Full-Time Magister: The Strongest Summoned Beast is Actually Myself

Chapter 154 Chapter 154, Soul Seed

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Before long, the city's barrier dissipated, the ban was lifted, and the group entered Lima, heading straight for the Royal Felipe Castle.

From afar, Chen Hao saw Jiang Yu standing at the city gate waving at them, with Ai Jiangtu, Mu Tingying, and others standing beside him, clearly having been waiting for a long time.

"Captain, you've finally arrived!" Jiang Yu shouted while waving, his tone exaggerated. "South America is no place for humans to live. Even a city as big as Lima can be besieged by demons. It's outrageous."

"Stop talking nonsense, did you get the National Pavilion Medal?" Chen Hao asked directly as he approached, not letting him lead him astray.

“Just won.” Ai Jiangtu continued, “The national team instructors here are quite generous; they organized a competition, which gave us a chance to hone our skills.”

"Not bad." Chen Hao nodded, then changed the subject, "The next stop is Mexico, but before that, there is a training mission."

"A mission?" Zhao Manyan raised an eyebrow. "It's not another troublesome one, is it?"

“There are several mines here, which are jointly developed by our country and Peru, so there is a unit of our army stationed nearby,” Chen Hao explained. “However, they seem to have encountered some trouble recently. Intelligence from the forward base says that the situation is not good.”

"A problem that even the army can't handle?" Mo Fan frowned. "Could it be those strange birds?"

"Most likely." Chen Hao shrugged. "Whether you participate or not is up to you. There's only one resource anyway."

“I want to participate.” Ai Jiangtu’s tone was firm; as a former soldier, he never hesitated on such matters.

"Me too!" Nan Jue followed closely behind.

“Then I’ll participate too,” Jiang Shaoxu said.

"..."

After some discussion, Ai Jiangtu, Jiang Yu, Nan Jue, Jiang Shaoxu, Mo Fan, and Mu Ningxue decided to participate in this training mission, while the rest of the team members chose to stay in Lima City to continue their training.

This is to be expected—in the original story, the Sahara rescue mission alone deterred half the participants. After all, some scions of wealthy families were there simply to gain prestige, not to risk their lives.

Moreover, resources are shared equally among the participants, and some people would prefer as few participants as possible.

Chen Hao, however, had other ideas. He was waiting for the NASCAR incident to blow up a bit more so he could step in and resolve it, thus gaining more benefits. Even if someone else resolved it beforehand, it didn't matter, since he didn't care about the National Team's resources anyway.

Of course, he didn't stop the Nationalist team and others from resolving the matter. He was a bit opportunistic, but not that ruthless.

Thus, the Nationalist government team split into two groups again, with half of them heading to the front lines for missions and the other half staying in the city to rest and recuperate.

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[Host: Chen Hao]

[Contracted Creature: Human Chen Hao (Original Form)]

[Summoning System]: High-Tier 1 (88%)

[Light System]: High-level Tier 2 (24%)

[Space System]: High-level Tier 1 (31%)

[Life Level]: Commander Level - Initial Stage (5%)

[Mental Strength]: Third Realm (34%)

【talent】:
Body Enhancement
Titan's Aura (Crystallized)
• Mental unlocking
Advanced control

• Elemental Affinity • Light, Thunder
Lightning Realm
Star Enhancement
Magic Enhancement
Titan Form

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【Contracted Beast: Sun-Eating Spider Spirit】

[Life Level]: Commander Level - Initial Stage (5%)

[Mental Strength]: Second Realm (22%)

【talent】:
·Blazing Sun Fighting Aura (Crystallized)
Elemental Soul
Parasitic possession
•Mastery of Japanese Elements•

• Light Soul Domain (New)
Mind manipulation (new)
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【Contract Beast: Little Flame Princess】

[Life Level]: Warrior Level - Advanced Stage (88%)

[Mental Strength]: Second Realm (12%)

【talent】:
·Demon Power of Calamity
Fire element control

Elemental Possession
• Spatial control
Within three months, Chen Hao's light magic broke through to the second level of the advanced rank, successfully surpassing the summoning magic. With the help of the Star Enhancement ability, he was able to stably cast advanced level three light magic.

With the amplification of Little Flame Princess's magic power, light-based attacks can directly rival high-tier level three soul seed magic. If Titan's Battle Aura is added, the strength can approach that of a high-tier level four soul seed. And once the Sun-Eating Spider Spirit possesses the user and its domain is fully stacked, it can even achieve a terrifying boost approaching that of a sub-celestial seed!
The buff is continuously stacking.

However, the most urgent task is to acquire a genuine Light-type Great Soul Seed as soon as possible.

