World-ending Crisis
His gaze shifted to Kundina, who was practicing Spell to the side.
In the Pure White Space, just over a day had passed, and Su Luo saw that Kundina had already mastered three blue level 40 Spells. This speed was terrifying, much faster than Su Luo himself.
Although it was achieved through Skill Experience Stones and personal practice, there's a reason why someone becomes God of Magic; I wonder what their Talent is.
Thinking of this, Su Luo's gaze fell on Qing Yunnan; this guy's Talent was already quite obvious.
Su Luo noticed that he often wandered around the area near Mu Ri, then returned to give technology to his civilization. Coupled with the [Mirror Sovereign] profession, she had already guessed what was going on.
Did you steal my Talent?
Su Luo sent him a mental link.
Qing Yunnan was stunned for a moment, then turned around with an innocent expression on his face.
"How can you call it stealing when it's a scholar's business?" He made no attempt to cover it up.
"Equivalent exchange."
Su Luo watched him silently.
Qing Yunnan stared at Su Luo for three seconds before giving in.
"Okay. My Talent is that I can Copy other Survivors ' Talents. There are three slots, but there's a price to pay; the more useful it is to me, the higher the price. Also, there are limitations on how I use my Talents. For example, your Talent is only valid for ten minutes, then it expires after three minutes."
"What is Ye Fan's Talent?" Su Luo asked the question she was concerned about.
"I don't know. I didn't even see him in the Trait Dungeon before he was instantly killed. I've always felt really sorry about that."
"Is the Ye Zizhen there?"
"I didn't see him in the Trait Dungeon either. Logically, we should all be among the first batch of professionals to participate... Isn't he a time-based class? Maybe he's avoiding me."
Su Luo nodded thoughtfully.
He took a card out of his pocket and handed it over.
[Friend Slot Expansion Card]
I bought two tickets for the last District War. I just used one with Kundina. I have one left.
Seeing this, Qing Yunnan also took out a card and activated it at the same time.
"Honestly," he muttered as he played, "Your Talent is the lowest-cost I've ever seen among Forbidden Class. It's even inferior to many advanced professionals."
"It depends on how you use it," Su Luo replied casually. "Anyway, the initial development speed is indeed slower compared to other Forbidden Class."
His initial "safe period" Attribute was boosted thanks to a batch of treasures provided by the Mutual Aid Association. Without those treasures, he might have been much slower than he is now; after all, a slow start leads to a slow start in everything.
After confirming the friend request, Su Luo entered the Dreamscape, not paying much attention to Qing Yunnan's use of her Talent.
He just couldn't figure it out.
Su Luo's learning speed is a combination of Talent, professional skills, self-created skills, Dreamscape, Titles, Fortune, and so on. Talent is the foundation, but it is not the whole story.
Qing Yunnan watched him close his eyes, then suddenly remembered something.
"By the way," he asked, "How do you solve the population problem?"
Su Luo did not respond. He had already sat down in the armchair, closed his eyes, and stood like a statue.
"Sneaking around again." Qing Yunnan shook his head and looked away.
He turned his attention back to Origin Star, to that rapidly developing planet.
The biggest problem on the entire Origin Star is that its population is too small.
Resources are plentiful: forests, minerals, water, and land are everywhere. But there are too few people.
The previous special event, the Meteor Shower, killed over 95% of the population. Originally, the Cangyuan Continent had about five to six million primitive humans, but after the Meteor Shower, it would be fortunate if only 300,000 remained. They were scattered among various civilizations, each with only tens of thousands of people.
What can tens of thousands of people do?
"A single step behind means falling behind at every step," Qing Yunnan sighed. "With such a stupid opening event in this battlefield, the faster civilizations in other battlefields are probably already at stage three."
[Achievement Completed: Millions of People]
[Your civilization's population has reached one million; this is the beginning of all glory. Civilization Points +1000]
Jiang Mengrui looked at the prompts on the panel without any change in emotion, pondering how to improve her hard power.
The civilization she belonged to, which she named "Heaven’s Gate," was well-chosen—a plain dotted with lakes, abundant in water, fertile in land, and easy to defend.
The Child of Civilization is a taciturn middle-aged man who was originally a fisherman and was not well-liked in the tribe, but he is clear-headed and has strong execution skills.
Twenty years have passed.
Over the past twenty years, Heaven’s Gate has transformed from a small tribe of a few hundred people into a large nation with a population of millions.
Agricultural techniques evolved from Tinder to intensive farming; iron smelting techniques developed from crude iron blocks to forging swords made of tempered steel; and construction techniques progressed from mud-brick and thatched houses to brick and stone city walls...
But Jiang Mengrui's mind wasn't on that.
She was constantly thinking about how to improve her skills.
This District War is an opportunity; the points can be exchanged for a lot of good stuff, and the ranking rewards won't be bad either. I'll go back and get the purple Attribute skills then...
[Special events have been updated]
[Current Special Event: Prehistoric Civilization Ruins]
[Hidden within those layers of the earth's crust are the secrets and legacies of Previous Civilization...]
Jiang Mengrui paused, but ultimately didn't consciously leave the Pure White Space; she disliked that feeling of rapid passage.
Civilization will decide everything itself; she only needs to consume Civilization Points to make some necessary interventions.
At the same time.
Another battlefield.
Song Shige sat in the Pure White Space, looking at the prompts on the panel with a furrowed brow.
[Special events have been updated]
[Current Special Event: Barbarian Invasion]
[Savage creatures that grew in the wild lands beneath the earth, naturally stronger than other life forms, capable of taking on a hundred enemies single-handedly... On this day, an earthquake brought them out.]
He projected his consciousness onto the Origin Star to locate the position of his civilization.
This is a civilization that developed step by step, and Song Shige followed the development model of his hometown.
But now--
At the edge of the grassland, cracks appeared in the earth.
Countless enormous figures poured out from those cracks.
Those creatures were over three meters tall; some looked like enlarged lizards, some like giant wolves walking upright, and some were completely unrecognizable.
They have thick skin and immense strength; ordinary arrows can't even graze their skin.
They traversed mountains and rivers, and some could even fly. They surged toward various civilizations, razing villages to the ground and tearing people to pieces wherever they went.
Civilization had just entered the late Iron Age, and those iron armor and swords were no match for these things that sprang from the ground; they couldn't even break through their defenses.
Two hundred cavalrymen charged, fired arrows, and were then overtaken and torn apart by the creatures.
Two hundred people, half of them died in a single encounter.
"An apocalyptic crisis," Song Shige murmured.
He turned his head to look to the side.
A man with his eyes covered by a black cloth sat there; he was also one of the Survivors on this battlefield.
"Does the 'Apocalypse Crisis' event spawn in special events on our battlefields, or in all battlefields? Or does it only spawn in high-level matches?"
The blindfolded man shook his head.
Song Shige didn't ask any more questions.
He refocused his consciousness on Origin Star and began to consider countermeasures.
It's time to unleash our superpowers.