The World Online

Chapter 177: Murderous Intentions

Out of the 5 basic buildings for a grade 2 county, the theater was automatically built, and the 3 altars only needed blueprints. The most annoying one had to be the chess courtyard as it required chess players, which needed an element of luck.

For the basic buildings for a grade 2 county, each blueprint was sold for 500 gold on the market.

These building blueprints, including the grade 1 county blueprints, were very difficult to obtain from raider camps. This was because such cultural buildings had nothing to do with raiders. Hence, the raider operation did not give Ouyang Shuo any blueprints that he could make use of.

Hence, to buy all the blueprints for the grade 2 town, he needed 2000 gold.

The population's upper limit of a grade 2 county had increased so much that based on the current refugee spawn rate, it needed 100 days before it would be reached. Hence, Ouyang Shuo needed to increase his population through other means.

Definitely, to other lords, upgrading to grade 3 county there was also a huge gap which was the rank restriction. Out of all the grade 1 cities in the Chinese region, apart from Ouyang Shuo, the others were still 2nd class earl. Zhan Lang and Bai Hua's 2nd class earl was even obtained through the reward for upgrading to grade 1 county.

To rank up from 2nd class earl to 1st class earl, the merit points required were impossible to obtain from just the main map. Hence they were a long way away from 2nd class earl.

Which meant that even if they were able to reach the population upper limit and become a grade 2 county, it would just stop there.

One could imagine how intense the competition would be at the next battle quest.

The rank restriction had also shown during the batch of lords that had just upgraded to grade 1 township. This bunch of players from start to finish, at every upgrade of their territory, they weren't given any rewards and as such could only attack raider camps to earn limited merit points.

Hence, for them to upgrade to a grade 2 township was very difficult.

The pyramid effect was slowly showing. The importance of the rank was also slowly starting to gain attention.

The territory area of a grade 2 county had reached 5000 square kilometers, and Lianzhou Basin took up 240 thousand square kilometers. This meant that Shanhai Town had taken up 1/48 of the Lianzhou Basin. Ignoring the area that the nomads took up, the chances of Shanhai Countyoverlapping with other territories were very massive.

As expected, on the second day after Shanhai County upgraded, the Military Intelligence secretary Song San came into Ouyang Shuo's office.

"Sire I have important military information."

Ouyang Shuo was shocked, quickly saying, "Speak!"

Song San gathered his words before saying, "Last month, the investigation that sire asked the Military Intelligence Division to conduct has had some progress. After the territory upgraded, the few territories around us had already become right at our new border.

"Please be more specific!" Ouyang Shuo didn't show any emotions.

"Yes, sire!" Song San carried on. "These batches of territories are on our east and west sides. The west side had 5 grade 1 villages, and the east has 3. These are all grade 3 villages."

"How are the defenses of these villages?" Ouyang Shuo was ready to kill.

"These grade 3 villages have already reached the upper population limit, have one or two squadrons of protection troops, mostly made up of basic sword shield soldiers, and some are even militiamen. As for defenses, they are all simple fences which are the same as nothing to us." Song San understood what Ouyang Shuo wanted to hear.