Chapter 936: Chapter 809: External Disturbances

New Era, December 30th, Year 4.

There is just one day left until the World Ring’s activation reaches the four-year mark.

Due to the inner ring of the World Ring being directly adjacent to the Mist, it had fully adapted to the presence of Explorers over these four years.

Although there were still various and constant conflicts of all sizes here,

at least some formidable Explorer forces had firmly established themselves.

Either founding a nation on their own, forming alliances, or directly joining others.

Some factions seeing little hope have already begun to move toward the middle ring, seeking opportunities within.

Due to the last issue of the magazine revealing Kane and the others’ existence,

it has led to more Explorers swarming towards the outer ring.

Perhaps they believe they can also become like Kane and the others.

Since the last issue of the magazine only roughly disclosed the territory and influence of Kane’s Platinum Country and the extent of its reach,

without specifically explaining Kane’s current strength,

many Explorers from Zone 1 and the surrounding areas wanted to test their mettle.

After all, many Explorers had learned about Kane’s former power during this period, and their Lantern Guild was just a new guild assembled in the six months leading up to the World Ring’s activation.

Even if the guild was formed by a group of incredibly talented young people, they were still just a group of young people.

More Explorers think they just got lucky.

They don’t take Kane and the others seriously.

Just like now.

In a tavern within a faction’s seaport in the middle ring of Zone 2.

At the moment, the entire tavern is in chaos, with remnants of bodies and blood everywhere on the floor and wooden walls.

The tavern owner is huddled in the corner of the bar, face full of terror.

From some broken holes in the walls, one could see the street outside, where many people were watching the situation from a safe distance.

Walt, with a pair of wolf ears and dark gray hair, withdrew his sharp force claw from the chest of the human beneath him.

He wiped the Lamp Mark exposed on his chest, which was stained with a bit of blood.

"Tui!" He spat on the corpse beneath him.

"With such meager strength, they dare to provoke us? What’s wrong with these Explorers? Don’t they know to investigate whether they can handle it before taking action?"

One of his teammates, with fox ears and a tail, used a Magic Staff to conjure a water ball and cleaned the blood off their leader.

In a bewitching tone, she said, "You can’t say that, Captain. What if they did investigate? It’s just that their intelligence is a bit too old, maybe from four years ago."

She covered her mouth and laughed secretly after speaking.

Three other teammates, all half-beasts, sat in various positions in the tavern watching their leader.

Each one had the Lamp Mark at the exposed part of their body, indicating they were all members of the Lantern Guild.

Walt stepped out of the tavern, pulling up the enemy he’d thrown outside before, who was covered in wounds but not dead, and placed him on the tavern’s steps.

He then sat down beside him.

The onlookers outside immediately took a few steps back to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

From his Space Equipment, he took out a thick cigar, lit it, and bit down on it.

"Inhale... exhale!"

He took a deep puff and blew out a puff of white smoke.

Then he gestured with his hand into the tavern.

A pink bubble ball flew out and hit the face of the nearby enemy.

The one casting the magic was the teammate with the fox ears.

"Why did you attack us? Attacking the merchant ship of Platinum Country?"

The enemy, already unconscious, with a pink bubble over his head, began to respond unconsciously.

"It was an order from our leader. We heard this was a Platinum Country merchant guild’s docking point, so we ambushed here."

"Ambush us? You, silver-ranked Explorers?"

Such long-distance cargo ships would definitely have several gold-level defenses, with no shortage of hundreds of silver-level ones.

Why did these small fries dare to be so arrogant?

"We didn’t know your strength was so immense beforehand; our intelligence was still stuck with the Lantern Guild from four years ago."

"Damn, they really guessed it right."

Walt stood up, spat out the cigar in his mouth, and stomped it out with his foot.

"See, President, I told you."

He turned around helplessly and took two Silver Magic Stones from his waist, handing them to his teammate.

"Alright, alright, I lost."

At this time, the sound of horse hooves came from afar.

A group of Lantern Knights in dazzling Silver Armor rode over on warhorses from the distance.

They had a corpse tied to the back of their horses.

The leader of the Lantern Knights came over and threw the corpse on the ground.

Walt stood up, kicked the unconscious enemy on the nearby step.

"Is this your leader?"

"Yes."

Since even the mastermind was captured, this one was no longer needed.

He lifted his leg, gently slashing across the throat, with blood spurting out.

After all that, Walt and his team followed the Lantern Knights toward the harbor.

"If they keep thinking our strength is still like it was four years ago, won’t we be harassed wherever we go?"