Little Flame Princess is also approaching the Commander level, and we must start preparing the resources for her advancement—which is another huge expense.

Currently, after deducting daily expenses and costs for raising contracted beasts, Chen Hao still has approximately 10 billion yuan remaining, half of which comes from the resale of national government resources. As the team leader, he naturally possesses considerable financial management skills.

Unfortunately, this amount of money is still far from enough.

The preparation of Xiao Yan Ji's soul seed alone is conservatively estimated to be 10 billion; and the standard for the light-type soul seed he chose for himself is even higher - he only considers large soul seeds as a starting point, and he doesn't even bother to look at anything below that level!
However, the good news is that light-based resources are currently the only magical resources that can be mass-produced industrially.

Because of a revolutionary magical technology from fifty years ago—

Photovoltaic to Magic Technology

Sound familiar? That's right, its principle is similar to photovoltaic power generation in the world of technology: using the sun as a natural energy source, the sunlight is concentrated into a specially designed energy-concentrating array, and then the core of the array converts it into pure light element magic!
Ultimately, the following can be achieved:
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Artificial Light Element Sanctuary -
Artificial light element crystals -
Even light-type spirit seeds

(Note: The appearance is based on a modern photovoltaic concentrator array.)
This is why light-based resources are the cheapest among all elemental resources.

The scarcity of magical resources has never been a matter of quantity, but rather a shortage of means of production and an inability to mass-produce them. However, the Light element, with the sun as its almost inexhaustible energy source, is currently the only magical resource element that can truly be produced on a large scale.

The productivity of the magical world is truly remarkable, in no way inferior to that of the technological world. Its 100-square-kilometer photovoltaic base is already among the best in the world.

The magical world can easily expand to thousands of square kilometers, but the maintenance cost is too high, otherwise it could continue to expand.

After all, the energy fluctuations generated by this photovoltaic array are in no way inferior to those of the Earth Core; even in desolate desert regions, demons would be attracted. Being able to produce light element environments, light-element magic stones, and light-element spirit seeds means one can practically conquer most light-element resources. After all, spirit seeds can be synthesized into soul seeds, and magic stones can be further refined into crystals and even elemental diamonds…

As long as you're willing to spend the money, it's not impossible to synthesize a light-elemental celestial seed. Even a half-baked moth-raising girl like Yu Shishi can do it, so naturally the Magic Association's Research Committee can too. It's just that the cost is too high, so it's subconsciously overlooked. Yu Shishi, on the other hand, has a method that can greatly reduce costs, namely those little green moths.

Chen Hao learned from Dean Xiao that many of the Heavenly Seeds and Great Soul Seeds were even synthesized by himself.

Here we have to mention a setting: if a mage already has a spirit seed of the same element, can they continue to absorb spirit seeds?

The answer is, yes!
There is no doubt about it. You can refine as many spirit seeds as you want, 10... 20... 100... As long as you have money and are happy, you can refine as many as you want.

But what will be the effect after refining?
Of course, it's impossible to have 100 characteristics; only one can be retained!
You will obtain an extremely powerful spirit seed, or even a soul seed. After all, if you refine 100 of them, you might actually evolve it.

In summary: Spirit Seeds, Soul Seeds, and Celestial Seeds are all elemental species that possess a devouring ability. Within the same host, weaker elemental species will be used as resources for evolution.

This is why the effects of the spirit seed disappear once the soul seed is absorbed.

Some mages who crave power and have plenty of money will try to absorb multiple soul seeds in an attempt to improve their quality, and even fantasize about evolving them into celestial seeds.

The money invested in these projects is often astronomical.

Chen Hao might follow the same path in the future, but for now, he doesn't want to be the sucker. It's best to arrange the Great Soul Seed in one go.

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A few days later, Chen Hao's Light-type Great Soul Seed was finally delivered.

Light-type Great Soul Seed: Judgment Twilight
Magic power amplification: six times

Feature: Twilight Focus
By focusing on the target through the host's gaze, once the target is locked, it is considered a focus marker state, continuously exposing the soul's location. This state persists and cannot be dispelled by the user. Its essence is a kind of optical-level spying, not belonging to the energy category, and the marker can only be removed by interrupting Chen Hao's locked gaze.

Additional effect: Light of Judgment!
All of the host's ranged spells can automatically track targets through the Light of Judgment, and can be used in conjunction with focus marks.

The Realm of Day and Night: During the day, the base power of light magic increases, up to a maximum of doubling, depending on how strong the sun is. At night, light magic can penetrate magical defenses, the degree of penetration depending on how dark the night is.

