William resisted the urge to complain and immediately explained his purpose.

  “I’m the champion of this year’s Global Tournament on Planet Elvia. I’m here to select my reward from the prize vault.”

  Upon hearing his reason, the other party responded with a telepathic message.

  “Please state your name, citizen ID, school, and student number. I need to verify your identity.”

  Hearing the official tone, William didn’t hesitate and provided the requested information.

  After receiving it, the staff member left behind a brief, “Please wait a moment,” and disappeared—likely to verify the data.

  In less than 30 seconds, the staff reappeared.

  “William, your information has been verified.”

  As he spoke, a beam of light extended from the staff’s hand toward William.

  William immediately extended his own beam of light to connect with it.

  The moment they made contact, a thought transmission flowed through the light—a more private form of communication in the Continent of the Gods, ensuring security and preventing eavesdropping.

  “This is the list of available rewards. You may choose one item as your prize for winning the Global Tournament.”

  Now that William’s identity had been confirmed, the staff directly sent him the current list of items in the prize vault.

  William quickly glanced through it.

  There were only about 5,000 items available for selection in the entire vault.

  Using the categorized menu, he saw that most of the resources were rare minerals, potion formulas, and enchanted equipment.

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  Completed potions, high-tier bloodline cards, rare follower professions, and extraordinary path cultivation methods were much fewer in number.

  He immediately began carefully reading through the names and descriptions.

  [Rare Mineral: Firefly Helium Essence]

  Description: Alloys infused with this mineral greatly improve magic conduction efficiency, while also increasing strength and heat resistance. Quantity: ...“Useful for magi-tech or traditional magic routes—doesn’t help me.”

  [Potion Formula: Elite Advancement Potion (Dwarf Follower Special)]

  Description: Increases the chance of dwarf followers advancing to elite rank...“I don’t even have dwarves. Useless.”

  [Support Statue: Faith Colossus]

  Description: Covers a 300 km radius, boosts follower faith and advancement chances...“Why would I need to boost faith? Totally useless junk.”

  [Rare Potion: Hero Advancement Potion (Humanoid Follower Only)]

  Description: Used during breakthroughs, increases the chance of humanoid followers reaching hero level...“I’m not going to design an entirely new humanoid Zerg unit just to maybe benefit from this. Not worth it.”

  [Rare Potion: Potential Enhancement Potion (Flesh Followers, Battle Qi Route, General Use)]

  Description: Increases the potential of followers below hero level...

  Now this made William’s eyes light up—it finally looked like something useful to him.“This is good. If I give this to the Queen Ant, it might raise the whole swarm’s potential.

  Even though we’re focused on magical transcendence, strengthening their physical base with the battle qi route could work too.”

  “But I need to know the full effects, and whether there are any side effects.”

  Suppressing the urge to immediately claim it, William decided to finish reviewing the full list before making a choice.

  [Rare Extraordinary Path: Shadow Shaman Cultivation Guide (Orcs Only)]

  Description: A step-by-step manual for training followers to advance into Shadow Shamans. 100 tricks to help you succeed...“Ugh… Just slap a shadow affinity bloodline card on a follower and use a hatchery. No brainer. Trash. And it’s labeled rare? Pfft.”

  ...

  Now that he had one promising option in mind, William sped up his review.

  Spears, swords, shields, armor—he skipped over all the weapon-type items.

  These were practically useless for the Zerg swarm.

  Before long, he came across the rare bloodline cards—only three of them.

  [Advanced Bloodline Card: Gale Lizardkin]

  Description: Extremely high wind-element affinity...“Meh. Wind affinity is great, but not for me. Next.”

  [Advanced Bloodline Card: Kuka Troll]

  Description: A rare troll variant. Strong vitality and physical strength, with rare magic affinity among trolls...