“Damn, 50,000 Achievement Points…”
Fu Mo counted on his fingers, adding up all the achievements from Minecraft’s previous versions and those introduced in version 1.21, the latest version before he transmigrated.
Even if the System awarded more Achievement Points based on an achievement’s difficulty, it still wouldn’t be enough to reach 50,000.
The System had clearly arranged things this way because it wanted him to first spend a small number of Achievement Points on MODs that could add extra achievements, then repeat the process until he had saved up 50,000 Achievement Points.
It would be troublesome, but after grinding through so many modpacks, patience was the one thing he didn’t lack.
“That said, I’ll still need to buy a few utility MODs first.”
Looking at the dense stretches of trees around him, the first thing Fu Mo thought of was Vein Miner.
Without it, gathering resources would waste a huge amount of his time.
[Vein Miner MOD.
Price: 50 Achievement Points]
Fu Mo glanced at the price.
It wasn’t too expensive, and there happened to be several very easy achievements he could complete early on.
He would make Vein Miner his first goal.
“Time to get to work.”
Fu Mo gathered some logs and prepared to dig straight down for iron.
While finding a village would earn him more Achievement Points and provide survival supplies such as iron, Diamonds, and food, there was no guarantee he would find one.
Digging down was far faster and more convenient.
[Achievement Unlocked: Time to Mine!]
[Reward: 10 Achievement Points]
Fu Mo continued digging downward.
After removing just one block of dirt, he found the Cobblestone he had been longing for.
As soon as he had mined three pieces, he casually tossed outside the wooden pickaxe he had crafted less than thirty seconds ago.
After all, anyone who regularly played Minecraft knew that wooden pickaxes usually had only three (?) durability points.
[Achievement Unlocked: Getting an Upgrade]
[Reward: 10 Achievement Points]
“Let me think.
What other achievements were there…?
Oh, right.
The Furnace.”
Fu Mo immediately used his freshly crafted Stone Pickaxe to mine more Cobblestone, arranged it in a ring on the Crafting Table, and made a Furnace.
He also used the leftover wood to craft a wooden hoe.
[Achievement Unlocked: Hot Topic]
[Reward: 10 Achievement Points]
He then used the wooden hoe he had just crafted to till a nearby patch of grass into farmland, unlocking another achievement.
[Achievement Unlocked: Time to Farm]
[Reward: 10 Achievement Points]
With that, he had unlocked all the easiest early-game achievements.
Fu Mo eagerly opened the Mod Shop.
He now had 60 Achievement Points, enough to buy Vein Miner.
Fu Mo quickly entered the keyword into the Mod Shop, found Vein Miner, and purchased it without hesitation.
[50 Achievement Points spent to purchase Vein Miner MOD.
Current Achievement Points balance: 10]
[Vein Miner MOD installed]
Seeing the System notification that the MOD had finished installing, Fu Mo let out a long breath of relief.
At last, he wouldn’t have to mine blocks one by one anymore.
Once he had experienced vein mining, there was simply no going back.
Fu Mo raised his pickaxe, lowered his head, and began digging directly beneath his feet.
Real men mined straight down!
“Time to head underground!”
….
Not long after Fu Mo began digging straight down, a group arrived outside the entrance to the Abandoned Realm.
At their head was a pink-haired young woman.
Beside her stood a chestnut-haired young woman of roughly the same height, while behind them was a squad of soldiers in standard-issue armor.
“We’ve arrived.
We must finish surveying all the actual data of this Realm-Weaving today.
Construction on the Jade Abacus Array expansion project for the Matrix of Prescience begins tomorrow.
I’ll be counting on all of you.”
“Yes, Master Diviner.”
After saluting Fu Xuan, the Cloud Knights began entering the Realm-Weaving in an orderly fashion.
Fu Xuan then turned toward Qingque, who stood beside her.
“And you, Qingque.”
“Huh?
You have something for me to do too, Master Diviner?”
Qingque pointed at her own nose in bewilderment.
She had thought she was only here as a tagalong, never expecting that she would have work to do as well.
Fu Xuan tilted her head back and snorted softly, her eyes filled with displeasure toward Qingque.
“You’re always slacking off and shirking your duties.
Today, I’ll be watching you personally, so let’s see how you plan to slack off now!
Go survey the actual data of this Realm-Weaving with the Cloud Knights.
If you can’t submit the data once you’re finished, just wait and see how I deal with you!”
“Yes…
Master Diviner…”
Qingque knew that no excuse would save her from this round of ‘overtime.’ She could only pout miserably and enter the Realm-Weaving under Fu Xuan’s watchful gaze.
Once Qingque had entered, Fu Xuan followed her inside with satisfaction.
The moment she stepped into the Realm-Weaving, before her vision had even recovered, bursts of astonished cries reached her ears.
“Why are these trees floating in midair?
This is far too unnatural!”
“I just tried it.
No matter how hard I push, these trees remain fixed in midair without budging!”
Fu Xuan turned toward the voices and saw the Cloud Knights who had entered earlier gathered around the upper half of a tree suspended in midair, pointing and discussing it.
“What are all of you doing?”
Because the Cloud Knights were gathered together, Fu Xuan couldn’t see that the lower half of the tree was gone.
Thinking they were standing around a tree chatting and slacking off, she frowned and walked over.
Hearing Fu Xuan’s voice, the Cloud Knights immediately parted to make way.
Only then did Fu Xuan see the bizarre tree.
Its lower half had vanished without a trace, while the upper half floated in midair without being connected to anything.
The sight was extraordinarily eerie.
“What happened here?”
Fu Xuan was puzzled as well.
She raised a hand and formed a seal, examining the gravitational environment around the tree.
The results showed that everything nearby was normal.
Its suspension wasn’t caused by altered gravity.
One of the Cloud Knights stepped forward to report.
“Master Diviner, the tree was already like this when we entered.
We also tried moving it just now, but we couldn’t budge it at all.”
Fu Xuan stared at the remaining half of the tree for a while, equally perplexed.
She couldn’t determine the cause.
“Search the surrounding area and see whether there’s anything else unusual.”
“Yes.”
The Cloud Knights and Qingque dispersed to inspect other areas, while Fu Xuan remained beneath the half-tree to examine it.
Fu Xuan formed seals with both hands, her fingers shifting through a series of gestures.
A pale pink array appeared beneath the suspended tree, and the Third Eye on her forehead glowed faintly.
The examination lasted half a System Hour.
Half a System Hour later, Fu Xuan opened her eyes, disbelief filling her gaze.
She had just examined all manner of data concerning the tree.
Most of it was perfectly normal.
The only strange thing was that, with the tree’s surface serving as the boundary, the entire tree had been subjected to Spatial Anchoring.
Even she was unable to modify it.
This had clearly been done by someone extraordinarily powerful, but she couldn’t understand who would be bored enough to apply Spatial Anchoring to half a tree.
Or could that person have had some deeper purpose in doing so?
While Fu Xuan was still pondering the question, a scream suddenly came from deep within the woods.
“Ah!”
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T/N: If you spot mistranslation, do tell me!
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