Chapter 194 | Light Novel

Florida Man's General Store in Cultivation World

Chapter 194 – Florida Man Claimed Innocence After His Worshipers Declared a Racial War Against Elves Under His Name. He Said During Interview, "This Casual Racist Will Attempt the Ranked Mode If Necessary!"

Fate Crystal Tutorial

Fate Crystals are profound artifacts that created the universe. By collecting at least seven fate crystals of the same quality, the collector can gain new strength, depending on the crystal's quality.

Earth Fate Crystals are useless to you. However, it will be nice to collect them for future usage. Maybe someone around you can find them useful?

Be warned. You are not the only one who searches for these crystals. There will be competitors, and they are not your run-in-a-mill pushovers.

Primary Objectives:

1 - Collect 7 Earth Fate Crystals (2/7)

2 – Assemble 7 Earth Fate Crystals (0/1)

Secondary Objectives:

1 – Kill 7 Immortals (2/7)

2 – Upgrade Humble General Store to Shopping Mall (1/1)

Primary Mission Rewards: Gnosis of Earth Fate, True Earth Fate Crystal, Ring of Entity Upgrade Feature

Secondary Mission Rewards: 7 Lucky Draws, 777 Free Tickets

So far, Leo obtained two fate crystals – One from Yan Xiang's secret treasury and one from Acku, the orc. He also killed a nameless immortal at Cauliflower City and Groruk in the Fate Arena.

Suddenly, the system detected a fate crystal from this giant mutant corpse. Leo was delighted.

"Lucky me! I'll take it!"

Leo reached out to grab the giant mutant, planning to dissect it.

Suddenly, Qiang Baidu's corpse snapped open his eyes. He stared at Leo.

Leo looked back at the giant wolf-head four-armed giant. He frowned for a moment before he gently grabbed the latter's nape with his right hand. His left hand firmly grasped Qiang Baidu's shoulder.

"…Oh. You surprise me. This ain't Mortuary Assistant. We don't welcome ghosts here."

Without confirming Qiang Baidu's life and death, Leo yanked the head.

SWUA

With a forceful pull, Leo ripped Qiang Baidu's head and shoulders apart.

"Dead bodies are best dead. No hidden survivor here."

Leo flipped Qiang Baidu's head and grabbed his demon horn. He pulled it up to see the giant's dog head.

To Leo's surprise, the head seemed alive. The dog head muttered.

"I remember you. You were at Fate Stadium."

Leo raised his eyebrows. He was sure that Qiang Baidu was dead. However, something was not right about this dead body.

Moreover, only people who had been at the Fate Stadium should know him. This guy's testimony revealed that he was not Qiang Baidu.

"You mess with the wrong overlord, Florida Man. Your death is warranted!" The head threatened Leo.

"Who are you?"

"You don't need to know. You and your people will live in misery forever, waiting for your doom."

Leo hated people who pretended to be mysterious. He recounted the deeds he had done at the stadium and came up with a guess.

"You're the boss of those stupid mutts, I assume. I see that this guy has a puppy face."

Being insulted, the head of Qiang Baidu became savage. His brows wrinkled while he bored his fangs.

"YOU'RE COURTING DEATH, NU'EARTHE! I'VE CONFIRMED YOUR PLANET! A MILLION DIETIES WILL DESCEND UPON YOUR REALM AND DESTROY EVERYTHING! WE'LL FEAST UPON YOUR CHILDREN! YOUR WOMEN WILL BECOME SOW SLAVES, AND WE WILL ENSLAVE YOU FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY! YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE YOUR LOVED ONES BEING TREATED AS PUBLIC TOILET! YOU, NU'EARTHE, WILL-"

SMASH

Leo heard enough. He squeezed his hand and crushed the giant head's skull. Qiang Baidu's brain imploded.

After exploding the severed head, a shining grain emerged from Qiang Dongbai's brain. It floated freely for a few seconds before it vanished into Leo's alien ring.

DING

Primary Objectives:

1 - Collect 7 Earth Fate Crystals (3/7)

2 – Assemble 7 Earth Fate Crystals (0/1)

Four more to go, Leo almost needed to work a little harder.

However, the system notification messages hadn't ended yet. New messages followed, warning Leo of new major conflicts.

