Doom Lord

Chapter 124 – Task Hall

In his last lifetime, many people had calculated that if a person were to open up four times cultivation, it was entirely possible to upgrade to second early-order within a year. However, regarding the average profession, many professions were only able to gather 1,000 points by the end of the year before opening four times cultivation speed.

Maybe some people would say that even if you could only obtained 10 points of power value per day, 100 days was enough to gather 1,000 points. Then wouldn’t it be faster to upgrade with four times cultivation speed at that time?

However, the reality wasn’t so. If there wasn’t enough power value, opening up two time cultivation speed was definitely more beneficial than opening four times cultivation speed. Because if you didn’t used two times cultivation speed, it would take at least 40 days to reach first medium-order. Even if only one hour could be used per day to open two times speed, it could also advance the upgrade by five or six days. That’s the advantage of not saving.

Human beings were competing with enchanted beast in terms of evolution speed. If the speed falls behind, perhaps five or six days behind was enough to end their lives.

Of course, it was easy for leaders like Yuan Jianze to gather some power values, but he was also afraid to plunder on a large-scale. Many people in his last lifetime has verified what happens when a leader does this. Some leaders would tried to make all the profession in the main city contribute a portion of their power value to them, growing their power value to an astronomical figure. At that time, not to mention four times cultivation speed or eight times cultivation speed, even ten times speed was possible.

However, power value was basically the livelihood of the professions. For those that could only earned 10 points of power value per day, taking one-tenth of their harvest was like saying you want to take their lives. If it was a powerful leader, people might not complained as much. However, the key was that the leader at the time of transfer was also only at first early-order. Once he aroused the anger of the population, the end result could be imagined.

There were plenty of leaders in his past life that used their own life to prove this example. Afterwards, no leader dared to wantonly plundered money into their own pocket.

Yuan Jianze was a relatively sensible person, and his control over the main city was also quite strong. Even then he merely had 100,000 points in his account to open up eight times cultivation speed. Don’t look on this 100,000 points of power value, it might not be comparable to the 500,000 points that Cheng Yang had blackmailed away, but his daily consumption still reached 280 points. Furthermore, not only him but also all his high and low ranking officials has opened up a certain cultivation speed, which also need their subordinates to supply. This all adds up to a huge expense.

Professions of Luo Feng Village were very lucky to have the priest profession. In a period where power value was scare, the presence of priest without doubt gave them an immense advantage. And that reason lies in the health recovery speed.

In fact, the strength of the ordinary professions in Luo Feng Village wasn’t much stronger than any of the other main cities. Perhaps, the only difference was the addition of equipment and statue bonuses. However, they were able to earn 10 times more a day than the professions from the main city. This just showed how great the role of priest was to other profession.

Imagine this, each time professions of the main city finished a battle, they would need to sit down and meditate for nearly half an hour to restore their health. However, for the professions of Luo Feng Village, they would only requires a minute or two to return back to full health. It could be seen how big the disparity between the two was.

Currently, there were only a few priests in Luo Feng Village. Merely 84 priests. Basically, each platoon could be equipped with one. As such, normally they would go out in platoon as the lowest unit to kill monsters. The distance between platoon to platoon wasn’t that far apart. Once a large group of enchanted beast was encountered, they could immediately reorganized to a brigade, and launch an assault on the enchanted beast.

Of course, if it was to clear up the unclaimed wilderness, a squadron or platoon wouldn’t be enough to do the job. It would need at least a battalion, sometimes even two battalions to deal with such a task.

Today was May 2, the 20th day of the apocalypse.

Now Cheng Yang’s cultivation has reached 37.5%, still far from the last upgrade to scholar rank.

After Cheng Yang came out of the instance this morning, he conveyed a meeting with the commanders of the five major camp to discuss over the matters for today. At the same time, to tell them not to urgently pushed outward to the unclaimed area* today. [TLN: Areas that haven’t been cleared yet, so full of monsters.]

“Lord, there is one thing that need your attention.” Lee Wanshan suddenly said.

Cheng Yang asked, “What’s the matter?”

Lee Wanshan said: “Yesterday when I visited the forum, I discovered that several cities in the region around us were already active in the forum. Moreover Yuan Jianze’s people were also beginning to contact them. Without exception, the forces that control these main cities were all related to the government or the military. As such, it was easy for them to make an alliance with each other. If we can’t eliminate the hidden trouble in Xiangcheng City’s main city, it might come back and bite us.”

