Under mounting pressure from the public, the leaders of the major nations were forced to step forward and calm everyone down.
“This is nothing more than a fake moon landing. Huaxia wants to trick us into investing huge amounts of resources and sending people to their deaths. What we need to guarantee is the survival of our citizens. We have established shelters in various regions and are distributing food free of charge.”
“At present, none of our cities have entered an early city-defense battle. Furthermore, because the undead legion is growing stronger, we recommend that everyone level up slowly to avoid triggering a city-defense battle ahead of time and getting the entire team wiped out.”
“The game is fake. This is a Sixth-Generation War. Don’t believe those lies. It’s just a game, and the authorities won’t intervene.”
Of course, there were also some more honest countries that simply exposed everyone’s lies.
“You haven’t even cleared Walle’s dungeon, so stop thinking about an Origin-tier dungeon.
“At present, our country doesn’t have the technology to overcome the distance and gather elite players from every city in one place.
“Even with just one million people, we still wouldn’t be able to attack an Origin-tier dungeon.
“But Huaxia can.
“Mechanists can pinpoint coordinates, while Plant Masters can open passages. Huaxia was the first country whose government officially intervened in the game, and they also possess sufficient foundations.
“However, if we had Spatial Mages or Flight Masters, we could indeed give it a try—gathering the strongest players from every city and launching an assault on an Origin-tier dungeon.
“We hope you succeed.”
However, after the post was published, the comments were overwhelmingly negative.
“Impossible. The leaders of our country have already started selling out the nation. The game has changed the existing class system. Players with SSS-rank talents can rise to the top overnight, while the wealthy might awaken nothing better than an F-rank talent. They can only spend money to pile resources onto themselves and force their way to higher talents.”
“That’s right. On our server, a wealthy businessman wanted a better talent and greater strength, so he bought up a huge number of slots for the town-defense battles. In the end, he even bought contribution points and used Talent Enhancement Stones and Skill Enhancement Stones to strengthen himself. Meanwhile, players with naturally powerful talents had no way to improve.”
“If they have money, why shouldn’t they use it?”
“But once they monopolize those resources, there are naturally fewer resources left for everyone else.”
“Players who originally had high-level talents have become disadvantaged groups with no way to improve. Meanwhile, low-talent players with money have to pour in even more resources, wasting them in the process.”
“If they took those resources while also shouldering responsibility, why haven’t they taken us to attack an Origin-tier dungeon? I often follow the Thorn Corporation of Huaxia. They take people into dungeons and help them speed-clear them. Our capitalists only know how to exploit us!”
Amid the wave of criticism, Huaxia had no time to respond at all.
They were far too busy—insanely busy!
Chu Fu and the others didn’t even have time to rest, let alone check the messages on the forums.
All Chu Fu had to do was open and close the Forest Spirit Passage.
By six o’clock the following morning, she had completed city-defense battles on a total of fifty-seven servers.
There had been no time to rest.
Every player in Huaxia had taken part in this grand campaign of early city-defense battles.
Forty million government personnel participated, but even more ordinary citizens had followed carefully planned leveling schedules. After all, every server needed one hundred thousand level-30 players.
The entire nation had mobilized.
Naturally, the rewards were astonishing.
Five hundred and seventy points to every stat.
Chu Fu looked at her Spirit stat.
She could now form contracts with another 114 contract plants.
Moreover, her prolonged use of the Forest Spirit Passage had deepened her understanding of the skill considerably.
After all, her class was also a divine-class profession. Like Xie Lin, she could create her own skills—or, more accurately, enhance the power of existing skills.
As she used it over and over, opening the Forest Spirit Passage became easier and easier.
This allowed more passages to be opened each time, increasing the speed at which players entered the dungeons.
However, Chu Fu didn’t compress the time. Instead, she chose to increase the number of participants.
For every additional Forest Spirit Passage, Chu Fu allowed another forty thousand people to enter the dungeon. As long as they could keep up, everyone was welcome.
This was truly a benefit for the entire nation.
On the second day, Chu Fu worked with the national team to complete sixty city-defense battles.
On the third day: sixty-one.
On the fourth day: fifty-eight.
On the fifth day: sixty-two.
In just five days, all her stats had increased by 2,980 points.
Whenever she had free time, Chu Fu could also log in ahead of schedule and unleash a wave of Cataclysm skills on the undead legion.
That way, she could also benefit from the ten all-stat points awarded for a perfect city-defense battle.
The increase in stats was simply too satisfying.
Even Chu Feng no longer wanted to visit high-level maps. He preferred to stay beside Chu Fu and farm stats with her.
Chu Fu knew that Chu Feng could also plunder monsters’ stats, but he couldn’t repeatedly plunder the same type of monster.
So she even gave her brother special treatment.
With Chu Fu’s current strength, she could already set foot on maps for levels 60 to 70. She personally entered one of them and released a Forest Spirit.
This allowed Chu Feng to farm stats just like Shen Chi. Each time he farmed stats, Chu Fu would take him along, and when it was over, he would return to the future map.
The rewards came quickly.
Chu Feng hunted an adult Green Dragon King and a Venom Dragon King, then handed the materials over to Zhimengzhe.
Zhimengzhe combined them with the diamond-grade equipment and materials that had dropped over the past few days, upgrading everything that could be upgraded.
In the end, she crafted the Verdant Venom Queen Set.
This time, Zhimengzhe had adopted the design concept of a Western court gown with an enormous train. The train alone was a full four meters long, mainly to accommodate the countless soul crystals condensed by the Lich King that were embedded across its surface. As it happened, the crystals were also green.
Each soul crystal was a diamond-grade material, roughly the size of a thumbnail. When embedded in a staff, it could increase mana and spell attack.
Now, all of them had been arranged and embedded into the outfit, elevating the main skirt to epic grade.
Zhimengzhe was still quite disappointed. After all, only the main skirt had reached epic grade, while the other pieces remained diamond grade.
“Guild Leader, the other pieces are still diamond grade, but their base stats should be equivalent to level-70 diamond equipment. Each piece provides 260 points of stats—one hundred more than level-20 diamond equipment. Please don’t look down on my craftsmanship!”
“Dreamweaver darling, how could I possibly look down on your craftsmanship? I love every outfit you’ve made for me.”
Chu Fu removed her bridal gown and changed into the Verdant Venom Queen Set.
The main skirt provided 300 points of stats. The other twelve pieces gave Chu Fu a total of 2,736 additional Spirit points. Her combined Vitality, Strength, and Agility also increased by roughly 700 points.
Chu Fu’s Spirit instantly broke through the ten-thousand mark.
At the same time, her entire presence seemed to change.
This outfit looked imposing, magnificent, and powerful.
If the bridal set had made her look like a pure-white flower, then the Verdant Venom Queen Set made her resemble a ferocious man-eating plant.
Now, whether as the Thorn Guild’s president or the lord of Thorn City, Chu Fu looked far more suited to wear such an outfit.
