"Your 'Devotion Invoker' level has been increased to lv9."

"Gain 6 idle skill points."

"Max HP +20 (428+20)."

"+1 spell slot for the six rings."

……

Two days later, on a tattered bandit ship in the astral plane, Charles received the system information that the character's total level had been raised to level 29.

Level 29 is very bland, there are no rewards for attribute points and specialty points, but to the next level, level 30, it will be different, Charles will encounter the level lock again, and without completing the hero guide task, it is estimated that only the level points given by the Mandate Compass can be used to increase the level.

When he returned from the hinterland of the Gisyankee Empire two days ago, Charles was actually close to 98%, and in the past two days, Charles was heartbroken for the 2% experience progress, and took countless tasks at Angel Reef to fill in this part of the experience gap.

This time, Xing Shen followed him, the level did not fall, and it had been raised to lv26 yesterday, and their pair is currently far ahead of the rank list, and the third-place Qianfan is currently only lv24!

"It's time to go home!"

After dealing with a group of astral bandits returning to Angel Reef to submit a mission, Charles couldn't wait to summon Xingshen and use [Otherworldly Teleportation] to return to the material plane.

Continuing to use the [Teleportation Technique], this time the teleportation error was quite large, and Charles and Starfall appeared in front of a rushing river.

Thun River!

Charles was slightly stunned and said: "Just inspect the progress of inland river dredging!" ”

Open the large map, and the markers show that he is located in the upper reaches of the Thun marsh, not far from the open sea marsh, which is also the first phase of the project. After careful calculation, Charles found that he had been working hard in the astral plane for at least a week, and if the project went well, this section of the river basin was also under development.

"Let's go."

said hello to Xing Shenshen, and the other party did not refuse Charles's invitation to travel together, and nodded lightly and followed alongside.

The Thun undoubtedly has a wide riverbed and is as deep as it can be used to open inland canals, and as Charles and Starsink walked a little further, they found hordes of slaves digging up the silt deposited in the riverbed with various tools, including shovels and bucket trucks.

The riverbed was fertile with silt, and Charles stopped a convoy of transports, pointing to the black dirt that was full of dirt, and asked a human overseer, "Where are you going to dispose of this silt?" ”

The human overseer was patrolling with a whip in his hand, and he was stopped by Charles, he turned his head and looked sharp, and was about to open his mouth to scold, but after seeing that it was Charles, his eyes welled up with excitement, and he hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Lord Lord!" ”

Seeing Charr's kind nod, the human overseer breathed a sigh of relief, "This silt will be transported back to the territory to fill the land, especially some fields with poor soil quality, which need to be covered with a layer of fertile soil to grow crops. ”

"Excellent! Useful for money! Charles was satisfied, "Is this Yuffie's arrangement?" ”

"Yes, Lord Yuffie has issued a decree."

"Well done!"

Charles patted the human overseer on the shoulder, and when he saw that he was dressed in armor, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "You are a soldier of General Saleen of the knight battalion?" ”

"That's right! I'm a newcomer, having just passed the barracks exam a week ago to join the Knights of the Rocks, and then Lord Saleen arranged for our trained recruits to come and spy on the orc slaves. Overseer.

"So......" Charles nodded, turning and walking away with Starshine.

Recruits should actually stay in the barracks for training rather than rush them to a mission a week after joining the army.

Obviously, at present, the rock collar is very short of people, and even the recruit eggs are not spared, the reason, pat your head and think about it, you will know that it is the relationship of the new expansion.

Two days ago, the official release of the 'Feathered Serpent and the Witch' expansion pack announcement, originally some of the alliance players who were still left behind in the Rock Territory also rushed to the Chult Peninsula because of the official news, Charles can guess the current miserable number of players in the territory even if he doesn't look at the territory panel.

Perhaps there are only some novice players left who are low-level, lagging behind the third echelon, and unable to move across maps.

Continue to patrol upstream.

At the source of the Thun, at the mouth of the marshland, a new quay is being built.

Charles found some familiar faces of the Arabe Builders' Union among the busy artisans, as well as its president, Gaden Blackshield, a member of the Knowledge Church who still served as the overseer, and his disgruntled roar rang out from time to time amid the noisy clanging of the docks.

It was orc slaves who carried the building materials.

However, unlike the orc slaves who dug the canals, these slaves were the first to be domesticated in the Rock Realm, and thus behaved very docilely when they worked, and their ruins and fangs were all knocked out.

