This trip to the White Wolf Bastion had been fruitful. Lu Bu didn't mind that there was a high-level talent, but Bull was overjoyed. He knew the benefits of a high-level talent, and it was a high-level blacksmith. This way, at least the village could build an advanced blacksmith shop. An advanced blacksmith could forge some standard equipment, which was much better than the previous beginner blacksmith. Also, Guo Liang's advanced village was about to be upgraded to an intermediate village, and he was in need of a winemaker. This Intermediate Winemaker came at the right time.
In addition, the various resources and copper coins seized this time could also ease the slightly tight resources and money after the village was upgraded to an intermediate village.
Due to the addition of 136 people, they had to find a place to live immediately. Therefore, upgrading an Intermediate Village was an urgent task. Not only did the Intermediate Village Upgrade Blueprint need to be upgraded, but it also required at least one Intermediate talent in the village. All the buildings had to be completed, and the popular support must not be lower than 70. In addition, there were 10000 Wood, Stone, and Iron Resources, and 1000 Copper Coins. The conditions were extremely harsh. Even wood and the other three resources were 10000 each, which was extremely demanding. Moreover, they had to ensure that the village could operate normally after upgrading to an Intermediate Village. Therefore, unless they were stupid, they had to prepare at least twice the amount of resources to upgrade an Intermediate Village.
All the male members of Furious Bears Village were mobilized by Zhang Xue to expand the village. Zhang Xue acted as a supervisor, walking around the village with construction drawings and directing the villagers to work. These days, she had been handling the internal affairs of Furious Bears Village. The villagers felt closer to her than Lu Bu. They rarely resisted her orders. After all, she was doing this for the good of the village.
The Intermediate Village had gained two additional subsidiary villages, and the Eternal Village had already been designated as one of them. However, other than the Eternal Village, the other villages were too far away from the Flying Bears Village. When the village's upgrade had begun, Bull had led 15 idle soldiers to destroy these villages. Lu Bu had given the order that they must all be destroyed!
Barbaric Bull was helpless. Lu Bu had said that even if he didn't want to, the 15 soldiers wouldn't agree to it. He had no choice but to find a black cloth to cover his face (he was afraid of retaliation, after all, Barbaric Bull wasn't as strong as Lu Bu). He led the 15 soldiers of Furious Bears Village out for a day, destroying 17 villages and obtaining 1289 copper coins. He also brought back 18 elementary talents and an intermediate beast tamer. There was no other village within a hundred miles of Furious Bears Village other than Eternal Village.
Furious Bears Village's violent behavior naturally caused a lot of complaints. There were even people on the forum who openly said that they wanted to kill Lu Bu in real life. Not only did Lu Bu not react, but even Bull scoffed. What a joke. If you said that you wanted to kill Lu Bu in the game, Bull would believe it. After all, Lu Bu had lost all his skills in the game. Come and try. If you can touch even a hair on Lu Bu's head, Brother Bull will take your surname!
The elementary talents that Barbaric Bull brought back were quickly put to use. Guo Liang's Advanced Inn had already opened, but he was lacking manpower. Coincidentally, there were three waiters among the eighteen elementary talents this time. Zhang Xue sent them directly to the Advanced Inn, and the Advanced Blacksmith Shop also added two elementary blacksmiths.
The Beast Taming Ground was a building that Lu Bu had personally ordered to be built. It was a special building that didn't take up any space in the village. It was built outside the village. Lu Bu didn't have many animals in the village at the moment, so the Beast Taming Ground became a place for Lu Bu to raise horses. His war horse and a few other inferior horses were raised here and would only be pulled out when they were needed.
Due to Lu Bu's current reputation, he had become more attractive to the nearby refugees. Many refugees had come to request to join. The maximum population of an Intermediate Village was 500 people, and with the addition of the three affiliated villages, it could accommodate a total of 1250 people. Currently, the actual population of Furious Bears Village was 359 people, and there were still 891 places. It seemed like a lot, but compared to the current population growth rate of Furious Bears Village, it was estimated that it could be filled up in a month. Zhang Xue suggested that they should not be in a hurry to recruit people. High-level talents and talents with special skills were given priority, followed by dutiful and honest people. In short, as Furious Bears Village became more famous, the conditions for joining became more and more stringent, which also brought many talents to Furious Bears Village.
