My Apocalypse Territory
Chapter 482 - 444: The Advancing Adventurer (Unity Chapter)

White Tree High Ground.

The cold wind was biting, and the ground was wrapped in a thick layer of silver.

Scores of White Trees, each twenty to thirty meters tall, stood like enormous pillars on the vast snowy land.

With high hardness, strong toughness, light weight, and high Source Qi conductivity, White Trees were destined to be an excellent material. This was true for use in bows, wooden shields, and clubs, and even more so for ships.

White Tree is a generic term; in this region, there were varieties such as Silver Ancient White Tree, Star Soil White Tree, Bright Sun White Tree, and others. Each variety had slight differences and all had mutated after the apocalypse.

Yong'an Sanctuary had discovered this treasure land early on. In the era before Engraving Rune equipment had emerged, the use of White Trees for wood armor and weapons had allowed the official Awakeners of Yong'an Sanctuary to prevail in fights against Demonized Beasts.

Even today, war weapons made from White Trees and Engraving Runes were still not outdated.

The White Tree business had also allowed Yong'an Sanctuary to exchange for many rare materials from some of the larger sanctuaries nearby.

In a corner of White Tree High Ground,

there was a logging site that covered an area of about ten to twenty acres, filled with three-to-four-story buildings, surrounded by a small wall mixed with White Trees and steel, over three meters high, equipped with machine guns and several watchtowers, each about ten meters tall...

Normally, a two-hundred-person strong City Defense Forces of Yong'an was stationed at the logging site. The Captain had the strength of Eighth Layer Awakening, equipped with a full set of rune equipment, ranking highly even within the sanctuary, and they also employed non-official Awakeners in batches to patrol the White Tree High Ground. Even though the patrol frequency had decreased lately, there were still over five hundred Awakeners present at White Tree High Ground at any one time.

Relying on the logging site, they could resist even a Level Three Demon Tide —not to mention that to date, they had only encountered five Level Two Demon Tides.

However, today,

severed limbs, heads with eyes rolled back, and snow dyed red...

A bloody stench spread within the logging site, which, despite the cold season, was repulsive and lingered as if the souls of the wronged were hovering above, refusing to disperse.

"The sanctuaries of Daxia Country are really weak, none of them can fight."

A gaunt old man with sparse hair, as if only a layer of skin held his bones together, spoke with disdain.

The Warriors of Sky Wolf Hall around him nodded in agreement.

In fact, Daxia had some experts. The former commander who had guarded the logging site and the subsequent regiment did have some strong individuals who were nearly on par with them.

Unfortunately, such strength, in front of that great person, really was nothing.

The Warriors of Sky Wolf Hall looked with respect towards the bald man,

and behind the man, countless twisted faces, but slowly standing up...corpses!

—A cadre of Sky Wolf Hall, "Shadow of Skeleton" Kawatani Seiichi!

...

An incident at White Tree High Ground had made headlines on the "adventurer guild" homepage, immediately causing quite a stir.

The homepage of the quests, every job was high-value, including some high-difficulty quests that had been hanging at the headquarters in Green Shadow for a month or two and had not been completed.

For example,

[Shadow of Alien Race]: Discover or kill Alien Race elites. Based on the class of Alien Race killed, different rewards can be received.

But only those who had stepped into the Source Condensation Realm qualified as Alien Race elites...They were strong and more cunning than Demonized Beasts, making it even hard to find them, let alone kill them.

It was difficult for current adventurers to achieve this, Tang Yu's purpose in posting the quests was to let adventurers get to know the Alien Races in advance, and to publicize their numerous misdeeds, aiming for ideological mobilization—the example of other sanctuaries before them, although it was unlikely that Alien Races could infiltrate territories, Tang Yu also didn't want the hard-trained subjects to be usurped by the Alien Races.

Other quests like [Find Distant Elves], [Explore Shennongjia], and others, were all high-difficulty, long-duration tasks.

The task of [Investigate Enemy Situation at White Tree High Ground], although listed towards the back of the homepage, also attracted a lot of attention from adventurers.

"No wonder the reward is so high, it turns out not even 'Yong'an's Ancestor Dragon Battle Group' can defeat that mysterious enemy!"

"rbqrbq, I better just stay a spectator."

"Just investigating the enemy situation is already a five-star task, incredible, I'm craving this time's merit reward, but damn, my star level isn't high enough!"

Suddenly, an unusual voice rose,

"Six-star Warhammer Adventure Group is recruiting temporary members for the [White Tree High Ground] mission, can join the adventure group to share the task. Requirements: strength at Awakening Seventh Layer and above, combat power increase of at least 5+, Mage, assassin preferred! Limited spots, first-come-first-served!"

While others were still chaotically discussing, the Warhammer Adventure Group, located in Luoxia, the person in charge, with the speed of someone who had been single for thirty years, snapped up half of the mission slots—just for investigating the enemy situation, the task limit of thirty rewards could also be jointly overachieved—Yong'an planned to hire some adventurers to join their Direct Lineage Army in eradicating the enemies once the enemy situation was clear.

The moment the person in charge of Warhammer spoke, the eyes of some Awakeners in the hall lit up, some who believed they were capable but frustrated by not having registered long enough, their adventurer star level not high enough, immediately squeezed forward to participate in the selection of the Warhammer Adventure Group.

If they performed well on the [White Tree High Ground] mission, they might even truly join the "Warhammer Adventure Group," some thought.