Even the Elemental God was persuaded.
The losses had simply been too great. At this point, He was like a gambler who had lost his entire fortune and wanted to win back everything that belonged to Him at the gaming table.
He gritted His teeth, His voice filled with barely restrained fury. “Fine. I’ll join forces with you. I refuse to believe we can’t kill her.
“When the time comes, I want all the divine power that belongs to me back.
“As for the rest of the divine power, we’ll split it evenly.”
Before Chu Fu had even been killed, the two evil gods had already begun discussing how to divide the divine power within her.
“Agreed.”
The Undead Reaper readily accepted.
The Undead Reaper had lost roughly twenty fragments of divine power, but He knew that Chu Fu must also have received divine power fragments as a reward from the Primordial Gate.
He simply had no idea how many.
As evil gods, the Undead Reaper and the others could not know what rewards the system had given the players.
Unless one of the players happened to be their follower and could report the information to them.
The problem was that neither He nor the Elemental God had any followers left.
And that idiot Elemental God had actually been robbed of a full one hundred divine power fragments. The strength of Who Wants to Be a Vegetable? had already risen to the level of a True God.
Although he was not strong enough to stand as their equal, he was still someone they could not afford to underestimate.
Bringing the Elemental God along would give them a better chance.
That way, when the Human God arrived with reinforcements from the Primordial Gate, they would also have someone to use as a shield.
As for who would ultimately get those one hundred divine power fragments, that would depend on their own abilities.
…
In the game, as the final Light Elemental Spirit was slain, a series of system announcements rang out.
[Global Announcement: The Elemental God’s invasion of this plane has ended. The human players are victorious.]
[Global Announcement: The global catastrophe has ended. All players worldwide have obtained the “Swift Victory (Epic)” achievement. All attributes +100. Morale +100.]
[Global Announcement: Buildings in major cities suffered varying degrees of damage during the catastrophe. Players, please work hard to rebuild your homes.]
Although members of the Thorn Guild had begun making sacrifices during this disaster siege, every city had inevitably suffered some damage.
Unless a city had an exceptionally powerful protective barrier or highly leveled walls and buildings, it was very likely to be flattened by the catastrophe.
Fortunately, although the cities had sustained some damage, none of them had been completely destroyed.
There would likely be plenty of quests for players to complete afterward.
However, everyone at the scene was somewhat puzzled.
Jiao Jiao was the first to speak up. “What’s going on? Was there no ‘Not a Single City Lost’ achievement this time? Or can we only obtain that achievement once?”
“The system never shortchanges its players. This requirement was so difficult to fulfill that surely it should have given us a reward for a perfect defense, right?” Chu Fu was puzzled as well.
The Flower-Growing Kingdom had sent people to assist at nearly every server—while also claiming the contribution points. How could any city possibly have fallen?
“Maybe a city was damaged somewhere we don’t know about. Wait a moment. I’ll ask around for information.”
Feng Huimin immediately contacted the spies stationed around the world.
The information quickly reached Feng Huimin, leaving her completely speechless.
“We found out what happened. It was a large guild in the Prairie Province. They exchanged for a City-Building Token and established a city. Since that city wasn’t part of the system’s servers, we didn’t send anyone to support it.”
“They even shut down the teleportation array because they wanted to claim the reward for themselves.
“Who would have thought that such a large guild wouldn’t be able to hold out against this disaster siege?”
Everyone present was rendered speechless!
An increase of one point to every attribute might not seem like much.
But it would benefit not only veteran players. New players would gain the increase as well.
Looking at the bigger picture, countless future players—and even human babies—would eventually receive one extra point in every attribute.
This was an improvement to the overall quality of the entire human race.
Combined with the effect of the previous “Not a Single City Lost” achievement, newly arrived players would now be able to start the game with two extra points in every attribute.
At present, the only people who had yet to join the game were the elderly, the disabled, patients on the verge of death, and children.
