Online Game: Low Drop Rate? I Have a Guaranteed Drop System!-Chapter 222: Occupying the Spiritual Stone Mine, Dark Golden Golem’s Attribute Awakening

"So, the Skye Shield really can’t be found?" Johnnie was worried. If Skye learned about this, he’d probably tear him limb from limb.

Coco could only sigh. "I’m afraid it’ll be really hard to get it back. Sir, you’d better not let Lord Skye know about this—he’s petty as hell and treats his weapon like a priceless treasure."

Sigh!

Johnnie let out a sigh in his heart. He didn’t need Coco to remind him, but could this really be kept from Skye?

Looks like he’d have to find a way to recover the Skye Shield.

He stopped stressing over it, then gathered up the divine essence and absorbed both the god-level Energy Core and the Spatial Spiritual Stone.

Johnnie’s power got another boost, and his spatial talent jumped to 20%.

He didn’t waste any more time and headed back to the Spiritual Stone mine.

He still had to deal with the Mechanical Blade.

When Johnnie returned to the mine, he didn’t hear any sounds of fighting.

The area was a mess, but that Mechanical Blade was nowhere to be seen.

"Master!" The Red Carp hurried over as soon as he spotted Johnnie, apologizing, "We couldn’t stop the Mechanical Blade. It got away."

"No worries. He’s a Divine powerhouse. You guys couldn’t have stopped him even if you tried." Johnnie didn’t blame the Red Carp.

Their goal here was to capture the Spiritual Stone mine. Now that it was theirs, killing the Mechanical Blade wasn’t that important anymore.

Besides, in this pocket of space, that guy wasn’t getting away for good.

"Where are Benz and the others?" Johnnie didn’t see Benz or Selene and asked.

The Red Carp explained, "They’ve already gone into the mine. Selene wants to take control of those miner slaves."

"Is that so?" Johnnie frowned. He didn’t like those guys—after all, it was those Miner Golems who betrayed them and caused Selene’s group heavy losses.

As far as he was concerned, they all deserved to die.

But he couldn’t be bothered to interfere, so he just let them do whatever they wanted.

"Let’s go. We’ll head into the mine too and collect Spiritual Stones." Johnnie also made his way toward the tunnels.

His main goal here was to get Spiritual Stones and fully awaken the Dark Gold Mechanical Golem’s attributes.

Inside the mine, Selene and Helios were directing the slave miners to carry Spiritual Stones.

Clearly, they wanted to take over the Spiritual Stone mine for themselves.

A flash of killing intent crossed Johnnie’s eyes. He’d fought so hard to seize this mine, and these guys dared to start collecting Spiritual Stones without even asking him.

"Everybody, stop right now!" he shouted angrily, his voice intimidating everyone present.

Everyone froze and turned to look at Johnnie.

He continued, "From this moment on, this Spiritual Stone mine belongs to me. None of you are allowed to take a single Spiritual Stone."

People glanced at each other, clearly unhappy, but no one dared to talk back.

They’d all seen Johnnie take down the Mechanical Domain; they knew they weren’t his match.

"Why should we listen to you? Sir, we helped you before." Helios protested, sounding frustrated.

Trying to guilt-trip him, huh?

Johnnie sneered and said coldly, "I’ll pay you back for the Spiritual Stones I borrowed earlier, but you’re not getting a single one more!"

Helios frowned, clearly dissatisfied.

Johnnie had only borrowed about a thousand Spiritual Stones before, but this mine held millions. There was no way Helios would just walk away empty-handed.

"Sir." Selene spoke up from the side, "these Spiritual Stones will help us too. Could you give us a little more?"

Johnnie hesitated for a moment, then said, "You each get an extra thousand. That’s it. No one touches the rest."

"But..." Selene started to say something, but as soon as she met Johnnie’s cold gaze, she swallowed her words.

"No way, we deserve compensation too!" one of the miner slaves piped up.

"Yeah, we’ve worked here for years. We should get at least a thousand Spiritual Stones each!"

"That’s right..."

The crowd quickly chimed in.

Johnnie’s eyes turned icy. There were at least ten thousand slave miners here, and a thousand Spiritual Stones each meant ten million stones. These guys sure weren’t shy about asking.

He shot Benz a look.

Benz instantly understood. He moved in a flash, his giant axe whistling through the air as he brought it down on the miner who’d spoken up first.

Splat!

Blood splattered everywhere. The man was split in half by a single blow.

The brutal scene sent everyone else scrambling back in terror.

Johnnie spoke calmly, "Any other complaints?"

Nobody dared make a sound. The whole crowd was scared speechless.

"Hmph, what a bunch of trash." Johnnie scoffed, clearly looking down on them. He ordered coldly, "Move every last Spiritual Stone over here. Now."

"Y-Yes, sir..." they stammered, then hurried off to start hauling Spiritual Stones.

"Sir." Selene approached, hesitated for a second, then asked, "Do you plan to keep these miners as slaves?"

Johnnie knew what she was thinking and replied flatly, "I’m not interested in these people."

Selene let out a breath of relief and said, "Sir, I’d like to take them in and build a force here. It would help us fight the Mechanical Race."

Johnnie replied, "That’s not happening here. You’ll have to leave and build your own force somewhere else."

