Chapter 550: Alpha Returns, Greenfield Cruise Ship Successfully Promotes to Silver Rank, Gossiping

Alpha was back.

When the mighty convoy drove into Dead Mine Town, deafening cheers erupted.

Alpha got off the armored vehicle, walked up to Yu Yuan, and saluted.

"Reporting, the Pioneering Group's mission is complete! Reyes Town has been fully taken over, Reyes Legion leader Reyes was captured by Baku during his escape, and we also unexpectedly captured a special operations squad from the Dawn Consortium that was monitoring the Reyes Legion."

Yu Yuan looked at the prisoners being escorted down and nodded lightly.

Pointing at the command post in Dead Mine Town, he said, "Come on, let's go inside and talk."

The two entered the meeting room.

Only then did Alpha begin a detailed report.

"King, during this operation, thanks to electronic suppression and a surprise attack, we had minimal casualties. We killed 154 enemies, captured 231 prisoners, seized 21 vehicles, various firearms and ammunition... and finally, the grain harvest totaled 42,402 tons of grains, 15,353 tons of soybeans, 7,646 tons of corn..."

"Because there was so much grain, I left half the troops stationed in Reyes Town and returned first with the prisoners and other spoils. We'll need to send transport convoys later to move all the supplies back as quickly as possible."

Yu Yuan nodded lightly.

"No wonder the Reyes Legion, despite only being an elite-level faction, could command hundreds of followers. Their supplies really were abundant."

"You can coordinate the transport directly with Quis, but..."

He shifted his tone.

"Based on previous intelligence, Reyes Town, as the granary town for several major farms in the area, shouldn't have only this much grain!"

"King, I've already interrogated them on this issue. After the Reyes Legion took over the granary town, they kept trading the grain with other factions to buy the equipment and resources they needed."

"For example, Quis used to regularly trade coal with Reyes for grain, and the Dawn Consortium also established contact with them through similar means."

"Their current ammunition, vehicles, and biological supplies were mostly acquired through such trades."

Hearing Alpha's words, Yu Yuan recalled that when he had recruited Quis, Dead Mine Town had indeed just completed a trade with the Reyes Legion.

And the trade goods were food.

"Good. Then get in touch with Quis as soon as possible. Prioritize all transport trucks heading to Reyes Town..."

"Yes!"

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Two days passed.

It had been a full week since they were promoted to Bronze Rank.

The truce period was also about to end.

Yu Yuan stood on the War Fortress Square, quietly waiting.

As he waited, he browsed through the content in the Civilization Ladder chat channel.

His friend list then lit up—it was actually Greenfield Cruise Ship.

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: I just saw the information you sent before. Oil creatures, right? I'll do a divination in a bit.]

Seeing the message, Yu Yuan's eyelid twitched.

[Yu Yuan Shelter: Did you get promoted to Silver Rank?]

Two days ago, Yu Yuan had sent the information about the oil creatures to Greenfield Cruise Ship.

With such unknown organisms appearing in his world, Yu Yuan naturally had to pay extra attention.

But as soon as he sent the message, he was notified that the other party was in a state of civilization war.

Yu Yuan guessed she might have started her promotion to Silver Rank.

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: Yeah! I barely made it through by luck! Almost failed!]

[Yu Yuan Shelter: Congratulations!]

Greenfield's tone carried a hint of relief.

But Yu Yuan didn't see it that way.

He would never assume that divination-type players were weak in combat.

In Yu Yuan's opinion, players like Greenfield were the most dangerous.

Still, since Greenfield had consistently shown goodwill toward him, Yu Yuan was genuinely happy about her promotion.

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: Back to business. I'll get back to you on those oil creatures as soon as possible, but your truce period is almost over, right?]

[Yu Yuan Shelter: Yes, it's about to end. I'm getting ready for a fight.]

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: Be careful then. Your enemies this time are likely the ones I listed for you last time. Also, I've noticed that Moon Shadow's Breath seems to be having some issues recently.]

"Hmm?"

Yu Yuan was stunned for a moment, intrigued.

From Greenfield's words, it sounded like Moon Shadow's Breath was in trouble?

Yu Yuan checked the time.

Well... there were still 58 minutes until the truce period ended. Plenty of time.

He immediately switched into gossip mode.

[Yu Yuan Shelter: Spill it!]

Greenfield didn't have the bad habit of keeping people hanging, so she immediately shared the information she knew.

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: It seems that when Moon Shadow's Breath was still at Bronze Rank, she could already brew Epic-tier Blood Brew, which caused quite a stir within the Blood Clan.]

[Yu Yuan Shelter: Epic-tier Blood Brew? What's the big deal about that?]

Yu Yuan was genuinely confused.

Back when he was at Moon Shadow's castle, he had taken away a lot of Epic-tier Blood Brew, practically emptying her stock.

Hammond was already working on brewing Legendary-tier Blood Brew at that time. What was so special about Epic-tier Blood Brew?

But seeing the information Greenfield sent, Yu Yuan realized his understanding was off.

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: I thought the same at first, but after looking into it, I found out it's not that simple at all. Epic-tier Blood Brew can normally only be brewed by Blood Clan Dukes.]

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: Even then, the process is extremely tedious and complex. Out of the entire Blood Clan Council of 72 members, only 5 could originally brew Epic-tier Blood Brew... And Moon Shadow's Breath is the sixth person...]

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: The reason Moon Shadow's Breath could brew Epic-tier Blood Brew, according to her, was because of a Descendant. But coincidentally, when asked about this Descendant, he... very conveniently disappeared!]

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: Even more interesting is that Moon Shadow's Breath's direct Elder—Duke Yegu—didn't even know she could brew Epic-tier Blood Brew! As a result, the other Blood Clan factions are all laughing at Duke Yegu.]

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: Moon Shadow's Breath made a big splash while at Bronze Rank, so plenty of people from other factions don't like her. The ones who hate her most are from the Old Guard Faction and the Integration Faction. They'd love nothing more than to make trouble for her.]

Watching the information Greenfield was sending, Yu Yuan's eyes grew wider and wider.

This plot felt familiar!

"Damn, could it be that [Slander Card] actually took effect?"

"It has to be the effect of the Slander Card!"

Yu Yuan hadn't expected that the Slander Card's activation would be connected to his previous operation.

What a coincidence.

[Yu Yuan Shelter: So, all this intelligence was leaked by the other Blood Clan factions?]

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: Exactly. They scoff at Moon Shadow's Breath's explanation. Someone even specifically performed a divination on her so-called Descendant, but it was interfered with every time. Now Moon Shadow's Breath can't clear things up anymore.]

Yu Yuan squinted his eyes.

[Yu Yuan Shelter: That person who did the divination—wasn't it you?]

[Greenfield Cruise Ship: How could that be? I only just got promoted to Silver Rank. However... they went to people from our 'Star Track Cult.' They just wanted us to discreetly leak the information...]

Yu Yuan: ...Nice.

So your organization also takes jobs spreading rumors?

Making money from big and small clients alike!

Yu Yuan had to admit, having an organization behind you was enviable!

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