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What followed was truly just going through the motions.
Gu Xi simply had not expected the process to take more than an entire month.
Although Gu Xi himself was not in a hurry, the long, slow procedure still shocked him.
By the time Gu Xi received Liu Yingguang's message saying that the mission had ended and players could freely withdraw from this world, about twenty-five days had passed since he killed the Fusion Society's Third Elder.
As for the bounty Wang Yongshou had promised to help Gu Xi claim for killing the Fusion Society's Third Elder, that was delayed by another eleven days.
During that time, Gu Xi did not wander around. He simply remained in this world.
However, as one of the victors, Gu Xi finally had a chance to put his diplomatic talents to use.
During this period, Gu Xi had been moving among the various players' villages.
Whenever he encountered neutral undead, he tried to lure all of them to Ring Fort Village.
As for the players from the Corpse Bone Fish Dragon Guild, Gu Xi had also made some friends through his social skills.
Of course, the main reason Gu Xi considered them friends was that they, too, were planning to preserve the villages they had painstakingly built.
With the idea that the enemy of an enemy was a friend, their communication went remarkably smoothly.
Gu Xi even openly told them that he had taken over the former Howling Castle and established a territory centered around it, consisting of one city and three villages.
In addition, he occupied quite a few resource points.
If the players needed anything, they could go to him to trade for supplies.
Of course, Gu Xi was not