This Strange Three Kingdoms Game Is Too Brutal 39

Chapter 39: Large-Scale Event

“This batch of equipment is well-crafted, but there’s a problem.”

“Oh, is the equipment not suitable for the territory’s needs?”

Although Yan Ling was quite confident in the equipment she had made, she immediately became nervous after hearing the lord say this. After all, different territories have different equipment needs.

For example, if the territory’s main opponents are monsters or enemies that primarily use magic attacks, then producing equipment with high physical damage resistance would be completely ineffective.

Hang Yu explained: “The equipment itself is fine. The problem is that the members of the Heavenly Disaster Legion are too poor. Right now, they can’t afford even a single Skeletal Wild Ox set, let alone the standard Wild Ox set.”

Yan Ling breathed a sigh of relief.

It was good that the equipment wasn’t the problem.

“My lord means… to temporarily suspend the production of Wild Ox equipment and resume supply when conditions are ripe?”

“No, you just keep producing the Wild Ox sets. Although the players can’t afford them for now, I, your lord, can directly purchase them.”

Hang Yu waved his hand grandly: “The purchase price for a standard Wild Ox set is 800 contribution points, and for a Skeletal Wild Ox set, it’s 4000 contribution points. I’ll buy as many as you can produce in the next two days.”

Yan Ling was stunned, then overjoyed.

She roughly calculated.

In the next two days, she could produce six Skeletal Wild Ox sets and more than ten standard Wild Ox sets. If the lord purchased them all, that would be at least 32,000 contribution points!

In other words,

Just from the commission for these two days,

She could get at least three to four hundred Essence Energy.

This amount of Essence Energy was nothing to Hang Yu; he even thought that the worker’s hard-earned labor was a bit cheap.

But for a low-level artificer, it was extremely attractive. Yan Ling instantly felt her fatigue vanish, filled with renewed energy!

“Thank you for your support, my lord!”

Hang Yu’s bulk purchasing from the alchemy workshop would undoubtedly be cheaper than retail prices. He would mainly use these equipment to arm his personal guard corps.

As for the players?

Two Skeletal Wild Ox sets and five to eight standard Wild Ox sets would be enough to make them extremely eager, overjoyed, and willing to die for him.

Yan Ling immediately got to work.

She now regretted her limited energy that prevented her from expanding production.

However, she also noticed that the pharmacy workshop was already under construction opposite.

This territory would likely have alchemists in a few days. Once they had a supply of restorative potions, the artificer’s production capacity could be greatly increased.

After Yan Ling left,

Hang Yu began to think about how to create quests.

He wanted to increase the money supply, making players a little more financially comfortable. Ideally, he’d distribute the Wild Ox sets to boost the overall strength of the territory’s legion. This required a substantial quest.

Exploring the core contaminated area?

Let the players clash with Ma Yuanyi? (Ma Yuanyi is likely a major boss.)

Although the territory had enough strength to counter the threat of the final boss,

Hang Yu himself had to personally intervene, otherwise, with the current strength of the Heavenly Disaster Army, they wouldn’t even be able to see Ma Yuanyi.

At this time, Xiao Ba suddenly appeared and said: “Master, your territory’s core has detected Abyssal energy. An unknown Abyssal force is approaching the territory.”

Hang Yu was taken aback.

He said: “My seven-day protection period hasn’t ended yet. An Abyssal force couldn’t possibly approach the territory’s main base. Besides, today is not the Day of Extreme Darkness. Even if Ma Yuanyi has discovered me, he still can’t attack me.”

Every new lord receives seven days of protection.

During this time, stabilizing their position and eliminating nearby threats is a good achievement.

In fact, unless they are high-level races with extremely high initial levels, most lower and mid-level races have a very difficult early game. They usually try to hide their tracks, carefully hunting monsters to develop, avoiding being discovered by Abyssal forces.

Hang Yu didn’t do that. He relied on his rapid growth rate and the immortal Heavenly Disaster Legion, finding no need for a cautious start in this beginner map. He already possessed sufficient self-preservation capabilities.

He wasn’t afraid of Ma Yuanyi.

Nor did he believe that Ma Yuanyi could attack his base.

Because Ma Yuanyi, as the core contamination source, would be restricted in his movements. He could only move in the core contaminated area most of the time, only being able to move freely on the Day of Extreme Darkness.

The Day of Extreme Darkness is a periodic celestial phenomenon or disaster in the Abyssal plane.

