Global Deities: My SSS-Rank Talent Lets Me Evolve Everything

Chapter 54: Purchasing Weapons Before the War

After a month of crazy development, Yang Fan’s total population had broken through 2.5 million.

The population size had already reached this number about 100 years ago in the Divine Kingdom, and afterwards, due to the population density reaching a critical value, it had been fluctuating up and down.

As for the believers’ food, it was still abundant; even with the population exploding, the daily output of the Fully Automatic Concentrator was still far greater than the consumption.

What was even more surprising was the believers’ understanding of the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array.

After reaching the Great Success stage, the Formation deployed by the gathering of a ten-thousand-strong army was now fully fifty percent stronger than before.

This was Yang Fan’s greatest advantage compared to others.

Having comprehended a Formation to Major Achievement, he was confident that not a single person in the entire third year of high school could accomplish this right now.

In these three months, 90 years had passed in other people’s Divine Kingdoms, but for him, it was a full 900 years.

Over the 900 years, the believers continuously practiced the Myriad Spirits Return to Origin Array, summarizing their experiences and passing them on to the next generation.

It was not that his believers had particularly good Comprehension Ability; all of this was ground out by time.

The only thing that made Yang Fan somewhat unsatisfied was that after so long, a Tier 3 living being still hadn’t been born.

You must know that during the exam three months ago, Tier 3 living beings had already appeared in Luo Bing’s Divine Kingdom, and she would only be stronger now.

“Just how many treasures for improving Aptitude did Luo Bing pour into her believers?” Yang Fan felt a sense of emotion in his heart.

You must know that his development time was ten times that of Luo Bing, but even now, he still hadn’t caught up to her from three months ago.

Yang Fan could understand this; the gap in their starting points was too huge.

His true eruption had to be counted from after receiving the Luo Family’s investment, and his development in the first three months had been very slow.

In two more days, he would go to Yang County No.

1 Middle School to participate in the midterm exam.

Before that, Yang Fan prepared to make an all-out sprint in the Divine Kingdom Simulation Battle once.

The losses in this midterm exam definitely wouldn’t be small; right now was the time when his Divine Kingdom’s combat power was at its strongest.

Before that, Yang Fan still needed to make a trip to the Luo Family’s stronghold to purchase weapons.

The prices of weapons within the Family were a full fold cheaper than the Divine Shop.

He had learned this from another Luo Family Genius when he attended a gathering some time ago.

The smelting of weapons required many steps.

First, Ore was acquired from the market, and then the Ore was smelted into iron essence through the smelting equipment of the Mechanical Divine Kingdom.

This iron essence was then loaded into the Divine Kingdom for believers to forge, and then placed in batches into the Divine Shop to be sold.

Many merchants doing this type of business did not have the ability to handle a complete system; they could only be responsible for one or multiple links among them.

This brought up a problem: every single link had to go through the Divine Shop, which meant taxes had to be paid once.

Taxes were collected level by level, and exploitation occurred at every layer, until finally, the end consumers bore everything.

This was an indirect tax.

In the year 26748 of the Divine Kingdom, a deity had once raised objections to this, believing that for such goods with complex craftsmanship, the Federal Government should reduce taxes to benefit the people’s livelihood.

According to historical records, it caused quite a commotion back then, with news flying everywhere.

Federal Government councilors even held meetings specifically for this for over ten days, and finally negotiated a result—changing the indirect tax to a value-added tax, allowing merchants to purchase tax-type Intelligent Life to make deductions and tax reductions.

Ordinary Divine Beings were very satisfied with this result.

Although the commodity prices did not drop, the Federal Government was still doing something, and it was said that deductions could be made.

Although they didn’t understand it, it felt like the discount was very large.

Upper-layer deities and lower-layer Divine Beings were both very happy about this.

You protect my cake, and I protect your thoughts.

Everyone had a bright future.

During this period of time, Yang Fan had not touched the funds within his Divine Kingdom precisely to purchase a sufficient amount of weapons.

During the last school exam, he suffered from a lack of weapons.

Even if they were just the most ordinary iron weapons, if the supply had been sufficient at that time, he could have penetrated much deeper.

For Mortals, the gap between wearing armor and fighting bare-handed was more than tenfold.

Arriving at the Luo Family’s stronghold in the Virtual World, Yang Fan found Zhan Yunxiao.

“Greetings, Young Master Yang.” Zhan Yunxiao stood up and saluted.

Yang Fan was long no longer the ordinary second-class Genius when he first entered the Luo Family.

His ranking in the Divine Kingdom Simulation Battle had entered the top hundred, and in the future, as long as he did not fall, there was an extremely high probability he would become a deity.

