98: Chapter 98 Indians Cause Trouble

Lin Muyang had originally only intended to come over to check the updated secret realm scroll distribution map from Shen Yanshan.

However, the sight of Liu Hongyuan holding up a sign made him change his mind. Since the other party had gone to such great lengths, he decided to begrudgingly take a look at what was written on the sign.

He had assumed that perhaps some powerful demonic creature had appeared somewhere that was difficult to handle, requiring him to clear some troublesome, high-difficulty Dungeon.

However... after carefully reading the content on the sign, Lin Muyang's expression became somewhat subtle.

He hadn't expected that it was India causing trouble at the border again.

The matter wasn't complicated. The overall environment within India was currently extremely chaotic, and the state of public security was worlds apart compared to the Xia Kingdom. Looking across the globe, only the Xia Kingdom could maintain social order so well.

In the Xia Kingdom, as long as one didn't leave the city, didn't go to overly remote areas, or venture deep into dangerous zones in the sea, one would basically not encounter any major life-threatening danger.

But in other countries, the situation was completely different.

For example, India was a typical "Country of Chaos."

To what extent was it chaotic? Even inside cities, many demonic creatures were openly active and nesting. Some epic-grade or even legendary-grade boss souls, relying on their unique law resistance, made it difficult for high-level Class Transferees to inflict effective damage, allowing them to burn, kill, and loot in the cities without restraint, making them exceptionally difficult to deal with.

Due to a lack of effective prevention and control in the early days, a large number of epic-grade and legendary-grade demonic creatures of various levels were now entrenched within India.

Of course, mythic grade demonic creatures existed everywhere, including within the Xia Kingdom, but those beings usually had a higher sense of status and generally wouldn't actively slaughter humans on a large scale, and the human side usually wouldn't actively provoke them either.

In the current India, the living environment for ordinary citizens was extremely harsh; walking on the street, one could be snatched away at any moment by an epic-grade rodent-type demonic creature that popped out from who knows where. If it weren't for the fact that India had an abnormally high birth rate, a massive population base, and rapid replenishment, the country would likely have collapsed long ago.

Lin Muyang had heard of these basic circumstances before.

And now, the situation described on the sign Liu Hongyuan was holding referred to India having new movements recently—they had organized a large-scale clearing operation, uniformly luring a batch of epic-grade and even legendary-grade demonic creatures with relatively lower levels, mainly concentrated between level 50-60 and 70-80, using special methods to either lure or drive them across the border and into the territory of the Xia Kingdom.

The key to the problem was that while these demonic creatures had high grades, their levels were relatively low. This caused many of the Xia Kingdom's top-level experts to struggle to inflict full damage on them due to level suppression rules, making cleaning them up inefficient, or perhaps even unable to break their defenses. Conversely, the Xia Kingdom's young talents of appropriate levels often found themselves lacking the ability to handle such high-grade demonic creatures.

If not for this, India wouldn't have needed to go to such lengths to drive these "hot potatoes" into the Xia Kingdom's territory. They lacked a sufficient number of young, talented, and appropriately leveled people within their own country to handle these "low-level, high-grade" troubles.

Of course, the number of top-tier experts in India was not small, which meant that between the Xia Kingdom and India, they still needed to adhere to the basic framework of international treaties regarding border issues; neither side could easily dispatch organized armed forces to cross the border illegally.

But the situation now was that the other party had driven these demonic creatures over, and the Xia Kingdom was indeed caught in a dilemma: on one hand, they had to prevent these demonic creatures from spreading and harming towns and citizens within the territory; on the other hand, they had to find a way to effectively kill and clear them, while conventional methods had limited effectiveness.

"So, they aren't just looking for me now," Lin Muyang pondered, "I'm afraid quite a few newly emerged talents with s-rank talent or even SS-Rank Talent have already been conscripted to rush to the India border to provide support, right?"

He mused that if the number of talents was large enough, combined with powerful support classes like high-level priests or divine officials providing battlefield buffs, and organized into elite teams, it wouldn't be impossible to clear out these demonic creatures.

One had to know that the combat environment in the real world and inside a Dungeon was completely different. Inside a Dungeon, there were limits on the number of people, and one could not receive direct assistance from higher-level experts outside the Dungeon.

