NOVEL NEXT Chapter 9: Chapter 9: The Test of Upgrading the Village
In just one day, Fang Jie had thoroughly swept through eight Goblin Tribes. After each tribe was wiped out, a Wooden Treasure Chest would appear at the site. Fang Jie didn't open them right away; he carried them all back, planning to open them all at night.
Besides the first time returning, each time Fang Jie went back, he could bring back a large group of troops.
Speaking of which, apart from needing spirit points and corpses, the Undead Camp could raise an army incredibly quickly. If only there wasn't a time limit and he wasn't the only one who could lead the troops,
Fang Jie really wanted to disperse the Skeletons and have several teams attack at once.
"Open the treasure chest, open the treasure chest. I wonder what's inside." Fang Jie was somewhat excited the first time he saw a treasure chest. He washed his hands before sitting down.
With an eager heart, Fang Jie opened a treasure chest. After opening it, the treasure chest vanished without a trace, leaving behind some items on the ground. "Food, a rope, and a dagger?"
It's either that the treasure chest was too low-level, or his own luck was just poor.
After opening one, Fang Jie felt much calmer. After thinking it over, he continued to open treasure chests. Three in a row contained various basic resources. It was not until the fourth one that there was something different.
"A Soldier Card, it can summon 20 level 3 Skull Soldiers."
"In my hands, that's forty soldiers, better than nothing," Fang Jie muttered.
In one go, Fang Jie opened all the remaining treasure chests; aside from resources, there were some spirit points. The resources even included some bones from corpses. It seemed these were tailor-made for his camp.
Other people getting treasure chests probably also received items suitable for their respective camps.
"Why are there no blueprints? Damn it, even though there are Gold Coins." That's right, Fang Jie had found 18 Gold Coins, but unfortunately, he couldn't use them.
Without blueprints or any special items, Fang Jie felt somewhat helpless.
However, seeing his current military strength, Fang Jie felt happy. A whole day's work had not been in vain.
Military strength: Level 3 Skeleton Laborers 800, Skull Soldiers: Level 2 - 12, Level 3 - 1033
Through combat, Fang Jie sent all of his low-level troops to their deaths, leaving him only with level 3 Skeleton Laborers, as many as eight hundred.
The Skull Soldiers were quite resilient; the level 2 ones hadn't been completely wiped out. However, as the key to expansive training, the level 3 forces had exceeded a thousand. Just the materials alone needed over two thousand Goblin corpses.
One could only imagine how many Goblins Fang Jie had slaughtered today.
Since not all Goblins were adults and there were many young Goblins, there were even more. Of course, the abundance of resources was also thanks to some animals.
After dissecting the animals, the leftover useless bones were repurposed by Fang Jie.
Though these animals weren't very powerful, they were large and had many bones; otherwise, it wouldn't have been possible to gather so many bones.
As the sky gradually darkened, nighttime was approaching. After dinner, Fang Jie began to wait. "When night falls, the test begins. I'm not sure what kind it will be."
The night is when Undead Troops are the most powerful, somewhat stronger than during the day, and they have some regenerative abilities.
Most importantly, the darkness doesn't give other normal creatures an advantage.
No matter, Fission first. Fang Jie proceeded to fission his Skeleton subordinates. After the fission was complete, his number of level 3 Skull Soldiers approached two thousand, reaching more than eighteen hundred.
Returning to the Lord's Cottage, Fang Jie opened the upgrade options, looking at the various prepared materials. After the sunset, Fang Jie chose to upgrade immediately.
However, unlike before, selecting upgrade didn't change anything about the Lord's Cottage; it remained in its original state.
"The village has reached the critical point for an upgrade; do you want to continue and upgrade, do you want to accept the challenge? If you choose not to accept the challenge, then you will lose the chance to awaken your Territory Talent."
Territory Talent? What was that? Fang Jie didn't understand, but it didn't prevent him from knowing it was something good.
He quickly chose to accept the challenge, and the prompts changed again.
"Please choose the level of challenge to accept: Easy, Normal, Hazardous, Hell, Catastrophe."
There was no need for Fang Jie to be reminded that the higher the difficulty, the better the reward.
However, considering that the village originally only required a population of one hundred, and now his side had nearly two thousand, with over a thousand being Regular Soldiers who could envelop his village inside and out, he should be able to cope.
With this in mind, Fang Jie chose the highest level: Catastrophe.
"After all, whether I can rise above others depends on this one time."
Fang Jie knew that he had no powerful backers, no ability to organize, and that he could advance faster in this world thanks to his better luck with an item he had obtained.
If he didn't fight with the advantage now, there might be no chance to struggle later.
Besides, Fang Jie was not entirely unprepared.
"Please confirm your choice again. Once confirmed, the challenge will begin. If you pass, you can choose to change camps. If you stick with your current camp, it will enhance the strength of your awakened abilities."
Fang Jie's eyes narrowed slightly: "It seems that changing camps isn't unique to me. Surely, I can only stay one step ahead. Once others also change camps, my advantage will diminish. But by then, it seems I won't need to hide my camp issue anymore."
Choosing to take a gamble was indeed correct.
After confirming again, the prompt followed.
"Please prepare; the village upgrade challenge, Goblin's Revenge, will begin in one hour. At that time, there will be a large number of Goblins attacking, so be ready to defend."
"Just as I thought, it's a monster siege type. "
Fang Jie smirked, "The question is whether this protective circle is still effective. If it is, it'll be much easier this time."
Other people, it's quite unlikely they could gather enough population in three days. Unless many people pooled their resources for one person, Fang Jie wasn't sure if anyone had started the challenge yet.
But he should be one of the first to start the challenge.
Fang Jie wasn't idle; he instructed the Skeletons to bring out all sorts of stone and wood and piled them haphazardly around, creating various barriers. Especially near his Functional Buildings and the Lord's Cottage, he even constructed a low wall.
He had sold off most of the food in exchange for stones and wood, and now he could finally use them.
After all, as long as these things weren't crushed to dust, they could all be reused afterwards.
Amidst the busyness, an hour quickly passed.
"The Goblin's Revenge is about to begin. It has been detected that the Lord's Cottage is protected by a shield. The protection will be temporarily lifted, preserving protection only for the Lord's Cottage. If the Territory troops are exhausted, the challenge will fail, and there will be no reward for rising to a village."