With those two extra attribute points, they would have a much easier time getting started in the game.
That guild had truly dragged down all of humanity.
Besides, how many opportunities would humanity have to resist a global disaster together?
Chu Fu didn’t even need to imagine how the players of that guild were being cursed at on the forums.
“All right, all right. Let’s check the contribution rankings first.”
Chu Fu opened the contribution leaderboard.
[First Place: Who Wants to Be a Vegetable? Contribution: 405.2 billion]
[Second Place: Rocket on a Wheelchair. Contribution: 50.2 billion]
[Third Place: Who You Calling Blind. Contribution: 20.5 billion]
[Fourth Place: Lu Xing. Contribution: 17.9 billion]
[Fifth Place: Shafu Liangu. Contribution: 16.5 billion]
[Sixth Place: Long Zhantian. Contribution: 15.1 billion]
[Seventh Place: Suture Saint. Contribution: 14.8 billion]
[Eighth Place: Jiao Jiao. Contribution: 4.5 billion]
[Ninth Place: No Talking in Class. Contribution: 14.3 billion]
[Tenth Place: Zhimengzhe. Contribution: 14.1 billion]
The top ten were still completely dominated by players from the Flower-Growing Kingdom. Eight of them were core members of the Thorn Guild.
Compared with last time, however, the Holy Healing Angel and the Bitter Melon King had dropped out of the rankings.
After all, their appearances on the previous leaderboard had absolutely benefited from their advantage against the undead army.
This time, they had not enjoyed such a significant advantage when fighting the elemental spirits.
By contrast, the independent player No Talking in Class had gained a tremendous advantage.
And Zhimengzhe had made it onto the leaderboard as well.
Chu Fu was surprised. “Wow, Dreamweaver, your contribution is really high this time!”
Zhimengzhe’s face flushed bright red from the praise, but she still said in a soft voice tinged with pride, “My level-60 skill has a Dreamscape Domain that can make enemies attack one another! Killing them still counts as my contribution. I just traveled to a few more cities, and that’s how I got so many contribution points.”
“That’s amazing, Dreamweaver. You’re finally making a name for yourself!”
“Ah, it’s nothing special! Stop praising me. Your contribution is the truly outrageous one.”
Indeed, who wouldn’t be shocked after seeing Chu Fu’s contribution?
Just how many hands did she have?
How else could she have claimed so many contribution points?
Chu Fu: Ha-ha, I don’t have that many hands. I just have quite a few people working under me.
Her reputation was what had allowed her to rack up so many contribution points.
It was all thanks to her fame.
She also did not hesitate to share her experience of becoming a god with everyone.
That way, if they encountered situations suited to them in the future, they could use the same methods.
Shen Chi pondered this. He could have the players sacrifice the corpses of all the mechanical monsters on the Mechanical Star!
The others also began discussing how to develop followers and what types of abilities they should have their followers collect.
Chu Fu, meanwhile, looked at the system’s rewards.
[System Notification: Player “Who Wants to Be a Vegetable?”, you ranked first in contribution during this global city defense event, the Elemental Catastrophe. Contribution: 405.2 billion.
You have received: Divine Power Fragment ×3, Super-God-Tier Talent Enhancement Stone ×3, Epic Treasure Chest ×1.]
There was no double reward. That was a significant loss.
However, her contribution this time was still enormous. Although her contribution during the Undead Catastrophe had reached thirty trillion, that was because there had been far more monsters, resulting in a much higher total contribution.
And this time, the 405.2 billion was even more valuable!
Surely the System Shop wouldn’t shortchange Chu Fu.
As expected, godhood fragments, transcendent god-tier talent enhancement stones, transcendent god-tier skill enhancement stones, and the like required only 10 billion to exchange.
Suddenly, Chu Fu thought of something and glanced over at the rankings.
OMG—what a shock! How did Big Brother get pushed out of the top three?