But in the outside world, the flexibility of tactics and personnel coordination was much greater. Just like the whaling team previously mixed with A-rank and s-rank talent individuals that could successfully hunt an epic-grade Frost Blue Whale, this was the difference brought by team collaboration and external support. In a Dungeon, a four-person team encountering an epic-grade boss might be wiped out instantly, but a professional team of over forty people, with various buffs stacked, could form a suppression.

However, since Liu Hongyuan had personally used this method to ask him for help, it likely meant that the situation on the border was already quite tight! Either the number of demonic creatures far exceeded expectations, or the number or quality of the talents who had rushed over was insufficient to form an effective clearing force.

In any case, it was clearly a moment when the Xia Kingdom needed his help.

Lin Muyang didn't mind taking action. Although the experience points for killing demonic creatures in the wild were not as good as in a Dungeon, bringing Gui Wanwan along would allow him to fully absorb the souls of those epic-grade and legendary-grade boss souls. This wave of demonic creatures, which could make the Xia Kingdom feel troubled, must be quite substantial in number. If he could "harvest" them all, wouldn't he be able to obtain at least hundreds of boss souls?

Moreover, for Lin Muyang, handling this matter itself wouldn't be too troublesome.

Of course, since he was going, it was impossible not to "fleece some wool." Lin Muyang's most urgent need right now was to level up quickly. So, he might as well let the other party provide some high-quality secret realm scrolls as payment. As long as he had enough high-quality secret realm scrolls, he wouldn't have to work hard to run around the map, camp for respawns, or even fight for Dungeons in the middle of the night when leveling up, and his efficiency would increase significantly.

Meanwhile, in the office on the top floor of Tianqi Tower, Shen Yanshan stood respectfully to the side. Although he was the president of Tianqi Tower and could be considered a person of status locally, in front of Liu Hongyuan at this moment, he acted like a humble attendant.

There was no helping it; Liu Hongyuan's status and position were simply too high! Although her current level might not be as high as Shen Yanshan's, her true combat power, the resources she controlled, and the background she represented as part of the "Sword Saint" family were definitely enough to crush Shen Yanshan.

However... Shen Yanshan didn't feel that aggrieved at this moment. Because in his eyes, Liu Hongyuan's posture of holding a sign and facing the window looked even more aggrieved. An uninformed passerby might even mistake her for a new receptionist at the building.

They had been standing there from seven in the morning until now, past nine, always maintaining this slightly strange posture.

However, there was still no movement outside the window.

This made both Shen Yanshan and Liu Hongyuan feel somewhat anxious: Was that genius not coming today? Or had they already come and seen the content on the sign, but didn't intend to help?

This kind of one-sided way of seeking contact, without knowing if the other party had received it, and even less knowing how they would respond, was truly a torment.

At this moment, Liu Hongyuan's straight, slender legs were already somewhat sore and numb from maintaining a fixed posture for so long. Although her constitution attribute far exceeded that of an ordinary person, keeping muscles in a static state of tension for a long time still caused them to feel stiff and uncomfortable... She couldn't help but relax her arms slightly, temporarily leaning the sign against the glass, and forming a fist with one hand to gently pound the outside of her thigh, trying to relieve that soreness.

Just at this moment, a cold yet mature-sounding female voice seemed to ring out from all directions of the room simultaneously, giving Liu Hongyuan a fright!

"I can take action on this matter."

Elabess imitated her more composed voice, using a certain technique to transmit the sound evenly to every corner of the room.

Upon hearing this voice, Liu Hongyuan perked up, immediately straightening her body again, holding the sign higher and more upright with both hands, and a look of relief and joy appeared on her face.

"Great! I've finally waited for your response." Liu Hongyuan let out a complete sigh of relief. The other party had finally appeared after all. She hadn't waited in vain!

"However, I have one condition." Lin Muyang signaled for Elabess to continue conveying the message.

"Please, go ahead!" Liu Hongyuan responded without hesitation.

"I need ten secret realm scrolls between level 55 and 70, with a grade of at least Diamond-grade or higher." Elabess relayed Lin Muyang's request, her voice steady and clear, "Within today, I will head to the India border to handle this matter. But tomorrow, I need to receive these secret realm scrolls."

This condition, for the Xia Kingdom's official authorities, was definitely not excessive! Admittedly, high-quality secret realm scrolls of this level range were valuable, but collecting and allocating them with the power of the nation was not too difficult. Once he obtained them, Lin Muyang would be able to more easily break through the level 60 mark, and even steadily advance towards level 70.

