Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 439: Collective Hidden Attribute

Li Wei had never tried going a full half month without sleeping, and being ceaselessly busy every day. So this wave, he was truly too tired and too drowsy.

Lying down, this sleep lasted for a full three days.

After waking up, his stomach grumbled non-stop, as if crazed with hunger, but his mental state was exceedingly good.

Additionally, a tiny piece of good news was that his Scout Destiny had increased from 54 to 55.

After this Professional Fate Upgraded to 50, there had been no changes whatsoever, nor had it triggered any Hidden Attributes. But Li Wei always felt that after his Scout Destiny Upgraded to 60, his Perception Cap could be +1, and so on and so forth.

This wasn't bad either.

After both the Hunter Fate and Woodcutter Fate Upgraded to 60, it was Perception +1. These were two different concepts, which could also be considered complementing each other.

Speaking of which, the avenues to increase the Perception Cap were still too few.

The foreseeable opportunity to increase the Perception Cap in the future was basically advancing to 3rd-Tier Night Ranger.

Hm? At this time, Li Wei's heart moved slightly. The Prestige Stone emerged in his hand, yet it faintly seemed somewhat hot. Upon checking slightly, only then did he know there were changes again.[You led 407 refugees to build twenty Level 1 cold-proofing wooden cabins in The Wilds, dug out a water well, and built a Level 1 perimeter wall. You have successfully established a Level 1 Wilderness Camp.]

[During this process, you exerted your unique personality Charisma and delivered solid benefits. You allowed every refugee to see hope. They have all become your die-hards, willing to do anything for you, including becoming a death squad soldier.]

[Wilderness survival is not easy. Under your leadership, the refugees suppressed the bestiality deep within their hearts and discarded various bad habits. One after another, they took you as a role model: taking care of the weak, working actively, treating the camp as their home, and distributing according to need. All For One And One For All is no longer a dream. In their work and life, they have redefined themselves and redefined others.]

[Your Wilderness Camp has obtained the collective buff: United As One. Under this buff, the camp's work efficiency is +50%, camp disputes are reduced by 50%, the probability of talents appearing increases by 10%, and all refugees' Sanity +1.]

[Regarding the description of Sanity: this is a collective, socially-based Hidden Attribute. It will not be generated by an individual, because an individual cannot survive. An unraised infant will not grow into an adult. Only the normal operation of a collective society—providing a stable and safe environment, providing full and healthy emotional value, and producing an elegant and rigorous knowledge system—will generate Sanity.]

[Note 1: Your current Sanity is +11, because you come from a country with a rather stable and healthy society, a stable family, and grew up in an environment with a relatively high moral atmosphere. This is an extremely excellent Hidden Attribute. It will make you look inconspicuous among the masses, keeping your feet firmly on the ground in a stable environment and accomplishing nothing. But as long as there are turbulent changes, you can calmly seize the opportunity and soar in a single leap.]

[Note 2: This is why the country you are in is most prone to producing transmigrators, Samsara Travelers, reincarnators, and all sorts of bizarre guys. This is not teasing. If Collective Sanity is insufficient, it is impossible to rapidly adapt under a sudden change in environment. So in actuality, Collective Sanity is also known as "having eaten too full, having nothing better to do, thinking random nonsense, and watching the fun without minding how big the matter gets" syndrome. Similar entities include the former Martians, the current Earthlings, the Bobby-ites, etc.]

[Note 3: Higher Sanity can allow you to easily see through problems to the essence, allowing you to precisely find a more suitable path amidst chaotic phenomena. At the same time, you can also subtly influence other people. When encountering a malicious Curse or some indescribable powers, you will also have a greater chance to carry out confrontation, suppression, or escape.]

[Note 4: When you are in a camp with low or no Collective Sanity, you will automatically become the backbone. When everyone in the entire camp has activated the Sanity Hidden Attribute, the entire camp's Sanity effect will be doubled, making it impossible for external evils to invade.]

[Congratulations, the Prestige Stone in your hand has Upgraded. It can endlessly extract the rationality formed by the refugees in the camp and store it, releasing it when needed to carry out pacification. You can now set the Sanity cap for all refugees in the Wilderness Camp.]

