A Grand Campaign

Bai Xiaowen naturally gave the only invitation to Li Shuyi.

The notification message regarding the Spirit Realm Rules arrived again:

"Level 4 Awakened, Thunderwind Swordsman Li Shuyi has joined your team."

"Your squad has acquired 10 cubic meters of Shared Storage Space. The length, width, and height of the Shared Storage Space can be changed arbitrarily, but the volume will not Transformation. Note: The Shared Storage Space is bound to the squad leader. Other squad members must be within 5 meters of the leader to use the Shared Storage Space."

"In Permanent Team Mode, all gear that you and your teammates acquire that Bind on Pickup is considered bind-on-party until it is worn."

Bai Xiaowen laughed and said, "These two features deserve a thumbs up."

The Shared Storage Space is 10 cubic meters, the same size as Bai Xiaowen's Personal Storage Space, and can be used by teammates. Although there is a binding restriction that "must be within 5 meters of the team leader," it is still quite good.

The second rule, that Bind on Pickup equipment is considered team-bound, makes it easier for Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi to exchange equipment.

For example, if Bai Xiaowen obtains an agility-enhancing item on her own, and Li Shuyi doesn't Kill Contribution, she wouldn't normally be able to give it to her. However, in Permanent Team Mode, the item Bai Xiaowen obtains becomes team-bound, allowing Li Shuyi to use it.

The same logic applies to Li Shuyi obtaining spirit equipment.

Currently, there are only two slots per team. As the team level increases, the number of slots will definitely increase, allowing teammates to share equipment and maximize resource allocation.

Bai Xiaowen asked, "How do I upgrade my squad level?"

This time, the Spirit Realm Rules didn't keep them in suspense, probably because Bai Xiaowen had already formed a team, and quickly gave a response:

"Acquire more Team-Building Item, which can be used to increase your team's experience points. Once the experience points meet the requirements, you can level up. The higher the level and rarity of the Team-Building Item, the more experience points it will increase. Some special items can even upgrade your team to Hero Team."

"In addition, completing missions of Elite Tier difficulty or higher will also provide the team with a certain amount of experience points."

Bai Xiaowen continued to ask, "What kind of enhancements and buffs will we receive after the team's level is increased?"

The Spirit Realm Rules seem to have already stated everything, offering no response but simply stating, "Please explore on your own."

Bai Xiaowen shrugged.

Tim, Marco, Phil, and other knights were sent to reorganize the army with Kitz, while Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi went to quartermaster Basil Heber to exchange all their accumulated merit points.

The two killed a large number of Elite Tier and even Leader Tier Remnants, completed many difficult tasks, and accumulated a considerable amount of merit points.

Aside from exchanging some stamina-restoring mead as a specialty and spending a few hundred merit points, Bai Xiaowen kept the rest of his merit points untouched in his account. His and Li Shuyi's team had a combined 21,336 merit points!

"Exchange [Return Scroll]." Bai Xiaowen reached out his hand to Basil Heber, who was in humanoid vending machine form, and tapped the Return Scroll in the list.

Bai Xiaowen exchanged 5000 merit points for one card without even blinking.

One, two, three...

sold out.

"What a pity, there are only three Return Scroll." Bai Xiaowen shook his head. These items are not bound to any equipment and have high trading value. After returning to Earth, they will definitely be worth more than bound Gold Equipment.

With 6336 merit points remaining, Bai Xiaowen browsed the list and exchanged for another S-Tier [Mass Teleportation Scroll], spending 6000 Merit Points. Fortunately, he already had the Revered reputation, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to buy S-Tier items and Gold Equipment.

Bai Xiaowen did not intend to exchange for Gold Equipment. He had already checked before and found that the Gold Equipment available for exchange at the quartermaster's shop was mostly mediocre equipment with additional attributes, and there were no top-quality Gold Gear with additional practical skills.

Bai Xiaowen exchanged all of his last few hundred merit points for ale, a specialty of the Kane Plane.

Prince Nicholas led his army away, leaving Count Danton to guard Blackrock City.

The lords, both large and small, of the various territories in the Northern Frontier, such as Julien and others, had nowhere to go. Their territories were filled with Zombie of zombies, so there was no point in returning. The lords all chose to follow Nicholas to the Imperial Capital, hoping to be placed in official positions by the empire.

In this way, only two human settlements remain in the Northern Frontier: Blackrock City and White Stone City. That's right, Bai Xiaowen has already discussed with Cecilia the idea of renaming Redleaf City to White Stone City, making it the capital of the New White Stone Fief.

Leaving Blackrock City was easier than Nicholas and the others had imagined, because Kitz had lured a significant number of human Zombie to the Remnants camp north of Blackiron Gorge the night before, where they ganged up on Absolon. The Zombie horde outside the city was not as dense as it had been the day before.

The Imperial Legions marched in formation, like a giant hammer, smashing away any hordes of Zombie they encountered, before heading south and disappearing into the distance.

Upon reaching the fork in the road, Bai Xiaowen bid farewell to Prince Nicholas, Lord Julien, and others.

Nicholas's expression remained somewhat complicated, but he ultimately remained silent, simply nodding.

His relationship with Bai Xiaowen remained at the level of friends and could not be improved. Even though Bai Xiaowen made a great contribution by killing Absolon, it did not raise his Affection Level level.

According to Bai Xiaowen's speculation, this should be one of the negative effects of the natives recognizing the Awakened One's identity. No matter how enlightened Nicholas, he will still be somewhat distant from Bai Xiaowen, after all, they are not from the same plane of existence.

Other insiders and Bai Xiaowen's Affection Level ratings did not increase at all; in fact, some even decreased, which serves as further evidence.

Fortunately, Cecilia and Bai Xiaowen's Affection Level had already reached its peak, and their Infatuation Level had remained at the romantic level, which gave Bai Xiaowen some psychological comfort.

[Come on, a bunch of grown men's Affection Level, whoever wants them can have them, I just need the beautiful lord's Affection Level.]

Without any hesitation, Bai Xiaowen led his troops on a march toward the original Redleaf City, which is now the new White Stone City.

On the way, Bai Xiaowen led his team to kill a lot of Zombie. To his surprise, although these Zombie basically did not drop treasure chests, they still gave Psionic Points, although less than Spirit Realm monsters of the same level.

"Shu Yi, I think we've struck Gold Mine..." Bai Xiaowen murmured, looking at the map of Northern Frontier. "This place is overflowing with gold! How much Free Exploration Time do we have left?"

"About five or six days left," Li Shuyi said.

"Five days and nine hours," Bai Xiaowen said, rubbing his hands together, "Let's send the troops back first, then we're going to have a big fight!"