Chapter 215: A Big Haul

While waiting for Xiao Zhong to bring over the leveling and mining teams, Kamiyu took the time to thoroughly review her gains.

“516 Enhancement Points—that’s insane, a true windfall. Excluding the 100 points from the level 48 Dungeon Boss, the Ironhead Red Giant, I earned 416 points from killing thousands of level 45 Red Armor Special Goblins and most of the twenty level-four Ability Users.”

“Calculating it this way, these level-four Ability Users aren’t even worth as much as a single trash mob. Trash will always be trash, never fit for the big stage,” Kamiyu remarked disdainfully, glancing at the Ability Users’ corpses on the ground.

The three newcomer players, along with Jack, were wisely harvesting the battlefield and organizing the spoils of war.

Ji Yue, despite her disgust, continuously used her vine skill to disassemble the corpses of the Ability Users and Special Goblins, extracting Magic Crystal Ore.

“Mm, what a delicious roasted meat smell. Is this edible?” Chu Feng asked with a carefree laugh.

Ji Yue covered her nose, her eyelids twitching uncontrollably.

“It’s so charred; eating it would probably cause cancer,” Dunzi replied with equal seriousness.

Sitting in the spectator stands, Kamiyu chuckled and said, “Goblins aren’t edible, but Ironhead Red Giant meat is a premium ingredient. Eating it can permanently increase your character’s Interface Panel limits.

Besides, the Ironhead Red Giant has already been pounded into mincemeat by Jack’s ‘Hand-Pounded Beef Motor Hands.’ We won’t even need to process it later—just set up a pot and boil it directly.”

“Haha,” Chu Feng laughed.

Jack, his face dark, lowered his head and continued sorting the spoils of war.

“Wow, Miss Kamiyu, the ground is littered with Legendary Tier weapons!” Chu Feng exclaimed in delight, picking up a sword from the ground.

“And armor, also Legendary Tier,” Dunzi added, picking up a piece of usable armor.

This was the highest difficulty level, where monsters were equipped with Legendary Tier weapons and armor.

Kamiyu had, of course, noticed the Legendary Tier weapons and armor scattered everywhere long ago; she just couldn’t be bothered to pick up such junk.

It took a full half-hour to gather the spoils of war, and they still hadn’t finished by the time Xiao Zhong arrived with his team of over fifty people.

“Hello, Miss Kamiyu. I’ve brought the Magic Crystal Ore mining team, all elites among elites,” Xiao Zhong reported.

“Only fifty-some people? Didn’t I tell you to bring more?” Kamiyu asked.

“Many players are too scared to come out. They feel much safer inside the Sanctuary,” Xiao Zhong explained, blinking.

Kamiyu glanced back and noticed that the majority of the fifty-plus people were male, and mostly young students.

A sudden thought occurred to her. “Hmm, even in the player era, society still follows the patterns of slash-and-burn farming and men plowing while women weave.”

“Ohh.”

“That makes sense.”

Hearing Kamiyu’s words, the fifty-plus people suddenly seemed to realize something.

“But never mind. Different directions can lead to development all the same,” Kamiyu said to Xiao Zhong. “Have them go down and pick up a few weapons and pieces of armor each. Start by tackling the lowest difficulty.”

Xiao Zhong widened his eyes. “Is that appropriate? These are all your spoils of war, Miss Kamiyu.”

The fifty-plus people looked on with hopeful eyes, but everything still depended on Miss Kamiyu’s decision.

Kamiyu declared grandly, “What do these weapons and armor matter? I’ve got a whole pile of unopened ones in my backpack. The most important thing in this open-air Instance Dungeon is the Magic Crystal Ore.”

“Only when you all become stronger will my Sanctuary become more powerful and more secure.”

She turned to look at the group and said clearly, “As long as you are truly willing to put in the effort, the experience is yours, and the items, weapons, and armor you obtain are all yours.

However, the Magic Crystal Ore belongs to the Sanctuary’s Magic Cannon emplacement, so the safety of the Sanctuary relies on everyone.”

She said this to reduce their selfishness and prevent them from depleting the assets. One thing at a time—Kamiyu didn’t care about weapons and armor; take as much as you want, she was afraid you wouldn’t take them.

Only by becoming stronger could they gather more Magic Crystal Ore. Magic Crystal Ore was the core material for operating her own Sanctuary.

Xiao Zhong nodded heavily. He had seen the data in the Black Sphere database and understood the importance of Magic Crystal Ore, so this Mine Dungeon must be occupied and protected. Also, transportation routes needed to be established—several safe and fast ones.

“Fifty people are still too few. Open-world Instance Dungeons don’t limit the number of participants; hundreds or even thousands can join. Later, let Dunzi modify the terrain for you, completely transforming this place into our mine.” Kamiyu spoke like a leader, ruthless and decisive.

“Understood.”

“Reporting, Miss Jia, we have finished sorting. The spoils of war include 2,145 kilograms of Magic Crystal Ore, 2,450 various Legendary Tier weapons, 521 pieces of armor, and various other materials,” Ji Yue reported.

“Ah, you actually counted them all? Just pile the Magic Crystal Ore together.” Kamiyu was both amused and exasperated.

Hearing these numbers, the fifty-plus people were all startled. Most of them hadn’t watched the live stream in the Black Sphere Room and didn’t understand the scale of this battle.

But it didn’t affect their grasp of the significance of these figures.

“Over 2,000 Legendary Tier weapons? That means there were thousands of high-level monsters?”

“Look, Chu Feng, Dunzi, and Ji Yue have all leveled up to 16. Except for Dunzi, they were only level 1 before. Is leveling up that easy?” one person exclaimed in surprise.

Ji Yue immediately interjected, “It’s not that leveling is easy; it’s that Miss Kamiyu is too powerful. She wiped out all the monsters in an instant, and we just rode on Miss Jia’s coattails.”

“Oh, I see.”

“I feel like we didn’t join Miss Kamiyu’s side by mistake. Now we have hope. I really feel sorry for those who left the Bunker,” one person said.

“Alright, enough talk. Everyone, quickly pick up weapons and armor and get ready to start fighting,” Xiao Zhong urged.

For the current situation, this was just a brief pause. Only when these fifty people leveled up could they bring more people over to level up, ensuring the safety of this mine.

Kamiyu took all the Magic Crystal Ore and materials, leaving behind the Legendary Tier weapons and armor without even a glance. Without looking back, she turned and left, getting into Jack’s car. The three of them returned to the Sanctuary first.

When running Instance Dungeons, veterans should lead newcomers. Kamiyu left three newcomers behind, which was enough. She needed to hurry back to craft and enhance the Magic Cannons to prepare for the next round of battles.

The Black Sphere Room couldn’t be without Xiao Zhong, so he had to return to oversee it. Xiao Zhong asked, “Miss Kamiyu, is leaving the three of them enough?”

“Of course, those three have also experienced life-or-death duels, and I taught them how to open instance dungeons. If they don’t foolishly set it to the highest difficulty, they can probably finish one round of a Common Tier difficulty dungeon in about 10 minutes,” Kamiyu said, resting her chin on her hand.

“Miss Kamiyu, now that it’s just the three of us, I need to report something. Through the Black Sphere Live Stream, I observed some movement near the Fear Emperor Tree,” Xiao Zhong said mysteriously.