Surviving the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 28

The Result of Players Losing Their Tempers Online

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Adrian came downstairs quickly, stretched out against the sofa, and said to Hill with a smile, "There were always idiots who made you feel like they'd lost their intelligence at birth."

"What did the Nofa Family do?"

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You thought of their family so quickly, didn't you? After all, they were famous for being lecherous."

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"What did they do? All I knew was that someone from their family molested an Undead woman and got beaten half to death."

"You heard that from the Undead?"

"That stupid fat pig of a nobleman directly grabbed someone and tried to drag her into his carriage, saying he'd sell her to a brothel if she didn't obey. You could tell what family he belonged to just by listening to him."

"Did the Undead beat him badly?"

"Ah, it was a group of girls from one family out shopping together. There were not only Sky Knights, but also Magi among them! I heard they didn't even leave him a single hair. Whenever they mentioned him, they called him that naked pig."

"That must have been the Nofa Family's heir."

"So they wanted revenge? What were they planning to do that angered the Undead?"

"Oh, Mr. Hill, you should ask me about that!" someone suddenly interrupted.

Hill and Adrian turned around to see A Deer standing gracefully to one side. The bald man was sweeping the medicine cabinets clean with two others.

Hill smiled. "You finished fighting?"

A Deer nodded. "We happened to gather yesterday because Romance had something to discuss with us. Then some sisters in the outer city sent out a world-wide call for help, so our whole family went over."

"Can your means of communication directly connect to the entire Undead race?" Adrian was extremely surprised.

Hill pulled over a sofa. "Beautiful lady, please have a seat! We knew fighting had broken out, but we weren't very clear on the exact reason. Thank you very much for being willing to share."

A Deer happily sat down, and Hill poured her a glass of fruit juice.

Holding the cup, she slowly said, "Someone offered a reward of one hundred thousand gold coins for each Undead girl. If they were from the group that burned that naked pig that day, it was two hundred thousand each."

Hill silently thought, No wonder they directly burned the Nofa Family's Sky Knight to death. It seemed the news had already spread everywhere. That idiot from the Nofa Family still dared to come out and stop people. They'd been waiting for exactly that.

"Some of our girls living in the cheap inns in the outer city had just arrived and still didn't like fighting. Money was tight, and there were so many rewarding commissions over there."

"We knew it wasn't very safe there, but divine power protected us while we slept, and normally we were out running missions anyway.

"We never expected the gang to drug our food while we were eating. About a dozen sisters were captured. That naked pig even tried to get handsy, so Divine Lightning struck him.

"After the sisters woke up, they planned to leave, but the gang still didn't want to let them go, so fighting broke out.

"At first, only the people in the outer city were fighting. Anyway, the Gods would tell us who the enemies were, so we weren't afraid of hitting the wrong people. We had no idea how many gangs were involved, but there were more and more enemies. There were few high-level people in the outer city, so they sent out a world-wide call for help.

"Our family was the first to head out. The city gates hadn't even been closed yet!

"There were lots of mages! They smashed up several buildings on Pall Street, and there were so many kidnapped people underground, along with lots of children!

"Those children were so pitiful, so we accepted the mission the children gave us to help them gain freedom. There were even young noble girls among them! The gangs had kidnapped them all!

"More and more people came out to stop us from rescuing them. They all came running out from beneath Pall Street, so of course we fought them!

"Lots of people came out from the inner city to help! The people stopping us were probably all accomplices of that naked pig. Since they still wouldn't open the city gates at a time like that, we simply blew them up.

"Now Pall Street and the evil people nearby had all been cleared out. Those of us who fought all night left first. My master bought a lot of medicine yesterday, but it was almost all used up.

"So we thought we'd buy some medicine first, then go back and sleep."

Smiling, A Deer took a big gulp of juice. "Ah! This is really delicious. My magic power has recovered! Mr. Hill, what kind of fruit juice is this? Can we buy it?"

Looking at her innocent smile, Hill felt helpless. "This is juice made from Philodendron fruit. This kind of tree is also called Emerald. It's extremely precious, and only wood-element elves can cultivate it. It's a specialty of the elven kingdom."

"How much does it cost? We can pool our money."

"This is exclusively supplied to Magi. Didn't William open two magic towers to you? My elders bought it from there as well."

"The things there require merit! We want territory, so that's such a shame."

Hill smiled and took out a jug of fruit juice. "Thank you for clearing up our confusion, milady. Please accept this small token of gratitude."

A Deer happily put it away. "Thank you so much! Mr. Hill was always so polite."

The bald man came over after finishing his purchases. "Mr. Hill, how long will your shop remain open?"

Adrian interjected, "We'll return to our territory after William's coronation ceremony ends."

"Ah! Then there are only three days left."

Hill said with a smile, "These things will still be sold in our territory. You know the address, don't you? You're welcome to visit anytime!"

The bald man said without realizing anything, "We plan to place our territory in the southern border city closest to the west. It'll be closer to Mr. Adrian's place, and we can participate in the war too."

Adrian's brow twitched. "You were already preparing for war?"

