I Can Program My Body?
Chapter 130: Buying Elemental Crystal & Dark Potion

Chapter 130: Buying Elemental Crystal & Dark Potion

"So expensive..." Nash frowned.

In the virtual world, one could buy an elemental crystal for 15 Nova Credits.

Yet, despite an exchange rate of 1.5 Nova Credits to 1 merit, the cost was still 60% higher.

"Our elemental crystals are directly exported from reality, so you don’t need to pay materialization costs to bring them into reality," the receptionist explained.

"I see..." Nash nodded, understanding.

Although it was still pricier than the elemental crystal that could be bought from the Virtual World, it was somewhat bearable.

Opening his dark panel, he calculated how many he could buy.

[Nash Navre:

Rank: Void Warrior (360%+)

Merits: 13,966,502]

"Give me 500,000 pieces of attributeless elemental crystal."

Increasing his soul saturation was more important right now than boosting his void saturation rate.

After all, soul saturation could only grow little by little, ground out over time.

The void saturation rate, however, could advance in just a few hours with enough merit.

Meanwhile, hearing Nash request 500,000 attributeless elemental crystals, the receptionist and nearby customers were stunned.

"Five hundred thousand attributeless elemental crystals? Did I hear that right, Sir Noir?"

"That’s right. I need 500,000 attributeless elemental crystals."

Such a number should be enough to boost his saturation rate by hundreds of percent.

"This—alright, please follow me to a private room while I gather the attributeless elemental crystals you need." The receptionist snapped out of his daze and invited Nash to wait comfortably.

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After a short wait, the manager personally delivered the attributeless elemental crystals.

"You didn’t have to deliver them yourself, Lord Warren," Nash said with a smile.

After chatting with the manager for a while, they exchanged names and virtual IDs.

"You bought a lot this time, Young Master Noir. How could I not come?" Warren shook his head with a smile.

Initially, he thought Nash was just a lucky guy who had befriended William.

But seeing his strength grow drastically each time, coupled with wealth rivaling even top Void General Squads, Warren couldn’t help but feel his years of experience were in vain.

Like a rock stuck in the mud, he could only watch a blazing meteor streak across the sky.

"Here are all the attributeless elemental crystals. Please check them."

Opening the storage item, Nash counted the crystals and transferred them to his storage ring.

"Not bad. It’s exactly 500,000." Nodding in satisfaction, Nash paid the 8,750,000 merits it cost.

Thanks to his 30% discount, the original 12.5 million was reduced to about 8.7 million.

Checking his remaining balance, Nash considered buying dark potions.

[Nash Navre:

Rank: Void Warrior (360%+)

Merits: 5,216,502]

Since he used dark potions to replace sleep with training, he had only about ten left.

Initially, he wanted to create a potion-making module system, but unfortunately, his hands were already full.

He didn’t have enough time to split his focus on other things.

From studying the red and blue runic programs, deducing the god-body astral arts, creating a soul runic module system, to optimizing all his other runic module systems to match his strength, he had no time left.

With no other choice, he could only buy dark potions in the dark plane.

Even though they were a few times more expensive, with a daily income of over 1.5 million merits, they were easily affordable.

"How much are the dark potions for sale here?"

"For a dark potion, 600 merits..."

"600 merits? Tsk, as expensive as always..."

Because potions couldn’t be exported from reality, they had to be handcrafted one by one in the dark plane.

Without technological equipment, the labor, material loss, and resources drove up the price.

In reality, a dark potion could be bought for about 100 Nova Credits, but in the dark plane, it costs 600 merits, a sixfold difference. Factoring in the exchange rate, it was a whopping nine times the price.

"How many dark potions do you have in stock?" Unable to argue the price, Nash could only ask about their inventory.

"We have about a thousand dark potions in stock at the Star Tower. If you need more, I can contact another branch."

"No need. Just give me all thousand. That should be enough for now."

Planning to supply dark potions to 37 people, from those elite students to Michael, along with his own needs, a thousand should last about a month.

Soon, after a moment, Warren returned with the same storage item, now holding the dark potions.

Checking the items, Nash paid 420,000 merits without blinking.

Compared to the millions he spent on elemental crystals, the dark potions barely made a dent in his account.

"You should stock more dark potions. I might need to buy more soon," Nash reminded as he prepared to leave.

"Noted, Young Master Noir. In a few days, I’ll reserve 10,000 dark potions just for you," Warren said with a sincere smile.

Finding a customer like this was a godsend. If he didn’t serve him well, who would?

Perhaps, in the future, this young man would become a patron of the Star Tower.

"In that case, I’ll see you later..."

Leaving the Star Tower, Nash logged out and returned to reality.

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"This—it’s really possible!"

Feeling his soul brimming with power and seeing the powdered elemental crystals around him, his brilliant idea had worked!

[Soul Saturation: 18.1%]

From 1-9%, it took 10 elemental crystals per percentage point.

Advancing higher, it required 100 elemental crystals per percentage.

Seeing his progress jump from 13.4% to 18.1% just by lying in the virtual pod, he couldn’t help but feel thrilled.

"Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough elemental crystals before."

With only 470 elemental crystals left, he couldn’t maximize his training time.

Fortunately, now that he had bought enough elemental crystals, he could train his soul 24/7 without interruption!

Looking at the mountains of attributeless elemental crystals in his storage ring, Nash took them out, letting them flow through his soul.

"Huh~ now this is what I call training!"

Tidying up, he began handling documents from the Eastdam State for the day.

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An hour later, after finishing his work, he headed to his bedroom.

"I’ll sleep for today..." Nash decided.

By removing the need to train manually, he had freed up six hours of time.

But instead of using it immediately, Nash lay down in bed for a well-deserved rest.