She cares for him but hates the way she does.  He is always on her mind since that day. But in contrast, he hated her for that. She wants to make it up to him but he avoids her like dirt. Sometimes he is good, sometimes he is the worsest. She hated how unpredictable he is and how he messes with her life. But she loves him, and she doesn't want to admit it.

That was in the last year of middle school.

Ria wakes up early on her first day of school in junior year. Bringing a nightmare with her she goes to her school and found out Keith and her will be classmates. New sets of problem arises then. But is this going to be a hell of a year for Ria? Or is this going to be a chance to get close with Keith and clear some issues?

Following the method of communication left behind by the other party the previous time, Yang Ling found a black-robed man staying at the Shangri-La. The latter brought Yang Ling through treacherous paths and over mountains before they arrived at their outpost in the forest, half a day later. Yang Ling did not expect to coincidentally bump into Maryse, who had also just returned, before meeting Elder Klive.
"Oh, Sir Yang Ling?" the black-robed Maryse exclaimed in surprise, and smiled coldly. "Sir, I did not think that we would meet this soon!"
After her repeated failures, she hated the detestable Yang Ling to the core. If not for her worry that she would attract the attention of others and affect her teacher's plan, she would have long ago infiltrated Wissen Castle to turn Yang Ling into a skeleton using her Dark Magic.
"Miss Maryse, to think that you got even more alluring during the short time we have been apart!" Looking at the alluring Maryse, Yang Ling smiled faintly and said, "Beautiful, you are too beautiful!"
Too beautiful?
Maryse's hair stood on end in her fury. She saw Yang Ling looking at the flower pinned near her chest, recalling how he had spouted nonsense the last time they had met. But she did not have the chance to react as Yang Ling quickly followed the black-robed man into Elder Klive's tent. She did not have a chance to erupt.
She stomped impetuously, but Maryse knew she had no choice but to leave. No matter how angry she was, she did not dare be insolent in front of her teacher. There would be an opportunity to punish Yang Ling if she waited by the door. She did not believe that Yang Ling would be able to stay in her teacher's tent forever.
Maryse became angrier the more she thought about Yang Ling, while Yang Ling conferred with the elusive Elder Klive. He did not beat around the bush, but said immediately, "Elder, I need two hundred experienced Alchemists who can make magical staffs, and the sooner the better. As an exchange, I'll help you look for the relic of the giant dragon. My family has a unique approach when it comes to searching!"
Yang Ling summoned a few Horned Bee Beasts, instructing them to fly into the distance. He then quickly drew out the surrounding terrain using the information the Horned Bee Beasts transmitted back to him.
As an elder from the Dark Association, Elder Klive not only had abilities that ran deep beyond comprehension, he was also a very scheming man. Yang Ling knew that rather than beat around the bush in front of a person like that, he might as well get straight to the point so that they would not waste each other's time.
The other party needed the relics of the giant dragon. Yang Ling believed that the elder would be satisfied with the condition for exchange after understanding his abilities. SInce he had already agreed to help the leader of the Wolf Troops, Kerband, in searching for the relics of the giant dragon, he did not mind selling the same information twice.
Simultaneously commanding a large number of Magical Beasts to scout the area?
Indeed, after feeling the faint, unique ripples of mental energy in the air, looking at the terrain of the outpost Yang Ling had quickly drawn out, Elder Klive quickly understood Yang Ling's abilities, and he had a hard time hiding his mounting excitement.
Over this period of time, the association had invested a huge amount of resources and manpower trying to find the relics of the giant dragon as quickly as possible, but the results were negligible. As more factions swarmed into Wissen Town, with the quick arrival of the Church's elites, the situation was getting more chaotic and critical. The had to hurry and find the relics of the giant dragon.
After a moment's deliberation, Elder Klive said, "A hundred Alchemists. Also, the Dark Association will have the priority when it comes to purchasing the magical staffs you made, at a forty percent discount!"
Over this period of time, even though he had spent most of his energy on searching for the relics of the giant dragon, he had had someone report the situation in Wissen Town to him daily. Hearing Yang Ling ask for Alchemists experienced in creating magical staffs, he did not have to think too hard to understand his motives.
There were many Magical Beasts in the Terras Forest, and it was not hard to make a stockpile of premium magical staffs as long as there was enough manpower. Since Yang Ling had something to ask of him, he naturally would not miss out on such a good opportunity. After all, the association needed a large amount of premium magical staffs every year, too.
It was a little difficult to assemble two hundred Alchemists at a moment's notice, but gathering a hundred of them quickly should not be too big of a problem. Trading a hundred Alchemists for a living map was unquestionably worth it. With Yang Ling's help, they would be able to search deeper into a few areas of interest.
After scouting around for a long period of time, the association had narrowed down their target's location to a few areas of interest. But the overall radius was still large, and the fact that an average person would not be able to get near many of the places made the search that much more difficult. But Yang Ling was different. He could command Magical Beasts to scout any area. With his help, and with a detailed map, he would be able to quickly pinpoint areas where the relics of the giant dragon could be.
Furthermore, Yang Ling had a mysterious background. Cooperating with the powerful family of Ancient Summoners behind him would be beneficial to the association. They would obtain a powerful ally and shock the overbearing Church. In fact, they could even one day ask them to enter dangerous environments to tame powerful dark element Magical Beasts, creating an army of powerful Mythical Beasts.
Even though it was only a hundred Alchemists, it was enough in Yang Ling's eyes. He had achieved his aim for the journey!
As long as he used the hundred experienced Alchemists well, he would be able to create a good number of premium magical staffs. More importantly, with their leadership and guidance, he would be able to gain an endless stream of benefits if half of the Gnomes or human craftsmen learned how to create magical staffs.
"Forty percent is too little, Elder, you wouldn't want to see me bankrupt, do you? Ten percent is the best I can do!"
"Thirty percent!"
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After a round of haggling, Yang Ling arrived at an agreement of a twenty percent discount with the elder. The one hundred Alchemists that the elder promised would be transported from various places through the Magical Teleportation Formation three days later, and in exchange, Yang Ling was to draw the maps of the areas of interest in ten days. It was a win-win situation!
Before he left, looking at the heavily guarded Magical Teleportation Formation in the outpost, Yang Ling had a thought and said, "Elder, your association is powerful and possesses the loyalty of many Spellcasters. Could you help me build a Magical Teleportation Formation at Black Water City and at Wissen Castle?"
The safest way to conduct a large-scale excavation of the Five-colored Crystal Vein was to build a Magical Teleportation Formation at the Taildon Valley and Wissen Castle. But, for the sake of confidentiality, he could not allow the members of the Dark Association to know of the existence of the Five-colored Crystal Vein. Considering this, building a Magical Teleportation Formation at Black Water City was also a decent option!
"I'm sorry Yang Ling, setting up a Magical Teleportation requires Black Obsidian, Fantasy Crystals and a large amount of premium crystal ores. Even I cannot help you if you don't have the required ingredients!"
As a space element sage level Spellcaster, Elder Klive himself was an expert in setting up Magical Teleportation Formations. Unfortunately, that process required a lengthy list of rare crystals. Even the entire Dark Association only had a few Magical Teleportation Formations.
Fantasy Crystals?
Elder Klive's words meant more to Yang Ling than he intended. While Elder Klive said that he could not help, Yang Ling saw a glimmer of hope. The Black Obsidian was not a problem. There was quite a number of them under the Sumeer tribe's care at the Wilderness of Siberia. He would be able to bring carts full of that material back, much less one or two.
Even one premium crystal ore might be incredibly rare to an average person, much less a large batch of them. But it was not a problem to him. As long as he got Goode to increase the speed of the Five-colored Crystal Vein's extraction, he might be able to gather them in a few days.
Since that was the case, the problem lay in where he was going to find the so-called Fantasy Crystal!
After learning about the shape and characteristics of the Fantasy Crystal, Yang Ling left, feeling deeply rewarded. The Five-colored Crystal Vein harbored a large variety of crystal ores, and it was not impossible that it also had a substantial number of Fantasy Crystals.
Yang Ling mounted his Unicorn and left as quick as the wind, charging out of the door of the Dark Association's outpost. In the end, Maryse, who had waited for some time, was caught off guard and missed her opportunity. The few traps she had spent so much time on did not have any effect, much to her anger.
After returning to Wissen Castle, Yang Ling ordered Orlando to find Goode quickly, then instructed the latter to hasten the construction of the military factory, as well as increase the rate of excavation ata the Five-colored Crystal Vein.
Now that he had a hundred experienced Alchemists, enough Magical Beast Essence Crystals, and a sizeable amount of manpower, the next problem was to deal with the excavation at the Five-colored Crystal Vein. As long as he could extract a substantial amount of premium crystal ores and sell them through his Wissen Merchant Team or Harribell's Boulade Merchant Association for crystal coins, his capital chain would remain safe.
Furthermore, the Five-colored Crystal Vein harbored a wide variety of crystal ores. There was a good possibility that he would be able to set up a convenient Magical Teleportation Formation as long as he found the so-called Fantasy Crystal. When that time came, he would be able to conduct a large-scale excavation of the Five-colored Crystal Vein. Even if any accidents were to happen, he would be able to help them from the Wissen Castle!
With the guarantee of the capital chain, he would be able to continue buying Magical Beast Essence Crystals and Magical Beast Eggs from the adventurers, further pressing on the sales of resources relating to Magical Beasts of the large merchant associations, completely monopolizing these resources.
This way, purchasing the Magical Beast Essence Crystals and Magical Beast Eggs at a high price while aggressively selling magical staffs that had high profit margins would create a virtuous cycle, gradually increasing the adventurer's reliance on the Beast Taming Ground. He would then be able to build the first Hunter Association on his territory when the time was right!
In Yang Ling's preliminary plan, the military factory was the spearhead of the territory's overall development. It would produce a large amount of magical staffs, but it would also allow the Gnomes to draw Magical Spell Formations to create magical armor and weapons. It would allow Rumi, the dwarves and craftsmen to create various miniature bombs, as well as allow Alice to research various lethal poisons.
Of course, the military factory would only sell magical staffs at the beginning. As the secret weapon of the territory, the magical armor of the dwarves and the poisons created by Alice were not for sale.
As an exchange, Yang Ling was supposed to draw out the terrain of a few areas of interest for the Dark Association. After resting for a night, Goode rushed in in a hurry just as he was prepared to head to the first location.
"Sir, the Twin-headed Ogre Braska had sent someone to travel through the night to deliver this piece of news. They once again found Crystal Diamonds in the Five-colored Crystal Vein, in fact, they also discovered a few drops of Crystal Marrow!" Goode was incredibly excited, nervously looking around as he spoke, afraid that someone would hear this alarming piece of news.
They found Crystal Marrow?
Goode was incredibly excited, and Yang Ling soon joined him in glee. In Montson, a Crystal Diamond was enough to cause a stir amongst the nobles, much less the rare and precious Crystal Marrow!


