Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 486: Foundational Wealth

When Li Wei stated his position that they would take the path of a scoundrel in the future, everyone in the tent fell silent. But how were they going to walk this path?

They needed sufficient strength and sufficient advantages to be a scoundrel, right?

"Zhao Qingshan, didn't your Engineering Department previously have a '359'?"

Li Wei suddenly asked.

Zhao Qingshan quickly replied, "Yes, My Lord, but that was just a joke among ourselves at the time; it's Unpresentable."

"How can it be considered Unpresentable? Come and introduce it to me."

Zhao Qingshan was still hesitating and rather embarrassed, but Duan Bowen had already spoken for him.

"My Lord, I know. Their Engineering Department's '359': the '3' refers to the Three Musketeers of Engineering—Nelson, Linus, and him, Zhao Qingshan. The '5' refers to the Engineering Five Dogs—Smith, Vandal, Ding Yang, Chen Ke, and Old Jack. The final '9' refers to the 9 Workhorses; specifically, they are the soul and core of the Engineering Department. Basically, with these seventeen people, there's no problem doing anything."

"Of course, it has now become '147'. The rest left with Nelson and Linus. But in my opinion, even with only these twelve people left, it's still not a problem. These are the Twelve Arhats of our territory's Supply and Engineering Battalion, or the Twelve Monkeys."

"Alright, Duan Bowen, go call the other eleven monkeys over. We are going to build a city this time, and a great city at that. Zhao Qingshan, you Twelve Monkeys will have to Shoulder the Burden!"Li Wei laughed, and the atmosphere in the tent instantly eased significantly. Only Zhao Qingshan was left laughing awkwardly, having the urge to slap Duan Bowen to death. It clearly sounded so good to call them the Twelve Arhats, yet he had to have a loose tongue and say 'Twelve Monkeys'. What kind of ghost joke was that? It didn't even have a punchline.

Duan Bowen whistled, did a backflip, and ran out with light steps. Young people ah, just Full of Vigor.

Soon, the other eleven engineering monkeys all arrived. Each of them was somewhat reserved, inarticulate, introverted, and quite wooden, but they were all large in stature, instantly filling the tent to the brim.

However, they were all very good. Currently, all of them had reached Four-Star, and even their profession ratios were reasonably healthy. They were basically all Artisans, Blacksmiths, Carpenters, and Stonemasons. Even if there were occasional exceptions, they were Miners, Woodcutters, and Leatherworkers.

At this moment, Li Wei looked at Li Yue. The latter understood instantly and immediately laid out a full twenty Five-Star Class Cards and thirty Four-Star Class Cards.

These were obtained from the fifty Purple Cards Li Wei handed to Li Yue yesterday, and also dropped by the fifty Ducal Guards under Duke Kaidel.

The best part of those Profession Cards had already been picked by the forty-two Heavy Cavalry of the Blazing Legion. These were the remaining ones.

"Zhao Qingshan, now I want to know if the Primary Class of the twelve of you has reached the standard to Upgrade to Five-Star. I mean in terms of Experience and Destiny Grid."

"This—reached it, we've all reached it. We did a lot of work, so we reached it a long time ago." Zhao Qingshan was slightly excited. He himself had upgraded to a 5-Star Artisan a long time ago, but he was the only one.

Back in the Flame Territory, any opportunities to upgrade to Five-Star were prioritized for the Heavy Cavalry. It was already quite good that he could manage to get one opportunity.

"Then Upgrade."

Li Wei nodded and took out twenty-four Silver Tokens. They were still synthesized using Black Iron Tokens. He had originally wanted to save them for the Royal Guard, but now it seemed that if they wanted to develop, they had to comprehensively improve. Without 5-Star Artisans, they wouldn't be able to build a better city.

"Thank you, My Lord!"

Zhao Qingshan was very excited and couldn't care less about being polite. He hastily distributed the Silver Tokens to his subordinates. Two pieces per person, exactly enough to upgrade both their Primary and secondary classes to Five-Star. Next, each person casually chose a Five-Star Class Card, and from then on, they would all be Five-Star Professionals.

Li Wei and the others watched quietly until all twelve of them had finished upgrading and binding.

"My Lord, I unlocked a Hidden Attribute called Ingenuity!"

That engineer named Smith said in pleasant surprise. But evidently, the others had basically all Awakened Ingenuity.

This was a special Hidden Attribute. Under normal circumstances, no Player could Awaken it because no Player would foolishly keep binding themselves with Artisan-type Profession Cards.

That was too unreasonable.

But only Lord Players with a Territory could conduct targeted training on the Commoners in their territory.

In short, the price was quite high, and there had to be enough large and small projects to facilitate Grinding Providence.

"Don't randomly add points yet. Add them to Ingenuity first. Add all your Free Attribute Points to Ingenuity and strive to reach +6. That's the limit. However, in the future, as your main Destiny Grid increases, this limit will also gradually unlock. Also, your first and second Profession Cards should have each acquired one Origin Particle. Use them according to the information prompts. You can research their specific marvelous uses yourselves."

"Finally, from now on, the twelve of you engineers will be qualified to attend the Territory Executive Meeting. Sit down, everyone find a seat and sit down."

