System: My Doomsday Train Chapter 979 - 367: Max-Level Armor

"God Destruction Plan?"

Chen Mang arched his eyebrow, musing aloud, "So, is the sharp decline in ’Divine Archer’ chosen ones within ’Rough Civilization’ over recent years, even abandoning the ’Saint Arrow’ post entirely, due to some scheme from Cyan Mountain Civilization?"

"That makes perfect sense logically."

Ai pressed on, "From Cyan Mountain Civilization’s viewpoint, it works to their advantage. In Rough Civilization, Berserkers embody raw power, whereas Divine Archers symbolize intellect. Everyone agrees the ’Saint Arrow’ holder leads Rough Civilization."

"Without anyone claiming the ’Saint Arrow’ role, Cyan Mountain Civilization stays secure, as Rough Civilization lacks the tools to counter them."

"The reasoning holds up."

"Yet, every trace of this scheme’s specifics has vanished completely. I’ve only uncovered its title, and I suspect Cyan Mountain Civilization lacks the power to truly diminish Rough Civilization’s Divine Archers."

"It resembles racial purging."

"Methods like this exceed what a Level 6 Civilization should manage, particularly against a Seventh-level one."

"Hmm."

Chen Mang gave a nod, staying silent, yet he mulled it over deeply, planning a trip to ’Rough Civilization’ soon. As a Seventh-level Civilization, it surely brimmed with riches—prime for claiming first.

His rise had come entirely through plunder.

Plunder all the way to Divine-level Civilization.

Before anything else, though, the train demanded a solid upgrade!

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Close to the Nia Star System.

Having stripped ’Cyan Mountain Civilization’ bare, the Constant Star Train at last headed back to the ’Nia Star System’ for recovery. In the endless cosmos, this region alone offered a true sense of home.

However...

"I recall my Nia Star System wasn’t flattened like this before."

From within the train car, Chen Mang gazed out at the paper-thin Nia Star System and sighed, "My unfortunate Nia Star System, reduced to mere paper. Coming back here ought to feel like returning home, yet now it’s like guarding a tomb."

No possibility for space-time review either.

The two-dimensional collapse zone carries no temporal qualities, preventing any glimpse into its history—or rather, that zone has no history left.

Next, he checked the train’s current resource stock.

units of foundational iron ore!

These leftovers came after all expenditures from the Constant Star Train’s latest runs—the full extent of its resources now.

An immense figure.

Equal to...

trillion units of iron ore.

Switching units reveals the staggering scale of these reserves; enough to remake the train entirely.

No Murphy Stone obtained.

The Murphy Stone-laden political homeworld got flattened into two dimensions with its whole star system by his 7 Two-dimensional Foils. Being a Level 6 Civilization, unknown defenses might exist, so he took what mattered and wiped it clean.

Extra Murphy Stones weren’t crucial anyway; to dodge issues, he simply erased the site.

The top upgrade priority.

Obviously...

"Armor."

Strengthen defenses once more.

Previously, pushing armor from 1000 grade to 2000 grade took 20000 trillion units of iron ore—2 units of foundational iron ore—while reaching 5000 grade demanded 200 full units.

That signals a hundredfold resource surge.

Utterly daunting.

Still... 200 units of foundational iron ore paled against his 2872 units!

And so, he unlocked a fresh supermodel perk!

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"Wagon Steel Armor 5000-grade supermodel effect": Resists every dark matter strike and converts them to briefly elevate armor grade.

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"..."

Chen Mang’s eyes narrowed faintly—dark matter assaults unseen so far, but bound to prove useful ahead.

Fifth-level Civilization perks cut component upgrade costs in half, though not immediately; resources get held for later pull, excluding defenses such as armor and energy shields.

Post-armor upgrade.

2672 units of foundational iron ore remained.

One dilemma occupied his thoughts now.

Namely...

Should he leap straight to 10000-grade for max level!

Checking showed full-grade needed 2500 units of foundational iron ore.

He had just enough, though it would exhaust this raid’s entire haul for peak armor.

He figured it could be the universe’s very first full-grade armor!

After brief thought.

He clenched his jaw slightly, pulled 2500 units of foundational iron ore at once, and jumped the armor from 5000-grade to 10000-grade directly!

The instant after——

Several panels flashed up on the control interface.

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"Constant Star Train green-grade component ’Wagon Steel Armor’, elevated to max 10000-grade, no further upgrades possible."

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True max grade indeed.

Testing confirmed—even at 0-grade authority, no more upgrades worked.

Upgrading from 5000-grade to 10000-grade guzzled more Murphy Stone than expected: fully 1000 units of foundational Murphy Stone.

That’s...

trillion Murphy Stone units.

Though Cyan Mountain Civilization’s Murphy Stone eluded him, he estimated their political home planet held 0.03 units of foundational Murphy Stone total.

units of foundational Murphy Stone...

Gathering enough for 10000-grade armor would demand tens of thousands of Cyan Mountain Civilizations.

The higher it climbs.

Each grade’s Murphy Stone cost balloons past imagination—an cosmic sum.