LWGP - Chapter 175
Chapter 175: The Compass
If the other party represented a spacetime, it meant their entire spacetime had likely been, or was about to be, destroyed by the Eternal Night Race.
And would this soon be the fate of her own spacetime?
My Old Lady hasn't come back yet!
Wang Jiu remained silent, listening to the commotion outside the novice village.
It was seven o'clock. The Eternal Night Race had delayed for an hour, but they had descended nonetheless.
Wang Jiu walked out of the Grapevine Restaurant and stood on the steps, watching the dazzling extraterrestrial visitors bombard the novice village's barrier once again. This time, they kept it up for ten minutes.
The devastation was even worse.
How impressive, an infinite dimensional beatdown.
In comparison, the missiles in the Mist Town dungeon seemed like child's play.
What Wang Jiu didn't know was that ten minutes after the Eternal Night Race's bombardment, the intense external attacks had caused internal crustal movements. Certain barriers were weakened again. Underground, a strange, grayish-white shadow climbed up a towering cliff, moving upward. With its occasional roars, the rats that had remained and rapidly multiplied in the sewer tunnels were terrified, scurrying outward in a frenzy. But soon, they discovered a suction force pulling at them.
Squeak, squeak, squeak. After the rats' terrified, piercing shrieks, a dead silence returned to the sewer tunnels, punctuated by the occasional thump, thump of something climbing the walls.
That terrifying existence had finally climbed out.
The person in contact with Wang Jiu also heard the bombardment on her end. After listening for ten minutes, they said, "Only ten minutes."
Wang Jiu: "How long on your side?"
The other person: "12 hours."
Wang Jiu: "My condolences."
The other person gave a light chuckle and didn't say much more. They were of a taciturn nature, after all. In the end, they simply said in a cool, detached voice, "Good night."
Not long after, Wang Shu and the others came in. They had arranged to open the Goblin Trader's Invite tonight, but they couldn't help but chatter about the Eternal Night Race. Clearly, they had also noticed the change in their descent.
The duration had increased, and more Eternal Night Race ships had appeared.
"If these things can descend for a full 12 hours in the future, what will happen then?"
"Nothing much. We'll probably just get blown up."
Wang Jiu tapped her finger on the file folder and put it away. "There's no point talking about things that can't be solved by words alone. Let's get down to business."
As soon as she spoke, Dao Dao immediately brought out the Goblin Trader's invitation card. Seeing the goblin trader again, Dao Dao pointed a trotter at him. "The little slut who makes hundreds of gold a minute?"
The goblin trader's gaze swept over them. "Holy shit, it's you guys again!"
Okay, identity confirmed. They were old acquaintances. No need for pleasantries, just get to it!
Having finished several territory wars in a single day, everyone's resources were once again about to burst their inventories. Some items were put up for sale, but most were suitable for exchanging for points. While they might lose some profit compared to the lucrative capital economy, the goblin trader's greatest advantage was the ability to exchange for desired resources. Compared to selling at the auction house for a large sum of money but being unable to buy what they needed, this loss was negligible.
The goblin trader knew what they were like before and how many resource points they could exchange for. But now, after a difference of just a few days, the resource gap was ten, or even dozens of times larger.
Take Wang Jiu, for example. The resources looted from Elder A Gali alone were worth 25,000 points. Territory wars were the most profitable. In the System's words, it was "fleecing the sheep," and Wang Jiu was a professional sheep-fleecer. The first few battles were fought to the death. Although the opponents in the later battles surrendered voluntarily, it was only after private negotiations—"You don't have to fight, but you have to pay. Otherwise, I'll get more resources by fighting. Why should I let you off?"
Those people had tried to use appeals to peace and the people's interests to pressure Wang Jiu. In response, she picked the most sanctimonious one, declared war, crushed them, and wiped them out.
The remaining lords stopped their nonsense, gathered their people, and traded a large amount of resources to Wang Jiu. They consoled themselves by calling it a sincere surrender. However, after entering Gobi, receiving numerous buffs, and seeing the various recovery buildings, their mindsets became a bit more balanced.
But it was obvious that Wang Jiu had struck it rich.
Aside from consumable resources like Upgrade Scrolls and Strengthening Stones, Wang Jiu threw everything else into the goblin trader's exchange inventory.
Twenty-five thousand, fifty thousand, eighty thousand, one hundred thousand.
The final resource total stopped at 150,000 points. This was her current maximum resource exchange limit.
Wang Jiu began to browse for the resources she wanted.
TK-18 Boundary Breaking Scroll: 150,000 points.
Temporal Calibrator: 350,000 points.
Spatial Jump Jade Pendant: 400,000 points.
Wang Jiu: "???"
Although she was speechless, Wang Jiu had been somewhat mentally prepared. She knew that before becoming a city lord, she would have to rely on money to bypass such restrictions, and it would certainly be a huge sum.
The point difference wasn't too bad, actually. At worst, she'd just have to fight more territory wars.
Wang Jiu's mentality was stable. Because she was powerful enough, these were not unattainable goals for her.
Still, there were other things she could do.
She browsed other resources.
First, she needed an item to guide her to the Old Lady's soul.
"The most suitable items right now should be the Soul-Guiding Spirit Incense and the Soul Compass. Found them. The Soul-Guiding Spirit Incense is 30,000 points, and the Soul Compass is 70,000 points."