Now the size of the Platinum Country is so large, yet those Explorers still naively think their strength is the same as 4 years ago.

Constantly wanting to get a piece of the pie, it’s quite annoying.

Although they don’t feel they can’t win, they’d rather avoid battles they can avoid.

"It’s okay, Captain. Check out this morning’s new World Ring magazine. I just got it from the Guild. There’s a surprise in it too."

Walt took the new issue of the magazine and started to flip through it.

This time, the magazine didn’t dedicate the whole issue to introducing the Platinum Country like last time.

But still, half of the pages are about some matters of the Platinum Country.

The most highlighted information is.

The birth of the Fog Squad, a journey of miracles.

It introduces Kane and their story from forming a team to rising together to the three-color tier.

The first case in history, a squad formed from the Copper tier, advancing all the way to the three-color tier.

Seeing this information, Walt broke into a happy smile.

Finally, it’s not just them being surprised, but the whole world is astonished together.

Imagine when they first learned Kane and all had advanced to the three-color tier, they were utterly shocked.

And just this information is enough to make all forces within the World Ring hesitate to touch the Platinum Country.

After all, they are five three-color level powerhouses who advanced together and can cooperate seamlessly.

Think whether you have that ability to deal with the Platinum Country.

Walt continued to flip through the magazine pages.

Four years, a journey from zero to rise!

It detailed the overall strength the Lantern Guild has reached now.

Over a hundred members have reached the Gold level.

Now, no forces would dare make a move.

"Hahaha! This is awesome!"

Walt vigorously swung his fists in the air twice, praising the Platinum Country and the Lantern Guild, which means praising themselves, certainly a joy.

These two pieces of information will spread like a virus.

They will make the Platinum Kingdom and the Lantern Guild truly famous, becoming a real major force.

And Kane and the others will leave their mark strongly in history.

As for why the Mist Council received this information and published it, of course, it was with Kane and their consent.

Before Kane and the others entered the Mist.

The Mist Council sent people over to discuss with them whether they were willing to make this information public to inspire all Explorers.

Kane and the others agreed after discussing it.

This will save them from a lot of trouble, and this information, even if the Mist Council does not publish it, would spread after some time.

After all, Kane and the others never considered hiding it.

"Besides this, yesterday’s Guild has new news, I heard the inner realm of the Platinum Country is accessible now." A guild member with fox ears said while walking.

Hearing this, Walt quickly turned his head: "Really? Yesterday I was on the ship, haven’t been to the Guild Hall yet?"

"It’s true, of course."

"What a pity then, we have to wait till a week later to return, darn it, If only I’d known I wouldn’t have taken this trip."

"Who doesn’t think so."

Listening to their conversation.

The captain walking in the forefront, with a head full of black lines, couldn’t help but halt his steps and walk to them.

"Do your words mean it’s my fault? Shouldn’t this blame the President? He should have told sooner about this?"

Hearing this, Walt quickly waved his hand: "I didn’t say that, that’s what you said, I still respect the President."

"Huh, what’s there to be afraid of, I’ll throw an anonymous letter into the suggestion box when I go down."

And so, they chatted and joked all the way.

Leaving amid the horrified looks of those present.

.....

At this moment in the Guild Hall.

Steel Armor rarely came out from his Forging Workshop and was at the bar in the Guild Hall, drinking a strange liquid and boasting to guild members in front of him.

Everyone is curious about what the scenery of the inner realm of the Platinum Country is like or what’s different from the outer realm.

The member most familiar with them, who has always been in the inner realm, would be Steel Armor.

After all, his duty is to run the Forging Workshop, so almost every day you can see him in the workshop, naturally people are familiar with him.

It’s opening in a day, Guild members currently in the Platinum Country are thinking about being the first to enter.

To see the long mysterious inner realm.

And there are still many guild members rushing back from other places.

Kreya looked through the window on the second floor at the lively Guild Hall below.

"Aren’t we planning to have a grand festival or banquet to celebrate the day after tomorrow?"

Upon hearing Kreya’s words, Kane smiled and shook his head beside her.

"No, just let the message be communicated, let everything go naturally. Aren’t they all members of the same country? Naturally, there’s nothing to celebrate."

"Let them integrate calmly, perhaps that is a better choice."

This was Kane’s final decision after discussing with both Bonona and Heideline yesterday.

To ordinary nationals, they may feel no change at all.

After all, with the Platinum Country changing day by day, they may have only visited a few places within the Platinum Country.

Everything waits for January 1st.