William divided the Providence Zone into two main sections: the northern area which would be controlled by Little Tiger and his Mini Tigers, and the southern area belonging to Kai and his Kai Hais.
With the current state of the region, this was more than enough to handle anything thrown at them, even if William absorbed the remainder of the Greater Veins. At least he hoped so.
He took Long Boi, Cyra, and Atticus along while mapping out the Azures Continent, since they could all fly and there was no need to keep them in the Providence Zone. He marked off the populated areas first, causing his fa to spread like wildfire amongst the Players and NPCs alike.
The sight of three Magical Beasts at the peak of the World and an unassuming young man made many of the onlookers both fearful and curious, but their presence only lasted for a mont, reminiscent of a myth. The few Players that aid to track William down were left lost at every turn, discovering he had traveled hundreds of kiloters by the ti they reached his last known location.
From the Far West Forest to the Hillvire Empire, back through the Southern Plains and eventually to the Far East Mistlands, William mapped out the entire Azures Continent in just over three months.
He spent two hundred thousand Potential Points along the way to hatch nine Juvenile Vermillion Pheonixes and nine Azure Wyrms, giving Cyra and Long a group of their own to lead. Cyra was left in the Southern Plains to deal with any Elental Beast Tides in the Region, while Long was left in the Far West Mistlands.
William didn't forget to Cultivate, using their rest ti to completely fill his Dantian with two million Spirit Qi. His physical power had already reached the limit of what the World could handle, but that didn't necessarily an he couldn't Cultivate.
As long as William didn't breakthrough to the next stage, he wouldn't have to worry about being forced to Ascend.
He even took the ti to visit the Fire Mine, of which the sla- Cultivators had greatly increased their pace and managed to extract the entirety of the Greater Fire Shards. They had even started working on the Flarium two days ago, but the progress was quite slow so far and they had yet to extract a single piece.
"So this is the last of it, huh?" William looked at the warehouse completely overfull of Greater Fire Shards. A second one had been built nearby by the Cultivators, but it was incredibly crude and could only store a fraction of the Greater Fire Shards.
"This is it, Boss Will." Wen Xai replied with a bow. "We've used up every case you gave us as well, but the Flarium might not need such an exquisite storage thod."
William nodded and whisked all of the Greater Fire Shards into his Space Ring.
-Acquired Greater Fire Shard (x148183): 3,704,575 PP
POTENTIAL POINTS: 3,951,904
Almost four million Potential Points?!? William knew there would be a lot, but he didn't expect such an extravagant amount.
With four million Potential Points, he could upgrade anything he wanted! He could even push the System to the next rank easily, since he was only a hundred and thirty thousand Points away.
The System's robotic voice interrupted William's daydreaming.
-How could you not expect this much? Less than a third of the Shards were brought out last ti. If anything, this is a small amount compared to what you could have earned.
Oh, would have, could have, should have but I didn't. There's no need to think about those things. All that matters is I'm still alive and that's a lot of Potential Points!
William couldn't care less about whether the System thought he was the most efficient or not. His System Quests hadn't started yet, so there was no need to rush.
William looked at Wen Xai thoughtfully, making the man a little bit nervous. The old Nascent Soul Cultivator looked to the ground in sha, thinking he must have done sothing wrong to make his Boss angry.
"Wen Xai, I believe you've paid off your debts." William started, filling the man with even more worry.
Is he going to kill now that I'm not useful? Wen Xai thought.
"I see no need to suppress you anymore, so I'll be removing this." William flicked his finger and shattered the Enslavent Array on Wen Xai's shoulder.
He had no intention of stooping to the levels of Retribution and felt as long as they didn't threaten his friends and family, there would be no issue. He called the other Cultivators up from the mines, performing the sa movent on each of them.
"You've all done well, even if so of you tried to escape a few tis." he looked sharply at a specific individual, though the person in question had never made a move since weakening the Array.
Well, he had, but William knew nothing about the sequence of events.
The Cultivator's contact was with soone in Retribution, an old friend that he used to et with before they tried to betray Supre Left. Since the man's contact couldn't locate their higher-ups to inform them of his situation, no one was able to co to the man's rescue and he was left to remain in the Fire Mine.
"You can still work for if you'd like, but it won't be as a slave. Instead, you'll co to the mine at least three days a week for a wage of two Mana Stones per day. It's not much, but I will also craft each of you a custom Artifact of your choosing with so limitations at the end of each month if you've done well."
The previously nervous Cultivators brightened up when they heard William's offer. Not only was he giving them four days off per week if they wanted, but he also would pay them a small wage! Two Mana Stones a day wasn't a small number for Golden Core Cultivators, and neither was getting a custom Artifact.
The few that had tried to escape before felt a little ashad, not expecting sothing like this to happen. Given their past actions, they guessed that William must already know and would give them worse treatnt in secret.
They steeled their resolve to work extra days and make up for it.
"I'll work five days, Boss William!" one of them raised their hand and spoke.
William waved in dismissal. "No need to inform when you are coming in. Just keep Wen Xai inford."
He looked at Wen Xai, "I'll give you five Mana Stones a day and the sa offer if you choose to continue working with . What do you say?"
Wen Xai nodded. This was a better deal than he had when working with the Pillars of Justice, how could he say no?
William suddenly rembered sothing. "There's also a few people that will be working above you. They'll be watching the entire Continent from separate areas, I hope you don't mind. I'll bring them out now."
He waved his fingers and brought a ball of Illusion Mana from underground, allowing it to hover just a few inches above the rough ground. The Illusion Ball was dispersed, revealing the eight cloaked higher-ups from Retribution and stunning everyone silent.
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