Chapter 52
◎ Upgrade, Territorial Sea War ◎
【Player He An has initiated a territorial sea war against you. Please return to defend as soon as possible.】
When she received this notification, Yu Chi was learning her 4th magic spell. She had already been on Sunset Island for 10 days and had only learned Fireball, Fire Wall, Holy Light, and Teleportation.
The first two spells were very simple. Because they had the same attribute, learning them was twice as effective. Holy Light, however, was a healing spell and was quite difficult. It was similar to Healing Aura, but besides healing serious injuries, it also had the effect of dispelling dark matter.
Considering the contaminated creatures on the sea, Yu Chi decided to learn it after some hesitation.
The last one, Teleportation, was a space magic and also the most difficult type of magic. It could instantly move to a certain location, but it was currently limited to short-distance teleportation.
With attack, healing, and escape all covered, Yu Chi did not forget that she could learn a total of 23 magic spells. Although she had only learned four so far, she had specially asked the silver-haired teacher to copy down the incantations for 30 magic spells, planning to study them slowly on her own.
She was most interested in space magic, especially after she learned that the elves’ space items were all made by themselves, she was even more tempted.
During her time on Sunset Island, she had not only learned magic but also a lot about the history of the elves.
For example, outsiders coming to Sunset Island would be suppressed. This was the sea god’s protection for the elves. At the same time, the elves were also restricted from going out to sea.
For some unknown reason, the elves had been trapped on the island for a thousand years. Also trapped on the island were the Dragon Clan, the Phoenix Clan, the Sea Clan, and the Undead Clan, a total of five races, and also one of the few level five islands on the continent.
And the races on the level four islands were dwarves, beastmen, giant spirits, halflings, and so on. Basically, any race that could form a population and a special social structure could become a level four island.
However, Sunset Island had degenerated from a level five island to a level four island in recent years because of the weakening of the Mother Tree of Life, which was why the dwarves next door often came to provoke them.
But according to Yu Chi’s understanding, even if Sunset Island had degenerated into a level four island, neither its scale nor its strength could be compared to an ordinary level four island.
What’s more, although the history of the elves was right in front of her, Yu Chi did not find any tension in those elves. They lived a leisurely and comfortable life every day and did not feel that the weakening of the Mother Tree of Life had any effect at all.
Not normal.
Yu Chi propped her chin on her hand. The big brothers aren’t even pretending anymore.
The history of the elves was very rich. 10 days was not enough to learn anything, but she still remembered some major historical events.
For example, the current Elf King had been in office for 1872 years, and there was no new successor yet.
For example, the Elf King would only be born from the light elves in the end, and the birth of the Elf King was not affected by other elves, but was decided by the Mother Tree of Life.
When an elf came of age, the elf with the qualifications of an Elf King would be given a silver crown mark by the Mother Tree of Life. The successors would duel, and the real Elf King would be produced in the end.
For example, the dark elves were originally just a branch of the Elven Kingdom. Later, Sunset Island was sealed, and the Mother Tree of Life gradually weakened. The dark elves also had a disagreement with the Elf King because of this and officially broke away.
…
When Yu Chi read this part of history, she thought of the woman in black gauze who had appeared in the elf nursery that day. That was definitely a dark elf.
But the Elven Kingdom, the dark elves, and the fairies had long made an agreement that they would never harm each other’s cubs. And now that the dark elves had unilaterally broken the agreement, she didn’t know how things had developed.
And that captured player. Yu Chi knew that the Elf King had interrogated the player, but whether it was about the dark elves or the player, it was not something she could know at the moment.
The Elf King had only told her that the player was not dead yet.
Overall, Yu Chi’s life on Sunset Island was very happy.
She would have lunch and dinner with the Elf King every day. Breakfast was not possible; the Elf King got up too early.
The food prepared in the royal court was very delicious. Yu Chi wished she could live by the Elf King’s side forever and never leave.
