Chapter 67: Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monster Horde [67]

Inside the main cockpit of the spaceship, Rhodes sat in the captain's seat, staring at his 1.5 million system coins, feeling conflicted. Should he spend all the coins in the system shop on draws to acquire new monsters? Or should he use the million coins to upgrade the system shop? With over a million system coins, he could perform more than ten hundred-pulls. Alternatively, he could use the coins to directly upgrade his current small Pedan mothership to the highest mothership level, transforming it into a space fortress and gaining at least a hundred King Joe robots in the process. However, this current spaceship was more than sufficient for his needs—one might even say it was overkill. Although upgrading to the top-tier mothership would indeed provide a massive fleet of King Joe robots, they would all be in their unupgraded, basic forms. Furthermore, since these robots came as part of the mothership, they couldn't be enhanced. As for the ability to produce King Joe robots, it wasn't something magical. The mothership would require metal mining and a full complement of engineers and workers to manufacture them. What Rhodes would gain was simply a production line, not the ability to conjure King Joe robots out of thin air. Additionally, the combat power of these robots in space battles would be at their most basic level, and even their Pedanium guns would need to be equipped separately. After thinking it over for a moment, Rhodes decided to temporarily forgo upgrading the mothership. The current spaceship was still entirely adequate and didn't warrant an upgrade yet. If he chose to draw monster fragments, Rhodes estimated that his number of monsters would reach an impressive figure—at least twenty or more new monsters. However, the current beginner shop felt a bit underwhelming. The draw pool was too basic. The monsters he could obtain were mostly ordinary ones from the Showa and Heisei eras, with nothing particularly special. At best, the pool included ancient monsters, ultra-ancient monsters, some common cosmic monsters, and ordinary mechanical monsters. As for bug-tier Earth monsters, negative energy monsters, super beasts, dark giants, bio-monsters, or top-tier cosmic beings, they were entirely unavailable. At this stage, Rhodes didn't need these common monsters. To face the dangers of the Warhammer universe in the future, he would need more advanced monsters. There would be plenty of opportunities to earn system coins in the future, so what he needed to focus on now was improving the quality of his monsters. Gritting his teeth, Rhodes finally made up his mind to spend 1 million system coins to upgrade the system shop, raising the beginner shop to an intermediate level. A golden light enveloped the system shop as the beginner shop's logo transformed into that of an intermediate-level shop. The upgrade was complete, and the system even awarded Rhodes a mysterious gift box as a bonus for the upgrade. Rhodes set the mysterious gift box aside for now, deciding to save it for later. Eagerly, he began exploring the newly upgraded shop's features. First, in terms of monster draws, he could now acquire small boss-tier monsters that had appeared in TV series or powerful monsters from theatrical releases. However, the cost of intermediate-level draws had now cost ten times. A single draw, which previously cost 1,000 coins, now required 10,000 system coins. The old beginner-level draw option, costing 1,000 coins per pull, was still available. However, the monsters obtained from it were all low-tier. To draw more powerful monsters, he would have to use the intermediate-level draw option. The intermediate-level shop also introduced a new feature: the ability to directly purchase a specific monster. Rhodes could now view all the monsters in the beginner draw pool and spend 100,000 system coins to buy any one of them outright, eliminating the need for luck-based draws. As long as he had enough system coins, he could convert them directly into combat power. This feature was extremely convenient for Rhodes. If he urgently needed a specific monster to resolve a crisis or deal with an emergency, he could simply choose this option. Unfortunately, this 100,000-coin purchase option was limited to monsters in the beginner draw pool. Monsters from the intermediate draw pool required unlocking the advanced shop to enable targeted summoning. Upgrading to the advanced shop, however, came with a massive price tag—30 times the cost of the previous upgrade. He would need 30 million system coins to perform the upgrade. Before the upgrade, he had felt wealthy, but after the upgrade, he was suddenly back to feeling broke. It seemed like he would need to find the Tyranid Hive Fleet to borrow some coins—or perhaps have a friendly chat with the Chaos Daemons, Orks, or even the Necrons to secure more system coins for summoning monsters. Rhodes opened the beginner draw pool and took a look. Most of the options were normal monsters from the Showa series, mixed with some from the Heisei era and the newer generations. Overall, their combat abilities weren't particularly impressive. There wasn't a single one with bug-tier abilities or especially powerful combat strength. Bemstar was already one of the top-tier options in the pool. On the same level as Bemstar, there were cosmic monsters like Alien Icarus or the volcanic bird monster Birdon. Among the mechanical monsters, the strongest options were King Joe, Iron, and Mecha Ultra Brothers. A few monsters in the pool did catch Rhodes' eye, but he wasn't planning to spend 100,000 coins to buy any of them just yet. It didn't seem worth it at the moment.