Gensokyo's Dimensional Black Shop

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Even after he raised the temperature in his hand to the million level, the red-hot metal still maintained its original shape. At this point, Bai Ye also dropped his nonchalant expression.

"Adamantium alloy?"

"It should be, but it feels even more extreme than the adamantium I saw inside that beast's body. I wonder if Stryker made some modifications to its formula in subsequent experiments."

—Speaking of which, the identity of the person who happily ran back to rummage through the warehouse after hearing about the predicament that Bai Ye and Grey Wolf are currently facing is now very clear: Magneto Erik Lansheer, the interdimensional counterpart of the white-robed swordsman Gandalf.

Name: Primitive Adamantium Alloy

Type: Metal

"Attribute: None"

"Quality: Epic"

"Note: This strange artifact appeared in the world by a series of coincidences. The currently confirmed formula is vibranium + iron + a mysterious metal + other miscellaneous metals + the doctor's luck... By the way, what difference does it make whether we tell you the formula or not?"

"System, how can I reshape it?"

Although I feel that I can achieve the same result by increasing the temperature, why bother with so much effort when a problem can be solved with money?

Bai Ye chose the most convenient and safest method almost without hesitation...

"Molecular recombination can be performed, but the host needs to provide a certain temperature during molecular recombination, around 1,000 degrees Celsius is sufficient."

"about?"

"The specific value is 815.5555..."

"OK, let's begin." Bai Ye interrupted the endless loop of the number "5" in his mind.

Under Magneto's watchful gaze, Bai Ye, who had been stunned and silent after asking the name of the metal, suddenly made a second move. This time, the momentum was obviously not as exaggerated as the last time, but the adamantium alloy that had troubled him for decades actually turned into a pool of mercury-like liquid in Bai Ye's hands!

"No wonder he's the shopkeeper who can open his doors to countless worlds. He can even handle adamantium so easily?" Magneto thought to himself, watching Bai Ye playing with the liquid adamantium.

"Now that the 2.5 problem with the skeleton is solved, you can finally start designing a mecha that meets the requirements, right?"

"Don't worry, boss. As long as the materials are fine, I'll have no problem with this!"

"Very good." Bai Ye nodded slightly: "The person who commissioned this didn't make any specific requests, but we should still pay attention to the appearance, after all, she is a girl."

"Don't worry, boss, I'll have my wife help with the design. The buyer will definitely be satisfied." Grey Wolf gave a thumbs up and excitedly ran back into the portal.

Red Wolf's aesthetic sense... she's not going to equip the mecha with two frying pans, is she?

Silently cursing in his heart, Bai Ye turned to look at the true hero who solved this problem...

"Mr. Magneto, thank you for your help. Now it's my turn to ask... is there anything I can do to help you?"

Chapter 253 The Petty Guests

What's wrong...?

Upon hearing Bai Ye's question, Magneto hesitated.

To be honest, he was just passing by the Dimensional Shop today and wanted to visit Gandalf's place. After all, although he had led the Brotherhood of Mutants back after the war reached its climax, his contact with Gandalf's side had not been interrupted.

However, what had just happened made him think that delaying a little might not be so bad—

"Excuse me, store manager, do you have anything here that can contain metal without being detected?"

The reason he asked this question was not because he wanted to settle down and travel the world by train and plane like an ordinary person after being a thug for so long. It was mainly because his previous experience of being arrested still bothered him.

The US military might indeed be hesitant to act against him because of his reputation among mutants. Even if they captured him, they wouldn't do much to him, at most locking him up for a while, and who knows when he'd be released. However, things like Stryker experimenting on him before, once it happens, it will happen again and again.

If he had something that allowed him to carry around some metal, then even if he were to get agitated one day and decide to go to prison to calm down for a while, he wouldn't completely lose control.

With just a few cubic centimeters of metal on him, he was confident he could escape from any prison on Earth built specifically to mark the name "Magneto"!

After listening to Magneto's story, Bai Ye suddenly realized that the old man's demands... how to put it, were not only not high, but in fact, ridiculously low.

"So you need a storage device that can pass through security without being detected by the metal detector after you've changed your clothes from head to toe, right?" Bai Ye stroked his chin, summarizing the old man's requirements, and said.

“This is it.” Magneto nodded, clearly pleased with Bai Ye’s neat arrangement.

"I do have a lot of storage items here, but most of them are decorations like rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. Even if I gave you a crystal one, if you were really in a prison specifically prepared for you, I doubt I'd let you take it in. You don't deny that, do you, old man?"

