Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 408: National Joint Examination

After listening to Zhao Xuanxuan's narration, Li Wei also couldn't help but inwardly approve. His territory could truly be considered to have grown up now; even his Second Aunt seemed to possess the demeanor of a grand general.

Mhm, it was precisely because the territory's heritage and foundation were too abundant that anyone could casually become a grand general, casually making some deployments and looking very formidable.

"With a Mage Tower, we still cannot slack off. The Northern and Southern Fortresses must also deploy Enchanted Giant Ballistae and Enchanted Trebuchets. What is the current production capacity for these two types of city defense apparatuses?"

Li Wei asked smilingly at this time, his state very relaxed.

"Production and construction are not a problem, because we truly have a heavenly group of artisans. In fact, twenty ordinary giant ballistae have already been stored here currently; it's just that there isn't enough magic power to enchant them yet. In addition, the reserves of all sorts of steel and all sorts of Four-Star stone blocks are practically all in place. The Level 4 City Wall will definitely be completed by the end of this month, or the beginning of next month."

"Therefore, Second Aunt said our luck is truly good. Thanks to the King's Special Envoy, thanks to our good Barbarian friends. This wave, as long as we can have five hundred units of standard magic power, I can equip all our soldiers here with Three-Star Enchanted Armor and Weapons."

"Oh, there is also one more matter. Yesterday morning, under Second Aunt's orders, Temple Knight Mark headed north alone to Dawn Fortress. He went to dissolve the Blood Plague for the Ability Users. Perhaps he won't be able to rescue all of them, but we still hope those Ability Users enter the temple. That is the only path of salvation. Otherwise, under the ravages of the enhanced version of the Radiation Storm, they won't be able to hold on."

"Actually, after Grant and I studied it, we believed that placing all those Ability Users at the Northern Fortress would be pretty good. But Second Aunt believed we couldn't be careless, and directly sending them into the temple is the most appropriate. So, Li Wei, what are your thoughts?"

Hm? A divergence of opinion appeared right here.

"Listen to Second Aunt; she has more abundant experience in this kind of matter. Right, Second Aunt participated in the construction of the Mage Tower, and now has to be responsible for the Level 4 City Wall. Can her body endure it?"Li Wei directly vetoed Zhao Xuanxuan's idea. She was fine in all aspects, except her guts were too big. This wave, what do you mean you and Grant studied it? You clearly just want to find an opportunity to lead the cavalry out on your own initiative for a joyful run.

Although the territory was currently formidable, one still had to understand the principle that forgetting war inevitably brings danger, and being bellicose inevitably brings destruction.

As for Second Aunt—although there were this or that kind of problems, she had previously suffered a devastating blow. Now, just like Li Yue, she was as conservative as could be.

In short, next they had to hold steady, resolutely not stirring up trouble, and just guard their existing territory. Permitting the winds and clouds outside to change constantly, even if the tables flew all over the sky, they could not act rashly.

Because, they had spread their stall far too large, and their profits were already sufficiently massive. There was no need to take risks.

At this moment, Zhao Xuanxuan bared her teeth in a smile, not annoyed at having her thoughts exposed. "Alright, I'll listen to Second Aunt. As for Second Aunt's body, she's still the same, looking just like a noble madam in her thirties or forties."

"Moreover, you haven't gone back for the entire month of August; you fundamentally don't know how massive Second Aunt's changes have been. I have no way to describe it. Perhaps I can only barely describe it using 'having poetry and literature in one's belly naturally makes one's demeanor elegant,' or 'great wisdom appears foolish.' How should I put it? The construction of this Mage Tower, perhaps Hathaway and Qin Yu each made 35%, or even 40% of the contributions. They are both very strong; this point is unquestionable."

"Yet Second Aunt seemed as if she attained enlightenment because of this matter. Or perhaps because she saw past things, saw through things, the past ninety-plus years of time have finally assisted her in sublimating at this very moment?"

