[Finances] 48,515 gold coins

Rubbing his eyes, Shane looked at the screen once again to ensure that the number of coins displayed in front of him were correct and not an illusion.

However, when he thought about it, this number was roughly around his expectations and shouldn't have shocked him so much. Meanwhile, he received another notification.

[4,500,000 elemental crystals have been sold to [Firug Grila]. Host received 1,103,500 gold coins]

This was what really shocked the wits out of Shane, and his eyes widened while even Kia who saw the same notification on Shane's holographic screen couldn't help but applaud him.

On average, he had received 24 silver coins and 50 bronze for every elemental crystal and only had to pay 22 silver coins per elemental crystal to the other expedition members.

This was a net profit of 2 silver and 50 bronze coins per elemental crystal and a total of 110,250 gold coins.

Thus, after several seconds, another notification popped up, asking him to reimburse all the contracted parties, namely the students and the valkyries, according to the stated distribution, which Shane accepted without hesitation.

His finances rocketed to more than 1 million for a few seconds before they plummeted to 158,765 gold coins

With more than 1 million gold coins, a single individual might as well reach the peak of the Intermediate Dimension if one didn't bother completing missions or anything like that to further increase one's combat prowess.

It would still take several decades to achieve such a feat, but with 1 million gold coins, there wouldn't be many obstacles in one's path to ascend further.

Even the huge amount of 158,765 gold coins in his own Finances left after paying the others, according to their transferred elemental crystals, would be more than enough to reach the pinnacle of the Basic dimension without any issue. Even if he were to purchase the [Tier-2 (Mythic)] mana purifying technique that would allow him to reach a mana purity of 100%, his finances would still be more than enough to ascend further.

Now, the real question was, what should he do with this huge fortune?

Spending everything at once to purchase the best world seed wouldn't be the best and most efficient way.

Pondering for a moment, he decided to discuss the most efficient way to utilize his gold coins with his aunt, who was already deep in thought, as she viewed his holographic screens.

Shane was unsure if he needed to tweak it further because a planet with a diameter of 32,000 km was already multiple times the size of earth, where he had lived in his first life.

In his opinion, earth's size was already too large for his soul-bound world but according to Kia, it was always better to be on the safe side.

Maybe he would create his own world with multiple civilizations inside and use it if he had to flee because of certain circumstances.

In exchange for allowing humans, other races, or even beasts to live inside his world, Shane could demand something in exchange.

At least, that's what Aunt Kia had suggested and after giving it a thought, he realized that the idea wasn't completely worthless..

There might come a time, where he was in danger or overwhelmed by a massive number of opponents, and if he followed his aunt's example, he might as well summon a huge army of underlings to fight next to him.

Even if they would only fight next to him in order to live peacefully inside his soul-bound world; if Shane were to die, the whole world would collapse which was not something anyone within would ever want to witness.

However, even after Kia stated several examples of how a larger world would be better, Shane didn't want to use his entire wealth to purchase the world seed!

To this, even his aunt agreed because there were just too many items and manuals one could purchase only with self-earned money instead of borrowed or gifted gold coins.

Such items even included several extraordinary items with strong abilities, all kinds of manuals that required missions to be completed in order to be eligible to even purchase them, and other, dangerous or extremely valuable items.

For example, Shane wouldn't be able to purchase a skill/martial art technique/cultivation manual at or above the [Platinum] quality because they required missions to purchase them.

Meanwhile, he could purchase extraordinary quality beast sealing cards with a soul connection ability from his aunt's money if he wanted to, while other extraordinary quality items were forbidden.

To put it simply, the system prevented descendants of a rich family from becoming overly powerful without lifting a finger.

This restriction was only shallow for the lower ranks but created vast obstacles to reach a high mana purity.

There was also a rumor spreading through PrimWeb that the system increases the level of difficulty for spoiled children who received everything without working hard.

Nobody knew the answer to that, but Shane wanted to be sure and receive as few things as possible.

The wyvern blood that he had obtained from Max was a completely different matter in his opinion because he had the feeling that the system wanted to test him, even if he couldn't prove this feeling.

It was already dark when he and his aunt finished their discussion, a fact they realized when they looked outside at the night sky through the shattered window with a dumbfounded expression.

They had been under the impression that barely half an hour or at most an hour had passed, but several hours passed since they had started talking to each other.

Smiling lightly, both felt good to be able to talk to each other so freely once again after a long time.

Taking a deep breath, he finally purchased the world seed for 125,000 gold coins

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Planet name=[?]

Required time to blossom→[80 Days]

Mana heart=Unawakened [Stage-0]

→Automatically gathers mana to grow

Planet size (diameter)=[0/40,000km]

Ecosystem=/

→ Basic-Affinities' to create soil, ores-[...] and magma

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He increased the planet's size to 40,000km in diameter and the world seed's price increased by 25%.

Earlier, he tried to adjust it further, after he and Kia concluded that a price of 130,000 gold coins for the world seed would be nice but realized later that the price skyrocketed after he crossed the threshold of 40,000km.

Either way, in Shane's opinion his future soul-bound world was already too large but his aunt reassured him that it would be worth the price, which he could only accept with a faint smile.

In the end, he was not short of money and still had 33,765 gold coins left, after his purchase was finalized, when several notifications popped up before him.

[[Customized World seed (Apprentice+s.e)] has been purchased. Please select a name for your new world!]

[World seed detected, initiate the binding process?]

Shane had already expected to see these notifications when a small blue glimmering seed manifested in his left hand.

Looking at the world seed that seemed to be no different than a commonly found seed, he couldn't help but be amused as he carefully handed the world seed to his aunt who wanted to inspect it as well.

However, before she could even touch the world seed, it vanished and appeared in Shane's other hand.

[Nobody else except the owner of the world seed is allowed to touch it before the soul binding process has been initiated and completed!]

Seeing this, both he and Kia were baffled for a moment before they accepted the system's rules because there was nobody to complain to and even if they could, it was entirely useless.

As such, Shane thought about a suitable name for his world, and it didn't take long until a smile blossomed on his face as he mumbled

"Hidden Paradise"

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