Chapter 977: Chapter 978: Devil’s Castle_1
Chapter 977: Chapter 978: Devil’s Castle_1
After occupying a mill and gaining over five hundred units of food, the mill could provide 20 units of food every day. According to the consumption rate of 100 workers or 10 soldiers per unit of food daily, Song Jian could hire at least two thousand more workers or two hundred more soldiers.
However, hiring required spending gold coins, and relying solely on the daily production of gold from the City Lord Mansion was definitely not enough. Engaging in battles was the quickest way to obtain gold.
Looking down at the empty farmlands, Song Jian’s brows furled slightly. If so farrs could be sent here to cultivate the land, he believed the food production could be further increased.
“If I had continued to pursue them earlier, is it possible that I could have captured so farrs?” Song Jian thought to himself.
After defeating the group of farrs ard with wooden forks, Song Jian had ignored them. Now, thinking about it, he felt he should have captured all the remaining farrs.
Having taken over a mill, Song Jian continued on his way. Throughout the day, he discovered only a lumberyard and an iron mine. As night fell, he led his five spearn back to the castle.
“Upgrade the City Lord Mansion to tier 2, upgrade the material warehouse to tier 2, build a tavern, build a blacksmith shop!”
Upon returning to the castle, Song Jian issued a series of construction orders.
In the castle, buildings can be upgraded or built new with sufficient resources, and the construction can proceed automatically. If there are workers available, the construction speed could be increased.
A second-tier City Lord Mansion could provide 400 gold coins daily. Moreover, in order to construct or upgrade other buildings, the level of the City Lord Mansion was a prerequisite. Without a second-tier City Lord Mansion, many buildings could not be constructed;
The material warehouse provided various common resources each day and was another building that must be upgraded. As for the tavern and blacksmith shop, they could be built as long as there were enough resources;
The tavern could quickly restore the morale of soldiers and also had a chance to recruit heroes. Song Jian spent an entire day exploring only a small area. The efficiency of gathering resources was too low. If he could recruit several heroes to join him, the efficiency would greatly increase.
As for the blacksmith shop, it could provide simple weapons and armor. Most importantly, the blacksmith shop could manufacture supply wagons. During combat, soldiers’ equipnt could be easily damaged, and supply wagons could repair them on the spot. Moreover, if Song Jian hired archers in the future, their combat power would drop sharply once they ran out of arrows. The supply wagons could restock them with plentiful arrows whenever needed.
In the dead of night, Song Jian lay on the bed in the City Lord Mansion, silently pondering how to achieve victory in this assessnt.
“In one day, I have only found a mill, a pasture, and an iron mine. However, from the announcents of other factions, it can be seen that their efficiency is several tis mine. They must have found much more resources than I have. However, up to now, it seems that no other faction’s examinees have found their main city, which is good news for . But it’s only a matter of ti before they find it. Once they discover the main city, they will enter a rapid developnt phase. The gap in strength between and them will beco smaller as ti goes on…”
Just then, a red announcent appeared before Song Jian;
System: An examinee from the Hell faction has discovered the main city, Demon Castle!
System: The Hell faction’s examinee launched an attack on Demon Castle but failed!
System: The examinee from the Hell faction suffered fatal injuries, lost the qualification for assessnt, and was forced to exit the Assessnt World!
Song Jian was shocked and sat up involuntarily, staring at the announcent—the Hell faction had found the main city!
Although he had anticipated this, the appearance of another faction’s main city still made Song Jian sowhat nervous.
On the other side, within the Hell faction, Prince Sara let out an angry roar.
“Who was it, who discovered the main city and didn’t report? Do you think just leaving after a failure is the end of it? Wait until I leave this damned Assessnt World, I will let you know what kind of punishnt acting on your own will bring!”
The other Examinees of the Hell faction all appeared as if they were scared to breathe, but in reality, no one cared what Prince Sara said.
Though as long as their own faction could win, they would pass the assessnt, but if a higher evaluation could be attained afterward, the power they received would also be greater than the others’;
If they were the first to discover the main city of their faction, they would definitely attempt to take it over. After all, once the main city is occupied, one automatically becos the City Lord, a status that cannot be changed or transferred to soone else.
Unless the entire castle is abandoned, which would harm the interests of all Examinees in the faction, it would surely et with opposition from others.
When that ti cos, even Prince Sara would have no choice but to grudgingly acknowledge the City Lord status of the other party. Once they pass this assessnt, evidently, the one with the City Lord status would reap the greatest benefits.
This is why that Examinee from the Hell faction, having discovered a Hell main city, launched an attack to occupy it. Unfortunately, his Combat Power wasn’t enough; not only did he fail to take over the main city, but he also lost his life in battle;
Fortunately, one wouldn’t truly die in the Assessnt World. He was rely removed from the Assessnt World after being killed, and naturally, he failed the second-tier Combat Power assessnt;
After so investigation, the Examinees of the Hell faction finally confird the location, and at Prince Sara’s command, all the Examinees began searching along the trail that the Examinee had explored during the dayti.
In truth, whether exploring during the day or night, it consud the Examinees’ stamina, and nightti exploration depleted twice the stamina as dayti;
After spending most of the night, almost all the Examinees were exhausted. Normally, nightti was their rest period after dayti exploration, but under Prince Sara’s orders, they reluctantly searched for the Hell main city throughout the night.
“Damn it, what’s the difference if we waited until morning? The main city won’t run away. It’s only us here in the Hell faction; nobody is going to snatch it…” soone muttered in complaint.
“Who knows?” retorted a fellow Examinee with a aningful glance, whispering, “How can you be sure that no one will find and occupy the main city at night? That lucky yet unlucky guy wasn’t strong. There are at least five people here who could easily beat him. If he couldn’t occupy the main city, does it an the other five can’t either?”
“Such a pity for that fool, to miss out on such an opportunity right before his eyes…”
“I can’t go on; exploring at night takes too much out of . My legs feel like they’re filled with lead…”
Exhaustion halts everyone, a rule of the Assessnt World that no one can avoid. Nearly everyone has depleted their stamina, but soon, so good news cos from ahead;
“Prince Sara, soone has found that Hell faction main city!”
At that mont, Prince Sara too was leaning against a rock to rest. Hearing the news, his previously ashen face finally showed a hint of excitent.
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PS: Thank you “Flashy Golden King Tiger” for the 100 starting coins reward~
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