Chapter 94: The Ultimate Mount

“Huh?” Chen Yun froze. He glanced at the assortment of plush dolls in the shop, then said awkwardly, “Sorry, I didn’t look closely enough.”

Once outside, he took another look around and finally realized that the stores in the toy wholesale market were not the way he had imagined them to be. It was not a place where any shop sold everything under the sun. They were divided by category: stuffed dolls, plastic toys, electric toys, and so on.

“How strange. Why does the supermarket sell every kind of toy, while this place is divided so specifically?” Chen Yun shook his head and chose a larger shop with toy motorcycles displayed outside. It was a specialty shop for mounts.

There were quite a few customers in the store. Chen Yun figured it would be a while before his turn came, so he wandered around inside.

After looking for a bit, he discovered something: even mounts of the same level differed in quality, attributes, and appearance.

“Ordinary toy motorcycle: Level 3 white mount. Speed +200 percent. Durability 150/150. Price: 40 copper coins.”

“Fine toy motorcycle: Level 3 green mount. Speed +220 percent. Durability 200/200. Price: 1 silver coin.”

“Exquisite toy motorcycle: Level 3 blue mount. Speed +260 percent. Skill attached: acceleration. Durability 350/350. Price: 1 gold coin.”

“Sci-fi toy motorcycle: Level 3 purple mount. Speed +400 percent. Skills attached: teleportation, flight, missile bombardment. Durability 600/600. Price: 1 purple gold coin. Purchase requires the maker’s consent.”

Looking at the description of the last motorcycle, Chen Yun clicked his tongue in amazement. Good heavens, a motorcycle with teleportation? The system had really gone all out this time. But what did that last sentence mean? Weren’t all these toys made on assembly lines in factories? Was he supposed to trek all the way to the factory just to ask who made this toy?

And then...

“One purple gold coin? Too expensive. I’m not the same as before; I have to spend purple gold coins carefully now. Anyway, since I’m training proficiency, even the best motorcycle would end up scrapped. I’d better buy the cheapest one.” Chen Yun thought to himself. “I’d better wait until I’ve learned level-four driving skill before I choose a really awesome car.”

Seeing that most of the customers in the store had already left, Chen Yun walked up to the counter and said to the shop owner, who was busy with his head down, “Boss, give me five hundred of the most ordinary toy motorcycles. The kind that cost forty copper coins.”

“Wait a moment. Coming right up.” The owner did not move and kept working with his head down.

Chen Yun was baffled. Were shopkeepers really this arrogant these days? Making customers wait? Weren’t they afraid the customer would just leave?

“At last, it’s done. This is my most satisfying work so far!” The owner finally stood up in satisfaction, set aside a toy car with an extremely sci-fi appearance, and turned to fetch the toys Chen Yun wanted.

Chen Yun did not move. He stared fixedly at the car, his whole body trembling, his eyes gleaming green.

“Sky War Vehicle. Level 4 upgradable pink mount. Can be controlled by thought. Control range: 5,000 meters. A three-terrain mount for sea, land, and air. Speed adjustable from 0 to 2,000 percent by the player’s will. Skills attached: transformation, extreme-speed flight, never break, energy shield, laser beam, barrage bombardment, automatic invisibility, self-destruction. Durability MAX/MAX. Price unknown.”

Transformation: the player can freely switch between normal form and battle form at will. Normal form includes ocean form, land form, and flight form. Battle form includes normal battle form and transformed battle form. The transformed battle form can become a 100-meter-tall, 1,600-ton robot car, with its specific appearance modeled after Optimus Prime. Attributes in transformed battle form equal all of the player’s attributes multiplied by 1,000. Duration: 10 minutes.

Extreme-speed flight: current speed multiplied by 5, lasts 20 seconds, consumes 5 percent of the player’s total mana per second. Cooldown: 10 minutes.

Never break: under normal use, durability is not consumed.

Energy shield: automatic skill. When attacked, it automatically generates a shield that can absorb physical or magical damage equal to 50 times the player’s health. After use, it must recharge for 5 hours before it can be used again.

Laser beam: active skill. Fires a laser to attack an enemy. Damage equals the player’s magic attack power multiplied by 5. Mana cost: 100. Cooldown: 1 minute.

Barrage bombardment: active skill. Fires 100 miniature bombs within 1 second, attacking all enemies within a 100-meter by 100-meter area. Each bomb deals damage equal to 0.8 times the player’s magic attack. Mana cost: 200. Cooldown: 2 hours.

Automatic invisibility: automatic skill. When the mount is flying in the air, it automatically enters stealth mode. No one below level 1 celestial cultivator can detect it. Consumes 1 mana point per minute. No cooldown.

Self-destruction: if the mount takes more than 1,000,000 points of damage within 24 hours, it will throw the player off, lock onto the enemy, and trigger self-destruction, dealing damage equal to the same amount. One-time skill. The mount disappears after self-destruction.

God, what was he seeing?

Chen Yun was overjoyed. This level-four mount was absurdly overpowered, pink-rank, upgradable, and came with eight skills. It was practically a divine ride made for him alone! With this car, his strength would multiply by dozens of times! Especially that upgradable feature, and the ability to transform into Optimus Prime, it was ridiculously powerful!

You had to know that in games, the rarest mounts all shared one defining trait: they could grow. Growth meant infinite potential. It meant the potential to become a god!

He had to have it. Absolutely had to.

“Boss, how much for this car? I want it!” Chen Yun blurted out.

“Which one?” The owner turned around and saw Chen Yun pointing at the work he had just finished. He immediately shook his head. “That one isn’t for sale.”

What? Not for sale? Chen Yun grew anxious. “Boss, I absolutely love this car. Money is not the issue. You have to sell it to me.”

“Not for sale.” The owner’s tone left no room for negotiation.

“Damn it...” Chen Yun was on the verge of losing it. Why was this owner so stubborn? To others, it might just be an ordinary toy, but to him, this was an absolute top-tier mount!

“Boss, forget the toys for a second. Sit down and let’s talk this through. I really love this car. Tell me, what would it take for you to give it to me? I’ll agree to any condition!” Chen Yun eagerly pulled up a chair for the owner, then pressed him into it and cajoled him with a fawning smile.

“Uh...” The owner was confused. It was just a toy that looked a little better than the rest. Was it really worth wanting this badly? If it weren’t for the fact that this was my best work so far, seeing how pitiful you look, maybe I would have given it to you.

“Kid, it’s not that I won’t sell it to you. It’s that this piece is my best work at the moment. I want to keep it as a memento. I’m truly sorry. But I have many other pieces. You can look at the others. Whichever one you like, I can give it to you. How about that?” The owner pulled out a box of his personal works from behind the counter. Chen Yun glanced at it; the best among them was only a purple-quality toy airplane, which he wouldn’t even be able to use if he took it.

“Boss, I only like this one of yours. Please, sell it to me. Name any price you want, and I won’t bargain!” Chen Yun said firmly.

“What kind of person are you? I’ve already told you I’m not selling it.” The owner was exasperated. This was the first time he had ever seen someone so unyielding.

“Kid, how about this? Come back in two days, and I’ll make you one exactly the same as this one. How about that?”

At that, Chen Yun shook his head. He was a seasoned gamer. He knew that only the first version of something made was the best. Even if the owner made another one identical to this later, its quality and attributes would definitely not be as good as this one.