CA mesmerizing female moonlight priest, a beauty of the darkness who captivates the soul of others… They all flood to his side!

With the help of the mysterious Wizard Power and terrifying Magical Beasts, Yang Ling had successfully created his very own divine path, at the same time enjoying fame in all parts of the world.

But as a Wizard, would he be able to avoid the mortal enemies of the Wizards back in the day -- The Lord and the Arbiter?
Let us wait and see...

Artic began to move forward with slow steps towards the shop. It was pretty crowded. that he had to go in through people, sometimes, he walked through the shop door and started looking at the old man sitting on the couch.
The inside of the shop was full of maps. In general, there was nothing different. It looked like a parchment shop. After the old man saw Artic, he stood up and started coming up to him.
Artic turned his face into a slightly older person for a little bit of that reason. In general, there was little trust in young people, and they were known how they behaved at a lot of things they had.
For this reason, in the image of an old man, traveling in this world gave him a very good reputation. Besides, being 50 wasn't that old anyway. The very old man started talking after he approached Artic.
"Hello, what kind of service I can help with you ?."
Artic looked around after the man's words and started talking with a full voice.
«I want to buy myself a shop space At the same time, Naturally, I want to a shop license.»
The Old Man nodded his head after Artic's words and went behind his desk, He signaled Artic the come close to him. After Artic went to the table, the man pulled out a leaf made of leather and after he took out a pen, he started talking.
«Your name ?»
Artic answered the questions.
«Altic» (Altic is a fake name)
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«How old are you ?»
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"I'm 50 years old."
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After the old man finished his questions, he gave the scroll to Artic and began to speak.
«Mister Altic, your license has been prepared. As a license fee, the Gebin Government is demanding 1 silver from you.»
Artic, after nodding his head as a sign of confirmation, took out one of the silver coins he had already placed in his pocket and gave it to the man. The guy took the silver money and threw it at the part under his desk. And then he started talking again.
"There are currently a total of 3 shop places for sale. There are also 10 rental shops place What kind of place did you look at.»
Artic started talking after thinking about it for a while.
"It would be better if there was a place with a garden that I could use as a house and a shop. I don't want it to be in a very crowded place. But naturally, I don't want to be in a small space too.»
Listening to Artic's words, the old man pulled out one of the city maps hanging on the walls and began to speak.
«Three places fit you what you want Mister Altic. Two of them are for rent and the other one is for sale.»
Artic told the old man to tell him all about it. After Artic's words, the old man started talking about the shops. and the first rental shop was just off the entrance to the city. 
It wasn't that crowded, but people were still passing by. He had his backyard. At the same time, the lower floor of the shop could be used as a house on the upper floor. 
The weekly rent for this place was 10 silver.»
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The other rental shop was a little more inland, with not many people crossing the generally quiet place. But recently, they were better off financially. 
The house was made entirely of stone. But there was a floor.the first entrance was the shop, and there were two more rooms at the back door. These rooms served as a home.
 The garden could be seen in the same way when entering through the back door. 
The weekly rent was 7 silver.
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The last place was for sale. This place for sale was neither in the center nor an outcast. In general, not many people passed here, and it was made of two-story stone.
 There were three rooms on the top floor, and two of them could be used as houses. 
The other room was like a warehouse. 
When exiting the back door of the house, it had a garden with a very large area. In general, this is the best place Artic has ever heard.
The price here was about 10 Gold Coins, as the old man told him. 
Without thinking, Artic turned some of the silver ones in his pocket into gold and began talking to the man.
"I think I'm going to buy the last one you mentioned for sale. Can we see the shop.»
Although the old man was uncomfortable at first, when he saw the gold coins in Artic's hands, he began to think that the man opposite him was a rich man. For this reason, he tilted his head slightly and called back.
«Hey Miga, come here!»
With the old man calling out, a blonde teenager in his 20s appeared through the door inside the shop. This young man quickly came to Artic and the Old Man. The Old Man angrily slapped the young man. And then he started speaking in a strong voice.
"Show this gentleman a shop made of stone for sale, You know it. It is on the silver street."
A young man named Miga looked at the old man with a look of anger in his eyes. But within seconds, he was directly outraged. After he took the 10 copper coins the Old Man had extended, he looked at Artic and talked.
"Here, sir, follow me. I'm going to introduce you to the house.»
Artic had different thoughts at the time. He saw the bloody look in the young man's eyes. He wasn't treated very well here. After Artic and Miga left the store, they rented a carriage outside. His car would take them to the aforementioned shop, moving them faster in the city.
That's when Artic started talking.
"Young man, my name is Altic, and I understand you don't get along very well with the old man."
When he saw artic talking to him, a blonde young man named Miga, he was a little embarrassed and began to talk.
"Things were good between us at first. But, after I had trouble with a few nobles, the old man had a lot of trouble after that. After that, he started behaving like this all the time.»
Artic closed his eyes and confirmed them. And then he didn't say anything. But even though he didn't say anything, he started to have different signs on his head. It would be good for him to act like a normal person and live in a city like this. He felt like he was going to have fun.


