[Shocked with the Facts.]

"Hi, young friend! Are you here to have a look at the rooms we have for rent?" the employee that taking care of the stall approached me and start to initiate a conversation. I answered yes, but instead of a room, I am looking for a house instead. Do you perhaps have some that enough for three to five people to stay?

But the moment the employee heard my words, he starts to laugh as he replied my questions. "This young friend is quite funny, but unfortunately, we are just a small town, we couldn't have the privilege of renting out a house directly. Why don't you take a look on our biggest room available for rent? It is about 20 Square Metres, quite spacious for a room am I correct?" he took a piece of square crystal cube up in his hand, and a few pictures start to appears from the cube.

This room is not too bad, but what I am looking is a house. How much for this small room anyway? I asked the employee. He smiled at me as if he found a huge fish, this room actually the most expensive choice he has in his stack of brochures, but because the price is too high, which is why he couldn't found a person to rent the room out.

"It is averagely priced. The 20 Square Metres Room comes with plenty of furniture and other tools, suitable and easily refitted for any profession usage. Each month would only cost you about 2,000 Black Spirit Crystals! It is the greatest deal so far!" the employee explained the price and its detail to me, as my jaw dropped.

"What? 2,000 Black Spirit Crystals?" I actually speak that sentence aloud. The employee looked at my face with the jaw fallen down and continued. "Yes, young friend. The company actually received the order to reduce its price for 1,000 Black Spirit Crystals a few days ago, if not, it would be priced at 3,000 Black Spirit Crystals. Since the build of this room is quite suitable for any profession, it is a haul to get it for 2,000 Black Spirit Crystals a month!"

Do... Have you any smaller rooms then? I changed the topic and asked. In the same time, I tried to look at those brochures on the table. After I scanned those brochures, I am actually shocked with their exorbitant price to rent a single small room! A room that is much smaller than my current provided accommodation actually cost 550 Black Spirit Crystals to rent. And what is more overboard is that the room comes with only a single bed and wardrobe for our tools, even the bath is separated from the main hall.

I continue to ask the employee. Why is there no house for sale? As he heard my words, he too becomes quite down as he started to explain. "This young friend, I am not sure why you seem blank about this stuff, but since I have some time, I will gladly explain it to you. This country we are living within is known as the Tian Gong Guo (Sky Lord Country). So, naturally, all the lands belonged to the country."

"The Tian Gong Guo is managed by one Emperor System, and below him, is the Four Great Kings, known as the East King, Dong Tu, South King, Nan Gong, West King, Xi Yue, and North King, Bei Gang. Below each king, a total of four states is under their control, respectively managed by the four State Ministers."

"They are known according to their King's name. For the Northern, there is Shen State, managed by Minister Shen, Mu State, by Minister Mu, and Yue State and Tong State, managed by Minister Yue and Minister Tong."

"The Southern four is the Tang State, Li State, Qin State, and Ming State, all handled by their respective Minister Tang, Li, Qin and Ming personally. The East four States is the Hu, Feng, Xuan, Long. And lastly, the West, with Ren, Gui, Ling, Shou."

"We are currently in the Ling Hun Town, under the management of West Minister Ling personally. Under his hand, a total of four Town and two city reports to him, while the other smaller villages are usually given a blessing and obtain the exemption from required to pay tribute to him yearly. The West Minister Ling is quite a fair officials, so we could live peacefully compared to those in the West and South."

"Young friend, I can see that you are quite capable, but you should not make fun of me... I have yet to get sales today, so I won't get my pay for the day. Anyway, I know that this job is going to be tough. If you want, you can leave, I won't force you to compensate my saliva after talking for so long." the employee finished his words as he turned around and return to his seat.

"This brother, I will give you five Black Spirit Crystals. Could you tell me the speciality of the town and cities belonged to the Ling State?" I speak, and without his agreement, I already withdraw five Black Spirit Crystals and put it in his hand. Receiving such a payment for only speaking, who wouldn't agree?

"The Four Town is the Ling Hun Town, Ling Wen Town, Ling Shou Town, and Ling Qi Town. Ling Hun town, resources come from the popular Ling Hun Crystal Cave, Ore Cave, Herb Cave, and Beast Cave. The Ling Wen Town is more popular and unsafe because over there, the biggest Slave Trader Company is located. But other than Slave Resources, the Ling Wen Town is quite popular for their Blood Crystal Cave."

"The Ling Shou Town is where most of the trading regarding special riding beast, companion beast or monster's material could be obtained. It is also quite flourished with blessings of medicinal herbs perfect for Concocter to reside there because it is easy to find those required material needed. The Ling Shou Town is quite hard to get in because it is always filled with many monsters around its outskirts."

"Lastly, is the Ling Qi Town. Over here, a special kind of resources called as Essence Qi is obtainable and could be produced. It is quite dangerous because the location is guarded by some wail spirits and also dangerous monsters. About the Essence Qi Resources, I'm not too sure about it. There might be some other resources as well, but my knowledge is quite limited."