" China System Announcement: Player Lu Fengxian from Nanpi County, Bohai County, Jizhou, China Region has successfully upgraded the Basic Village, Flying Bear Village, to an Intermediate Village. As this village is an Intermediate Village built by players in Hero, the system has rewarded player Lu Fengxian with an Advanced Building Market and 100 Reputation Points."
"Wen Hou, can't you hide your name?”Bull smiled bitterly at Lu Bu. The discussion forums were already in an uproar. It had only been 20 days since the game had been launched, and many players who had set their sights on becoming Lords had yet to build a village. Lu Fengxian's village had already been upgraded to Intermediate, which made many players suspicious of the game's operator, wondering if there was a bug. He requested to announce the process of the player Lu Fengxian building the village, as well as all of Lu Bu's attributes, including the village.
When he saw this pinned post, Bull did not mind. After all, the entire process of Furious Bears Village's advancement was based on Lu Bu's bravery. Even if other players knew about it, they would not be able to replicate it. However, Bull was nervous about announcing the village's attributes. There were many high-level talents, copper coins, and resources in the village. This was definitely the most coveted thing for players at this stage. Once it was announced, Furious Bears Village would never have a peaceful day!
Fortunately, the game operator was quite honest and did not announce any attributes of Furious Bears Village. He only declared to the outside world that everything about Lu Fengxian was in line with the rules of the game. Everything was possible in the game and players had to discover it themselves.
Many players, especially the Bohai Lord players, were very dissatisfied with this. After all, they were rivals with Lu Bu. The strength of Furious Bears Village was not something they could shake alone. As Lords, which of them were not ambitious people? How could they allow a fierce tiger to lie beside them? Even if the tiger did not pose a threat to them for the time being, they would still be afraid. Therefore, an alliance with the purpose of fighting against Furious Bears Village was quietly formed.
However, these people did not know that Lu Bu did not treat them as his opponents. In his eyes, his opponents were only Cao Cao and Liu Bei!
The market was a building that only large villages could own. It was mainly used for trading. Players could trade with NPCs or between players through the market. However, 5% of the transaction money would go to the village chief, and 10% of this 5% would go back to the system.
The market was also an important factor in increasing the distance between Furious Bears Village and ordinary villages. Lu Bu did not pay much attention to the weaker players, but Bull was very concerned. Thus, with Lu Bu's approval, Zhang Xue handed the market to Bull.
After spending a lot of time in online games, Raging Bull was much more familiar with dealing with players, especially the weapons and equipment retired from the army of Furious Bears Village and the dozens of Basic Village Construction Blueprints that he had obtained from the small mountain stronghold. They were distributed to the market in batches to be sold, attracting many players.
There was a severe shortage of equipment now, as there were not many monsters suitable for players to fight. Many adventurer players had taken down a small village with dozens of people, but they did not know who to give the Basic Village Construction Blueprint to. Look at the Flying Bears Village. They were selling construction blueprints!
In fact, these things were not taken out to make money, but to accumulate popularity. If Furious Bears Village wanted to develop and grow, it could not do without players.
Furthermore, the current Furious Bears Village was rich and did not lack money. If they were really short of money, Wen Hou would definitely have enough to build a Medium Stronghold. Moreover, there was also the Intermediate Village Upgrade Blueprint. This was a tight sale. With the current development speed of the first-rate players, it would take at least a month to obtain the Intermediate Stronghold Blueprint.
Currently, Furious Bears Village was quite lively. The villagers were generally wealthy, and they often returned to the market to stroll around. If they were in a good mood, they would also give out quests. Moreover, many players sold items that they did not need here. Many items that players did not need were urgently needed by NPC. Naturally, Furious Bears Village's market was becoming more and more lively, and many adventure gamemode players had gathered here.
