"There should be three World Lord in the Black Curtain World. One has already been killed, leaving two. One is with the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard, and it's likely that Jia Geqi won't last much longer either, so there's only one left."
"Once we defeat the last World Lord, our expedition will be nearly complete."
Leo didn't know if the expedition missions in other worlds were like this, but he always felt that this Black Tomb World started strong but ended weakly.
"Calling upon Wizard Leo, recipient of the Third-Class Wizard Medal,"
Just as Leo was pondering the events that had unfolded in the Black Tomb World, a call came from the crystal ball within the Shadow Space.
"I'm here, please speak."
Leo took out the crystal ball, which contained a message from the starship that the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard had taken.
"Hidden quest information changed; only one quest remains: find the last Jiayehe and capture him alive."
"What do you mean? What about the five hidden quests?"
Leo exclaimed in surprise, "How come all five hidden quests are gone in the blink of an eye? Who was so fast and completed them all?"
"The other five tasks have been completed; now we only need to find the last one, Jiayehe."
"Is Jiayehe the tentacle-like tumor?"
"Yes."
"So how many have been caught in total?"
Seven.
"There are so many?"
"And what about the World Lord?"
"All three World Lord have been captured or killed."
What's next on the expedition mission?
"Continue clearing the remaining Eyeless Spider army from the first and second underground levels to create a safe environment for subsequent ore mining. The expedition to the Black Tomb World is drawing to a close."
"Okay, I understand."
Leo hung up the crystal ball.
Leo received a lot of information at once and needed to think about it.
The three World Lord of the Black Tomb World were all captured just one month ago, and seven of the eight Jiayehe were also captured.
The high-level combat force of the Black Tomb World was wiped out without a sound.
Is the wizard too powerful, or is the Black Tomb World too weak?
Although only one Jia ye he remains, with more and more wizards freeing up their hands, it's only a matter of time before he's captured.
"The expedition is indeed coming to an end. While we're safe now, should we go and earn some merit?"
Leo extended the invitation to Alice, but as he stated this seemingly legitimate reason, Leo raised an eyebrow.
"Let's go."
Alice instantly understood what Leo meant.
Leo claimed he was trying to gain merit, but in reality, he took Alice straight to the second basement level and searched everywhere.
He had searched almost the entire first basement level but hadn't found anything of value. Now that he knew there was no danger, how could he possibly let the second basement level go? He was determined to search it thoroughly before the expedition ended.
As long as they don't take too much, the Stigmata Wizard won't stop them from doing so.
A medium-sized world should have some good things, right?
Therefore, what Leo saw was that it wasn't just him and Alice searching for the treasure; many more wizards were searching openly and secretly, all using the excuse of eliminating Eyeless Spider.
As for the so-called cleanup of the Eyeless Spider army, it was all left to the slave army to handle.
"A medium-sized world that has given birth to three World Lord, yet it has no energy crystal mines. That's really strange."
After searching for two years on the second underground level, although they found a lot of precious minerals, they didn't find a single energy crystal. More importantly, there were no signs of life on the second underground level.
The life mentioned here refers not only to living organisms, but also to plants!
Leo didn't even see any microorganisms!
That's so strange!
The Black Tomb World discovered so far has a surface layer made entirely of yellow sand, and an underground layer consisting of a layer of precious energy metal.
The second underground level, while not having as many energy metal veins as the first underground level, still contains quite a few valuable mineral veins.
Although these two layers of mineral veins alone could make the three Stigmata Wizard a fortune, this is a medium-sized world...
Is it reasonable for there to be no life?
Or is it that I'm just too ignorant? The universe is so vast and full of wonders; it contains all sorts of things.
"Let's go, the expedition is almost over, let's go back and exchange our battle merits," Leo said.
Alice was also uninterested. She had originally thought she could find something good, just like in the Jeft World, but unexpectedly, the things she found were not very good.
When Leo and Alice returned to the starship, many wizards had already returned and were calculating their battle achievements with the command center.
This is a day of harvest, a day when their hard work of more than a decade finally pays off!
This was the first time Leo had earned merit in battle. Excluding the Jeft World, all the rewards were distributed to the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard back then.
"Respected Leo, recipient of the Third-Class Wizard Medal Level One Body Refinement Wizard, you have completed a total of three ordinary missions, one encirclement mission, one special rescue team mission, one special intelligence contribution mission, and one mission designated by Stigmata Wizard."
"During the expedition, you also used the nutrient tank once; the cost will be deducted from your battle merits."
Do you see any problems?
Leo listened carefully, then shook his head. "No problem, that's all."
