“Hey, hey, stop teasing them. Everyone get up and dance!” Luckily, Sharmie helped Scarlet get out of this situation, knowing that she was shy. She diverted the topic and pulled Mario towards the dance floor.
Napier sighed with sorrow. “I knew I should have gotten a girlfriend.”
Everyone was dancing and getting high on the dance floor as thunderous music blared out from the speakers. Everybody was having fun. However, on the other side of the bar, there was a table filled with empty beer bottles as a pair of lustful eyes stared intently at the women of the Wanderlust Team.
Since they came all the way here, they wanted to do something with their lives. Hiding behind the other exploration teams and sleeping wasn’t what they came here for. In addition, there were more opportunities for them during this initial stage of the war, and perhaps, they might even be able to find some good stuff.
The simple names of the ranks were just translations made by humans. In actual fact, the Mizobudapi people had very complicated titles for the ranks in these two professions, including many honorifics and modifiers. There were many different branches under the two professions too. There were swordsmen who used heavy swords, while others used thin and lightweight swords, et cetera. Nonetheless, humans didn’t need to focus on that. The minor differences between the humans’ and the Mizobudapi people’s way of naming titles didn’t matter much as long as humans were able to identify the main ranks. There was a detailed note on one of the information sheets.
There were two Sword Gods and one Warlock God, existences with the power of Sacred Teachers. Previously, Wang Zhong was referring to this when he said that their enemy didn’t go all out in the landing battle. Earlier on, the claim that the enemy had experts who survived the Heavenly Calamity on their side was just a rumor. However, this was written clearly on the information sheet now. Nevertheless, this made the three of them feel relieved. Since the higher-ups knew this information, they would know that the success of the landing battle was too smooth and that it was just a facade. Their strategy of exploring their surroundings step by step displayed how cautious the Holy City Army was. They didn’t let the success of the landing battle go to their heads and rush to attack aggressively.
“Three experts that survived the Heavenly Calamity?” Sharmie was stunned. “We only have two on our side.”
Wang Zhong brought them back to the matter at hand. The battle between existences that were at the level of Sacred Teacher, as well as the strategies that the higher-ups were coming up with, were not the main thing they should be concerned about. It was sufficient for them to have a rough impression of those things, but the Wanderlust Team needed to know more detailed information that was related to low-tier missions. Wang Zhong brought up a key idea. “The Mizobudapi people focus on Soul Power too in their cultivation journey. They call it ‘Sike’. In this aspect, they are quite similar to us, just that they use different terms. They are divided into two professions, and though that’s different from the various supreme forces in the Holy City competing against each other, the Mizobudapi civilization is still very similar to ours in terms of division of ranks and cultivating methods. They might even be better than us.”
Beside him, Feng and Oscar instantly knew what he was talking about. These three had made sufficient preparations and read up on their own before they came here.
Of course, Oscar wanted to get some action too. Though exploration teams were allowed to roam freely without accepting missions, roaming around aimlessly wouldn’t bring them much benefits. In the next three days, there still weren’t any missions for them. Not to mention fighting for resources with the other exploration teams, at this rate, they wouldn’t even get to start.
After four or five days, several exploration teams that went out to execute missions had already come back. Other than the many military achievements and rewards that they gained from their missions, they gained a lot of additional income too.
These abundant natural resources were the main secondary income for the exploration teams. Not to mention the rewards the mission offered them, they could earn a small fortune from pocketing those resources in just one trip if they were lucky. Yesterday, Sharmie even heard that an exploration team discovered an unmined Soul Crystal ore vein. Just by bringing back this piece of news, that exploration team earned themselves a high-end soul tool from Murphy’s Alchemy Workshop at the military supplies area, and they even got to choose which soul tool they wanted! Small Eyes and the others were green with envy, constantly urging Oscar to accept missions.
Well, they had to be able to receive a mission in the first place… The Holy City Army hadn’t put up many missions for the time being, but there were many exploration teams that wanted to accept missions. Other than some missions which were specifically delegated to certain exploration teams, the other teams had to queue up to accept missions. The 3rd rank exploration-team title that the Wanderlust Team held was only enough for them to fight for some low-tier missions against small exploration teams in the Dimensional Hostel. When it came to this Holy Battle situation, their competitors were 4th rank exploration teams and even the 5th rank exploration teams that were in the top 10 exploration-team rankings. The cake was only that big. The stronger exploration teams didn’t even have enough to share amongst themselves, let alone the Wanderlust Team.
Their mission was at the Black Boulder Energy Cave, a Soul Crystal extraction site about three hundred miles away from the headquarters.
Of course, such a good thing was one of the important resources that the Holy City Army valued, and one of the biggest purposes behind this Holy Battle. The winner of a battle depended on which party had more resources. Given the Holy City Army’s knowledge of this world now, it would be unrealistic to start stealing their resources directly. They didn’t have so much manpower too. However, they could at least do something to prevent their enemy from mining these resources. This was a way to reduce the strength of their enemy and preserve more natural resources for themselves at the same time since they would be conquering this world in the near future.
Kevin Dalton could only swallow his grievances. He had heard of the Wanderlust Team’s situation, not because it was a ridiculous 10-man team, but because Scarlet was there.
It made sense if you thought about it. Scarlet was that person’s disciple, so it was natural that she benefited a little. He didn’t have a choice anyway; he would just bring them along. He didn’t expect the Wanderlust Team to help, but he hoped that they wouldn’t drag them down. As for the fact that he was forced to share such a good deal with this bunch of good-for-nothings, he would just treat it as feeding some dogs.
