Primordial Dimensions

Shane knew that one Diamond coin was roughly worth one million gold coins.

So he could roughly estimate how expensive the mana heart awakening of Igra was.

Compared to his world's mana heart awakening, Igra's was more expensive.

The reason for this was solely because Shane would have to earn this money by himself without anyone's help while staying at a particular stage.

That is if he didn't want to pay more while reaching a higher realm which would increase the price he had to pay.

Considering that mankind had a population of tens of billions, Shane thought that the price of several dozen million Diamond coins might be somewhat reasonable.

Provided everyone were to actively contribute to awakening Igra's mana heart which was not the case.

The average income within the basic dimensions was around 200 to 300 gold coins a month. Many humans didn't like hunting and most of them focused on procrastinating while making the bare minimum to make a living.

Meanwhile, others focused on completing missions instead of hunting or acquiring gold through other ways.

On top of it, when the payment of taxes was introduced through the system, everything turned out to be more complicated because one couldn't investigate his/her earnings for a month.

Thus, the government was unable to ask for direct taxes.

Instead of deducting taxes at source, the government heavily relied on shelters that accounted for a major chunk of its revenue. The shelters applied taxes on almost all trade activities such as merchants who wanted to put up a stall inside the shelter to sell or rent out houses, inns, restaurants.

Other than that, there was also the fact that mankind had discovered many prosperous dimensions to which the government had sent many expedition troops.

This was to amass more resources including but not limited to procure more mines for valuable ores or to find a place with many expensive herbs to pluck.

However, in the end, the government had to pay the guards they hired to protect the shelter.

Shelters were also required to undergo maintenance every year that was expensive and inconsistent.

In some years the costs were extremely high due to multiple beast tides trying to conquer a shelter, while they were negligible in more peaceful years.

Soldiers wouldn't be nurtured without resources either and they wouldn't fight against terrifying beasts and intelligent races while facing death without receiving anything in return.

That indicated that the government was not profiting much from the basic dimensions, even though the highest population of humans was concentrated there.

This changed completely if one were to consider the Intermediate dimensions.

The average income for someone in the intermediate dimensions was between 10-100 platinum coins with many exceptions in both directions.

Due to the fact that many ascended to the intermediate dimensions with a low mana purity of 60% in order to live longer, they had no chance to fight against stronger beasts.

This forced them to rely on the shelters within the intermediate dimensions.

To build a shelter within intermediate or advanced dimensions, the government had to put in lots of resources and to make a profit out of such an investment, the prices to stay within a shelter increased by a large margin!

Thanks to that, the government was able to earn little funds.

Shane was not sure what the average income within the advanced dimension was, but he knew that it was much more dangerous to venture into advanced dimensions because most beasts were multiple times stronger than their human counterparts!

According to the intel he had, humans at the advanced dimensions at most visited the areas nearby the shelter in order to flee as soon as something dangerous came across their path.

As such, it was extremely difficult for the government to earn enough funds to awaken Igra's mana heart.

It was only through external earnings like mining lots of ores and selling them along with other goods to races that had a large demand for the same, that mankind was able to establish a proper trading alliance.

This allowed the government to earn much more than before, increasing their race's wealth!

While he had been lost in thoughts, he suddenly heard Uncle Max adding ruefully

"It's good that your world's mana heart awakening is so cheap….maybe you can awaken it while being in the basic dimension...I doubt that it will be easy because you might need between 30 to 50 million gold coins. 

If you follow the path of a perfect foundation, which I think you are doing, you'll have to stay in the basic dimension for a few years and there might be several opportunities to earn lots of gold coins.

However, in the end, you don't have to stay in the basic dimensions just because you want to awaken your world's mana heart. This would be a waste of precious time. At least, if you don't have any fruitful opportunities!"

Kia nodded her head and added

"Fortunately we'll be able to gather enough funds in the next few years to awaken Igra's mana heart. Right now we only need a good trading partner because we have stockpiled plenty of resources. Unfortunately, it's not easy to find a trustworthy partner who is in need of the resources we stockpiled. In the end, our race is too weak to allow us to expose how many precious dimensions our shelters are constructed in!

Shane listened intently to his uncle and aunt's words and understood what they wanted to imply.

If he was able to acquire enough funds, he should awaken his world's mana heart which would only be excessively expensive the first time.

However, if it would take too long and intervene in Shane's plan it would be better to disregard this idea.

According to Shane's understanding, his uncle and aunt were more focused on thinking about the short-time benefits and disadvantages he might have to face when focusing on his world's mana awakening.

Yet, Shane tried to think further ahead in the future.

How expensive would his world's mana heart awakening become when he would advance to higher stages? Would the demanded price remain affordable? How high would his world's demand for mana be after its size increased? Was it enough to store the dimensions' mana within the world's storage or would it prove to be insufficient?

There were many uncertain facts that would affect his decision and Shane didn't want to regret anything later. 

As such, he thought that he could as well try to earn enough to awaken his world's mana heart.

If it was impossible to achieve that with his current capabilities he would still be able to postpone it!

Thinking about this, Shane's attention was drawn to the system's notification log again.

It bothered him to see unread messages and he opened the log out of reflex.

There were multiple messages and he read them through without seeing anything special when one message attracted his attention.

[Tamed beast (Umbra) attained loyalty of '100%'. The threshold to unseal hidden occupation [?Name?]'s 3rd requirement has been met! Congratulations!]

When Shane saw this, he completely ignored his aunt and uncle who were still talking to him as he selected the occupation segment in his status panel to look at the mysterious, hidden occupation once again.

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[?Name?) (==?==)]

1)Innate Skill [Taming] Uncommon ★★★

2)Soul bound world size in diameters→[200m/10,000 meters]

3)Possess three tamed beasts with a loyalty of 100% [1/3]

4) [Hidden]

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After seeing the third requirement of his hidden occupation, Shane was sure of the fact that the occupation at hand had something to do with his Innate Skill and that it was a customized occupation.

However, the fact that he was required to Possess three tamed beasts with a loyalty of 100% was more baffling than he estimated it to be.

Switching to his status panel, he accessed his Innate Skill to carefully read through it.

[Innate Skill]:  Taming |Common-★★ (+)|

→ Beasts tamed [1/2]

→ Limit: [Late-Awakened]

-[Growth boost]

-[Quality enhancement]

-[Affinity amplification]

-[Cultivation-link]

-Function→Quality upgrade unlocked

"Oh...I'm already able to tame beasts at the late-Awakened stage?...that should be due to the [Cultivation link]....my Innate Skill is really powerful!"

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