Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 313 Pocket Loyal Minister (Bonus Chapter 510 for Alliance Mainstream Starry Night)

Five hundred miles away, while Li Wei was leading his free soldiers in a lively morning training session, Liang Yuzhi had already returned with five free soldiers in the No. 1 management area, carrying baskets filled with mutated fish over a meter long.

This base was originally a port, located by the river, and fish is a local specialty.

Previously, Scarface Glen should have killed a 4-star mutated creature here, but after last month's radiation storm, a new mutated giant fish has taken over the river.

However, compared to Liang Yuzhi, they were indeed no match.

"Quack quack!"

At this moment, Ah Dai stood obsequiously on Liang Yuzhi's shoulder. It had gotten a great deal this time. A four-star big fish would not have been formed without the Development Card.

However, Liang Yuzhi used magic to temporarily maintain the abundant magical particles inside the fish, and she cut off a portion herself, which was a four-star quality fish meat.

The remaining portion was given to Ah-Dai to consume.

This guy can really eat; he ate over 100 jin (50 kg), which is equivalent to enjoying the effect of half a universal gold card.

It's worth mentioning that the four-star fish's flesh was normal before it died, but it started to rot the moment it died.

"Ah-Dai, go back now that you're full. From now on, make a round trip every three days, and catch a few more crow minions for me. As a sorceress, how can I be without crow servants?"

"quack!"

Ah-Dai, however, did not leave. He continued to call out happily, his obsequiousness evident in his words.

"You little beast, when did you learn to flatter? But it's alright, Li Wei's side isn't a big problem. Catch me a few crows, I'll stew fish for you for lunch."

"quack!"

Ah-Dai excitedly took to the air, its wingspan nearly two meters. The key was that it was so strong and powerful. It seemed that it had benefited a lot from its various reconnaissance flights during the radiation storm last month.

Liang Yuzhi watched Ah Dai's figure disappear to the west, then led the free people back to the bastion.

The remaining fifty-odd free citizens had a relatively good attitude towards her because she claimed to have defeated the previous lord and was now the new leader. This tactic was quite effective, especially after she personally cooked several two-star and even three-star dishes, which greatly increased the free citizens' support for her.

Unfortunately, most of the elite free people here have died.

Liang Yuzhi painstakingly gathered a ten-person combat squad, but this was not enough; at least one more combat squad would be needed to guard the area.

It's fine now that it's winter, but when spring comes, won't we have to farm and build things? What use is she all by herself?

There are well-cultivated farmlands and abundant fish resources here, so there's really no need for everyone to crowd into one territory to develop.

This was also what she specifically instructed Li Wei to do this time: those plots of land that were intended to be reserved as territory should not be cultivated, but should all be backfilled, and radiant black soil should be dug from the surrounding areas for orderly storage as appropriate.

These are all essential for the future development of the territory.

In addition, it is also necessary to explain the external situation to Li Wei.

Li Wei was a newcomer who knew nothing and had no idea how deep the waters of Ver City really were. It's not that having basic humanistic care would eliminate internal strife.

Wherever there are people, there is a world of conflict. Especially with many players becoming so powerful that their lifespan often exceeds 150 years, what kind of variables will this bring?
Player power structures do exist.

This expedition mission is different from previous ones because it has reached a fifty-year milestone, where the great six-star lord has requested a change of leadership every fifty years, with internal and external rotations.

This can be roughly understood as follows: for the first fifty years, military generals guarded the borders, while civil officials managed domestic affairs.

In the second fifty years, civil officials guarded the borders while military generals managed domestic affairs.

This will result in a large number of job relocations.

This is often accompanied by unseen contests and struggles.

The situation is the same in the province of Ver, as well as in other provinces like Dusson and Kader. The struggle in the capital has been escalating for the past two years.

So in previous years, there were fifty, eighty, or even one hundred pioneer card slots, but this year they've limited it to twenty, with only twenty slots available for the entire province of Ver.

The great six-star lord above saw it clearly. He allowed you to fight, and allowed you to fight in this way, but the boundaries were clearly defined.

Li Wei, along with her and Li Yue, were simply there by chance. Liang Yuzhi sighed and continued writing rapidly within her mental field.

"If I'm not mistaken, Night Owl's initial support for you, the new king, was just a smokescreen. Her real confidante is Hathaway, and she also hopes to use this once-in-fifty-years internal and external reshuffle to seek more benefits. Don't think too highly of her. There was a reason why the three of us were known as the Three Golden Flowers of the Ministry of the Interior."

"Of course, if Xiaoyue and I hadn't stumbled into your mission, Night Owl would still be a competent boss. To be fair, her training of you was quite good. Her expectation of you was probably to persevere for a year and a half, then fail and quit, and after you wasted ten years, she would hand you over to Hathaway, so that the then Chief Internal Affairs Officer Hathaway would nurture you and make you loyal to Hathaway from then on. This is exactly what the emperor prepares for the crown prince as a pocket loyal minister."

"But with me and Xiaoyue around, Night Owl has already removed you from the list of Pocket Loyalists. You can't imagine how much she fears the two of us. Plus, with how outstanding you became later, she's even more convinced that the two of us secretly turned and trained you. The most important thing for a Pocket Loyalist is innocence and loyalty. Loyalty that isn't absolute is absolutely disloyal."