<Warning! Extinction War cannot be stopped. You and your sworn enemies cannot be reconciled. Until either you or all your sworn enemies die, the system will enforce the war games!>

<Warning! Your sworn enemies can invade your planet and bypass the mortal world's restrictions. Vice versa, you can invade your sworn enemies' domains if you meet the prerequisite conditions.>

<Warning! Your system buildings will receive overall attribute debuffs when your sworn enemies or their forces enter your world. Vice versa, their system's buildings will be inflicted with debuffs if you or your subordinates invade their worlds.>

War of Extinction – Overlord Pochi, Overlord Max, Overlord Milo VS Florida Man

Backgrounds: Three Fenrir Overlords have declared war against you because of the recent conflicts. Even though they have lived longer than you and acquired "System" before you did, they still abuse their authority and attempt to remove you from the Player List.

Difficulty Evaluation: You lack manpower, and your system hasn't been upgraded to show its full potential yet. Your domain is vulnerable to surprise attacks and rapid invasions. Your battle prowess is your only advantage. As for the rest, the Fenrir Tribe is superior to you in every way. The key to winning this war is you and how you can catch up to the Fenrir Tribe's technologies, manpower, territory, and army quality.

Victory Condition: Kill Overlord Pochi, Overlord Max, and Overlord Milo.

Defeat Condition: You died.

Side Objectives: Complete any of these objectives to earn big rewards.

1. Destroy or capture at least 3 planets of your sworn enemies. (0/10)

2. Destroy or capture at least 10 mystic realms of your sworn enemies. (0/10)

3. Destroy or capture one of your sworn enemy's home planet. (0/1)

4. Win 10 Seasonal War Games (0/10)

5. Win 3 Annual War Games (0/3)

6. Win 1 10-Year War Game. (0/1)

7. Kill a relative of your sworn enemies (0/1)

Rewards: One UR-Guaranteed Universal Draw

The changes shocked Leo. His expression turned dark when he read the details about the war.

This complicated things. He already had a hard time dealing with the PVP feature. Adding this to the picture, Leo's life difficulty changed from super-easy mode to slightly easy mode.

"Eh, invading me? Ha! Sure! This casual racist will try the ranked mode if necessary! Oh, wait. Is the lifespan stealing feature still there?"

DING

"…"

That was enough to confirm that Leo could no longer abuse his store domain system anymore. He let out a long sigh.

"Nothing I can do. Back to drugs, I guess. Well, I have plenty of materials. Also, how are my sub-quests?"

Leo rechecked the other quests that he needed to complete. He opened the quest menu.

Entity Fate Crystal Quest – Phrase 1/13

Mission Objectives: Complete 10 tasks to complete this phrase.

Phrase Completion Rewards: 100,000 Years of Lifespan, One Guaranteed SR Lucky Draw (Building), and Increase Sub-Building's Max Level to 12

Phrase One Tasks (8/10 Completed)

- Evolve Humble General Store into a Shopping Mall. (Done)

- Move any building into the main store's building. (Done)

- Set up a new store in the main store's building. (Done)

- Complete a mystic realm expedition once. (Done)

- Upgrade any building to level 10. (Done)

- Harvest at least 10,000 of any crops from Basic Farmlands. (Done)

- Concoct at least 10,000 pills by using Alchemy Workshop. (7,730 / 10,000)

- Recycle at least 10,000 items by using the Recycling Center. (Done)

- Summon at least 10 automatons to work in your domain. (Done)

- Sold at least 1,000 products in your store. (Done)

*For each completed task, you will receive one Lucky Draw (Building), and one Lucky Draw (Automaton).

Leo only needed to wait one day to get the last quest done. He also gathered 9 lucky draws for buildings and 9 lucky draws for automatons. If he could get one more, he could do the 10+1 draw and get something new for his domain.

As there was nothing he could do, Leo looked around to inspect the property damage. He wondered if any building needed to be repaired.

Leo toured his domain. After walking around the farms and apartments, he found nothing unusual, except a missing monster.

He could not find Cat anywhere. Usually, the glutton cat-wannabe would have clung toward him and tasted his skin whenever she had a chance.

"Where's that damn nom-nom plant?"

Frozen Fire City

"Nom-Nom Meow <3"

Cat chewed a dead mutant, who belonged to the base guard squad that Qiang Baidu had left behind. While eating, she followed Ivy, using her as a shield.

Ivy didn't mind it. She already slaughtered all remaining four-armed mutants in this city, and she was on her way to Esen's former mansion.

Upon reaching the underground mansion, Ivy entered the building and searched for the remaining armor and weapons. She then found a hundred pieces of random armor parts, sitting and collecting dust in the treasury room.

Ivy smiled as she understood the true value of these dusty scraps. She collected them in her spatial rings and emptied the room.

