Back in his dorm, Allen sat at his workbench and took out a transparent container.
Inside was the grayish-black gland he had extracted from the Shadow Demon Spider. It was about the size of an egg, its surface seemingly veiled in a faint, shifting shadow.
The fluid within the gland was the final piece of the puzzle for the Spider Slayer to achieve its conceptual breakthrough.
But before he could use it, he had a tricky problem to solve.
Allen pulled up the project information.
[Project: Spider Slayer (Competition Version), Current Audited Cost: 590 Low-Level Magic Stones]
The rules for the Black Tower New Star Cup were written in black and white, stating clearly that the total cost of a competing Mechanical Body could not exceed one thousand Magic Stones.
This meant he had a budget of only four hundred and ten Magic Stones left for this crucial gland.