Any major project requires a lot of labor, and the Thun River can even wrap around Cormier's territory, you can imagine how long this river is, and the excavation and dredging of the river must be considered a major project, if the rock collar wants to do it alone, it must replenish a large number of slaves, but the problem is that the rock collar even has a shortage of guards to guard the slaves, and it is not enough to make up the west wall alone, the east wall has to be repaired, and the rock collar may not be able to do anything in the end.

So, Charles never considered going it alone.

Rock Collar does not have this ability.

He set his sights on the Arabe, Susar, and the Ipgil family of the Western Soils, and now that the matriarch Delori had agreed to join the Canal Development Alliance, it would be almost enough to bring in another ally.

Without bothering Garden Blackshield, Charles and Starsink made their way through the docks and found several more completed coastal forts in the waters outside.

Each fortress has a tall brick watchtower with a Rock Collar banner on it, and NPC guards can be seen standing guard.

At the same time, Charles noticed a diagonally arranged group of fortresses, forming gatehouse-like buildings, with a drawbridge corridor stretched across the air, six or seven meters above the ground.

In the river, craftsmen were working on some round objects in the shape of piers, and Charles immediately had an idea of what the water gate would look like when it was finished.

Iron fences blocked the mouth of the river, and the sturdy bridges were filled with soldiers of the Rock Collar armed with bows and crossbows, such a defense and garrison was sufficient for most situations, and merchant ships without permission to pass could only stop at the dock outside the water village to unload their cargo, but could not reach the core hinterland of the Rock Collar.

The design of the Pratunam Water Village is exquisite.

In fact, Charles's conception of the construction of the rock collar and the canal did not go into detail about each building, but he only explained the general outline to Yuffie and other high-level officials, and how to play it depends on the actual operation ability of Yuffie and other high-level officials.

And it is clear that Yuffie did not disappoint him. Even Charles is ashamed of himself, no matter how you say that Yuffie is also the female leader who leads the current first guild of "Dawn", which is much more reliable than him, who can only lead the group and is the wild leader of the free-range team most of the time.

Therefore, Charles has always been self-aware, and he can combine the knowledge of the game with the grand strategic direction, but when it comes to the following work, he is far less than a doer like Yufe.

……

Rock collar.

Outside the lord's area, which is gradually taking shape, a large open-air building is also being built in the main square.

The female president, Yuffe, stood outside the construction site, with a slightly calm face.

A team of players walked through the square, and the barbarian in the lead voice was very loud: "Damn, after more than a week of farming monsters in the rock leader, the last member of our fixed team is finally level 12." ”

The other team members also looked excited.

"Captain, don't say much, the portal is up, level 12 can go to the Chult Peninsula to access the expansion!"

"That's right, replenish the logistics in the rock collar and go to the Night Shine Temple!"

Temple of Night Glory!

When Yu Fei heard this, a gloomy light flashed in his eyes.

A month after the Lich laid the Temple portal and declared it free, Yuffie has been calloused almost always when she visits the territory and hears players and Native NPCs talking about the Solar Temple.

Obviously, Ingrid's intentions had been achieved, and now the influence of the Temple of Nightfall was even greater than that of the Shire's Temple of Knowledge, and it was closely following behind the town hall.

This is also something that Yuffie cannot tolerate.

Spreading influence and proselytizing is enough, and Yuffie will never allow the Cult of Night to attack the idea of the Rock Collar.

The Rock Realm is the player's territory, and it is impossible to accept the political power of the church to divide the town hall!

And now the Yeyao Church is having this dangerous trend, so Yuffie has to start the construction of the portal in advance, lay out the outer frame, form public opinion, and suppress the limelight of the Yeyao Church first.

So far, the effect is not bad, players and natives passing by the city's main square, always have to look at the portal construction site a few times, and then talk about it.

"The funds are in place, but the Astral Stone is missing!"

Yuffie didn't know that Charles had made an agreement with the Lich, and the Lich was responsible for the construction of the Rock Realm's portal, so Yuffie contacted Arabe's Lord's Mansion on her own, and the female lord Milman Raul personally received her and contracted the construction of the Rock Realm's portal at a suitable price.

Arabe's Mage Guild has many mages who have expertise in making portals and are willing to take on this kind of high-paying job. Yuffie is thoughtful, and with Milman Raul in the background, he doesn't have to worry about that group of mages just taking money and leaving a pile of tofu dregs for the project.

