Ves currently had 1032 Ascension Points at his disposal.
This was a considerable sum of wealth. It was far from being able to buy everything that the System had to offer, but it still opened up a lot of attractive options.
He could acquire a lot of different enlightenment fruits and stuff his head with lots of useful knowledge if he wished.
He could spend much of it to acquire both ready made products and raw materials in the Divine Bazaar.
If he was feeling lucky, he could even splurge his AP at the Wishing Fountain!
It only took 5 Ascension Points for Ves to redeem a golden lottery ticket. If he bought a hundred of them at once, he would gain a lot of random prizes!
Ves had no doubt that the majority of those golden lottery tickets would return little of value, but even junk still had value in his eyes.
He could amass a large quantity of bulk materials which he could use as the basis of a large anti-phase whale weapon.
He could also gain much more from the golden lottery tickets as they occasionally produced a much better prize!
The only reason why Ves was reluctant to proceed with this course of action was because the results were way too random in his opinion.
He did not want to rely on games of chance to save his life from the wrath of a powerful unclean whale!
"Maybe Jovy is more comfortable with choosing this course of action, but I don't have his ability to manipulate the probabilities in my favor." Ves muttered under his breath.
He shook his head. He decisively ruled out this unreliable plan.
"The offerings of the Divine Bazaar and the Tree of Possibilities are a lot more expensive, but at least there is no ambiguity about what I can get for Ascension Points."
It was an interesting dichotomy.
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The Divine Bazaar and the Tree of Possibilities offered much less value for money, but the risks were pretty much minimal.
If Ves didn't have an angry and hostile unclean whale looming over his head, he would have been more open to the idea of spending his AP like he was trying to have a good time in a casino!
As it was, Ves could never forgive himself if he blew his only shot of saving himself, his wife, his children, his clansmen and his closest allies from getting affected by a preventable disaster!
"If I go down this path, then I need to milk as much AP out of the Mission Hall as possible."
Since the Missions offered by the System at this time played a crucial role to his new but ambitious plan, he briskly walked back to the Mission Hall and studied all of his available options.
According to the rules, the Mission Hall was only capable of presenting 12 Missions at a time.
Ves had no idea how the System determined their parameters, but they were probably randomized in a way that partially took his current needs and capabilities into account.
While that was nice, there were plenty of reasons why he was less than pleased with this arrangement.
What grated Ves the most was that a large and stately structure like the Mission Hall did not bother to give him a wider selection of Missions!
"Come on, System! There is room for thousands of Missions in this place! Can't you give me a bit more leeway?!"
Naturally, the Mech Designer System did not deign to respond to his complaints.
Ves understood the logic of limiting the amount of Missions. It would have been far too easy for him to farm lots of Ascension Points by cherry picking the easiest and most practical Missions.
He figured that the System wanted to limit exactly what he was planning to do at this moment!
His hopes of exploiting its rules were dashed.
He concocted a wild scheme where he could exit the System Space as a completely new man!
This was because he could theoretically spend a decade, a century or even a millenia on upgrading himself inside the System Space as long as he had the Ascension Points to spare.
The best part about this was that the outside reality would still be frozen from his perspective.
This meant that he could get back to his actual life but at a much higher level than before!
Unfortunately, he would not be able to keep this up for long.
As far as he was aware, the Mission Hall only refreshed its available Missions after a lot of time had passed in reality.
This meant that he could not fool around in the System Space and wait for the Mission Hall to refresh its current selection with a fresh batch of Mission.
"I'll run out of ways to earn AP really soon once I have exhausted all of the viable Missions available in this round."
Ves did not hope for anything extravagant. He would be happy as long as he was able to earn at least 500 additional Ascension Points.
He figured that was enough for him to purchase the Puelmer Mid-Level Transphasic Weapon Principles enlightenment fruit while leaving enough of a buffer to buy enough time and resources to make effective use of what he had learned.
"Let's see what I can do here."
[Alien Relic Hunt]
Mission: Alien Relic Hunt
Difficulty: C-Rank
Description
The Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy is occupied by many alien races. Many of their relics and constructs hold considerable cultural and scientific value to the human race.
Retrieve 15 different items of alien origin from where they have been left by their former alien owners. These alien relics must be of significant value to humanity in order to quality.
You will earn a higher valuation if you have obtained more items or sought out relics of greater value.
Reward: 40 Ascension Points
Time limit: 2 years.
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