On the first day, when all resources were scarce, someone could actually surpass them?
"Jiuzhou? Aren't they the most barren skyblock?!"
As he kept watching, Mark became even more incredulous.
When choosing a start, he had seen area number sixty-six, the skyblock composed of grass blocks.
Its only advantage, so to speak, was a single complete tree.
Its block score was barely 1, and in such a short time, it had directly surpassed them?
"We've already accumulated five pumpkin pies. What resources does Jiuzhou have that can compare to us?"
A full five pumpkin pies!
If eaten sparingly, it was enough to last a person ten days. Their foundation was this rich.
On what grounds were they surpassed?
Very quickly, another announcement rang out.
[Congratulations to the Jiuzhou player, Lexon, for building an innovative tool!]
[Block score increased by an additional 3!]
[As the first creator, a special reward has been triggered: Hand of Steve!]
[National Fortune Reward: Jiuzhou Nation's construction speed for all products increased by 20%!]
The moment that voice sounded...
Any worker engaged in production within Jiuzhou suddenly felt their hands become much lighter and faster.
A job that used to take ten minutes could now be completed in eight.
Production efficiency was massively increased!
Even mechanized production, as if an acceleration button had been pressed, became faster and more precise.
"National Fortune Reward? Lexon triggered a National Fortune Reward!"
"Wasn't that only supposed to trigger during the final settlement? This is divine!"
"A new tool? He built a new tool this quickly?!"
"And it's a new tool *recognized* by the game. How powerful must its effect be?"
"He's directly at eight points!"
One person's efficiency increasing by two minutes... for a hundred people, that was two hundred minutes.
Jiuzhou's population was over a hundred million!
And after receiving the extra points, Lexon's score reached 8, making him the undisputed number one.
The gap was more than double that of the second-place Liberty Nation!
Director kay smiled more and more happily.
"Good! Good! Good!"
It had been three civilizations since they last triggered a National Fortune Reward.
Watching others grow stronger while they could only suffer various penalties, Director kay had felt incomparably aggrieved.
Now, the National Fortune Reward had finally arrived!
"The cobble generator is indeed a tool that has never appeared before, but..."
After the joy, Fries looked up with worry.
He had cleared a civilization and obtained a civilization reward, but others had cleared them as well.
If the principle of this cobble generator was transmitted inside, their advantage would cease to exist.
On the contrary, it might benefit certain islands that lacked stone!
After all, the skyblock's resources were too scarce. If others also made cobble generators, they would forever have one more resource than Lexon!
Samurai Nation.
"Yoshi! This group of Jiuzhou people think they've grasped the truth, but in reality, they've just been paving the way for us!"
"Quickly contact Yamamoto-kun! His island is in dire need of stone. Tell him the principle of the cobble generator!"
The Carrot Mountain where Yamamoto was located had a great deal of carrots and water, but the ground was only grass blocks, with no house built for defense.
If he just had stone, it was foreseeable that his block would see a massive improvement!
Sato Taishi took out a square sign and hurriedly wrote down the construction method for the cobble generator.
A Sign, an item that could record text messages and transmit them into the Cube Civilization.
Having witnessed Lexon's entire process of building the cobble generator, he quickly wrote down the design and principle and sent it over.
Yamamoto, on Carrot Mountain, was still stunned by the announcement when a sign suddenly appeared before his eyes.
[Yamamoto-kun, the new tool is called a cobblestone generator. It can infinitely produce cobblestone and is made using lava and water...]
Lava, a bucket, and a water source... these were all things Yamamoto's island possessed!
"Yamamoto-kun was the fourth to choose, so his resources aren't bad either!"
"We also have lava and a bucket. We can completely replicate the cobble generator!"
"Once he builds a stone house, who will be able to harm Yamamoto-kun?"
"We're going to make a stone pickaxe and a stone sword too!"
It could increase both resources and the block score. Killing two birds with one stone!
The Jiuzhou audience immediately reacted.
"Damn it, they're even stealing this?"
"So disgusting, I'm gonna puke!"
"Hahaha, who made a rule we can't do it? We're doing it just to piss you Jiuzhou people off!"
"Be the first to draw the stone sword, Yamamoto-kun! You are the hero who will save the world!"
"Ridiculous Jiuzhou people. So what if you got lucky and made a cobble generator?"
"Crap! If I get into the Cube Civilization, I'll kill you first!"
Even through the screen, they could imagine the repulsive faces of the Samurai Nation.
Countless viewers clenched their fists, but they were helpless.
There was no rule saying others couldn't make it, and Yamamoto just happened to have both the resources and a Sign.
Just as the people sighed, preparing to watch the Samurai Nation's score rise...
Whoosh!
Following the exact same steps as Lexon, Yamamoto had just placed the water, but what he got was not an infinitely producing cobble generator.
Instead, it was a block of dark black, incomparably hard stone, emitting mysterious textures.
Smashing his hand on it didn't break the stone; instead, it caused Yamamoto immense pain.
"Where's the cobblestone? What is this?"
[The first creator, Jiuzhou Nation, will enjoy special privileges for the new tool!]
[Within this civilization, contestants from other nations cannot use the cobblestone generator for ten days!]
[In other civilizations, Jiuzhou Nation has three days of early access rights to the cobblestone generator. Contestants from other nations will have access unlocked after three days!]
The arena notification rang out again.
This time, it was clearly marked: only Lexon could use the new tool!
"The cobble generator is useless?!"
Sato Taishi's eyes went wide, his voice trembling.
The Sign was a civilization reward he had obtained with great difficulty. He only had one.
He had used it in a hurry just to give Yamamoto an advantage, and now it was telling him it was useless?
Such a critical item was wasted just like that?!
"Pfft, hilarious!"
"The smile doesn't disappear; it just moved to my face."
"I heard there was a hero who was going to pull out a stone sword. Is that true?"
"Is that black stone a stone sword? How come he can't even break it by hitting it?"
"You've got to admit, if he *can* break that black stone, he'll definitely become a hero!"
"You're too mean. That's obsidian, the hardest stone. It'd be a miracle if he could break it bare-handed!"
"Alright, I'll just say it: Yamamoto, hurry up and break your hand."
"Hahahaha!"
One announcement, and the Jiuzhou audience was laughing out loud again.
No one knew that being the first to create a new tool would also come with protection.
With the Samurai Nation as a precedent, other nations with similar ideas instantly dismissed them, and at the same time, breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness for Yamamoto, otherwise we would have been the ones to waste our item!"
It was just stone. Only some islands lacked it, and even without it, it wouldn't have a huge impact.
Confirming that the cobble generator couldn't be used, the various nations stopped trying.
On Carrot Mountain, Yamamoto's face was contorted in pain and anger.
"This detestable notification! Why couldn't it have appeared earlier?!"
He had just punched the obsidian, and his hand was still throbbing with intense pain.
This stone's hardness was simply too high!
"Disgusting!"
He spat. Yamamoto was about to curse again...
Suddenly, a line of small text, visible only to him, appeared before his eyes.
[***Gate, mysterious**powerful*under*, ****fortress***key.]