"During the process of constructing the Mage Tower, that Qin Yu covertly ridiculed and mocked Second Aunt in all sorts of ways, even engaging in all sorts of stepping, suppressing, and sowing discord, seemingly posturing herself as the territory's Chief Caster. Yet Second Aunt continuously played the fool. But at that time, I felt Second Aunt would definitely have the last laugh. Sure enough, Qin Yu ran away. And with just this, she is fit to be the Chief Caster of our territory?"

"In short, the person I submit to the most right now is you. The second person I submit to is Second Aunt. The third persons I submit to are Big Sister Yue and Hathaway. As for all the rest and others, merely sticking a price tag on their own heads for sale!"

Zhao Xuanxuan spoke with heroic spirit reaching the clouds, the light of her Destiny Grid faintly flickering. This was a breakthrough once again.

That's right, everyone was growing.

As for the covert struggle between Second Aunt, Hathaway, and Qin Yu, Li Wei didn't understand it, nor did he want to understand it. Three women make a drama; let alone three Caster Witches gathering together, it would be weird if sparks didn't explicitly collide.

Unfortunately, Qin Yu's cultivation attainment was ultimately insufficient. Also not knowing how she was fooled and bamboozled by Hathaway and Second Aunt, she was actually scared away by this wave of tables-flying-everywhere situation.

She had been here for a short time and fundamentally didn't understand the current foundation and heritage of Li Wei's territory.

After the handover was completed next, Zhao Xuanxuan and the convoy rapidly returned. Javier, Benjamin, and the others led the soldiers and artisans to install and adjust the Enchanted Giant Ballistae.

Hathaway installed that kind of magic structure. As for that little lass Isabel, who was only fourteen years old this year, she followed behind, studying with massive effort.

However, exactly what she could learn couldn't be known.

Busy like this till the afternoon, Li Yue, Hathaway, and Thomas set off in advance to rush to her barony territory. There wasn't even a decent fortress over there. Now that all the Freemen had already been separately resettled in the Territory Main City and Riverside Fortress, only a bare-bones Three-Star Magic Well remained over there, plus five Enchanted Giant Ballistae and one Enchanted Trebuchet.

As for the soldiers, fifty men remained, all soldiers of Hathaway's territory. Among them, twenty were even Mercenaries newly recruited this month, looking very weak and fragile.

But this place had to be guarded!

Not only because this place guarded the abdomen and heart of Li Wei's territory, but also because Hathaway held a Pioneering Card. Before the Pioneering Mission ended, it might have an important use.

After all, there were currently only four Pioneers left in this world: Zhao Kewu, Socrates, Hathaway, and Li Wei. If a million-to-one chance or unforeseen change occurred, keeping Hathaway was equivalent to one more portion of assistance in terms of the rules.

Regarding this point, Li Wei had considered things very fully and thoroughly.

And in fact, when evening approached, after Li Wei had arranged the defenses of Riverside Fortress and Black Mountain Fortress, and was just preparing to bring Adai to Hathaway's barony territory, he suddenly received several special messages.

[Due to a misjudgment by the Royal Capital's Tactics Department, the Barbarian Cross-Border Players have successfully established a bridgehead on another planet within the current stellar system. Five Barbarian legions totaling 1,500 personnel have now garrisoned the bridgehead. Next, the Barbarian Tribe will launch Conquest Missions according to regular convention. The current Pioneering Mission world has become the frontline; small squads of Barbarian elites will infiltrate at any time.]

(Note: This is another planet concurrently undergoing a Pioneering Mission. The Pioneers executing the Pioneering Mission are all players from the Royal Capital region. This can be understood as a National Joint Examination. But currently, a problem has occurred at Examination Venue 1; the other three examination venues need to evade risks.)

[Warning, this is not a plot line you Pioneers need to undertake. You do not need to pay the price of unexpected risks for this. Therefore, before the Royal Capital issues new orders for the time being, the Duke of Weir and the Thorns Pass Garrison Commander, Marquis Night Owl, urgently decided to terminate the territory pioneering and city building missions. Of course, considering numerous factors, this is a suggestion, not a mandatory execution.]

