"Listen up, everyone from the Ten Thousand Mile Alliance can enter, but not a single person from Skywave Mansion or Cold River City gets through!"
Arrogant Dragon Emperor glanced at the crowd behind Jiang Yuan, noticed a few players from the allied Ten Thousand Mile Alliance, and ordered his men to clear a path. At his command, several Ten Thousand Mile Alliance members stepped out from behind Jiang Yuan, cheerfully heading into the mine ahead, leaving the Cold River City and Skywave Mansion players exchanging bewildered looks.
"Since we can't reach an agreement, let's go to war!"
Jiang Yuan wasted no words, silently sacrificing the attributes of a Dragon-Tiger Beast to stack onto himself, raised his hand, and issued the attack order!
The remaining players behind Jiang Yuan, seeing the flames of battle reignited, didn't hesitate and joined the fray!
With Jiang Yuan's involvement, the battle quickly turned one-sided. The dozens of Arrogant Guild players blocking the way, including Arrogant Dragon Emperor himself, barely held out for ten seconds before falling one by one.
"Quick, quick, call all the guild brothers here!"
After respawning, Arrogant Dragon Emperor rushed toward the mining area with his men, shouting loudly.
In an instant, white lights flashed across the Panlong Mountain stronghold map as more and more members from the three factions of Imperial Emperor State answered the call. Meanwhile, on the Cold River City and Skywave Mansion side, players had already reported the situation to the alliance leaders, Wen Ding Cang Sheng and Cang Shu Bu Ding.
Within minutes, tens of thousands of players converged from all directions. No one expected that a small mining conflict would escalate into a massive alliance battle involving tens of thousands!
"Everyone switch to alliance gear. Warriors take the front, mages and archers get into position, healers keep an eye on the warriors' HP, buffs up. I'll count down from three to one, then we charge!"
In the alliance channel, Wen Ding Cang Sheng, as the overall commander of both Skywave Mansion and Cold River City, directed this sudden ten-thousand-player alliance battle.
"Team 2 healers, make sure to keep Jiang Yuan's HP topped up!"
To be safe, Wen Ding Cang Sheng assigned Jiang Yuan alone to Team 2 and exaggeratedly gave him five healers, as if determined to keep Jiang Yuan constantly healed!
As Wen Ding Cang Sheng's countdown ended, the players from Cold River City and Skywave Mansion charged toward the mining area, where nearly all members of Imperial Emperor State and Ten Thousand Mile Alliance had gathered.
In an instant, colorful skills filled the air, with the sounds of battle and shouts rising and falling, echoing through the sky.
Protected by five healers, Jiang Yuan commanded tens of thousands of Dragon-Tiger Beasts to charge at the front. Facing skills thrown at him by the enemy, Jiang Yuan didn't even bother dodging. Whenever his HP dropped slightly, several healing skills would land on him simultaneously, keeping him at full health.
Gradually, both sides suffered casualties. Fallen players respawned at the same point and immediately resumed fighting, turning the respawn point into a second battlefield.
Due to a large number of players leaving the Arrogant Guild in recent days, absorbed by Skywave Mansion and Cold River City, the numbers became unbalanced. As a result, in today's alliance battle, Imperial Emperor State and its ally Ten Thousand Mile Alliance suffered a crushing defeat. Jiang Yuan led the players of Cold River City and Skywave Mansion to successfully seize the granite mining area controlled by Imperial Emperor State.
"Mine! All of you, mine like crazy! Get as much as you can! Let's see who dares to stop us!"
After Jiang Yuan spoke, three to four thousand players from Cold River City and Skywave Mansion switched to pickaxes, turned into miners, and recklessly dug up granite.
About ten minutes later, the players from Cold River City and Skywave Mansion began to withdraw from the Panlong Mountain stronghold, having hollowed out a third of the granite mining area!
The result of this sudden ten-thousand-player alliance battle was that the price of granite, originally 5 gold per piece in the auction house, plummeted drastically. Within a minute, it hit rock bottom at 1 copper coin, causing countless Imperial Emperor State merchants hoarding granite to suffer massive losses!
Jiang Yuan didn't mine much—he stopped after gathering the 5,000 pieces needed for the quest—then blended into the crowd, left the Panlong Mountain stronghold map, and arrived at the Cold River City capital, Shangjing City.
"Honorable warrior, you have completed all the materials needed to build your house. Would you like to proceed with construction?"
Standing before the "Guild Craftsman" NPC, Jiang Yuan heard the question and nodded, choosing to build immediately.
"Ding! The Yuhang dimension's premium plot 001 you purchased has begun construction. It will be completed in half an hour!"
A notification sounded, and Jiang Yuan's quest log changed, showing a construction progress bar with a half-hour countdown below it.
While waiting for the home to be built, Jiang Yuan went to the Shangjing Mansion in Shangjing City to find the Persian cat, Mew Mew, whom he had left there a few days ago.
"Mew Mew?"
As soon as Jiang Yuan entered the Shangjing Mansion gate, he started calling out. But strangely, normally one call would bring Mew Mew rushing to his side no matter how far away she was.
Today, no matter how much Jiang Yuan called, Mew Mew never appeared.
"Mew Mew? Where are you?"
"Mew Mew? Come out!"
After searching every nook and cranny of the front and back courtyards of Shangjing Mansion, Jiang Yuan still found no trace of Mew Mew.
"Strange, where did she go?"
After the incident at "Golden Pine Ridge" a few days ago, Jiang Yuan had only logged in once or twice during his hospital stay and had seen Mew Mew once, sleeping soundly on a persimmon tree in Shangjing Mansion.
"Maybe she went out to play!"
Jiang Yuan muttered, stepped out of Shangjing Mansion, and began searching the entire Shangjing City for Mew Mew's tracks.
Shangjing City was huge. To find Mew Mew quickly, Jiang Yuan shouted in the guild channel, asking idle Creation Guild members to help search.
"Jiang Yuan, Mew Mew is missing?"
Soon, Cang Shu Bu Ding arrived in Shangjing City with Ding Ye and a dozen others, finding Jiang Yuan to ask.
"Yeah! That mischievous one has run off to who knows where again. If you're free, help me look."
After Jiang Yuan spoke, Cang Shu Bu Ding nodded and, along with Ding Ye and other Creation Guild members, joined Jiang Yuan in splitting into four directions—east, south, west, north—to search the entire city for the Persian cat, Mew Mew.
"Ding! Congratulations, your Yuhang dimension premium plot 001 has been constructed. Players can use the dimensional map teleport envoy to go to the home dimension!"
Half an hour passed quickly, and Jiang Yuan heard the notification of successful plot construction. But what worried him was that after all this time, not only had he found nothing, but Cang Shu Bu Ding, Ding Ye, and other guild members helping search had also reported no news of finding Mew Mew.
About five minutes later, everyone gathered again at the Shangjing Mansion gate in the city center. All of them shook their heads at Jiang Yuan.
At that moment, panic finally set in for Jiang Yuan, and a bad feeling crept into his mind.
Mew Mew was missing!