[Friendly Tip: Based on Basic Humanistic Care, I can tell you that compared to so-called pure faith, Collective Sanity is truly the most luxurious.]

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Huh?

Collective Hidden Attribute! This was something Li Wei absolutely hadn't expected. Because he hadn't even encountered it in the Flame Territory, nor had he had the chance to activate Sanity.

Was it because they weren't united enough to reach the special United As One buff?

It seemed this was indeed the case. Although the Flame Territory was teeming with talents, it was also because they were too smart, their starting point was too high, and they formed factions and cliques. Coupled with having previously encountered a tribulation like the apocalypse, their minds and temperaments inevitably fluctuated. At the very least, the Prestige Card system at that time had never given the Loyalty item. Because there was fundamentally no Loyalty to speak of! Out of a full score of 100, having 30 or 40 was already not bad; what kind of bicycle are you still asking for?

So on the contrary, they were inferior to these ignorant Farmers in a semi-illiterate state. They weren't stupid; rather, their experience and knowledge were insufficient. Under the circumstances of having no other choices, Li Wei giving them one point of kindness made them willing to repay it tenfold!

Of course, then again, it might also be related to Li Wei's abilities and personal Charisma. If his strength was insufficient, he couldn't make those smart people thoroughly submit to him from the bottom of their hearts.

"My Lord, you're awake? Are you hungry? I'll call Aunt Luna to cook for you."

At this time, an extremely pleasantly surprised voice sounded, yet it was a teenage girl. So they arranged a maid for him?

"I'm not hungry. Don't worry about me."

Li Wei sat up from the boiling-hot heated brick bed, only to see the entire room was full of dark-skinned people. Roughly twenty-plus children were staring at him with big, dark, round eyes, like a bunch of marmots...

Alright, this seemed to be the warmest wooden cabin.

Li Wei got off the bed, reached out to pat a few small heads, then pushed the door and left. A gust of cold wind blew in his face. Hoo, truly invigorating!

At this moment, he saw the sunlight outside was brilliant, and the azure sky was cloudless for ten thousand li. The wind wasn't strong; it was just cold. It was probably around minus twenty degrees. And this was still in the morning; the temperature at night would probably be even lower.

Rows of small wooden cabins were situated all around. He couldn't see many refugees moving about outside. The chimney of every wooden cabin emitted green smoke. Now that all twenty wooden cabins had been built, the water well dug out, and there was firewood, food, and the perimeter wall was also built, there was indeed no need to run out to freeze and suffer.

Li Wei first went to a designated location to solve his personal issues, then sequentially inspected these wooden cabins. The whole was not bad. There were already three wooden cabins where the heated brick beds could be used, and the heated brick beds of three other wooden cabins were currently waiting to be dried out by the fire.

Right now, all the refugees were full of praise for this kind of heated brick bed. For one, the warmth retention effect was very good; they could lie down and rest, which was exceedingly comfortable. Otherwise, even if the fireplace was lit very hot, lying on the freezing ground was still uncomfortable and made it easy to catch a disease.

Secondly, it could conserve firewood as much as possible. The refugees were actually exceedingly concerned about these aspects: one was food, the other was heating.

Looking through the Prestige Stone, Li Wei discovered that over these past few days, the refugees had already taken the initiative to reduce the food supply and lower the consumption of firewood.

But the food was only enough for another two and a half months at most, and the fuel supply could also only be maintained for two and a half months in the current state.

So a new trouble had arrived.

Should he take out the Fire Crystals to use for heating?

Li Wei hesitated for a moment, then rejected it. Although he currently didn't understand much about Fire Crystals, he knew this thing could absolutely be considered a very scarce Magical Material.

This wasn't something that could be settled by simply taking out tens or hundreds of units of Mana. Rather, it required simulating so much Mana completely exploding without reservation in a certain area, and it also required a sturdy Level 4 City Wall acting like a natural reaction kettle to block it for a moment. Lastly, it also required massive amounts of Mana burning—this series of conditions!

Perhaps only a Lord at the Duke level could be this luxurious?

