Chapter 450 - 422 Completion of Phase I Project
At exactly 7 pm, at the Pool of Radiance, when all eyes from the China Region were drawn to the massive battle at Elorin Harbor in the Eastern Wilderness, the vast lake-surrounding wall project was stealthily completed at a devilish speed!
When success arrived as expected, Lei Huolong was no longer as thrilled or excited as initially—perhaps, this is what they call growth.
Lei Huolong calmly reported the results to his boss Ma Yinglong: "Boss, the lake-surrounding city wall has been completely constructed. Level 1 wall, Defense 100, Durability 10,000, spanning 5300 sections, 300 watchtowers, costing 12 million Gold Coins. Including shore piling, lake filling, and strengthening, and the additional expenditure for the watchtowers, the total cost is 310,000 units of stone materials!"
Receiving the message, Ma Yinglong also seemed calm: "5300 sections? That means 53,000 meters? 53 kilometers?"
"Yes, boss! It means, the wall has enclosed a super city of one hundred square kilometers!"
Ma Yinglong laughed heartily: "Good heavens, even if someone traveled by bus or subway it would take more than ten minutes!"
Lei Huolong urgently said, "Boss, this is only a Level 1 wall. The foundation used up quite a bit, but the subsequent upgrades won’t consume as much. Would you like to upgrade?"
Ma Yinglong laughed heartily, "I’ve said at noon, walls can never be too thick. The bigger the enclosed territory, the more inconvenient it is to defend, so the walls need to be thicker. Anyway, as long as the Elves are not alarmed, don’t rush to discharge sewage, continue with the upgrades!"
Lei Huolong was invigorated: "Received! When our walls are thick enough to drive the Elves to despair, our sewage will bring them true despair!"
Ma Yinglong laughed heartily: "Damn it, get on with it!"
"Yes, boss!"
Now in a great mood, Ma Yinglong made another call to the Undead Headquarters: "Sun Xing? Organize a group of Mages to stomp on Bloodrose and those women in the Eastern Wilderness. Make them cry this time, understand?"
Sun Xing laughed: "Weren’t you calm just now, boss?"
Sun Xing, after being transferred to the Beastman Group, succeeded by Dragon Slayer 2, a professional expert at the Undead Summoning Technique and Dark Magic, reaching a profound level of mastery.
Ma Yinglong chuckled softly: "I am still calm now, just overly calm. To others, it may seem abnormal, so I must strongly fulfill the audience’s expectations. I can’t let Da Fei and those women steal all the limelight."
Sun Xing said with a laugh: "Alright, transforming and departing in 5 minutes."
Ma Yinglong suddenly remembered something and asked: "Did you see Da Fei’s video just now? What do you think?"
Sun Xing said in surprise: "Boss, are you asking if I can beat him? Don’t worry, if it’s on the sea, I definitely can’t!"
"Damn!" Ma Yinglong said unhappily: "Well, that’s a straightforward answer!"
Sun Xing laughed and said: "Unless you, boss, are willing to spend heavily on developing the Bone Emperor Battleship, otherwise any formidable professional expert encountering him is like Li Kui fighting on water, only ending up swallowing water!"
Ma Yinglong waved his hand: "Understood, just stir things up here first!"
"Alright, definitely will make it big, devastating, and get things pregnant, haha!"
"Damn it, hurry up!"
People always feel uneasy when they see others with extremely strong powers, causing them to reflect on whether they have any countermeasures. Ma Yinglong too felt a subtle threat from Da Fei, but right now, the Guild’s direction of development is a full-scale advancement for all three races, leaving no capability to invest in maritime strategies.
Time! He could only wait for the full-scale advancement of all three races to bear fruit before focusing all of the Guild’s resources on developing maritime strategies later.
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Red Name Village, a legend that only the extremely red-named players who defy the judge’s verdict can reach. A special scene, or to be called Red Name Village.
This is a miniature international server, gathering red-named players from around the world, with fierce monsters rampant, making the living environment extremely harsh. Red-named players cannot trade with each other and must also be wary of one another. Red-named players must complete difficult or annoying monster-hunting and gathering missions issued by the NPCs in the village to escape this Shura field.
At this moment, Phoenix Feather sat silently cross-legged in the square of this ruined Stone Village, staring wordlessly at the grey-black sky and wilderness.
For any player, losing a Divine Artifact is indeed a substantial blow, but what hit him harder is that his death, like a bubble bursting in the waves, went unnoticed without causing any ripples, as if he had never fought at all.
Being red-named is not wrong, but the mistake lies in turning red-named before becoming absolutely powerful, which is Phoenix Feather’s realization at this moment. This time, having lost the Divine Artifact, he probably won’t be as lucky to recover it as before; after leaving, how should he develop himself? Could he truly give up the path of the Blood Drinkers and confess to the Mage?
His period of weakness after death had passed, anyway, first thing’s first, he should leave. Phoenix Feather took a deep breath and slowly stood up, walking towards the task NPC in the middle of the square, a One-Winged Angel with black wings. This is the only NPC in the village, also the absolute ruler of this village. Red-named players can PK, but not under his watch, so the area where his gaze reaches is the only safe zone in this brutal space.
