You all seem to have some misunderstandings about Lord Shadow’s strength!

For example, to name a Frost Elf, you directly choose a character with the ‘water’ radical, and then find two pleasant-sounding and visually appealing characters to combine.

Ling Che was derived this way.

Another example is a Storm Elf; you combine characters with the ‘wind’ radical.

Piaoyao came into being.

It was quite clear that this pattern was figured out by the Scarlet Elf; I must say, this guy is a bit clever.

“It seems your talent in language is quite good, Your Excellency.”

Qin Feng said with a smile, “Of course, you can name yourself.”

The Scarlet Elf also smiled, saying very confidently, “Then I shall name myself… ‘Nü (fourth tone) Xin’!”

Qin Feng was stunned, “Female???”

The Scarlet Elf reverted from hair back to a blood-red light sphere, showing a frowning expression, “Nü! The fourth tone in the great xia language.”

“…”

Qin Feng was in tears, “I take back what I just said. Your talent in language… is a bit too heaven-defying.”

The Scarlet Elf smiled smugly, “Thank you for the Lord’s praise.”

Qin Feng, “Uh, sometimes ‘heaven-defying’ doesn’t mean heaven-defying; it means NT.”

The Scarlet Elf, “???”

So Qin Feng understood.

It seemed that whether it was NPCs or monsters, the Blue Star language they were instilled with was fixed to the set used in the Land of Hope.

At that time, ‘heaven-defying’ simply meant powerful enough to defy the heavens, a compliment to others.

But later…

Cough cough, the Scarlet Elf must never know.

“Your name won’t do; it has no aesthetic appeal at all.”

Qin Feng immediately shifted the topic to the Scarlet Elf’s name, “Let me give you a pleasant-sounding and visually appealing one instead, but we’ve reached our destination now, so I’ll name you later.”

To be fair, according to Qin Feng’s previous naming pattern, there weren’t many Chinese characters with the ‘blood’ radical. The options were very limited, and it was difficult to form a relatively pleasant-sounding name.

So Qin Feng decided to put this matter aside for now.

At his current speed, in just over ten seconds, he had already flown from the Devil City to above Mt. Fu City in South Korea!

Then, he forcibly transferred game areas and logged into God Forsaken Game!

…

South Korea game zone, Fushan Ruins.

In the center of these City Ruins, there was a moon-shaped palace with a Jiaoyang Civilization architectural style, surrounded by Hideouts, making it extremely eye-catching.

However, the palace was not luxurious; instead, its light blue color scheme made it appear cold and serene.

That was where Virginie usually resided.

If one wanted to contact the South Korea official or guild leaders, those people would personally come to pay their respects to Virginie.

So, in a sense…

Virginie truly resembled the ‘King’ of South Korea at present.

However, she was not responsible for governing the country; she only collected taxes and protection fees, occasionally going out to help deal with high-level BOSSes that local players couldn’t handle.

It was precisely because of Virginie’s existence that the Legendary Squad from Great Xia rarely came here.

From a certain perspective, Virginie did effectively restrict Great Xia’s invasion and control over South Korea…

This point was also something that made the people of South Korea quite proud.

But after Qin Feng returned last time and raised the taxes, everything changed.

Although people’s incomes had increased, and doubling the tax wasn’t much, people are creatures of habit. When a tax that had always been a certain price suddenly doubled, who could accept that?

It’s like a beggar who receives ten yuan every day; if they suddenly receive five yuan less, the beggar would still feel dissatisfied.

Forcing people to pay double the tax would, of course, cause a backlash!

Such behavior didn’t only appear in South Korea; it also appeared in some other areas effectively controlled by Qin Feng. However, the guild forces in South Korea were the quickest to unite and the first to cause trouble.

Qin Feng came personally, naturally, to use this opportunity to strike at the other ‘leeks’ around the world.

Just a few minutes before Qin Feng arrived.

Coconut Country was currently experiencing a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9 earthquake.

The Moon Goddess Palace in Fushan Ruins had already gathered hundreds of guild members from various City Ruins across South Korea, a total of over a hundred thousand people, who together surrounded the Moon Goddess Palace!

These people were led by nineteen large guilds, coming from all over the country!

As of today, the total income that the entire South Korea brought to Virginie had already reached tens of millions of years of lifespan.

Aside from occasionally helping to deal with high-level BOSSes, there was no other use for it.