"The two cities is the Ling Shen City and the Ling Cheng City. They are quite strongly fortified and positioned at the far end of the west because the two cities main objective is to defend against any invasion into our country. We are sharing a border with another country of unknown name, so all I am not well informed with the Cities speciality." the employee finished his explanation, and after this all, I've decided to call it a day and returned to the Refining Workshop to get some rest.

Adding the next day I wake up, there will be thirteen days left before a full month ends as members of the Refining Workshop, I guess getting stronger is my only choice? Just like this, I fall flat on the bed as I started to snore.

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The next day I wake up, as usual, meals and cleaning, I went straight to the Refining Central Workshop to greet Section Leader Zhu first. No matter what, he is the person who recruited me into being a member of the Refining Workshop, so greeting him and senior brother Kong Rong is a must. I have to tell them I already met the quota as well.

"junior brother Lu Bu!" a voice came from behind me, as I turned around. Behind me, Senior brother Kong Rong and Section Leader Zhu are actually walking over to the Crystal Section together. I went over to greet them both and tells them about managed to reach the quota for this month. Senior brother Kong Rong immediately praise me for having that tenacity and putting so much effort in making up for my lack of skills, and at the same time, Section Leader Zhu actually intends to give me a small gift for manage to uphold his trust.

"Section Leader Zhu, what is this thing?" I hold that small little Lego Cube up to my eye level and take a deep look. Of course, I secretly use my Scan Skill on it to see what this little cube actually hides. "It is not weird that you have no idea what is this thing. This is what we call as the Refiner Stove. By carrying it in your neck when you are refining, this will give your effort a higher chance of success, although it is quite low."

Oh, It seems that this is quite a good item. Thank you Section Leader Zhu for your kind gift.

I thanked him for giving me such a good item. Although this item could be easily bought from outside merchandise store, obtaining this 100 Black Spirit Crystals gift, is for sure felt better than paying for your own. We talked for a while more before the two of them continues on their way to do their own works. Roughly, from what I heard from Senior Brother Kong Rong, it seems that he and Section Leader Zhu is busy preparing a kind of refined tool material only known as the Crystalized Copper.

Feeling blank with so many unknown items, I've decided to get out from the workshop, and head towards the Ling Hun Ore Cave once again. In an attempt, I immediately spend five hours and twenty minutes to complete my eight Carts, but I do not stop here. I in my effort to get two more full carts of products, wherein total, I spent about six hours and forty minutes instead.

In today's effort, I managed to get 31 Brass Rod (1%), and luckily, I managed to get another Copper Rod (1%) again today. Next, I move to the Crystal Cave as usual, and started to put in Five hours of effort again here, to exactly get 300 of each crystal, and also sixty pieces of the Crystalized Stones. Happily, I walked back to the Town as soon as possible, and return to the Refining Workshop immediately.

But today, before I get to rest, I chose to refine the crystals first that I got from the Crystal Cave. Since I got more than 500 of each, why not I try absorbing it? I then decided to put that 1000 crystals on my forehead one by one, and begin to absorb it all. Each absorption takes me two to three seconds to absorb it cleanly, so with 1000 Crystals, it took me 50 minutes to completely absorb all of them.

Huh! Damn, absorbing something actually could felt so tired. I lied down on the bed and around to sleep.

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Status Panel (end Chapter 11)

Name: Lu Bu

Age: 20

Wealth: 291 Black Spirit Crystals

Refining Workshop Points: 100

Strength:

5+(6.03)

Physical:

5+(6.04)

Agility:

Locked

Magic:

Locked

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Locked

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Locked

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Locked

Item:

Upper Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe

614 x Lower Grade 10 Red Power Crystals

53 x Medium Grade 10 Red Power Crystals

633 x Lower Grade 10 Green Physical Crystals

23 x Medium Grade 10 Green Physical Crystals

122 x 0.01gm Crystalized Stone

12 x 0.05gm Crystalized Stone

7 x Accompanied Materials

57 x Brass Rod (1%)

2 x Copper Rod (1%)

Skills:

Scan Level 4 (44/80) (4 Metre Distance)

(Able to Scan the surrounding for threats, treasures, materials and hidden secrets.)

Tenth Grade Crystal Refining Level 7 (314/640) (14% Success Rate Increment)

(Level 5 - 5% chance to immediately refine a Crystal into one rank higher without cost)

(allows user to refine the Crystal into a higher Rank/Upgrade for more special quirks)

Tenth Grade Pinpoint Strike Level 4 (71/80) (0.4% rate in critically strikes the targets)

(Allows the Critical Hit possibility in any usage. Upgrade for more special quirks)

Tenth Grade Tenacity Level 1 (463/10,000) (0.1% Increase in all actions)

(Allows the user to have a better results from his tenacity in struggling across all challenges.)

Ore Dust Gatherer Level 1 (43/10,000) (1% Increase in gathering more Ore Dust)

(Allows more efficient Ore Dust Gathering during Mining, Upgrade for more special quirks)

Smelting Is Life Level 4 (46/160) (0.4% Increase of possibility of doubling the production when smelting)

(Allows more bonus during smelting. Upgrade for more special quirks)

Traits: Unknown

More information: Unknown

Friends:

Han Li (20 years old childhood friend)

Kong Rong (Senior Brother)

Section Leader Zhu (Senior Leader)

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