"Ten secret realm scrolls?" Upon hearing this, Liu Hongyuan merely pondered for a moment before nodding affirmatively. To say nothing else, just the inventory of her own Liu family was enough to scrape together this number of scrolls without any issues. Therefore, she didn't even need to ask her superiors for instructions and could agree on the spot.

"No problem! Tomorrow morning, I will personally deliver the secret realm scrolls here." Liu Hongyuan promised solemnly.

"Deal. Send over the specific location and situation; I'm heading over now." Elabess's voice, carrying a cool, mature vibe, rang out again.

Liu Hongyuan immediately took out her phone and organized information such as the specific coordinates of the border crisis area, map markings, and the overview of known demonic creature distributions.

After Lin Muyang received and quickly browsed through the information, he did not immediately set off for the border, but instead returned to the villa at Ziyun Mountain Villa first. He wanted to take the other young ladies with him. One more person meant one more unit of efficiency in harvesting boss souls.

"Calculating the time, little Feng Ling's first Nirvana will end this afternoon. I must make it back before then." Lin Muyang calculated in his mind.

His speed was extremely fast. Because after that round of efficient leveling in the morning, he had already had the Yama Maiden Gui Wanwan consume a full forty boss souls to perform "Yamas Fate Alteration" on one of his God-Tier Aura again!

【Power of Wind Control (God-Tier Aura · Yamas Fate Alteration): After activation, you and all your summons gain 1000% → 3460% movement speed, attack speed, and casting speed!】

【Negative Effect (Highlighted in red): While this Aura is active, your base defense and that of your summons are reduced by 425 points.】

The original ten-fold speed bonus had soared directly to 34.6 times! Furthermore, Lin Muyang now also had the 10% overall talent effect boost brought by Angel Maid Elena's "Warm Bed," causing the speed bonus effect of this Aura to further increase to 38.06 times!

The only flaw was that the current negative state of this Aura was a reduction of 425 points of base defense. Fortunately, Lin Muyang and the young ladies, under the blessing of the God-Tier defense Aura, already had defense values reaching hundreds of thousands. Reducing this mere 425 points could almost be ignored and was inconsequential to the big picture.

Of course, when he had collected enough boss souls later on, Lin Muyang would still have to perform "Yamas Fate Alteration" on this Aura again to try to "wash away" this small negative effect. After all, it was a negative effect that weakened attributes, which was always a bit annoying to look at, belonging to the "drive obsessive-compulsive disorder crazy" series.

As for now... the boss soul points were limited, so he would just use it like this for the time being! Being able to achieve the current effect was already the optimal result after four attempts at "Yamas Fate Alteration" (the negative effects randomly generated in the first three times were simply too terrible, and he had directly canceled and restarted).

Just as Lin Muyang was rushing towards the border between the Xia Kingdom and India with all the young ladies.

In the southwest of the Xia Kingdom, over eight thousand kilometers away from Zhongnan City.

Although Blue Star had experienced multiple expansion events and its area was no longer what it used to be, some important boundary markers and landmarks between countries still existed.

Nanchui City! This was a large city within the Xia Kingdom closest to the border line with India, and it was also the frontline city currently facing a huge crisis.

Thousands of epic-grade and legendary-grade demonic creatures were being organized, lured, and driven from within India, crossing that symbolic national border and flooding into the territory of the Xia Kingdom.

Once these demonic creatures were allowed to scatter completely and rush towards Nanchui City and the surrounding towns, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Regarding this, the Xia Kingdom side had naturally detected it long ago and had quickly made a response.

About three hundred kilometers to the southwest of Nanchui City, a towering Ice Wall over a thousand kilometers long and reaching a thousand meters in height had risen overnight, like an ice and snow mountain range spanning the earth, temporarily blocking the surging tide of demonic creatures outside!

A Nation-Guarding Level Expert, the "Controller of Ice" who was revered globally as the "Ice God," had rushed here overnight from the northern ice fields to oversee the situation personally.

This magnificent barrier named "Ice Wall" was the forbidden-curse-level spell he had released. Looking globally, there was probably only one person who could construct such a large-scale defensive fortification with their own strength.

However, this was ultimately an expedient measure. The "Ice Wall" had a duration limit; just blocking the demonic creatures outside was only treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Before the Ice Wall dissipated or the demonic creatures found a way to break through, they had to completely clear the demonic creatures outside the wall as quickly as possible.

And this was precisely the core reason why the Xia Kingdom hoped that this "solo clearing genius" with special abilities would come forward to assist!