Cheng Yang smiled and said, “Rest assured, the main city isn’t so easy to control. After all, the owner of the main city can only belongs to the gods. Anyone that tries to control the main city is doomed for complete failure. As for Yuan Jianze, we don’t need to worry much about him. He is indeed very powerful at the moment, and if he was placed in any other main city, his development potential is limitless. But what was tragic was that he appeared in Xiangcheng City’s main city, and along with it was me. Without occupying the field stations, it is hard for him to build up a strong armed force with just the main city.”

Although Lee Wanshan has already known some of the might that the field station possessed, but it was obviously not yet the time for him to fully comprehend the meaning of Cheng Yang’s words.

“Old Yu, what’s the status on the auxiliary professions?” Cheng Yang turned to Yu Kai and asked.

Yu Kai quickled replied, “It’s not bad. Almost all the profession in Luo Feng Village have now obtained the related raw material collection tool to their auxiliary profession. Now a large number of people goes out to collect raw materials each day. This is, after all, a important way to promote the military rank. Some people even already acquired level 3 collection skill. More of such people will gradually show up from now on, and when that happens the output of raw materials will be greatly increased.”

Cheng Yang nodded his head and said, “You did well. These days, the professions of the territory will aso gradually advance to medium-order apprentice. Our strength will be dramatically different from the past. But you must remember, this is the end. The world will only get more and more dangerous. Once our evolution speed lags behind the enchanted beast, extinction is what we will face.”

There were a few words Cheng Yang didn’t mention. In fact, this period of time of the apocalypse was meant to let humans adapt to the rhythm of the end. The true cruelty was still yet to come. If some people feel they could laid back after possessing a bit of strength, then this person would surely not live long.

Yu Kai and others discreetly nodded. At last, Liu Hao said, “Lord, when do you think we can clear the nightmare difficulty level of the two instances?”

Cheng Yang knew what Liu Hao was thinking. Since Liu Hao heard from Yu Kai that there was an instance near the other village that was likely to have a special profession transfer prop related to him, his heart has always been itching for it. If it wasn’t due to his lack of strength, he might had already rushed his way inside of that instance.

Cheng Yang shook his head and said, “It’s not yet time to go in. Our strength is still a bit weak. Wait until I enter scholar rank, then we’ll see.”

Liu Hao abruptly said, “Lord, why don’t we try letting those territory guards enter the affiliated villages? After all, the affiliated villages are also part of the territory. Is it not? If so, wouldn’t we be able to clear the instance instantly?”

Cheng Yang said, “You are overthinking things. First of all, not to mention that the two instances aren’t in the scope of the territory, have you seen the large distance from Luo Feng Village to your village. The distance between them doesn’t belong to the territory of Luo Feng Village, so what make you think the territory guards can pass through it?”

Liu Hao was crestfallen. It seems this approach wasn’t workable.

In fact, Cheng Yang had already tried to let the territory guards goes to the affiliation stations. However, Chen Yun told him that unless the area of the main village was connected to the affiliation station, even it was only a tiny bit, otherwise the only land the territory guards could protect was the main village.

Afterwards, the crowd discussed some matters concerning the development of the territory, while Cheng Yang watch everyone speak. At this moment, Yu Kai and the others were people with a lot of things on their hands. Each person has hundreds of men under them, so there was a lot of things they need to discuss amongst themselves to make sure everything goes smoothly.

After these people left, Cheng Yang went to the Task Hall.

Even though Cheng Yang has already been a mercenary for five to six days now, he still has yet to accept a mercenary task. This was because he couldn’t see a task to his liking.

Prior to this, whether it was the task hall in the field station or the main city, the tasks released were all related to the collection of raw materials.

Cheng Yang remembered that in his past life, after the Task Hall appeared on the tenth day of the apocalypse in the main city, all the professions thinks of it as a pain in the ass. Especially for those that became carpenter or alchemist. In the area around the main city, not to mention the appearance of herbs and wood, even weeds or small saplings weren’t seen. So during this time, no one went to receive the mercenary task.

But after today, this situation would change.

When Cheng Yang came to the Task Hall, he saw the inside was a lot livier than before. Since it was still morning, a lot of teams came in droves to pick up their tasks. Of course, these tasks were all about collecting raw materials.

When they saw Cheng Yang, they respectfully greeted him. This look of reverence came from the heart, well at least most people felt this way.

They were very clear about the kind of world they now live in. Moreover, being able to still stay alive and fortunate enough to become a profession, these had an inseparable relationship with Cheng Yang. And thus far, Cheng Yang has not asked for any repayment from them, but still continue to invest in them, which made them even more moved.

If Cheng Yang knew their thoughts, he would probably laugh! As the lord of the Luo Feng Village, these people contribution to Luo Feng Village was the greatest reward he could asked for.