“In five minutes, I will teach you how to build your own house in the Siasa Ruins. No reputation, no certificates, and no taxes are required!”
The moment such a post was posted on the Star Forum, it instantly attracted countless people to click and watch.
In the video, the poster chose a very remote corner. He hung a wall lamp on the wall and cleared an area of around 50 square meters on the ground.
Of course, it was a miniature version of 50 square meters.
Then he laid a layer of floor on this ‘50 square meters’ of land.
Someone immediately complained in the barrage.
[No need to lay a foundation?]
[Do you know how to build a house?]
[The floor is quite beautiful, especially after laying the floor lamps. It is so beautiful!]
After all, it was a recorded video, and the poster couldn’t see the comments. He just built a house according to his own ideas.
You know what, the final product was really beautiful.
In particular, it was as bright as a firefly on a summer night in the dark underground ruins.
The audience might feel that the house wasn’t very stable, but this was a game after all. It didn’t matter even if the foundation was unstable.
What attracted the most attention now was—
[F*k, the house was built just like that? It doesn’t require any other procedures?]
Poster:
[Yes, I saw such a large piece of land in the ruins and had a sudden idea. As a result, I really built it. After building it, I didn’t receive any violation notifications.]
[Awesome! I’ll try it!]
[The grass is growing.]
[Suddenly, I feel that my house in the City of Braves isn’t so attractive anymore.]
[You still need to build a house in the City of Braves. You can register your household registration and receive welfare subsidies. Moreover, there will be a bonus if the house level is high.]
[Yes, there should be no permanent NPCs in the ruins. From a long-term perspective, a house in the City of Braves is better.]
[I knew at the time that the houses in the City of Braves were good, but the problem is… this is free!]
[There are also no permanent NPCs. Does this mean… we can create whatever we want?]
[Ahhh where is the entrance to the ruins? I’m going there now!]
Once this video was released, a large number of players still honing their copying skills in the ruins tentatively selected a piece of land and started building a house. Then they found out…
it was true!
They didn’t really need to do any prerequisite tasks to build a house here!
This discovery soon spread.
Word spread quickly. Countless players who originally weren’t interested in being an inscription master also crossed the dangerous Siasa Forest and came to the underground ruin.
As more and more players arrived, the originally quiet and dark underground ruins finally gained their former bustle.
In the underground world that was originally beyond the reach of light, bright buildings were rising from the ground. Above the buildings, beautiful floating lanterns floated in the air.
In the underground world, a soft light lit up everywhere, illuminating all the dark corners.
Gradually, as more and more players came here to build, the screaming dryads on the ground became a hidden danger.
The players gathered together again. They first killed the screaming dryads around the entrance of the ruins and gradually encroached on the surroundings. During the process, more and more lost equipment was found.
Obviously, they were left here by NPCs who lived in Siasa Forest a hundred years ago and died in battle to defend their homes.
Once the equipment attributes were revealed, they immediately caused a frenzy among the players. The advancement speed in killing the screaming dryads suddenly increased.
Moreover, in order to save time in traveling between the Siasa Forest and the main cities, the major guilds discussed it. They raised funds one after another before approaching Su Mo.
As the number one magic circle master among players, Su Mo once participated in the construction of a two-way teleportation circle and had a close relationship with the construction master Chi Yu. In the eyes of the life players, he had long been a top god.
Countless guilds wanted to poach him. Unfortunately, the great god Su Mo remained unmoved and even formed his own mercenary group called Ink Dyed Red Dust.
However, this Ink Dyed Red Dust mercenary group was quite special. It was full of life players and most of them were bigshots.
It wasn’t known how Su Mo did it, but he invited Chi Yu to join the group as a permanent NPC.
It was also because of him that players knew how this game could be played!
Countless guilds tried to invite NPCs to join. Ordinary NPCs were very simple. As long as they were given enough benefits, these mercenaries were very easy to talk to.
It was very difficult to invite the NPCs with status, especially those powerful elementalists.
The elementalist NPCs were either in the army, at the Elementalist Academy or in a few civilian organizations.
Even though more and more NPCs had become elementalists as the level of the main cities increased, their levels were too low and didn’t meet the requirements of the major gaming guilds.
Therefore, Su Mo’s success in inviting Chi Yu made countless guilds jealous.
However, it was useless no matter how jealous they were. Instead, they had to be courteous to the Ink Dyed Red Dust mercenary group. After all, there were too many life players in this mercenary group. There were many times when cooperation was needed.
