Chapter 534: Sky, Ground, and Vanguard
December of the fifth year, Xiaohan.
Sky Island world fragments, land resource area.
Sky, ground.
The floating island located in the sky provides 70% of the rare resource output of this world with less than 1% of the area. Those who control the sky can enjoy the most rare resources with the lowest control cost.
Mithril veins, mountain copper veins, rare heavy metal veins, magic catalytic materials, relics, biological materials...
The "reverse meteorite" created by the relics periodically extracts the rare resources belonging to the ground into the air. The resources and quality rise from the ground to the sky against common sense, shaping the ecological environment unique to Sky Island.
Rather than saying "extraction", it is more appropriate to describe it as "plunder".
The remaining 30% of rare resources are unevenly distributed on the ground, distributed on the land representing 99% of the area, and provided to the remaining 99% of the lords for competition.
In addition to rare resources, the ground is rich in various common resources, such as forestry, quarrying, iron, copper, oil and other common resources.
It seems that because there are often floating islands using "reverse meteorites" to turn the soil and plow the land on the ground, the output of various mineral resources is even higher than that of ordinary expedition worlds.
After the merger, the Sky Island World has become a rare large-scale resource output world. A large number of lords have poured into this vast world like gold diggers, just like gold diggers who discovered the New World.
Arrived, and then fought for resources.
A world with few people has few resources, and sometimes it is better to develop your own territory.
A world with many people... It can be said that it will soon develop to the stage of beating your brain out.
Because of its special nature, the Sky Island World is a very popular world. There is even a small section on the lords' forum that specifically discusses the development of this area.
There are only a handful of worlds that mainly produce floating stones, an extremely rare resource.
"Huh, this damn weather is really cold."
Zhou Quan shuddered.
As a low-era lord, he took root in this area with difficulty, established a mining site and a logging site, and let his troops cut wood around to build a temporary camp.
Like most of the lords who are still in the third era, he has a stalemate between the territory army and the wild monsters outside the territory due to the slow development of the territory. It is very difficult to further develop the existing resources in the territory.
He can only find another way through expeditions and obtain resources from another world.
Although the Southern Alliance is still working hard for the Governor, the rare resources obtained by these people have exceeded 99% of the lords who have arrived in this world.
It is castrated, but the Southern Alliance really has its own floating ship port and even a small shipbuilding engineering port.
Although they have been squeezed more severely than before because the Governor wants to run away recently.
Only the lords of the fourth era can cut off a piece of land belonging to themselves in this extremely fierce environment and build production facilities on it.
If a lord like Zhou Quan at the end of the third era does not find a high-era lord as his backer in the hot world, he will have no human rights and can only mine some resources in the poor areas outside the hot areas.
He tried several times before he finally built a temporary wooden camp in this marginal area that was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and then planted his own outpost core/flag.
If the weather is good, Zhou Quan can see the large sky island looming in the distant sky...
Directly below the large sky island is the focus of the lords' competition. It is not that the lords will set up camps there. In fact, no one likes a big rock that often drops deadly rocks floating on their heads.
The shadow cast by the sky island is the "resource area".
They are looking at the monster corpses that fell from the sky island, which contain rare materials and even monster corpses that can obtain a small amount of floating stones.
More importantly, the cycle-activated reverse meteorite makes that area extremely rich in mineral resources, as well as rare resources that fell from the sky island.
The bottom of each large sky island is a battlefield belonging to the lord. This high-risk area is not suitable as a base, but it is very suitable as a battlefield... No one has the ability to completely cover the area of 70 to 80 square kilometers cast by a large sky island alone.
Zhou Quan wanted to try it. He went in once through the gap in the area controlled by the lords.
However, the lowest level of the lords who participated in the competition were the lords of the fourth era. He had just stepped in when he lost a thousand of his manpower.
The crossbow troops and spear troops of the late third era were beaten into pieces by giant beasts and musketeers just a few days after they entered. It was not only the suppression of the era, but also the suppression of resources.
As a lord of a low era like him who had no special troops, he died as many as he entered, and could only serve as cannon fodder and pawns for other lords.
"If I could be born on the sky island above... I heard that the people who occupied the sky island above were all natives... It's a pity that the system does not allow the permission to resurrect on the sky island..."
Zhou Quan sighed. If he was given enough resources, he would not be worse than other lords... It was just that he made a little mistake at the beginning.
A touch of red and white appeared not far from the camp. In the mountains not far from the camp, Zhou Quan hurriedly rode on the horse in the stable.
Zhou Quan rode the tall horse he bought in the market and stood in front of the team of soldiers wearing silver-white armor and iron barrel helmets.
There are lords who are keen on role-playing. As far as he knows, there are even many such lords.
The system will not mark and tell them which are the lords and which are the local natives.
Moreover, as far as he knows, the natives of the Sky Island World are only in the sky... There are only various monsters without civilization on the ground.
"Hey, which lord's team are you from!"
The visitor is not friendly.
He can feel the cold eyes from the pupils of these soldiers. The cold eyes will not be relaxed until they confirm that Zhou Quan is a human.
The vanguard of the Holy Land did not answer. They knew that the legion behind them would give an answer to this unknown roadblocker in front of them.
Then Zhou Quan saw.
The landscape farther away.
White, eroding the green of the earth, like a spreading crack.
The bright red cross that swayed and swayed with the strong wind occupied every hilltop he could see. They sang hymns praising the gods in unison and sent their weapons into the hearts of their enemies.
Zhou Quan noticed the smoke rising in the distance. It was the base of another weaker fourth-era orc lord. The small camp was extinguished as easily as a torch thrown into the ocean.
The pure white army flowed through the mountains like a tide, and the red and white cross flags moved forward in the army along with the white waves.
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