"Yeah! William said that if we were willing to station ourselves in the south, we could directly choose a border city. Even all the land within three hundred kilometers around the city would belong to us. It would be a permanent base, and we could earn merit by fighting, so of course we'd choose it."

Hill asked, "Have all the southern border territories been vacated?"

"William will send people to garrison the two in the middle himself. The other four will be assigned out. But one of those in the middle is relatively small. The top three on our merit ranking definitely won't choose it. I guess the one ranked fourth will."

"Oh, right. We've already decided on our family's name and emblem." The bald man said proudly, "It'll be called Black Rose. The emblem will have a black rose in the center, surrounded by crossed swords, hammers, and staffs."

"Staffs?" Adrian asked in confusion.

"Ah, these are weapons used by our mages and Sorcerers. We still don't understand why the mages here don't use staffs." The bald man took a long wooden stick set with gemstones from his bag.

"To increase spell power?" Adrian revealed the signet ring on his hand. "Aren't mana gemstones the only useful thing? You can just wear them on your hand. Why use something so cumbersome?"

"Don't priests all use hammers too?"

"Priests receive their power from the Gods, and many of them only have healing abilities." Adrian was confused. "They use hammers for physical attacks?"

"We use staffs to smash people too when our mana runs out!"

Adrian visibly choked. Seriously? What about your spell scrolls? Your alchemy potions? Instead of using those, physically weak mages used brute force to smash people?

Hill was about to die laughing.

He said to Adrian, "They just arrived in this world, so they don't have stockpiles of scrolls or alchemy potions. Otherwise, how could our goods have sold out so quickly?"

He turned to the bald man. "Priests' bodies have been tempered by divine power, so they can swing hammers. But many mages aren't physically strong. We generally use spell scrolls and explosive alchemy potions."

"I didn't see any for sale!" the bald man said inexplicably. "Mr. Hill doesn't sell them either!"

"You should always stockpile as much of that stuff as possible. Besides, who knew whether something sold might be used against you? Mages made those things themselves!" Adrian emphasized. "You haven't been here long, but as a mage, you must prepare more reserves for yourself. Mana potions have drug resistance. Drink too many, and they become useless!"

Hill was truly dying of laughter.

The bald man tugged at his ponytail. "Our bodies don't have this drug resistance thing."

Adrian slumped back down. "Damn God-blessed race!"

Hill asked the bald man, "Your family is called Black Rose? William agreed to that?"

"The application went through! There was absolutely no problem."

Hill looked at the supremely confident bald man and exchanged a glance with Adrian: His Majesty Time and Space truly has no intention of sparing any mercy for the God of Nobles.

For so many years, no one outside the believers of the Noble Temple had dared to use a rose emblem.

Seeing that no one had entered for a while and that someone was guarding the door, Hill turned to the bald man. "Did you flip my sign again?"

The bald man grinned without saying anything, while Dream Awake, Don't See You, who was standing by the door, silently stepped back a few paces.

Hill said helplessly, "Forget it. I'm not in the mood to do business anyway. Remember to flip it back when you leave."

The door was suddenly pushed open, and Falan walked in.

Hill and Adrian hurriedly stood up.

"Grandfather, you're back. Would you like something to eat?"

Falan glanced doubtfully at the Undead in the shop. "I thought you'd closed the shop."

Hill could only say, "I was asking these people for information. I temporarily didn't want anyone else coming in."

Falan nodded. "Get me something to eat. My head hurts, and I want a drink."

He sat directly on the sofa and sighed. "What a busy day."

Hill set a whole table of food down and poured wine for Falan. "Grandfather, put some of the Magus potions from your Alchemy Hut out for sale!"

Falan asked in surprise, "Were the Undead willing to spend that much money?"

"Grandfather's Alchemy Hut is almost sold out," Hill said. "Adrian's stock has been completely cleared out too."

Falan looked at the bald man and the others, whose eyes were full of anticipation, then walked to the medicine cabinet in the middle and placed a batch of high-grade potions inside.

The bald man and the others practically pressed themselves against the crystal cover. "Holy shit! Ones that add attribute points! Hurry and call people! Let's buy them first!"

Falan watched while eating. "They have quite a lot of crystals! No wonder they've been fighting since yesterday."

Hill asked, "Are they still fighting?"

Falan drained a glass of wine. "Six streets near Pall Street have been cleared out. William's people have already entered to take over."

Adrian hurriedly poured him more wine. "There were only four streets when I left!"

"The Nofa Family is finished. William reacted quickly enough." Falan said, "There was actually a count's child among the children the Undead rescued. Even if she wasn't a direct descendant, the Nofa Family had reached too far. Their Sky Knight was dead anyway, so William directly stripped them of their title. No one spoke up for them."

"So the two streets that disappeared later were both Nofa territory?" Hill was speechless. "Did their family make all its money through this kind of thing?"

"Only a family this stupid would personally do such dirty work." Falan said disdainfully. "William no longer needed to worry. The underworld forces in the capital were completely crippled."

Hill said, "That's good too."

"Pall Street is completely gone anyway. William sent people to announce that a grand cathedral would be built there directly."

"Still not building a temple?" Adrian said. "Was he really planning to wait until after the war with Rose before ascending to the divine throne?"

Falan nodded in agreement.

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