Raging Bull's reputation had also spread. Apart from Lu Bu, he was the strongest player in Nanpi. Lu Bu rarely attacked players, which made Raging Bull the overlord of the players in this area. He had a great rallying power. Coupled with the rallying power of the Flying Bears Village, which was known as the world's number one village, many Lord players also bought things that the village urgently needed.
Furious Bears Village's tax rate was extremely low. With the 20% tax rate and Zhang Xue's internal affairs bonus, almost every harvest was a bumper harvest. Therefore, the villagers had a lot of grain reserves. Although they did not want to see Furious Bears Village expand, they still had to live. Other than Furious Bears Village, very few villages would sell grain at this time. Therefore, many Lord players had to tighten their belts and come here to buy grain. However, Zhang Xue had a tight grasp on the other three resources, such as wood, stone, and iron ore. The villagers did not have much on hand. Therefore, Zhang Xue could not buy them. On the contrary, many Lord players sold these three resources here and Zhang Xue took them all.
After a month, the 5% tax rate from the market, after deducting the 10% from the system, had earned more copper coins than the entire Furious Bears Village combined. At this point, Lu Bu and Zhang Xue finally started to take this market seriously.
Originally, Lu Bu had wanted Bull to leave the Flying Bears Army and not train with them for three hours every day. He would be in charge of the market, but Bull was unwilling. He knew that his reputation among the players was built by his close to 20 points of martial strength. Training with Lu Bu every day was tiring, but others could not beg for it. Many knew of Lu Bu's existence. The players who did not know Lu Bu's true identity, but knew that Lu Bu was stronger than Slowbull, and even Slowbull's strength was trained by Lu Bu, also wanted to join the Furious Bears Village's army, but Lu Bu rejected them mercilessly. In his opinion, these players were all weak and disobedient. He did not want to waste his time, so Slowbull became the only player who could join the Furious Bears Army.
"Brother Bull, we found a dungeon, but the monsters inside are too strong. We can't eat them. Can you help us?”In Guo Liang's inn, a fat General player complained to Bull with a bitter face.
"Instance Dungeon? What instance dungeon?" Hearing that there was a dungeon, Bull's eyes lit up. The best equipment in the game came from dungeons.
"I don't know either. The soldiers spawning outside are all at combat level 8, and there's a low-level General guarding them. I've gathered my men to farm for more than ten times, but I still haven't succeeded. That's why I'm here to ask for your help. No matter what we find inside, you can pick first.”Fatty looked at Bull hopefully.
Bull was slightly tempted. After being trained by Lu Bu for two months, Bull's combat power had reached 23 points. He wanted to test his skills. Thinking back to how Lu Bu had single-handedly destroyed an entire village, Bull's blood boiled. Now that his combat power was twice as high as Lu Bu's, Wen Hou did not need to solve these small problems, right?
"Alright, I agree. But let me say this first. If there's anything good, I'll pick first. Also, I can't mobilize the soldiers in the village, so I'll go alone this time!”In the end, Bull could not resist the temptation and agreed to Fatty's request.
Hearing that the Furious Bears Village's army could not be mobilized, a trace of disappointment flashed in Fatty's eyes. The current Furious Bears Army had expanded to 125 people. The first 15 soldiers who followed Lu Bu had been heavily trained into spear cavalry, axe cavalry, and bow cavalry. Their combat strength had soared to more than 30. Even the 110 soldiers who were recruited later were regular soldiers, with their combat strength generally between 22 to 25.
However, it was not bad to have Raging Bull join them. One had to know that among the people he had found, the one with the highest martial strength was only 15. It was said that he was a retired soldier in real life. The others were all between 10 - 12.
"Alright, thank you, Brother Bull. When are we leaving?”Fatty said impatiently.
"Wait, let me ask my boss. I need his permission.”Bull said with a smile.
Lu Bu didn't think too much about it and agreed to let Bull leave for two days. He was quite confident in Bull, and he had even sent 15 soldiers with combat power of 22 to him. However, Bull had rejected him. He knew that Lu Bu had spent a lot of effort on these soldiers. He didn't know what was going on in this dungeon. If he accidentally killed these 15 people, even if Lu Bu didn't blame him, he would feel terrible. Bull had really put in all his effort on Furious Bears Village.
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