Anyway, letting Li Wei blow up his own Three-Star Mana Mine was something he was absolutely loath to part with.

How great it was to use it to cultivate Winter Wheat!

Those ten acres of Winter Wheat of his were growing very well, completely unaffected. Now, the furrows were already full of green, officially entering the overwintering stage. At the beginning of June next year, he might even be able to produce a few kilograms of Five-Star quality Winter Wheat.

The nature of this was different.

"Hm, how about I open a Purple Card?"

Li Wei hesitated again and again, also not wanting to go out to chop firewood or get food.

It wasn't that he couldn't do it, but that it was Snow-Blocked Mountains now. Even if he was the most top-tier Scout, he still couldn't avoid leaving footprints.

Especially since the nearest forest was hundreds of li away, not to mention there was also a gap in food.

What if he was discovered?

It was More Loss Than Gain.

What Li Wei needed to do now was to honestly and dutifully endure through this winter, endure through the spring, and welcome the summer. By June, when the Winter Wheat was harvested... by that time, even if he was discovered, it wouldn't matter.

Because at that time, it wouldn't be long before he initiated the Cross-Border Mission.

And Cross-Border Missions were, in principle, prioritized over other missions.

That is to say, the schedule had already been set a few years ago. Especially when Li Yue, Second Aunt, Zhao Xuanxuan, and Thomas had all used Six-Star Dimension Ascension Cards to exempt themselves from the next round of Cross-Border Missions last year, Li Wei's name had already been registered by the Cross-Border Mission management department and bound to his Primary Class card. At that time, even if he was in the middle of a Chaotic Killing Mission, he would still be prioritized to be teleported away.

Unless he had the ability to rebel against the Alliance of Heavenly Lords, otherwise, he had to act according to the rules.

So this was also the reason Li Wei had to hide.

He could not be discovered by His Majesty the King.

As long as he was discovered, His Majesty the King could wave his large hand then and there; he had the right to modify his Cross-Border Mission into a Conquest Mission. Who told him to be tainted with Windbreath Count's karma?

So as long as he waited quietly and peacefully, arranged for this bunch of refugees when the time came, he could happily go execute the Cross-Border Mission.

"Open it!"

Li Wei made his decision. He immediately first activated a 5-Star Heaven-Veiling Card, fully buffing himself, and then spread his Cloak on the ground.

Following that, he took out the Purple Card dropped by that Neanderthal Archer. The moment it was activated and opened, that Purple Card transformed into a ball of purple light, floating silently in place.

The effect of the 5-Star Heaven-Veiling Card was truly fantastic.

At this time, Li Wei waved his hand casually. The purple light cluster scattered like a bubble, and a massive pile of items landed on the Cloak, sparkling with golden light!

As expected, a massive loot explosion!

First was an Enchanted Strong Bow, also of Five-Star quality. It was slightly inferior to Li Wei's Enchanted Strong Bow, but could entirely be used as a backup weapon.

After appraising it for a bit, Li Wei immediately stored it in his Resource Card.

Secondly, it was nine 5-Star Anti-Magic Arrows! This thing was Hard Currency! Even in Will City's Oxhorn Alley, the selling price for a single one was five thousand gold!

Li Wei had Four-Star logs in his own hands and could carve Five-Star arrow shafts. He also had Hathaway's help, as well as Zhao Xuanxuan, this Four-Star Enchantment Blacksmith. That was why he could produce them without batting an eyelid. In actuality, even so, without considering the labor of Zhao Xuanxuan and Hathaway, and without considering the resources paid to establish the Enchanted Blacksmith Workshop in the Territory, the manufacturing cost of a single one also reached five hundred gold...

Of course, this thing was also truly a great killer weapon; it could insta-kill a Five-Star Professional with zero pressure!

Then it was a full one hundred four-star enchanted armor-piercing arrows, as well as five hundred three-star enchanted armor-piercing arrows. For an Archer, this thing was the most abundant. If Li Wei was exploded by someone, the total number of Fletched Arrows dropped would be over a thousand; he truly had stockpiled that many.

(End of Chapter)