She would occasionally go back to the elf nursery to visit Elio, Gaelin, and Aler. Carindor had come back once in the middle and had given her a small bow and arrow.
Needless to say, it was legendary grade again.
And it was a bow and arrow completely made according to her own characteristics, and it could even slowly change size as her body grew.
Besides being outstanding in magic, the elves’ best weapon was the bow and arrow. Yu Chi was very surprised. She hugged Carindor and gave him a big kiss. The other party was stiff on the spot for 30 seconds.
Elves, indeed, are a reserved species!
All of this led to Yu Chi feeling a sense of dissatisfaction that her peaceful life was being broken when she saw the long-awaited system notification. She pouted, and in a fit of anger, she poked two holes in the ground with a wooden stick to express her anger.
But no matter what, it had to be dealt with.
Yu Chi sighed like an old man. She hadn’t expected that she had been worrying about how to go back before, but after just a few days, she didn’t want to leave.
The life on Sunset Island was really too happy!
“Thalassa.”
The Elf King was reading a book. When he saw her, he gently waved at her. “I’ve prepared some things for you.”
In the space cloth bag were all kinds of delicious finished food, seeds of rare and exotic herbs, and materials of a long history.
Yu Chi unconsciously bit her finger, leaving a crescent mark.
The cub would secretly pick up some unwanted plant seeds every day. She would also secretly stuff the uneaten nectar and bread into her space, and then pretend that nothing had happened, as if no one had noticed.
In fact, the entire royal court knew.
Iolanthe had even tactfully reminded him, hoping that the Elf King could be a little better to the cub and not let her develop the habit of picking up trash.
Elf King: …Sigh.
“These are specially prepared for Thalassa,” the Elf King touched the cub’s hair, which had an excellent texture. “Thalassa, take them all.”
Don’t pick up trash anymore.
Yu Chi didn’t understand his underlying meaning. A cub’s brain was not very good in the first place, and she had to learn so many courses every day, so she was dizzy all day, and many times, she was no different from a real cub.
After hearing this, she let out a happy cry, put all the things into her space, and then kissed the back of the Elf King’s hand to show her affection.
She didn’t know how many good things were inside. She thought that the Elf King had seen that she liked these things and had just casually given her some as a farewell gift.
It was only after coming to Sunset Island that Yu Chi knew that the older the material, the more precious it was.
Those spirit plants in her [Two-Sided Mirror] space, basically after a few days of planting, were taken out by her to use or sell. If they were put on Sunset Island, they would probably be like the weeds that could be seen everywhere on the roadside.
As an island of immortal species, Sunset Island was full of thousand-year-old spirit plants, and even ten-thousand-year-old spirit plants. One could imagine how long the history of this island was.
“And this.”
The Elf King bent down and put a necklace on Yu Chi. It was a beautiful green gemstone.
【Item: Song of Nature
Grade: Demigod
Description: It comes from the Elf King…】
“…”
Yu Chi’s eyes widened. She swallowed, at a loss for words.
The cub looked like she wanted it but was refusing it with pain. The Elf King chuckled. “Take it.”
No, no, this is too precious.
Yu Chi shook her head vigorously, closed her eyes, and handed the necklace back. She didn’t know that her expression had already exposed her thoughts, her face full of reluctance.
What kind of disguise can you expect from an 80cm baby?
The Elf King said with a smile, “You protected the other cubs. This is your reward.”
So it’s a reward!
Yu Chi’s hand that was sending it back hesitated. She had done a good deed. It was right to be praised and rewarded.
She secretly put the necklace back on her neck.
The Elf King smiled without a word.
After Yu Chi came in, she did not tell the Elf King that she was about to leave, but she was not surprised that the Elf King had known about this for a long time.
There was nothing on the entire Elf Island that the Elf King did not know. Even if Yu Chi had not done anything in the elf nursery at that time, the two of them would not have been able to take the cub out of the Elven Kingdom. They probably couldn’t even have gotten out of that forest.
