My talent is 1.

When Han Tong approached Zhong Wuyai, he stared at the equipment scattered all over the ground, speechless.

The sheer number of equipment... if it weren't for the fantastical setting, it could have formed a small mountain.

"Guild Leader Wuya, the rest of the alliance has surrendered and is willing to become our vassals. They have also promised to hand over half of all their resources in the future."

Are you interested?

"How could I not be tempted? The Dragon Kingdom of the Demon Dragon Empire has the fewest people, but there are still several million. Even if I don't consider myself, I have to consider the survival and development of so many people."

"I have no objection. Just make sure you don't mess things up yourself. I don't have time to come here every few days to clean up your messes."

"Alright, thank you, President Wuya."

"Alright, hurry up and pick up the equipment, it's about to disappear."

No matter how good the equipment on the ground was, Zhong Wuyai didn't care about it; he didn't care about having a few more or less attributes.

But how do I farm merit points now...?

[The Great General]

Merit Points: 73422400/200000000

Disarming level: 16

Rank suppression: 16

Attacks deal 60% more damage to buildings.

Skills deal 8% damage to buildings.

Military ranks and equipment don't need to be changed for a long time, but where the hell do you get the merits from general to marshal?

Back at the border fortress, Zhong Wuyai looked at the building's description and all the troop types within the fortress...

Killing soldiers won't yield many rewards; it's best to kill generals or similar units, especially high-ranking generals and marshals. I don't know how many merits you'll get for killing a marshal.

By the way, after the Dragon Empire's border fortress was refreshed this time, it seems that the marshal was in charge... Doesn't that mean...

Zhong Wuyai grinned, a malicious smile playing on his lips...

"Boss, all our men have been evacuated."

"Alright, we'll prepare to go to war with the Dragon Empire again tomorrow, but this time we won't destroy the fortress, we'll just take down the other buildings."

"Understood!" ... "By the way, boss, the brothers wanted to ask how to buy the rank insignia equipment. Should we just buy a whole set?"

"Just raise your rank. As for rank-specific equipment, it won't be of much use to anyone below Legion Guard."

Unless you upgrade it yourself...

Zhong Wuyai wouldn't mind getting them all a set, but it would take a long time, and these things would become obsolete very quickly.

Furthermore, upgraded military rank equipment cannot be resold. This is not like crafted equipment; different professions, different grades, and different attribute modifiers all have different characteristics.

All military rank equipment has the same attribute, and the equipment data for each rank is also the same.

Even when improving his own people, Zhong Wuyai can only touch on true damage; forget about true damage immunity...

My own equipment... I wonder what the Grand Marshal's equipment has like. If possible, I'll try to enhance it with the Azure Dragon Seal.

While she was pondering this, Shen Mengli found Zhong Wuyai.

"What are you planning to do with Chang'an Town? It's still 1000 prosperity points away from upgrading to a level 1 city-state."

Upon hearing Bai Xiaoniu's words, Zhong Wuyai also realized... that he was still the town mayor.

"How do you describe the level of prosperity?"

"Popularity, transaction volume, and the number of tasks posted and completed. Most importantly, aren't you planning to incorporate the villages in the Branch Plains? If you do, you can directly reach a level 2 city-state."

"It's so far away, can it be merged in?"

"It's only nominal rule. Our location is on the very edge of the Azure Dragon Empire. To put it bluntly, if we hadn't built a city here, this area wouldn't even be part of the Azure Dragon Empire's territory."

"So, we can expand infinitely here?"

"Yes, as long as we don't cross Thousand Peaks Mountain."

"Why don't we build a base for Blooming too..."

"Defense is fine, but... what about the defense towers? Can you upgrade the defense towers for the other outposts?"

Zhong Wuyai had never tried it, nor did he want to.

Let alone defense towers, even Zhong Wuyai wouldn't dare to try Shen Mengli's stats.

Even Zhong Wuyai wouldn't dare risk the possibility that Shen Mengli, who was over level 500, might undergo a drastic change in temperament and betray him, let alone anyone else.