"I guess Her Majesty didn't have enough time to get THAT."

After the room was emptied, Ivy found a hidden door cover. She opened it and found stairs toward their secret room.

Ivy took this opportunity to take off her blindfold. She opened her eyelids and revealed her eye sockets, devoid of physical eyes. In the blank eye sockets, two purple fireballs were ignited.

Her young and pretty face reverted into a human skull. The smooth flawless skin underneath her robes disappeared as if they were an illusion.

Upon reaching the bottom of the stairs, Ivy in her skeleton form gazed at a black grassland cemetery. At the ceiling of this underground level, a small green stone illuminated the entire floor and provided yin and yang Qi to nourish the black immortal grasses.

Tombstones and wooden crosses riddled the beautiful grasses. None of them had a name on it, yet blossomed immortal grass flowers remained behind on every tombstone and cross.

"It has been a long time, my comrades." Uttered Ivy. She remembered the days when she and her fallen comrades were together as if it were yesterday.

Although they had fallen, it didn't mean that Ivy couldn't bring them back. Esen and liches always respected the dead as they got a more peaceful rest than living as an undead. Thus, they chose not to resurrect them unless they needed to.

Because of the recent development and the invasion of immortals, Esen and Ivy realized that they lacked manpower. Thus, bringing the old comrades back was necessary.

"I'm sorry. I have to wake you up from your slumber. May your souls forgive me… KARMA BESEECH THEE, ARISE!"

RUMBLE

The cemetery's ground shook. The immortal grasses instantly withered while the immoral grass flowers turned into dust as they were sacrificed for this spell.

A hundred skeleton arms emerged from the soil. The arms pushed the ground and lifted their main bodies out of the ground.

Similar to Ivy, purple fireballs floated in their eye sockets. Their jaws and their perfect white teeth clattered as if they were angry that their peaceful rest was interrupted.

All skeletons glared at Ivy, yet they didn't emit killing intent or express their anger. Instead, they waited for her explanation.

Ivy let out a long sigh. She waved her cane and uttered, "This will be faster. I'll transfer my memory to you."

A hundred purple strings came out from Ivy's forehead and connected with the skeletons' foreheads. Her memory flowed into them, showing the recent events that she had been through.

The skeletons witnessed the fight scenes between Ivy and quasi-immortal mutants. They also saw Esen's current appearance, who resembled the person who killed Esen and made her an undead.

Everybody still remembered that Esen's mother killed her as Esen had disgraced the high elf council by protecting the other races. They still hated the elves that turned her into one of them.

Ivy then roused them.

"As you have witnessed, the new enemies must have a connection with a demonic realm. And as you all know, demonic realms belong to Fenrir Overlords. And do you remember who their real masters are?"

RUMBLE

The skeletons exploded their killing intent. They still remembered the humiliation they suffered when the elves threw them into this world and trapped them with the undead curse. Hearing about the underlings of the elves and their existence enraged them.

One of the skeletons opened its jaw. He produced a human language.

"Who shall we serve? Her Majesty Esen… or the new lord?"

Ivy gave them a meaningful look. She made her stance clear.

"The Holy One - Lord Florida Man is Her Majesty Esen's savior. He will also free us from the elf's blasphemous curses as he has already proved himself! Do you know that the Holy One has lifted the undead curse from Her Majesty Esen?"

"W-WHAT?!"

"He can do the same to us! He is the savior of our people! Follow me, my comrades. We will swear allegiance to the Holy One and support Her Majesty Esen! They will free us from this curse! With his lead, our revenge draws near!"

RUMBLE

The skeletons emitted even more killing intent, shaking the entire underground level. Everybody roared as if angry beasts had been unleashed.

Their roar caused the ceiling stone to fall and land in front of Ivy. She picked it up.

"I almost forgot about this. What was it called again?"

One of the skeletons laughed and reminded Ivy.

"That's earth fate crystal, Archlich Ivy. We commonly use that to suppress the elf's curses from spreading."

"Ah, I remember."

Ivy nodded and put the fate crystal in her spatial ring. She also informed the others, "We probably don't need this anymore. Let's report our resurrection to Her Majesty and the Holy One. Then, we'll discuss what to do next."

The 100 skeletons roared. 30 of them released their black Qi, transforming into skull knights in black armor. 40 of them created lich robes and summoned their canes. As for the rest, they pulled out long black scythes from their chests and summoned black skull armor on their bodies. After donning themselves in armor, they generated a black hooded robe to cover their gear.

The newly emerged death knights, archliches, and grim reapers were ready for the new age and new master.