Chu Fu was completely stunned.
Fragments of divine power representing calamity continued to condense around her.
As the heavenly fire disasters and magma disasters sweeping across the entire world were absorbed by Chu Fu, the number of her Calamity divine-power fragments skyrocketed tenfold.
The players defending the world also noticed something.
The fire-element monsters that had originally been so mighty had all become duds.
Before, they had been surrounded by flames, making it impossible for anyone to approach them. Now, they looked like nothing more than dim lumps of coal.
They could not even spit out the tiniest fireball.
These level-41 monsters had less combat power than level-30 skeleton soldiers.
The players immediately charged forward and hacked away at them.
The first wave of monsters was wiped out in less than half an hour.
What was most frightening was that Chu Fu had taken first place on the global leaderboard by an overwhelming margin.
Contribution: 40 billion!
Shen Chi came in second. Even with a 200,000-strong mecha corps, he had only earned 3.9 billion contribution points.
That was a tenfold difference.
Most importantly, no one had seen Chu Fu support any particular city, yet she had still obtained such a terrifying amount of contribution. Had she claimed all the elemental spirits in 1,000 cities for herself?
After all, during the first siege, there had been one million elemental spirits. The fire-element spirits were level 41 and worth 41 contribution points each.
While everyone was racking their brains trying to figure it out, the Thorn Guild had already exploded with excitement.
“Holy crap! I helped the guild leader sacrifice the disaster and extracted the monsters’ power. The system actually credited me with about half the contribution! Hahaha, I just earned 500,000 contribution points!”
“Same here, same here! If I’d tried to take them down myself, I definitely wouldn’t have gotten this much. The main problem is that there were too many people and not enough monsters—we couldn’t even compete!”
“Aren’t we getting rich from this wave?”
“When you follow the guild leader, how could you not get rich?”
“Loyal to the Thorn Guild!”
While everyone discussed the matter, Chu Fu was eating her fill.
She did not need to lift a finger.
She was earning contribution points just by lying around.
After calculating, she found that she had obtained roughly one-tenth of the contribution points for each monster.
Although she was the one extracting the monsters’ elemental power, the system classified this method as an assist.
It was similar to Little Sister Wu’s ability to lower a monster’s defense and combat power.
Furthermore, Chu Fu had not set up the formations herself, nor had she been present at the scene. Being awarded one-tenth of the contribution was already quite generous.
But the sheer number of monsters made up for it.
The players who had set up the sacrificial formations were present on-site, so they received roughly half of the contribution points. The remaining 40 percent was distributed among the players who had actually killed the monsters.
And because the monsters they faced were much weaker, the players who delivered the killing blows had also made a huge profit.
In the Thorn Guild’s management group, Chu Fu could not help but let out an excited scream.
“Everyone, we’re rich! We’re really rich! I just earned divine power equivalent to ten divine-power fragments! I even obtained a new skill!”
Chu Fu posted her new skill.
Jiaojiao Isn’t Spoiled: “Go! I now order you to slaughter all the evil gods!”
“Your divine sacrifice method is seriously incredible, but it seems like we can’t use it!” Suture Saint thought about it for a moment before realizing that he had no way to obtain divine-power fragments through sacrifice.
After all, Chu Fu’s method was, in essence, a form of material exchange.
Shen Chi, Jiaojiao Isn’t Spoiled, and Bitter Melon King could all use similar methods.
Shen Chi could have players sacrifice metal and grant them metal-element defensive power in return.
Jiaojiao Isn’t Spoiled could have players sacrifice soil to obtain the power of the earth, then return it to them in the form of increased constitution and defense.
Bitter Melon King, meanwhile, could have players sacrifice the power of the dead and grant them soul-based attack power.
It just so happened that this siege involved natural disasters!
This was genuine theft of the elemental gods’ divine power.
After all, if these elemental spirits died, their abilities would dissipate into the world, and their divine power would slowly return to the elemental gods.
Now, however, Chu Fu had perfectly converted it on a one-to-one basis.
[System Announcement: The first wave of global natural disasters has ended. A 24-hour repair period will now begin. It has been detected that the players possess sufficient combat power. Players may vote on whether to start the next wave of the siege ahead of schedule. This vote will apply globally.]
“Wow! The system is becoming more and more considerate!”
After seeing the notification, Chu Fu sent a private message to Long Zhantian.
“Guild Leader Long, have you obtained the coordinates of the Elemental Lands?”
Long Zhantian immediately replied, “I have! Chairwoman Chu, did you see the system notification just now? What do you think? Should we use the downtime to tackle the Primordial-tier dungeon, or should we clear it on our own?”
Clearing it on their own naturally meant activating the god-making plan once again, with only the remaining players slowly clearing it out.
Although they would lose out on a lot of attribute points, the divine power stolen from inside a Primordial-tier dungeon would still be enough to make up for it. It simply would not be announced across the world.
Chu Fu immediately made her decision.
“We’ll do it ourselves!”
“Alright! I’ll notify everyone to vote yes.”
Soon, the global vote was held, and 90 percent of the players voted to end the repair period immediately.
After all, the cities had not suffered too much damage.
Chu Fu thought about this scene from the original storyline.
The fire-element spirits had scorched the earth, and cities had been submerged in magma. Countless players had died in the battle, while priests had been escorted away in a panicked retreat, all so they could return later and resurrect the players.
But the cities had still suffered unprecedented devastation, and a massive number of NPCs had died.
Afterward, the class-advancement temples and future map teleporters had disappeared. As a result, players in many cities could no longer advance and had no choice but to travel for a long time, hoping to reach Longxiang Jiuzhou.
From that moment onward, the game officially entered an era of disaster survival.
Reality was even worse.
The game gave players advance warning.
Five years later, the elemental disasters would descend upon the real world. The first wave of extreme heat alone would kill every player below level 10.
The elderly, infants, and children would all die.
The survivors would have to build underground shelters to withstand the disaster.
But now, these disasters had become nourishment for Chu Fu.
The Calamity path was awesome!
After the global vote ended, the system issued an announcement.
[System Announcement: It has been detected that the players wish to begin the global natural disasters ahead of schedule. The second wave of disasters will descend in 10 minutes!]
[System Announcement: If the natural disasters are repelled within 24 hours, the achievement “Strike Fast, Finish Fast” can be completed.]
[Strike Fast, Finish Fast (Epic): Face the evil gods’ attack ahead of schedule during a global-scale siege. Achievement reward: All attributes +100, Morale +100.]
Morale was a special attribute.
It might seem useless, but during certain large-scale wars, a morale bonus could prevent players from becoming deserters and abandoning their homes. It could even make them grow braver the longer they fought.
This unexpected reward was quite worthwhile.
With this carrot dangling in front of them, all the cities fought even harder.
The ten minutes passed quickly.
The second wave of monsters arrived.
Dark clouds billowed overhead, followed by torrential rain.
It was as if someone were pouring water from the heavens rather than letting it fall as rain.
The cities rapidly flooded, forming enormous deluges.
Furthermore, the water spirits’ attacks were hidden within the downpour, making them impossible to see clearly.
This time, even more players were caught off guard and struck.
Only the players of the Thorn Guild were bursting with excitement.
“They’re here! They’re here again!”
“Quick, activate the formation and siphon off the water—oh, no, I mean, sacrifice the Heavenly Calamity!”
