Chapter 34 – Transport Team Leader

After carefully storing away the two precious treasures, Mu Yuan stared at the large pile of unidentifiable junk before him, lost in thought.

He couldn’t bear to part with these discarded items.

He didn’t expect to find any concealed divine artifacts among the scrap—he simply felt it would be too wasteful to throw them all away. After all, they were antiques of a sort!

After some sorting and picking, Mu Yuan took items like weathered books, expired potions, and broken equipment, bundling them up simply.

He didn’t have a proper backpack, and Deadbone and the other skeletons didn’t know how to weave bamboo baskets, so there seemed to be no suitable equipment for carrying items.

However, after summoning Deadbone from the real world last time, Mu Yuan had discovered some intriguing uses for the Lord’s Mark.

—As long as he had his troops hold objects and then recalled them into the mark, those items would also be stored within the Mark Space.

It couldn’t hold too much, nor could it transport items to the real world, but it still functioned as a small spatial storage pouch.

Just a very small one.

He turned to Deadbone. “Have everyone take whatever they can from the remaining items. Carry as much as possible—even the junk can be put to use.”

With that, he headed out of the tower.

Bone Two, Bone Three, and the others didn’t know their own strength and might accidentally demolish the tower—not that he feared the tower being destroyed. He’d already taken what he needed; he just didn’t want to be inside when it collapsed.

Soon, under Deadbone’s translation and direction, the skeletons emerged carrying various bizarre items.

There was a skeleton with a bucket lid perched on its head; another pouring sand and gravel into its armor, which kept leaking out; the most heavily loaded was Bone Two, who had stuffed numerous items into its hollowed-out chest cavity and other gaps, truly maximizing its limited intelligence.

The large Slimes, however, couldn’t carry much cargo.

Anything placed on them would soon slide off. Stuffing items inside them? That easily caused indigestion and various accidents.

They were just Slimes, not four-dimensional space bags—you couldn’t just shove anything into them.

“Wait, where’s Dolai?”

His large cushion seemed to still be inside.

At the entrance of the ruined tower, an indescribable mass squeezed out.

It was several times larger than a Large Slime, at first glance resembling a pile of clutter formed into an elliptical sphere, with no resemblance to a Slime.

Upon closer inspection, it was a mass of mucus wrapped around various debris.

…Still didn’t look like a Slime.

“Dolai?”

“Goo… gurgle…”

It, it could barely move anymore.

If it can’t move, then carry less!

Mu Yuan’s face darkened, but Dolai refused to part with any item. If it hadn’t already been too weighed down, it would have dragged out even more.

After much persuasion, Mu Yuan finally convinced Dolai to learn ‘batch transportation.’

Dolai’s large eyes lit up like lightbulbs, gurgling excitedly as if it had learned a new trick.

Mu Yuan had also learned a new technique.

“Decided. From now on, you’re the Head of Transportation, Dolai.”

“Goo gurgle?”

…

Dolai would need to make several more trips to transport all these miscellaneous items back to the territory, a task likely to last until nightfall.

But it wasn’t a problem.The Ruined Tower was located not far south of the territory. Given the current strength of the territory, moving around at night posed little danger.

Mu Yuan pondered, “Since Dolai is so adept at carrying things, why not dismantle the entire Ruined Tower and bring it back?” After all, building a proper Mage Tower required investing essential Materials. In that case, the scrap materials salvaged from dismantling the Ruined Tower could, to some extent, fill this gap, right?

Whether it could or not, there was no harm in trying—it wouldn’t take much effort.

Well, except for Dolai’s effort.

Wait,

Since Dolai was so eager to carry things, thoroughly enjoying it and doing so willingly, it was practically effortless by approximation.

“However, since I’ve appointed Dolai as the transport team leader, I should evolve it further… At the very least, after evolution, its carrying capacity should significantly improve.”

“Hmm, tomorrow, I’ll go to the association and purchase some Remnant Souls of small Slimes.”

After controlling his character back to the territory, Mu Yuan rested.

He switched to the Taixuan Forum, where the most discussed topic in the newbie section was the highly anticipated resource assessment during this period.

One promising newcomer after another fiercely competed for this single slot. Some players from less affluent backgrounds even spent their entire savings on Remnant Souls, just to contend for the resources distributed by the association.

After all, the more civilian players wanted to pass the trial, the more they needed to seize this opportunity for official benefits.

Mu Yuan reflected that, with his slight evolution ability, he had a fair chance of surviving the Lord trial. But a civilian player who could pass the Lord trial without relying on official benefits… such cases existed, but they stood out more.

Besides, who didn’t love free benefits?

As a poor ordinary person, Mu Yuan was quite eager for this valuable benefit.

“Leaving aside defensive units, it’s said that the official newbie support package also includes Miracle Blueprints for defensive structures.”

Of course, they couldn’t be as rare as the Mage Tower’s Miracle Blueprint, but even ordinary-grade Miracle Blueprints were highly valuable and immensely useful. As for him, it wasn’t just a matter of affordability—he didn’t even have access to purchase channels.

Mu Yuan strongly suspected that the forum’s trading section he saw was only for “newbies and ordinary veteran players.” Items like Miracle Blueprints were nowhere to be seen. Of course, it was also possible that Lord-related goods held strategic value and were subject to control.

He estimated that only by integrating into the Lord circles could one buy such goods.

Mu Yuan coveted both the blueprints and universal resources like Soul Sand.

“Not only that, but after passing the assessment, the authorities would disclose some Lord-related information to players, including key points on territory construction, conditions for territory upgrades, and how to obtain high-quality subjects, among others.””

“This information is even more important to me.The Eternal World naturally had ordinary civilians, but his territory was situated in the wilderness, where even player sightings were rare, let alone ordinary civilians.

Within the Great Lord’s city, however, lived countless subjects.

Ordinary civilians could handle various tasks, filling the gaps left by combat-only units. As for high-quality citizens… they encompassed combat talents, research talents, production talents, management talents, and more.

But the ordinary people of the Eternal World seemed to originate not only from natural reproduction but also from many other sources.These matters, perhaps only after he passed the resource assessment and even became a true Lord would he be qualified to learn about them.

The assessment day for White Cloud Province was tomorrow.

On the forum, many newcomers in White Cloud Province were already growing nervous. Today was the sixth day since logging into the game. By this time, most newcomers had already been rescued by official teams and relocated to the Safe Cities established by the Great Lord. Those who remained were all aiming to compete for resource benefits.

Many newcomers weren’t very confident, but what if they passed? What if the other newcomers in the same batch weren’t particularly outstanding? Then they might have a chance to stand out.

It was worth a gamble!

If they failed to secure a spot, they could always retreat strategically.

The newcomers all seized this final night, pushing their main forces to cultivate with all their might, striving to achieve another small Rank Breakthrough.

They also continuously scouted the forum to gauge the level of their peers and make some judgments.

Mu Yuan didn’t feel particularly nervous, but he still needed to figure out exactly what level was required to obtain the benefits without drawing too much attention.

(End of Chapter)