Free Web NovelChapter 118: Chapter 93: The New Skill of the National Treasure Divine Artifact, How Tantalizing
Then, as if on a whim, Shen Fei actually gave Huang Yi some advice about the monster tides. After that, the two made an arrangement to go online after completing their daily game ability inheritance, just to chat and exchange information.
The way they addressed each other was also rather interesting. Huang Yi called Shen Fei "Brother Fei," while Shen Fei, in turn, called him "Brother Huang."
"I have something huge to tell you today!" fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
"I can’t believe you were right! That National Treasure Divine Artifact is really something special!"
"The nation’s foundations really do get a boost from special items!"
Without any pleasantries, as soon as they connected, Huang Yi launched right into telling Shen Fei what he had seen.
"What?" Shen Fei’s brow furrowed as he read Huang Yi’s words.
In his past life, he knew absolutely nothing about National Treasure Divine Artifacts. Previously, it was only because he had snatched a so-called National Treasure Divine Artifact fragment from a Japanese Ninja that he had told Huang Yi about it, asking him to keep an eye out for anything related to them. He never expected there would actually be a development!
Today, he had just finished fully inheriting an entire game’s worth of abilities. If the so-called National Treasure Divine Artifacts also counted as a project, then tonight, they would also reach 100% full inheritance.
WHOOSH.
Seeing Shen Fei’s reply, Huang Yi wasted no time and sent over a picture. Then, upon seeing the contents of the picture, Shen Fei was dumbfounded. Although the picture was blurry in many places because it had been taken surreptitiously, and many parts were even pixelated, what he could see was enough to make him shoot to his feet.
"Damn it!" he roared as he made out the contents of the image. "Fanghu Cave Heaven was a gift? Not something they fought for?!"
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[Name: Chaos Mahjong (Complete)]
[Type: National Treasure Divine Artifact]
[Affiliated Nation: Xia Country]
[Number of Xia Country Ability Users: 38,497,812]
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[Flower on the Kong: After successfully completing an operation, receive an additional reward!]
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[Big Four Winds: *****]
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[National Fate: With every version update, one version-related item will be gifted.]
[Version 4.3 update detected. Randomly gifting one large Neutral City...]
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Many parts of the picture were pixelated and unclear, but the parts that were visible left Shen Fei speechless. Aside from learning that Japan’s National Treasure Divine Artifact was called the Nine-Phase Divine Bottle, he now knew the name of Xia Country’s own: Chaos Mahjong.
At the same time, he saw that with Xia Country’s National Treasure Divine Artifact, a single skill called National Fate could gift an item related to the update after each new version. With the brand-new Version 4.3 update, it had directly gifted them a large Neutral City. And here he was, racking his brains on how to fight for a Neutral City! Shen Fei never imagined that the Divine Capital of Xia Country would just be handed one for free!
Well, I’ll be damned! No wonder almost every country that survived in my past life had a Neutral City. It turns out they were gifted by the National Treasure Divine Artifacts!
Although most of the National Treasure Divine Artifact’s skills were pixelated, Shen Fei was still able to piece a lot of things together from the few visible fragments of information. He now understood why Neutral Cities were so difficult to fight for, yet almost every nation that hadn’t been wiped out had still managed to acquire one.
The new Forum and Credit Points created by the Ethereum Punk Organization... couldn’t they have been made using a National Treasure Divine Artifact? A sudden theory surfaced in Shen Fei’s mind as he contemplated the immense power of the National Treasure Divine Artifacts.
While Shen Fei was pondering this, another message from Huang Yi arrived:
"According to the feedback from the National Treasure Divine Artifact, the Version 4.3 update is the arrival of the Neutral Cities! Right now, phantoms of cities have been spotted in the skies above many foreign cities! It’s nighttime here, so we can’t see anything clearly, but they should appear by tomorrow morning! Brother Fei, be prepared!"
Huang Yi quickly explained his reasoning for sharing this information. He was willing to help Shen Fei, of course, because Shen Fei was currently the representative of the Tower Masters. Thanks to Shen Fei, his position at the Tourism Management Office had seen rapid promotion. By the second day of the game ability inheritance, he was already the deputy director of the Tourism Management Office headquarters. Therefore, he needed Shen Fei to raise the banner for the Tower Masters. If Shen Fei did well, he would do well. Since this Version 4.3 update was about the arrival of Neutral Cities—something that sounded like a perfect match for Tower Masters—Huang Yi had immediately sent the information to Shen Fei.
