After feeding Tsuka, Nash entered its back and traveled to his permanent residence.
As his size shifted, he noticed the area looked sowhat different from before.
"Did Camilla and Elizabeth renovate the place while I was gone?"
Flying toward the castle, Nash quickly spotted the two sparring on the ground below.
"Nash!"
"You’re back!"
The mont they saw him, both won stopped mid-fight and rushed over.
"How are you two?" he greeted, opening his arms to welco their embrace.
"We’re fine. How did things go at the convention?"
It had only been about a month since Nash left, so beyond mild curiosity, neither of them felt particularly anxious.
"I ca back with plenty of good things!"
Grinning, Nash eagerly pulled out everything he had acquired. From the breathing earth loom, rare materials, the battleships, defense systems, assorted technologies, and various trinkets were laid out one by one.
"Not a bad haul."
Just from the number of Tier 8 battleships alone, the two could already tell that the 150 quadrillion had been well spent.
Looking further at the rare expendable treasures, the assorted technologies, and that large-scale weapon, they could easily imagine how lively the convention must have been.
"So what actually happened there?"
"Well..."
Starting from the very beginning of the Altier Convention, Nash walked them through everything, from the major forces in attendance, how power was divided, and which faction they now belonged to.
"The Chronos Alliance? I didn’t expect we’d co full circle like this."
"Joining the Chronos Alliance isn’t a bad thing. Maybe we’ll get to see the others again."
"Maybe..."
Thinking of the mbers of the Xenus Alliance he had yet to find, and the teams from the Solaris Domain, Nash felt a little anticipation about settling into Chronos Alliance territory.
Before any of that, however, he needed to establish stable teleportation stations across their area of responsibility.
Without them, using the domain-level teleportation array would only be a matter of ti before their Sun Star Void was exposed.
Turning to Camilla and Elizabeth, a thought crossed his mind.
"Would you two want to take the Altier Arcane Tower trial?"
Nash was confident they could pass with ease. Having each condensed a supre primordial law, even without the module system, the trial posed little real challenge to either of them.
Explaining the benefits of clearing just the 10th trial, their eyes lit up imdiately.
"Are the rewards really that good? Can we go now?" they asked, barely containing their excitent.
If they could attain the sa level of authority as Nash, that alone would an freedom of movent.
No matter what happened, their safety would be guaranteed, and they could co to Nash’s aid, or anyone else’s, at a mont’s notice.
"I can take you there now," Nash nodded.
He still had a great deal to handle, but sending them ahead and returning instantly wouldn’t take long.
"Perfect. Give us a mont to prepare."
Before heading to the tower, the two began gathering supplies and treasures they deed essential.
Knowing they could bring what they wanted, they naturally tried to pack as much as possible.
"Just take what you need. The trial difficulty seems to scale with what you bring," Nash advised.
"We’ll just bring so materials. After all, we’ll be staying in the tower for a while. That shouldn’t affect the trial, right?"
"It shouldn’t be an issue."
Raw materials were unlikely to trigger a difficulty spike. If anything in his storage space could affect the scale of the trial, the sheer mountains of resources he carried would have already rendered it impossible.
---
Before long, once they had finished preparing, they asked Nash to take them out.
He placed them inside his advanced storage ring, one capable of temporarily sustaining life, then reached out with his mind to link with the Altier Arcane Tower.
With a flash, Nash felt a mbrane wrap around him and pull him through to the other side of the void.
When his vision cleared, he was back at the tower.
Scanning the room, he sighed in relief, seeing there were no other individuals present.
"I should reserve a private room before I leave."
With a private room, even if other trialists were around, his arrivals and departures would go unnoticed.
Releasing Camilla and Elizabeth from the ring, he quickly briefed them on how the trial worked.
"So we just have to call for it in our minds to begin?"
"That’s right. But first, let’s find sowhere less exposed. This spot is too out in the open."
Nash led them from the first floor up to the second, where a number of rooms were available.
With his first-level authority, he could bind any room at no cost.
Soon, choosing one that wouldn’t draw attention, he bound it and invited the two inside.
"You can use this as your base for now. Once you’ve cleared the 10th trial, you can figure out your next move."
"Rember, safety first. If you feel the trial is beyond you at any point, retreat without hesitation."
"Also, the blood transfusion can’t be paused. I’ll return here every five days to take care of it."
Listening patiently, they committed every word to their mory.
With everything said, Nash let them enter the trial.
Watching them vanish in an instant, he felt a pang of worry.
Although he knew they could blaze through the trials without much trouble, he wasn’t sure if the tower spirit would play dirty tricks.
Shaking off the thought, Nash asked the tower spirit to send him back to the Sun Star Void Area.
Suddenly, before he could go, a panel popped up before him asking him to pay.
"Tsk, one transmission already costs 19 trillion? Isn’t this a scam?"
Although it was nothing to him, 19 trillion for a one-person teleportation was too much.
Still, if he wanted to go back, Nash had to pay his balance plus the trip back.
In total, Nash had to take out 38 trillion from his pocket.
Fortunately, he always left so money in his storage ring in case of an ergency, otherwise he might not be able to leave this place again.
Cursing the tower spirit in his heart, Nash asked it to take him back after paying the rest of the balance.
---
Back in the Sun Star Void Area, Nash began to think of what to do.
"I should hand over the Mother Core Ships to them first."
It would take so ti for the mother core ships to be calibrated.
Thus, before he could fully deduce the blueprint for the dark energy purification device, he had to have them calibrated in advance.
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