Chapter 822: Swift and Ruthless

Pretty Good Mood’s gaming skills were terrible, but he was deceptively ruthless when it came to his enemies. He ordered his men to use Battle Resurrect on the bodies, only to kill them over and over again. That was how he increased the losses sustained by the Assembled Gods Continent players.

“Go back, go back, just go home! Don’t try to corpse run, these b*stards wanna make us drop our equipment!”

After someone yelled that in the National Channel, the corpses on the floor began to decrease rapidly. If it meant keeping their equipment, they did not mind going back to their cities and dropping levels instead.

However, when they returned to their cities, they found that their Return City Stones and teleportation doors no longer worked.

That was their punishment for the collapse of their Celestial Capital!

The Assembled Gods Continent players’ curses filled the air.

They had nearly taken down the Invincible Continent’s Celestial Capital, but instead of getting the opponent’s Celestial Capital, they had their own one turned upside down.

The Assembled Gods Continent was a mess now. They could not use their Return City Stones or teleportation doors, so they could no longer fast travel. All they could do now was travel with their flying mounts.

The sky above the Assembled Gods Continent was crowded to the brim with mounts of all sizes, including small chicks, large birds, young whelps, and old dragons of all species. All of them had taken to the sky.

“Dark Wing, I swear I’ll get my revenge on you!”

“If I don’t make you pay, I’ll eat my shorts!”

“You’re shameless, you’re despicable! How could you launch a sneak attack on us like that?!”

That day, Li Yi broke another record. All of the Assembled Gods Continent players spammed his name on the World Channel for a whole day, giving him up to ten million mentions.

Underneath the rubble around the Central Plaza of the Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital, there was only one underground temple that remained intact.

“The Divine Protection Spell won’t work, we still can’t beat Li Yi. God-queen, do you have any other ideas?”

Drifting Snow knelt in total submission. A beautiful female NPC dressed in a black robe stood before him.

It was the God-queen Carulla!

“Don’t raise your head, insignificant mortal. You have no right to meet my gaze.”

The God-queen Carulla looked slightly weary. This was a consequence she suffered for casting the Divine Protection Spell, but her tone was still as intimidating and contemptuous as ever.

“I can only cast my Divine Protection Spell once a month. Insignificant mortal, do you have any idea how much Divine Power I used to cast that Divine Spell? And yet you failed so humiliatingly!”

“God-queen, that fellow Dark Wing is just too powerful. If it weren’t for him, I would’ve succeeded for sure. Do you have a way to make him vanish for good, my lady? As long as he stays out of the way, I guarantee that I’ll be able to complete your Divine Order.”

Drifting Snow was perfectly pious, and he even kowtowed a few times when talking to the God-queen Carulla.

His actions pleased Carulla greatly, and she nodded, stretching out her hand. With a simple wave, she conjured a new scroll and threw it at Drifting Snow.

“This is a Water God Summoning Scroll, and it’s as strong as the Thunder God Summoning Scroll. Since Dark Wing could use the Thunder God to destroy a Celestial Capital, you can also use this god-tiered scroll to do the same!”

Drifting Snow picked it up, overjoyed. “Thank you, God-queen! I will do everything in my power to spread your glory!”

The God-queen Carulla waved him off with an expression of disgust. “Now leave. I’m tired.”

“Yes, my lady!”

Drifting Snow stood up and lowered his head at Carulla, retreating backward out of the temple.

“Once it is done, I shall bestow upon you the throne of Emperor of the Continent!”

When Drifting Snow retreated carefully out of the underground temple, Carulla gave him a few cold parting words.

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Albeit at an extremely heavy cost, the Invincible Continent players managed to protect their Celestial Capital in the end.

They had lost several dozen major cities, and quite a few of the buildings in their Celestial Capital had been damaged as well. If the Assembled Gods Continent players had managed to hang in there just a little longer, things might have ended very differently.

Fire Ice calculated their losses. After that national war, their coffers were running empty.

“If we use all of it to restore the major cities, we’ll only have about 3 to 5 million left in the Treasury.”

It was not respectable for a super country with a population of hundreds of millions to have barely a couple million left in their Treasury. However, it could not be helped. Any national war would incur devastating monetary losses.

Compared to the Invincible Continent, the Assembled Gods Continent had suffered even heavier losses. Their Celestial Capital had been destroyed, which meant that everything in their Treasury had been cleared out. If they wanted to rebuild their Celestial Capital now, they would have to rely on financial donations and volunteers from among the players, and this would continue until they made up for all their losses.

While the Celestial Capital was still out of action, they could not defect even if they wanted to. Instead, they had to stay right where they were until the Celestial Capital was rebuilt and the NPC systems were back up and running.

“Slow down the repairs and suggest establishing a donation drive.”

Li Yi gave it some thought and came to a decision.

It was true, a country’s coffers must never be empty. If even the Treasury was broke, that simply spelled the imminent fall of the country itself.

That was why they were having a donation drive!

This way, they could collect donations from the people to fill up the Treasury.

Queen Jiao gave the Donation Order, where the minimum amount was 1 Silver Coin and there was no maximum limit.

Just like the King’s Order, the Donation Order spread to the entire country in an instant, hanging above every Invincible Continent players’ head.

This donation was not mandatory. If players did not want to donate even a single Silver Coin, they just had to cancel Donation Order. If they did so, however, they would lose 10 National Contribution Points. If they donated more, they would gain National Contribution Points.