Zhong Wuyai would only improve others when he was absolutely certain he could crush them; otherwise, any unexpected events would be impossible to resolve.

"Get Zhang Haitao's people and Zhanfang's people to settle in Chang'an Town, quickly!"

Zhong Wuyai also teleported back and allocated a piece of land to Zhang Haitao. As for prosperity, it would take forever for the people of Xianyang Palace to upgrade to a state.

With Zhang Haitao's influence, he didn't believe other forces wouldn't be tempted.

Putting everything else aside, the monster spawn points and material storage spots around here alone are enough to drive other players crazy.

Currently, other players can only fight level 45 monsters at most. Starting from level 50, apart from the super-powerful players of the major guilds, the rest of the players simply cannot deal any damage. Moreover, monsters are not as rewarding as bosses, so it's not worth wasting manpower and resources on them.

Of course, land alone is not enough.

"Bai Xiaoniu, tell me, how much should we charge our people to help others farm monsters?"

"Have guild members become mercenaries?"

"Yes, you could say that!"

"One thousand per hour, BOSS is charged separately."

"A thousand? Isn't that too much?"

Zhong Wuyai hesitated. It wasn't like he was leading people to fight level 80 monsters; it was just level 50 or 60 monsters. Wasn't that too high a level?

"Are you stupid? They're only level 30 at most, while the monsters we fight are at least level 50, and at the very least, they're 20 levels higher than us. Our experience bonus is several times greater, and it's much more efficient. Do you think those ten-star equipment are just for show?"

"What about the boss?"

"The first kills are long gone. We'll keep the ones for ourselves, except for those for level 60 and above. After all, only you can handle it. I'd need to bring a few people with me. The prices for other bosses are based on their quality."

"Let's send 10 people to try it out first. If that doesn't work, we can make 200 gold coins per hour. Each person can earn several thousand a day. Gold coins are actually secondary. The main thing is the prosperity level."

Shen Mengli understood Zhong Wuyai's meaning: the goal was to attract people to Chang'an Town. Money was secondary; with so many businesses, there was no worry about not making money.

Moreover, just the items piled up in their own warehouses are enough to make them take out their gold coins.

"Alright, two hundred gold coins first, find ten people to lead the team, let's upgrade Chang'an Town to Chang'an City first."

Within two minutes, people began to arrive at the teleportation array in Chang'an Town one after another.

Lu Yingjie, Li Sihan, Zhang Haitao...

Damn it, Zhao Wuji and Ge Qing are one thing, but why are Lin Xihang and Sikong Shen here too? They're both over level 30, do you two still need someone to guide you?

There were many people, and people kept coming into the teleportation array.

Many unfamiliar faces also arrived.

"Lin Xihang, Sikong Shen, what are you two doing getting involved in this mess?"

"President Wuya, I've heard so much about you!"

"Who is this?"

Lu Yinghao stepped forward to explain: "These are our Lu family elders, and those few are from the Ye and Li families. The Zhang family members are still behind us."

Are you coming to my place for a meeting?

"Guild Leader Wuya, didn't you say you'd help people level up? Can't we old bones live a few more years?"

"Alright, alright, but you guys have to agree that I can only send 10 people to lead the team for now, which means I can only bring a maximum of 90 people."

"this……"

The crowd was somewhat speechless. No one wanted to miss the opportunity to level up. They weren't stupid; they had experienced being leveled up by top combatants like Sikong Shen and Lin Xihang before, and their levels rose very quickly.

However, this would affect the improvement of these top combat forces, and would come at a great cost, and would also easily anger them.

Don't be fooled by their current status; their status is all thanks to the powerful members of their families. Otherwise, they're nothing.

Who would give up such a good opportunity to improve themselves with just a few coins?

Do we even need to look at the combat strength of Xianyang Palace? Even the secondary professions are overwhelming countless players in the arena, let alone these main combat professions.

"President Wuya, we have nearly two hundred people here, do you think it's possible to...?"

"I'm not discussing this with you. I've chosen these 10 people. I don't care whether the others are willing or not, but the price will be different."

Money is not a problem!

