CHAPTER 171: BUYING SUPPLIES

Soon, the person in charge of the Star Tower-Nova Virtual Branch arrived.

"Greetings, Sir Noir, I’m Lumen, the manager of this Star Tower. May I ask how I can help you?"

"I’m here to buy resources for a new, rising civilization. Do you have anything to recommend?"

"I’ll get the list for you right now."

Without asking any further questions, Lumen quickly produced a list of essentials for a new civilization.

It included basic materials, food, clothing, transportation, furniture, industrial machines, water filtration systems, hygiene supplies, virtual devices, energy technology, healing chambers, and more.

Seeing it covered everything, even items he hadn’t considered, Nash began listing how much he would need.

"I want a million tons each of these types of staple food, protein, fruit, vegetables, condiments, beverages, and so on," Nash said, calculating what Earth’s population would require.

"This amount of food is enough for ten billion people for a hundred years. If you account for transcendent warriors, it should last three to ten years," Lumen noted, observing Nash’s thoughtful expression.

"I see, that’s sufficient," Nash nodded.

Although he would also purchase advanced preservation technology, he didn’t need to store food for that long.

If it ran out, he could simply buy more.

Next, Nash moved on to virtual devices.

"Give me a hundred million basic virtual pods, a billion virtual helmets, and ten billion virtual tablets."

A basic virtual pod costs 1,000 nova credits, a virtual helmet costs 10 nova credits, while the virtual tablets cost 1 nova credit each.

The hundred million basic virtual pods were for those who advanced to transcendent warrior, to access the dark plane.

While the virtual helmets were for civilians to learn in the virtual world. As for the tablets, it’s to keep everyone up to date with the news.

Of course, it wouldn’t be free but for rent or sale to those people with enough money.

"Since Sir Noir bought so many virtual access devices, we’ll provide virtual signal relays for free," Lumen offered generously.

"That’s good," Nash replied.

After the virtual access devices, Nash began purchasing advanced healing chambers that could cure the most common and rare diseases.

The primary threat to fragile humans wasn’t monsters, but sickness in their bodies.

With the healing chambers, even if they worked themselves to exhaustion, they wouldn’t need to fear death.

He also bought a bulk supply of healing potions for combat training and more serious injuries.

Next, Nash purchased various transportation vehicles, including cars, trucks, trains, boats, ships, planes, and more.

Then came industrial machines for material processing, food production, construction, infrastructure, chemicals, energy, agriculture, electronics, waste management, and other essentials.

Although Xeno Industries would later terraform the entire planetary system, Nash still needed these machines to sustain the population until the project’s completion.

Afterward, Nash bought a set of training equipment, weapons, facilities, machines, and other things that could improve the people’s strength.

The virtual world alone couldn’t strengthen the body in real time, so physical equipment and machines were still necessary.

Next, Nash purchased ten thousand sets of high-quality weapons and armor for the fighters who would soon earn merits for him.

Fortunately, as a VIP member of the Star Tower, Nash could buy a limited number of Dark Plane weapons with nova credits at a slightly higher price.

Otherwise, his billion merits wouldn’t be enough to squander.

After finalizing everything, the total came to 1.2 trillion nova credits, including the discount.

With the 1 trillion budget for terraforming and another 1.2 trillion for supplies, his 5 trillion reward was already reduced to less than 3 trillion.

"Where should these supplies be delivered, Sir Noir?"

"Just deliver them to these coordinates," Nash said, providing Earth’s coordinates.

As a Cosmic Elite, his identity was impervious to any scrutiny.

If anyone deliberately searched for his information, a warning would immediately be sent to them.

Such an identity was truly convenient.

No matter how high-profile he acted in the virtual world, as long as he didn’t reveal it himself, no one would know.

After purchasing everything at the Star Tower, Nash headed to another shop recommended by Lumen, The Nova Arsenal.

That’s right, the shop Lumen recommended was directly managed by the official government of the Nova Sector.

Planetary defensive weapons and battleships of such destructive power weren’t sold by ordinary businesses.

They were a core military technology that only a few could manufacture.

Of course, if he visited a Domain-level Virtual Server, like the Solaris Domain Server, he could likely find such weapons in multiple places.

However, buying from those large markets meant higher prices and, more importantly, slower delivery times.

Just the rewards he received from the Cosmic Competition will take a month to arrive, let alone something from outside the Nova Sector.

Unless it was a Planetary Battleship that could travel through void tunnels, a normal ship would take years just to reach the nearest Void Sector.

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Soon, Nash arrived at the Nova Arsenal, looking around as if he had traveled into another dimension.

Unlike other shops with welcoming and formal interiors, this place was intimidating.

Enormous weapons of all sizes were projected everywhere, while battleships, some as small as cars and others as large as planets, were parked on the ground.

If not for the unique properties of the Virtual World, Nash couldn’t imagine a place where all these things could coexist.

"Who are you? Here to buy something?" a burly man asked, sizing him up.

"Yes, is there a problem?"

"Who are you? What’s your identity? Do you have the certificates to buy anything here?"

"And you are?" Nash frowned, wary of the sudden interrogation.

"I’m Amir, a General in the Nova Army!" the man declared bluntly, showing his badge of honor.

Hearing the title, Nash grew more respectful.

According to Camilla, the Nova military ranks were Elite, Major, Colonel, Commander, General, Grand General, and Supreme Leader.

A General in the Nova Army had the strength of at least a rank 6 War Emperor.

"I have this. Is it enough?"

Aware of the strict procedures for purchasing banned weapons, Nash displayed his Cosmic Elite status.

"Oh? A Cosmic Elite? That’s fine. You can buy up to Tier 5 weapons and ships with that identity," Amir nodded, unfazed by Nash’s status.

The Nova Arsenal was truly the armory of the Nova Sector.

It guarded weapons capable of one-shot killing a Tier 8 War God and battleships that could dominate a dark beast outbreak. No matter the buyer’s identity, all were treated equally.

If not for restrictions in the Dark Plane, this technology alone could conquer everyone in the Nova Sector.