Chapter 636: Chapter 636: Settlent
After Duke dealt with these three people, he quickly left the area.
Although the action was quick, it caused quite a stir, which inevitably would draw other people’s attention.
The next half month flew by in a continuous cycle of hunting, shifting, and rest.
During this ti, Duke couldn’t rember how many people he hunted down; he also encountered other teams trying to hunt him, but they ultimately beca part of his resources.
As the scheduled end ti of the competition approached, Duke quietly moved away from any hot spots likely to erupt in a final clash, and chose an absolutely secluded, easily defensible natural stone cave as the final waiting place.
At the mont the competition ended, his body was enveloped in gentle blue light, and the scene around the stone cave quickly blurred and faded, eventually replaced by a pure, flowing stream of blue energy.
The familiar slight weightlessness and sensation of spatial displacent erged, but were much smoother than when entering the resource quadrant.
After the blue light dissipated, he stood firmly on solid ground.
In the central settlent hall of the Anvil Castle’s combat assessnt and training center, the towering do is made of a massive magic crystal with embedded luminous runes, casting a gentle and bright light like natural sunlight.
The hall is circular, with a giant pale gold three-dinsional projection in the center continuously refreshing with data streams like a waterfall, displaying basic statistics of the competition and rolling announcents of outstanding achievents.
Around the circular hall, hundreds of independent settlent compartnts are evenly distributed, separated by translucent energy barriers.
At this mont, blue lights are flashing continuously, and participants are being transported back one after another, appearing in their respective compartnts.
Most of them have exhausted, excited, regretful, or vigilant expressions on their faces, sizing each other up and exchanging quietly about their gains or complaining about encounters.
Duke’s compartnt was relatively secluded; he had already taken off the Thousand Illusion Mask, returning to his original appearance.
Nurous people had been robbed by him during the competition, though they had long left the competition site.
To be safe, it was best not to appear around here with that face.
Soone might specifically wait for the day the competition ends to co and seek revenge.
"Participant number: L-7342, identity verification passed, welco back," a clear, pleasant but emotionless synthetic female voice sounded in the compartnt.
anwhile, in front of him rose a light blue crystal operation screen similar to, but larger and more sophisticated than, those in hotel rooms.
"Calculating your final rewards from the Void Echo · Quadrant Contest, please wait..."
Data started to scroll on the screen madly like a waterfall, at a speed too fast for the naked eye to catch.
Duke could feel the competition rune on his wrist engaging in a high-speed information exchange with the screen.
About ten seconds later, the scrolling stopped.
An extrely detailed and categorized total resource acquisition list was displayed before Duke in a clear, intuitive three-dinsional chart and text format.
Despite having been ntally prepared, Duke couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at the list’s length.
"Moonlight Moss (Superior) x3, Dragon Blood Vine Seedling (Active) x1, Sleeping Crystal Orchid (Complete) x2, Starlight Mushroom (Five-Year) x5, Ironwood Pollen (Essence) x1 pinch..."
"Settlent completed, your final resource count has been recorded in your participant record," continued the synthetic voice, "The resources in your list will be delivered to the safe address you specify within five days, defaulting to the Heart of Gear Hotel room you registered at enrollnt, but can be changed."
"Please note that for the sake of safety and privacy, your detailed gain list has undergone advanced encryption; only you, the highest committee of the event, and relevant Empire regulatory agencies can inquire. It is recomnded you properly safeguard the settlent voucher."
A concise settlent confirmation and transport address confirmation option appeared on the screen, which Duke quickly reviewed and confird there were no errors, leaving an imprint with Spiritual Power at the designated location, finalizing the confirmation.
"Thank you for your participation, congratulations on achieving excellent results, the door to Void Echo is always open to the brave and wise, looking forward to seeing you next ti," concluded the synthetic voice.
The screen in front of him slowly lowered, and the energy barrier of the compartnt quietly opened, indicating he could leave.
Duke walked out of the compartnt, feeling so fleeting glances falling on him from the surroundings.
So carried curiosity, so inquiry, and so hidden scrutiny.
He ignored these gazes, heading straight for the exit.
This place couldn’t be stayed in for long; too many disputes occurred during the competition.
Duke already saw several groups arguing, with much friction happening evidently due to grudges from the competition.
Luckily, not many noticed him, and no one ca to trouble him, allowing him to return to the hotel safely.
The competition was truly fruitful, with his rough estimation of the resource haul valued at over fifty million Level 1 Magic Stones.
The bulk ca from the frantic plundering over the last half month, gaining a substantial amount of resources.
In five days, there will be soone to deliver these resources, and Duke is considering how to handle this batch.
The batch contains a wide variety of resources, most currently unused.
Duke considered selling a portion of them to exchange for Magic Stones.
His subsequent promotion to Level 2 Mage requires preparation of the Energy Well, which is costly and will consu a lot of Magic Stones.
Those resources currently unused are idle otherwise and need converting into resources usable now.
Upon returning to the hotel, Duke activated all security defenses in the room and also took out several sets of small witch arrays from the Space Ring and arranged them.
Then, he entered the Light God Court.
The Light God Court now encompasses more than 8,000 square kiloters; the land is vast and fertile, stretching in all directions until it blends into faint light mist at the horizon.
In this space, the terrain has initially begun to diversify, with the central region being the most flat and fertile plain, surrounded by the ever-growing, expanding contour of pale green mountains.
Countless streams ford from the overflow of the Spring of Life and naturally condensed water vapor wind like veins across the land, nurturing everything along the way.
The spring has now transford into an erald lake over a hundred ters in diater, with crystal-clear water, where the jade-like World Tree Seed quietly floats, its vast life map slowly rotating, emitting a gentle yet steadfast growth rhythm to the entire plane.
The surface of the lake is shrouded in mist full of life spirit, and the land by the lakeside thrives with lush spirit flowers and exotic herbs, autonomously absorbing the dispersed life energy and radiating purer spiritual feedback to the environnt.
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