Note, it is only the area his gaze reaches. This means, even within the village, players can kill each other behind his back. This illustrates how harsh the environment here is. Because of the notorious reputation of this land of exile, very few players from around the world are able to come here to court death.
Of course, few does not mean there aren’t any. Phoenix Feather saw an Italian red-named dwarf player named "Super Mario" fishing by the Black Water pond outside the village. Super Mario is a legend of the Red Name Village; batch after batch of red-named players came and left, but only this level 0 player permanently stayed at the pond, fishing away. It is said that his quest to leave the village involves catching 1000 Devil Fish!
The level of annoyance of this quest is beyond the imagination of red-named players from other countries! However, for a level 0 like him, fishing was the only way out. For a normal player, the best way out would be to buy a new machine and create a new account, wouldn’t it? But obviously, players who come here are not normal players.
Every time Phoenix Feather saw him, she felt an intense pain in the eggs, and this time was no exception. But this time, feeling down and lost, she suddenly felt the urge to talk to someone. In this world, perhaps only red-named players understand each other.
Phoenix Feather dismissed the idea of accepting a quest and went to the pond outside the village.
"Chinese, you’re here again!" Mario was obviously lonelier than Phoenix Feather and eagerly started the conversation: "But you came back from the dead. Where’s your Divine Artifact?"
Phoenix Feather irritably replied, "It blew up!"
"Ha ha! Wahaha!" Mario rolled around the pond in glee.
Phoenix Feather irritably asked, "Is it that funny?"
Mario laughed heartily, "Wouldn’t you be happy if you heard someone else’s Divine Artifact blew up?"
Phoenix Feather coldly responded, "Not happy, because that means some lucky guy got a Divine Artifact."
Mario’s eyebrows twitched before he lost interest and stood up, "Yeah, now that you mention it, I can’t feel happy anymore. Actually, I just watched a live stream from the China Region, but I didn’t see you."
Phoenix Feather coldly said, "Useless trash that harms others without benefiting yourself, just spit out whatever nasty sarcasm you have; I definitely won’t kill you this time!"
Mario laughed, "Actually, I just want to say, it’s often the smart people who do the dumbest things."
Phoenix Feather replied with a ’Oh’: "You mean, you are a smart person?"
Mario laughed, "You finally became smart! Let me, who is smarter than you, guide you. Your mistake this time was teaming up with others!"
Phoenix Feather raised an eyebrow, "Really?"
Mario burst into laughter, "A Chinese is a dragon by himself, a group of Chinese becomes a group of bugs. Once you teamed up, you turned yourself into a bug!"
Phoenix Feather angrily said, "Bullshit! What does an idiot like you from Italy understand anyway!"
Mario laughed heartily, "You, a piece of scum and failure, still have national pride?"
Phoenix Feather coldly said, "Chinese, I bash and scold our own, but I can’t stand seeing you foreigners do the same!"
Mario was momentarily astonished, then shook his head and chuckled, "I find that hard to understand, well, do you know what I am doing now?"
Phoenix Feather coolly replied, "You got a hidden quest, but you can’t handle it."
Mario chuckled, "Talking to someone who became smart isn’t tiring at all. How about it? Join me! Without your Divine Artifact, you have no choice."
Phoenix Feather coldly responded, "Didn’t you say that by teaming up, I turned myself into a bug?"
Mario shook his head, "A bunch of Chinese together are bugs, but I’m not Chinese, so teaming up with me, you’re still a dragon!"
Phoenix Feather said, "I remember a German joke, want to hear it?"
Mario was surprised, "Germans are so stiff, but they can tell jokes? I would like to hear this."
Phoenix Feather nodded, "Germans say, if we’re on normal terms with Italy, we need only 2 divisions to guard against them. If we’re enemies with Italy, we need only 5 divisions to defeat them. If we’re allies with Italy? We need to send 10 divisions to support them—Tell me, what use do I have for a stupid ally like Italy?"
Mario’s expression darkened: "That joke isn’t funny at all!"
Phoenix Feather chuckled, "Really? But you should think of it this way, if it weren’t for Italy, the great teammate, the world would be doomed. Italy is the player who saves the world!"
"Ah pu!" Mario laughed heartily, "The way you think is indeed unique; I really admire you, this Chinese Dragon. I’m sure to be a drag now! I’ll tell you now, there’s a gigantic Devil Fish under this pond, that’s the real purpose of this fishing quest given by the Angel! As long as we kill this gigantic Devil Fish, we’ll have the power to deal with the monsters outside the village. This Red Name Village, meant to punish red-named players, will become our leveling paradise!"
Phoenix Feather suddenly realized – the path of the red-named lay right before her! Phoenix Feather quickly asked, "What should I do?"
Mario smiled, "Join me in fishing, chatting, and telling jokes!"
Dammit! (To be continued. If you like this work, please consider recommending and voting on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)