Most importantly…

Now, Legendary BOSSes and Mythic BOSSes could be directly invited to be dealt with by Great Xia’s Legendary Squad, and that didn’t even require tens of millions of years of lifespan!

What’s more, now the taxes had doubled!

Not long ago, the largest guild in the ‘Ji Island’ game zone was annihilated, and it was rumored to be the doing of this Moon Goddess!

This gave all these major guilds in South Korea a sense of crisis.

After discussion, they decided… they absolutely could not let the ‘Moon Goddess’ continue to enslave them!

Thus, the current scene unfolded.

Hundreds of guilds, over a hundred thousand guild powerhouses, gathered outside the Moon Goddess Palace and in the sky above it!

Among them, over a hundred core guild members, including dozens whose combat power ranked in the top hundred in South Korea, male and female, various professions, all stared sharply in the direction of the Moon Goddess Palace.

“Moon Goddess, our demands are simple: as long as you restore the taxes, we will leave immediately.”

“If you refuse…”

“Then we cannot guarantee that we won’t go to Great Xia and invite Lord Shadow!”

The leading middle-aged man, named Jin Jun Chang, wore a full-body flame robe, with a sun-pattern tattoo on his forehead. With some buff states activated, his eyes were fiery red, and the flame staff in his hand seemed ready to unleash at any moment.

As his words fell, the surrounding South Korea players all shouted.

This was their strategy.

If the Moon Goddess refused to lower taxes, they would go to Great Xia and invite Lord Shadow. In their view, even giving Lord Shadow fifty million years of lifespan would be better than constantly being bled dry by this ‘Moon Goddess’.

But…

Just as Jin Jun Chang shouted these words, Virginie’s voice drifted out from the Moon Goddess Palace, “The tax rate was set by Lord Shadow. I am Lord Shadow’s spokesperson in your country… Lord Shadow has commanded that if you leave now, this matter can be treated as if it never happened.”

???

As these words spread, the entire area around the Moon Goddess Palace, which had been noisy, suddenly fell into dead silence!

What’s going on?

The Moon Goddess actually said… she was Lord Shadow’s spokesperson in South Korea?

“Xi Ba!!! How is this possible?!”

“She’s lying, right? When the Moon Goddess came here, Lord Shadow wasn’t her opponent, was he?”

“Exactly, at that time, it was said that as long as Lord Shadow didn’t go invisible, the Moon Goddess could kill him easily…”

“Could it be that all of this was a scam?”

“This is impossible! For such a long time, we’ve been sending lifespan to Lord Shadow?!”

As this fact was revealed, outside the entire Moon Goddess Palace…

Everyone’s mindset collapsed!

And the faces of Jin Jun Chang and the hundred-plus people leading them also became extremely grim, but with the arrow on the string, how could it not be shot?

They had spearheaded such a huge commotion; if they just slunk away like this, wouldn’t it be even more impossible to fight for their interests in the future?

“No, everyone, we cannot retreat!”

“Once we retreat now, our country, all of us, our children and grandchildren will become Lord Shadow’s dogs! Slaves of Great Xia!”

“Actually, when we came here, we had already prepared for war…”

“Whether it’s the Moon Goddess or Lord Shadow!”

“We have only one demand, and that is to lower the tax rate!”

“If Lord Shadow wants an all-out war, then let him come! When all of us in the country fight to the death, how many people from Great Xia can we kill? I, Jin Jun Chang, am very curious!”

At this moment, their passion, their national soul, awakened.

Who would want to be a slave?

What’s more, now they were only asking for a reduction in taxes, which was already a very humble stance.

But…

“Do you all seem to have some misunderstandings about Lord Shadow’s strength?”

‘Moon Goddess’ Virginie, clad in a moonlight robe and bathed in a glow of moonlight, flew out from the Moon Goddess Palace.

Her eyes were cold as she surveyed her surroundings, “In ten seconds, Lord Shadow will arrive here. Since you will not retreat, you shall bear the consequences yourselves… These ten seconds are for you to log off.”

“After ten seconds… the Fushan game zone will cease to exist!”

When these words came out, everyone around was stunned.

The Fushan game zone will cease to exist?

What does that mean?

Is Lord Shadow’s strength such that he can instantly annihilate everyone in the Fushan game zone?

With their imaginations, they simply couldn’t conceive that what Qin Feng intended to do was not to kill those players, but to—completely destroy all the terrain and environment of the Fushan game zone!