Chapter 50

Clearly, the squad leaders and team leaders of the future teams would be selected from the people present. Whether they could handle these positions would depend on their abilities.

Cheng Yang did not immediately appoint these people but first had Yu Kai and others select the candidates for the job change.

This time, the number of people had surged, with each team adding 120 new members. Adding the original 42 members, a large team would have 162 people. This scale was almost equivalent to the total number of combatants in Luofeng Village before.

With the current amount of spiritual energy in Luofeng Village, it was insufficient to immediately change the jobs of all combatants. This was inevitable unless the territory donation system was activated; otherwise, the spiritual energy of the territory could not suddenly skyrocket. Even if Cheng Yang and others were willing to lend the spiritual energy to those who had not changed jobs, it was impossible, as they did not have attribute panels before the job change.

The only solution now was to wait for the territory's spiritual energy to increase, and also for the combatants who had changed jobs to repay the spiritual energy.

Fortunately, it was already evening. The next morning, after the dungeon was cleared, another thousand points of spiritual energy could be earned.

The job change no longer required Cheng Yang's personal involvement. He handed over the subsequent tasks, such as buying logging tools, to others. The job change could be completed by Li Wanshan, and the purchase of logging tools could be done by Yu Kai.

Cheng Yang was the strongest combatant in Luofeng Village. If he did not try to squeeze out time to earn spiritual energy, it would be a huge waste.

At night, Cheng Yang still acted alone, practicing the "Flower Transplanting" skill could only be done during the day. After all, the jungle at night was not safe.

During the night sweep, Cheng Yang not only earned over 1,200 points of spiritual energy but also successfully upgraded his Magic Missile skill to level 2, increasing the damage by another 10%. As for the Wind Bind skill, it only improved by about 10%. To upgrade, it would still take some time.

However, the Wind Bind skill was indeed very practical, especially for Cheng Yang, the mage. Its attack power could almost sweep through all the current monsters. If he had this skill yesterday, he wouldn't have been so passive against the wolf leader.

After returning to Luofeng Village, Cheng Yang did not see Yu Kai and others, guessing they were busy. He then began his routine actions: training, clearing dungeons...

The next morning, Cheng Yang walked out of the dungeon and met Liu Hao coming towards him. As soon as he saw Cheng Yang, Liu Hao immediately asked, "Lord... Leader, I remember you said before that the number of times the dungeon can be cleared each day can increase. But we've been clearing it for so many days, and there's no sign of an increase. You don't know, because I can only bring four people into the dungeon each day, the looks others give me... sigh, my heart is broken."

Cheng Yang replied irritably, "It's not just you who's anxious; I'm anxious too. But the rules are like this, and we can't change them. We just have to keep clearing the dungeon. After 50 clears, the dungeon will upgrade."

Liu Hao immediately started calculating and said after a while, "This is too much of a rip-off. We've only cleared it about 20 times. To reach 50, it will take at least six to seven more days."

Cheng Yang said, "It won't take that long. You forgot that I'm also clearing the hard mode dungeon, which counts towards the total. Now it should only take five days, and then the number of daily entries will double."

Liu Hao's face fell, and he said, "Just double? Then only 50 people can enter the dungeon each day?"

Cheng Yang replied irritably, "Be grateful. This is just one dungeon. There are more dungeons around us. Besides, this dungeon will continue to improve, so be grateful."

Liu Hao was speechless. He knew that relying on one dungeon to meet the needs of the entire territory was unrealistic.

Liu Hao looked at Cheng Yang's equipment and said in surprise, "Leader, did you get a full set of black iron equipment?"

Cheng Yang shook his head and said, "I'm still missing one off-hand equipment. The other nine pieces are complete. Four are bronze, and five are black iron. The off-hand equipment is too hard to drop. I've entered the hard mode dungeon three times, and not even a regular off-hand equipment has dropped."

Cheng Yang's current attributes were already quite impressive. The nine pieces of equipment increased his defense, but the defense effect was only effective for the corresponding parts. However, the attack equipment was different. Now, a new ring and necklace Cheng Yang obtained increased his magic attack by two points each, making his total attack power 36 points. When using Magic Missile, the damage would reach 44 points. Even against a high-defense first-stage late monster, he could deal over 30 points of damage.