Of course, there was another reason he was willing to share such important information, which was known only to the director and deputy director at the Divine Capital’s Tourism Management Office. Shen Fei had saved his life. Three days ago, a monster tide had erupted in the Divine Capital, and he had been one of the main defenders fighting against it. If it hadn’t been for Shen Fei’s advice, he might have already died in that monster tide.
"Okay, got it. Thanks, Brother Huang!"
Even though he already knew that Version 4.3 would involve the arrival and contest for Neutral Cities, Shen Fei was still very grateful for Huang Yi’s message. Huang Yi’s information hadn’t just shown him how powerful the National Treasure Divine Artifacts were; it had also revealed that they could actually gift items with every version update.
In his past life, versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 had all appeared only after the National Treasure Divine Artifacts were fully inherited. Therefore, with every version update, special items would be received thanks to the artifacts’ effects. In this life, because of him, versions 4.1 and 4.2 had been released ahead of schedule. When those updates occurred, the National Treasure Divine Artifacts weren’t yet complete, so there were no extra gifts. But by the time Version 4.3 was updated, the National Treasure Divine Artifacts had been fully inherited, and they immediately gifted a Neutral City.
This meant subsequent versions—4.4, 4.5, 4.6, and so on—would also certainly gift version-related items. The news made Shen Fei’s palms itch with ambition. After all, he currently had a fragment of Japan’s National Treasure Divine Artifact in his possession.
If Japan’s National Treasure Divine Artifact can be stolen, then other countries’ Divine Artifacts can be stolen too... And as it happens, I still have the ultra-long-distance Teleportation that came with Japan’s Divine Artifact fragment, which lets me travel back and forth anywhere in the world three times! Setting everything else aside for a moment... what if I just teleport directly to Japan and steal their National Treasure Divine Artifact? Is that a viable plan?
"Thanks, Brother Huang. This information is very important to me!" His heart surging with excitement, Shen Fei sent a thank-you message to Huang Yi.
"No problem! Happy to help! I have to go for now. I need to clean up the monsters that just spawned in the Divine Capital! Also, from what I’m hearing at Tourism Management Office HQ, even though the Divine Artifact gifted us one, the higher-ups are still planning to capture a second Neutral City near the Divine Capital. You can never have too many of these things! Brother Fei, just keep an eye out!"
After quickly typing a few more lines, Huang Yi logged off. Just as he’d said, monsters had once again descended into reality with tonight’s seventh inheritance, and he had to go help clean them up. Unlike Shen Fei, whose Defense Towers were all Tenth Tier, Huang Yi only had five or six of them, despite being ranked second in Combat Power. The majority of his were Ninth Tier Defense Towers. Moreover, because his towers were all Immortal Skill Towers, his Bonds and combinations weren’t as flexible or diverse as Shen Fei’s.
Therefore, even though the Divine Capital was guarded by Huang Yi and had its share of capable people at the Tourism Management Office headquarters, their monster-clearing speed couldn’t compare to Qing City’s at all. Huang Yi, of course, deeply regretted not having built more Tenth Tier Defense Towers back in the game. But alas, regrets were useless.
"Okay!" After sending a reply to Huang Yi, Shen Fei also slowly logged out of the game.
WHOOSH.
The moment he logged out, Shen Fei focused his consciousness on his Detection Tower, its range now increased to 50 km thanks to its Bonds.
PEW!
PEW!
PEW!
Within a 5 km radius of the villa district, the Defense Towers he had set to auto-attack had already wiped the invading monsters clean. Now, using the line of sight from his Detection Tower, he adjusted the cleanup range to 50 km.
Since everyone is squeezing into a 5 km radius, I’ll just expand the safe zone to 50 km...
SWISH!
SWISH!
SWISH!
As Shen Fei made his adjustments, the people of Qing City were stunned to find that the safe zone’s radius had expanded to 50 km. With this much protection, everyone in the city could now enter the safe zone, no longer needing to linger in the dangerous outskirts. Meanwhile, Shen Fei’s creation of a 50 km safe zone caused another post to explode in popularity on the Forum.
After setting his Defense Towers to automatically kill monsters and protect the area, Shen Fei lay down on his bed and slowly drifted off to rest.
Tomorrow, I have big things to do!
I wonder when the digitalization from Version 4.2 will be complete. Most of the corpses of the monsters killed now are instantly despawning because of it... Before falling asleep, Shen Fei’s thoughts drifted to Version 4.2. With the release of Version 4.3, the digitalization process from 4.2 had also accelerated.
