Today's second update: Chapter 2686! 2/4!
The Monkey Race's own source mines had been developed by less than thirty percent over the past year.
After all, this was the total source mine output formed after more than seven hundred branch Monkey Races had merged.
Moreover, during Xu Kun's tenure as the Monkey Race's leader, he had conquered several Tier-B Races, so the overall development still required time.
By estimates, if all existing source mines were fully excavated and none of their output was invested in racial infrastructure, the total might allow the Monkey Race's points to reach the lower ranks of the S-Tier Races Sequence.
They would likely rank around seventieth or eightieth in the S-tier Sequence.
But that was nowhere near enough!
There were ninety S-Tier Races in the sequence, but the gap between lower-ranked and higher-ranked S-Tier Races was immense.
Take the Dark Elf Race, oppressed and exploited by the Titan Race and reduced to forge slaves, and compare them to the Light Elf Race, who shared the same roots but were raised within the Heavenly Ladder as one of the Three Illusory Races.
One was a lower-ranked S-Tier Race, while the other was a higher-ranked S-Tier Race. The difference in their racial points was an astonishing fivefold!
Of course, that multiple was also because the Dark Elf Race had undergone a war of independence, and then suffered another harsh winter in terms of racial population. In terms of their own strength, they had likely fallen out of the top hundred sequence rankings. Meanwhile, Xu Kun had brought the Light Elf Race back to the human race completely intact.
Before the war of independence, the normal points gap between two S-Tier Races was roughly two to three times.
Based on that, the Monkey Race's objectives