The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 359 The Unbelievable Shelter
Forbidden Zone, Frost Sanctuary.

Inside the massive mountain, airships bearing the obsidian insignia slowly landed at Frostfire Airport.

As several teams of players dressed in silver-gray outfits stepped out of the airship and lined up on both sides, the thousands of young men and women from the Frost Sanctuary waiting at the airport fell silent, all staring at the half-scaled woman who had just disembarked.

The half-scaled woman with a tail was dressed in a tall, jet-black armor with blood-patterned patterns. Although she was judged to be at the mid-stage of the Blood Condensation Realm based on her blood energy, she gave everyone present an indescribable sense of oppression, as if they were facing a humanoid behemoth. Even the two Celestial Realm Grandmasters guarding the Frost Sanctuary felt the danger.

"Captain Vanessa, the leader of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is wearing what seems to be the legendary Tier 4 armor that only the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy can manufacture!" The young deputy leader of the Frost Frost Academy couldn't help but gleam as he looked at the powerful black armor.

The armor currently produced by the various shelters in the restricted area, in terms of all aspects, does not even meet the standard of a Tier 3 armor. It simply possesses the defensive capabilities of a Tier 3 armor, and Tier 4 armor is unthinkable.

However, since the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy supported Frost and repelled the Zerg, the two sides have reached many cooperation agreements. They even reached a mercenary cooperation agreement, allowing a large number of Obsidian Martial Arts Academy personnel to enter Frost Sanctuary, establish martial arts schools, set up various buildings, and assist Frost in its defense. In return, Frost Sanctuary provides energy blood essence support. The two sides have also gained a considerable understanding of each other.

Rumor has it that the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy possesses Tier 4 armor, not the pseudo Tier 3 armor found in various sanctuaries, but genuine Celestial Realm armor that meets all the standards of Tier 4 armor. This armor allows Blood Condensation Realm warriors to fight against Celestial Realm Grandmasters, and even ordinary Celestial Realm Grandmasters are helpless against Blood Condensation Realm warriors wearing Tier 4 armor.

If equipped by a Grandmaster of the Celestial Realm, it can suppress all other Grandmasters of the same realm, making it an incredibly powerful battle armor.

"I initially thought it was just those drunkards at the bar joking around, but now it seems that the Obsidian Martial Arts School is indeed more powerful than we imagined." Vanessa looked at Ino, who was equipped with the Guardian Heavy Armor, and realized that he was a threat even to Grandmaster like herself. Vanessa's opinion of the Obsidian Martial Arts School rose even higher.

This time, in accordance with the decision of the elders' council of Frost Sanctuary, it was decided to send the children of the sanctuary to live in Crimson Moon City, the headquarters of Obsidian Martial Arts School, in batches, just like Sky Dome Sanctuary, until they reach adulthood and the Bone Forging Realm, and then return to Frost Sanctuary.

The young men and women at the airport right now are the first batch.

Among them are hundreds of selected new-generation geniuses who, like her, will enter the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy as advanced students for training.

She was personally dissatisfied with the Elders' Council's decision.

The new generation of geniuses in the shelter are one thing, but after all, none of them are even at the Bone Forging Realm. The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is indeed skilled at cultivating disciples at the Bone Forging Realm.

Without transforming, the silver-gray-clad disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy are among the few geniuses in the Frost Sanctuary of the same level who can rival them. Even the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy disciples who are only at the Bone Forging Realm possess extraordinary martial arts skills, making them rare super geniuses even in the major sanctuaries.

If it were just one person, it wouldn't matter, but the fact that all the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy are at this level proves that the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has indeed surpassed the major sanctuaries in training martial artists at the Bone Forging Realm.

However, as a Grandmaster of the Celestial Realm, she is second only to the city lord in various sanctuaries and even on this planet. Her super-limit level martial arts have reached perfection. She doesn't understand what she can learn when she goes to the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy for training.

However, after Vanessa glanced at the excited teenagers behind her, she had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​staying at Frostfire Sanctuary.

