Chapter 879 - 716: The Ranking Has Risen by One
Chun completely lost himself in the time that followed, collecting resources throughout the forest.
Meanwhile, as the vine progressed, it continuously absorbed the Essence of Earth Life. Chun kept a consistent watch over the changes in the domain space.
He saw it. There was a small sparkling puddle in the center of the domain space, and this puddle was the absorbed Essence of Earth Life!
As the absorption increased, the puddle expanded into a small pond surrounded by the forest.
So, this domain also acts as a reserve water source! Great, look at me absorbing here... To be honest, Chun was suddenly troubled. He wanted to do things quietly, but couldn’t drain the trees to the point of withering. The Tree Spirit had already fled; this forest didn’t appear as vibrant as before. One wouldn’t notice unless they looked closely. Absorbing too much, well... We’ll see later.
Unconsciously, midnight arrived.
— System Alert: It is now April 29, 12 AM, Golden Continent time, 12 PM...
— System Alert: You received a daily salary of 100 Mining Coins from the Honorary Elder of Southern Canyon Village, and a daily salary of 200 Mining Coins as the second mate of the Black Iron Blade. The President of the Broken Bottle Commerce Association currently earns a daily salary of 291 Mining Coins.
— System Alert: Congratulations! You received a profit share of 1,000,000 Mining Coins from the pre-sale of 20,000 units of Yina’s "Bean Flour Oil Baguette." You received a profit share of 400,000 Mining Coins from the pre-sale of 400,000 units of "Xinna Smoke Processing Formula" and the "Original Divine Nanmei Anti-Plague Formula."
— Astrologer Profession Alert: Your fortune today is "Suitable for travel, suitable for mining." Today is Mars Day. Your "Chapter of Misfortune" today’s settings include misfortune as injury, paralysis, labor, false accusation, serious crime imprisonment, death race. You have accumulated 11 days of misfortune. The stronger the accumulated misfortune, the stronger the transformed fortune.
— System Alert: Code 0016, it’s lunch time, please have your meal promptly.
...
Ah, a new day!
Chun also felt slightly overexcited earlier and decided to slow down, letting Earth Lotus take over the reception.
He checked the main account and saw the previous system messages:
— System Alert: Congratulations! You shared the Grandmaster Level Spiritual Perception of your clone through "Soul Link," shared the clone’s promoted profession "Great Druid," and domain skill "Forest Goddess Domain."
Then, another 1.4 million was credited. Does this really let me go to the bank in-game for exchange at least?
Then he saw in the astrologer’s misfortune entry that "Death Race" had unexpectedly appeared! Ah, so during competitions, casting the big misfortune move has special effects, huh? Speaking of it, today is Mars Day, and tomorrow’s finals are my lucky Saturn Day! But what, I couldn’t catch up in time, well, the astrologer has the "Convert Saturn Day" big move anyway.
At this moment, Aileen’s voice came: "Dear, I’m going to eat."
"Go ahead, dear, you’ve worked hard."
Chun glanced at the hanging reading progress, with sporadic Dragon Language proficiency reminders.
This was expected; even if his soul state fully recovered, and Wisdom Transformation allowed wisdom to reach the peak of "???," what’s not understood would still remain misunderstood.
He checked the rankings:
8th place, Uriel
9th place, Sariel
10th place, Chun
11th place, Michael
12th place, King Arthur
13th place, Midnight Moore
...
Hmm?
Chun felt something was off with today’s leaderboard; he initially couldn’t find his name!
On second glance, he found it! But Chun suspected he might have been too overexcited earlier, confusing his vision!
On the third glance, Chun confirmed, shocked, and in disbelief!!
Holy shit, I broke into the Ten Lords! And didn’t just surpass Sariel, but the number one Michael!!! The usual absolute number one Michael actually fell to 11th place in a single day!?
Although Chun could roughly guess what happened, it was certainly Michael using up Privilege Points to suspend the competition. But how much could he have used? It shouldn’t have been enough to be surpassed by me. My main account hadn’t improved much, other than recovering the vine and sharing the Great Druid Domain, 1.4 million...
At this moment, the sound of Nabchuanxi’s high heels delivering food was heard outside. Okay, one can imagine the anger of the Ten Lords, and how they would change their minds and come after me!
Come on, I’m upright and not afraid of high heels...
...
Ten Lords Chat Group.
The lords simultaneously enjoyed "hamburgers, pizzas, colas, coffees" — these civilian lunches — while leisurely chatting.
Michael and Uriel’s coalition fleet continued to inch forward in the storm.
Michael wasn’t in the mood for burgers and continuously reviewed the video of the first and second rounds’ battle conditions, while the steward also launched the battle simulation system for 100,000 runs of tactical plans, indeed, even doubling the strength parameters of the opposing team, even hundreds of changes, the optimal first kill solution was still the leader of the mercenary corps, Kasha.
Just then, the chat group that was still full of laughter abruptly froze!
Michael suddenly felt something amiss and immediately looked up to check the fleet status; nothing was wrong?
"What’s wrong with everyone?"
Gabriel said solemnly: "Boss, your ranking..."
Michael chuckled in surprise: "I don’t even know how much Privilege Points I’ve owed, forfeiting the top position is sensible."
Seeing everyone still silent, Michael sensed something wasn’t right, clicked to open the rankings, and froze on the spot!
Michael’s nonchalant smile froze and disappeared.
Then, his pupils contracted, his body trembled, an unparalleled anger caused by his supreme dignity as monarch being humiliated erupted like a volcano: "Gabriel!!!"
Gabriel’s heart shook: "Understood! I’ll immediately haul him out of the secret room, like how Tata was rammed, arrange a dozen red-named to repeatedly crush him... we were planning to drag him out tonight, now advance the plan."
Sariel also immediately said: "Steward, remove posts globally from hot searches, no one allowed to discuss. Quickly prepare a document, make it the boss conducting a secret mission."
Steward: "Received!"
Uriel softly advised: "Boss, don’t let it affect the competition mood..."
Michael sighed: "Uriel, your work is simply perfect, to deal with this group of NPCs, the price I’ve paid is unimaginably huge."
Metatron said: "Boss, don’t worry, my side’s fabrication of evidence is almost complete, just these two days. Then send it to the Golden Divine Throne, and the boss can personally punish."
Michael laughed in anger: "Good, I suddenly figured it out."
...
Now, Chun anxiously awaited the reaction from the Ten Lords.
Sure enough, the feeding stopped, and Nabchuanxi pushed his trolley out of the sealed secret room.
Meanwhile, a private encrypted chat from Nabchuanxi arrived: "Received unexpected instructions, need to transport you to the ambush location of the Nightmare War right away."
NPCs certainly don’t understand player-level matters, this must be the Ten Lords seeking revenge. Although Chun prepared for this, he couldn’t help but feel a chill running down his spine: "Is it possible to arrange some patrol officers around me? But you’d better not show up."
Nabchuanxi said: "I can arrange some family members to be responsible for protection..."