Previously, when he was on the helicopter, he had inspected the storage rings he looted from the dark elves of the Ixitus Empire. However, due to the tiny space, he couldn't take them out.

And now that he is in his room with enough space, Mark took the semi-divine weapons (bows) one after another before transferring them directly to the inventory.

The semi-divine weapons have their own consciousness like the wild beasts. Without the owners, they act like wild beasts too, running away or attacking the people nearby.

The Doom Scythe was the perfect example of that. It is why Mark didn't bother to inspect them in his room but sent them to the inventory directly before checking out their details.

They are 6 in number and five of them are in Diamond grade and the other in Crystal grade if one were to evaluate them using the system's grading method. None of them is much useful to Mark and he intended to dismantle them for credits. At his present stage, any weapon less than mithril grade (divine grade/low quality-heaven grade) is useless.

He already has the Doom Scythe to upgrade and with the scarcity of the upgrade stones, he wasn't sure he can afford to upgrade other semi-divine weapons. Not to mention, there are also charges to reset the memory of their respective consciousness.

Why bother when he can just sell them and make money? Hence, he decided to opt for the same route.

However, it wasn't just the semi-divine weapons that were inside the storage rings. There were hundreds of thousands of coins and bars in each of them.

And the most surprising thing is that they looked like gold coins but actually aren't.

When he was in the helicopter and inspecting them, Mark thought that they were gold coins as the coins were yellow in color. But, only now did he realize that their color was off.

Upon inspecting them through Sage Eyes, Mark discovered that they are Orichalcum coins, made of Orichalcum, a yellow-colored metal alloy that is made of 80% copper and other unknown metals.

Usually, their value should be lower than gold but the system rated them far higher. According to the mining function, 1 gm of Orichalcum is priced at 20 gold coins.

So, what made them so special?

The metal alloy can absorb natural energy from its surroundings. It's that very ability that made Orichalcum put at a higher price even though its durability is far lower than steel or even iron, forget about titanium.

With each coin weighing 11.2 gm, Mark calculated the total gains after transferring all of them to the inventory.

"Hmm, I gained over 762k Orichalcum coins from all of those storage rings and that would mean a little more than 8500 kg of Orichalcum in possession. It is worth 170 million gold coins. That's like 32 million credits, enough for me to upgrade the missile defense system to Mythril grade."

Mark was on high clouds, feeling lucky to get showered by millions of gold coins one after another. But, the system appears to have different plans.

Even before he asked, it sent him a notification, pouring water on his happiness.

*Ding! The system cannot purchase raw materials no matter the kind. Hence, the host cannot sell it to the system and earn something in return.

"That's 170 million, you fucking bastard." Mark couldn't control his emotions upon learning that he cannot earn the money from Orichalcum coins. But then again, his reaction should be obvious. After all, who would be able to keep calm even after reading such a notification?

However, will the system care about his feelings? Obviously, it won't. As soon as Mark cursed the system, it punished him with a high voltage current shock, enough for him to feel the pain but less than what it needed to hurt his physical body.

Followed by the punishment, the system gave a serious warning.

*Ding! The host kept on ignoring the system's policy on obscene language aimed at it. The next time will be followed by a penalty in the form of credits or a mandatory emergency quest with no rewards.

After receiving an electric shock, Mark felt like all of his stamina got drained away. He grumbled, "I will get back at you, one day."

*Ding! The host is already doing that by taking advantage of the loophole and illegally earning millions.

Mark no longer tried to argue with the system and put his attention on the worthless coins. "I guess the best way is to melt them and use the Orichalcum to produce ether weapons. But, to determine their usage, I might have to perform tests on their durability, hardness, reaction with other alloys, melting point, etc Without studying it properly, I cannot waste such precious material. If I can figure out the process behind its bonding with the natural energy, it will be a breakthrough for my ether weapons.

Anyway, let's put aside the matter and focus on the other items."

Mark then fixed his eyes on the bunch of arrows placed on the floor. He separated them based on the color of their arrowheads. All of them are also rare and expensive materials.

Some are made of Herculean steel, some are made of Damascus tungsten, some are made of obsidian, and a couple of them are even made of mithril metal. Overall, there are about 142 in number.

All of them are ungraded items but their sharpness, hardness, and penetration ability made them powerful enough to even injure Supreme realm experts as long as the archer can shoot them at high speed.

For Mark, those arrows are useless but the materials of their arrowheads are a different story. Compared to all the rewards, their worth isn't much but if one considers availability, then, Mark indeed has a fortuitous encounter.

After placing different types of arrows in different inventory slots, Mark dismantled the storage rings, destroying the other useless items placed in them. The six storage rings netted him about 1658 credits, which isn't much to pay attention to.

"Okay, there's still time for the zheng to heal up. So, let's shop around. I can't experience those near-to-death situations ever again even if I have to spend money on them. I will have to upgrade my defenses."

He proceeded to open the system's store. As the system hasn't upgraded to level-6 yet, there were still categories that are grayed out. He then clicked on skills.

*Elemental* *Miscellaneous*

Mark clicked on miscellaneous as they don't have any attribute restriction. It was further divided into five sections.

*Beginner* *Intermediate* *Advanced* *Peak* *Unique*

All beginner skills are priced at 100 credits and the price increase 10 times as the quality moves up. In the end, the unique skills are equally priced at 1 million credits.

With more than 24.5 million credits in the account, Mark felt like he could afford to buy one or two, keeping the rest for the missile defense system.

Anyway, upon clicking on unique skills, two more options appeared.

*Active* *Passive*

"Hmm Active skills like the thunderblast are good, but at the moment, I need to look for automatic defense skills that can protect me from any kind of ambush. Not to mention, cooldown timer sucks."

Mark went to the passive skills section. There are about 25 skills listed of which 10 are offensive, 10 are defensive, and 5 are supportive type. He carefully read the description of each skill.

Of them, three impressed him the most, well, atleast, they were useful in the present situation.

The first one is Enhanced Durability. Basically, it increases the body's toughness to receive less incoming damage. It has over 99 levels with each level corresponding to a 1% additional damage reduction. And guess what, the skill can easily be upgraded to higher levels through credits.

It means that as long as he has money, he can increase his defense. Of course, one can expect the costs will be damn huge.

Still, Mark felt like he needed it. Money can be earned, not life. He bought it without hesitation.

*Ding! 1 million credits are deducted. You purchased the "Enhanced Durability" skill.

The second one that impressed him is a simple but powerful passive skill. It is called "Ether Regeneration." This ability will let the user recover the ether energy at a faster rate.

Unlike the others, Mark depends heavily on the skills that use a high amount of ether energy as he doesn't possess any fighting skills on his own. Hence, recovering the ether energy at a faster rate will help him greatly to use more techniques.

*Ding! 1 million credits are deducted. You purchased the "Ether Regeneration" skill.

And for the final passive skill, he chose something that neither gives him any boost in any stats nor that can be used to hurt the enemy but is still very unique and powerful.