Previously, due to the battle against the Zerg, the heroic performance and strength displayed by the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy were evident to all. Fighting beyond their level was as easy as eating and drinking, and their physical bodies were invincible.

Even when many geniuses from the shelter challenged them later, they all lost and were left with nothing but their underwear. Not a single genius could defeat a fully-powered disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy at the same level. This made the younger generation of the shelter full of longing and anticipation for training at the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. She could also go there to protect them, since the Pure Land where the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy was located was a place that the Zerg had always ruled. It was just that the Zerg had not yet attacked the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy.

In front of the airship, the players who had accepted the escort mission couldn't help but drool as they looked at Ino in his full Guardian armor.

"This new armor is so cool! If I could wear it now, I'd be invincible. It's a pity it's not for sale yet. I wonder if our garrison can make it ourselves. If we could, we'd definitely make a fortune." The mid-stage Blood Condensation Realm borderland gunslinger was full of envy.

“Boss, let’s not even think about this right now.” A young man named Half-Awake Sea Fish, who had already reached the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, shook his head as he looked at the Guardian Heavy Armor. “I heard that so far, the entire martial arts school only has a few sets, and that was ordered by the headmaster to be made with all his might. I’ve inquired with some of the mechanics involved in its manufacture. This Guardian Heavy Armor alone used twenty tons of new alloy. One of our brothers used to spend a whole day hand-forging it and could only produce a hundred kilograms. That’s after he advanced to the Blood Condensation Realm. If he were to advance to the Bone Forging Realm, it would be even less. Twenty tons of new alloy would require a Blood Condensation Realm expert to do nothing but hand-forge it for two hundred days. The labor cost alone would be astronomical.”

"Twenty tons of new alloy?" the gunman from beyond the Great Wall exclaimed in astonishment. "That much?"

After he advanced to the middle stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, in order to better deal with enemies in the Celestial Realm, he spent all his points and two energy blood essences to buy a spear made of a new alloy. The spear weighed only a little over 400 kilograms, and 20 tons was an astronomical figure that he dared not even imagine.

Just as the gunmen from beyond the Great Wall were surprised, an alarm suddenly sounded at the Frost Sanctuary.

"Citywide announcement! A large number of Zerg have been detected approaching rapidly and are expected to arrive in three minutes. All non-combat personnel are requested to proceed to shelters immediately!"

The announcements echoed throughout the city, and layers of energy barriers rose directly above the Frost Sanctuary, instantly making the atmosphere tense.

"Why are they here again so soon?" Vanessa frowned slightly, staring at the small fire in the sky, her face looking extremely grim.

Although Gusson did say he would come back when he left, I didn't expect it to happen so soon.

In just ten days, the entire shelter had barely returned to normal, and they hadn't even stored up much of the refined energy essence before they were about to face another insectoid attack.

With the current reserves of energy essence, facing the Zerg's attack, let alone a day, it would be difficult to even last three or four hours. It's impossible to even get support from the Sky Sanctuary in that short time.

While Vanessa and the others at Frost Sanctuary were facing a headache, the players stationed inside the Frost Sanctuary were extremely excited.

"Is that a space battleship? It's huge!"

"The follow-up quest has finally arrived! I've been waiting forever, but it wasn't a waste of time. Anyone want to accept the quest together?"

"Quick! Quickly notify all the offline brothers, a mission has arrived! Don't sleep, log on now!"

……

As the massive spaceship drew ever closer, the players in the shelter, who had been listless, suddenly became wide awake. They were either excitedly taking photos to record the event or logging off to notify their team members, turning the official forum, which had been quiet for many days, into a lively place.

Red Moon City, Obsidian Martial Arts School.

"They attacked so quickly?" Lin Qi looked at the official forum display screen that was always open below his field of vision, slightly surprised.