"The total battle merits amount to 1,074,586 points. What would you like to exchange them for?"
With over a million battle merits, even his own number made Leo a little numb. Normally, First-Level Wizard would earn at most tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of battle merits during a single expedition.
When it came to my own business, the first time it reached over a million!!!
The battle merits from regular missions are minimal; it's the bonuses from the later special missions that bring up such terrifying numbers.
Leo's number alone is enough to make a group of wizards envious and jealous!
Does the Earth have Planetary Core?
Leo has no shortage of energy crystals, a Third-Class Wizard Medal, and a 1% share of the Jeft World. Leo's wealth is almost comparable to that of Level Two Wizard, making him a true tycoon among First-Level Wizard.
Therefore, Leo naturally wanted to exchange these battle merits for some precious high-end materials that he couldn't usually access, the most important of which was the earth's Planetary Core that had once stimulated the evolution of the shadow.
"Let me check."
Perhaps the Planetary Core that Leo mentioned was too advanced, so it wasn't visible in the battle merit exchange table.
"Because you are a recipient of the Third-Class Wizard Medal, you can apply for a special privilege: your battle merits can earn you ten kilograms of Planetary Core. Do you wish to exchange it?"
"... exchange"
Leo almost choked to death from this 'amazing' weight.
Ten kilograms!
What can you do with that little weight?
The Planetary Core's core is an object with an extremely large mass. When the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard gave him only a small portion, even an apprentice like Leo couldn't lift it.
This ten-kilogram Planetary Core is probably not much bigger than a grain of dust.
But there was no other way; Leo desperately needed the Planetary Core to verify his hypothesis, and having one was better than having none.
After all, this is a Stigmata- level treasure, and Leo couldn't think of anywhere else to obtain it except through battle merits.
The ten kilograms of the Planetary Core were quickly brought over. Leo didn't dare to open it and threw it directly into the Shadow Space.
Having completed the exchange of battle merits, Leo's first expedition came to an end.
Next, all we need to do is wait for a spatial portal to be established with the Wizard World Wizard World we can return there.
Back in his room Leo was reflecting on his first expedition. In conclusion, he realized he was just an ordinary Level One Lesser Wizard.
If it weren't for the nuclear bomb and his miraculous, life-saving Shadow Talent, he would have died countless times over.
Of course, if it weren't for these two things, Leo wouldn't have been teetering on the edge of death so recklessly; he would have run far away from danger long ago.
Normal wizards would call the command center when they encounter a problem they can't solve, and have a higher-level wizard sent over, instead of rushing in and fighting head-on like Leo did!
Before long, the spatial passage was established.
When it was built, Leo even went to see it, after all, this ability to traverse extremely long distances was something Leo really envied.
Unfortunately, the knowledge system involved was too complex, and Leo couldn't understand it at all.
This wasn't something a few wizards could do; it involved tens of thousands of wizards simultaneously drawing up the diagrams, performing massive calculations, and channeling a huge amount of energy.
Its complexity is enough to burn all brain cells!
No one but Level Three Elemental Great Wizard can preside over such a task!
Leo heard that just by presiding over this one spatial passage, he had earned a battle merit of 500,000!
That's equivalent to half of his earnings from all those years of hard work!
Eventually, the coordinates of the Black Tomb World and the Wizard World aligned, and then the spatial portal opened.
Even after watching the whole thing, Leo didn't know the most basic theoretical knowledge, let alone the details.
"Looks like I'll have to add another subject to my study plan from now on."
Not long after the spatial passage was completed, a group of robust slaves carrying large boxes entered the Black Tomb World.
Leo had heard of these minotaurs-like slaves; they were very weak in combat but extremely skilled at mining.
It is said that the world that produces these slaves is monopolized by a few large merchant groups. They cherish these slaves like treasures and have established cooperative relationships with many Stigmata Wizard by relying on them, making a fortune from them.
As for the mineral veins in the Black Tomb World, although Leo was not clear about the details of the subsequent operations, he could deduce that they were probably contracted out to merchant groups. The merchant groups were responsible for mining and smelting, and then they directly purchased the finished products.
All we need to do is give the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard and the others a share of the profits!
Such a simple cooperation model!!
In just a few hundred years, these merchant groups will be able to hollow out the Black Tomb World, turning this medium-sized world, which once nurtured three World Lord and countless lives, into a complete wasteland!
Of course, once all the value in this world has been squeezed dry, it won't just sit there. It will be sold off to smaller races or wizard families, becoming their territory.
Leo was already getting excited just thinking about it. Buying a world to be his own home, becoming its World Lord —it sounded incredibly tempting!