Chapter 1134: An Ancient God Appears (1/2)

By the time Jiang Fei arrived at the borders of the Suppression Region, the soldiers of the High Human’s Heavenly Court had already started engaging in battle with monsters from the Celestial Realm. However, despite the heated battle, there seemed to be very few casualties. Clearly, this was part of the game’s basic setting when a new map is unlocked. It was unlikely for players to be killed before they even figured out how things worked.

As more players entered the Celestial Realm, the soldiers began retreating so that players could take over the defense at the borders. After players had formed their groups, they began engaging the Celestial Realm monsters in battle.

Unlike before when Jiang Fei first entered the Celestial Realm, the map was now officially unlocked. The items dropped by the Overlord monsters were now of a much higher quality. Now, players were able to acquire Experience points and items in a much more relaxed manner.

“Seven Stars Warrior, you and the rest can form a group to fight against these monsters!” Jiang Fei said after glancing around.

Right then, although the borders were surrounded by Celestial Realm monsters, the monsters attacked at a very slow pace. They did not seem to be organized in any way. Unlike the formations of the Cultist army, these monsters behaved in an individualistic manner. Therefore, groups of players could easily pick off the ones which strayed away.

As such, although the monsters were at the Overlord tier, players were still able to kill them to acquire Experience points and items. Moreover, players could choose to continue attacking or exit from the battle at any time without the concern of being chased after by the monsters.

“Alright!” Seven Stars Warrior and Lady Casanova were both eager to begin the attack. Almost instantly, they started forming groups with players from Empyreal Dragon to begin hunting down monsters. In particular, the players who had obtained the Heart of Nature became the core members of these groups. Consequently, groups of players from Empyreal Dragon were much more efficient than other guilds at hunting down the Overlord monsters.

Thereafter, in order to speed up the leveling rate of players, Jiang Fei issued several open-ended quests so that players could obtain additional Experience points and equipment as rewards for killing Celestial Realm monsters.

Over the next five days, players in the Celestial Realm were able to progress without any obstruction. It was almost as if the Ancient Gods had solemnly accepted the fact that humans had invaded their land.

After five days had passed, Jiang Fei’s body had recovered somewhat. However, he was still unable to get out of bed and walk on his own. Meanwhile, Bella’s treatment had gone smoothly and she was able to enter the second phase of her body’s recovery.

By now, the Core of Life had already been fused with Bella’s body. However, as her body was previously severely damaged by the Power of Berserk, it would take some time for her to fully recover.

Meanwhile, Ariel had not left Jiang Fei out of her sight as she took on the duty as his caretaker. Even when Si Tuying and Shang Guanqi requested to take turns in looking after Jiang Fei, Ariel refused.

On one hand, Ariel had chosen to stay next to Jiang Fei so that she could take care of him since he could not move around on his own. However, more importantly, she was there to keep an eye on 0542 which had been behaving suspiciously.

Under Ariel’s strict surveillance, 0542 was much less prone to bad behavior. As an Intelligent Assistance System, it could not intentionally want to harm the captain. Otherwise, its programming would be instantly demolished as the strictest form of punishment. Therefore, even if something was off about 0542, it could only go as far as to send messages externally or to provide misleading information to Jiang Fei on the basis of not being dishonest. In other words, 0542 was more like a spy and could not directly harm Jiang Fei.

In the game, the players had managed to expand their territory by at least three times after five days of hard work. The players had also discovered a valuable piece of information.

They discovered that the Celestial Realm monsters would drop a kind of crystal which was not of any value to players. However, as a quest item, it could be sacrificed at the sacrificial altar which would then expand the Suppression Region.

Consequently, Jiang Fei immediately issued a quest for players to collect the crystal. In fact, he even set the highest amount of rewards for quest completion. As such, the players were highly motivated to take on the quest.