Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 2208 - 2209: Worries

Dou Yanlan noticed that Qi Chen looked puzzled and asked inquisitively. Hearing Qi Chen’s question, Dou Yanlan said with helplessness and amusement,

"Just like our modern machines can have malfunctions, arrays can also break down due to various unforeseen circumstances. It’s quite normal for an array to have multiple redundant parts, especially in such composite arrays. Repairing them is not an easy task."

Scratching the back of his head, Qi Chen laughed awkwardly. He hadn’t thought about this before, but after Dou Yanlan’s explanation, he felt it was perfectly reasonable to have so many redundant parts.

Feng Yuan looked up at the sky and said,

"Repairing arrays isn’t that difficult, but this design indeed takes such considerations into account. And there’s probably another reason, which is to adjust the intensity of the array. Although I don’t know what this array is used for, I think it’s likely an array for boosting states."

While speaking, Feng Yuan turned to Agunas, who didn’t respond, so Feng Yuan couldn’t figure out what this place was for. Of course, if he wanted a quick answer, he had a simple method, which was to ask He Nanqing.

After all, this array has been used in the Tea Wood Town area for a long time. Feng Yuan didn’t believe that He Nanqing didn’t know what it was for. However, in the end, Feng Yuan gave up.

Knowing that it’s for boosting states is enough; he didn’t intend to dig further.

At this moment, the tourists following Feng Yuan, listening to his introduction, were eager to grab him for an explanation. But this was just wishful thinking as they knew he had no obligation to answer them.

Perhaps because too many people were gathering around Feng Yuan, a security person from the village came over. Although he hadn’t heard the earlier conversation, he heard the exchange between Feng Yuan and Agunas and naturally understood that the other party had discovered the village’s biggest secret.

"If you’re interested, you can attend the ritual event at Cloudfire Village in three days. It’s an important annual ritual in our Tea Wood Town area, and everyone is welcome."

"In three days?"

Feng Yuan heard someone speaking loudly and looked curiously toward the source of the voice, seeing someone wearing a Tea Wood Town area uniform with the word "security" on it. Feng Yuan didn’t doubt the speaker’s words.

This person definitely wasn’t impersonating a Cloudfire Village staff member. There was no reason to, and there were other people around. Those in charge of security here surely belonged to Cloudfire Village themselves; it would be impossible for strangers to impersonate.

As for the timing of three days later, this coincided with the resource competition.

The staff member smiled slightly, without explaining further. Feng Yuan knew he couldn’t say much more since resource competition, although everyone knew about it, wasn’t suitable to be openly displayed.

Not to mention that some people consider such methods as not adhering to the rules.

In fact, resource competitions are fair in a sense because the number of participants from both sides is fixed. How to use this limited number to defeat the opponent depends on the leader’s strategy. As for arrays?

After all, it’s already a local resource, so there’s no reason it can’t be used. If you have the ability, hiring external help is also acceptable.

After all, when interests are involved, as long as you don’t resort to underhanded tricks, Feng Yuan doesn’t see a problem with fully utilizing your resources.

However, some people believe that such methods undermine the fairness of the competition because in a formal Beastmaster tournament, you aren’t allowed to boost states that affect combat power before entering the arena. Otherwise, for someone like Tamur, manipulating the competition results would be exceedingly simple.

Just by giving their Beastmaster mythical enhancement, unless their opponent is much stronger, there’s virtually no chance of winning.

But that is a fair competition to consider the cultivation ability of Beastmasters, while resource competition, in Feng Yuan’s view, is a competition between two areas. Therefore, as long as it belongs to their area, it’s not wrong to use it however they want.

Of course, Feng Yuan was sure of one thing: Tea Wood Town had shown restraint. Otherwise, given the relationship between Drudgeon and Yognot, the resource competition wouldn’t have continued for so long.

It’s a joke to say Tamur has mythical enhancement while Drudgeon doesn’t have similar enhancement means. Even if they aren’t as strong as Tamur, temporarily improving one or two ranks of strength is not impossible.