On this day, the pollution of the core contaminated area would spread, and the resurrection speed of Abyssal creatures would accelerate. It’s also the best time for Abyssal forces to counterattack the lords; in a sense, it could be understood as a monster siege in the game.

According to statistics,

Among the unfortunate lords who perished,

40-50% died on the Day of Extreme Darkness.

This day is a life-or-death test for the lords.

Today is clearly not the Day of Extreme Darkness, and the Starry Protection hasn’t disappeared yet, so the main base would definitely not be threatened.

Then,

There’s only one possibility.

Hang Yu realized the problem without Xiao Ba’s prompt—Hexi Village!

Although new lords receive Starry Protection, this protection is limited to the main base, not to the town’s territory. He immediately opened the map to check the details.

Unexplored areas were still shrouded in fog of war.

But areas explored by players already showed on the map.

Hang Yu immediately found hundreds of dense red signals about ten li (approximately 3.3 kilometers) away from Hexi Village. Xiao Ba had discovered these signals through the territory core and immediately issued a warning.

“Most Abyssal creatures are unintelligent, yet they are approaching Hexi Village in an organized and planned manner. There must be a corrupted Abyssal being behind this.” Hang Yu muttered to himself.

Xiao Ba prompted: “Hexi Village cannot withstand the Abyssal forces with its own strength. Master should immediately assemble troops and prepare to respond.”

Although his territory was under external threat,

Hang Yu was not nervous at all, but instead smiled contentedly.

“Good, excellent! I was worried about how to reasonably distribute contribution points and equipment, and this is just what I needed.”

It was still too early to let players explore the core contaminated area directly.

Although players were immortal, being relentlessly slaughtered without any sense of accomplishment or gaming experience wasn’t ideal.

The current invasion presented a good opportunity. Hexi Village continuously generated income for the territory, and its manpower was also urgently needed by the territory, so protecting Hexi Village was in the territory’s best interest.

From the players’ perspective,

They had interacted frequently with the villagers these past two days.

Many players had become good friends with the villagers.

Under these circumstances, if the villagers were slaughtered by the Abyssal forces, it would be emotionally unacceptable, so they would certainly actively participate in the protection. What’s more, this process could also generate a lot of rewards.

A few minutes later,

All players received a prompt.

[Ding!]

[Team quest triggered!]

[Quest name: Defend Hexi Village!]

[Quest content: Hexi Village is under attack. Protect Hexi Village from destruction.]

[Quest objective: Hold Hexi Village for 24 hours or completely repel the invading Abyssal creatures.]

[Quest reward: 100-1000 Essence Energy, 150-1500 contribution points, a chance to obtain a Wild Ox set.]

[Special note: Free resurrection during the quest, up to three consecutive times. All players participating in the team quest will receive a free Essence Energy Contract buff during the event.]

Done!

Next,

Just watch the show.

Hang Yu could not only use this opportunity to distribute resources reasonably,

This was also a feast where he could harvest players madly.

Each player could only resurrect a maximum of three times during this quest. Although the Heavenly Way Magic Cube could theoretically resurrect players indefinitely, excessively frequent death and resurrection in a short period of time could still cause some damage to the players’ souls and minds.

Three or four times is relatively safe.

To ensure the players’ fighting spirit,

And to ensure the efficiency of harvesting “leeks” (idiom referring to easily exploited people),

Hang Yu set three free resurrection opportunities for the players.

When the quest was issued,

All the players were stunned.

Midnight Pig-Slaughterer: “Everyone, look! There’s an event!”

Madly Slashing Through the Streets (after reading the quest details): “Holy shit! Is this for real?!”

Ye Li Meng, Black Pupil Sharp Brother, and others were also overjoyed, “Three free resurrections, free Essence Energy Contract, this is too awesome!”

“Brothers!”

“What are we waiting for?”

“The territory is in danger!”

“Let’s hurry to Hexi Village!”

“Someone call those who are offline!”

“…”

Players such as Chen Xi, Xiao Lingdang, and Chi Mei Wang Liang were currently conducting field research in Hexi Village. When they learned that Hexi Village was under threat, they immediately became very worried.

The local villagers were very simple people.

The village being threatened was also related to the players.

Every villager could provide a lot of information and was a treasure trove of knowledge about the world’s plot and settings!

Even without the call of the quest, even without the rich quest rewards, the players still had to fight for Hexi Village, to protect these living, breathing villagers, to protect their own human territory from being desecrated by the Abyss!

(End of chapter)

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