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Chapter 50: Plundering Activities Targeting the Indigenous Population
Chapter 50: Plundering Activities Targeting the Indigenous Population
On the afternoon of the third day of the third week, Mo Xue and Xie Yu led 1,000 Blood Frenzy Goblins and 100 Cursed Goblins into the two-way teleportation portal.
Of course, they didn’t rush in recklessly. They sent scouts to investigate and discovered that it was located in a hidden cave, surrounded by a desolate mountain.
From the intelligence, it seemed to be territory controlled by the Undead. This made Qin Muye quite worried.
The risk was simply too great.
Qin Muye instructed Mo Xue to take the two-way teleportation portal with him after leaving, storing it in his inventory. This would make it easier to escape if necessary, and he wouldn’t have to worry about his territory being attacked due to a lack of troops.
There were two two-way teleportation portals, one in Qin Muye’s possession and the other in the cave. He had no idea where the Undead faction had obtained it.
Or perhaps it was Molik who had procured it?
Qin Muye speculated that Molik had likely had previous interactions with this Undead faction, which was why he was willing to take the risk of entering the Red Wind Plain to deliver the two-way teleportation portal.
It was well known that chaotic magic and divine power made spatial teleportation unreliable, and entering the area was a significant risk.
Qin Muye learned this from the books recorded in the Mage Class Certificate.
As he watched the goblins enter the two-way teleportation portal, it dimmed once again, clearly having been stored in the inventory on the other side, causing it to lose its spatial coordinates and become dormant.
"Intermediate treasures are like this, I wonder if advanced treasures could be inter-server teleportation portals?"
Qin Muye couldn’t help but speculate, but he quickly dismissed the thought. After all, that wasn’t something he needed to consider at this stage.
He didn’t store the two-way teleportation portal, as Mo Xue and the others would need to return through it. If he stored it in his inventory, they wouldn’t be able to come back.
However, he didn’t leave either. Instead, he moved it to the library, where he could read books and keep an eye on the situation. If anything unexpected happened, he could store it quickly.
By evening, Qin Muye noticed his points starting to rise, increasing by 5,314 all at once. Clearly, the goblins had completed their first plundering mission.
Besides points, there were also resources and treasures, but these would need to be handed over by Mo Xue and the others when they returned. Otherwise, they would remain in their inventories and wouldn’t be transferred to Qin Muye’s resource warehouse.
Heroes possess only some of the abilities of a lord, not all of them.
For example, Qin Muye’s inventory was directly connected to the resource warehouse, so the size of the warehouse determined the size of his inventory.
Heroes, on the other hand, had limited storage space. Resources were converted into numerical values and didn’t occupy inventory space.
He exchanged all his points for basic building blueprints, then studied, built, and upgraded them in a seamless process.
There was no point in saving them. It was already the third day of the plundering activity, and more than half the time had passed. He couldn’t afford to save the points, as he would need to clear them out by the end of the week.
It was better to use them all now.
Glancing at the points leaderboard, he saw that the top-ranked True Dragon Emperor had already reached the seven-digit mark, apparently having annihilated some significant faction and was steadily approaching the eight-digit mark. This made Qin Muye’s eyes twitch.
The second place, Jiangmo Jushizhe, was also no ordinary figure, having already reached the seven-digit mark, and his points were rising at a steady pace, slightly slower than Zhenlong Tianzi.
However, this slight difference was causing the gap between their points to widen increasingly.
The points leaderboard only showed the top ten, and the points of these individuals were rising non-stop, climbing rapidly in a manner that was quite unbelievable.
Qin Muye's points had not moved since they reached 5,314, as it took some time for the goblins to find their targets, and it wasn't as if they could encounter them randomly.
From this, one could gauge the strength of the lord factions on the leaderboard, with an astonishing number of heroes and units.
Otherwise, how could they sustain a constant influx of points?
Furthermore, they had likely already established themselves in the Magic Continent, far surpassing the indigenous population.
"Is this activity targeting the indigenous population?"
Qin Muye narrowed his eyes. Although he didn't know how large the Magic Continent was, he understood one thing: if the purpose was to incite struggles among the lords, there was no need for such an activity. Any one of the top ten lords could easily wipe out all the others.
Moreover, what could small lords possibly have to offer? Three weeks of development, while fast, couldn't match the resources of the indigenous population. Scraping a few drops of oil from the poor couldn't compare to the scraps from the rich, let alone the fact that lords were even fewer in number, with only a hundred or so remaining. The time it took to find a lord could be used to earn hundreds of thousands of points.
So Qin Muye and the other small lords were quite safe, and he was even safer. As long as the Red Wind Disaster persisted, he didn't have to worry about anyone disturbing him.
Unless there were unexpected visitors like Molik, but the indigenous population likely had no time for that.
With all the lords raiding, his territory was probably the most peaceful, while chaos reigned elsewhere.
The combined points on the leaderboard were in the tens of millions, indicating that countless factions had been annihilated to accumulate such points.
Without resource buildings, all the resources would likely have been monopolized by the high-ranking lords.
"However, after this activity, life won't be easy for us small lords." Qin Muye felt somewhat helpless. The indigenous population already disliked them, and now with the raids, their reputation had hit rock bottom.
Raiding wasn't about destroying factions but about occupying cities, looting, and then leaving a mess behind, essentially like cutting grass.
If another outrageous activity were to occur in the fourth week, once the adaptation period was over, well, Qin Muye could already imagine the misfortunes that would befall the small lords. Fortunately, the Red Wind Plain, shrouded in chaotic magic and divine power, served as a natural barrier.
He had seen the terrifying power of these forces and knew that he couldn't deal with them at his current stage. So, to leave, he would need to use the two-way teleportation portal; otherwise, he would be confined within.
But Qin Muye didn't mind. If not for this raiding activity, he wouldn't have used the two-way teleportation portal.
"After this activity, there will likely be many 5th-stage lords." Qin Muye looked at the points on the leaderboard. The activity would end with at least tens of millions of points, a number so astronomical that he wouldn't dare dream of it.
(End of Chapter)
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