It was acquired by Chen Hongsheng at an auction in Shanghai. Peru, a poor little country, could not possibly buy it. It cost a full 14 billion yuan to snatch it up, and the extra 400 million yuan was made up from Hongsheng Forging Factory.

Nearly a year has passed, and the expanded forging plant has long been on the right track. It even recently received a large order from the military for a total of one thousand seventh-generation individual flying magical weapons.

That's right, it's one of those aircraft with two propellers, like an exoskeleton armor.

This thing has been updated to the seventh generation. Compared with the first generation, it has been greatly optimized in terms of portability, weight, battery life and speed. There is no need for complicated wearing. Instead, it is like a backpack, which can be fastened with a few buckles.

Weighing only 100 kilograms, it's practically no burden for a mage. Its range reaches 2000 kilometers, requiring only one lightning-type magic stone, and its speed easily exceeds 450 kilometers per hour.

Each unit costs only ten million, which is incredibly cost-effective compared to the expensive Skyhawk.

Hongsheng Forging Factory made billions from this single order. The cost of the magical materials was quite high, and the price was set at 1200 million. Only military customers who were long-term clients could enjoy such a discount.

Of course, the money wasn't immediately available; the deposit was only 30%. Even if Hongsheng Forging Plant operated at full capacity, it would take at least until the end of the year to deliver 1,000 seventh-generation aircraft.

Even so, it's still possible to earn 5 billion a year.

After investing so much time and effort, it's time to give him a reward.

Chen Hao immediately allocated another 1 billion yuan of public funds to find two soul seeds for Xiao Yanji to help her advance to the commander level. If that wasn't enough, he would add more himself.

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A few days later, unusual activity occurred again in the skies over Peru.

At 6:10 a.m., the capital city of Lima was placed on a blood-red alert.

The entire city instantly went into lockdown. The city's protective barrier activated rapidly, the air defense system kicked in, all mages were ordered to return to their positions, and rolling crimson curtains appeared in the sky—the light deflection caused by the friction between the barrier's automatic activation and the wings of the Nazca Lines!

—They're back.

The Nazca Lines, a fearsome presence throughout South America, last attacked just a week ago, and this time, they've not only returned, but their numbers have increased.

A massive army of 100,000 strange birds swept down from the horizon like a tidal wave. A series of low cries suddenly echoed in the sky, like rolling thunder or the reverberation of millions of wings vibrating in the air.

The mages guarding the barrier seemed to freeze, their pupils trembling.

Their country's main fighting force is naval warfare. After all, they have a long coastline and can't build naval fortresses like Japan, nor do they have enough mages to face demons.

Therefore, sirens are Peru's greatest threat; if they were to face sirens, they might find it commonplace. But these are winged demons! Lima has almost no experience in large-scale aerial combat, which is why the previous super-ranked guardian had to personally intervene!

However, the number of strange birds in the army had now increased to 100,000! Among them were even several commanders-level beings, and their quality had clearly improved significantly!
Not only Lima, but almost the entire western region of Peru was attacked by the Nazca Line monsters, including the Fire-Crowned Lizard, the Blade Spider, and the Storm Hound... all of which are monsters from the Nazca Lines.

In just one day, a quarter of the country's territory became unstable.

The battle lasted for a full ten hours.

The sky was woven into a deathly winch by flames, thunder, wind blades, and pillars of light. Countless strange birds were torn apart outside the barrier, their feathers turning to ash and blood raining down on the streets.

On several occasions, flocks of strange birds swooped down to the edge of the barrier and launched suicide attacks, causing the outer wall of the southern district to be breached and some peripheral residential areas to be invaded. However, they were all resealed and cleared out in less than fifteen minutes.

Lima held on.

Despite heavy casualties, the destruction of several regional protective barriers, and the scorched earth covering thousands of square meters on the edge of the city, the urban barrier of the main urban area remained intact.

The mages fell at street corners and on rooftops, but they didn't let the strange bird cross the line.

However, victory belonged only to Lima.

Throughout the day, almost all the news coming from other cities in Peru was about disasters.

A small town on the outskirts of Piura has fallen, and thousands of people are missing.

A district of Arequipa was severely damaged, two high-ranking mages were torn apart in mid-air, and the entire city was reduced to charred, yellowed sections.

Trujillo's frontline villages burned for a day and a night, but they were no match for the new monsters coming from the coast, which stormed into the residential areas and wreaked havoc.

Without the protection of city barriers and without enough high-level mages to guard them, these places become the hunting grounds of strange birds.

By nightfall, the strange birds had been completely wiped out, leaving behind ruins and wailing cries.

(End of this chapter)