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"Artic"
"When the chessboard closes, the king and the pawn are will be placed in the same bag."
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Artic was a young student. He often struggled with his thoughts in his mind and tried to survive in the modern world. He was smart and liked to read, but he also liked to think about different things in his mind.
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Artic was killed trying to help a woman who was attacked. When he opened his eyes, he was in a different land with a voice in his head. Where he was reborn in the same body, people could have divine powers or possess special powers by developing their knowledge and philosophical perspectives on issues.
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Zero was very excited. They had finally walked out of the forest and were heading towards the first town Zero saw on the map. Truen didn't say anything about Zero's choice and Camie explained that there was only one town near Endow Hill in the Rocket Mountain area. The town's name tickled Zero when he heard it for the first time.
On Mii's map, Little Stone Town was registered and if Zero really wanted to, he could set up a teleportation array to bring them over at once. The distance to the town was only about a day's walk but Truen was strict about it. He told Zero that he should learn to appreciate the views on a journey during an adventure and not be hasty.
"If you focus too much on getting ahead in life you will miss out on a lot that is important," the wood elf said and Zero was left to ponder over the meaning of those words for the rest of the journey.
When the travelling party finally arrived at Little Stone Town, it was already dusk. The waves guards at the gate were drunk but they still stopped the party and asked them for their purpose of visit. Zero left the talking to Camie who explained that they were travelling to Magnus Hilda but are stopping in town for the night. The dwarf looked at Camie for a while before sighing in pity.
"It's been a little while since I saw one of your kind. Too bad the plague struck hard, even us dwarves no longer go there to trade. I would advise you not to go back but if you really insist, we'll do our best to resupply for your trip."
Camie thanked the dwarf guard who then told them the location of the nearest inn that still accommodated giants. Zero didn't think that there would be houses big enough for giants but he was wrong. Little Stone Town might be small but the inn that was recommended was huge. In fact, the doctor thought that it might be a little too huge for such a small town. It was even larger than the town mayor's house and that was saying a lot.
"Good evening," Truen smiled and greeted the inn's receptionist. "I'm looking for two rooms, one for us and another for her."
All three travellers wore hoods in order to not attract too much attention to themselves even if they still stood out. Before they entered the town, Truen told them to wear hooded cloaks to look like adventurers so that they wouldn't attract the hostility of the dwarves. Apparently, while dwarves were friendly with giants, they had beef with humans and elves.
The receptionist eyed them for a while before handing them their keys for the night and showing them their rooms. Zero wondered if now would be a good time to use his vessel-customising ability and change his height to something more dwarf-like. The receptionist didn't seem to like Truen or him.
Once they reached their rooms, Camie said that she would meet them downstairs for dinner. Zero agreed and waited for Truen to change out of his dusty clothes and unpack.
"Truen, do you think I should alter my appearance?"
The wood elf paused and looked at Zero. "Why do you think that?"
Zero hesitated. He didn't know if he should talk about the judging stares he received ever since they entered Little Stone Town. Zero didn't want to attract too much attention to himself and what he thought was the least eye-catching appearance before was now no longer applicable.
"I don't want to be stared at too much..." Zero mumbled and Truen smiled. Was Zero concerned about how others perceived him? That has never happened before.
"Is it making you shy?" the wood elf couldn't help but tease. Zero immediately turned Scarlet and started hitting Truen lightly on the arm. The wood elf chuckled and took the hits without dodging because he knew he deserved it.
"Don't worry too much about your appearance. However, if you feel uncomfortable about it you can always change it. I heard that you finally got the ability to customise your appearance so you should put that to use from time to time. It might be even better for you to create a new identity with a new look. How about I introduce you as my younger sibling? People in the tavern will surely be curious and ask about us."
Zero thought about it and looked through the customising panel. Truen wasn't quite expecting Zero to change his appearance right in front of him. This time, Zero also equipped himself with a different set of clothes that Truen had never seen before.
"Z-Zero... is that?"
The doctor smiled. "I made gowns for the three gorgon sisters at Ruban x Pointes. This summer dress is something I bought to add to the collection of female clothes in case I ever needed a female identity. Don't worry, I still don't have genitals so nobody will find out that I don't have a gender. How do I look? Will I make a believable younger sister?"
Truen scrutinized the transformation carefully. Zero matched his tan skin tone and black hair perfectly. Even the shade of green eyes that Truen had was copied precisely. Truen's pointy elf ears twitched when he saw Zero's own pointy ears move in apprehension. The doctor compromised none of his previous height but that was alright. Truen was still taller than Zero. The doctor actually looked adorable with his new hairstyle. Zero had bangs and long straight hair that reached his back, framing his small elven face that made his green eyes shine brighter than emeralds.
Truen was very satisfied with Zero's quick thinking and good sense of style. "Is that a healer gown?" he asked. The gown was medieval-styled like most of the clothes worn on this side of the continent. It was made from cotton with a light beige colour. The trims at the neckline and sleeve edges were green and embroidered with yellow thread, making it look sophisticated and classy. The dress was long and elegant while the sleeves flared out at the ends, covering much of Zero's arm so that only his fingers could be seen from beneath.
Zero gave him a thumbs-up. "I was thinking of going by the name Zero Zheng who is a travelling healer. You're the travelling archer and we're friends with Camie the warrior who is on her way back to visit her hometown. How's that?"
The wood elf nodded in satisfaction. The closer they stick to their story the easier it was for Zero. "If they ask where we come from then we will explain that we travel often and just came from the border of Endow Hill travelling from Smargdas. Most of them will simply assume that we come from the Great Forest of Altear anyway."
Zero agreed. "Shall we head down for dinner?"
Truen smiled. He threw a cloak onto his 'sister' and headed downstairs.
Camie beamed when she saw Truen but paused at the unfamiliar face.
"Hello, Camie. It's me," Zero grinned and the giantess took a while to realise that the new elf girl was Zero.
They ate quickly and Truen told Camie to head to bed early to rest. Zero and Truen decided to go to the tavern to see if they could find out more information about what happened to Magnus Hilda. At the same time, Zero wanted to know if there were any maps he could get to update Mii's outdated map of Earth. Earth must have changed a lot since the last time Merlin actually visited it in person. Lovina wasn't able to help out much either seeing as she had been stuck in Half Moon village for a good while too. The land had changed a lot in a hundred years so Zero was determined to buy maps of any sort to compare it.
When they got to the tavern, Truen reminded Zero about the agreement again. "No alcohol. If you have to drink, absorb it instead, understood?"
Zero nodded and they headed inside where they would meet adventurers and other travellers as well as locals who might tell them what they wanted to know. Truen seemed a little too accustomed to being in taverns and Zero wondered if there were taverns back in his previous life that made the wood elf very confident of his conduct. In contrast, the doctor stood out like a sore thumb underneath his hood.
Zero sat stiffly at the table not touching any of the drinks or food while Truen went around to elicit information. With nothing much to do, the doctor listened to the conversations going on around him. Then, someone talked about maps and instantly caught Zero's attention. Truen was still chatting with the barmaid so Zero decided to leave for a while to talk to the group of travelling merchants. As long as he was still within Truen's hearing range and sight the wood elf couldn't complain about him doing what he wanted.
"Excuse me," Zero approached the drunk merchants. "Could you sell me the maps that you have?"
For a moment the merchants were stunned. They never expected to see a dark-skinned elf and a pretty female healer elf in such a small town. These merchants were regulars who travelled from Smargdas to Rocket Mountain to trade for weapons and ores in exchange with clothes and food products that the dwarves needed.
"Sorry lady, those maps are not for sale," the leader of the merchants apologised. "They are to be delivered to Smargdas as according to our client's request."
Zero felt his heart race. From the earlier conversation, these merchants were not just carrying one or two maps. They actually had the entire collection of maps from all over the planet including maps of unexplored forests, rivers and forests. This was exactly what Zero wanted but now that he knew they weren't for sale, the doctor had to think of another way to at least have a chance to study them and commit them to memory.
"T-then can I take a look at the maps? Just a look, I won't damage them. How much would that cost..."
The merchants laughed and the leader waved his hand. "Which map would you like to look at? I don't mean to boast but this client of us had requested for us to gather all the available maps from every region that we can find. You won't get this chance easily but if you're looking for a specific map of any dungeon then you're in luck. Since you're such a pretty lady we won't charge you for it but you'd have to have a drink with us. How about it?"
Zero hesitated. He knew that he shouldn't be drinking but after glancing over to Truen who was still busy talking and mingling with the other customers, he made his decision. "Alright. However, I want to take a look at all the maps you have. Would that be too much trouble?"
The merchant leader nearly fell out of his chair from shock. All the maps they had? They had over a thousand maps, how long would it take for the healer to look at everything? Even if they were willing to assist it was just way too troublesome.
"Pardon me, healer lady. However, I'm afraid the request that you're asking is a little bit too much for even us to handle. As I said, we have every map possible that exists so looking at even one map for ten seconds is going to be impossible to complete at this rate. We actually have to sleep early tonight and leave town tomorrow..."
Zero smiled. "That's no problem at all. I just really need to look at them, you can watch me do it and take turns sleeping. I understand that it is going to be very troublesome for you so as compensation, please take this."
The doctor passed the merchants ten small vials of clear blue liquid. At first, nobody knew what they were but after appraisal, the leader gasped and happily obliged, making immediate arrangements for the 'esteemed healer'.
Zero smiled. Who knew that the mana potions produced using the water from the Spring of Vitality will become such a popular product? With the medical golems helping, Zero was able to produce some basic items for use and for trading. Mana potions, healing potions, anti-poison potions were some of the basic potions he had in stock. The basic pills for common illnesses were stored in a separate inventory dimension that Zero created with the system's help. Unlike items stored in the inventory, the pills and medicine stored in Zero's pharmacy can automatically be crafted within the dimension to replace the preset level of stock required as long as it has the raw ingredients present that should be regularly restocked by the garden golems. That didn't mean that Talias were jobless. It only meant that they were busier running experiments for new medical formulas on Zero's command.
The merchant quickly stored the ten vials of high-grade recovery potions and ordered his men to bring out every piece of map they had to let Zero study it until tomorrow morning. They even leant Zero the use of their room and the doctor happily told Truen the good news.
The wood elf was surprised at Zero's good luck but congratulated him and told him to take care as he left. He remained in the tavern for a little longer to complete finding out about the situation at Magnus Hilda before joining Zero in his map research.