The Soul Compass was naturally the better resource, ranked as mid-tier among the items listed by that mysterious woman. Wang Jiu couldn't afford the higher-grade ones, as they were no cheaper than the Spatial Jump Jade Pendant.
Wang Jiu didn't immediately buy the Soul Compass. Instead, she checked the price of the Twinbound Token.
5,000 points.
The official price was the most direct indicator. In reality, it was more precious than many top-tier items from the Mist Town dungeon. The others didn't know it was related to souls, making it priceless. Plus, since Wang Jiu had first pick, they hadn't been able to get it.
System: "The Twinbound Token is the lowest-grade soul-summoning item. You've probably noticed that its effects are limited."
Wang Jiu: "If the Old Lady had died in a nearby area, it might have been effective. But she was killed by a Bloodthirsty Beast in a dungeon, a pioneer instance no less. That must be an extremely difficult summoning scenario."
System: "Yes, it's separated by two spacetime dimensions. My personal advice is that instead of wasting resources on low- to mid-tier items, it's better to buy something higher-grade. It might take longer, but it's more reliable."
Its attitude was the same as that mysterious woman's; both believed it couldn't be rushed.
Wang Jiu was silent for a moment, then gave up on the Soul-Guiding Spirit Incense and the Soul Compass. She chose the Great Witch's Soul Compass, which cost 150,000 points. It was a higher-grade soul-guiding compass, but it was exclusive to the Witch race and possessed formidable power.
The System couldn't help but applaud. "This one's good. You can use it for yourself and for the Old Lady's resurrection. You finally remembered you have a talent for being a witch."
In fact, Wang Jiu had exchanged for quite a few high-grade witch resources, but the System still felt she wasn't doing enough. Evidently, in its data, Wang Jiu's witch talent was monstrously powerful and deserved more and better resources to be fully utilized.
Her points were cleared out. The Great Witch's Soul Compass was now in her hand. It was palm-sized, with the feel of top-grade black jade, and was engraved with dense Witch Dao totems and characters.
However, the appearance of the totem was still unknown; it would only manifest after binding, based on her own witch talent and power affiliation.
Wang Jiu bound it directly. Black light flowed, and the totem appeared: a ferocious, evil, and ugly coiled python.
It looked extremely negative at a glance.
But Wang Jiu felt a connection with it, as if it naturally belonged to her.
The moment she held it, the spirituality of the surrounding trees and woods entered her perception. But most importantly—she could feel countless wandering souls and withered bones throughout the vast world, across endless territories.
Her sensitivity to death far surpassed her connection to life.
Perhaps this was her true nature.
Great Witch's Soul Compass (Peak Purple Gold, Witch Race Soul-Guiding Item.)
Attributes: Evil Spirit Channeling. Can communicate with the dead and the malevolent. No evil is beyond its reach.
Usage: Usable after binding. Specific operation and Mana consumption depend on the channeling target and range. Can be used on single or multiple targets, no restrictions.
If there is a fixed channeling target, an object they touched in life can be used as a spiritual medium.
There were too many people here, so Wang Jiu didn't operate it. Since she was done with her exchanges anyway, she returned to her room.
Using the glasses as a medium again, the Great Witch's Soul Compass, under Wang Jiu's control, released a stream of energy that enveloped the glasses. This time, compared to the Twinbound Token's sensory ability, its effectiveness was a hundred times greater. Wang Jiu could almost feel a faint connection after traversing spacetime.
Crossing time, transcending space, the needle of the Great Witch's Soul Compass in her palm spun continuously, as if carrying Wang Jiu's spiritual consciousness across dimensions, finally arriving in a restricted dungeon scene.
She heard the roar of the Bloodthirsty Beast and quickly pulled her senses, hurtling toward it.
She was about to find the old woman.
High in the air, Wang Jiu saw the massive, roaring Bloodthirsty Beast, and she also saw the old woman clutched in its claws.
Wang Jiu shot downward, almost crying out.
A terrifying scream suddenly rang out, shattering everything. The compass's soul-guiding state was abruptly broken. The Bloodthirsty Beast and the old woman dissipated... In the instant of spacetime distortion, Wang Jiu could only hastily meet the old woman's upward glance.
They couldn't even see each other's eyes clearly. Whoosh!
Wang Jiu's consciousness returned, and the compass needle froze on a single point.
The location of the dungeon space and the name of the Bloodthirsty Beast were locked in.
She had found it directly, but Wang Jiu was a little disappointed.
She wanted to talk to the old woman. Or at least hug her as she was being eaten.
The old woman was actually very afraid of pain. She would act spoiled with her even when getting a shot and insisted on having candied fruit with her medicine.
But all of it was interrupted.
The scream outside also startled Wang Shu and the others. Wang Jiu put away the compass and walked out the door, her expression blank.
"It's outside the territory."
"What's going on?"
"Did someone farming mobs get attacked?"
"That was so sudden, it scared me to death. I was just trying out a new skill."
Everyone was alarmed and uncertain. Seeing Wang Jiu leave the manor and dash out of the territory, they all followed.
Outside the territory was not as bustling and prosperous as inside. It was a scene of complete desolation and ruins, and even the temperature had dropped by several degrees.
Following the sound and guided by the scent of blood, the group quickly found the source of the scream. It was three li southeast of the territory, by the riverbank.
The moonlight was cold, a chilly wind blew, and the desolate weeds by the river swayed. When they arrived, Wang Jiu was already crouching there, examining the bloodstains on the ground. However, there were two people beside her.
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