The King was giving her his final instructions. His voice was unhurried, and it sounded like a beautiful piece of music, but in fact, most of the content was to eat more and sleep well.
Yu Chi sat obediently on the ground covered with a plush blanket, her head nodding, indicating that she had heard everything.
【Your territory is under attack. Please return to defend as soon as possible.】
The system urged again.
When a territory was under attack, that is, when a territorial sea war began, a player could quickly return to their territorial sea no matter where they were.
“I’m leaving,” Yu Chi looked up and said.
The Elf King nodded lightly.
Her figure slowly disappeared under the influence of the system.
The Elf King watched her. The cub’s expression looked a little dazed and aggrieved. He raised his hand and placed it on her hair.
But in the end, there was only a void.
The spatial fluctuation completely disappeared. The Elf King sat quietly for a while, looked up at the window. His gaze could pass through all barriers and land on the magnificent sea outside.
Hurry up, he thought. The elven race is already impatient.
…
【Congratulations, player, on obtaining the friendship of the elves!】
【Congratulations, player, on leveling up to 20!】
【Congratulations, player…】
The moment she returned to the boat, countless messages popped up. Yu Chi opened her eyes, subconsciously looked back at Sunset Island, and said, “Request to return to the territorial sea.”
She had transformed back into an adult elf. The change in her level made her body feel incredibly light, completely free from the constraints of a cub. Her physical fitness had improved, and all her suppressed abilities had returned.
However, when Yu Chi moved her body, she suddenly felt a little unaccustomed.
The sorrow of parting had not yet arisen, and she suddenly thought of some bad things.
For example, being stripped naked and having her butt poked;
Stealing trash every day under the gaze of the Elf King;
And throwing all kinds of tantrums and wanting to be coaxed when she was unhappy.
…
It was hard to say what her mood was now, but…
Yu Chi: What does what Thalassa did have to do with her, DazedFish?
Ahhhhhh—
Yu Chi closed her eyes, her ears turning red with shame. If she had to be forcibly turned into a cub, why not help her delete this memory!
Fortunately, a huge roar interrupted her embarrassment. Yu Chi opened her eyes, a ferocious smile on her face.
Good, I’d like to see who it is.
A territorial sea war was not complicated to operate.
First step, break the enemy’s territorial sea barrier.
Second step, charge in and find and destroy the other party’s territorial sea core.
With these two steps, you could directly expand the territorial sea. Compared to upgrading step by step, this was indeed much simpler.
After a territorial sea was taken by an enemy, the player would not be punished. It was just that the second time they opened a territorial sea, the resources required for upgrading would be doubled.
As soon as Yu Chi came back, she felt that her territorial sea barrier was being attacked. She had always felt that there was nothing to fight for in the early stages of a territorial sea war.
In the end, it was just a battle between two players.
In the later stages, after the creatures in the territorial sea became diversified, the creatures would spontaneously fight to protect their homes. At that time, starting a war would be truly lively.
But there was no other way. Someone wanted to swallow her.
Yu Chi directly rode her speedboat and rushed towards the direction of the attack. Her human panel was still level 13, but her elf panel was already level 20.
【Name: DazedFish
Species: Elf
Level: 20
Magic: 27
Spirit: Second Stage
Magic: Fireball (First Order), Fire Wall (Second Order), Holy Light (upgraded to Third Order after merging with Healing Aura), Teleportation (Second Order), Elven Blessing (Second Order), Vine Manipulation (First Order), Nature’s Guardian (Third Order)】
Compared to the initial elf panel, the current appearance was a complete body. And the skill, Nature’s Guardian, had naturally been moved from the human panel to the elf panel.
In addition, the last three skills had taken up her magic points, so the next time she went to Sunset Island, she should be able to use them directly.
The moment Yu Chi left Sunset Island, all her abilities returned and were enhanced. Under the combination of the two forms, her ranking on the strength ranking directly rushed into the top 100, and finally stopped at 86th.
