outposts will rush to the scene and use brilliant fireworks to alert the Deep-sea Wizard bases set up between the inds by the Deep Sea Branch.<div>


    Upon receiving the message, the Deep-sea Wizards at the base will immediately go to the scene to deal with the dispute.


    The closer the inds are to the patrol routes of the Magic Outpost and the Deep-sea Wizard Base, the higher the quality of security services, and the higher the ind prices will be.


    After considering factors such as ind location, security quality, terrain, the number and size of havens, and price, 15 inds met Nnd and Denise’s requirements, including Snow Mountain Ind 1.


    Snow Mountain Inds 1 through 3 are close to each other.


    Before being exploited, the resources on these three Snow Mountain Inds were extremely rich.


    To prevent theft, the Deep Sea Branch set up the Wizards Base and the Magic Outpost nearby the three Snow Mountain Inds.


    Once the Deep Sea Branch’s Wizards Base and Magic Outposts were established, they would not be easily moved. Therefore, even if the mineral resources on Snow Mountain Ind 1 were depleted, it would still be within the range of high-quality security services.


    After narrowing the list to the 15 suitable inds, Nnd didn’t rush to make a payment.


    As he told Nelly, he “needed more time to consider”.


    However, he wasn’t contemting picking one from those 15 inds.


    What he was really considering was “cheating the system”.


    He discovered an extremely important, but often overlooked, System Knowledge.


    As everyone knows, before deconstructing something, if one has already mastered the deconstruction results and schrly skills rted to it, the deconstruction consumption will be reduced.


    The System usually states this as:


    Since you have the Deconstruction Results for XXXX, the deconstruction consumption for this attempt is reduced.


    Or it might be like:


    Because you have mastered “XXXX Study (XX Level)”, the deconstruction consumption for this attempt is reduced.


    These two types of system messages indicate that the item Nnd is trying to deconstruct is rted to the deconstruction results and Schrly Skills he has already mastered.


    So the question is, can thismonly known System Knowledge be applied to the exploration of ind resources?<div>


    For example:


    Before mastering a Schrly Skill like “Mineral Exploration Study”, Nnd throws a Deconstruction Technique at Ind A, receiving the unmitigated deconstruction consumption value A1.


    Later, after learning the Schrly Skill through self-study, he throws the Deconstruction Technique at Ind A again, receiving the reduced deconstruction consumption value A2.


    The difference between A1 and A2 is the deconstruction consumption reduction value due to mastering “Mineral Exploration Study”.<div>


    Since the reduced value solely relies on Schrly Skills, it’s easy to deduce that arger reduction value means more resource-extraction potential on a given ind.


    Byparing the reduced values for all the inds, one can deduce the amount of resources each one has!


    Furtherparing the deconstruction consumption reduction values with the inds’ recorded resources reveals an approximation of undiscovered resources on each ind.


    This often overlooked, yet crucial, System Knowledge is extremely useful when applied correctly.


    To think of this series of actions, Nnd had to thank the mathematics he had learned in high school and college. Many ideas in these calctions relied on mathematical concepts like “algebra”, “derivatives”, and “limits”.


    After leaving the Ind Exchange, Nnd took Denise to the Freedom Marketce in the Trade District.


    The Freedom Marketce is amercial za upying more than 50,000 square meters.


    Its core building is the Magic Items Trading Center. Numerous shops are located around the white walls, cramming themercial za.


    Once in the marketce, Nnd and Denise split up.


    Living on an ind required purchasing many necessary daily items. Denise took on the misceneous tasks of buying everyday supplies and would wait at the department store in the Freedom Marketce until Nnd came to find her.


    Nnd, on the other hand, shuttled alone through the crowded streets, searching for anything rted to Schrly Skills.


    His goal was very clear.


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