Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
In the conference room of Dragon City.
Those who attended the meeting today were the most central players!
For example, Elder Jiao, Elder Meng, Li Qing, Shang Yan, Su Nongying, Mister Bug, Chu Yin…
Apart from Guo Wei, even the players among the leaders who had come to the Land of Inheritance late, such Wu Qiao, weren’t qualified to come to the meeting.
“In the last two days, the summary of the battles against Old Demon Black Mountain and the mermaids has been completed.”
Su Nongying, who sat next to Ji Ye’s seat that was empty and seemed slightly tired, was making a report.
“Overall, we have suffered an unprecedented loss…”
The loss was indeed very heavy.
Dozens of players and heroes had died, such as Hao Dahai, the Ruan brothers, Hua Rong, and Hu Sanniang…
In addition, because one of the battles took place in the territory of Dragon City, a lot of resources were lost too.
The prairie in the north had been entirely wiped out. The cattle on them that weren’t evacuated in time got swallowed by the sea monsters too.
When the mermaids and mermen retreated, they looted all the resources in the Mirage Monsters’ settlement. Considering the destroyed navy’s base and the losses in the battle against Old Demon Black Mountain, Dragon City lost at least one-third of its resources!
“However, the harvest is actually quite huge too.
“In terms of offerings, we obtained more than eighteen thousand Ordinary offerings, 3,100 Extraordinary offerings, and nineteen Transcendent offerings. If they’re all used, plus the residents of Guobei County, the population of Dragon City will probably surpass forty thousand!”
While Su Nongying talked, the SkyNet projected the statistics and pictures of spoils as holographs in front of the meeting attendants.
It was worth mentioning that the SkyNet had been contracted by Ji Ye too because it had self-awareness. Just like how the mutant blood tree was named “Blood” and the Golden Condor leader was named “Gold”, it was named “Sky”!
Now that Ji Ye had advanced into the Transcendent level with the contract talent, he could totally improve this intelligent life he paid a hundred thousand Civilization Coins in the City of Humans for through “Fusion” or “Treasure Refining”.
Maybe it could be upgraded to the point where it could command nature.
“Right, on their way back to Guobei County, our men unexpectedly ran into a team of human soldiers who rode purple tigers. They claimed to be under the command of Li Mi, the Lord of Wei.
“They said that they had already defeated an alien force of werewolves and taken over their base. Currently, they’re trying to gather all human beings and establish a great enterprise…”
Su Nongying moved her finger and opened a three-dimensional map that showed Dragon City’s surroundings. She then marked a spot.
“Interesting. It seems that we’ve been invited to ‘Wagang’ after we just got off from ‘Liangshan’…”
Li Mi was a name that obviously nobody was a stranger to.
After all, the Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties was as popular as Water Margin. Because of the category of Dragon City’s background, everybody had read a lot of ancient fiction recently.
The Wagang Army had appeared on this continent, probably because Li Yuanba joined Dragon City. Also, it seemed to have defeated an alien settlement and therefore turned into an acknowledged force and learned of the rules of the Land of Inheritance!
“Wagang? That’s a huge problem. There must be a lot of Transcendent heroes there, right?”
Chu Yin opened her mouth and frowned.
In a way, Wagang could be even more powerful than the mermaids and mermen because the “46 Friends in Wagang” in the novel probably included Legendary heroes!
“It’s not that powerful…”
Su Nongying shook her head.
The Wagang Army in its full splendor would truly be an opponent that deserved attention, but the one that Dragon City’s men encountered was incomplete.
Because Wuxin, who boasted the Mind Reading ability, happened to be around, and he had already learned some intelligence about them from the minds of those scouts.
The Wagang Army that had entered the Land of Inheritance was led by Li Mi, whose deputy was Wang Bodang, known as the Godly Archer in White.
Just like Zhang Yan in the Yellow Turban Army, following their performances in real history and their popularity, they were probably in the Transcendent level.
Furthermore, Li Mi could be above “Superior” even among the Transcendent heroes.
However, some of the other famous historical heroes, such as Qin Qiong, Li Ji, Wei Zheng, Cheng Yaojin, and Qu Tutong, who had Transcendent and even Legendary gifts and were among the 24 Greatest Contributors in the Rising Smoke Pavilion, didn’t show up on the Land of Inheritance with the Wagang Army.
As for the 46 Friends in the Wagang Fort, who were either made up in the novel or real figures in history but weren’t famous at all, such as Ding Tianqing, Yuchi Nan, and Du Weizhong, they were only as good as the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends on Liangshan who had Superior, Excellent, or even Refined ratings in the Excellent level.
Even though the Wagang Army was much bigger than the Yellow Turban Army and had thirty thousand soldiers, it was impossible for them to subdue Dragon City on their own.
The werewolves’ settlement they defeated earlier was merely an Extraordinary Rank-8 settlement without any Transcendent members.
