87: The role of the golden scale

After Luo Luo left, Lu Yang took out the damaged golden scales.

While on the Golden Coast, Lu Yang had already felt the golden scales calling to him.

However, to avoid activating the golden scales on the Golden Coast, which would be too conspicuous and bring unnecessary trouble, Lu Yang had always restrained himself from touching the golden scales, letting Luo Luo hold it the entire time.

Only now did he truly touch the golden scales for the first time.

In an instant, the Golden Civilization Fire in his glabella spread like a light band, flowing over and circulating throughout the entire body of the golden scales.

Under the forging of the Golden Civilization Fire, the originally dim golden scales gradually emitted a brilliant radiance; the scorched black marks on the left pan slowly faded, and even the lost one-third was completely restored by the Golden Fire.

It was as if it had been reborn from the ashes in the flames.

After a long while, the Golden Civilization Fire somewhat erratically returned to Lu Yang's glabella, while the golden scales still shone brightly.

It was just that the parts originally restored by the Golden Civilization Fire appeared somewhat transparent and shallow compared to other sections, but it was already capable of functioning as a Civilization Wonder.

【Damaged golden scales】

【Type: Civilization Wonder】

【Level: One】

【Effect: When placed on a train, it can gain the Civilization Miracle effect 'Equivalent Exchange'.】

【Equivalent Exchange LV1: The two ends of the scales represent fairness; to gain something, one must lose something. Spending a certain amount of basic resources can convert them into specific resources (requires prior analysis).】

The textual explanation was relatively simple, but from the moment he activated the golden scales, Lu Yang had already fully grasped its functions.

The so-called Equivalent Exchange meant that Lu Yang could spend basic resources like Iron Mine to convert them into any designated resource.

For example, if Lu Yang needed mineral essence ore, he could spend Iron Mine to convert it into mineral essence ore on the golden scales.

However, the golden scales could not create something out of nothing; before converting into a substance, it needed to first analyze the structure of that substance.

For instance, before converting into mineral essence ore, Lu Yang needed to first place a piece of mineral essence ore on the right side of the golden scales for analysis; only after successful analysis could he spend Iron Mine to convert it.

In layman's terms, a sample was needed before it could be replicated.

However, analysis only needed to be done once; once successful, conversion could be done at any time.

Moreover, the analysis speed was very fast.

Placing it on the golden scales for about five seconds was enough to complete the analysis.

Lu Yang placed all the relatively special items he possessed, such as mineral essence ore, iron matrix ore, copper matrix ore, bloodstone, and cloud mica, on the golden scales for analysis, and quickly obtained the precise conversion requirements.

The highest conversion cost was naturally for mineral essence ore, requiring 10,000 units of Level One Iron Mine to convert into one unit of mineral essence ore on the golden scales.

And it also required 12 hours of conversion time.

Of course, this was under the condition that the golden scales were completely intact.

Currently, the golden scales were in a damaged state; while the conversion time did not increase, the resource consumption increased by 20%.

This meant that the Level One mineral essence ore, which originally required 10,000 units of Level One Iron Mine to convert, now required 12,000 units of Level One Iron Mine.

However, after continuous resource conversion, the golden scales would undergo slow self-repair; once repaired to a certain extent, resource consumption would decrease accordingly until it finally returned to normal.

Moreover, just like the golden pickaxe, as a Civilization Wonder of the Golden Kobold race, the more Golden Kobolds Lu Yang commanded, the higher the level of Equivalent Exchange would be.

Currently, Lu Yang commanded over three thousand Kobolds, which was just enough to raise the level of Equivalent Exchange to LV3. (PS: Turning Earth into Gold is also LV3 now; the extra output chance for Level One Turning Earth into Gold is 1%, and for Level Three Turning Earth into Gold, it's 3%.)

For the next level, the number of Kobolds under Lu Yang's command needed to reach six thousand.

However, unlike the progression direction of 【Turning Earth into Gold】, the progression direction of 【Equivalent Exchange】 after upgrading was to increase the number of Quick Exchange uses.

【Quick Exchange: No conversion time is needed; basic resources can be directly converted into the required specific resources.】

Equivalent Exchange LV2 provided 1 Quick Exchange use per day, while Equivalent Exchange LV3 increased the number of Quick Exchange uses to 3 per day.

Furthermore, the number of Quick Exchange uses could be accumulated indefinitely; as long as they hadn't been used before, when resources were sufficient and a specific special resource was needed, Quick Exchange could be used.

This could greatly save time spent searching for special ores.

This was also why Old Ode had missed the golden scales so much at the time.

Because with the golden scales, even if the canyon fissure was a barren land, they could constantly dig and accumulate Level One Iron Mine with the golden pickaxe, convert it into other needed special resources, rebuild their civilization vehicles, and eventually fly out of there.

But now, everything was inherited by Lu Yang.