[Friendly Reminder: In order to mobilize forces to attack the Barbarian legions on the other planet, Thorns Pass will have no choice but to shut down the protective Magic Net enveloping above this planet at midnight tonight. When the time comes, the entire planet will be enveloped day and night by Radiation Storms.]

[Those who insist on staying, bear the risks themselves.]

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Well then!

This is "A general in the field may decline to obey certain orders from the sovereign"?

Li Wei smiled soundlessly. This was far too interesting.

In this kind of situation, asking him to undergo Task Settlement? Didn't even need to think about it.

However, Zhao Kewu and Socrates might possibly withdraw, right?

Sure enough, the next second, an All-Territory Announcement arrived.

[All-Territory Announcement]

[Pioneer No. 2, Socrates, has chosen Task Settlement. He obtained twenty square kilometers of legal territory and one hundred square kilometers of illegal territory. He will become a Three-Star Lord of the All-Heavens Lord Alliance, simultaneously becoming a legal baron of the Locke Kingdom. His territory will fall under the jurisdiction of Thorns Pass. Thorns Pass Garrison Commander, Marquis Night Owl, promised to provide powerful and forceful guarantees for his legal territory. Simultaneously, Three-Star Lord Socrates must also respond to Marquis Night Owl's conscription.]

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This result was already sufficiently excellent for Socrates; it practically amounted to a perfect curtain call.

However, Li Wei waited for a moment, and didn't see the All-Territory Announcement of Zhao Kewu applying for Task Settlement.

Most likely, he himself very much wanted it to end, but that King's Special Envoy wouldn't allow it, right?

Don't look at how blustering and boastful he is right now, having even done in a Barbarian Thousand-Man Commander. But in reality, it was entirely relying on that King's Special Envoy.

Moreover, what was interesting was that within the current stellar system, there were actually three other batches of Pioneer players executing Pioneering Missions?

So what does this stellar system mean?

Does it refer to a massive stellar system like the Milky Way Galaxy?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

It should be a small stellar system similar to the solar system. If the planet they are on right now is Earth, then the neighbor next door is Mars?

Perhaps there's also Venus and Jupiter!

Because the Locke Kingdom didn't just have one Weir Province. It also had a Juniper Province, a Cadel Province, plus the Royal Capital region. Therefore, at least four similar planets had to be arranged, right? Otherwise, what kind of National Joint Examination would it be?

But the Neanderthals actually cooked up a bridgehead on another planet, hahaha!

From these few information announcements, Li Wei could appreciate the malicious humor of the Duke of Weir, who was currently laughing 'hehe' weirdly.

Very happy, ah. Especially giving a considerate little tip, deeply afraid Li Wei and the others wouldn't understand the preceding and subsequent causes and effects.

So the next main battlefield will be in the Pioneering Mission area of the Royal Capital region, right? His side will at most withstand some small squads of Neanderthal elite teams?

Sigh, this bunch of Neanderthal bros on the opposite side are truly far too cunning.

Is this "Sound East, Strike West"?

This is fucking pressing down the head of the Royal Capital's Tactics Department and crazily planting grass on it, ah!

The damage is massive, and the insult is also highly potent.

Toward such an opponent, they must be given a hundred thousand parts importance in the future.

Thinking this way, Li Wei didn't dare slack off. Hurrying and pushing forward all the way, he arrived at Hathaway's barony territory before the sky turned thoroughly pitch-black. This place was very desolate.

Because previously there was the flood disaster, and then the grand joint battle, Hathaway only had time to build a Magic Well here. The other basic buildings hadn't had time to be cooked up.

Now her Lord's Fortress was placed in a six-story ruined hotel building. The location of the Magic Well was on the small plaza directly in front of the hotel.

The third floor, fourth floor, fifth floor, and sixth floor of the hotel each had one Enchanted Giant Ballista. Many soldiers were seizing the time to transport large blocks of concrete from all around, constructing so-called defenses.

Truly entirely destitute and blank.

Haha!

(End of this chapter)