Therefore, Li Mi and Wang Qing, who had been given Transcendent capabilities on the Land of Inheritance, became overly confident and thought they were the Children of Destiny. They wanted to establish a great enterprise on the Land of Inheritance exactly like Wang Qing and Tian Hu did!
“I think we can keep in touch with them…”
“After we make use of the offerings and spoils we got from the battles and restore the power of providence and population of our settlement, we can ‘discuss’ with them and take them in. Then, we might really consider ‘establishing an enterprise’.”
Guo Wei’s eyes flashed under his high-tech glasses.
Without the top heroes from history such as Qin Qiong and Wei Zheng, Dragon City didn’t consider Wagang a big deal at all even though it was outnumbered.
Well, Wagang certainly didn’t mean nothing either.
It had several dozen thousand members, which meant that Dragon City’s population would be doubled after it was subdued and taken in.
After that, even if Dragon City couldn’t dominate this continent of A Hundred Vying Barges, it shouldn’t be a problem to accomplish the Road to Legendary quest!
“Besides, the Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties was written in the Qing Dynasty. Similar to Water Margin, they both carry mythological elements.
“Many of the leaders in the Wagang Army were reincarnations of the 28 Mansions in the sky. For example, Li Mi was the Golden Dog… Our Five Direction Feng Shui Formation was destroyed in the battle earlier, and our defense counts on the Flags of 27 Mansions only right now. Maybe it will be strengthened after Wagang is subdued.”
Elder Meng was being a teacher again.
“Actually, I’m not very interested in the Wagang Army. I’m more interested in the offering named Colorful Dragon Threads dropped by the green Flood Dragon that City Master executed. Which Legendary hero will it bring to us?
“A Legendary hero can help a settlement greatly. Theoretically speaking, they can significantly increase a settlement’s power of providence!”
Shang Yan spoke excitedly.
Indeed, it was just like how Cao Cao could attract additional power of providence from the Earth civilizations and enhance the other heroes with it.
When the Legendary figures arrived, they could not only significantly increase the power of providence but also direct the power of providence to enhance other people.
That was different from Ji Ye’s Emperor’s Dragon Contract talent.
With his talent, Ji Ye could acquire additional power of providence from his subordinates and consume the power of providence to strengthen his subordinates so that they would make greater contributions and offer more power of providence to him.
It seemed that the amount of the power of providence was increased, but in fact, it was all about the distribution of power of providence within the settlement. The total power of providence of Dragon City didn’t increase at all.
From that point of view, the arrival of any Legendary hero would significantly improve the comprehensive power of a settlement.
Furthermore, even the competitions among the countries on Earth might be involved.
It was because the additional power of providence for Earth was limited in total, and the settlements that summoned more Legendary heroes could claim a larger share of it!
“Do you think City Master has advanced into the Legendary level?”
The question that Mister Bug suddenly raised put the entire conference in silence for a moment.
Everybody couldn’t help but recall how Ji Ye fought the green Flood Dragon like a god after fusing the True Dragon’s Heart. Had he already advanced into the Legendary level?
“Not yet, but I’m very close.”
A voice sounded.
Before the sentence was finished, Ji Ye had already appeared on the president’s seat in the room.
As they speculated, Ji Ye had indeed learned a thing or two about the Legendary level from the green Flood Dragon’s memory pieces.
As a matter of fact, the requirement to turn from Transcendent to Legendary wasn’t too complicated. It was as simple as what it literally meant—he had to accomplish something legendary on the Land of Inheritance with his own abilities.
For example, he had successfully survived the great crisis this time. Not only did he change his fate, but he also fused a Legendary True Dragon’s Heart and killed a powerful green Flood Dragon.
In a way, his feat had totally met the requirement for the Legendary level.
However, Ji Ye hadn’t accomplished everything with his own strength!
Li Chunfeng played a critical role in changing his fate. His “Fusion” talent, which was also critical, had been inherited. It was not really his own strength.
As for the execution of the green Flood Dragon, it was even partly due to the defection of the mermaids and mermen.
For those reasons, Ji Ye wasn’t rated as Legendary but a “Quasi” Legendary!
However, that was not a big problem.
His capabilities had almost reached the godly level in Transcendent Rank-5.
In the current phase, the creatures such as the green Flood Dragon, who were survivors from “the last round”, should be in the highest tier!
As for the players, they wouldn’t be this strong even if they were from the “special planes”. Since Ji Ye was much stronger than them, it wouldn’t be too hard to make a legendary achievement.
“City Master is here!”
“City Master!”
The moment Ji Ye arrived, everybody stopped discussing the Wagang Army and greeted him.
None of them, not even Qin Yueyu, who was in charge of the archers, and Li Qing, who led the snipers, managed to see how Ji Ye entered the conference room.
More importantly, even though Ji Ye wasn’t doing anything, everybody at the meeting felt great pressure.
Before the battle in Guobei County, the strongest monster that Dragon City had seen was only in Transcendent Rank-2!