For example, building a two-way teleportation circle this time.
In the entire game, Su Mo was the only player who knew how to build it. It was extremely difficult to get him to take action.
It would be a lie if Su Mo said he wasn’t tempted when the major guilds approached him with high rewards.
However, he still asked for advice from his dear vice captain, Chi Yu.
Upon hearing that a two-way teleportation circle was to be built and knowing that the matter was of great importance, Chi Yu didn’t make a decision immediately. Instead, he ran to ask Administrator Wen Jishan for instructions.
Then Wen Jishan found Xu Sili again.
Xu Sili, who was preparing to upgrade the main city to Lv 5, finally learned about this.
He couldn’t help feeling puzzled about the fact that players were planning to build a teleportation circle in Siasa.
The inheritance of the inscription master was there, but it was just a certificate after all. Wasn’t it a bit of a loss if players built a teleportation circle there?
So had the players done something weird again without him knowing?
The Siasa Forest hadn’t been completely recovered and surveillance equipment couldn’t be installed in the ruins due to the influence of the inscriptions. This meant Xiao Wu had no way to monitor there.
As for the players’ communicators, they became inoperable after entering the ruins.
However, players had their own communication system. It didn’t have much of an impact on them if the communicators failed temporarily.
Therefore, the eyes of the empire couldn’t reach there.
Xu Sili, whose curiosity was aroused, went to the Siasa ruins in person with Si Sheng.
There were no longer any strange plants like the screaming dryad around the entrance to the ruins. Many plants had been planted by wood elementalists, and metal and earth elementalists had also made defensive devices.
However, these devices were like paper to Si Sheng. He brought Xu Sili into the ruins without triggering them.
They entered the big banyan tree and saw the entrance to the ruins that had been changed drastically. Xu Sili had been mentally prepared, but he still couldn’t help being surprised.
Due to Si Sheng’s presence, he ignored the rules of the ‘Sprite World’ and his body remained the original size.
The two of them were suspended in mid-air, looking down at their feet.
This was the interior of a hollow banyan tree.
Since it was daytime and with the wall lamps embedded inside the tree trunk, Xu Sili could see the whole picture clearly this time.
The interior of this big banyan tree was really huge. It was spacious even if he and Si Sheng maintained their original form.
If he lowered his head, he could see an underground ruins entrance in the center that was large enough for one person to pass through. He could also vaguely see a few stone steps.
Around the entrance was the uneven base of the tree trunk. On these twisted roots, there were actually small houses built there.
The houses were scattered everywhere in an orderly manner and looked particularly delicate and cute. Between these small houses, players who had shrunk to the size of a figurine were walking back and forth.
They were as noisy as usual. Some restless players were fighting and making trouble.
The moment the players used their skills recklessly and attacked other people’s houses, they aroused the displeasure of the house owners and triggered a scuffle.
It should’ve been an awful scene. However, after shrinking to the size of a figurine, Xu Sili unexpectedly found them pleasing to the eye. A strange feeling of liking them rose spontaneously.
In addition to the happenings on the ground, there were players working on the tree trunk.
They started from the bottom of the tree and followed the grain of the trunk, using wood-related skills to create a series of protruding wooden ladders that could be climbed.
Then they tried to use the raised areas inside the trunk to grow small wooden houses.
There were other people working on construction in mid-air. Xu Sili took a look. He couldn’t tell what these players were doing, but they should be quite imaginative designs.
He looked at these little people.
If all the space on the ground had been utilized, then underground…
He greeted Si Sheng and prepared to sneak into the underground ruins. However, when he reached the top of the stone steps and looked down, he was puzzled for a while.
These players were so crazy that they built houses on the stone steps!
They thought that since no one could ignore the rules of the inscription and everyone who came in would have to shrink, then there was no need to use the steps, right?
Xu Sili was forced to shrink along with Si Sheng and flew in.
The moment he entered, a system notification appeared.
[Ding~ An unknown town prototype has been found in your territory. Please name it and set rules.]
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This story is so good, I’ve been trying to find it for a long time (I lost the link some years ago) so when I found it I was greedy and read all the available translated chapters in one go… aaaah Ive should have been slower
I’m so thankful to the translator for putting effort in this work!
The Author makes me so happy with the use of so many settings and tropes, the worldbuilding is seamless!!!
This novel is one of my favorites for sure
hahaha these players will be upset once he sets the rules!
thanks for the chapter <3
Some dubious cities should be under jurisdiction, set ’em all!