The Fruit of Darkness needed to be purified before it becomes safe to consume by humans and Demi-humans.

Only a magic chef could purify evolution materials, and the cost of hiring one to purify a high-level material like this was going to be pricey.

At the very thought of hiring a chef, Vincent's eyes squinted in dissatisfaction. The minimum price a chef was going to take to prepare a dish out of the Fruit of Darkness was ten thousand contribution points.

It was a huge price, and he didn't want to pay it.

That only leaves him with the choice of becoming a magic chef himself.

"I will purchase a cooking technique from the online market of the military academy and use my experience points to learn It in an instant. That will allow me to become a magic chef in a short time." Vincent decided to become a magic chef in his mind.

He will be able to purify evolution materials once he becomes a magic chef, and that didn't seem like a bad deal. Rather, it was pretty profitable.

A chef can earn 1000+ contribution points for purifying the evolution materials obtained from beasts and monsters at the magical realm and used that to make a dish. Similarly, it was ten thousand contribution points for preparing a dish out of the evolution materials obtained from beasts at the demonic realm.

When he finished going through the information of these materials, John's voice sounded in the area lit in golden radiance emitting out of the few crystals hanging from the ceiling of this place.

"The tree only has three fruits of darkness, but there are four of us here. What should we do?"

The Tree of Evil had given birth to fruits ready for the taking, but there were four of them.

They all wanted to obtain a Fruit of Darkness as it was hard to turn away from such a precious evolution material

"Everyone has contributed to the battles till now, but big brother Vincent and Varth are the biggest contributors. It's okay if you guys take one fruit each and leave one for us twins." Leilani said with an amiable smile as she wasn't greedy for the Fruit of Darkness.

She wanted to obtain one for her brother, so that he would gain an ability and become an awakened instead of remaining as a normal combatant.

"I have a better proposal. The three of you can have the Fruit of Darkness as don't need it, but I would like it if I can have the entire pond for myself," Varth said to them in a calm tone.

As soon a he said those words, the eyes of the twins and Vincent opened wide in shock as they looked at him with an expression of bewilderment.

"Did we hear it right? Does he want to give up on the Fruit of Darkness? Is he selfless?"

Such thoughts popped up in the minds of the three people.

"Are you sure you want to give up on the fruit of darkness for a mere pond?" Vincent asked after a moment.

"Yes, I meant what I said. Don't feel about it. It's not a bad deal for me, after all. As guys might have already guessed, the pond is made out of condensed negative energy. It's the liquified state of negative energy, and it's pretty important to create ability crystals that I have been injecting in my battle suit to teleport.

Varth explained to the three of them that he wasn't getting a bad deal.

Although the Fruits of Darkness were the most precious material of the Tree of Evil, his priority was taking the pool for himself as it will allow him to spam teleportation ability in future battle, and that will save his life a lot of time.

The others could understand that he was in desperate need of this supply as he was short on teleportation crystal and needed to create new ones to keep up with the usage of this ability, so they didn't hesitate to agree with his demand.

After all, they were the ones gaining a huge profit out of this deal.

"If you don't, may I?" Varth said in a gentleman tone as he revealed his levitating box-type storage device to them.

"Yeah, sure," Vincent said, motioning him to do as he like.

Varth mouthed the keywords to activate the special effect of his spatial storage device.

The little black box released a powerful suction and sucked in every last drop of the pool of darkness in a few moments.

"Let's go get the fruits."

Leilani and Vincent casually approached the tiny glowing tree as John decided to wait beside Varth.

He wanted to fetch one himself just for the feel of it, but he couldn't do so as he was holding the sleeping beauty in his hands.

"You can keep both fruits for yourself and John. Don't eat it, however, not until it's purified from negative energy. Otherwise, there's a high chance you'll end up losing your self of control and commit heinous crimes." Vincent told Leilani about the information he obtained from his system as he handed out two fruit of darkness to her.

"I understand, but please do keep the fruits with yourself." Leilani refused to take the fruits from him.

"Huh?" Vincent looked at her with wide eyes containing traces of subtle confusion.

"I don't have a spatial storage device with me, and carrying the Fruit of Darkness would attract unwanted trouble. Something I would like to avoid. So I would rather you keep it in the safety of your storage device for us to use later."

Vincent nodded and said, "Sure, I will hold it for you."

"Let's get back to them," Leilani said.

"Alright," Vincent said.

Once they walked back to the group, the group decided to collect the last bit of crystals in this place before making their way out of the lair of evil.

Several minutes later, once they stepped out of the lair of evil and entered a clearing with trees and bushes on all sides, Varth pulled out a cubic box with various blue lines drawn on it from his spatial storage device and uttered a keyword in a low voice.

Immediately after, the cubic box glow increased in intensity as it expanded to the size of a small room.

"Wow! What is this?" John's mouth gaped in surprise as he looked at the Star Travelling Space Ship in front of him.

"It's an Arc and is commonly used to travel between stars and so on. Of course, we are going to use it for auxiliary purposes. Come inside."

The entrance to the ship opened as the defense system installed in it scanned the retina of his right eye.

A moment later, the four teenagers stepped inside the Star Travelling Shuttle, and three of them looked around the completely unfamiliar place in awe and admiration.

The Star Travelling Cubic Ship interior surprised them to their core. The entrance of this spaceship was divided into multiple floors with all sorts of basic and advanced necessaries. The interior of this ship happened to have its space expanded by using spatial technology. In the middle of the place, there were small ships meant for two people with a narrow front and back and a seat in the middle. The sides of the middle area of this place had four eviction ports used for emergency escape.

The front region of the spaceship was the command center. The entrance was blocked by the way as the owner of this place didn't want anyone stepping inside that place.