The entire world channel was in an uproar, and the forum was also discussing who [DazedFish] was. During this time, some people had fallen from the ranking, and some had climbed up from below.
The forum even made a list of influential figures (unofficial), but from the first to the last on the list, the ID [DazedFish] could not be found.
In other words, during this turbulent period, the player [DazedFish] had not been active at all, and had just abruptly risen from outside the top thousand to within the top hundred.
【Fuck! My god, who is DazedFish?!】
【Awesome, this top player must have had some kind of fortuitous encounter, to have directly rushed from outside the ranking to the top 100! I’m so envious.】
【Isn’t this the player who was announced on the first day of the server merge? I thought she was being kept by a top player, but I didn’t expect her to be a top player herself!】
【Isn’t that obvious? So many top players are keeping him. How can his strength not be strong? His starting point is not something we can compare to!】
【I thought it was a grassroots counterattack, but it turns out only we are the grass.】
【You guys above, stop being sour. Others can only give you items, they can’t help you level up. Even when you’re fighting monsters, the EXP is given based on your contribution. It’s okay to be weak, but can we be a little more decent?】
…
The top 100 on the world ranking could get a Turntable Spin once a week, the top 10 could get one every three days, and the top 3 could get a Turntable Spin every day!
The reward for the top of the ranking would usually be different, but this time no one knew what the reward for the first place was. Neither the previous first place, [Longevity Species], nor the one who had suddenly risen after he disappeared, [Dawn], had revealed any information.
But this, on the contrary, made more people feel that the reward for the top of the ranking was definitely terrifying. The second and third place even wished they could spend all their time every day on improving their combat power.
Yu Chi was also very curious about the reward for the top of the ranking, but she had asked Mu Gui, and he had said that the system did not allow players to reveal the reward this time.
In addition, the Turntable Spin for each stage was different.
In the previous stage, an eighth-grade prize was only rare grade, but now that the players’ strength was getting stronger and stronger, the prizes were also getting better and better. Rare-grade prizes could only be ranked at fourth or fifth grade.
More importantly, the Turntable Spin could draw many items related to the territorial sea!
It was said that a player had directly gathered a special race group, and his territorial sea had directly gained a kind of creature that had not been polluted at all!
For a time, countless people were envious and rushed into the top 100 with all their might. The competition was very fierce, whether it was the strength ranking, the wealth ranking, or the territorial sea ranking.
After leaving Sunset Island, Yu Chi immediately went to the forum and read through everything that had happened in these few days.
Of course, she could also read it on Sunset Island, but on the one hand, her daily curriculum was numerous and time was limited. On the other hand, her brain was not very good at that time, so it was a waste to read it.
So she only flipped through it occasionally and did not read it carefully.
However, not many major events had happened during this time. Except for the top players who had mysteriously disappeared from the rankings, most of them were about miscellaneous small matters.
For example, whose territory had defeated another territory, how much someone’s ranking had risen, who had the highest points in the arena, who always won every bet, and so on.
At the same time, more than half a month had passed, and the central island had also been fully developed. With hundreds of millions of players staying on the same island, half a month was enough for it to be built.
Yu Chi had missed the development stage. Now, if she wanted to buy a plot of land, the price and difficulty would probably be higher than before.
But there was no other way. No matter which stage she chose to go to Sunset Island, it would take time. Although the development was changing with each passing day, she could still catch up if she worked hard now.
Countless people poured in every day. Some went shopping, some participated in auctions, and some went to fight. The players had completely adapted to the life of this world and began to strive for their own benefits.
This was the third stage of the game. Yu Chi thought of those legendary fantasy species. What would the fourth stage of this world bring?
…
Before the person had even arrived, countless fireballs had already fallen from the sky.
When a territorial sea war was initiated, the two territorial seas would be in a special space. After one territorial sea was destroyed, the other territorial sea would directly expand its range.
Therefore, both sides could directly attack the other’s territorial sea.
