Mining out the adamantite produced less than a hundred tons of ore, and was less than sufficient.
The Soul Dust minerals were in even lower quantity, but the glove said they should nearly suffice to heal the sick Elf King.
Pef headed towards the next adamantite deposit, hoping for a repeat. But that planet had even less adamantite, and no Red Dust.
He gritted his teeth and headed towards the next place and the next. In total, he obtained 200 tons of adamantite, which matched what he managed to buy from the demon's galaxy.
Not nearly enough.
A few avatars began smelting and shaping the violet-blackish metal into torso size armor plates. He could boost the local Legion regiment with some better armor this way, once he returned to them.
Even unwarded, the adamantite plates were durable enough to withstand a full strength punch from him.
Not the voidswords however, nor the voidcutter skill. Only the warded blue stones could do that, and he had only about 10 kilograms of Blue Jade.
'What if I slice these blue jade into scales and apply them as extra armor on top of my armor?' he wondered idly.
'Sure, try that. At least a millimeter thickness and inscribed with defensive wards. You might have enough for a dozen armor reinforcements. Should cover your immediate family.' the glove accepted in a careless voice.
Already grimacing at the incoming ordeal, Pef drew Nellie inside his inner world, to eat more Godbeast meat and drink voidwine.
Outside, the shower of lightning tribulations fell on Pef, while he sped towards the next galaxy, still trying to find a larger adamantite source.
A dozen of avatars were carefully portioning the Blue Jade Stones into thin slices, using the voidcutter skill.
A dozen more were inscribing the smallest crystal nodules with inscriptions, and then sent them out to parry the Heavenly Punishment. This also helped the nodules grow slightly larger, thus giving them extra material to work with, for later.
Pef searched a dozen galaxies for adamantite, or other valuable resource but found only small deposits.
In a week he barely gathered 400 tons, which made him appreciate the adamantite's value even more.
However, in the next galaxy he got lucky. There were actually two merging galaxies, and their cores were grinding at each other with huge gravitational waves.
'The whole ellipse of shattered stars and planets if full of adamantite dust. Go collect it.' the glove told him in a gleeful voice.
'When you mean full, you mean a billion tons?' Pef asked suspiciously.
'Probably a million tons, or so. Which quantity is your wife's mission anyway.' The adviser replied with a smirk.
Pef sighed and Blinked towards the gravitational smasher. However, when he got closer, the void became harder and harder to bend, and his Blinks became shorter and shorter.
By the time he arrived in the debris belt, Pef was exhausted. The lightning torrent didn't help either.
Sure, the blue jade helped mitigate the tribulation, but thousands of punishments took their toll.
The only good thing was the Dao of Lightning increasing from this once again, reaching 14 percent.
This was enough for Pef to develop his Lightning Domain, and gain control instinctive of electricity, much like he had over Void and Water. The Tribulations became easier to bear, by a small margin.
The Fire Domain remained the last and weakest of them, since cooking and clones weren't practice enough to gain a substantial increase.
Yet, Pef didn't want or need full enlightenment over all the elements, nor did he have time to cultivate everything.
There were too many Daos under heaven, and he didn't even have a single one bought to completion.
For now, Pef focused on the task, collecting the entire dust ellipse into the glove, leaving the task of separating elements and ordering them neatly into blocks of chemical elements on the storage shelves, to his overpowered assistant.
The task was long and slow, as travel was difficult so close to the galactic cores colliding.
A decade passed before he managed to collect everything, and by that time his inner avatars had finished upgrading his Yama armor, and started crafting a similar one for Nellie.
His wife was growing rapidly with his aid, and also helping him train in mindforce, getting additional skills, even memory reading and writing. The Red Dust infusions helped him raise the qi purity a bit, as well.
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As Pef departed towards the demon galaxy he glanced at the status pages to observe the changes.
Of course, the glove was never satisfied, but Pef felt a small accomplishment, especially when comparing the page with older ones.
Veritas Legion Adjutant-User data file
Name: Pef Xi
Alias: Monarch, Emperor, Saint, God, Legion, Count, Veritas.