"Especially since she sent Zhao Guozhu to deliver a message to you, yet you still went your own way, that's the truth! But it's not the most important truth. Night Owl is capable, and she's excellent at playing power games, but she overestimates herself and underestimates others. Most importantly, she underestimated you, and she also habitually underestimates me and Xiaoyue."

"But no matter what, she's not really our enemy now. In a sense, her being transferred to Thorn Pass as a garrison commander is practically a no-go, an abandonment by her faction. If she can't make a breakthrough in Thorn Pass, well, she'll just be wasting her time there. Who knows when she'll die in a cross-border mission and fall into the kill zone."

"In short, don't worry. Just do your job. You guard the territory, and I'll guard this side. We'll leave the communication between us to Ah-Dai. As for the supply transport, try to get an electric armored vehicle. Ah-Dai can be in charge of reconnaissance and exploration, and the armored vehicle can be in charge of transport. We're not afraid of being raided, but we won't raid our base either. The more critical the situation, the more we need to stay calm. Linos from the engineering department has been working on his electric truck, and this is the perfect opportunity to finalize this."

"Also, the magic mine should have absorbed and produced magic by now. Do you have 50 units? If not, don't touch it. If it exceeds 50 units, you can use the excess."

"A magic mine with fifty units of magic power inside can ignore any attack from any target of five stars or below. This is very important. Remember this: unless your territory goes bankrupt, you must always have fifty units of magic power in the magic mine."

"Well, don't use the extra magic directly. You're not a spellcaster, and it's easy to cause an explosion. But there are other ways, and the most common ones are to find enough iron ingots and iron plates and place them around the magic mine. Make sure you have at least two thousand kilograms. Then try to extract one unit of magic. This way, you can enchant and strengthen the iron ingots the moment you extract them."

“Using log segments is also an option; it can upgrade one-star logs to three-star and two-star logs to four-star, but it’s not cost-effective to go any higher.”

"In addition, once we have enough high-quality enchanted iron ingots, we can try to craft enchanted equipment. Zhao Xuanxuan is smart; her enchanted hammer and her research in this area are quite good. As long as she crafts ten two-star enchanted equipment pieces or one three-star enchanted equipment piece, she can apply to the headquarters to build an enchanted blacksmith workshop. In this way, she can get another invitation slot."

"Remember, you absolutely must invite Zhao Xuanxuan. Someone like her is more sought after than you right now. After this settlement, the head of the logistics department might regret it so much that they'll beat their chests in despair. To win Zhao Xuanxuan back, they might even order a raid on our base."

"In addition, the construction of the Samsung Tavern will also begin. The application requires 5000 standard gold coins. I did not apply for settlement, and Xiaoyue should understand that, so we should have enough in our account."

"Let's keep these two special buildings for now. Leave Zhao Xuanxuan here. Go and ask Thomas and Lyon yourself which one to keep. Tell them that Chu Wushuang is now in charge of the Ministry of the Interior. They'll probably know what to do."

"that's all!"

Liang Yuzhi quickly collected the note and put it into a special paper tube, which Ah Dai could then take back.

"what?"

Liang Yuzhi suddenly had a thought and looked up at the sky. How come Ah Dai came back so quickly?
A few seconds later, as Ah-Dai transmitted the intelligence footage, she revealed a knowing expression.

Great, someone's trying to snag a bargain.

That's incredibly audacious and clever!

Did they anticipate that Scarface Glen's territory had just been conquered, and that Li Wei was temporarily unable to control it, leaving his defenses weak, so they wanted to take advantage of the situation?
The pictures shared by Ah-Dai show five people who are currently about 30 miles away, moving very cautiously. However, Liang Yuzhi doesn't recognize any of them, which means there are no five-star cross-border players. This must be some low-ranking cannon fodder exploring a side quest.

Instead of properly developing their own territory, what kind of crooked thoughts are they having?

Liang Yuzhi thought with some pity, but in reality, the next second she drew her enchanted entrenching tool and rushed out.

It wasn't that she was acting rashly, but rather that she was well aware that the players on the other side now had eyes in the back of their heads. Without the radiation storm, the base could keep monitoring them, which was within the rules. Although Liang Yuzhi didn't know why there were such ridiculous rules.

But we absolutely cannot let the other side see the true state of the bastion, otherwise it would be tantamount to giving them a view of it.

"Ah-Dai, take off for now, maintain an altitude of two thousand meters, and keep an eye on the bastion."

Then she instructed the free people to prepare for battle, though of course, they shouldn't be relied upon.

In fact, just as Liang Yuzhi had predicted, when she silently approached, the newcomers were only three four-star and two three-star players. With such strength, how dare they come to raid her base?

I immediately circled around and used a mental shock to stun everyone for three seconds, then unleashed a berserk shovel-enchanted attack. When they woke up again, they were back on the results screen.

Unfortunately, there are no pioneer cards, so these are just grunts used for probing.

However, the average drop rate is pretty good: ten class cards with corresponding fate attributes, plus weapons and equipment. Not bad at all; you can give them to free civilian soldiers.

May you have good fortune upon opening the door!

(Suddenly remembered, there's one more chapter saved up...)
(End of this chapter)