Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 879 Rare Metals That Are Hard to Squander

For outsiders who rarely come to Shrek City, or even for ordinary people in Shrek City, Shrek City seems to be the same Shrek City, unchanged from ten or twenty years ago, with only a few more shops and a few new buildings.

The problem is that Shrek City is not static. In the past, shops in Shrek City always closed down and opened up.

However, only those who have access to Shrek's core system know just how earth-shattering Shrek City has become compared to ten years ago after so many years of changes.

If Shrek City was once just a patched-up Spirit City, even the highest and most heavily fortified southern city wall was still the same as it was ten thousand years ago: fifteen zhang high, twenty zhang thick, and more than five kilometers wide. Although it was already a top-tier city, it was far inferior to super cities like Heaven Dou City, which were often hundreds of meters high.

However, with Huo Yuhao's blueprint recording technology being transferred to them, and Chen Ping's relentless extraction of rare metals from every corner of the Douluo Continent, what can be said about Shrek City now?
The price to make Shrek City stand up was too high; otherwise, Chen Ping would have truly shown everyone what it meant for a knight's castle to stand up.

At this moment, inside the four walls of Shrek City, various soul tools that had been tested by emperors of the Sun Moon Empire had been completely embedded. From the most common plumbing and electrical systems to vibration, soul power, optical, and embedded detection equipment, the various high-power soul tools installed inside the walls had perfectly integrated with the walls of Shrek City.

From the outside, Shrek City's walls are nothing special, at most just a gravity dam made of thick bricks and tiles and glutinous rice paste that withstood several attacks from the gods. But only the Soul Masters who personally took charge of the renovation of Shrek City and spent several years completing it knew that it was actually a super war fortress disguised as a city wall on all four sides!

No country in the world possesses a war fortress of this scale. After all, to completely transform the interior of a city wall that weighs millions of tons, the amount of rare metals required would be at least hundreds of thousands of tons.

The rare metals mentioned here are not the particularly precious rare metals. Even refined iron is included in the calculation. However, even so, the terrifying consumption of rare metals is still an astronomical figure.

Whether it's Xingluo, Tianhun Empire, or Douling Empire, they would never drastically alter their city walls like this, not even their royal cities, since they don't have massive reserves of rare metals.

As for the Sun Moon Empire, they could indeed afford the money. In fact, the way Shrek City was renovated was based on the soul tool integration method of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial palace. However, as everyone knows, Ming City did not have city walls.
Therefore, even looking at the entire Douluo Continent, there is only one Shrek City that has consumed hundreds of thousands of tons of rare metals just to transform its city walls into an indestructible structure, turning it into a super monster!

As for where these rare metals came from...

That wouldn't be something Chen Ping could cover by stealing a little here and a little there. Although Chen Ping was a notorious thief in the continent, his most glorious achievement was simply running away with more than 10,000 tons of rare metals, a specialty of the Sun Moon Empire, in one go.

What truly gave Shrek Academy such an inexhaustible source of rare metals was the super mining areas that Chen Ping marked on the map of Star Dou Forest back then. Those were the super mines that supported the development of the entire Douluo Continent's soul tool and blacksmith system during the Douluo III era!
If Chen Ping hadn't bumped heads with the auspicious beast back then, allowing him to discover these mining areas that seemed to produce rare metals from the beast's memories, even if all the elders of Shrek Academy were squeezed dry, they still wouldn't have been able to gather so many rare metals.

Such extravagant and inhumane spending of rare metals wasn't because Shrek Academy had money to burn, but rather a reluctant measure taken after considering the academy's utilization rate of rare metals. It's worth noting that even back when Xuanzi was scolded by Mu En and directly sent to the first undeveloped small mining area, the amount of rare metals transported back to Shrek from the Star Dou Forest mining area was still so large that it completely overwhelmed all of Shrek Academy's resource warehouses, and incidentally filled the underground warehouse of the Treasure Pavilion as well.

From that time on, the leaders of the Soul Guidance Department of Shrek Academy began to worry about how to handle the continuous influx of rare metals.

It's important to understand that this amount of rare metals is far beyond what can be consumed simply by freely producing soul tools.

Even if the students at Shrek Academy are allocated a ton of rare metals every day, as Shrek Academy expands its mines and the undead dig faster, these rare metals will continue to accumulate.

What's more, what student can consume a ton of rare metals every day? Even if they're just practicing with low-grade rare metals, consuming tens of kilograms a day is already an incredibly wasteful act, okay?

What about selling it to the public?

Shrek Academy actually tried it, but it had about the same effect as letting the students squander rare metals.

Selling too little will have no effect, while selling too much will not only cause market chaos and dumping of rare metals, but will also make all countries realize that Shrek has a super mining area.

Therefore, although Shrek Academy has been using various means to sell rare metals by exchanging different gloves, this is only a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of rare metal reserves within the academy.

We finally found a seller to buy a few tons, but then the academy's mining trucks brought in several more loads of rare metals, which was completely useless!
Don’t you think this is nonsense?

Therefore, after a unanimous discussion among the Shrek elders, they finally found a way to utilize these rare metals that automatically multiply every day.

We'll breach the city walls, reinforce them both inside and out, and then stuff them with rare metals!
Although this behavior would be no different from using the ninth soul skill against a great soul master in the eyes of soul masters from other empires, it is still somewhat useful. What if someone is so desperate that they want to fight Shrek Academy?

Then it will come in handy!
Although stuffing rare metals into Shrek City is not cost-effective, it is still better than storing all the rare metals in warehouses and taking up space. That would be not only not cost-effective, but you would also have to prepare new warehouses for new rare metals every now and then. Only someone who is really hard on themselves would do that.
(End of this chapter)