Previously, through livestreams by figures like Ragnarok and various released materials, we learned that the Zerg's ideas about the various sanctuaries in the forbidden zones are actually similar to those of the Four Domains. They've only been nurturing them for a century, and with breakthroughs in their technology to prevent alien invasion, they're now considering a harvest. The next harvest will normally be delayed for at least a year and a half, allowing the new generation to mature, much like the four major domain cities in the Four Domains, which recruit new members and process a batch each year, forming a normal breeding cycle.

It's only been ten days, which is really too fast.

However, despite his surprise, Lin Qi quickly posted an announcement on the system.

"The Frost Defense Emergency Team Mission is now open. Teams must have at least 100 members, all of whom must be at least at the Bone Forging Realm, and the team leader must be at the Blood Coagulation Realm. The mission will be automatically accepted within the Frost Sanctuary area."

"The mission requires defeating the Zerg invasion. Upon successful completion of the mission, the team will be rewarded with thirty Energy Blood Essences, and each team member will be rewarded with one thousand basic contribution points and five hundred basic merit points. For each Celestial Realm enemy killed, an additional one thousand contribution points and five hundred merit points will be awarded. For each Grandmaster enemy killed, an additional ten thousand contribution points and three thousand merit points will be awarded."

This announcement was something Lin Qi had prepared long ago.

Since the end of the Zerg war, both Skyward Sanctuary and Frost Sanctuary have reached an agreement with him. On a daily basis, he will send 5,000 people to the sanctuary and pay them 300 Energy Essence per day as a hiring fee. During wartime, this will increase to 2,000 Energy Essence per day. Assisting in defeating the Zerg will earn him an additional 8,000 Energy Essence.

Because of this massive amount of energy essence, he was actually quite looking forward to the Zerg's attack. This way, not only would the players make a fortune, but he would also make a fortune. If there was no war, after deducting the rewards for the players, he could only earn two hundred energy essence per shelter, which was really too little for the now-growing Obsidian Martial Arts School.

Currently, not to mention players, the number of local disciples of the martial arts school alone has exceeded 17 million. With the help of the training rooms in the intermediate cultivation tower, more than 50 members of the martial arts school's guard team have successfully advanced to the Blood Condensation Realm, not including the disciples outside the martial arts school's guard team.

All of them combined, the number of local disciples of the martial arts school who have reached the Blood Condensation Realm exceeds one hundred. If this were placed in the Four Domains, it would shock the growth rate of all the major forces.

Furthermore, thanks to the cultivation room on the fifth floor of the cultivation tower, which has an energy equivalent to thirty-two times that of the outside world, and an unlimited supply of energy blood essence, he directly reached the high-level limit of the Blood Condensation Realm in ten days. All three of his cultivation methods have reached perfection, and his improvement speed is terrifying.

Of course, his rapid advancement was also thanks to the players having the Sky Dome Shelter and Frost Shelter, which together provided a total of 5,000 energy blood essences. This has resulted in more than 1,100 players reaching the Blood Condensation Realm, including 134 mid-level Blood Condensation Realm players and 27 high-level Blood Condensation Realm players.

If it weren't for the Zerg, he would have planned to expand the martial arts school to the entire Four Domains and have the administrator level directly break through to level four. After all, in the past ten days, he has only 20,000 of the 200,000 player slots available. In order not to run out of slots so quickly, he has already returned the number of slots issued each day to normal, 1,000 per day. Otherwise, the number of players would have already exceeded 200,000.

As all players saw Lin Qifa's announcement of the quest, whether they were in Crimson Moon City, hunting monsters in the Dead Mountain Range, or exploring the first domain city in the Forbidden Zone, they were all in an uproar.

"This mission not only yields energy blood essence, but also contribution and merit rewards. Let's hurry over there; we can't let those large teams wipe out all those Celestial Realm insectoids."

"Brother, stop fighting that Cataclysmic monster! Let's kill ourselves and resurrect at Frost Sanctuary. If we're too late, we might lose the quest!"

In an instant, the entire player community, especially those at the Blood Coagulation Realm, abandoned their work and tasks. Some rushed to Frost Sanctuary immediately, while others committed suicide to be resurrected there, all for fear of losing this team mission.

