Chapter 96: Chapter 75: Her Majesty, Queen Fenrir

Currently, aside from providing Qin Feng with +5 to All Attributes and a 10% damage bonus for his Divine Chosen Army, it offered absolutely no practical combat value.

However, ranged units came with another problem: they required vast quantities of arrows and ammunition.

These items were consumed just as quickly as melee weapons.

And the recovery rate was hit-or-miss.

So, at the end of the day, war was all about burning money.

To gain the upper hand in every battle, Lord Players had to maximize the conversion of their territory’s resources into the best weapons and equipment available to them.

Of course, if a Lord wanted to save money by deliberately skimping on their Divine Chosen Soldiers’ weapons and equipment, trying to send them to the battlefield empty-handed…

…it wasn’t out of the question.

But blue-grade armor and shields combined provided over 500 extra Blood Volume. They also had an armor rating that surpassed the natural Defense Power of most soldiers, allowing them to resist most physical and Magic Damage.

This held true unless they faced weapons with Armor Piercing properties that ignored armor, or a skill with a similar effect, like “Fear.”

Otherwise, when equipped soldiers fought unequipped ones, it was a complete and utter steamroll.

They had at least 500 more points of Blood Volume than you, and they reduced all your damage output until their armor was completely broken. How the hell were you supposed to fight that?

To say nothing of the extra damage bonuses from melee weapons, which were more than ten times greater than fighting with bare fists.

They could kill you in one strike, while you’d have to punch them more than ten times. It was a no-brainer what the outcome would be.

Naturally, given the choice, no Lord Player would let their Divine Chosen Soldiers fight as “bare-assed” Warriors.

Only to be easily annihilated by an enemy army in an “equipment steamroll.”

It was like hardcore assault players running raids in Top-Secret Aerospace to earn Haf Coins; you could be frugal with anything except bullets.

Lord Players could pinch pennies everywhere else.

But they could never afford to cheap out on their army’s equipment.

…

“Tingfeng!”

“My mining team has reached the ore deposit you told me about!”

“Just say the word!”

“What kind of ore does your territory need most right now?”

“I’ll go all out and dig it for you!”

Looking at the private message from Long Zhongyi, Qin Feng slowly replied:

“Mine gold for me.”

“Just assign 16 level-3 miners to dig 640 units of gold for me each day.”

“As for the rest of your level-3 miners, have them dig for Black Crystal Ore. You need it to improve your army’s quality as quickly as possible…”

After a pause, Qin Feng added:

“Oh!”

“Right!”

“That ’Forged Iron’ resource you mentioned earlier.”

“You need a building called the ’Furnace Processing Room’ to drop before you can produce it.”

“And you have to kill a certain number of enemies for it to drop.”

“Luckily, I’ve already gotten one to drop. I can help your Lord’s Hall get a ’backdoor’ upgrade to level 4. Just remember to prepare plenty of iron, have your people transport it to my territory, and I’ll smelt it all into Forged Iron for you.”

“Also, if you have any spare wood, Stone, or Food resources in your territory,”

“send a little my way too.”

Actually, Qin Feng had originally wanted to ask Long Zhongyi for some Black Crystal Ore resources to take back and forge into the exclusive equipment his Desert Giant Wolf Corps desperately needed.

But considering it was the only material for blue-grade equipment currently available in the Northern Forest, and that Long Zhongyi’s territory and army still needed to develop—plus, he didn’t even have a stockpile yet—Qin Feng decided against it.

Anyway, under the territory of Zhao Chuan, whom Qin Feng had taken out, there was a complete Black Crystal Vein. He could just arrange for a few mining teams to dig there when the time came.

There was no need to take things from Long Zhongyi. It would only weaken his “support teammate”—who seemed like a decent guy—and leave him vulnerable to being pushed around by the surrounding Red-Name Influences.

“OK!”

“Tingfeng!”

“I’ll send you 50,000 wood, Food, Stone, and iron right away!”

“Is that enough?”

Qin Feng: “???”

’Holy shit!’

’Is this kid that rich?’

He asked Long Zhongyi, somewhat curious:

“If you give me fifty thousand right away, how many resources will you have left in your territory?”

Long Zhongyi answered honestly:

“Around twenty thousand of each.”

“Mainly, since I’m not upgrading to a level 4 Lord’s Hall right now, I have nowhere to spend these resources.”

“It’s better to give them to you to use, Tingfeng.”

