Romance Game: Embrace of the Inhuman

This combat power attribute, Lin Qianxuan has received for the first time.

It seems to enhance combat abilities, but many factors influence battle.

Endurance, strength, perception, skill.....

He's unsure about the extent of this enhancement, but five attributes are far stronger than the usual 'One in a Thousand' level milestones.

Though the trigger conditions are slightly stringent.

To fight against five hundred.

Speaking of which, do five hundred people and five hundred ants count?

If they do, wouldn't carrying a jar of ants make it easy to trigger?

Soon, the mansion guards finished their search.

They found the Guo Family's evidence of crimes.

Actually, it's not important; the struggle has ended during the confrontation between the two sides.

The final confrontation is the last battle.

And attaining victory through the last resort wins everything.

After all's said and done, in the end, it still boils down to martial power.

Next, only the liquidation remains.

.....

In the blink of an eye, five days have passed.

These five days, the city within Xiaojiang Prefecture was severely turbulent.

Many things were uncovered about the Guo Family.

Not only did they target those delivering money and food to the court, but they also secretly stored repeating crossbows, heavy armor, and evaded taxes, sold private salt, silver mines....

Aside from the Guo Family, some related families were also cleared.

Of course, they resisted.

Quite fiercely.

However, in front of Lin Qianxuan, they were nothing more than clay chickens and pottery dogs.

Additionally, Lin Qianxuan confirmed the trigger condition for his [Fighting Against Five Hundred] milestone.

Facing five hundred ants counts.

In fact, as long as he clearly harbors hostility towards five hundred targets visible and perceivable within his range, he can trigger it.

But microorganisms don't count.

It seems to be because he can't perceive them; he only vaguely knows of their existence but doesn't have definite targets.

Incidentally, the five-point combat power increase is really formidable!

Lin Qianxuan endured a shot from a siege crossbow at close range.

Just slightly retreated some distance.

Well, only got a bit of a scrape.

No need for the golden medicine; the combat power seems to include recovery ability, healed in a quarter of an hour.

Indeed, it was this battle that left the three major aristocratic families in Xiaojiang Prefecture without confidence.

The Guo Family, Zhang Family, Ning Family, all three sent intentions for reconciliation.

Du Fuchen took the opportunity to bite hard.

This bite made it, if not a severe blow to their Primordial Energy, at least difficult to recover for twenty years or so.

Amongst the three, Zhang Family also has Zhu Junhao's disciple.

That is Zhang Zhijing, who wasn't favored by the Zhang Family.

However, now they dispatched Zhang Zhijing for the reconciliation.

It's the only means they found to connect with Lin Qianxuan.

Within Du Mansion.

Lin Qianxuan, Zhang Zhijing, and Du Fuchen sat by the stone table, chatting about the incident while drinking and eating.

"Junior brother, do you truly possess such immense strength? I heard you directly knocked down our Zhang Family's warehouse door? That door weighs several thousand pounds!" Zhang Zhijing looked at Lin Qianxuan skeptically.

"I used finesse, it's not so exaggerated." Lin Qianxuan said modestly.

"Really? Finesse? You're too modest. Even the finest skill would struggle to open such a large iron door!" Zhang Zhijing exclaimed, raising his cup to Lin Qianxuan: "I toast to you."

Lin Qianxuan drank the wine and said: "Zhang brother, what's the situation with your Zhang Family now?"

"Don't say 'our', I was separated long ago; Junior brother, you and Du brother do what you want, I can't refuse to act as a mediator because of my mother's plea. Honestly, even if the Zhang Family fell, I wouldn't feel any pain!" Zhang Zhijing waved.

Upon hearing this, Du Fuchen also relaxed slightly, saying: "Sorry to put you through trouble, Zhang brother."

"Nothing troubling about it." Zhang Zhijing shook his head: "Nowadays, who can do things completely as they wish? Of course, except for junior brother, such a heavenly being!"

"Zhang brother, how is the situation within the uprising now?" Lin Qianxuan asked.

Zhang Zhijing paused and then said: "Five rebel kings rose, and many disaster victims were coerced. Now the court doesn't think of suppression but only appeasement. Currently, they've occupied towns, taken grain from gentry and landlords, temporarily stabilizing the situation. Now it's tough for the court to fight hard, but success is unlikely for them. Having some food, having fun in the city, few wish to continue fighting; that's the temporary situation, the court doesn't want to fight, nor can, and they aren't willing to continue."

Lin Qianxuan wasn't surprised by this.

Such is always true for rebellions by the populace.

Without a sufficient long-term political goal, they easily falter midway.

Yet the court tolerating them blocking key areas leaves Lin Qianxuan speechless.

How long will this chaos continue?

Protracted delay breeds changes; if they continue to grow, who knows what might happen?

Viewed from this angle, the court indeed has begun its decline, entering a downward trajectory.

These considerations, Lin Qianxuan chose not to dwell on.

For now, the nation hasn't collapsed, nor did he intend to replace it.

Being the leader is truly exhausting.

He's more inclined to support someone else to be the Emperor than to take on the role himself.

However, given a chance, he wouldn't mind playing the role to score a milestone.

These thoughts, Lin Qianxuan kept to himself, not sharing them with his seniors or discussing distant future plans.

After this banquet, Lin Qianxuan stayed for two more days and prepared to return to the county when he saw everything concluded.

On the way back to Baiyang County, he completed an hour underwater breath-holding 'One in a Thousand' milestone, gaining a breath-holding +3.