Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” - Chapter 653: A Difficult Situation? A Great Opportunity
After the Seventh Speaker finished speaking, his body dissipated like wind-blown sand.
The First Speaker, the Third Speaker, and the Fifth Speaker all changed their expressions!
“How could it be an Avatar?!” Xie Tingfeng frowned.
The First Speaker’s gaze was profound as he said, “No, this was his true body. He has already abandoned everything of a Chaos Dominator and defected to the Nothingness!”
Upon hearing this, Xie Tingfeng’s heart sank.
The Fifth Speaker sighed, “No wonder he could escape our detection. He’s no longer even human!”
Xie Tingfeng snorted coldly, “If I encounter him on the battlefield, I will definitely slay him!”
Ying Wenzheng was also extremely furious. No wonder the Second Frontline had gradually become more difficult over these Kalpas. It turned out the Seventh Speaker had been secretly sabotaging things all along!
At this moment, the Second Speaker appeared before everyone, his tone heavy. “I have suppressed the chaos within the frontline, but the losses are enormous! Within the Second Frontline, a full ninety-five percent of artificers have completely perished. Especially the high-level master-level artifact crafters; only a few remain alive!”
As soon as his words fell, the expressions of the several Speakers turned grim.
They realized that a massive crisis would envelop the entire frontline!
The loss of artificers wouldn’t cause a major impact immediately, but once stockpiles dwindled, the situation would deteriorate rapidly.
The First Speaker said solemnly, “Convene a meeting immediately!”
Soon, the Speakers’ Assembly was convened.
The six Speakers gathered to discuss the details of future development.
Ying Wenzheng spoke up, “This Sovereign proposes to immediately use the Resurrection Supreme Treasure to revive the high-level master-level artifact crafters one by one.”
The Second Speaker said gravely, “Currently, there are only ninety-three resurrection slots left! Reviving those fallen high-level master-level artifact crafters would require consuming forty-seven slots.”
“Let’s vote on it!” Ying Wenzheng said.
“Agree!”
It was passed unanimously.
The Third Speaker, Xie Tingfeng, said, “Even if the high-level master-level artifact crafters can be revived and return, the gap for artificers between the 30th and 60th tiers is still far too large. These revived high-level master-level artifact crafters will shoulder a massive debt. Let them work hard at crafting!”
“With a great calamity upon us, it must be so. They also need to train many newcomers. The training mechanism must be reformed. I suggest establishing artificer academies, using these high-level master-level artifact crafters as the core to build a teaching system and cultivate qualified artificers. They can also receive reductions in their debt and rewards of Merit Points!” the Fifth Speaker proposed.
Xie Tingfeng added, “I propose immediately transferring artificers from the Third Frontline, having them join the artificer academies, providing them with massive resource supplies to cultivate them to reach the required tiers quickly. Also, some artificers who have reached master-level artifact crafter standards are also hidden within the Third Frontline. We must intensify our efforts to discover them.”
All the Speakers were doing their utmost to address the shortage of artificers.
Ying Wenzheng continued, “With the Seventh Speaker’s betrayal, the work in his hands needs to be taken over. Who among you will take it on?”
The Second Speaker said, “Let’s all split it up for now. Later, we can promote someone to join the council and then hand the work back to him.”
Xie Tingfeng shook his head, “It’s not that easy.”
Everyone fell silent. The shortage of artificers was troublesome, but even more troublesome was the loss of high-end combat power. With one side decreasing and the other increasing, the pressure on the Second Frontline had increased dramatically!
From the original 7 versus 10, it was now 6 versus 11. The gap had widened from forty percent to nearly double!
Even with the city wall frontline defense, the pressure had increased far too much.
“Increase the training efforts for soldiers, establish a genius cultivation mechanism. We need cultivators with potential, and we must cultivate powerhouses with all our might!”
The First Speaker continued.
After some discussion, everyone decided to establish elite genius battalions, with resource supplies a hundred times that of other battalions. All geniuses would be selected to join. The depth of talent scouting would be increased, starting from the Third Frontline.
One resolution after another was confirmed.
The Second Frontline, and even the Third Frontline, were about to enter an era of great and turbulent change.
On the other side.
Su Yuan was unaware of the great upheaval on the Second Frontline.
At this moment, looking at the massive volume of order requests, he was also extremely conflicted.
“With so many orders, relying on me alone to craft them is too difficult.”
Su Yuan was speechless. Each order wasn’t for just one set of materials; the minimum was three to five sets, and the maximum was over a hundred sets!
So, the actual number of Dominator Artifacts to be crafted could reach a hundred million!
What kind of concept was a hundred million?
It was equivalent to the total population of Chaos Dominators in his sector.
This number was terrifying. It wasn’t that Su Yuan couldn’t craft them, but even if he could, he couldn’t just release them all at once, could he? Wouldn’t that be utterly shocking?
At this point, Su Yuan thought of the procurement authority he had exchanged for.
He checked it again.
【Position】: Junior Procurement Officer
【Authority】: Can accept military camp procurement tasks, procuring items from the 30th to 40th tier that meet requirements
【Benefits】: Junior Procurement Officers can enjoy a one-thousandth Merit Point reward
Seeing this, Su Yuan curiously tapped open the City Lord Seal, connecting to the military camp’s procurement hall.
Then, he saw row after row of procurement task lists.
“Huh? So many?”
Contrary to Su Yuan’s expectations, there were an extremely large number of procurement tasks listed.
He immediately saw 99+!
He randomly clicked on one procurement task.
【Task】: Procure one hundred 35th-tier armor-type Dominator Artifacts
【Requirement】: Chaos Five Elements Dao, High-Quality or above
【Procurement Price】: Five sets of materials per artifact
Seeing this price, Su Yuan was stunned on the spot.
“What the? Five sets of materials for one finished artifact? The military camp’s offering price is this high?”
He looked through other tasks again. Opening them up, he saw that the procurement prices were at least five sets as a baseline!
He even saw some offering ten sets of materials in exchange for one finished product!
This was far too favorable.
Thinking of the price he gave Qi Bai, Su Yuan wanted to slap himself. He was a complete sucker!
He lost out! Lost out big time!
Su Yuan was depressed.
In reality, he didn’t know that this price had just been revised.
Previously, when the Seventh Speaker was in power, he had intentionally or unintentionally lowered procurement prices. Now that the Seventh Speaker had betrayed them, procurement prices naturally rose. Combined with the shortage of artificers, the prices naturally increased again. At the same time, there was an element of cultivation investment within this. Thus, what Su Yuan saw were prices starting at five sets.
“I’m so clever, exchanging for this procurement authority. I’m going to make a huge profit!”
Su Yuan couldn’t help but get excited.
He had now accepted 35 million orders. He wasn’t short on materials. The delivery of finished products also didn’t need to be immediate; he could follow the normal timeline, even slightly faster than other artificers.
As for other resources, he could temporarily divert them, craft them into treasures to complete procurement tasks. It would be like a snowball rolling downhill, unstoppable!
Making money was secondary. Once his Dominator Artifacts flooded the military camps, wouldn’t his Fame Points and True Name Power skyrocket?