Zhan Yunxiao’s attitude was naturally much more respectful.

Now, if the Family had any welfare policies, he would also send a copy of the document to Yang Fan.

This was the benefit brought by a change in status and position.

People would naturally incline towards benefits and avoid harm; the stronger you showed yourself to be and the greater your potential, the more people would be willing to befriend you.

“Elder Zhan, I want to purchase a large quantity of weapons. I wonder if you have any connections?” Yang Fan asked.

Yang Fan could have asked Luo Chengfeng, but thinking that these were just low-tier weapons, there was no need to trouble his grandfather who was a deity, so he found this nominal guide instead.

“Yes, I have a friend whose Divine Kingdom focuses mainly on smelting weapons. If a Genius like Young Master Yang goes to purchase them, there are even discounts,” Zhan Yunxiao said hurriedly.

“Then I’ll have to trouble you to introduce us.”

“I’ll send him the coordinates right away.” Zhan Yunxiao opened the communication box and said.

Not long after, a pot-bellied, middle-aged big man teleported over to this place.

“Old Zhan, are you sure it’s a big business? You called me over so urgently.”

Although the other party looked like he weighed four or five hundred pounds and his body appeared extremely unhealthy, Yang Fan could sense the pressure emanating from him.

This person, just like Zhan Yunxiao, was a demigod powerhouse.

“Let me introduce you. This is Luo Tietie, possessing D-grade forging Aptitude, and he currently exclusively supplies weapons for the Luo Family.”

“This is Yang Fan, Young Master Yang. You shouldn’t be unfamiliar with him, right!”

Zhan Yunxiao introduced them to each other.

“Oh my goodness, so it’s Young Master Yang! Your name has been loud enough in the Luo Family lately. I heard the Family head even specially approved 500 million in funds for you. How promising and accomplished! My humble name is Luo Tietie, doing a bit of weapon business to make a living. If Young Master Yang doesn’t mind, you can call me Fatty Luo just like Old Zhan.” Luo Tietie’s face was squeezed into a smile.

The other party was so enthusiastic that Yang Fan felt somewhat unaccustomed to it, and hurriedly said, “I want to purchase weapons.”

“How many does Young Master Yang want!”

“20,000 sets of F-grade weapons, and 5 million sets of ordinary iron weapons.”

“Do you have any requirements for the weapons? Sabers, spears, swords, halberds, large hammers, or…”

“Anything is fine, but armor is a must.” Yang Fan thought about it.

“Simple. I’ll give you a discount on the 20,000 sets of F-grade weapons; 160 million will do. As for those 5 million sets of ordinary iron weapons, they cost practically nothing, so I’ll throw them in as a bonus. Let’s add each other as friends, and directly contact me in the future if Young Master Yang has any demands.” Luo Tietie was full of enthusiasm.

Hearing the other party’s quote, Yang Fan was also somewhat surprised in his heart.

This was quite a bit lower than he had estimated.

“Then many thanks. If I have any demands in the future, I will definitely look for you first,” Yang Fan said seriously.

Yang Fan directly transferred 160 million Faith Points, and the other party similarly delivered the goods on the spot.

The transaction completed, Yang Fan exchanged a few polite words and then left the Virtual World.

At this moment in the Luo Family’s stronghold, Zhan Yunxiao asked curiously, “Selling them so cheap, do you still make a profit?”

“Recently, the Family discovered a large-scale Ore vein at a new resource point, and the raw material cost has dropped quite a bit. There is still a profit to be made. Besides, isn’t this our first time doing business? For a Genius like this, once he becomes a demigod or even a deity in the future, won’t his consumption of weapons be an astronomical figure? A person’s vision still needs to be long-term. Having a long-term cooperative partner, even if the profit is thinner, is better than letting these scrap metals gather dust in the Divine Kingdom,” Luo Tietie explained.

“You’re still the one who knows how to do business.”

“You still need to learn how to deal with people. You guy tinkers with those crooked and Evil Path investments inside your Divine Kingdom every day; although the profits are high, the volume is too small.”

“Investment has risks; it’s still better to rely on one’s own believers. No matter how much they are squeezed, they won’t have any complaints.”

“Tch, believers are bound to our lives. The two of us are the same age, yet you look a whole circle older than me,” Luo Tietie couldn’t help reminding him.

“Who told me not to have the surname Luo!” A trace of melancholy flashed in Zhan Yunxiao’s eyes.

How could he not know the disadvantages of squeezing the Divine Kingdom’s resources, but without the Family as a backing, he simply didn’t have the qualifications to take risks and do business.