"That guy hasn't heard from him in the past few days!" Thinking of leaving all the affairs of the territory to his priest, Yuffie was secretly angry, that guy was happy, with a female god of law, flying to the Star Boundary, and starting a live broadcast, how pleasant...... Sometimes when I think about it, Yuffie has an urge to leave everything behind.

But she knows where her fun lies.

Be a casual person?

Yuffie gave up a long time ago. Since the formation of 'Twilight Blade', she is no longer a person, but a leader to consider for many full-time members, and in the past two years, the business cooperation and commercial sponsorship of 'Twilight Blade' have been going well, and there are more and more guild executives with salaries and commissions, and sometimes, the guild's elite group has to work for certain bosses, which can be regarded as a compromise made by Yuffie to commercialization.

"Hey!"

Someone suddenly patted the female president on the shoulder behind her back. Yuffie woke up and turned her head to see a young face that couldn't be more familiar.

Opening his mouth, Yufie was a little confused, and said in a muffled voice: "...... Coming back? ”

"Hmm." Charles smiled lightly, "I inspected the construction of the Thun River by the way, Yufie, you really have you, and you can't do better with a strong Aboriginal organization!" ”

This suspicious compliment caused the female president to roll her eyes.

However, after seeing the pastor, the previous gloomy appearance of the female president changed suddenly, her expression was much more cheerful, and the corners of her mouth were slightly provocated.

"How many Astral Stones did you get?" Yuffie asks what is most important to her heart.

"Guess." Charles laughed.

"Get out!"

Yufpe's fragrant leg kicked in the air suddenly retracted, as if remembering that the hateful guy in front of him was a well-deserved number one player in "Dawn", and it was a bit of a head-off to be rough with him.

Charles restrained his joke and said with a slight solemnity: "It's not much, I'll take a look...... It's a total of 1120 pieces. ”

"Huh?" Yufie's eyes widened, thinking she had misheard, "You added an extra zero, didn't you?" ”

The female president looked suspicious.

She was very aware of the price of the Astral Stone, and when she went to Arabe, she had planned to buy some from the female lord Milman, but after the other party said a friendship discount, Yuffie immediately retreated.

10,000 gold coins a piece!

If Charles had gotten more than a thousand astral stones in the astral plane...... After a rough calculation, the female president's heart is extremely messy, hundreds of millions of funds, opening a bank may not be so profitable!

"Don't believe me?" Charles didn't explain, and threw the trade application directly at the female president, and then put the stacked set of astral stones on the trading panel, and checked to confirm, "Oh, take them all." ”

Yuffie nodded in agreement, and the deal was completed.

She looked at the extra set of astral stones in her backpack, and only then did she dare to believe it, her face changed for a long time with her head down, and her excitement and shock gradually calmed down.

"Where did you get these stones?" Yuffie asked, staring at Charles.

"Rob?"

Charles shrugged his shoulders and said, "In the material plane, the price of the Astral Stone has been speculated to at least 10 times, and in Angel Reef, 1,000 Golden Dragon Coins can buy a Astral Stone...... Of course, not all of these 1,000 astral stones were bought, 970 of them were exchanged by me through meritorious service, which is equivalent to 970,000 alloy coins......

"Is it done in one step?" Charles chuckled.

"Of course!"

Yuffie did not hesitate to say: "To build a super-large portal, it costs 30 astral stones, and now that we have these 1,120 stones in our hands, we can consider building a batch of highest-level portals first, leading to important cities such as Waterdeep City, Silvermoon City, and Susar...... As for the small place......"

The female president's words paused here, and she smiled wryly.

"Now it's time to think about how to gain the trust of some small cities and get the city's leaders to communicate with the Rock Collar through portals."

"You can leave these diplomatic tasks to the members below, and in the future, players will definitely run around the continent, and the city's prestige will reach the [Respect] stage, and you can make a request to the city hall." Charles nodded, "In short, these more than a thousand Astral Stones are enough for us to lay a complete portal system!" ”

Yuffie waved his fist a little excitedly, "Let's make the Yeyao Church proud for a while!" When the Rock Collar constructs a honeycomb-shaped portal, their temple will be filled with doors at once! ”

Charles was stunned.

Did the Yeyao Church provoke this extremely controlling female president?

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(PS: Four thousand word chapters.) Recently, I have been busy in my new position, and the update time may be irregular, please understand. (To be continued.) )