This whole space was actually a fragment of the Map of Heaven and Earth. Once the Spatial Anchor was destroyed, Coco could refine and merge the area.

Johnnie had no use for these people’s strength and couldn’t be bothered to take them in.

"Leave here?" Selene looked puzzled.

"You’ll understand soon enough." Johnnie said, offering no further explanation.

He’d already wasted enough time in this space, and the power suppression from the Universe Continent was gone—Divine powerhouses had probably arrived by now, and who knew what was happening in the Montemar Empire.

He was trapped in this space, completely cut off from the outside world. He couldn’t even log off.

Crysic and the girls were definitely worried sick about him.

Fortunately, he was now practicing the Body Refining Manual, which helped him restore his mental strength, so staying logged in for a long time wouldn’t have any negative effects.

Spiritual Stones kept pouring in from all around—at least ten million by now.

Benz glared at the slave miners with his huge ox-like eyes, keeping a cold watch so no one dared to pull any tricks.

"The Red Carp, don’t let anyone disturb me." Johnnie gave a quick reminder, then sat cross-legged, ready to sync the Dark Golden Mechanical Golem’s attributes and activate its classes and abilities.

[Ding, you’ve consumed 10,000 Spiritual Stones. The Dark Golden Mechanical Golem’s attributes are now synced with yours.]

Prompt messages flashed by. The Dark Golden Golem absorbed ten thousand Spiritual Stones, and its stats underwent a massive transformation, now matching his four basic attributes exactly.

The hidden stats should be synced too, though Johnnie couldn’t see them.

[Ding, you’ve consumed 10,000 Spiritual Stones. Sword Immortal class activated.]

[Ding, you’ve consumed 1,000,000 Spiritual Stones. Lucky Master class activated.]

...

The prompts kept coming. The Dark Golden Mechanical Golem was absorbing Spiritual Stones like crazy, unlocking all kinds of classes, skills, laws, talents, and unique abilities.

The Dark Golden Mechanical Golem’s power kept rising, until it was basically identical to Johnnie himself.

And now that their stats were synced, whenever Johnnie’s own power increased, the golem would automatically get stronger as well.

Sure, the Spiritual Stone cost was crazy high right now, but soon he wouldn’t need to spend any more.

"Syncing the Cosmic Eclipse Blade costs a million Spiritual Stones?" Johnnie was shocked. Most skills and talents only took one to ten thousand stones.

Even the powerful laws only required a hundred thousand.

But the Cosmic Eclipse Blade, just like the Lucky Master class, actually needed a million Spiritual Stones.

Johnnie ended up burning through over two million Spiritual Stones, but at last, the Dark Golden Golem had every single stat, class, skill, and talent unlocked. With its powerful body, it was now even stronger than Johnnie himself.

Plus, all the injuries the Dark Golden Mechanical Golem had gotten in the last fight were completely healed, and its body was even tougher than before.

Johnnie was confident—if he ran into a Divine powerhouse again, the Dark Golden Mechanical Golem could hold them off, and he’d be able to kill them easily.

Next up, he needed to head for the Mechanical City, destroy the Spatial Anchor, and let Coco fully absorb this space.

Johnnie glanced at the remaining Spiritual Stones—at least five million left.

Besides helping the Dark Golden Golem awaken its abilities, these Spiritual Stones could also be used to convert Mana points into spiritual power and split his consciousness.

He was sure there were other uses too, but since the stats didn’t explain it, Johnnie wasn’t sure.

"Should I refine the Spiritual Stones and convert my Mana points into spiritual power?"

He hesitated a bit. Converting Mana points into spiritual power would probably give his strength a solid boost.

But all his current skills consumed Mana points, and he wasn’t sure if he’d be able to use them after converting.

"Master, you shouldn’t refine Spiritual Stones and convert your Mana right now." Maiev’s voice sounded in his mind.

"Why not?" Johnnie asked, confused.

Maiev explained, "Master, Spiritual Stones hold immense spiritual power. It’s best to wait until you break through to Domain, or when your four basic attributes reach over ten million, before you refine them. The higher your stats, the more you’ll gain from Spiritual Stones."

"Alright then." Johnnie gave up on converting his Mana points.

Right now, he only had about ten million Mana points. Since it took ten thousand Mana points to make one point of spiritual power, he could only absorb a little over a thousand Spiritual Stones—not much help at all.

Once he left this space and the suppression was gone, his strength would get a huge boost, and his four basic attributes would easily break past five million.

Getting to ten million would be tough for most people, but for Johnnie, it was a piece of cake.

He looked over at the remaining Spiritual Stones—over five million of them. There was no way his inventory could hold that much. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

And this mine was massive, with at least tens of millions more Spiritual Stones still left in the ground.

If he left, Selene and the others would definitely try to take the mine for themselves.

"Benz, Red Carp." Johnnie looked at the two of them and instructed, "You guard this place. Don’t let anyone get close."

As he spoke, he glanced over at Selene and Helios.

They gave him awkward smiles, not daring to say a word.

"Master, are you leaving?" The Red Carp asked, puzzled.

Johnnie nodded. He’d already spent way too much time here. Now he needed to destroy the Spatial Anchor in the Mechanical City, let Coco absorb this space, and finally get out of here.