"Everyone in Xianyang Palace, if you're willing to level me up to 30, I'll offer 50,000 gold coins—just me!"

"My Li family is offering 50 gold coins to level 10 people up to level 30. Anyone interested, come on over."

"The Ye family spent 120 million gold coins, and 26 people were leveled up to level 30..."

The various families immediately began shouting and making announcements at the teleportation array...

Zhong Wuyai and Shen Mengli were both stunned... This is...

"Why don't you do it yourself? It'll only take two minutes..."

Upon seeing the private message from Shen Mengli, Zhong Wuyai felt a pang of regret...

"How the hell was I supposed to know it would turn out like this? Why don't you go lead the team? Level 70 mobs, three level 30 mobs an hour is enough."

"That won't do. I don't have experience with reels, and besides, we can't give them experience reels, otherwise how are we supposed to collect them?"

"That's true, but this is our first time opening a hiring business, so we can't let our customers leave empty-handed."

"What should we do then?"

"Call everyone back from the border fortress. Stop grinding for merit points for now. I'll take on the Dragon Empire by myself tomorrow. Have them all lead the teams!"

"How do you divide it among a hundred people?"

"Two people taking care of three clients, fighting level 70 monsters, should be enough to get them to level 30 in five hours, right?"

"No... It takes me a long time to kill a level 70 monster. Do you think they're like you, one-shotting them?"

"Why don't you just cripple the monsters yourself and let them kill you first!"

"You bastard, you think I'm not going to take care of the base? And there are construction deputies handling infrastructure—are you going to manage the resources for so many people?"

"Then what do you suggest we do? This is a huge order. Just killing monsters is one thing, but this one specifically requires carrying level 30 characters, which costs 5 gold per person. For over two hundred people, that's over ten million gold. Are we just going to let this go?"

"Those secondary professions aren't very efficient at killing monsters; one person carrying one is enough. Three attack speed groups can definitely carry seven, but it's hard to assign tasks to the others; we don't have enough manpower."

"Chen Wenyu and Shen Mengli, the two of them will carry nine others. You can decide who goes next. And those who are weak can come to me, I'll upgrade their equipment."

"Make me a fully tempered piece of equipment first. You promised to do it a long time ago, but you still haven't done it..."

"Alright, alright, you make one piece of equipment and bring it over."

Zhong Wuyai is having a bit of a headache right now. Even getting some rest is a problem. The border fortress of the Demon Dragon Empire will be refreshed in a few hours, and he needs to deal with this situation as soon as possible.

For players of Xianyang Palace, level 30 might not be a big deal, after all, they've all experienced the lightning-fast leveling up with dozens of times the experience.

But for others, level 30 is like a bottleneck, and most people take a week to go from level 15 to level 16.

Even though overall strength has improved considerably, people above level 30 are still extremely rare.

The leaderboard is full of people from Xianyang Palace, and it's hard to tell how many people are level 30. However, within the Azure Dragon Empire, apart from Xianyang Palace, there are only about a hundred people above level 30.

The people in Xianyang Palace were all raised by Zhong Wuyai, but what about the others? Out of hundreds of millions of people, only a hundred or so reached level 30, which shows how difficult it is to level up.

According to Shen Mengli's memory, Gong Yu, who also had ten times the experience, only reached level 50 a month later, and the second level 50 took half a year to reach.

Needless to say, level 80 takes several years.

Reaching level 30 would take them at least two months, requiring them to grind monsters and complete quests every day.

But now, the people from Xianyang Palace can reach the level of monsters at level 60 or 70 in two days at most, and the attack speed group can even finish in one day.

Zhong Wuyai has only been playing for a short time, yet he has already brought so many people to level 50, which has completely changed the course of the world. In addition, the Holy Dragon Empire's Holy Lord Guild has been disbanded, and the Demon Dragon Empire has been slaughtered.

Apart from the Yanlong Empire, which is still developing normally, the other two countries have undergone significant changes.

Especially the Dragon Empire, which eliminates the possibility of American players establishing their own nation later on.

"President, how could you do this?!"

Shen Youchu looked at Zhong Wuyai with a resentful expression.