After Yu Chi arrived at the location, she did not go on the defensive first, but directly bombarded the man opposite her with 100 fireballs.
Whether it was in terms of combat power or territorial sea, she had not been active for 10 days. She was also very curious about which corner the other party had dug her out from.
However, there was also the possibility that the two territorial seas were neighbors.
After the fireballs appeared out of thin air, the other side’s attack was instantly interrupted. After the rumbling sound, there was a moment of silence, until a crisp “crack” was heard in the air.
The barrier on the other side directly cracked.
Yu Chi raised an eyebrow, a brilliant smile on her face. 100 fireballs, she had consumed two Ice Spirit Fruits, which meant that her Spirit had been completely consumed three times in a row.
The pain of her Spirit being exhausted to the extreme made her face a little pale, but seeing this result, she felt it was worth it!
A territorial sea war, that’s how you fight to have fun.
“You—!”
The man looked at her in horror, his originally smug expression instantly stiffening. He had not had time to react at all and only felt that in the blink of an eye, his barrier had shattered.
It had happened too fast, so much so that by the time he realized it, there was no room for maneuver.
The man’s expression instantly became ferocious. He looked at Yu Chi with resentment, rushed into the cockpit, and directly turned and ran.
He was still quite smart. After seeing Yu Chi’s strength, he did not foolishly go forward to fight her head-on. Otherwise, let alone the territorial sea, he would probably have been wiped out along with his boat.
Maybe the other party can’t find my territorial sea core. The man still held a glimmer of hope as he ran.
A territorial sea war did indeed end with the destruction of the other party’s territorial sea, but if the territorial sea core could not be found for a long time, the war would automatically end after three days.
The special space that had been merged because of the war would of course also disappear. If one side’s barrier was only destroyed, it only needed to be repaired with crystals, and there was no need to find a territorial sea order and spend double the resources again.
Yu Chi flew directly over his territorial sea, chanted a spell, and from a commanding position, released a fire wall in the four directions of the man’s escape.
The flames burned on the sea, and the man kept screaming, but the next second, for some reason, the other party actually broke through the fire wall with his boat.
Tsk, he’s got some skills.
Yu Chi pouted and did not continue to chase.
The distance was already a bit far now, and it was a bit troublesome to run back and forth. And the other party, whether it was his boat or his person, had been seriously injured. The lesson he had learned was enough.
But the most important thing was that she was so heroic today. She was still counting on the other party to spread the news.
Yu Chi was usually quite busy and might often be on the road of exploring islands. If there were always some blind people who came to provoke her, and she had to come back to deal with them every time she was halfway through exploring, wouldn’t she be annoyed to death?
Well, she admitted that she was quite annoyed today.
Yu Chi had also deliberately let the other party see her elf form. In any case, she couldn’t hide in this aspect in the future, so she might as well show it all at once.
It was not until the other party’s boat had completely disappeared from her sight that Yu Chi directly transformed into a mermaid in the air and leaped into the sea.
The territorial sea core was something that the players hid themselves. It had to be located somewhere in the sea, and once it was placed, it could not be changed.
Players would usually hide their territory core in the most hidden place. For example, Yu Chi. Her mermaid form made her feel at home in the sea, so she had directly buried her territorial sea core in the rock wall at the bottom of the sea.
If she had to find it herself now, she might not be able to find it quickly.
The other party had decisively driven his boat away. He was probably still holding onto the fluke hope that she wouldn’t be able to find it.
Yu Chi’s lips curled up. She had never been worried about finding the territorial sea core from the beginning. What movement in the sea could escape a mermaid?
She had even saved the trouble of interrogation.
The silver-haired mermaid closed her eyes in the deep sea. The current passed through, telling her the direction.
…This person.
Yu Chi opened her eyes, her expression subtle. This player had probably put the territory core in a box and then directly thrown it into the sea.
It had to be said that this was also a good method. Not only did it make it impossible for others to find it, but even he himself couldn’t find it.
【Choose to fuse the territorial sea core (level two)?】