After saying this, Cheng Yang took a shield from his backpack and handed it to Liu Hao, saying, "Your luck is good. I just got a bronze shield in the dungeon. It's definitely a good thing for you now."

Liu Hao took a look and immediately widened his eyes, then smiled sheepishly, "Leader, how can I accept this? Such a good thing..."

Before Liu Hao could finish, Cheng Yang kicked him, saying, "Get lost, don't be so greedy."

However, although Liu Hao was somewhat plump, he was very agile and easily dodged Cheng Yang's kick, then walked away happily.

Cheng Yang shook his head, finding Liu Hao's personality quite helpless.

The shield's attributes were indeed very good, which was why Liu Hao had that expression.

Steel Shield: Bronze off-hand weapon, made from refined steel, reduces attack by 4 points, defense by 2 points. Can be equipped by apprentice or higher level mages. Durability: 80/80.

The reduction in attack is a unique attribute of the shield. It is similar to defense but has some differences. For example, if Liu Hao used the Steel Shield against a mid-first-stage monster, if it only increased his defense by 6 points, the monster's 8-point physical attack would definitely knock him back, and he would still take 2 points of damage, which would be transferred to the shield, reducing its durability. However, with the reduction in damage, the monster's attack effect would be halved. Although the durability reduction would not change, the remaining 4 points of attack would not be enough to knock him back.

After that, Cheng Yang started his busy day. First, he upgraded the Priest Statue's attributes, which was a must. After completing that, he visited the alchemy room and bought 40 bottles of mana potions. He put half in his pocket and the other half in his backpack. He kept them in his pocket for easy access, but he couldn't carry too many. If he wasn't a mage, the 20 bottles would be difficult to carry due to the large movements in battle.

Although he had been using all his energy points to refine small bottles of mana potions every day, his usage frequency was too high, so he was always in a deficit. Most of the mana potions he used daily were bought from the alchemy room.

Looking at the full bottles of potions in his pocket, Cheng Yang couldn't help but laugh and cry. He was still too poor. If he had a spatial ring, it wouldn't be so troublesome.

Although a general store had been built in Luofeng Village, a low-level spatial ring required 10,000 points of spiritual energy, which was definitely a luxury at this stage.

Even if Cheng Yang had 10,000 points of spiritual energy now, he wouldn't buy a spatial ring. With 10,000 points, he would rather choose six times the training speed. Of course, when he had a surplus of spiritual energy in the future, he wouldn't mind buying a spatial ring to improve his living conditions.

After tidying up, Cheng Yang led the same group of people to continue heading to Xiangcheng City. The reason Cheng Yang always brought this group was that they all had family in Xiangcheng City, so they were more dedicated to the task. Additionally, they were more familiar with Xiangcheng City, and although it had changed due to the earthquake, they could still find some traces of the past, which was very helpful for their actions in Xiangcheng City.

Last night, the five large teams in Luofeng Village had already determined some of the management personnel. Some of these people were in Cheng Yang's current team, including Yu Kai, Liu Hao, and Niu Bing. Fortunately, they could find temporary replacements in their respective teams, so their departure would not cause the teams to disintegrate.

Li Wanshan was left in Luofeng Village because many people needed to change jobs. This task was undoubtedly the main task of Luofeng Village at present, and Cheng Yang took it very seriously.

A group of 35 people set foot in Xiangcheng City again. This time, Cheng Yang's goal was to bypass the eastern side of Xiangcheng City and then enter the northern side. At the same time, he could check the situation of the monster groups in the eastern passage.

Since obtaining the "Flower Transplanting" scroll from the monster group in the southern passage of Xiangcheng City, Cheng Yang had been thinking about the other passages. Although many current situations in this game-like world were not yet understood by humans, there were certain patterns in some matters. Each city-level area must have a main city, and the main city must be surrounded by ravines. To break through the ravines and reach the outside world, the massive monster groups in the passages must be eliminated.

Since Cheng Yang had found a valuable skill scroll in the southern passage, it was likely that other passages also contained valuable items. Although the probability might not be high, Cheng Yang was willing to take a chance.

However, the main reason Cheng Yang coveted this passage was not the potential items in the passage but to open the passage.

From what Cheng Yang knew in his previous life, there were three territory altars around Xiangcheng City, representing three bases. One of them had already been occupied by Cheng Yang, and the other two were definitely still idle.

One of these idle altars was on the eastern side of Xiangcheng City.

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