There was strength in numbers. If only one or two players donated, it would not amount to much, but if hundreds of millions of players donated all at once, they would receive quite the considerable sum.

Money obtained through the Donation Order would automatically go to the Treasury, and only the national officials would have the right to use it.

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“The country needs you now! The danger is over, but the National Treasury is now empty. In order to restore our home, let us work together, my friends!”

Queen Jiao even added a passionate speech to the Donation Order. Li Yi could not be sure if her words had much effect, but he did know that within an hour of her announcing the Donation Order, more than 50 million Gold Coins had flowed into the Treasury.

This was Jiaojiao’s first time giving a Donation Order ever since she took the throne, so it worked brilliantly.

Of course, there were also many players who were not willing to donate even one Silver Coin. As soon as they received the Donation Order, they canceled it immediately and ignored it altogether.

“Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!”

[Player Lone Potato Digger donated 10 Silver Coins!]

[Player Huaxia Emperor Falls donated 100 Gold Coins!]

“Ding…”

The donation notifications from the players on the National Channel were still going strong, even more than two hours since the drive began.

Five hours later…

“Ding!”

[Player Lonely Perfume donated 1 Silver Coin!]

[Player Huashan Lil Hua donated 1 Silver Coin!]

[Player Huashan Lil Ming donated 1 Silver Coin!]

The National Channel had been quiet for a long while now, but it suddenly grew lively again.

It was Leader Scum’s Huashan Guild.

“Ding!”

[Player Fengxi donated 50 Gold Coins!]

[Player Wang’er donated 250 Gold Coins!]

Seven or eight hundred messages appeared at once. While the donations did not amount to much, the sheer quantity of donations still made for quite the majestic sight.

If one asked for the poorest guild in all of King of Pantheon, it had to be none other than Leader Scum’s Huashan Sect. Rumors had it that the Huashan Guild had been richest when Leader Scum looted a treasure chest and earned 8,888 Gold Coins from it.

“Money doesn’t grow on trees,” Leader Scum was always sighing.

This time, for instance, while the Huashan Sect did not contribute much in terms of actual results, they had still been fearless when leading the charge. Each of them had died ten or twenty times, so by the time the war ended, these retards could not even afford their own equipment repair fees anymore.

They were going to fight, with or without equipment. The Huashan Guild did not mind that at all, but suddenly Queen Jiao made a Donation Order, pushing Leader Scum right to the edge.

Everyone in the Iron Alliance had donated something, so as the guild equal in name to the Little Drunk Cat Guild, how could the Huashan Guild not donate anything? That would be an utter travesty!

“Get money!” Scumbag Wang decided in an instant.

“But how, Leader Scum?” Lonely Perfume approached him.

Scumbag Wang pointed at the great outdoors with his kitchen knife. “Go kill monsterlings and skin them.”

“Kill them all!”

When the members of the Huashan Sect were about to pour out into the wild, Fengxi spoke up suddenly and made them freeze right in their tracks.

“Second Brother, that would take too long!”

It was by no means a fast method. With the Huashan Sect’s average level, they could only kill a few Level 50+ monsterlings at the most. Even if they skinned them all, one low-quality skin would only sell for 1 Copper Coin. How long would it take for them to earn an amount as big as 1 Silver Coin?

If he were not too embarrassed to do so, Scumbag Wang was almost tempted to message Queen Jiao privately and ask her to lower the minimum amount.

“You have high IQ, Third Brother. How do you think we can earn some quick bucks?” Leader Scum always believed that his third brother was the smartest person in the world.

Fengxi looked into the sky for a long time before he finally said, “If you want to earn, you must be swift and ruthless!”

“Listen to Third Brother, everyone. This is real wisdom, and any little bit you learn will help you for life.”

“We’re listening closely~”

“Hurry up and tell us, Brother Xi!”

“I’m gonna cry, it’s been so long since I heard Brother Xi share his knowledge with us.”

A few serious members even took out their little notebooks, ready to copy down Fengxi’s words of wisdom.

“Why don’t I just show you? I always believe actions speak louder than words.”

Fengxi said so calmly and then he pressed his palm toward his crotch. There was a puff of white smoke, and he summoned a Pangolin Mount.

“Everyone, get onto your mounts and come with me!”

“Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!”

There was a cloud of white smoke, and the 800 members of the Huashan Sect summoned their Mounts all at once. There were little white horses, little yellow horses, and little red horses, but only Leader Scum’s black donkey and Fengxi’s Pangolin Mount really stood out.

Fengxi rode his Pangolin at the very front, and Scumbag Wang followed closely behind. Behind them was the motley army of the 800 Huashan members, sprinting their way down the forest road.

An hour later, Fengxi and the others appeared at the entrance to the Newbie Village.

Looking at the new players who were running in and out of the village, Fengxi’s lips curved into a smile. “Second Brother, this is where we earn our fortune.”

“How?”

Fengxi held up his dagger. “By killing them all!”

“…”

That day went down in Invincible Continent history. In order to earn money, the eight hundred members of the Huashan Sect massacred newbies. Those at Level 10, Level 20, or Level 30… They killed any newbie they could, leaving not even one alive.

“Kill them all! Be swift and ruthless!”

“All hail Brother Xi!”

The eight hundred Huashan Sect members howled in unison…

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