Chapter 44: Ice Strengthening
Translator: MrVoltaire Editor: Modlawls123
After looking at the Star Slashing Sword’s new stats, Zhao Fu was quite shocked. The Strengthening Stone increased each of the three stats by two points and added bonus Ice damage. What’s more, it brought the Star Slashing Sword back to its original grade.
Strengthening Stones had excellent effects, but they were quite rare. It reminded Zhao Fu of the Soldier Souls, which also strengthened equipnt. He did not know what sorts of effects they had, and just thinking about it made Zhao Fu quite excited.
However, after rembering that General Armants required 100 Soldier Souls, Zhao Fu could only forget about it for now. If Soldier Souls had similar effects to Strengthening Stones, then 100 Soldier Souls combined together would have monstrous effects. Even though it seed quite far away, Zhao Fu was greatly looking forwards to having a General Armant soday.
Right now, Li Wen was exploring the passages with so other soldiers and had collected 47 Soldier Souls over the past few days, so the day that Zhao Fu would obtain a General Armant was quickly approaching.
After giving the Star Slashing Sword back to Bai Qi, Bai Qi looked at its new stats and felt quite ecstatic.
The Iceborn Tiger’s body had all sorts of valuable materials, so Zhao Fu ordered his soldiers to take care of its corpse. After all, most of these materials could be used to create Silver grade equipnt. By looking at the position of the sun, Zhao Fu was able to determine that it was lunch ti, so he decided that it would be best to eat the Iceborn Tiger’s at.
They rested and prepared the Iceborn Tiger’s at by splitting it into chunks and roasting it. Zhao Fu ate a piece of the at and felt that it was quite tasty and chewy, and he even obtained a system announcent telling him that he had received 1% Ice Resistance.
Who would have thought that the at would be so good? It was a pity that there was only enough of it for 100 or so people, so many people couldn’t taste it.
Afterwards, they continued exploring. After eating a few pieces of the Iceborn Tiger’s at, Little Grey worked harder and led the way as it sniffed around. Little Black liked to eat grass, so it was not given any of the Iceborn Tiger’s at, making it feel slightly unhappy. However, after being appeased by a Little Spirit Pill, its mood beca better and it lightly walked behind Little Grey.
“Awoo…”
Little Grey seed to sll sothing and howled before running and stopping near a Gno Village.
The village was a Primary Village and only had 300 or so Gnos. There were 2 types of military units: Gno Crossbown and Gno Warriors, who used scimitars. The Gno Warriors had fairly weak fighting power, and they were much weaker than the Goblin Warriors.
Zhao Fu didn’t bother with special tactics when facing the 300 Gnos. He now had 1,400 soldiers, and they could completely suppress the other side. As such, he took his soldiers and tightly surrounded the Gno Village before telling his Gnos to ask the Gno Village to surrender.
What surprised Zhao Fu was that the Gno Village wasn’t willing to surrender and wanted to fight to the death despite seeing Zhao Fu’s numbers. Zhao Fu was not in a hurry, and he prioritized gaining as many villagers as possible. As such, he ordered his soldiers to cut down trees and to build a simple barrier around the Gno Village like they were creating a dumpling.
When the Gnos saw that Zhao Fu was building a barrier outside, they understood what Zhao Fu was doing and started to panic. There seed to be quite a lot of chaos and dissension as a result.
Zhao Fu observed everything in the village and understood that the Gno Village had split into factions. One faction wanted to surrender because it understood that it was impossible to fight against Zhao Fu’s forces. Moreover, they saw that there were many Gnos in Zhao Fu’s army, making it unlikely that they would be killed after surrendering, so they wisely wanted to surrender.
However, the other side was stubborn and refused to surrender because those Gnos wanted to die with the village.
At this mont, Zhao Fu gave another order. He told the Archers to light up fire arrows. By now, the Gnos knew that they would be burnt to death if they didn’t make a decision.
A large group of Gnos walked out from the village and knelt on the ground, indicating their surrender.
Zhao Fu nodded to show that he accepted and looked at the 50 or so Gnos who were still in the village that refused to surrender. Zhao Fu changed his mind and ordered the Archers to aim for the Gnos who refused to surrender instead of the buildings.
Of course, Zhao Fu would not kill all of them – he just wanted to send a warning that he would not act softly against their stubbornness. He didn’t believe that those Gnos truly did not fear death and wanted to die with their village.
“Fire!”
Zhao Fu gave the order and the arrows flew towards the Gnos. The Gnos desperately fought back by shooting with their crossbows, but the crossbow bolts were completely blocked by the Shieldbearers. Zhao Fu’s Archers’ arrows contained imnse strength, and they instantly pierced 10 or so of the Gnos.
After seeing those that they had just been speaking to suddenly shot to death, the aura of death quickly spread around the other Gnos. Facing true death, the remaining Gnos beca terrified, and when Zhao Fu was about to order the second wave of Archers to fire, the remaining Gnos cried as they ran out of the village and knelt on the ground, choosing to surrender.
Zhao Fu accepted their surrender – this ti, he had gained 301 Gnos. Following this, Zhao Fu went to the Barracks and had a look at the Profession Change Stone Stele for Gno Warriors.
[Gno Warrior]: F grade Military. Description: Warriors among Gnos. Effect: Receives [Scimitar Control].
It was an ordinary trash profession, and Zhao Fu did not take much interest in it. He went to the Village Hall and chose to conquer and [Relocate] the Village, earning him 50 Achievent Points and the Great Qin Village 169 EXP.
After conquering this Village, Zhao Fu wanted to take everyone back to the Great Qin Village. However, they soon found a bandit village
The bandit village had roughly 400 bandits, and after the bandit leader left the village to hunt, Zhao Fu took advantage of the situation by attacking the village. After receiving a notification that the village was under attack, the bandit leader hurried back, but he was ambushed and killed by the soldiers that Zhao Fu had waiting for him.
This ti, Zhao Fu obtained 340 bandits, all of whom he placed in the army. However, because of a thread he had read on the forum, he decided to closely monitor them.
Most of the villagers that spawned in bandit villages were n, and all of them had decent fighting strength, as opposed to ordinary villages which also spawned elderly, won, and children.
Soone had wanted to use bandit villages to quickly spawn n for his or her army, so the person took over two bandit villages. He or she did not turn the bandit villages into ordinary villages afterwards, allowing the bandit villages to continue spawning bandits. However, once more than half of the person’s army comprised of bandits, they imdiately rebelled.
Even though ordinary villages would spawn all sorts of villagers, they would be absolutely loyal to their Lord. As long as one did not oppress them or force them into dire straits, they would always remain loyal. However, bandits were different. If one did not manage them rigorously and keep their collective Loyalty above 60, it was possible for them to rebel. If soone had more bandits than loyal soldiers, it would be extrely dangerous.
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