The Game of Global Mining

Chun felt a bit helplessly happy—another 1.4 million transferred in, huh, how is he supposed to spend this money?

Anyway, he hurriedly said hi to Aileen first, then continued on to the bank to cash out today’s 50,000 exchange limit—wait no, that’s wrong. He might be under surveillance by the Ten Lords now; how could he let them see him going into a bank?

Better wait until he gets to the next city, then sprint to the bank the moment he arrives. After all, the Ten Lords’ tracking reaction time takes ten or twenty minutes, plenty of time for him to cash out.

"Aileen, remind me when we head to the next city later."

Aileen laughed and said, "We just finished circling around already, we’ll be at the Teleportation Plaza in a sec, then we can go to the next city. How about Saint Martin City?"

"Sure! It happens to be noon too, we’ll hit the bank first, then go eat."

"Okay, dear."

And then the PK Tournament finally started. The referee said the champion would get extra rewards, but would the Ten Lords Association let him take the championship?

Chun noticed there was an extra golden flashy ring-shaped arena with five rings icon on the screen. Clicking it meant signing up.

— Tournament Notice: You have signed up for the match. The first stage of the tournament is the points round. You may choose Solo Points Match, Team Points Match, Melee Points Match...

Chun had heard this rule from Great God before. With tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of players worldwide, even if the system is willing to run itself to death to arrange 1v1 arenas for players, the players don’t have time to wait!

So there are team matches, and also the most popular mode among players: the Melee Points Match! They just throw a few hundred players into one arena to butcher each other in chaos—kill one and your points break even, kill two and you profit one point. It’s all about a conveyor-belt feast, efficient and thrilling.

After the points round ends, the top 1000 players in global points ranking will move on to group stage, elimination rounds and the like. Meanwhile, normal players can exchange their points for Mining Coins or Prestige.

In short, for Chun right now, he doesn’t even need to understand the rules. He just needs to keep winning all the way. And to win, the simplest mode is the melee match—heads rolling and points flooding in!

Then melee it is. He doesn’t even need to shoot guns or fire cannons, just summon his long-missed Angel Divine Pet and he’ll probably steamroll all the way. Of course, if he runs into the Ten Lords halfway, that’s another story.

— Choose Melee Points Match.

— System Notice: You have successfully signed up for the tournament. Sign-up deadline is in 12 hours.

Signing up is enough.

Then Aileen and the others arrived at the Teleportation Plaza and teleported to Saint Martin City.

Chun immediately located the bank on the map.

Then he turned to Libnahi behind him and said, "Fastest speed to the bank!"

They reached the bank and quickly handled the exchange procedures.

Chun was still a little uneasy, so he asked Libnahi again, "Any sign of space fluctuation tracking yet?"

"None!"

Only then did Chun relax: "Let’s go eat, and take a break while we’re at it!"

The four ladies all let out a long sigh of relief: "Feels like we’ve done more exercise in this half day than at any time before."

Hathaway laughed and said, "I actually know a pretty famous place around here. I’ll take everyone there to eat."

Chun was just agonizing over having too much money, so he asked, "Is it expensive? If it’s not, it’s on me!"

Hathaway chuckled, "It’s very expensive! But if I go eat there, I don’t have to pay!"

Holy Shit!

Only now did Chun realize he’d been too focused on switching to his main account, while he still had things to take care of on his alt!

"Aileen, you keep running the eating on auto."

"Okay, dear."

Chun immediately switched back to his alt.

And suddenly discovered... Earth Lotus had taken over, vigorously thrusting!!

Chun was instantly dumbfounded, his scalp tingling! Earth Lotus taking over his body and Maria—what kind of relationship does that count as?

Finally, Maria let out a long sultry cry and collapsed by the pool; with that, the whole pool returned to crystal clarity once more.

— System Notice: Congratulations! You have completed the Energy Fusion Ritual with Maria. Your Earth Flame Divine Domain and Forest Goddess Divine Domain have received a massive energy replenishment, and the duration of your Divine Domains has been greatly extended.

Uh...

Maria smiled and said, "I can tell you’ve got a busy new day ahead of you, so it’s time to end this. You can head out anytime."

Chun nodded, "Yeah, I’ve finished my business on the other side, we can set off."

Maria kissed him once more: "Go on!"

Honestly, Chun still felt a bit reluctant. When a game becomes too realistic, does this kind of mindset count as cheating?

The scene shifted, and Chun returned to the Lost Paradise plaza again.

As usual, he just needed to stand and wait for President Sister, right?

Sure enough, the familiar yet long-missed sound of high heels rang out, and the scene rippled again.

She was here! And this time, Chun could finally raise his head and look at her. Mm, very beautiful, very badass!

President Sister seemed a bit angry: "I heard you came back two hours ago. I’ve been waiting for you for more than two hours!"

Seriously, I’m a millennial hero now, and you still want to Pua me?

Da Chun Khan broke into a sweat and said, "I went back to the Earth Flame Tribe to receive the Earth Flame Divine Format reward."

President Sister nodded, "Not bad, your strength has skyrocketed. Let’s return to the manor."

So once again she led the way in front, Chun followed as usual, and the street scenery around them blurred and shrank in the same way.

But this time, Chun could sense the map route. The distance to this manor was much farther than he imagined, it wasn’t near the city at all! It felt like the map showed a distance even farther than from Lost Paradise to Black Dragon Fortress. So, the map of the lower levels of Hell really was much bigger than he’d imagined.

A large town appeared ahead, then flashed by in an instant—the manor had arrived.

Chun was stunned!

President Sister asked, "What is it?"

Chun answered truthfully, "I saw a city! I didn’t see it when I came before."

President Sister sighed with feeling, "Not bad, you really have reached Divine Tier strength. That’s my race’s Demon City. Right now, Hell is abuzz with your millennial legend, and even the Chamber of Commerce has been leveled to 100. You have deservedly completed the S-rank Newcomer Trial Quest. But that’s where the problem lies—you’re already a millennial legend, no longer a newcomer. In fact, your current strength doesn’t even need newcomer rewards. The other families participating in the trial are using this as a reason to demand you give up the reward, and also because you owe them a lot of debts from before—"

So the newcomer reward is outdated, huh?

Chun understood, "If they’re willing to use those debts to trade for my newcomer reward, I agree!"

President Sister frowned, "I wasn’t done talking. Now you even dare to cut me off, huh? You’re this easy to negotiate and compromise, that’s not exactly the Demon Race way of survival, is it?"

Chun said, "No, it’s because I’ve set my sights higher. I heard Hell has 72 Pillar Demon God Race families—does their status really never change?"

President Sister furrowed her brows, "Hell’s structure is basically the 7 Demon Monarchs, plus the Dragon Race and the 72 Pillar Demon Gods. This pattern seems to have never changed since ancient times."

But Earth Mother said it could change!

Chun said, "I want to challenge it! Starting from the one ranked 72nd!"

President Sister frowned again, "How did you suddenly develop such astonishing ambition?"

Chun sighed, "I went to the Void and felt how vast the world is, yet there’s no place for me to set down roots. I came back to the family and realized that without family bloodlines I’m destined to find it hard to progress. So I might as well fight for it myself!"