Chapter 314: Building the Manor

Seong Seungmin did not believe that he did not understand what this meant. There were not many famous races among the wolf clans. The two obvious characteristics of walking upright and being cursed were enough to let someone understand what this represented.

Otherwise, he would not have ended up in such an awkward position, neither here nor there, fishing for opportunities throughout the risk zones.

To put it bluntly, if there were a proper path to take, who would choose to take a dangerous and unconventional path?!

Only under the influence of an information gap did he have a chance to enter the core of a faction. Otherwise, he would only become a "transitional" product that could not keep up with the speed of version changes.

Only now did Seong Seungmin finally show some genuine excitement. He understood better than anyone what this represented.

He steadied himself and answered, "No, I will add a seismic protection device. As long as the earthquake is not directly aimed at the Lord’s Manor, it definitely will not be damaged."

Joo Joowon felt relieved after hearing this. He waved his hand, signaling that he could leave.

Seong Seungmin hesitated for a moment before asking, "Boss, what kind of Domain Core do you want?"

"Hmm?"

"The crystal extracted from that Boss just now is not particularly high quality, but its properties are special. Moreover, since it originally came from this place, its compatibility with this place will definitely not be low." As Seong Seungmin spoke, he took out a Domain Core from his mechanical battle armor. "This one of mine was produced by the Machina Consortium. Every time it is upgraded, I only need to purchase some basic components, so it does not have particularly high requirements for scarce resources."

Joo Joowon took a look. It was a Domain Core shaped like a Rubik’s Cube. There were no visible traces of welding with the naked eye, and it emitted a faint glow. Its texture was cold and metallic, making it obvious at a glance that it was a high-end product.

However, electronic products...

"Use the Boss’s."

Joo Joowon quickly made his decision. Putting aside the kind of groundless worry about something like a mechanical intelligence crisis, the fact that he himself did not understand these mechanical products was enough to make him naturally favor something produced by nature.

Seong Seungmin nodded without asking why. "Then I’ll modify it." He paused for a moment before asking, "Boss, do you want me to add a sterilization service to the Domain Core?"

Joo Joowon immediately understood after hearing this. It was just like the risk zones he had encountered so far. This meant that even among Lord buildings, there were high-risk structures, and those things might even be much more dangerous than the risk zones he had encountered so far under the watchful eyes of the game.

"Install it."

He did not even need to think about it before answering immediately.

Ignoring risks and continuing to install things was something Joo Joowon had done plenty of times in the past. He certainly did not think that he would stop doing such things in the future.

Seong Seungmin was not surprised either. "Then I’ll add another layer of firewall. It should take several dozen more minutes. Boss, please wait a little longer."

...

As a professional who followed the Mechanical Path, Seong Seungmin did not need helpers at all. No matter how many tasks were thrown at him, he could handle them all by himself. One wolf was already an entire team.

If not for the special nature of his race and his own unique circumstances, many factions actually would not have minded recruiting him. After all, there were truly not many professionals who could be this versatile while still below the Second Realm, making him someone with considerable value for cultivation.

Seong Seungmin worked for a long time, allowing Joo Joowon to personally witness the birth of an entire group of buildings.

There was no flashy display of technical skill, nor was there any strange situation like those in novels, where a mysterious light would envelop the area, only for a building to suddenly appear in the same place once the light disappeared.

This was what Seong Seungmin and the machinery had built together piece by piece. It was simply that the procedures that would normally take several months to complete had been compressed into just two hours.

The brand-new building material was not the cement and lime that Joo Joowon was familiar with, but a type of natural stone slab.

This was the material he had specified at the beginning. Within the same price range, it had the highest cost performance. There was nothing particularly special about it. It was simply unaffected by external temperatures, capable of withstanding artillery fire, highly airtight, and not easily flammable.

However, it was indeed a building material. Laboratories that conducted dangerous experiments in that otherworld usually used this kind of material for their construction.

More importantly, under the system’s quality assessment logic, it was considered a gray-quality building material, so its price was not high.

Yet it had been recognized for its quality by countless Lords.

Its conductivity was very good. Later, things such as runes could be engraved directly onto it without the material being too poor to withstand the energy and becoming damaged. As long as there was sufficient Quanta Energy, there was even a chance for its quality to undergo a transformation and break away from the category of ordinary materials.

Most stores in the risk zones provided labor but did not include materials, so Joo Joowon had carefully selected and narrowed down the range of materials for a long time before finally settling on them. He had kept the expenses within a range he could accept.

At least, if he were truly forced to use the game’s loan service, he would still be able to pay it back.

However, when it actually came time to put everything into practice, not many of the materials he had originally selected ended up being used.