"That's true, especially after I used the necklace to escape from prison once. Every time I went to prison, I had to change all the things I had on me. A few times when I came out, I would lose a few things."

Bai Ye's lips twitched slightly.

That familiar tone... does it mean you treat prison like your own home or something? And as a prisoner, how come you managed to take everything that was confiscated when you went in after escaping? Are you sure you went to a prison and not some private entertainment club with professional bodyguards?

You should apologize properly to those wardens whose dignity you've thrown to the ground and trampled on, you old geezer!

"Since everything will be handed over anyway, I can only choose something like a mark... If it's a tattoo, they can't possibly arrange for someone to remove it for you, can they?"

“...Very likely.” After a few seconds of contemplation, Magneto gave an answer that left Bai Ye speechless.

"Then we'll have to try this, unless they lock you up with the same level of force as Professor X."

Shaking his head slightly, Bai Ye projected a screen in front of Magneto.

Name: Soul Space

Type: Permanent Skill

"Attribute: Space"

Quality: Perfect

"Note: Death is like the wind, always by my side... Sorry, wrong show. I'm just a portable space that's not even a big deal for the protagonist, sob sob~"

"This is...?" Magneto, who had initially trusted Bai Ye, finally hesitated after seeing the conspicuous "waaaaa".

What's with this little tail that makes you want to grab it?!

"Well, although the nickname is often erratic, this ability is still pretty good. And most importantly, it's directly bound to your soul. Unless your soul is torn apart, no one else can even think about prying into what you store in your space." Without even asking, Bai Ye knew that this habitually erratic nickname had once again "made a contribution" for him.

Fortunately, Bai Ye's reputation had always been solid, at least in Magneto's eyes, so after hesitating for a few seconds, he nodded and turned his attention to another crucial question.

How big is this soul space?

"I can't really say for sure. Soul space, as the name suggests, is really determined by your soul, or to put it more elegantly, your spiritual power. The stronger your spiritual power, the larger the space you can create... Anyway, I tried it once and it felt pretty big."

Magneto: "..."

I'm not surprised you think it's big, after all, you're probably even more exaggerated than Charles in terms of mental strength, but the most important thing now is how big this space will be after I buy it!

"Actually, you don't need to care so much. Since it's just storing a few small steel balls without being detected, even if you can put the Earth in it, it won't be of much use..." Sensing Magneto's intention, Bai Ye thought for a moment and expressed his opinion: "Uh, it seems like we can put a planet in it and smash a planet if we don't like someone."

Ultimately, Magneto had no choice but to decide to give it a try...

After heeded Bai Ye's advice and gave up resisting, accepting the white light, he found himself in a perfectly square space, just as Bai Ye had described. The entire space was under his control, only slightly smaller.

"So how big exactly is 'not very big'?"

"About a dozen cubic meters." Magneto's confidence was clearly lacking when he said this, and he quickly changed the subject: "How much... how much of that Origin Coin does this Soul Space require?"

"..."

"Keep it. This is the price of that piece of Adamantium alloy. I've already deducted the amount from my soul space." After staring at him for a while, Bai Ye handed over a card with neat and orderly numbers that looked quite convincing.

but……

"Is a piece of alloy really worth that much?" Magneto remarked.

"I mainly wanted something rare, and your Adamantium alloy also helped me close a big deal." Bai Ye shook his head slightly.

Compared to Yuuka Kazami's transactions, which were in the hundreds of millions, I felt that customers like Grey Wolf and Magneto were a bit stingy... even though Grey Wolf was deliberately trying to lower the price.

A flash of light appeared on the portal...The Warring States period?

Hmm~ Petty customer +1

Chapter 254 A Second Visit to the Sunflower Field

As before, Sengoku sold a few fruits and then bought a bunch of miscellaneous items. The scene made Byakuya think that this guy's real job was actually a naval babysitter...

Uh, actually it doesn't seem to be that much different?

That night, around 11 p.m., Marisa, having done something at the Hakurei Shrine, finally arrived in the Human Village and took Alice's mage outfit.

Whether it was Alice's quirky sense of humor or a coincidence, Bai Ye was surprised to find that the revamped mage set was extremely similar in appearance to the one Marisa had worn before. Unless one was very familiar with Marisa, an ordinary person would definitely not be able to recognize it.

Over the next few days, everything proceeded smoothly. Apart from meeting a few guests he was interested in and Grey Wolf returning midway to retrieve a bunch of mithril and primitive adamantium, Bai Ye spent his time playing games. Thank goodness, the online friend who had disappeared for a long time after getting a computer finally came online!