“Besides, with so many Native Creatures loyal to you, you must be consuming a huge amount of basic resources. The amount I’m giving you might not even last you long…”

’Not bad.’

’He gets it.’

’Stick with me from now on,’

’and I’ll make sure you live well.’

With that thought, Qin Feng continued to speak into the private chat interface with Long Zhongyi:

“Alright.”

“Then go ahead and send your people to transport it.”

“Next, hurry up and mine Black Crystal Stone. Forge it into Black Crystal Equipment to arm the Divine Chosen Soldiers in your territory and increase their overall combat effectiveness.”

“Also.”

“From now on, prioritize promoting newly recruited villagers to Divine Chosen Soldiers.”

“Don’t just focus on production.”

“They have no combat power.”

“Once my Desert Giant Wolf force expands to over three hundred,”

“I’ll give you fifty of them.”

“To help you sweep away the hostile creatures in your surroundings.”

“Remember to set aside fifty production-type villagers that you don’t need for now.”

Long Zhongyi replied excitedly:

“Eh?”

“Fifty Desert Giant Wolves for me?”

“Alright, Tingfeng!”

“Thanks, Tingfeng!”

“But Tingfeng, can’t you just assign them to me directly?”

“It’s just that when I activate my ’Joint Efforts’ Talent to send production-type villagers to your territory, their work efficiency drops by half.”

“So I feel like it’d be better to just have them work at home, and then I can have people transport all the resources they produce to your territory…”

Qin Feng explained:

“I know.”

“But if I give you the Desert Giant Wolves directly, they won’t be considered your Divine Chosen Soldiers.”

“When you kill enemies with them, it won’t count towards your or your army’s kill count, so the final loot calculation will be reduced.”

“But if you use your ’Joint Efforts’ Talent to conscript the Desert Giant Wolves from me, they will be counted as your Divine Chosen Army.”

“The Divine Chosen Spoils they get after killing enemies…”

“…will not only all be credited to you,”

“…but it will also prioritize dropping the spoils you need most, based on your current Extraordinary Profession and what your territory is lacking…”

Realization dawned on Long Zhongyi:

“Oh!”

“So that’s how it is!”

“Learned something new today!”

“You’re incredible, Tingfeng!”

“Truly mighty!”

After clarifying things with Long Zhongyi, Qin Feng secretly observed the Underground Ancient City for a while longer.

Seeing that King Rado, who was hiding inside, seemed to have no intention of coming out again,

Qin Feng left an Owl Spirit Body there to monitor the Kobold army’s subsequent movements, while he himself returned to the surface with Diablo and the others.

Afterward, he ordered all the Ratman Warriors to station themselves there as a patrol garrison for the underground mining area, to prevent any stray Kobold squads from running out to harass Long Zhongyi’s mining team.

Once all the arrangements were made, Qin Feng and Diablo led the remaining army of Desert Giant Wolves towards the Royal City the Wolfmen had spoken of.

’I thought the new Wolf King would be some arrogant, super-macho dude. I was afraid I’d have to put up with a lot of crap on this trip and be treated like an insignificant little flunky.’

’I never expected it.’

’The new Wolf King of the White Wolf Empire wasn’t the brawny, formidable, and domineering middle-aged Wolfman I had pictured.’

’Instead, she was a 20-year-old girl of mixed human and Wolfman blood.’

Her features were lovely, her figure graceful. Aside from her furry wolf ears and the tuft of silvery-white fur at the tip of her fluffy tail, the rest of her silhouette was no different from a human’s.

Especially her beautiful, amber-colored eyes, which seemed to glow. She was just like the beast-eared girls Qin Feng had seen in anime in his past life. She possessed both a girl’s charming innocence and the latent, wild tension unique to the Wolf Race, two qualities that struck a strange balance in her.

What was even more surprising was her respectful attitude towards a Divine Chosen Lord.

When Qin Feng and Diablo arrived at the White Wolf Empire’s Royal City late at night, this Queen—who had united all the Wolfman Tribes with an iron fist—actually ignored the late-night fatigue and rose personally from the beast-hide bed in her chambers.

She wore a silver-furred cape that shimmered like Moonlight, her wolf tail sweeping against the stone steps with a soft sound. In the vast, empty throne hall, she received the two foreign visitors who had traveled from afar.

“Human Divine Chosen One, I am the current queen of the White Wolf Empire, and my name is Fenrir!”

“For what purpose have you come here so late at night?”

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