Not to mention anything else, the mere presence of five warships is already a significant figure, considering even before the cataclysm, China had a limited number of warships—it’s not like those pleasure boats in tourist lakes that are available in whatever quantity you desire.

When he had a moment, Zachary glanced at the people he had sent to the Realm of the Undead, where there was no need to mention the dead bodies; as soon as they fell in, they were devoured by the Undead emerging from the earth.

As for the living who fell into the Realm of the Undead, they thought they had entered the Mysterious Realm and observed their surroundings with great caution. Seeing the Undead continuously crawling out of the dirt only confirmed their belief that they had unwittingly entered the Mysterious Realm.

After all, the current situation was not very different from their usual experiences of entering the Mysterious Realm, so although they were initially panicked upon entering the Realm of the Undead, most of them quickly regained their composure.

While those people suspected their predicament was related to Zachary, they did not associate their current location as being entirely under his control.

As the number of discovered oddities continued to rise, Storage space artifacts, though not yet in everyone’s hands, were no longer rare.

Anyone with a bit of money or status willing to pay a certain price could get their hands on a Storage space artifact. Even if the space inside the artifact wasn’t very large, it was still a type of space artifact.

Among the Martial Artists Zachary sent into the Realm of the Undead, some were relatively powerful, but even the strongest among them didn’t possess the ability to shatter the void.

So even though some Martial Artists seemed to be holding their own against the Undead Creatures, exchanging blows and even gaining the upper hand, facing Undead that could replenish their death energy and fight tirelessly, the inevitable outcome for those Martial Artists was clear.

Considering this, Zachary no longer paid attention to the situation inside the Realm of the Undead. After dealing with the remnants, he continued to pilot the Companion Spiritual Treasure towards the Magic City Base No. 3.

At this point, Zachary was no longer interested in the Mysterious Cores produced by medium and small-sized Mysterious Ships. After wrapping up with the remnants, he once again piloted the Companion Spiritual Treasure to dive and travel through the shallows.

Once submerged, Zachary didn’t restrict the size of the Companion Spiritual Treasure any longer, and instantly a massive shadow appeared underwater.

Although Zachary hadn’t noted the exact number of Mysterious Cores he obtained from selling supplies at the Magic City Base, a rough estimate suggested that the quantity he received this time was no less than before, certainly exceeding one hundred thousand.

For this reason, even though the Companion Spiritual Treasure’s growth from devouring low-level Mysterious Cores was minimal, the sheer number made up for it.

However, despite consuming so many Mysterious Cores, the Companion Spiritual Treasure hadn’t reached the limit of growth for this phase.

Given its current size, he estimated it wasn’t far from the limit, but at the rate of growth obtained from consuming Mysterious Cores, it would still need to consume a considerable amount of the lowest-level cores if it was only those being devoured.

Thanks to the guidance of the locator, Zachary encountered no trouble on the way this time.

As he neared Magic City Base No. 3, Zachary once again controlled the Companion Spiritual Treasure to shrink in size before surfacing and slowly approaching the base.

From the environment around Magic City Base No. 3, it was clear to see the disparity between it and Magic City Base No. 1.

Just as when he left last time, the perimeter of Magic City Base No. 3 was still filled with many small Companion Spiritual Treasure rafts, whose sole purpose was to disperse the lowest-level aquatic creatures and deter them from coming close.

Meanwhile, at Magic City Base No. 1, the enormous daily traffic meant there was no need to set up such rafts specifically to disperse aquatic creatures.

However, unlike last time when he had to contact the base in advance to gain entry, several passages leading to the base were now reserved, requiring no prior notification.

After smoothly entering the Inner Harbor, Zachary was about to turn off the navigation on his tablet and stow it away into the Storage space. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

But what he hadn’t expected was that just as he took out the tablet and was about to turn off the navigation, he discovered that the device had automatically connected to the base’s internal network.

Previously, when Zachary left, he was uncertain whether it was because the internal network wasn’t set up or because he had left in a hurry without learning about it—regardless, he hadn’t known that a local network existed here.

As for the local network, Zachary initially learned about it when he purchased the tablet, more specifically, about those money-grubbing Apps.

Curious, Zachary checked the notification displayed on the tablet. After connecting to Magic City Base No. 3, the tablet opened a new page that displayed Apps exclusive to Magic City Base No. 3.

From the information on the tablet, Zachary understood that it worked like an ancient pass, automatically connecting to the internal local network of any new base he arrived at.

And once connected to the base’s local network, a new page would appear, as if flipping through a smartphone, displaying Apps exclusive to the internal network of that specific base.

Zachary never imagined that in this day and age, a tablet would work like an ancient pass, revealing a unique App page only upon arrival at a particular location.