The Game of Global Mining

April 7th, 0:00 AM.

Chun was awakened by the alarm clock.

——System prompt: Congratulations! Your Master-level module combination successfully merged the skill essence of "Dance of Evil Spirits," "Intermediate Heavy Slash," and "Underwater Construction," your Intermediate Heavy Slash has upgraded to level 4...

——System prompt: Your clone has awoken.

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Oh!

During the few hours I was asleep, Aileen was really practicing hard and actually leveled up 4 times!

And she didn't greet me immediately, which means she was completely engrossed too. Very good, she mustn't be disturbed, let her train! At this rate, a whole day of advanced heavy slashing is guaranteed, maybe she'll even successfully merge the dance skills.

Fortunately, the alternate account has finally awakened too.

But first, let's check the ranking.

70,000th place!

Chun gasped in shock, jumping from 200,000th to 130,000th at once, this must surely be the angel pet's enhancement, and this is still locked, what if it's unlocked?

70,000 is 70,000, this feeling of wanting to hide but failing to hide is so nervously melancholic...

Let's switch to the alternate account and take a look.

A long line of system messages flooded the screen:

——System prompt: Congratulations! Earth Lotus took over your body and killed a Chaos Beetle, your level has risen to 52...

——System prompt: You have obtained the loot of Super Divine Artifact material "Heart of Chaos," and Divine Artifact-level material "Swamp Eight-Headed Serpent Earth-Water Crystal Core." Earth Lotus used the Heart of Chaos, your Earth Flame Crystal Core fused with the Heart of Chaos, you obtained the Power of Chaos.

Power of Chaos: Reduces damage from Divine-Demonic attributes by 100%, increases damage to Divine-Demonic by 100%, and adds a fixed chaos damage of 10 points, causing a fixed damage of 10 points to non-Divine-Demonic attribute creatures and buildings. This damage cannot be exempted by damage reduction attributes.

——System prompt: You collected 336 fame items Beetle Crystals.

——Dios Commerce Order prompt: Congratulations! The commerce association perfectly completed Black Dragon Lord Artistutaia's commerce commission. Obtained 100,000 commerce funds reward, gained Black Dragon Fortress reputation "Appreciation." You submitted 336 fame items Beetle Crystals, gained Black Dragon Fortress reputation "Reverence," and opened commerce mission "Open Trade Line to the 6th Floor Black Dragon Secret Abyss City in Hell."

——System prompt: S-level Dark Elf mercenary Olka's favorability towards you changed to "Reverence."

——Dios Commerce Order prompt: Congratulations! Black Dragon Lord Envoy Artistutaia Popona joined the commerce association, appointed as proxy of the general association office. The commerce association gained 11 members, reputation greatly increased.

——System prompt: Earth Lotus digested the power of the Chaos Beetle, greatly enhancing strength.

——System prompt: Alert! Abyssal Fire Flame Six-headed Serpent has advanced to Seven-headed Serpent, greatly enhancing strength.

——System prompt: Congratulations! Your commerce team killed the Abyssal Fire Flame Seven-headed Serpent, obtained Divine Artifact-level loot "Abyssal Flame Crystal Core," and reward item "Earth Crystal Core." Your level increased to 53...

——System prompt: Earth Lotus gifted the "Abyssal Flame Crystal Core" to Volcano Dragon Bursting Sauce, Bursting Sauce's injuries healed and advanced.

——Dios Commerce Order prompt: The commerce association completed the SS-level bounty task, obtained 30,000 privilege points, commerce association level increased to level 6.

——Dios Commerce Order prompt: Sage Uriel joined the commerce association, Mining Grandmaster Bast joined the commerce association. Uriel took the position of vice president.

——Dios Commerce Order prompt: Mining Grandmaster Duodolin joined the commerce association...

——System prompt: Your clone shared the main body's Intermediate Heavy Slash level 4 through Soul Link...

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Seeing this overwhelming list, Chun was simply pleasantly surprised and shocked, not knowing where to start!

Leaping from level 39 to level 53 in one go! So this is the Power of Chaos! This 100% reduction and damage increase is just too frightening! It means, unless the opponent's Divine-Demonic Attack Attribute exceeds by 100%, attacking me is harmless! This also signifies, the majority of small creatures on this 7th floor are completely indifferent to my "Divinity and Demonic," they're all mortals, can only deal Mortal Attribute damage...

After all, when I wasn't around, Earth Lotus managed things very well, completed escort and bounty tasks, and the key is recruiting mercenaries, even recruiting a Black Dragon Envoy—hold on!

Uriel? Vice President?

Holy Shit! My commerce association was discovered by a big shot, damn it's obviously an attempt to infiltrate and take over!?

Does the big shot need this? So many large commerce associations to join at will, I'm just a bankrupt and indebted small commerce association...

At this moment, the voice of Earth Lotus arrived: "Father, you're awake, I'm managing well!"

Chun being pleased said: "You did very well, excellent!"

Looking around, another dozens of rows of purple crystal ore wagons were on their way back.

Chun comforted said: "Are you transporting ore?"

"Yes, until we find a new selling point, I can only keep transporting. But it's better now, with the vice president joining the commerce association, successfully inviting two grandmasters to join us, we can go to other mining areas to mine some valuable ores to increase commerce association income. They are waiting for us at the mine now."

Really diligently and resolutely implementing the leader's repeated ore transportation strategy!

Chun cautiously asked: "How does the vice president treat you?"

"Very respectably!"

Alright, alright, with her managing, I'm just an NPC, there shouldn't be any flaws, anyway, I must never appear in front of players, especially big shots.

Chun asked again: "What about this Black Dragon Envoy, and the trade line to the 6th floor Black Dragon Secret Abyss City?"

It really opened up the map, there is also a city on the 6th floor!

Earth Lotus said: "The Black Dragon Lord also dislikes these bugs, after I submitted a large number of beetle crystals, this line was opened to me, but there are many bugs on this line, our commerce association has neither money nor goods, so temporarily no considerations. The Black Dragon Envoy is the daughter of the Black Dragon Lord, just joined the commerce association to help us assess what goods to sell."

So that's how it is!

Chun asked: "Can't we sell our purple crystal ore to that Black Dragon Secret Abyss City?"

"We can't! That's stipulated by the Miner's Guild, the minerals from our city's forces are exclusive supply, can only be sold to the Lost Paradise, can't sell to other cities."

Holy Shit! I didn't know, she's more knowledgeable than me! Actually, the mercenary had mentioned monopolizing ore purchases before.

Chun couldn't ask anything else: "Father, I am very reassured about you, the matters below are left for you to continue managing, you must work hard!"

"I will work even harder!"

Then it's all left to her, and in turn, left to the big shot.

The big shot wanting to take over my association certainly isn't a one-day job, definitely needs to strive for trust, so let him strive first, at the crucial moment, I will take action to revolutionize the world!

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Switched to the main account, Aileen was still practicing hard, she's completely in the zone, maybe she'll really train all day?

Very well, both the main and alternate accounts are assured, tomorrow I can safely return. Now, continue to sleep!