I started off as nothing, just a mass of consciousness that slowly evolved. Just your average overpowered existence hungry for a multiverse adventure.

Demons? They are my friends.
Monsters? They are delicacies.
Heroes? Not even equal to the dirt on my boots.
Royalty? Money Machi- Ahem, a pleasure doing business.
Immortals and Gods? Share with me the latest gossips!

With power comes responsibility, but I'm just a ball... or am I just a ball? Watch as I regain my memories and beat up my past self.

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Chapter 2373 - New Stone Forest City
When Yuan Tiexin and Purple Jade heard Shi Feng, they froze. His statement felt like a curse to both of them.
"Is this true, Guild Leader Black Flame?"
Snapping out of his daze, Yuan Tiexin couldn't hide his excitement as he gazed at Shi Feng. Even his breathing had become a little rushed. He showed none of the composure someone of his status should possess.
The various superpowers were doing all they could to explore Level 100 neutral maps. These areas would help prepare their players for their Tier 3 Promotion Quests, which made them desperate. However, these maps' environments were incredibly harsh, and the effects these environments had on players couldn't be mitigated with simple potions. Most importantly, the monsters in Level 100 neutral maps were far too dangerous.
These problems were giving the various superpowers huge headaches and preventing them from making any considerable progress.
Although the various superpowers had considered transferring their Guild Towns to a Level 100 neutral map, doing so required a Town Transfer Token that was specific to Level 100 neutral maps. Based on the superpowers' reports, obtaining such a token was impossible at the moment. Only super-large-scale Team Dungeons in Level 100-plus neutral maps dropped the item.
Exploring Level 100 neutral maps was currently a huge problem; raiding a large-scale Team Dungeon in these maps was nothing but a dream at this stage of the game.
And yet, Shi Feng had just told him that he had relocated Stone Forest City to a Level 100 neutral map. Why wouldn't Yuan Tiexin be astonished?
If what Shi Feng said were true, the Secret Pavilion would have a much greater advantage when it came to developing Level 100-plus players.
"Of course," Shi Feng said, smiling. "Is the Secret Pavilion interested in my condition now?"
"This…" Yuan Tiexin hesitated, but after a moment, he shook his head "Guild Leader Black Flame, you know how important that matter is. If we revoke Starlink's membership, we'll essentially be cutting off all relations with the Guild. Meanwhile, Starlink had increased the scale of its operations. In fact, it now had influence across both main continents. Many superpowers are fighting to ally with the Guild. Even if you offer more of Stone Forest City's shares, I doubt our Guild Leader will agree to the condition. Please reconsider, Guild Leader Black Flame."
Demoting Starlink from an advanced member to a normal member and revoking Starlink's membership were two very different things. Starlink's demotion had only reduced the amount of resources and connections the Pavilion received from the Guild, but if the Secret Pavilion revoked Starlink's membership, it would lose all access to those resources and connections.
Zero Wing had absolute authority over Stone Forest City and could refuse to open the city to the public, which would prevent the city from earning income, and the Secret Pavilion would lose access to the city's benefits. Unfortunately, the Secret Pavilion found those losses more acceptable than losing access to the resources and connections Starlink could provide. In the long run, Starlink's resources and connections would benefit the Secret Pavilion far more than some convenience when exploring a Level 100 neutral map.
"That's a pity." Yuan Tiexin's answer didn't particularly surprise Shi Feng. He then calmly asked, "I intend to make a trip to Stone Forest City. Would you like to accompany me, Elder Yuan?"
"We'd love to," Yuan Tiexin said, nodding enthusiastically.
Since Yuan Tiexin accepted his offer, Shi Feng gave his two guests temporary access to teleport to Stone Forest City.
Meanwhile, Purple Jade started a private conversation with her companion.
"Uncle Yuan, are we really going to the city?" she asked.
She could tell what Shi Feng was trying to do right now. He likely wanted to show off the city before they'd officially make a decision, but in her opinion, the act was futile.
The benefits a Guild City could provide and those from an alliance with a superpower were on entirely different levels. There was no need to consider Shi Feng's request.
"Of course, we're going!" Yuan Tiexin said, smiling. "Black Flame may be immature, but he has relocated Stone Forest City to a Level 100 neutral map. It is best if we go and inspect the situation for ourselves. As long as we stand firm, he'll understand that his condition is impossible."
Purple Jade understood Yuan Tiexin's reasoning, but she couldn't help but pity Shi Feng.
Shi Feng must believe that Yuan Tiexin would have a change of heart once they arrived in Stone Forest City, but he didn't realize that the older man was using his own trick against him, allowing Shi Feng time to realize how useless the struggle was.
While Yuan Tiexin and Purple Jade privately conversed, Shi Feng finished granting them temporary teleportation rights.
"Alright, it's done. Let's head over," Shi Feng said as he retrieved a Guild Transfer Scroll for the city and activated it.
Seeing this, Yuan Tiexin and Purple Jade did the same for the Secret Pavilion's temporary Residence in Stone Forest City.
After a moment, the three players transformed into streaks of light and vanished from the Special Forging Room.
…
Cold Spring Canyon, Stone Forest City:
Two flashes of light appeared above the teleportation array in the Secret Pavilion's temporary Residence as Yuan Tiexin and Purple Jade arrived.
The moment their bodies manifested, however, Yuan Tiexin and Purple Jade were stunned.
"How is this possible?!" Yuan Tiexin nearly gasped.
The Mana in Stone Forest City wasn't as dense as it had been, but the instant they had arrived, Yuan Tiexin felt far more relaxed. Moreover, his five senses had become sharper.
He had been exploring a Level 100 neutral map with Purple Jade for quite some time, and the environment's chaotic energy had made them both feel exhausted, which had a considerable effect on their combat power. Even when they had plenty of Stamina and Concentration remaining, they had been forced to return to a city to recover from the exhaustion.
However, even when they had fully recovered their Stamina and Concentration, the chaotic energy hadn't faded from their bodies completely.
And yet, as he stood in Stone Forest City, Yuan Tiexin rapidly recovered from that exhaustion. At this rate, he'd be free from the chaotic energy within a few hours.
"Uncle Yuan, my recovery rate is at least twice as fast as before! If we could rest here, we'd be at least 30% more efficient when exploring a Level 100 neutral map!" Purple Jade exclaimed, unable to hide her shock.
The chaotic energy within Level 100 neutral maps was the biggest issue the various superpowers, including the Secret Pavilion, faced when exploring these areas. This chaotic energy forced players to rest in cities for long periods.
However, if they could rest in Stone Forest City, they could explore 30% more of a Level 100 neutral map in the same amount of time. In addition, Stone Forest City was now located within a Level 100 neutral map, which would save them plenty of travel time.
Overall, if the Secret Pavilion's members could set up a base in Stone Forest City, they could spend at least twice as much time exploring Level 100 neutral maps as other players…
With this much additional time, the Secret Pavilion's members would have a massive lead over the various superpowers' members.
After taking a moment to inspect the city's unique environment, Yuan Tiexin and Purple Jade headed toward the Stone Forest City's central plaza. The city was mostly the same as they remembered. The only difference was the neutral race NPCs that filled the city streets. Many of these NPCs had set up stalls and hawked their wares.
When Yuan Tiexin took a peek at a stall's goods, he felt a little faint for a moment.
These neutral NPCs were actually selling Level 100 weapons and equipment and of considerably high-quality. He had even spotted Level 100 Secret-Silver Weapons for sale. Of course, these items weren't cheap, and some cost special materials. Fortunately, a driven Tier 2 expert could gather the necessary funds and materials for the items.
Level 100 weapons and equipment!
Players that hadn't yet begun to explore Level 100 neutral maps might not find anything special about these items, but it was a different story for players like Yuan Tiexin, who constantly grinded in Level 100 neutral maps nowadays.
When exploring Level 100 neutral maps, acquiring a single piece of Level 100 Bronze Equipment was already a challenge, not to mention obtaining Level 100 Secret-Silver Weapons and Equipment. And yet, the NPCs in Stone Forest City were publicly selling such items…
"What should we do now, Uncle Yuan? We've already rejected Black Flame's offer," Purple Jade asked nervously. She was also surprised to see the weapons and equipment for sale in the various NPC stalls. She had never expected Stone Forest City to become this amazing.
If the Secret Pavilion's members could operate out of Stone Forest City, they'd complete their Tier 3 Promotion Quests far faster than the various superpowers.
"Don't worry. Since Black Flame has brought us here, he will ask if we wish to continue our partnership. We can renegotiate with him then," Yuan Tiexin said. He hadn't expected Stone Forest City to offer so many benefits, either. Very calmly, he continued, "Let's buy some of the weapons and equipment for now."
While Yuan Tiexin and Purple Jade systematically cleaned out the stalls in the central plaza, Shi Feng finished organizing his Knight Division.
He then left to check on his guests and told Yuan Tiexin, "I've finished my business in the city and have other matters I need to attend to, so I'll part with you two here."
Since he had settled his affairs in Stone Forest City, he'd have to begin transferring Zero Wing's experts to the city. Once they had settled and could get to work, Zero Wing's development would reach new heights.
Shi Feng then pulled a Return Scroll for White River City from his bag and began to activate it.
Yuan Tiexin was stunned. He hadn't thought that Shi Feng would be so indifferent, not even bothering to ask how they felt about the city. He certainly hadn't expected Shi Feng to act as he did.
"Please wait, Guild Leader Black Flame!" Yuan Tiexin shouted as Shi Feng unfurled his Return Scroll.
"Is there something else you need, Elder Yuan?" Shi Feng asked, giving the older man a strange look.
"It's about the condition you mentioned earlier," Yuan Tiexin said, exasperated. "We'd like to renegotiate. If Zero Wing can offer more of Stone Forest City's shares, we might be able to agree to the condition."
"I'm afraid that won't be possible. Zero Wing will not hand over any more of Stone Forest City's shares. If the Secret Pavilion must still reject my condition, I'll have to accept the unfortunate answer," Shi Feng said, instantly rejecting Yuan Tiexin's offer.
With the enhanced magic array in Stone Forest City, Zero Wing's development speed would skyrocket. Even if Zero Wing couldn't cut off one of Starlink's main sources of income, it wouldn't be long before his Guild could strike back at Starlink. Hence, he had no reason to give away more of Stone Forest City's profits.
"Alright, you win. The Secret Pavilion will revoke Starlink's membership," Yuan Tiexin said, sighing. Shi Feng's immediate rejection made it clear that the Secret Pavilion wouldn't gain any more from the transaction. He continued, "However, our Guild Leader asks that you can open the city to the Secret Pavilion's members within two days."
"That won't be a problem." Shi Feng nodded.
Stone Forest City was a Basic City and required a lot of players to fortify it. In the Bottomless Abyss, Shi Feng had been able to rely on NPC soldiers, but now, he could only rely on players and his Knight Division. However, his Knights would guard his entire territory, not just Stone Forest City, and unfortunately, if he relied solely on Zero Wing's experts to defend the city, the city wouldn't be able to operate at full capacity. Hence, the Secret Pavilion's experts were essential.
Shortly after Shi Feng and the Secret Pavilion agreed on their deal's terms, the shocking information spread throughout the Secret Chamber of Commerce.
The Secret Chamber of Commerce had officially revoked Starlink's membership!


