88: Chapter 88 Voluntary Participation? With the Necromancer Scourge upon us, why should we sacrifice ourselves?

When he first heard Great Xia mentioned, Xu Xuan thought they were talking about him.

When the announcement rang out, many people were also accustomed to it, thinking it was that show-off Xu Xuan again.

Unexpectedly, the one announced this time was actually another Great Xia Lord, Zhou Wu.

Furthermore, several names appeared in this announcement.

[Global Announcement: Great Xia's Zhou Wu, Great Xia's Xu Xuan, Dongying's Miyamoto Takeshi, America's Jack, France's Lyon, Prussia's Himmler, and other lords have entered the Iron Age.]

Whether it was a coincidence or not, this group of people entered the Iron Age almost simultaneously.

However, considering there are still over seven billion lords globally, it wasn't surprising that these few among seven billion people became the first batch of lords to enter the Iron Age.

After all, iron-smelting technology isn't difficult; as long as one was a middle school student who listened well in class, they should understand the principles of smelting iron.

Even without bronze tools to mine iron ore, one could smash open-pit iron ore with stones to get a portion of it.

It was just that with everyone sharing the Iron Age rewards, the rewards each person could get were much smaller.

Xu Xuan saw a system prompt pop up: [Lords of the first batch to enter the Iron Age are each rewarded with 250 general cards.]

This reward actually wasn't bad; it might be nothing to others, but Xu Xuan still had 250 unused general cards in his hand, which was just enough to synthesize one divine general card.

When this news broke, the global chat channel exploded.

[Jack (America): Good grief! I watched you guys fight all day, and it turns out you were all quietly focusing on development?]

[Zhou Wu (Great Xia): Same to you. Although our Great Zhou Alliance killed 10,000 orcs today, we also captured many orc blacksmiths.]

[Miyamoto Takeshi (Dongying): The most insidious one is still that Xu Xuan. Having entered the Spiritual Qi Recovery era, he's still competing with us for Iron Age rewards. Isn't this kid a lone wolf? How is his development speed so fast?]

[Lyon (France): Didn't you see the announcement? This kid took out 100,000 orcs and 90,000 Goblins in one go, killing at least half of the orc legion. He's practically gone into a killing frenzy.]

[Li Fei (Great Xia): This Xu Xuan is so aloof; he never pops up in the global channel.]

Everyone felt that Xu Xuan was terrifyingly low-profile; he never came out to say a word, yet his development speed was like a rocket.

Xu Xuan wasn't in the mood to pay attention to everyone's discussion.

From their chat records, the lords active in the global channel were all leaders of large alliances.

They had thousands or even tens of thousands of alliance members under them, sharing technology with each other.

In terms of technology, Xu Xuan estimated he couldn't catch up with them.

But if he couldn't beat them with technology, he could choose to take the spellcasting route.

Xu Xuan looked at the global news on the virtual screen; there were many global announcements today.

[Great Xia's Great Zhou Alliance engages in a decisive battle with the orc legion on the plains!]

[The Human American-Canadian Allied Forces crushed the Human South American Alliance on the plains, achieving a great victory!]

[The Orc Race has successfully occupied the Pacific Island Nation Alliance. The Pacific Island Nations have been wiped out. All 3,839 lords of these nations have been annihilated, their countries destroyed, vanishing into the dust of history from now on.]

While he was fighting, Xu Xuan hadn't noticed many of the global announcements, only glancing at particularly important information.

With a mountain of internal affairs and war operations arranged today, and not having slept for two days straight, he felt a slight wave of drowsiness.

Although with his current physical fitness, going ten days without sleep wouldn't be a problem.

But physical capability didn't mean a lack of mental fatigue.

Especially since there was a new event at 8:00 AM tomorrow, Xu Xuan briefly assigned Chi You the task of forging weapons and armor before turning back to his own palace.

Falling asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow, Xu Xuan slept exceptionally soundly tonight.

The Orc Race, his greatest concern, had been eliminated by him. This entire surrounding area had basically fallen into his hands, and he had also obtained two spirit mines that could be slowly excavated.

The pressure on his shoulders had lessened significantly. Sleeping until he woke up naturally was incredibly comfortable.

...

...

When he opened his eyes dizzily, Xu Xuan felt full of energy; his whole spirit was exceptionally good.

Moreover, his body felt warm, as if covered by a layer of fluffy animal fur blanket.

"Comfortable. Who covered this King with fur?"

When Xu Xuan opened his eyes, he found himself covered in a layer of snow-white fur, though he didn't know from what animal.

Looking again, Hu Zi Mei was sitting nearby snoring loudly; this silly girl seemed to have been keeping watch for him through the night.

Could this fur have been put on him by Hu Zi Mei?

Wait, that's not right...

This fluffy texture... this doesn't seem like animal hide? This is?

Xu Xuan looked closely and saw a snow-white fox lying next to him.

Su Daji in her Nine-Tailed Fox form!?

Seeing Xu Xuan wake up, Su Daji said in a numbing tone, "Great King, you are awake? Last night, your servant saw you lying on this wooden bed without a blanket. Your servant was afraid you would catch a cold, so I used my tails as a blanket to cover the Great King."

"Great King, was your servant too presumptuous? Please appease your anger, Great King."

Listening to Su Daji's charming voice made his brain feel tingly.

He wondered if it was because he had been single for too long, but even a Nine-Tailed Fox looked pretty to him now.

Xu Xuan coughed dryly. "No matter. Your intentions were good; this King does not blame you."

Just as Xu Xuan was about to say something, at 8:00 AM, the system announced punctually.

[Congratulations everyone for surviving another day!]

[The Human Race has taken the lead in entering the Spiritual Qi Recovery era. A brand new event will occur today!]

[The Undead Scourge event has arrived!]

[An entrance to an otherworldly realm has connected to the Lord Continent. The Undead Scourge is about to flood into this world through the connection point.]

[Would the top 100 human lords please voluntarily sign up to suppress the Undead Scourge and protect the Lord Continent from being invaded.]

[Registration is on a voluntary basis. You have 10 minutes to decide whether to participate in the defense battle.]

[Note: Once the defense battle fails, the Undead Scourge will flood into the Lord Continent, sweeping across the globe and causing a wide-scale catastrophic event!]

Seeing this event, everyone shuddered.

[Global Chat Channel]

[Jack (America): Are you kidding me? Let us, the top hundred, go block them? Why should we be the ones to sacrifice ourselves?]

[Lyon (France): None of my business! Let the Undead Scourge invade whoever it wants; I'll just protect my own territory.]

[Miyamoto Takeshi (Dongying): The era of mass elimination has arrived. Let the weaklings all die, hahaha! Only we strong ones can survive this Undead Scourge event.]

[Zhou Wu (Great Xia): I feel like there's something wrong with your thinking. If the Human Race suffers a total collapse, how will we continue to stand on this Lord Continent?]

[Novsky (Russia): Ura! Let's do it, Tovarishch.]

While everyone was discussing, they saw the first lord participating in the defense battle appear.

[Announcement: Great Xia Lord Xu Xuan has become the first lord to join the defense battle.]