Above the Frost Sanctuary.

The spaceship, which was more than ten kilometers long and adorned with the Baroque flag, slowly approached the Frost Sanctuary, which was more than twenty kilometers away. Large numbers of Zerg warriors flew out of the ship in an orderly fashion and lined up around it, numbering as many as two hundred thousand.

After these Zerg warriors stepped forward, captains and battalion commanders, numbering over four hundred, stood on the deck of the spaceship.

In the Zerg, one could normally serve as a legion captain simply by reaching the initial stage of the Celestial Realm. However, in the legion led by Baroque, there were too many competitors for the captain and battalion commander positions, so even a captain had to reach the intermediate stage of the Celestial Realm.

A captain who could normally be at the mid-level of the Celestial Realm now requires a high-level Celestial Realm in Baroque's legion.

More than four hundred Grandmasters at the mid-level of the Celestial Realm or above stood in neat rows, each with a solemn expression. Their qi and blood erupted simultaneously, so much so that even the martial artists protected by the energy barrier inside the Frost Sanctuary could clearly feel a pressure and had some difficulty breathing.

Under this surge of energy, three people emerged from the spaceship: Baroque and two vice-commanders. Their appearance immediately silenced the entire area, and the energy seemed to freeze, rendering the Zerg warriors unable to move for a moment.

"How's the inventory of this shelter? How many second-class and first-class goods are there?" Baroque looked down at the Frost Shelter and asked the deputy legion commander beside him indifferently.

For these legion commanders, it doesn't matter how many people they capture; they only get contributions if they capture people of second rank or higher.

The reason the Empire made this rule is mainly because there are too many people who can be parasitized by warriors. The Empire has no shortage of such people. Only those who are rated as second-class and whose future achievements will be at least captain level can catch the eye of those with noble bloodlines and who are willing to pay a high price for them.

Those who achieve the highest level of success in the future, at the very least, will be top-tier candidates for the battalion commander, and will be highly sought after.

As for the best quality items, those are the best things for those who will become legion commanders in the future, and the children of those important figures in the Fusion God Realm will fight over them.

As a legion under the command of the Lord of Hell Dragon Star, they need to create value for the Lord of Hell Dragon Star, so naturally they can only contribute by capturing people of second rank or above.

They've been raising the various sanctuaries within the restricted area for over a century, and each one is incredibly wealthy.

Normally, in the harsh environment of the Four Domains, the annual output of second-class goods is only about two hundred people, and the output of first-class goods is less than ten people. The best quality goods may not be found even once every ten years. However, in the various shelters within the restricted area, due to a century of growth and improvement, there are generally at least five or six thousand second-class goods, more than two hundred first-class goods, and two or three top-quality goods.

According to regulations, they can capture half and leave the other half so that these shelters can continue to exist in the restricted area. Even so, a single catch is worth at least more than ten years of previous contributions, which is why the various legion commanders are vying for it.

However, he didn't have much expectation for the current Frost Sanctuary.

Putting aside the fact that Frost Sanctuary has already been captured by Gusion, given Gusion's selfish and self-serving nature, if he had made such a great contribution, he would definitely keep it for himself and would never be so generous as to give it up.

But after Baroque asked for a while, the deputy commander, who was wrapped in blue vines, did not respond and seemed to be frozen in place.

"Yero! How many are left?" Baroque looked at the deputy legion commander's appearance, gave a soft snort, and asked anxiously.

In order to secure the contribution to this shelter, he rented the Land of Life for a month, which cost him three years' worth of savings. If the Frost Shelter doesn't make any money, he will suffer a huge loss.

After regaining his composure, Vice Commander Yero said nervously, "Lord Baroque, I suspect the detection equipment on the warship is malfunctioning. Currently... currently there are 65964 second-class goods, 948 first-class goods, and 11 top-class goods, and the numbers of all three are still increasing..."

(End of this chapter)