Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 56: Lawful Peace

"That goes without saying. Since you're no longer the Family Head, I wouldn't waste my breath on you otherwise. Now listen carefully - Stamina Cards serve as one of the standard trading currencies among Lords of the Myriad Worlds. Others include Strength Cards, Agility Cards, Defense Cards, Health Cards, and so on, but we'll set those aside for now."

"You should have your first and second professions by now, right? Have you noticed how difficult it is to trigger a third profession? That's because your profession level isn't high enough. Your first profession card must reach three stars, meaning veteran level, before you can normally unlock a third profession."

"However, there's a sort-of-exploit situation here. Specifically, if you don't have the Carpenter or Woodcutter profession, when you accumulate 500 points of Logging Experience, you'll obtain a tradable One-Star Woodcutter Card that you can't activate yourself. Similarly, if you don't have the Miner profession, when you accumulate 500 points of mining experience, you'll get the corresponding One-Star Miner Card. Then, if you put these two cards together, a fusion option will appear, allowing you to synthesize a One-Star Stamina Card."

"The One-Star Stamina Card can be used yourself or traded as currency. Its specific effect is increasing Stamina by 20 points, equivalent to gaining two Free Attribute Points for free. You should understand the value in that."

"Can you farm this indefinitely? No upper limit?" Li Wei was startled.

"How could there be no limit? The One-Star Stamina Card can only be used three times before becoming ineffective. But then you can use a Two-Star Stamina Card for another three times, and so on. Alright, that's the gist of it. May our cooperation be pleasant."

After speaking, Thomas was about to push the door and leave when Li Wei quickly called out to stop him.

"Wait, this isn't enough yet. I still need to understand some other questions. For example, could you tell me what this game is actually about? What is the Lord of the Myriad Worlds Alliance?"

Thomas stopped, completely unsurprised. "Actually, you'll learn the answers to both these questions after you complete this scenario and return to headquarters. But since you're asking now, I might as well tell you."

"First, what you call this game is actually fully named the Orderly Peace World Instance. It's a world used by the Lord of the Myriad Worlds Alliance to train newcomers and steadily obtain resources.""The 'Orderly' part means we must follow certain rules when entering this world, boundaries we cannot cross. For example, since we're a family, we must maintain the plot logic of being a family. I think you understand this."

"The 'Peace' part means we can only obtain this world's resources through the identities assigned to us by the plot. We can't resort to any means necessary to cause trouble or plunder this world's resources without restraint. All development must follow objective laws. For instance, you can't burn down an entire forest just to hunt one deer, or drain a river dry just for one fish, because proper Natives wouldn't do that."

"Even more importantly, you can't pull out chainsaws, electric picks, explosives, invent flintlock guns, penicillin, steam engines, nor can you recite poetry, create paintings, or do any particularly unconventional things. These all absolutely violate world rules."

"In short, you need to make sure the Natives can understand your behavior patterns."

"That's Orderly Peace. Correspondingly, there's Chaotic Slaughter, which I won't elaborate on since there are too many playstyles."

"As for what the Lord of the Myriad Worlds Alliance is, sorry, I don't know either. I'm just a new recruit who barely survived the Chaotic Slaughter battlefield."

After speaking, Thomas pushed the door and left, while Li Wei fell into deep thought. This transaction was indeed beneficial, giving him a general understanding of the current world and the organization behind him.

"So, the three-year survival mission I'm doing now is actually the beginner map, right?"

"Orderly Peace, Chaotic Slaughter? Tsk tsk!"

This time, Li Wei finally felt some urgency. In the current mission, if people die, they can still have their memories erased and return home. But on the Chaotic Slaughter battlefield? That might not be the case.

Therefore, the most important thing was to improve himself as much as possible within this beginner village.

Gathering his numerous thoughts, Li Wei remembered Thomas's mention of the One-Star Stamina Card.

And he happened to be in a position to deeply farm both mining experience and Logging Experience.

Why would he refuse an opportunity to increase his Stamina by 20 points?

Stamina was still very important. This attribute corresponded to exhaustion, and it wasn't the same thing as Strength.

For example, how heavy a rock he could lift depended on his Strength limit, but how far he could carry that rock depended on his Stamina limit.

Of course, back on Earth, the concepts of stamina and endurance had their distinctions, but in this so-called Lord of the Myriad Worlds Alliance, the two were most likely combined into one. Everything was digitized anyway, so no need to be overly precise - just understand the general idea.

The key point was to continuously grow stronger and protect the benefits already obtained.

Li Wei absolutely didn't want to be sent back home in the future under the name of Humanistic Care. He'd rather be directly eliminated than that.

With this thought, he walked out of the room and looked at the four silent people in the courtyard. He felt a headache coming on - how should he trigger the monthly main quest to build the Stone Wall? The logic still needed to make sense, otherwise the plot would develop bugs.

Damn, no wonder that bastard Thomas chose to use items for bribery and transactions. This matter really wasn't easy to handle.

Simultaneously, he suddenly understood why Penny and Fila had been so enthusiastic last night, working overnight to modify his leather armor for him. This was truly the perfect method to preemptively cut off that tailor's daughter Margaret.

After all, they all remembered clearly how that bitch Mixi had operated.

"Ahem, Thomas, you've been away from home for a long time. Do you remember? This is my mom Fila, my sister Penny, my brother Leon?"

Li Wei made the awkward introductions. These weren't the problem. The problem was how to assign Thomas the task of building the stone Perimeter Wall?

Everyone exchanged somewhat awkward smiles, treating it as greetings, but their eyes remained fixed intently on Li Wei. Especially Penny and Fila - Veteran Completion Players held overwhelming advantages over them. If the newcomers completed the monthly main quest in the first month, it would be easy for latecomers to surpass them.

Just now, Thomas pulling Li Wei into the room for secret discussions had given them an uneasy feeling.

Thomas, meanwhile, narrowed his eyes, wearing a faint, ambiguous smile as he waited.

Li Wei felt like he was about to break out in a sweat.

This matter wasn't that simple. Currently, there were only two ways to accomplish it.

One was to follow Mixi's approach - have a conversation with Li Wei, identify areas where the family needed strengthening, ensure conditions that benefited both parties were met, then naturally enter this phase. However, it still required a full member vote, and if the vote didn't pass, there was nothing to be done.

Given the current situation, if Thomas wanted to build the Stone Wall, Penny and Fila would definitely refuse. After all, it wasn't that urgent and didn't align with the principle of mutual benefit.

That left the second scenario - using the authority of the Family Head to directly assign the task to Thomas. This was the simplest method and didn't require a vote, but it would definitely cost Family Head prestige. No need to guess about that.