[Regional Channel]
Player A, ["Did the big shot post something again?"]
["What? A merchant caravan went to the big shot's place!"], Player B said, ["Oh my god, so many scrolls!"]
["Damn!"], 0101 sent a crying emoji, ["If I'd known the caravan could give this many good things, I would've gone all in, even sold my ass if I had to! Wuwuwu, I missed it!"]
["Missed it means forever, forever don't say goodbye!"] Feng Si Huang Sheng laughed below, ["Regular people can't seize chances like this! Just give up, pretend you were never here!"]
["Screw you! It's not your loss, of course you can talk like that!"]
["@Ethan Big shot!"], Player C said, ["Can you tell us what those scrolls do? Let us be jealous too!"]
["It's nothing much…"]
Ethan shrugged, then posted the names of all the scrolls.
[Teleport Voucher (Pseudo)], [Troop Upgrade Voucher (Pseudo)], [Skill Book · Beginner Healing (Pseudo)], [Life Potion – Full Recovery], [Mana Recovery Potion]
["Even though it looks like over a hundred copies, it's only these few types,"] Ethan said in a humble-brag tone, ["Oh, and there's also one [Lord Upgrade Voucher], but that one's a bit scarce. Only one copy."]
["Big shot, you're bragging too hard!"] Player D said with envy, ["But big shot, can you even use that many? If you can't finish them, can you lend us some?"]
Player E complained, ["I think you're dreaming!"]
["I'm talking to the big shot, what's it got to do with you!"] Player D shot back, ["You keep talking crap all the time. I think you're the one full of crap!"]
"…"
While the players were arguing in a mess out of jealousy and hatred toward Ethan, Ethan, on his side, gained a wave of worship points!
[Worship Points +15 from Player A]
[Worship Points +10 from Player B]
[Jealousy from Sunshine Handsome Guy, Worship Critical Hit +25]
[Worship Points +10 from Player C]
[Worship Points from Player D…]
Lines of worship points kept coming in.
Very soon, Ethan's worship points jumped to [Worship Points: 3855/10000]. Although the experience needed for Level 3 was nine times higher than Level 2, he was still full of anticipation for the reward this time.
After all, when Worship Level 2 maxed out, he had received an Invisibility Cloak.
Who knew what Level 3 would give?
After showing off, Ethan started using the Lord Upgrade Voucher.
[Using Lord Upgrade Voucher!]
[Upgrade Failed!]
What the hell?
This was the first time Ethan had ever encountered an upgrade failure.
He quickly opened the voucher to take another look, and found a small line of notes at the bottom.
[Lord Upgrade Voucher: Can upgrade a lord to Level 2, allowing you to rise from a small landowner to a true lord. Said to be one of the rare treasures obtained from secret realms. Cannot be duplicated.]
[PS: To become a true lord, you must fulfill the following conditions.]
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(1. Upgrade the straw hut to a estate.)
(2. Form a ten-person cavalry squad.)
(3. The team must have unified uniforms and an emblem.)
(4. Lead your residents to participate in at least one battle together.)
(5. More than half of your residents must have 100% loyalty – Completed!)
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"Damn!", After reading the extra conditions, Ethan cursed.
These requirements were way too harsh. Out of five conditions, he had only completed one, and that was only because he had been constantly giving benefits to his residents.
The remaining four conditions… Ethan glanced at them. Upgrading the straw hut to a estate was not impossible.
[Estate: Only those who have become a lord can build this level of structure. After you gain residents, you will find that a small two-story villa simply cannot accommodate so many people. It is time to build a larger space to allow more residents to enter.]
[PS: After upgrading, you can also build hot springs, gardens, fountains, pet parks, libraries, banquet halls, conference halls, resident residential areas.]
(Locked: After upgrading to Estate (Lord Level), you can view the next level.)
[Estate (Lord Level) Upgrade Requirements: Advanced Stone 780/1000, Mud 31165/10000, Advanced Wood 1521/1000, Vines 3108/2000, Glass 567/200, Spirit Stones 6549/200, Earth Beast Core 63/200, Fire Beast Core 127/100, Water Beast Core 310/100, Metal Beast Core 218/50, Wood Beast Core 382/50, Wind Beast Core 131/20]
Ethan glanced at the materials list for the estate. Aside from lacking some advanced stone, he was only short on earth beast cores because he had lent out 360 of them and had not gotten them back yet. As for the other materials, he had already gathered enough through scheming and bargaining over this period of time.
Looks like tonight he could upgrade the estate.
But based on his experience upgrading the villa, every time he upgraded the house, it also meant all the supporting facilities had to be upgraded one by one. That meant Ethan would also have to upgrade the garden, resident residential area, living area, pet area, and the main building's facilities inside the estate.
For example, the toilet, kitchen, hall, bedrooms, balcony, and so on, basically, it would squeeze every possible material he had worked so hard to collect right back out of him.
At this moment, Ethan was starting to suspect that this world had deliberately dragged players like them here just to act as tools to gather materials.
Under the name of competition, forcing everyone to work themselves to death for it.
'Heh! Just don't let me find you, the mastermind behind the scenes.'
'Otherwise, sooner or later I'll freeload off you too. Making me work so hard and still end up with nothing.'
'Well, just a thought!'
For upgrading to a Level 2 lord, the first condition could not be completed right now, but by tonight the materials should be almost recovered.
If still not enough, he could buy a batch from players. That should about cover it.
As for the second condition, forming a cavalry squad. If he had known earlier, he would not have agreed to Mr. White's compensation terms. He should have asked directly for bone horses. Then this condition would have been instantly solved.
If he went to find Mr. White now, it was probably too late.
That guy was petty. After offending him so many times, trying to buy bone horses from him at a low price again would probably be difficult.
He was still angry now. Better not disturb him.
When he came back tonight, he could invite him for a drink, then coax him a bit. Men at a drinking table are always easier to talk to, right?
So the cavalry condition would have to be put aside for now.
As for the third condition, unified uniforms and an emblem did not seem too hardm
Ethan remembered he had just obtained a bunch of color change spells. Together with his original red-yellow-green color change spell, changing the color of his residents' equipment should be pretty easy.
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