Starting over once more, he has entered this “living game” again in order to control his own fate.

This time, he will not be controlled by others.

Previously the Level 200 Sword King, he will rise to a higher peak in this life.

Methods to earn money! Dungeon conquering strategies! Legendary Quests! Equipment drop locations! Undiscovered battle techniques!

Even the secrets Beta Testers were unknowledgeable of, he knows of them all.

Massive wars, life advancement, entering Godhood, sword reaching to the peak; a legend of a man becoming a Sword God has begun.

The plan of Belial required him to gain some authenticity, so he needed a reputable name in the merchant community, with this he could seek fraud cultivation manuals. 

So the first two hundred would be actual cultivation manuals, whether these were valuable ones would depended on Belial's mood.

With that in mind he decided to set up a stall, which he could sell such manuals to the public for a high price. Whether they could figure out these were authentic manuals depended on the persons eye.

Belial then rented a stall with a loan, if he didn't earn enough money he would be in a small debt. He then wrote on the front of the stall, Authentic Cultivation Manuals for sale, Pave your way on the martial path!

With such a lucrative title one would naturally come to check this stall out, for a mortal to cultivate into a immortal truly was provocative in their minds. For the first wave of people were the poor within the market, however seeing the prices they were quickly disheartened. 

For a single Manual Belial had priced it ten thousand chronos or higher depending on the rank, cultivation manuals were ranked in certain categories the lowest being bronze, then silver, then gold, then platinum, then mythical, then ancient, and finally god rank.

Of course there were more however one had to be of a high cultivation state to even start their cultivation with those, or one would surely fall.

Then, after word spread about the mysterious shop that had just opened the rich quickly swarmed over for a chance to become an immortal, which in their hearts was truly "immortal." However even if one is immortal one can still die, one would lose all one loved in the sands of time. 

"Hello mister I would like to buy your best manual, if this is a joke don't even think about living another day!" The young master said as he started to laugh in a ominous tone

Belial then chuckled as he stared at the man, of course he didnt take such words to heart, for in this world he was the overlord residing over these humans. He then responded in a serious tone

"Don't go offending those who you shouldn't, however you have asked for my best manual this would cost you 1 million chronos." Since this looked like a pampered young master he might aswell take as much money as he could. 

"Humph, since this manual costs much this must be of a high grade!" The pampered young master said in a arrogant tone. 

The young master pulled out a golden note, which was worth precisely 1 million chronos, this note was backed by the richest bank in the world Golden Liung Bank.

Belial greedily grabbed the check as he looked at the future of the money, beauties and all the great food he could want. Drool started to appear on the corners of Belials mouth as he stared at the check and thought about what he could do. 

The pampered young master simply stared at Belial in disgust, he didnt care though he had achieved his goal of trying to gain money. 

Now that he had achieved his goal he shut down his shop, with a staggering single sale, which could be counted as one of the "greatest" within this market. 

Belial repayed his debt to the shop owner as he quickly walked away with a sinister smile planted on his face. He then thought to himself 'Little did he know that this was merely a silver rank manual, these in the lower world truly are easy to scam!'

He then went to search for maps of this world since currently he was extremely unfamiliar with both landmarks and ancient areas. 

Belial quickly bought as many authentic maps as he could of ancient areas within the world, he quickly found two intriguing areas, one a ancient battleground of gods the other an ancient palace. 

