Chapter 16

As for crystal coins, they have no physical form, just a digital display, pretty much like online banking. Ryan Clark judged that these crystal coins must be the “universal currency” of Infinite City, probably used by swiping a card, right?

He looked around the room. Besides the basic furniture, there were only a few items, and one of the pedestals was what caught Ryan Clark’s attention the most.

Because on top of it, there happened to be a place that looked like a “card reader.”

Ryan Clark walked up to it, and in the next instant, an optical screen appeared before his eyes, densely packed images and text floating in front of him.

“This is…”

【Name: Spider Cave】

【Secret Realm Level: Novice】

【Difficulty: Easy】

【Challenge Crystal Coins: 200】

【Name: Boar Valley】

【Secret Realm Level: Novice】

【Difficulty: Normal】

【Challenge Crystal Coins: 500】

【Name: Giant Beast Forest】

【Secret Realm Level: Novice】

【Difficulty: Hard】

【Challenge Crystal Coins: 700】

On the screen were some basic details about the secret realms and the crystal coin cost for each challenge. It seemed that entering other secret realms required spending money to buy a ticket.

There were 10 secret realms on the first page. Ryan Clark saw that he could flip through 5 pages here, which meant there were over 40 novice-level secret realms he could currently enter!

Flipping to the back, Ryan Clark even found a few particularly outrageous ones, like Lake of Death.

【Name: Lake of Death】

【Secret Realm Level: Novice】

【Difficulty: Abyss】

【Challenge Crystal Coins: 1000】

“This is really…” Ryan Clark was momentarily speechless.

The secret realm difficulties here could roughly be divided into Easy, Normal, Hard, and Abyss.

And the challenge cost was basically between 100 and 1000 crystal coins.

With his 10,000 crystal coins, he could challenge quite a few times, but after looking through them, Ryan Clark wasn’t particularly interested for now…

Previously, in the easy-level novice trial secret realm, Forest of the Demon Cat, even with the help of epic-level items, they were exhausted and injured multiple times.

Normal difficulty… not to mention Hard or Abyss. Before figuring things out, it was best not to court death.

Earlier, Ryan Clark noticed that the identity card had communication and team-up functions. Presumably, those high-difficulty secret realms were meant for beastmasters to team up and challenge together?

But aside from these secret realm dungeons, Ryan Clark also found an absolutely safe secret realm, listed separately…

【Name: Training Secret Realm】

【Secret Realm Level: Novice】

【Activation Crystal Coins: 1/day】

The price was extremely affordable, probably just a simple training ground.

“Better to first analyze the materials I’ve obtained in depth. I should be able to strengthen the combat power of myself and Mr. Harris a bit.”

Ryan Clark left the pedestal and found that the optical screen disappeared automatically. Then, he looked at the resource rewards in his backpack.

In the secret realm, he had obtained temporary usage rights for the Eye of Data.

And after clearing the secret realm, it seemed he could now use the Eye of Data permanently, even outside.

However, it was only the basic version, not as complete as the one in the secret realm.

The one in the secret realm could even view information on other creatures, but this basic Eye of Data could only see information about himself, his own pet beast, and low-rarity resource items, greatly reducing its strategic value.

【Name】: Meteorite Iron Ore

【Level】: Advanced

【Description】: Iron ore formed under the influence of extraterrestrial meteorite power, possessing excellent energy conduction and amplification effects. Can be used to craft weapons and equipment.

【Name】: Grass Attribute Awakening Fruit

【Level】: Advanced

【Description】: Can help pet beasts with grass attribute potential awaken their own grass-type powers.

Meteorite iron ore, grass-type fruit!

No need to mention the meteorite iron ore. Not being able to bring weapons in this time left Ryan Clark quite regretful. He figured that ordinary weapons from the outside world, even firearms, couldn’t be brought in.

The only things that could be brought in were items with supernatural powers, like the Divine Deer Pendant.

Since this meteorite iron ore was also a special resource, then weapons crafted from it should be allowed to be carried, right?

Ryan Clark was very satisfied with this reward. The only thing was, he still didn’t know what to craft with it, or where to go to have it made.

The other grass-type fruit also made Ryan Clark extremely excited.

The extraordinary creatures he’d encountered recently were basically all in an unawakened, non-attributed state, which was certainly very strange.

According to his understanding, attributes like wind, thunder, water, and fire should also exist.

Why didn’t any of the creatures have them?

It seemed that for extraordinary creatures to awaken their own attributes wasn’t easy at all—most likely very difficult, requiring external guidance.

This external force, attribute awakening fruit, was clearly one such method.

At the moment, he didn’t know whether Mr. Harris had grass attribute potential.

Ryan Clark thought that Mr. Harris probably didn’t. Although it liked eating vegetables, it was really hard to imagine an Erha having any affinity with the grass attribute.

But it wasn’t a big problem. Since he’d obtained an attribute fruit, if he couldn’t use it, he could always sell it or trade it with others for the attribute he needed.

The premise was knowing what attribute Mr. Harris had.

How to identify a pet beast’s attribute was also something Ryan Clark needed to figure out this time.