On this day, Bai Ye was bored and was running around the newbie village with his alt account when a dusty figure ran out of the portal.

"Boss, boss, great news! The mecha you asked me to build is finally finished!" Gray Wolf's voice came over before his own men even arrived.

"It's finished so quickly?" Bai Ye looked up in surprise. "Didn't you say you'd have at least half a month?"

Because Kazami Yuuka required both melee and ranged magic cannon capabilities, the mecha looks quite complex from the blueprints. At least, Bai Ye wouldn't dare say that he could build one himself even with the blueprints.

"The main thing is that the adamantium you gave me was already melted down, and mithril is also very malleable, making it much simpler to work with than I imagined." Grey Wolf subtly flattered Bai Ye, then continued, "As before, I've camouflaged the mechs and placed them outside the Wolf Castle. When are you going to pick them up, boss?"

“…Now then.” Bai Ye stood up and looked around: “Although this buyer has a rather laid-back personality, we’ve already received the money, so let’s hand over the goods as soon as possible and get it over with.”

"Alright." Grey Wolf nodded.

Although he did not know who the buyer was.

……

Green grassland, an open space outside Wolf Castle.

After Grey Wolf removed the disguise from the mecha, a giant silver-white mecha, over thirty meters tall, appeared before Bai Ye's eyes.

"Well, because the materials you provided, boss, exceeded my budget, and both of them at the same time, I slightly increased the size." Noticing a hint of surprise in Bai Ye's eyes, Grey Wolf quickly said, "S~BAXA, this mech's performance will only be better than the previous ones, whether in terms of attack power, defense, or maximum operating time!"

"These things don't matter, as long as the performance is up to par." Bai Ye shrugged indifferently.

In any case, neither Byakuya nor Kazami Yuuka are the type of people who would fuss over such trivial details.

Name: Mech (Unnamed)

Type: (Pseudo) Technological Creation

"Attribute: None"

"Quality: Epic"

"Note: This mech, made from raw adamantium and mithril and created by a mad scientist, has reached a certain pinnacle in terms of attack, defense, and agility."

Huh?

Surprisingly, no one complained in the notes this time?

A hint of surprise flashed in Bai Ye's eyes. He and Grey Wolf exchanged information and put the unnamed mecha into a card.

As for why it wasn't named, to be honest, it all started with the custom-made version for Mokou and that princess. After all, it was an exclusive custom version that cost a lot of money, and it's unlikely that it will be sold to a second person in the future. So, the naming right was just a favor.

After returning to the shop with the mecha, Bai Ye gave instructions to Alter Jeanne who was staying at the shop, and then hurriedly went to the sunflower field across the street...

Okay, Yuuka Kazami isn't here.

Recently, she hasn't been giving Bai Ye the same cold, flirtatious look she used to. Instead, she'll occasionally sit across the street and wait for the rare customer, whose chances of visiting are even slimmer than those in a dimensional shop, to come and spend (or cause trouble).

Buying flowers at a place like Sunflower Shop is basically like inviting a tyrant home for those weaklings who can't even last a round against Yuuka Kazami.

After silently muttering a complaint, Bai Ye got up and headed towards the sunflower field—she hadn't had high hopes of finding the little flower on the other side, so she wasn't particularly disappointed.

……

"It's over so quickly?"

Upon hearing Bai Ye's explanation of her purpose at the sunflower field, Yuuka Kazami's face showed a very brief expression of surprise.

It's true that she's indifferent and doesn't have much of a concept of money, but she's not so clueless about life as to be completely clueless. Just look at the expression on Yakumo Yukari's face when she stingily took 100 million from her a while ago, and you can guess how outrageous the amount of Origin Coins you prepared for a mecha that suits your taste is.

However... given Bai Ye's character, he wouldn't just find some random, mass-produced item to fool him, would he?

"Let's take a look first." After thinking for a while, Kazami Yuuka decided to let the facts speak for themselves. Once the mecha is out, it will be clear whether Byakuya tricked her or not.

"Excellent." Bai Ye rarely showed off his knowledge by using an ancient Chinese phrase.

As she crushed the card and released the armor, the moment Kazami Yuuka saw that tall figure, she thought of the super-large mecha produced under the contract that she had blasted into dust with a single magic cannon shot... I digress.

"You still remember my two requests, right?" Turning her gaze away from the mecha, Kazami Yuuka looked back at Byakuya.

“Of course.” Bai Ye nodded.

"That's good." Yuuka Kazami nodded in agreement.