Based on this alone, if Tea Wood Town truly unleashed its full force, the nearby areas wouldn’t be able to compete, except for Maomu City. But as a city, Maomu City would never participate in such resource competitions.

Since they aren’t on the same level, even if it were Tea Wood Town, unless Drudgeon participated personally, Feng Yuan was sure that Tea Wood Town couldn’t be a match for Maomu City in resource competition.

It’s simply because the Beastmasters in Maomu City have high rank strength. Just the Maomu Academy has a group of Legendary Level Beastmasters, not to mention the Legendary Level Beastmasters stationed in Maomu City. Even if it were Drudgeon, without personally stepping in, it would be impossible for the generally below-legendary-level Tea Wood Town Beastmasters to achieve ultimate victory.

Don’t be fooled by Qi Chen and the others previously in the Earth Maze, where they could take on a Legendary Level Spirit Beast with mythical enhancement. It was due to the significant power increase brought by the Crystal Domain. If their opponents also mastered the Crystal Domain and Domain Awakening, Qi Chen and the others wouldn’t be able to win with such rank-crossing feats.

Feng Yuan was quite curious about what this resource competition would look like this time.

After all, with the addition of the Crystal Domain, no one could predict the outcome. Tea Wood Town has arrays, but with the enhancements from the Crystal Domain, the advantage brought by arrays would become less apparent and important.

While Feng Yuan was pondering, tourists had already gathered around the staff to inquire about the ritual event happening three days later. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Of course, some people also thought about the connection between the ritual event and the resource competition. Although the matter couldn’t be openly discussed, it wasn’t entirely unknown to the public either.

It’s just that because the matter didn’t concern them, many people didn’t connect the two events. Hearing them asking about the contents of the ritual event and whether it would be fun, Feng Yuan helplessly and amusingly turned around and left with Qi Chen and the others.

Originally, this group followed Feng Yuan because he appeared to know a lot about the place and they wanted to listen to his explanation. Now, with a local explaining, others naturally wouldn’t follow further.

When the crowd thinned out, Qi Chen thought of something and asked,

"Is the ritual event really grand?"

"Probably, since it’s to boost the Beastmasters going to battle, it likely serves as a send-off before deployment. But for us, there’s likely not much entertainment,"

Feng Yuan said with a smile. There’s no issue with observing, but to say there would be interesting activities is impossible since the ritual itself is meant to provide a last-minute status boost for the Beastmasters before going to battle.

There’s no time to plan any fun activities for tourists, otherwise, it wouldn’t be held in a village outside of the tourist routes.

Of course, Feng Yuan wasn’t the only one who thought of this; Dou Yanlan and others naturally understood the situation. Still, those who had the time decided to join in for the excitement.

After all, such a ceremony couldn’t be taken lightly. Although it’s not a performance, it’s not without its value.

Remembering something, Feng Yuan showed a strange smile and said,

"But speaking of which, He Nanqing has been quite busy recently, dealing with things in Yundou Village and hosting the ceremony here, tsk tsk～"

Hearing Feng Yuan’s gloating, Qi Chen glanced at him speechlessly and said,

"I wonder whose fault that is."

"Hehe～that’s not my fault～ But considering the arrays, this resource competition might see someone getting seriously injured,"

touching his chin, Feng Yuan murmured while looking through the gaps between the village buildings toward the distant mountains. The addition of the Crystal Domain had already significantly enhanced both sides’ offensive capabilities for this resource competition. Adding arrays into the mix made it unpredictable to even him whether something unusual might occur.

After all, the array of expansions and changes brought by the Crystal Domain was quite significant, from basic enhancement to Domain Awakening and later discovered Domain Battlefield, even suddenly finding arrays altering the Crystal Domain didn’t seem strange.

But with all these enhancements stacked together, Feng Yuan honestly couldn’t say whether they could control that skyrocketing attack power.