179: progress bar

After leaving the Shuangban Rainforest, Su Ze returned to his home and sat cross-legged on his bed.

The reason he had the confidence to obtain a divine beast egg within half a month lay in another function of the system he hadn't used in a long time: the Recycle function!

The system's recycling of demon beast eggs had a dedicated progress bar.

Recycling a Silver grade beast taming egg could increase this progress bar by one percent, while a bronze grade could only increase it by one-thousandth; he could only accumulate it slowly.

However, once the progress was full, the next gacha pull was guaranteed to produce a spirit beast of platinum-level or higher.

After that, Su Ze discovered that the progress bar could actually be upgraded!

Once the first-level progress bar was full, if he chose not to use it but instead continued to increase the probability, the progress bar would upgrade.

At this point, the progress bar looked down upon recycling bronze or Silver grade demon beast eggs; even Gold-rank demon beast eggs had no effect.

Only recycling a platinum-level beast taming egg could increase this progress bar by one-thousandth, while a diamond rank demon beast egg could increase it by one-tenth.

In other words, at least ten diamond rank demon beast eggs were needed!

If he relied solely on Su Ze's gacha machine to obtain them, who knew how long it would take.

Fortunately, Su Ze had previously experimented with the demon beast eggs captured in Fuso.

Although they weren't demon beast eggs produced by the system, they could still be recycled without any penalty, increasing the progress bar according to the demon beast egg's level.

However, even a mid-level country might not be able to gather so many demon beast eggs even with the strength of the entire nation.

But now that Su Ze had the support of Xiao Sheng and Holy Sun, it was equivalent to having a major power like Great Xia behind him.

On the very first day, nearly a hundred demon beast eggs were sent over, but unfortunately, they were all platinum-level demon beast eggs; no diamond eggs appeared.

After all, for Great Xia, diamond rank demon beast eggs were also extremely rare.

Great Xia had a heritage of thousands of years, and the history of Beast Tamers spanned over a thousand years.

But the number of Diamond-rank Spirit Beasts that had appeared was less than a hundred, let alone the requirement that they must be in the form of a beast taming egg.

Fortunately, by comparison, platinum-level demon beast eggs were much easier to find.

Even if ten diamond rank demon beast eggs couldn't be gathered, a thousand platinum-level demon beast eggs could be.

In the following days, nearly a hundred platinum-level demon beast eggs were sent to Su Ze every day.

However, such a large-scale requisition of demon beast eggs had already tapped into the warehouses of the Great Xia Spirit Guards. Even if it was an order from Holy Sun and Xiao Sheng, the destination of such a massive quantity of demon beast eggs had to be investigated.

"Why do the two Lords need so many demon beast eggs lately, and they're all being sent to Beishan City?"

"I heard many demon beasts appeared there before, and even Azure Dragon Beast Taming University, one of the four prestigious Beast Taming Universities with a long heritage, was destroyed. Do you think... some big problem is about to happen again?"

"I think it's possible. These demon beast eggs already account for more than half of our warehouse stock. With so many platinum-level demon beast eggs, the two Lords must want to establish an elite team to deal with the crisis!"

"Exactly, I think so too!"

As time passed, more and more people began to harbor suspicions, and an atmosphere of longing to discover the truth began to spread.

Even the Thirteenth Squad, which had been responsible for receiving these demon beast eggs before delivering them to Su Ze, became mysterious along with them.

Finally, after another delivery of nearly a hundred platinum-level demon beast eggs to the man whose left arm and right leg were unnaturally white.

The two people from the Spirit Guard headquarters responsible for transporting the demon beast eggs did not choose to leave immediately as before, but instead quietly followed.

They saw him and another man with different colored arms leading the members of the Thirteenth Squad to pick up the numerous demon beast eggs and walk forward.

"Come on, let's follow and see what's going on! So many demon beast eggs must be for building a large-scale elite force!"

Then, the two of them followed behind the group.

To their confusion, these people didn't go to any top-secret military locations, nor was there any strict security along the way; they just walked openly toward a nearby apartment building.

These Great Xia Spirit Guards in Beishan City couldn't fill the entire residential area even if each had their own room, so there were still many civilians living there.

Along the way, they encountered some elderly men and women who greeted them: "Oh, Little Sun and Little Tao, delivering goods again?"

"You say you Great Xia Spirit Guards are soldiers, so why are you acting like delivery couriers?"

Everyone was smiling and greeting them.

"By the way, it's been so many days, and I still don't know what you're delivering. It's not anything dangerous, is it?" the elderly folks asked cautiously.

Sun Hao replied with a smile, "It's nothing, just some eggs."

The old woman nodded knowingly and said eagerly, "Oh? Chicken eggs! Is some supermarket having a promotion? You've snatched up so many?"

Sun Hao shook his head and said, "These are all issued by the state."

Then he led his people away to avoid further pestering from the old woman.

They only heard the old woman still saying where she stood, "Joining the army is great; the state even gives out chicken eggs. When I get back, I'll make my dear grandson train hard and strive to become a Beast Tamer."

Meanwhile, the two people hiding behind them already had dark lines on their faces: "Our warehouse... has become a supermarket for discounted promotions?"

The other person said, "This... must be a cover story for concealment. It's called 'hiding in plain sight.' The two Lords are going to hide the secret army they're building in an ordinary residential area so the enemy can't find the location and can't raid our base!"

"Makes sense!"

The two continued to tail them.

Soon, they saw the group starting to climb the stairs. To prevent exposure, they demonstrated high-level skills, flipping out of the hallway windows and keeping pace with the group's speed on the stairs from outside the wall.

Before long, they saw Sun Hao and the others stop in front of a door and knock, saying, "Captain, today's goods have been delivered!"

The two looked at each other, knowing they had finally found the place!

Soon they would know where these hundreds of platinum demon beast eggs went, and if they were being used to secretly train an elite force—maybe they would even have a chance to join!

Then they saw the door pushed open. A young man stood behind the door, holding a boiled demon beast egg and eating it with gusto.

"You're here. I just finished boiling some Tea eggs; everyone, come and eat together."

"Okay!"

The crowd immediately swarmed forward. Ever since they had eaten them once before, they could never forget the taste of the demon beast eggs. Meanwhile, the two outside the window almost lost their grip and fell.

"Tea... Tea eggs? More than half of the demon beast eggs in our warehouse were used to make Tea eggs?"

Just then, Su Ze also walked to the hallway window and said, "Don't you two feel tired clinging there? Come in and have an egg?"