But in the previous day, they had seen Old Demon Black Mountain who had reached Transcendent Rank-3 and driven a mountain as well as ten thousand ghosts and zombies to attack a city.
Then, they encountered a Transcendent Rank-4 green Flood Dragon that invoked a thunderstorm that almost consumed Dragon City.
Eventually, there were the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and the Colorful Dragon, whose power reached Transcendent Rank-5, which could have destroyed the world with their remote attacks.
They had a clearer understanding of Ji Ye’s strength, so they were naturally awed!
“I’ve convened this meeting mainly because I just received some critical information.”
Ji Ye didn’t really care how other people treated him. He cut to the chase quickly.
Because of Ji Ye’s solemn tone, the other people at the meeting turned grave too.
“You should know that the dragons have hereditary memories. I found something from the hereditary memory of the green Flood Dragon…”
After considering how to phrase it, Ji Ye continued, “Regarding the essence of the Land of Inheritance…”
As Ji Ye talked, everybody at the meeting changed their expressions continuously.
The Great Darkness, the destruction of civilizations, the shelter, the special planes… All the concepts and information shocked them and made their hearts heavy.
“Therefore, I speculate that the dragons, the Eagle Men, and the Mirage Monsters are actually creatures from different planets in our universe… The cultivation worlds and magic worlds we thought existed are actually some ‘special planes’ created to perfect the Land of Inheritance.
“There is no multiverse. There has only been one universe, which is the one that Earth is in!”
Ji Ye came up with his speculation, or rather, his “conclusion”.
“So, the Great Darkness is happening to our universe? Every life in the universe that Earth is in will be destroyed, and the Land of Inheritance is the only place to pass on the civilizations, like Noah’s Ark in western myths? Have we luckily acquired a ticket for the ark to survive the doom?”
Qin Yueyu looked at Ji Ye with widened eyes.
Her hands, which had always held a bow steadily and could shoot arrows more precisely than guns could, were clearly shivering.
In fact, she wasn’t the only person who was shivering.
Mister Bug, Li Qing, Guo Wei, and even Shang Yan, who was a doctor, and Chu Yin, who had always been calm, were all disturbed as if huge tides were roiling in their hearts.
How could they remain calm?
While they had all got the tickets, and thanks to the quick development of Dragon City, their tickets had been gradually upgraded to the First Class or even the VIP Class, there were still a lot of people on Earth who didn’t have any tickets!
The headcount of players, which was essentially the number of tickets, was only slightly more than ten million at this moment, but the total population of Earth was ten billion!
Which of the meeting attendants here didn’t have family members or friends?
Even Ji Ye, who had been alone most of the time, and Elder Meng and Elder Jiao, whose parents had already died, still had other family members.
Those people didn’t have any “tickets” at all!
“Damn it, I didn’t know that. I should’ve given the invitation that I got from the settlement advancement to my mother…”
Mister Bug became angry and anxious.
When Dragon City advanced into the Transcendent level, he received one invitation.
In the end, he gave the invitation to his cousin who was a PhD student, hoping that his cousin could help him as a consultant in the superpower camp.
However, his cousin turned out to be a nerd and spent all the time writing a doctoral thesis on the Land of Inheritance inside the settlement, hoping to win prizes and get famous on Earth. Mister Bug was truly infuriated!
At this moment, he learned that the universe Earth was in would enter the Great Darkness, which meant that every invitation was extremely precious.
Mister Bug couldn’t have regretted more.
He had never been a model student since childhood, and he kept getting into trouble.
His father went to prison and his mother raised him alone. He fought with others, missed classes, and roamed the streets every day. He had done all the bad things expected of a delinquent.
He was exactly the person that his neighbors and teachers told his peers not to become.
However, his mother, who was gentle, slim, and shorter than him since he got to junior high school, never scolded him.
She simply wept and humbly apologized to the victims every time he caused trouble and fled.
Then, when he returned home and yelled at her because he felt embarrassed, she cried and heated the food again and again.
Her tears repeated from his elementary school to when he left his high school!
He complained more than once that he had set foot on the wrong path exactly because his mother was too weak.
However, when he unexpectedly received an invitation to the Land of Inheritance, and a lot of armed men came to pick him up, his mother shut the door and shouted for him to run.
In the end, she even knelt before them for him.
Mister Bug, who had always considered himself a real man, almost sobbed. It was one of the reasons why he tried his best to stay safe after arriving at Dragon City!
He didn’t give the invitation to her because he didn’t want her to see the horrifying monsters or face the risk of death in the Land of Inheritance. Even if she wouldn’t really get killed, she would still be greatly traumatized!
As a matter of fact, if she did come to the Land of Inheritance, she would probably weep again when she saw him fighting aliens or monsters in blood, probably with severed limbs. Then, he would be embarrassed in front of the juniors of the superpower camp.
However, at this moment, he realized his own embarrassment was absolutely worthless compared to the risk she had to face!