"What's wrong? If you don't want to bring it, then don't."

"No way, how could you give me 16 people? I can only team up with 9!"

Zhong Wuyai immediately understood that Shen Mengli was forcing the rest onto Shen Youchu.

"Why don't you give a few to Chen Wenyu?"

"He has 20... he'll have to lead three waves..."

Zhong Wuyai's face twitched; this was going a bit too far...

"What about Xiang Yang and Yi Mu?"

"They also have 12 or 13!"

"Well... why don't you take it? It's 50,000 gold coins each, and it'll all go into your own pockets, so don't think it's too much trouble!"

"But with so many people, I can't even level them up to 30 in two days. The experience sharing is too fierce."

This is also a problem. Of course, experience scrolls can't be given to outsiders. After thinking about it, Zhong Wuyai decided that it would be better to start with equipment.

"Call Xiang Yang and Chen Wenyu over here, and give each of you another ten-star equipment."

"Yay~... Thank you so much, President~..."

This girl is waiting here... She probably knew she was going to equip those with low combat power, and that was her plan from the beginning.

What do you mean there are too many people to carry? Each person costs 5 gold coins! They are all elders from various families. We can't even keep up with bringing more of these wealthy clients. How could we possibly harbor resentment?

Zhong Wuyai pinched Shen Youchu's cheek...

"You brat~..."

"Oh, President~... There are so many people here, please give us some face, otherwise how am I supposed to lead the team~!"

All four pieces of ten-star equipment were fully tempered, and Zhong Wuyai already had quite a few obsidian stones, so he didn't care about this little bit.

However, Chen Wenyu's equipment bonuses were a bit extreme.

Zhong Wuyai hadn't expected that the life attribute bonus from full tempering would be so high...

[Giant Rhino Belt +10]

★★★★★★★★★

Physics Department Equipment

Durability: 55/55

Grade: Gold

Wearing level: 50

Health +78800

Physical defense +748

Magic Defense +742

Constitution +764

Physical damage reduction +12%

Magic damage reduction +12%

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Tempering Lv.10

Health Points: +350000

Health Points: +350000

Health Points: +350000

Attribute 20 [Super Physique]: Increases Constitution and Health by 20%, and increases Physical Damage Reduction by 10%.

Attribute 2 [Power Feedback]: Increases Constitution by 1 point of Strength upon entering combat, disappears upon exiting combat.

This guy is a true tank; with that belt, few people could even touch Chen Wenyu standing there.

If Chen Wenyu could wear the Dragon Blood Robe, his health bar would definitely exceed two million.

Upon seeing the equipment with these attributes, Chen Wenyu was dumbfounded.

"Boss, if I wear this, can you still beat me in a second?"

"Why don't you give it a try?"

"Never mind, I was just kidding!"

Even a boss with tens of millions of HP couldn't withstand it, let alone himself? Chen Wenyu knew his own limitations.

The other secondary professions also all equipped themselves with defensive gear, since as long as they could withstand the attacks, defeating level 60 monsters wouldn't be a problem.

Even if it's a bit slow, it's still possible to get two people to level 30 in two days.

Suddenly, everyone felt much less stressed.

The attack speed team felt no pressure at all. They didn't follow Shen Mengli's instructions at all. Instead, they cooperated with the defense team, with one person tanking and the other attacking, two people leading eight people.

Fighting all level 70 monsters or level 50 bosses might be a bit slow in terms of boss kills, but leveling up to 30 is no problem at all.

Even level 30 epic bosses give a lot of experience, let alone level 50 bosses.

Especially when carrying someone below level 20, it will be more effective to carry them through boss fights alone.

It took two hours to get everyone settled.

Zhong Wuyai arrived at the border fortress alone.

Before the border fortress of the Demon Dragon Empire had even refreshed, Zhong Wuyai arrived at the border fortress of the Holy Dragon Empire first.

Looking at the enormous figure of the Divine Illusionary Holy Dragon, Zhong Wuyai even considered trying to catch it with his pet collar.

After thinking about it for a moment, he abandoned the plan. There was no point in grabbing it; he would have to start training from level 1 anyway.

