Chapter 918 - Rebuild (2/2)
The army quest appeared, making people feel the charm of such a game. So players could control this world as long as you were strong enough!
An hour later, we arrived at Fan Shu City. The white wall-like jade city had turned into ruins. The city walls were broken at over 80% of the areas and much of the architecture within the city was destroyed. The shops had become a bunch of broken bricks and were totally crushed. Apart from not needing us to level out the area, we had to pretty much start from scratch.
”Let's begin, get to work. Clear the ruins of the city!” Han Yuan raised his blade. The Royal Army's troops and workers started to dig and move the walls and broken parts away.
The Ministry of Revenue troops brought a bunch of officials to follow me, ”Commander in Chief, we need large amounts of white stone to build the city walls. White stone is really tough and was the main material for the foundation of Fan Shu City. There are white stones above Flaming God Mountain. We need to move stones for half a month to meet the requirements.”
I nodded, ”Let your subjects release quests around the area to let adventurers join the construction. Each white stone will give a certain reward. Take the rewards from our treasury.”
”Yes General, I will do so immediately!”
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Not long later, Li Mu, Wang Jian, Dancing Forest, and the others brought around 10 thousand [Zhan Long] players over. Everyone knew what to do and after accepting the quest, they headed to Flaming God Mountain. After the refresh, all the mobs on the mountain were high-level monsters. The Fire Dragon Cavalry opened the path, clearing out the monsters around before starting to search for white stones to complete the quest.
I ordered Long Xing and Xia Ye to lead 10 thousand Royal Army to defend the dragon crystal mines and gold mines. This was the lifeline Fan Shu City had to develop, and we couldn't lose it. Luckily, the players' mining technology wasn't good enough excavate the two types of NPC mines.
Riding my God Dragon Horse, I brought a bunch of Fire Dragon Cavalry to charge at the front. After killing a bunch of wild bears, the ground was lined by white stones. We directly used weapons to dig. The Dragon Reservoir Sword smacked the ground and clanged against it. A large meter-wide white stone appeared in front of us. It weighed 10% of our maximum capacity so even if a player's bag was empty, they could collect 10 pieces only.
I loaded up with 8 white stones and headed down the mountain. The Royal Army troops who saw me expressed their respect instantly. They probably felt that although I was the Suiding Duke and Commander in Chief, I was still personally moving stones too. They felt that I was easy to get close to.
I came to where the Department of Revenue official was at, handing over a white stone. He blinked and said, ”Commander in Chief, you have provided a white stone. You will obtain 2,000,000 experience and 10 gold!”
Tsk tsk, it didn’t look bad. The current gold to RMB rate was 1:5. So each stone would give 2 dollars, and that meant that one could obtain 16 dollars at once. In one day, I would be able to make 20 trips back and forth from the Flaming God Mountain Range which was equal to 320 dollars. That was much better than moving bricks and there would also be experience, what a huge gain!
[Zhan Long] players all spread out to move stones. Apart from [Zhan Long], there were many other guilds who came over to do the quest. Fan Shu City was really busy, artisans were cutting around and there were sounds of stone being hit. The main quest now was to repair the city wall to be able to ensure safety.
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It reached the dead of the night very quickly. The sound of the cold wind blew across the entire Fan Shu City. Most troops and craftsmen went to rest. We amassed most resources outside the city and allowed Han Yuan to lead 10 thousand Royal Army troops to defend.
”So cold... ”Yue Qing Qian grabbed her cape and smiled, ”At most, it will take 48 hours and the outer surrounding will be built. Next would be the inner construction, right?”
I nodded my head as I looked at the construction progress and said, ”Next would be to build the Lord’s manner and appoint the next leader. After that, we can confirm specialty soldiers. If I make Chi Yu Han the City Lord, then Fan Shu City will be able to produce Flame Hawk Archers and Cliff Dragon Cavalry...”
Yue Qing Qian nodded her head and smiled, ”I also heard that after Fang Ge Que took over Dragon’s Den, he hired an orange [Demon Harvest Tier] BOSS from Tian Ling City as the Dragon’s Den City Head. What a waste... the soldier types are much weaker than Chi Yu Han so he wouldn't be able to recruit troops based on the City Lord's stats.”
I felt delighted and smiled, ”He deserves it!”
Yue Qing Qian also laughed, ”Yeah, he deserves it!”
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After a few minutes, the sound of horse hooves spread over. A notification sounded out in my ear—
”Ding!”
System Notification: Player, please pay attention, a mercenary group from Lingnan is heading towards Fan Shu City. Their goal is to pillage building resources. Please head out to kill them. Then you can obtain equipment and experience. The more you kill, the better the equipment you can get. Your achievement value will also increase!
”A quest is here!”
I was delighted. I held the Dragon Reservoir Sword and jumped on a horse and said, ”Brothers, let's start the night quest!”
A bunch of [Zhan Long] players set out and headed south of Fan Shu City. On the map, a dense amount of red dots appeared. As expected, over fifty thousand fierce mercenaries headed over. F***, even a random mercenary army had so many people. That didn't make any sense. One must know that the Empire's Dragonling Army only had 50 thousand troops after it was rebuilt!