One was to the north while the other was to the south, the one to the north was closer to him so he decieded to head north, and afterwards head south towards the ancient palace. 

The ancient battlefield would have dense amounts of killing aura due to the many deaths that had happended in the area, whether this was dense enough to help his scales form quicker was up to fate to decide. 

...

After a couple hours of walking he was around a hundred miles away from the ancient battlefield, he had figured this out due to the key mountain in between the city and the battlefield, which he decieded to make his camp for the night. 

Belial then got some sticks to start his fire, although this would be a easy task the real challenge was starting the fire, in which he had no clue on how to do that. Although he had lived a long life previously he had many servants which would do the menial tasks, but since he had another life he would trust no one, due to many betrayals from his previous life.

A world of phenomena, a world of geniuses, a world of death. A fragment of a soul comes whole, decreeing death upon all, not pardoning the elderly, children, it sets their fate. An aura of death flows through the world, the god has arrived all you shall see is the dark coldness of the abyss of everlasting death. Top 200; 1 extra Chapters weekly Top 100: 2 extra Chapters weekly Top 50: 3 extra chapters weekly Top 40 5 extra chapters weekly Every 500 Collections: 4 Extra Chapters

Dara involuntarily lowered his shoulders, his chin sank to his chest.

"Yes, but I was thinking about finding a solution, the key to the treasure, Hmm, hmm," said Dara with a wheeze.

"But I didn't find a clue, on the other hand, I don't know what topographic map to look for: what is it called? What is its scale? Where was it published? "- afflicted Dara.

"Yes, and is this a map?" Maybe some code? Now, you guessed it damn complicated ?! And I thought I would get rich quickly, oooh! "Dara groaned and yelled.

He mused with himself, even rather with his subconscious. But the subconscious knew better how to rummage through his mental knowledge base, in his head there were a lot of different information, data, fragments of conversations. The subconscious mind did not need to drink special pills to combine the scattered data into a single system.

The subconscious mind can do this best.

Dara, I thought, but the subconscious told him: hey Bro, don't think too much, let's go to the bomb shelter and see if there are clues there? Where is the best place to hide a leaf? In the woods! Where is the best place to hide diamonds (thanks to Hollywood movies) in the pond! And topographic maps are best hidden in a library or room for propaganda and campaigning.

You remember that the bomb shelter was built before the start of World War II. In the house for senior officers. In those days, the second empire especially developed ideological struggle, agitation and propaganda.

At every factory, military unit, and collective farm, rallies of party activists were organized every Saturday, where they urged non-partisans to join the party. They branded the enemies of the second empire, held political informational conversations with visual aids. Sarcastic posters were shown as a second empire, attacking capitalism and the bourgeoisie with boots.

It showed on topographic maps how imperialist capitalist military bases surround the second empire from all sides.

"You didn't catch what I'm talking about, Dara?" asked the subconscious. Dara imagined her sitting in a virtual room on a thick cotton blanket and chuckling at him.

"Yes, you are right, I think I understand what it is about!" Dara began to jump up and down, he could not restrain joy.

"It seems we are back on horses!" (That is, back in business).

"Exactly, if there is a place for campaigning in the bomb shelter, there may be topographic maps, even if I can't find the key to the treasure, we can always sell old topographic maps, they haven't been taken into account anywhere, they have been deducted from the balance sheet!" shone with an unknown fire.

"Are you going to sell topographic maps?" How much do they cost? "His subconscious mind clarified the information from Dar.

"Oh, don't tell me that for a copy of the card in electronic form you can get from 1 to 15 dollars at Stokes, but the original costs from 100 to 570 dollars. Already some income, if there are a lot of cards, you can easily earn "10 thousand dollars" in anticipation of a big jackpot worn by Dara's hands.

"Well, tomorrow we will try to catch luck by the tail!" he said.

***

Baraz, his grandfather, Barno, gathered with him in company to visit the old house of the "specialist." Under or near which there was a bomb shelter.

 The young girl became interested, she wanted to remove it on her iPhone and put it on the network. But Baraz forbade her to do this. Barno was angry, but then thought that just going down to cover would be interesting. Then she will be able to tell about this to her American friends in New Jersey.

Dara was a little worried that the uninvited comrades put him in search of prey! But to refuse them was not possible.

Tomorrow morning he was supposed to meet with Aghabek, and perhaps wealth was waiting for him there !!!

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But before they began to search, Dara had to get acquainted with the Instructions for the search for historical artifacts

- the study of laws, regulations regarding the search for treasures and historical artifacts in the country

- obtaining permission to search activities and registration card

- payment of tax on point activity

- upon receipt of income through the sale of finds (coins, jewelry, etc.), from advertising from YouTube, up to a certain month, pass a certificate of income and pay income tax

• Medieval Guides, ancient manuscripts, old books - write out titles

• Old maps - find names from guides on the map

• Archaeological, historical, historical and geographical modern bibliography, specify map data

• Toponymic names of geographical places, highlight on old and new topographic maps, determine the name, how it is translated, what is their etymology.

• Search for locations using high resolution satellite images in Google Map

• Creating a database, with the registration of information about the coordinates, toponymic names, years of occurrence, entering additional attribute information

- Verification of the data collected in the registry of cultural heritage in the organization involved in their protection

- Exclusion from the database of historical places that already have the status of cultural heritage monuments (this is a red zone where any research is prohibited by law)

• Creation of thematic digital maps of the terrain of the first approximation, without specification on the locality (without data binding in field studies)

• Clarification of the location of historical artifacts on the ground, using a hand-held GPS navigator and a satellite image of high and super high spatial resolution

• Creating a refined thematic digital map with places of historical artifacts (but not in the red zone)

- Departure to the place with instruments (geophysical, metal detectors, an instrument for determining the spectra, there is special software that allows the spectra to determine the possible presence of underground foundations of buildings, quadcopters with 3D laser scanners - if they are allowed in the country for use)

- Conducting research, entering all the objects found in the database in which layer is found. When discovering monuments of cultural heritage, call specialists from museums and organizations for their protection.

Finding treasures at the official level is not easy, being a white seeker of treasures is not as profitable as it seems, but everything is interesting according to the law.

Dara, I thought, yes, apparently, I'll have to ask Baraz again to help me with submitting permission and registration, getting the search engine ID card!


Tomorrow you still need to go to the bomb shelter and maybe find the key to the treasure ?!The clock is already 5 hours 45 minutes in the morning. You need to sleep at least 4 hours, so as not to fall on the street from lack of strength, Dara thought.

COMPLETED

A small story about adventurers, local history enthusiasts, treasure hunters. They wander around cities, forests, mountains, steppes and deserts, seek metal artifacts and search magnets for historical artifacts and sell some of them at auctions, donate some to museums and keep some in their home collections. They work in archives and funds, second-hand bookkeepers do not forget, they look for old books, road workers and topographic maps of the 17-20 centuries.

There is the only main character Fang and his partner Dara.

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English is the same as in other novels. While it is far from good. The approximate number of chapters is from 60 to 100. Updates 3 chapters per week. The number of words is from 600 to more 1200.

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This is a work of art. Any resemblance to real people or real events is purely coincidental.