Rank: Local universe CIC, Legion: Soldier
OS: Standard Veritas Legion Indoctrination method: compatibility 1.314
Race: Physical God, Tier 4 (improved +55%)
Body stats:
-Strength : 15 685. (Physical God bonus +50%)
-Agility : 17 988. (Physical God bonus +50%)
-Endurance : 14 375. (Physical God bonus +50%. Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000)
-Intelligence : 327. (Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000)
-Wisdom : 189. (Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000)
-Charisma : 957. (charm +9%)
-Qi reserves: 28 547 000.
Cultivation stats:
-Spiritual affinity: Water 32%, Sword 55%, Void 36%, Fire 9%, Wind 3%, Thunder 15%, Metal 6%, Earth 5%, Life 6%, Entropy 2%, Order 2%, Chaos 2%. (Yin and Yang, Creation and Destruction under 1%)
-Core size: Galactic. (9.998 cms radius)
-Core inner volume: Cluster. (Two main galaxies, 16 dwarf galaxies. Total worlds: 1.9 trillion)
-Qi purity: 35%. (~1% trans dimensional injection)
-Soul Aspect: Silver. (Combat/Control/Command affinity)
-Soul defense: 8686. +90% bonus (open meridians 1+11)
-Soul attack: 4424. +10% bonus
-Sword Ki abilities: 55%. (One with the Void: stage 1 12% 1200 controlled swords)
-Water Dao abilities: 32%. (Greater Water Domain, ~93000 kms radius)
-Lightning Dao ability 15%.(Large Lightning Domain, ~25000 kms radius)
-Fire Dao abilities: 9%. (Large Fire Domain, ~9200 kms radius)
-Void abilities: 36%. Blink radius: 16 trillion kms// 22 per sec, Voidsplitter skill 5%, Recall radius: 900 000 kms.
-Voidsense, minor. Void palms and claws: ~1200 under control - size 45 cms each.
Divine stats:
- Ki sense: Galactic (~2 million light-years radius. Secure qi transmissions 40 thousand light years.)
- coresense: Gigantic. (~4 light-years kms radius)
- telekinetic field: Average. Range 6 meters (Divine strings manipulation: 81%, Gravity generation: 56%, Quasi strings: 4%)
- add-ons: Icesword rune.
- sword intent: Average (Swordforce: stage 4, 55%)
- transmutation/alteration: Huge. (water Mastery, fog and ice: stage 8, plasma: stage 5, condensation: stage 7)
- divination: Minor/???. (danger sense, trans dimensional injection)
- heartforce: Average. (Diamond Heart stage 3. 84%)
- karmic luck: Medium. (Minor reincarnation, trace memories, Realm allies, non-causal scars)
- logopedic Dao ability: Medium: 4 words (Legion, Truth, Faith, Reason) (Devour Dao: Soul digestion stage 4, 11%, Soul restoration 9%)
- mindforce: Greater: 74% (shield level 3, maze level 3, pulse level 2, flay level 2, memory read/write level 1).
- Extra abilities: water clone: stage 8, Ice wings, Ice armor, fire clone: stage 7, dojutsu: stage 4 (helix spike), Clone fusion stage 2. Voidbeasts under training: 101.
Pef read the glove's image of him with an inner smile. Nothing was negligible or minimal anymore.
'Why do you have those question marks next to my divination?' he asked a bit annoyed.
'It's because I don't have an explanation in my database. Those hunches of yours. And I know for certain you aren't an oracle. Too stupid for that.' the glove answered in a serious tone.
Pef nodded in agreement. 'When I reach Tier 7, I should have at least 1000 Intelligence and Wisdom, right?'
The glove remained silent, which didn't bode well.
Pef sighed and focused to speed up his Blinks even more. Travelling by teleportation was easy enough due to his coresense, which helped him arrive in a safe location, while the new voidsense helped him path the less resistant parts of the void, thus increasing the length of each jump.
It was similar to navigating a ship, steering towards the deep blue waters instead of the yellow or green seas which might be too shallow.
Nellie was treated with a lavish meal by his avatar, and then they sat on the beach and just watched the inner stars, sharing childhood stories and a bottle of godwine.
By the next day, Pef arrived in the demon galaxy, and sent Nellie home to tend to her father.
He headed towards the galactic Tingel Arm, eager to deal with the Eyeless and their shadow Seer backer.