Monsters Are Coming

Chapter 1446 - 374: New Objective: We Will Meet Again

He let out a heavy breath and sat wearily on the ground, staring at the big pit not far away, recalling the image in his mind before the space node collapsed.Just a slight calculation error led to a chain reaction in a millisecond.

"It really isn’t working after all."

Ji Chen rubbed his temples, and the excessive mental consumption caused by Brain Overclocking made his vision blur.

This level of space calculation has already surpassed his ability range.

Even though he’s an old guy who’s lived for over two hundred years.

In the past, all problems were resolved by the Dragon Descendant, and learning space knowledge was something he only started after becoming a player.

More accurately, it was after learning that Dragon Descendant was also in Monster World that he began to learn.

The sky in the distance turned a pale white, and a new day was about to begin.

He looked at the rising sun with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

Recalling the time in the otherworldly realm where he faced thousands of troops without changing his expression, risking his life, and now he’s troubled by a pile of space formulas.

It seems that he still needs to earn sacrificial power through hunting to first increase his strength.

Then consider the next steps.

At the very least, he needs to raise Brain Overclocking to Level 100, and this way learning progress can be greatly improved.

As for decomposing other Life Souls and fully boosting Brain Overclocking, it’s completely unnecessary.

Without the support of combat-type Life Souls, he wouldn’t be able to move an inch in Monster World.

Perhaps as soon as he teleports there, he’d be killed by a sudden external force.

Since the test failed again, Ji Chen decided that his next development should focus on improving strength, with spare time used for study and research.

He summoned the map and checked the location of the guild members.

The guild’s name is "Rebirth Return," which he personally created.

Since lifespan is no longer a shackle, and the player identity offers him infinite growth possibilities, he no longer needs to struggle for survival as he did in the otherworldly realm.

So this time, he set a new goal for himself: to stand at the pinnacle of the player faction.

To see the vastest landscapes.

This guild is the starting point of his ambition.

Currently, the guild has only 129 members.

Unlike the vast majority of player guilds that pursue expansion, the Rebirth Guild takes an elite route.

Every member is a powerful player he personally selected or a lone wolf player with astonishing combat power.

This type of player has a characteristic: they have little interest in large guilds with many members.

They prefer small-scale group organizations, which is precisely the initial direction Ji Chen planned for the guild’s development.

Ensure that every member in the guild can know each other, building friendship and trust.

Just as the Dragon Descendant selected warriors from prison, starting from a small scale until overthrowing the White Demon Dynasty.

The guild’s emblem is a long sword that has broken and been rejoined, its blade covered in cracks, designed by Ji Chen himself.

It symbolizes the edge that broke in the past now returning with an even stronger stance.

This is also a reflection of his life story.

Having experienced a lifetime of battles, finally returning to Earth with a broken sword body, now the broken sword is remade, ready to set sail again with an arrogant stance.

On the guild interface, besides the activities of guild members, one can see the resource points controlled by the guild.

The Rebirth Guild now controls two resource points, both are small spiritual ore areas.

Originally intended to recruit a group of Miner Party players to provide mining sites, with the guild sharing the yield benefits of the mine area, but the Miner Party simply didn’t care for the two resource mine holes they controlled, thinking that the output was far inferior to their own mine area, so negotiations never succeeded.

Later considering cooperation with the Arms Merchant Guild, which sells mining robots and provides a three-month warranty.

Subsequent maintenance services can also be provided by paying sacrificial power.

The mining robots have considerable utility, with many player groups purchasing from the Arms Merchant Guild to invest in resource areas.

In this way, even if nothing is done, a stable source of income can be achieved.

And players willing to mine are very few in the faction, many players’ occupied outdoor resource nodes will quickly go to waste if there’s no automatic mining equipment.

After all, not everyone has a tribe working for them like Little Mage, all being free labor.

But the Arms Merchant Guild’s offer is not low.

A latest model "Mining-66," priced at 5925 points of sacrificial power on the Sacrificial Emperor page.

The majority of sacrificial power consumed in manufacture lies in the mini space warehouse inside the robot.

However, the external selling price offered by the Arms Merchant Guild is 138,000, with average usage life depending on mine area conditions, but generally not surviving beyond six months.

Calculating by this price, one-third of the profits from ordinary small mine areas will be taken by the Arms Merchant Guild.

Adding later-stage fault-induced repair costs, this accounts ledger shows unless for high-quality "rich mine areas," near 35 percent of profits from ordinary small mine areas are pocketed by the Arms Merchant Guild.

After comprehensive consideration, Ji Chen abandoned the idea of purchasing equipment from the Arms Merchant Guild.

Ultimately decided to handle it personally.

Following the Dragon Descendant in those years, he learned many secret techniques, among them one named "Stone Bone Puppet" magic.

This secret technique was once used to create cannon fodder types, using living creature bones as a base, refining with energy transformed by spiritual power, or it can be refined using spiritual materials.

Although this puppet isn’t as exquisite as "Mining-66," its strength lies in being durable.

The energy turbulence and radiation damage of the mining area have minimal impact on the puppet, and it can also autonomously absorb Spiritual Energy to repair its body.