Truly, once you fall behind by a single step, you fall behind at every step!
The system’s notifications were clearly guiding humanity forward, one step at a time.
Killing a divine envoy was an epic-level campaign.
Capturing the opposing planet was a legendary-level campaign.
And the final step—slaying a god—would naturally be a mythical-level campaign.
They were progressing step by step toward the plotline predetermined by the Primordial Gate.
“Then let’s go. All we have to do is keep moving forward, one step at a time! First, we’ll kill the goblins, then head to the Land of Death, and finally take on Mechanical Star!”
Chu Fu declared.
At the same time, Long Zhantian found Chu Fu.
“Chairwoman Chu, although the Titan Giant has already been killed, the Analysis Bureau’s assessment is that it would be difficult for a single city to reach a population of ten million level-50 players.”
Thorn City was already enormous, but it could accommodate only three million players at most.
How could a single city possibly gather ten million level-50 players?
That meant the next “Siege Battle” might be based on statistics from the entire world.
“What does the Analysis Bureau suggest?”
Chu Fu waited for the answer.
In the original story, humanity had always been forced to take a beating.
When Brother Chu Feng appeared as the savior, he could only save a single city.
Most importantly, even if he saved that city, it might still be destroyed in the very next version.
That was why Chu Feng’s second life had still been filled with tragedy.
As for ending the version of the 5.0 Elemental Calamity ahead of schedule—
That was simply impossible.
The only way to accomplish it now was to rely on the Analysis Bureau of Flowerland.
Actually, the conclusion wasn’t difficult to reach.
Long Zhantian said, “The simplest and most straightforward goal is for the number of level-50 players worldwide to reach ten million. Based on the current situation, that won’t take very long!”
After all, Flowerland’s “God-Making Project” had created a full fifty million players.
After several campaigns, these players had reached an average level of over 40.
Following the annihilation of the Primordial Titan, the top players were already approaching level 50, with some even slightly surpassing it.
“Good. In that case, let’s continue leveling up. We were just discussing heading to the Goblin Forest to defeat the goblins and claim their territory!”
After comparing their information, the two sides decided to press their advantage and head for the Goblin Forest.
Even the level-11 Primordial Goblins still gave full experience, equivalent to that of level-50 monsters.
They were perfect targets for the players.
Chu Fu naturally went with them as well. Even though she was already level 63, she still wanted to personally oversee the operation for the nature-type fragments.
With her present, however, their efficiency was astonishingly high.
In just one week, every goblin in the Goblin Forest had been slaughtered.
[System Announcement: The Goblin race has been completely annihilated. Humanity has achieved victory in a legendary-level campaign. The Goblin race has withdrawn from the Primordial Gate. All of humanity has received one random talent from the Goblin race!]
Chu Fu looked at her new talent.
[System Notification: You have obtained the talent “Scavenger (F).”]
[Scavenger (F): You will instinctively collect junk.]
???
“Wait, why does this sound like a talent with a negative effect?”
Jiaojiao Isn’t Spoiled sounded utterly disgusted.
“No wonder goblins stink so much. It turns out they like collecting junk!”
“Ah! Can’t we just refuse this racial talent?”
Holy Healing Angel had no desire to collect junk.
“Huh? We really can discard it!”
Holy Healing Angel forgot the talent.
The others didn’t discard theirs. Although it was a useless talent, it was still an additional talent. Who knew—perhaps there might be a way to upgrade it in the future!
However, this wasn’t an individual talent but a racial talent, so it couldn’t be improved with Talent Enhancement Stones.
As for how it could be upgraded, the system offered no explanation.
Chu Fu didn’t pay it any attention either.
Instead, she looked at the other notification.
[System Notification: Esteemed “Goddess of Misfortune” and “Goddess of Nature,” you led all of humanity in occupying the Goblin Forest and achieved victory in a legendary-level campaign. Because the planet is covered in lush vegetation and you invested a large amount of Calamity in the occupation, you have received the additional rewards of three Mythical-grade Poison Divine Power Fragments and two Mythical-grade Nature Divine Power Fragments.]
What a poor goblin tribe.
However, Jiaojiao Isn’t Spoiled had obtained ten Divine Power Fragments this time—all of them Earth Divine Power Fragments. This allowed her to evolve the divine power of her demigod for the second time ahead of schedule.
Her combat power soared.
After that, Chu Fu led a group of people to the Land of Death.
While these high-level players continued working hard, countless low-level players were also struggling away in the Newbie Villages.
“Huh? There’s some grass here! I can collect it. Maybe the Plant Boss needs it?”
“Who killed this rabbit without butchering it? If nobody wants it, I’m taking it!”
“Hehe, who dropped these copper coins without picking them up? I’ll take them!”
The players began scavenging.
Before this, many players had been focused on leveling quickly and wouldn’t bother cleaning up the ground thoroughly.
Now, they were stripping the land bare. They wanted to collect anything and everything.
As their stockpiles grew, they had no choice but to return to the cities to sell the goods. This increased the time they spent traveling and reduced their monster-killing efficiency.
But every one of them had bulging wallets.
What was more, some people who had previously disliked gathering supplies now refused to let even weeds go. Whenever they saw something, they picked it up without a second thought. If they had no use for it themselves, they offered it to Chu Fu as a sacrifice.
Under these circumstances, Chu Fu’s power of nature actually began to surge, and her Spirit attribute rose rapidly.
She had never expected that the racial talent [Scavenger], now possessed by everyone, would bring her such an advantage.
Although the talent had some negative effects, increased spiritual power allowed one to restrain those impulses.
That was why most of the people scavenging were low-level players.
The high-level players continued leveling up.
Soon afterward, Chu Fu noticed that her attribute points were increasing rather quickly.
“What’s going on? Could my two divine envoys have started making progress?”
“Right, I can summon two more divine envoys now. I should go take a look!”
Chu Fu entered her divine temple state and first checked on her two divine envoys.
What she saw gave Chu Fu a pleasant surprise.
In just twenty days, Su Qiannuan had sacrificed a massive amount of zombie virus. Not only that, she had begun developing her own forces and recruiting new believers to help with the sacrifices.
Of course, it was obvious that many people didn’t believe Su Qiannuan’s claims. The name God of Calamity alone sounded frightening.
Her team, however, was carrying out sacrifices with great enthusiasm.
On the other side, the little girl from the shelter had taken the route of purchasing supplies. In this world, everyone possessed a personal trading house.
The little girl began purchasing plants and lumber in large quantities, using them as sacrifices to gain power. She also hunted animals and exchanged the meat for lumber.
For now, she showed no intention of developing believers, but she spared no expense when purchasing supplies. After all, she was doing it to increase her own strength.
The two apostles each had their own advantages.
Chu Fu explored a little further, then finally chose two new divine envoys.
