Outside Lost Paradise City.

The Shoe Angel's first pair of shoes was finally maintained, and indeed, a circle of aura was applied to the shoes. "Which lady would like to try it on?"

The Dark Elf, Olka, was interested. "I'm the slowest walker, let me try it first."

After putting on the shoes, Olka walked with the wind and ran with a blur, astonishing the entire group!

"So fast!"

The Shoe Angel grinned lewdly, "The effect lasts for 3 days! It can't be dispelled by magic!"

Although Chun couldn't stand other males in the team showing off, he had to be impressed. "As far as I know, only divine magic can't be dispelled by magic, right?"

The key is, this kind of speed-enhancing shoe raises the speed limit, maybe I can use it to train for master-level running! Speaking of which, my main account hasn't had a chance to relive running; I don't even have running level 1 yet.

The Shoe Angel chuckled proudly, "Don't assume that the guild I used to guard only sells shoes, even in the mythological age, Hermes depended on shoes to unleash divine power!"

Holy shit, even the Greek gods are mentioned—well, Sirens are also Greek monsters.

Kasha exclaimed, "You don't have any followers, using divine magic must be quite taxing, right?"

The Shoe Angel laughed, "I'm not relying on followers, I'm relying on sheer passion! Miss Kasha, even though you can fly, it'll work just as well for you, making you fly faster!"

Kasha was delighted, "Then I can't wait, I'll wear the next pair of shoes!"

The Shoe Angel was ecstatic, "No problem!"

Chun felt something was off with his passion, "What about men's shoes?"

The Shoe Angel's tone suddenly dropped, "None!"

Holy shit! So there's no hope for training running?

This obsessive fixation is really peculiar, maybe it's a kind of evil spirit?

After an hour, the Shoe Angel had already swapped out all the shoes for divine magic ones, and seemed completely exhausted, lying down in the carriage, "I'm going to rest, you'll handle the fighting."

Okay then, although this seems disappointing, it adheres to the law of conservation of energy. Otherwise, if nothing happened at all, that would be terrifyingly strong.

The whole group was now eager to face a battle. Especially the Fallen Angel, who felt like a gust of wind with the shoe enhancements! Imagining the speed boost delivering a blow from the sky, what power that would be.

However, after the previous two clearings, there were surprisingly no monsters along the way, which made Chun, eager for experience, feel very disappointed...

April 6, midnight.

The convoy arrived safely at the Earth Flame mining area without any issues.

Chun's first reaction was still to switch to his main account to check the leaderboard update. Over the past day, aside from learning the Warrior's Intermediate Heavy Slash, Advanced Underwater Construction, Advanced Underwater Mining, and Advanced Artistic Swimming, there really wasn't much progress... still very concerned!

Upon checking the ranking, it was over 200,000!

Chun was simply stunned!

Yesterday, it was still 300,000! This, this, this, even my -100,000 reputation bounty in Silver City couldn't suppress it, I'm so anxious!

Maybe it's because of Silver City's lockdown, which prevented many professional experts from developing, causing this?

No time to care about the main account, just continue digging in the melon field. Switch the secondary account to the Earth Flame Tribe.

...

Western hemisphere, midday.

Angel Race group chat.

Under Michael's command using privileges, the Golden Empire warship "Golden Saber" sped to the outskirts of Plague Island in two hours.

Then deployed the magic unit "Global Hawk" to fly over the island for reconnaissance, streaming live to the chat group.

"45 nautical miles around Plague Island, coordinates XXX, YYY, discovered a medium-sized pirate ship! Unknown forces!"

"37 nautical miles around Plague Island, coordinates... discovered another medium-sized pirate ship, unknown forces!"

Sariel's brow furrowed, "This should be what the NPC at Black Iron City Tavern mentioned, the pirates he colluded with."

Everyone was silent for a moment, "These two ships are far from capable of towing a fully loaded mining ship and have no ability to make the mining ship disappear quickly from the area..."

Then the Global Hawk flew over Plague Island, and a dense swarm of crows obscured the Global Hawk's view.

Michael frowned, "Fly lower!"

Even flying lower, the crows on the island seemed to show little respect for this bird overlord, continuing as they pleased, disregarding its presence.

This intrigued Michael a bit despite his displeasure, "These crows are quite special! Fly even lower!"

The entire scene of Plague Island's desolation became clear in the live stream.

There were no plundered silver ores or coal mines! If there were, the volume of these two ships' worth couldn't be hidden. There wasn't even the slightest trace of coal mine transportation; in normal circumstances, mining activities would leave coal scattered all over, impossible to conceal.

Everyone was astonished, "Could it have been dumped into the sea?"

Michael ordered, "Global Hawk, closely scout the sea surface! Slow down the footage!"

Even if it was dumped into the sea, it could only be dumped into the coast, around ten meters deep into the beach, otherwise, any deeper would be difficult to exploit and pointless. A ten-meter mountain of coal could be detected by surface reconnaissance.

But after three rounds, the coastal seafloor was sleek sand, various small creatures were swimming freely, with no traces of sand covering.

Michael chuckled in amazement, "Let's find this Chun."

Soon, Global Hawk spotted a red-named figure digging in some weeds.

The big shots were seeing this legendary Chun for the first time! Clad in new person's cloth with no equipment other than a shovel.

Sariel was puzzled, "What is he doing? Auto AFK?"

Gabriel said, "This seems to be an abandoned orchard? Is he mastering planting techniques?"

Raphael laughed, "Who plants like this? Without even removing weeds, I don't think he'll learn anything!"

Michael spoke solemnly, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is advanced Mining Technique! That shovel isn't made of wood; it's an iron shovel! It seems he has learned Forging Technique on the island."

Everyone was astonished, "Where did he train his advanced Mining Technique? Does this island have resources beyond iron mines?"

"Let's look at the blacksmith's shop!"

Global Hawk descended directly at the blacksmith's shop entrance, clearly seeing the still-warm furnace and a full set of tools.

Michael laughed, "It seems this island isn't entirely barren; there's still room for him to develop."

While observing, the steward reported, "Gentlemen, it's 12 o'clock, the rankings have updated, Chun jumped from 300,000 to 200,000 in rank from yesterday!"

Everyone was amazed, "Has his ranking improved simply through self-taught forging and mining?"

Sariel grumbled, "It could also be related to Silver City's lockdown."

Michael pondered for a moment, "What do you all think?"

Gabriel said, "While Sariel's suspicion is valid, the island has resources beyond iron, and he does have some inexplicable aspects, warranting continued attention, but overall, we might have overestimated him."

Uriel said, "Sometimes overestimating your opponent is a serious strategic mistake. My Six-headed Serpent situation isn't great, I'm signing off."

Michael sighed, "Good luck to Uriel—well, for now, we'll exclude Chun's involvement; Sariel should continue contacting the City Lord to initiate the luxury cruise action."

Sariel snorted, "I just tried, I'm out of Privilege Points, it's hard to convince now, might as well wait for the Siren Sea Demon to cause more losses, the City Lord will naturally come to me, saving my Privilege Points."

Michael sighed, "Let's do that then, we'll avoid mobilizing the Golden Fleet if possible."

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