Even the passers-by beside Steve were angered by the despicability of the Death Combat Unit. As there was a certain risk of going out to perform missions, accidental deaths occurred every year in the army. Hence, Alex's remark was obviously threatening Steve's women.
Although Steve didn't want to accept the challenge, after such an obvious threat, he felt that he had no choice but to accept it.
"Alright, I'll accept your challenge!" Steve said coldly. "But, I have one condition. In a week from now, we'll be competing in the ring. This week, you can't do anything to all the recruits, including Lucy, Sofia, and Vivien."
"No, as we'll lose a lot of contribution points if I agree to that." Alex refused immediately.
"Well…Okay... 10,000 contribution points then! As long as you agree to my conditions, in a week, we will wager 10,000 points," Steve offered.
Alex's pupils dilated as he heard Steve's offer. He hadn't expected Steve to promise to make such an amazing bet. The others on the scene were shocked too! Audrey's face was especially shocked, as 10,000 contribution points was a huge sum, even for the Watt Battle Team.
"Hahahahaha! Can you even take out 10,000 contribution points?" Alex laughed sarcastically. "You're clearly just trying to buy some time. Do you think I'll actually fall for your trickery?"
Just then, Steve switched on his smart bracelet, marked out 10,000 contribution points, and stored them in the Original Gravity Tower. Looking at the 10,000 contribution points that were now instantly being displayed on the screen of the Original Gravity Tower, everyone on the scene was stunned!
Even Alex's pupils contracted, as even he did not have more than 1,000 contribution points on him, yet Steve had taken out 10,000 points in one breath! Moreover, even though the Death Combat Unit extorted points from recruits every month, they still did not have more than 2,000 contribution points!
Besides, after a few months, the strength of the new recruits had risen, so the Death Combat Unit had not dared to extort as excessively as before. So, the veterans had only dared to blackmail the recruits on their own terms in the first three months of the recruits' enlistment. Even then, 10,000 contribution points were far more than what they had earned through months of hard work.
Alex's greedy desire was burning, and he immediately laughed and said, "Hahahahahaha! I agree with your conditions!"
"Steve, are you crazy? That's 10,000 contribution points!" Audrey exclaimed anxiously.
"Mr. Steve, if you are willing to pay 5,000 contribution points, we, the Doomsday Combat Unit are willing to protect all of the recruits and ensure that they will not fall victim to blackmail or extortion this entire year!" Just then, a strong, white-haired man stood up and spoke. He had a serious look on his face.
"No need for 5,000 contribution points, as it will only take 4,000 contribution points for the Watt Combat Unit to guarantee that no more recruits will be provoked," Audrey said coldly.
Alex's face changed, as he was unwilling to provoke either the Doomsday Combat Unit or the Watt Combat Unit. However, he did raise an objection...
"You're breaking the rules!" Alex's face was ferocious as he spat out the words.
"Breaking the rules? Are you so shameless that you still have the gall to talk about us in such a way?" Audrey sneered at him.
Steve waved his hand and said, "I'll accept your kindness in my heart. However, I accepted his challenge not only to protect the recruits, but also to make the Doomsday Combat Unit pay the price!"
At this point, Steve's eyes were cold. Since Alex had tipped the scales, Steve would never let go of them so easily!
"Hahaha, you've all heard that he's determined to accept the challenge!" Alex couldn't help but laugh, as he was proud of himself for pushing Steve to this point.
He clearly did not take Steve's anger or threat about his wanting them to pay seriously. As for the others, some people thought that Steve was truly crazy. After all, despite Steve's outstanding performance, and even his defeat of Lawrence, Alex's strength far surpassed Lawrence's, so he was truly a threat to Steve!
A qualitative leap would take place when the basic cell value exceeded 400 points. Thus, keeping this in mind, the strength gap between the two was vast!
According to Steve's last performance, his basic cell value was above 380 points. However, he had recently remained on the eighth level of the Original Gravity Tower, which showed that his strength had not improved at all. As such, there seemed to be no hope of his gaining victory in a fight with Alex, who had a far higher basic cell value.
"Don't get too happy too soon." Steve looked at them teasingly. "Our bet is 10,000 contribution points. So, could you all take that out? If you lose, you'll have to pay 10,000 contribution points too..."
"Don't worry about that! We can still afford 10,000 contribution points." As Alex was greedy beyond measure, he wouldn't dare give up now. After all, in his viewpoint, the 10,000 contribution points were already in his wallet!
Lest Steve regret it and change his mind, Alex rushed to complete the challenge contract. This way, the funds would be locked in as long as they could gather them before the challenge began.
Meanwhile, the others just shook their heads and thought Steve was being very foolish. In their minds, it was just like giving 10,000 contribution points to Alex for free, as they were sure that Steve did not have any hopes of winning this challenge!
With the challenge contract in hand, Alex left excitedly. As she watched him leave, Audrey couldn't help but sigh. "Didn't you just give them contribution points for free by doing this?"
"Are my contribution points so easy to earn?" Steve smiled calmly, then changed the subject. "I'm collecting detailed maps of the Magical Beast Mountains. Are the Watt Battle Team's maps for sale?"
"It's just a map, so I don't see why I couldn't sell it to you," Audrey said, while she took out one of their maps for Steve.
As the Watt Battle Team collected more maps that were more detailed than the others, Steve was excited to receive it. After receiving the map, Steve sorted out all of the maps that he had collected so far. Now that he had this newest map, he had all the information regarding forbidden zones, evolutionary magical beast areas, and original level magical beast areas marked out clearly before him!
After studying it all for just a brief moment more, Steve immediately set off for his mission.
...
Meanwhile, Alex had returned to the Death Combat Unit to report on the challenge with Steve.
"Hahahaha! You did a very good job!" Hayden Slater, the captain of the Death Combat Unit, clapped Alex on the shoulder with excitement. After all, with 10,000 contribution points, they would earn more money than they did blackmailing recruits!
"Captain, will the blackmailing of recruits be canceled now?" Alex asked.
Hayden grinned coldly. "Blackmailing recruits, although we don't earn that much with it, is still worth a couple thousand contribution points, so how can we let them go to waste? Besides, you are the one who agreed to the challenge.. Our combat unit did not agree to the conditions!"
After hearing this, the rest of the Death Combat Unit understood his sinister meaning loud and clear! Thousands of contribution points was also a large number, and naturally, the Death Combat Unit would not give those up so easily. They could not miss out on accepting the challenge and Steve's 10,000 contribution points, but the plan of extorting recruits could not be abandoned.

Blue Star Year 2019, the alien invasion of the Blue Star. The planet has been transformed, air, gravity, magnetic field all sent changes. Air and water are highly toxic and polluted. In order to adapt to the environment, human beings and organisms have embarked on the path of gene evolution.

"I, soldier Steve Washington, hereby vows to protect mankind, bring hope and light to mankind, fight for the future of mankind, and lead mankind against aliens..."

An unconspicuous recruit read his oath during the enlistment of the recruits.
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'What kind of rifles are these?'
The boy was staring at two rifles. They were the loot he had gotten from the police officer's but he couldn't utilize them.
Why?
First of all this was the very first time he was holding a gun.
Second, these cops had no bullets at all. He had rummaged through their bodies but found nothing except for four wallets.
He opened one of them and there a couple of bills in it. He took one out and studied it.
There was an old man wearing a weird hat in the front with an unknown language written on it. He flipped it and it said:
'State Bank of Pakistan'
'I'm in Pakistan…'
'At least I know where I am…'
<You've Gained More Than Twenty Subordinates>
<As A Reward Credits Have Been Given>
<Credits: 220>
The boy was startled and then overjoyed. It was an unexpected reward to say the least.
'Game Eye where do I spend these credits?' The boy had no intention of hoarding them. It would be meaningless. Instead exchanging the credits for something useful was what he had in mind.
<You Can Access The Shop To Utilize Your Credits>
'How come I didn't know about this function?'
<The User Possessed Insufficient Funds>
'Alright...Let's focus on the shop'
The Shop was actually a golden C symbol present in the the top right corner of the boys vision.
He focused on it for two seconds and it enlarged presenting a holographic screen with a few categories:
'System Functions'
'System Skills'
'Miscellaneous Items'
There were a few more categories but they were greyed out and the boy couldn't access them.
He asked the Game Eye why he couldn't access them but the Game Eye replied that his credits were too low to access this information so he ignored it.
He decided to check out the system functions first and there was a long list of items in it:
Detection Function:1200
-Detects Hostile 24/7

Speed Booster:700
-One-time speed buff by 300%

Air Glider:900
-Allows Mid-Air flight for ninety minutes
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Resurrection:One Trillion
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'So expensive!!'
'I can even get reincarnated if I have enough points!?'
Then the boy looked at his own points and felt depressed for some reason.
'I should check the miscellaneous items as well…'
He entered the miscellaneous items section and was dazzled by the long list of items. There was literally everything listed in here:

Kitchen Knife:10
Frying Pan:15
Stove:50
Oven:50
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Broom:3
Duster:3
Mop:3
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Elven Cleaning Maid:10,000
-Elves are renowned for their beauty. They are truly expert cleaners and a source of comfort.
Hobgoblin Accountant:12,000
-Goblin greed is insatiable and are true cheapskates. 
Demonic Butler:15,000
- A demon who can perform any form of duty including combat.
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Seeing the last few items such as the butler and maid the boy was surprised beyond words:
'This thing actually sells fantasy creatures as well!'
The boy could actually envision a giant castle surrounded by hordes of zombies and the boy looking down on them.
'Whoa...whoa...let's not get ahead of ourselves…'
'First I need some sort of map'
As soon as the boy thought of maps the list scrolled by itself stopping on the maps section.
There were a bunch of maps present. The boy decided to buy a world map and a map of Pakistan. It cost him sixty credits. Twenty for the world map and forty for the map of Pakistan.
Although he had the 'map' function it had a limited range thus,he couldn't get a definitive grasp of where he was.
Now the boy was left with a hundred and fifty credits.
'I should check out system skills and see if there's anything I can afford in there.m but before that…'
The boy redirected his attention to his surroundings. There were seventeen zombie farmers and four cops dressed in green uniforms.
There was one person who was out of place there. It was the girl. She'd also turned into a zombie.
The boy commanded her spiritually to walk towards him and she complied.
'Okay...now I can conclude that consuming zombie flesh also causes a person to become a zombie.'
'Good…'
The boy spiritually commanded all of his subordinates to hunt for humans. The hunger that a zombie feels is no joke…
As the zombie dispersed he wasn't about them not finding any humans.
Why?
Because every single zombie out there has heightened senses. They can literally detect life force.
This information came from the Game Eye free of charge.
What is life force?
The boy had asked the Game Eye the same thing but he needed credits for it thus he ignored it but he still had a few conjectures about it:
He had learned in his biology class that every single object emits some form of radiations.
Even rocks and trees do that but they're too small to be harmful. They are called background radiations.
Perhaps,zombies can distinguish between them thus successfully identifying living organisms.
'Now...what should I spend the rest of my credits on…?'

"I'll KILL EVERY SINGLE HUMAN IF I HAVE TO!!!"
A young boy retains his inelligence due to a mysterious 'GAME EYE' despite becoming a zombie. This is the legend of how he carves a path towards his survival in an era of heroes and beasts through mounds of corpses and seas of blood.
Will he really continue down this path or find an entirely different path...???

When it came to the portraits, Li Du shifted his responsibility to others.
He had to give Hans something to do and something to show for it, which made Hans feel important to the team. Else Hans would not be happy to feel useless, and Li Du would be overworked.
Since Hans gave him the good news, Li Du felt reassured and could participate in the star party with a carefree spirit.
Driving away from the town took about half an hour. There were many small roads in the mountains, but they did not have to worry about losing their way. There were many cars on the road because many of the treasure hunters joined as well. They just have to follow the others.
While there was still a distance away from the party, they could see it in no time.
Li Du had read about the event before but had underestimated its size.
It was less like an astronomy gathering and more like a New Year party.
Tents were propped up all over the wide grass, and many more were being set up as he watched.
The tents were of various sizes, and the bigger ones had shelves with all kinds of products on them, for display and sale.
In one spot, there was a stand, and on the grass in front of it, there was a greased-paper spread with a motley assortment of things that looked like a flea market.
To Li Du's surprise, an area was set aside, surrounded by a wooden fence, with a few horses grazing at a leisurely pace, and a group of cowboys gathered to chat as if they were about to embark on a horseback ride.
More than that, there were many people dressed up to go hiking and strolling. They were not carrying binoculars, but only hiking bags and maps to study the terrain.
Li Du was stunned and said, "Is this a party for astronomy lovers? If no one had told me, I would have thought this was a yard sale."
When he entered, he found a garage sale booth and even saw an acquaintance, black tooth Robbie from the Hersman garage sale!
The two men met and then smiled simultaneously.
They hugged and Li Du asked, "Black tooth, why are you here?"
Robby smiled and showed two big, black front teeth, which were the source of his nickname.
"I love astronomy," he said cheerfully. "I love studying galaxies. Of course, it's nonsense. My son loves it, though, so I took him here."
As he spoke, he pointed to a small African American boy of seven or eight years old, who was leaning over a telescope.
Li Du smiled. "I thought you were here for a yard sale."
Robey shrugged and said, "You guessed it. I brought some things. There are people who love these, and I could use the chance to make some money. You have to earn your way, don't you?"
They said goodbye after having a small chat. The party was very large, and there were many people, about twenty thousand of them. With so much going on, Li Du wanted to have a good look around.
However, this was not the world's biggest starry night party. The largest-scale event of this kind was is in Tainai, Japan, where it was held less often than in Fort Davis. Its duration was shorter, but it covered a vast area and was very popular.
Tainan's star party was a two-day event held every April and August, 250 kilometers north of Tokyo. It would unite astronomy lovers from around the world.
The Japanese government attached great importance to this activity, and the local people regarded it as an opportunity to show their culture to the outside world, so the scale of the event was huge.
In addition to observation, shooting, and astronomy equipment exhibition and sales activities, there would be rock concerts, model rocket launch competitions, and a variety of children's entertainment activities.
By contrast, the star party at Fort Davis was less elaborate.
Li Du went for a walk and found an area that was somewhat different from the rest of the party scene. There were many people around cannon-like telescopes sitting on the ground. There were also people walking around, and many of them had something similar to a telescope in their hands.
He looked at it and realized that all the astronomy fans were here.
Li Du beckoned Godzilla and Brother Wolf to bring the telescope box. They found a place, then opened the box and began to assemble the telescope.
The brackets of the two telescopes were laid out, and many people were drawn in to look around and discuss:
"Hey, nice, Dobson Newton reflector telescope, this is cool."
"Wow, the all-wood Dobson telescope? I bet it's handmade. Who made it? What a genius!"
"Man, this telescope looks a little familiar. Two years ago, I recall, someone had brought it here, but I don't think they were these guys."
While Brother Wolf and the others were unpacking the telescope, Li Du continued to mill around, observing the activity.
The American people had a crazy DIY spirit, which was also true in the field of astronomical telescopes. Various kinds of telescopes were appearing at the scene of the party, some of which were full of personality.
Before the 1970s, telescopes were expensive all over the world. At that time, there were amateur telescope DIY campaigns and roadside astronomy campaigns in the United States.
Among them, the Dobson telescope was one of the masterpieces. Both telescopes that Li Du had won were of the Dobson brand.
After the 1970s, there were more and more telescope manufacturers in the United States, and new types of telescopes used by astronomy enthusiasts gradually came to the market, such as the Schmidt-Cassegrain and the Sutov-Cassegrain types.
Li Du learned all this from the Internet in the past few days, but he found that he was not a theory leaner. He wanted to apply the knowledge in real life.
Best of all, he wanted to find a master, because he did not know how to use a telescope, and certainly not how to use it to look for famous galaxies in the night sky.
While Li Du was milling around, Brother Wolf suddenly came to find him and said, "There is an issue. Someone said that the telescope belongs to him."
Li Du was stunned. "What? Let's go back and find out."
While he brought these telescopes to the party, he was indeed a little concerned became some of the warehouses in the action contained confiscated property. There were stolen goods stashed in the warehouse by thieves.
Then the thief was caught, but the police could not trace everything he had stolen. He would, of course, cover his tracks to minimize his sentence.
Such warehouses were common, and many treasure hunters have made their fortunes from them.
Li Du had worried that someone might have stolen the telescopes and stored them in a warehouse in Fort Davis, but after he thought about it, he decided that could never happen.
Stargazers kept a tight watch on their telescopes, and there was an unspoken rule saying that if you wanted to touch someone's telescope, you had to greet the owner first.
Therefore, with all the eyes around the party, it would be hard to steal a telescope this big without anyone noticing.
That was why he had the confidence to come with the two telescopes, but now things looked bad.


They love gold, and they love silver. Even more so, they love gems that dazzle, like stars across the skies. 
Firearms, jewelleries, and precious metals; A collector’s world will not be complete without antiques.  
Storage auctions, old goods trade, re-estate sales and gold-digging. But the truth is, if one wants to make money, then the supreme way is through searching for the legendary treasures. 
Holding the fort, there’s an ocelot, a wolf, and an Andes condor. At the side, there’s a loyal hound, an irascible ape, and an African honey badger. Who said that you can only rely on humans when treasure hunting?! 

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