Li Wei greeted them. If his faction was to continuously develop in the future, he would need to continuously expand the middle-tier members of the faction, promote talents, and treat talents well. This promotion process was also a process of distributing dividends and benefits, so that everyone had enough benefits and could find their own position on this big ship. In this way, when facing stormy seas, everyone would work together to overcome the difficulties.

Next, Li Wei handed Zhao Qingshan another one hundred Black Iron Tokens.

"Distribute these to the Artisans under you. Upgrade their second and third classes to Four-Star as well. Next, your Supply and Engineering Battalion will have to Shoulder the Burden. Not only for the construction of the city, but it's best to also spare some manpower to forge parts for the Ballistae and Trebuchets. For these great killing weapons for defending a city, the more the better."

"Additionally, Xuanxuan, you can handle your Enchanted Blacksmith Workshop yourself, right? Once it's set up, focus on this. Although we currently lack a Mana Mine, we are not short of one-star, two-star, or even three-star Enchanted Steel Ingots. Using them to repair damaged Armaments shouldn't be a big problem."

"As for Li Yue, you are responsible for the Soldiers' training and the patrolling and warning tasks around the camp. Apart from the Soldiers' individual combat skills, battle formation drills, Infantry, Cavalry, and combined drills are all very important. Take charge of this and do not slack off."

"As for external reconnaissance, anti-reconnaissance, infiltration, and anti-infiltration, those will naturally be left to me. Oh, and farming. If anyone wants to grind their Farmer Destiny, they can find time to reclaim some farmland nearby for planting. Looking at the situation now, it's only been a month into summer. As long as you work hard, there will definitely be a harvest."

"This is our overall focus of work and respective scopes of work for the future. Now, Zhao Qingshan, continue to specifically explain the matters concerning the construction of the city and Fortress."

"Yes, My Lord!"

Zhao Qingshan nodded respectfully to Li Wei, then took out over a dozen purely hand-drawn blueprints. The first one was the planar topographic map of the camp.

"My Lord, please look. This Temporary Territory of ours is actually like a strawberry cut lengthwise. It goes inward for less than twenty li. The narrowest part is less than a few hundred meters, and the widest part is about twelve li. Our current position is exactly at the edge of the spur of this mountain peak in the Northwest Direction. The slope here is gentle, and overall it looks like a steamed bun head."

"It can be said that it itself is not very suitable for building large-scale cities and Fortresses on top of it. General Thomas has also investigated it. The rocks below are at most 3-Star Quality, and there are sure to be many cracks, so it's only suitable for building small to medium Fortresses."

"Therefore, what we are thinking is to build the Central City in the central area between these two spurs. In the future, we can even build a City Wall to seal off the entire Valley, which is equivalent to using the two spur peaks as the protective walls of the city."

"Of course, just this is not enough. We also need to build one Medium Fortress each at the highest points of the north and south steamed bun mountains. This will form a triangular pattern with the Central City, acting as a Mutual Support Formation."

"And on the outer sides of these two Medium Fortresses, it's best to build two Small Fortresses each. With this combination—Hunting Pets for aerial monitoring and early warning, dense laying of Traps, crossfire from Ballistae, Fireball strikes from the Mana Mine + Mage Tower, and then the Heavy Cavalry rapidly detouring to the enemy's rear for flexible combat—when that time comes, if our army is at full strength, we should be able to withstand an attack from about three thousand enemy troops."

"But to perfect all the above, we need at least a year. And this is all built on the premise that Lady Hathaway can successfully construct the Mage Tower. Additionally, we also have to ensure that Falcon Karl and Mountain Eagle Parker won't come to Stir Up Trouble."

"Furthermore, once construction begins, it's best to Go All Out. All materials must be the best. For example, the Central City Foundation is best built with Five-Star Stone. This is crucial for the subsequent engraving of magical structures. But once these precious materials are used, there is absolutely no possibility of digging them back out to use again, because such precious materials have a very important role in stabilizing the earth energy—oh no, stabilizing the Mana Ecology of this region. Chekhov, isn't that right?"

Zhao Qingshan suddenly asked Chekhov a question. The latter nodded repeatedly, "My Lord, it is indeed so. You must be certain that we will treat this as our most important Central City in the future. Otherwise, you still shouldn't lightly use Five-Star Stone. This kind of stone inherently contains very pure and abundant Earth Mana. Using it for the foundation, it absolutely won't be shaken by Lord Thomas and Lady Xuanxuan. It even has extremely important uses for the subsequent construction of the Mana Mine and even the Mage Tower."

"To say something that isn't bragging: with this Five-Star Stone, we can Make a Comeback anywhere! Outsiders only laugh at us for being poor Wandering Bandits; how could they know we are filthy rich!"

"Since that's the case, use the Five-Star Stone Mine for the Central City Foundation. Specifically, how much can be used?" Li Wei didn't hesitate. If there were good things, of course they should be used. This was for laying the foundation.

"Reporting to My Lord, it must be exactly one-third. I am very sure."

"Alright, then let's do it this way. However, when laying the Five-Star Stone Mine, it's best if you guys do it yourselves. Chekhov, Liu Huan, you two must be present at all times. This should also be a very rare opportunity for you. Also, the use of the Five-Star Stone Mine must be kept strictly confidential!"