Moreover, apart from having a large health bar, the border boss doesn't seem to have any special advantages. It's not even as good as the level 80 legendary boss and can only be used as a meat shield.

For Shen Mengli, capturing them as summoned beasts is absolutely perfect. They have such high damage reduction, high HP, and are immune to control effects. All the summoned beasts can safely deal damage from the back.

But it's basically useless against Zhong Wuyai, since he's now immune to damage, control effects, and even true damage.

Besides the level 99 BOSS, there are also the laws and holy damage from the temple units, which can already be ignored.

The Laws and Holy Damage can only be encountered in Disaster Dungeons, or even Doomsday Dungeons.

It seems that this divine dragon is of little use.

A barrage of fireballs! ...

Zhong Wuyai was too lazy to use other skills. The barrage of fireballs was enough. So what if the damage reduction was high? Could he withstand the bombardment of fireballs all over the place?

[Server-wide announcement: Canglong Empire player Zhong Wuyai is attacking the Holy Dragon Empire's border boss, Divine Illusion Holy Dragon. The Holy Dragon Empire's border is in dire need of assistance. Please provide support as soon as possible.]

"Is the Great God Wuya about to make a move against the Holy Dragon Empire?"

"Holy crap, what do we do?"

"Damn it, Guild Master Toyama, should we go to the border and take over?"

"You go if you want, I'm not going!"

"President Toyama, you're being way too decisive!"

"As someone who's been there, my advice is not to come."

"Holy crap, this guy's got a story to tell!"

"It seems that apart from the Holy Lord Guild and Xianyang Palace having a guild war and being disbanded, the Holy Dragon Empire shouldn't have any other grudges with Wuya."

"Where's Ferdinand? Should we go to the border?"

"If Gongsun Yuanshan isn't going, we won't go either!"

"Wonderma~...Are you two exploiting a bug here?"

"Forget it, if neither of them is going, what's the point of me going?!"

"Exactly, I'm not going either!"

"Alright, everyone just lie down and don't go."

"But what is Boss Wuya trying to do? He's not really going to attack the Holy Dragon Empire, is he? The punishment for destroying a border fortress is severe, and I really don't want to suffer that."

"You Dragon Kingdom players are alright, but what if Zhong Wuyai invades and massacres the city? What will we do then? I don't want to die!"

"Hey, are your guilds in Dragon Kingdom still recruiting? I have S-rank talent and a rare class, want me?"

"Damn it, Chers, you publicly betrayed us on the world channel!"

"Stop talking nonsense. I don't want to die, and I don't want to be dragged down by you stupid bastards. Don't think I don't know that your Black Hand Guild has often extorted ordinary players from Dragon Kingdom in Moose City."

"Wonnema, the case is solved! It was all the Black Hand Guild's fault."

"Damn it, those idiots in the Black Hand Guild, just disband them already, or Zhong Wuyai will come crashing in and wipe out all your resurrections."

"That's right, that's right! You're asking for trouble yourselves, don't drag us down with you!"...

[Ding! Defeat the Divine Holy Dragon, the border boss of the Holy Dragon Empire, and gain 2200000 merit points.]

[Server-wide Announcement: Congratulations to the Azure Dragon Empire player for defeating the Divine Illusionary Dragon, the border boss of the Demon Dragon Empire! Reward: 1 Imperial Medal]

Zhong Wuyai killed the dragon relatively quickly this time, after all, he had the bonus of a set of equipment with the rank of Grand General, which greatly increased his true damage. Under the bombardment of Gatling fireballs, the Divine Illusion Holy Dragon returned to the embrace of the Creator God in no time.

After seeing the message on the world channel, Zhong Wuyai was speechless...

He had only acted on a whim, causing unrest throughout the Holy Dragon Guild.

He just wanted to get another Imperial Medal, why was he so nervous and acting like a lunatic?

However, they didn't explain anything. Let them think what they want. Besides, this news just popped up out of nowhere. In the future, sending troops to the Holy Dragon Empire will give them a moral high ground, won't it?

As the saying goes, "courtesy before force," we didn't mean to attack you...