"It's finally over!"
"Killing a Charged Creeper... it feels like a dream!"
"Can someone tell me how Galen Yu did it?"
"Could it be that we're actually cheating?"
Perhaps due to the nature of a large-scale civilization, the death penalty this time was extremely severe.
Many small nations couldn't hold on and were wiped out on the spot, completely submerged in the wheels of history.
Fortunately, the Nine Provinces survived!
In the Samurai Nation, Takeshi Sable cursed loudly.
"How exactly did he block the attack? Aren't you supposed to be world-renowned scientists!"
"Why can't you give me a reasonable explanation even now!"
Below, the experts bowed deeply in guilt.
"Sumimasen!"
"Sable-kun, the Block World is just too strange. You should know, this is a problem that scientists all over the world haven't been able to research..."
"I don't care about all that! I just want to know why Galen Yu managed to survive!"
Interrupting the expert, Takeshi Sable was incredibly furious.
Originally, when the Nine Provinces fell into danger, he could have taken the opportunity to expand his territory and plunder their land.
Although it would suffer some devastation from Creepers, it wouldn't affect the overall diversity of resources.
Living in such a tiny territory, he had been coveting this piece of fat for a long time!
With the territory of the Nine Provinces, the Samurai Nation would fully surpass the Freedom Nation and become number one in the world!
Unfortunately, Galen Yu survived.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead caused by nervousness, the expert brought out the replay.
In order to study the Block World, every civilization had specialized recordings to carefully observe Galen Yu's every move. The expert said cautiously:
"According to our observations, he survived because he blocked the attack of the Charged Creeper."
"He seems to have used a tool similar to a shield!"
Shields had appeared before in the Warrior Civilization.
Some warriors liked to use shields, using them to block monster arrows.
At that time, many experts believed that shields were a very important item for combat strength and focused on recording their performance.
They could defend against Zombie attacks and Skeleton arrows, but the one thing they didn't expect...
Was that they could even defend against a Creeper's explosion now!
"Do you think I'm blind? Of course I saw him take out a shield to defend!"
"Since a shield can block a Creeper's attack, where is the recipe? Hurry up and send it to our players!"
From the replay, he also felt a bit surprised; after all, his impression was that this thing could only defend against cold weapons.
He didn't expect the properties bestowed by the Block World would allow it to even block explosions.
The expert bowed again.
"Sumimasen!"
"According to the replay from the last Warrior Civilization, the Freedom Nation once obtained a shield with extremely low durability, which broke after blocking a dozen attacks."
"The Indus Kingdom also once obtained one, but it was also picked up from beside a corpse with very low durability, only blocking Skeletons..."
"Do you take me for a fool? I'm asking you for the crafting method!"
Giving him a kick, Takeshi Sable said irritably.
If they knew the shield was so strong, and if Kira Oakmoor and Ronan Mountwell could make them too...
They could also achieve the effect of defeating a Charged Creeper without taking damage!
They would gain an advantage in battle!
But after stammering for a long time, the expert finally lowered his head.
"No... no, we haven't figured out the crafting recipe for the shield yet."
"You don't even know something this simple? What use are you!"
Kicking him again, Takeshi Sable's face turned red with anger.
Ever since Galen Yu went to the Block World, he hadn't taken the man seriously.
How could a novice on a Sky Island possibly survive?
And now, he felt like an incompetent fool.
Knowing clearly that both his players had more resources than Galen Yu—whatever the Sky Island had, they had, and what the Sky Island didn't have, they also had.
Despite the shortage of materials, the shield materials must be simple, yet they could never find the correct synthesis method on the nine-grid space of the crafting table.
Facing a god-tier item, they could only look through the glass and never get their hands on it!
It was truly frustrating!
Kicking out violently, Takeshi Sable roared.
"Watch the replay frame by frame for me! Within three days, you must find out!"
"Hai!"
Situations like the one in the Samurai Nation were happening in several other countries as well.
Everyone knew the shield materials were simple, but no one knew how to synthesize them, resulting in impotent rage.
In the research institute, Headmaster Quill laughed out loud.
"A shield can even block a Creeper? Hahaha!"
"Let me think, are the Freedom Nation and the Samurai Nation going to explode with rage after seeing this?"
"Galen Yu's luck is indeed quite good this time!"
He could already imagine the mental breakdowns of the other countries.
Although the materials were simple, looking at the nine-grid mode of the crafting table, trying to figure out the finished product with bare hands would require tens of thousands of experiments.
Even if the materials were clearly told to them, going through experiment after experiment would take ten days to half a month.
There was no fear of them stealing the knowledge in the short term!
And with a shield, Galen Yu would always maintain an advantage in battle!
"'Luck', huh?"
Fries murmured to himself.
Once could be called luck, but what about twice, three times?
Could it really still be called luck?
In any case, he survived. Not dwelling on this question, Fries looked back at the screen.
Back when he participated in the Parkour Civilization and took first place in the test, he directly received a Parkour Assessment Scroll.
Being one step ahead in breaking through from a parkour novice was how he left everyone else behind and departed with the highest evaluation.
If rewards for ordinary civilizations were already this rich, what about the Chunk Civilization?
This was a large-scale civilization; the difficulty had spiked, so the rewards should logically be even richer!
"First place in a large-scale civilization!"
"What will the reward be? I'm really looking forward to it!"
"Every reward is related to the civilization. Will it reward a stack of blocks?"
"That would be too much. I think rewarding a house would be very nice!"
"A small villa? That would be nice indeed. Living comfortably without being disturbed by monsters spawning at any time!"
"Resources on Sky Island are scarce, so it might even be several stacks of food."
Under the speculations and expectations of the Nine Provinces' audience.
As the Zombies burned to death, Kira Oakmoor also saw a Piglin wearing an Elytra arriving at his island.
Based on his understanding, he knew this was a local NPC of the Chunk Civilization.
"I am the Samurai Nation player, Kira Oakmoor. Please give me my reward!"
Stepping forward to communicate, the Piglin glanced at him with a very cold expression.
"I obtained third place in the Chunk Trial. Where are my things?"
Upon hearing 'third place', the Piglin's expression softened slightly.
"Third place. You may stay in the resource area for two hours every day and obtain ten blocks."
"This is a lever. Pull it to be teleported there. You can also receive one type of any block resource. Speak."
"So generous!"
Eyes wide, Kira Oakmoor was incredibly excited.
He had thought third place would only get some insignificant items, but he didn't expect it would actually open up a resource area!
By obtaining resources from the resource area, he would build his chunk and upgrade his level faster!
More importantly, he could get any type of block resource.
It could compensate for weapons, food, or housing!
It was simply versatile!
Seeing the screen of the Samurai Nation, the audience became even more expectant.
If even third place was this generous, then what would the first-place Nine Provinces receive!