Chapter 401: Sculpture?

More than twenty minutes later, the last Fallen Elf Ranger was surrounded and annihilated by everyone…

This Fallen Elf Camp can be considered to have been completely taken down by the Yanhuang Thousand-Person Squad.

With good coordination and Su Sheng's ultimate move opening the way, taking down this Fallen Elf Camp, which could be considered a level‑60 elite monster, the Yanhuang Thousand-Person Squad also paid the price of over seventy members losing levels.

However…

The harvest was also quite abundant.

Although the experience points were split evenly among the whole Thousand‑Person Team, because they were all elite monsters, these level‑60 Fallen Elves were uniformly calculated as giving the extreme elite monster experience reward for exceeding the level by five levels.

Adding the demonized beast elite monsters cleared along the way, everyone gained a considerable amount of experience.

Next is equipment: although these items are all level 50‑60, from green gear to the few purple pieces, they are all prepared to be stored in the guild warehouse.

Members who participated in the operation can earn guild contribution points based on the value of this operation's harvest, benchmarked against each individual's team contribution.

Once they reach the required level, they can also exchange these needed items using contribution points.

Watching the guild members sorting the harvest, Su Sheng did not forget that he still had a mission.

Since these Fallen Elves did not drop Elf Documents, they must be inside some building in these Elf camps.

Su Sheng's gaze first fell on the largest wooden house in the center.

Su Sheng walked over alone.

Creak~

He pushed open the door and found the wooden house not bad, quite spacious.

But the scene inside the wooden house made Su Sheng involuntarily raise his eyebrows.

Around were several large wooden racks holding some books.

Su Sheng was unsure whether these were his mission items.

What first caught Su Sheng's attention was a person sitting at the central desk… or rather, an elf.

Could it be… the boss?

Su Sheng felt a bit surprised, and his whole body became alert.

But after a while, Su Sheng noticed that the elf was completely motionless.

Huh?

Su Sheng was a bit slow, thought for a moment, then slowly approached, but the elf still showed no movement.

Soon, Su Sheng got close.

Indeed, the elf still had no reaction.

Su Sheng sized him up and realized the elf had utterly lost any sign of life, like a sculpture.

The sculpture looks vividly lifelike, so…

It's not a sculpture; it might be a dead elf, but for some reason it hasn't decayed.

At the same time, Su Sheng noticed.

This 'elf sculpture' wears clothing that looks far more luxurious than that of the Fallen Elves outside.

Moreover, those Fallen Elves outside, though elf‑like in appearance, have their skin entirely wrapped in black demonic patterns.

They look extremely evil; at a glance you can tell they're not good.

But the lifeless elf sculpture before him lacks those patterns.

On the table before him lay a small slip of paper with some writing.

And…

The text resembles that on Su Sheng's treasure map.

I don't know what it is.

Su Sheng tried to pick it up, and indeed he could.

Paper slip (white)

Note: It records some incomprehensible text; perhaps someone who can read it could translate it.

Tsk…

The person who can read it, Su Sheng recalled that old scholar; let's just put it away for now.

Afterward, Su Sheng stopped paying attention to the 'elf sculpture' before him and began surveying the surrounding books.

He casually picked up one.

Ding~

Mission prompt: Discovered Elf Documents.

Got…

Indeed it is.

Since that's the case, Su Sheng won't hold back.

Su Sheng directly gathered all the books he could carry from the house.

Fortunately, these books can be stacked in the same grid slot.

The stack limit per grid slot is 99 books.

Otherwise, Su Sheng really couldn't carry so many books.

After finishing collecting the books in the central wooden house, Su Sheng was still not satisfied.

He clicked his tongue, then regardless of size, Su Sheng toured every surrounding treehouse, collecting any book he found.

In the end, he filled four slots completely… and overflowed a fifth slot with a few more books before finishing.

Although the task had him collect Elf Documents, it didn't specify how many.

However, Su Sheng naturally felt that the more, the better.

Tsk tsk…

Su Sheng glanced at the books in his backpack, and it was thanks to the game's "Dimensional Power".

One person carrying over four hundred books…

"Huan Jie, could you arrange everyone's next leveling? I'll go back to turn in a quest." Su Sheng found Lin Huan.

"Mm, just stay busy." Lin Huan nodded, not saying anything else.

Anyway, Su Sheng wasn't new to being a hands-off manager.

"Hehe… Huan Jie, you've worked hard."

Su Sheng spoke with a grin.

Lin Huan gave Su Sheng a sideways glance, without speaking.

"By the way, this quest should require entering a dungeon; later you, your dad, Wen Wan Jie, and Ming Xin Jie, etc., wait for me."

"I don't know if today's game time will be enough."

Traveling and strategizing this elf camp took a full seven hours.

With twelve hours of game time, there were still close to five hours left.

If the time isn't enough, we can only schedule it for tomorrow's game time.

Su Sheng felt for the first time that this game‑time limit setting wasn't very user‑friendly.

However, Su Sheng also understood that the game "Contending for Supremacy" had almost reached a nationwide craze level.

If no certain limits were imposed, society's productivity would probably vanish, everyone would be addicted to the game—obviously not what the officials want to see.

Su Sheng took out a Return City Scroll.

After smoothly returning to Zhuque City, Su Sheng found that old scholar.

He chose to submit the quest.

"Whoa~ Explorer, you really surprised me—I originally thought that with your current strength, bringing back just a few Elf Documents would already be the limit."

"I never expected you to bring back this many."

"You didn't wipe out the whole Fallen Elf camp, did you?" The old scholar looked at Su Sheng in surprise.

"Uhh… yeah, any problem?"

Su Sheng scratched his head, saying somewhat embarrassedly.

"Haha, naturally there's no problem, and for Zhuque City this also counts as a good thing."

The old scholar laughed heartily.

"Those Fallen Elves are actually hard for Zhuque City to deal with, and you explorers helping to clear them also amounts to removing a scab from Zhuque City."

The old scholar said with some feeling.

Su Sheng thought that the ordinary guards in the main city were all level 70‑75, while those level‑60 Fallen Elves, even if they were elite monsters, were indeed just a scab.

"Alright, since that's the case, I need to mention your reward."

The old scholar put away those Elf Documents.

Ding~

Quest notification: Congratulations, player, for completing the quest "Fallen Elf Documents".

Reward 1: Experience +100,000,000

Reward 2: Reputation +800

Just reputation and experience, but Su Sheng was also quite satisfied—the reputation was exactly what he currently needed.

Su Sheng was too lazy to count how many zeros the experience had.

Anyway, it advanced the experience bar by about forty percent.

He was about to level up again…