After Ethan finished changing the color of all the citizens' clothes, he stamped a sailboat pattern onto each of their helmets. That was the symbol of his territory.
And after Ethan completed all this, the system finally gave a new prompt.
[Lord Mission Completion Notice: The battle team now has unified uniforms and a unified emblem, completed.]
After finishing this small mission, Ethan handed out teleportation scrolls, beginner healing skill books, and life potions to the citizens.
By this time, the sky was basically bright.
Ethan led the citizens and the whole army set off.
This time, with unified armor and matching outfits, Ethan's entire troop really looked a level higher. It even gave people the illusion of a regular army.
However, just as Ethan walked to the entrance of the villa, he was surprised to find the strangling vines he had planted in the early morning had already bloomed.
The flowers looked a bit like cherry blossoms, but much bigger, about the size of a tennis ball each.
They were white, blooming in a whole stretch, very beautiful.
[Strangling Vine Flower Key: After picking these flowers and eating them directly, you will gain the strangling vine's recognition. You will be able to enter and exit this place freely in the future. Anyone who tries to trespass without a flower key will trigger the strangling vine's attack.]
"Damn! That's awesome."
Ethan looked at the description of the flowers on the strangling vine.
He instantly understood the charm of this plant. The most amazing part was that the flower had to be eaten.
That way, you wouldn't have to worry about enemies stealing your key, or dropping it and not being able to get in.
After all, once it's eaten, even if the enemy cuts open your stomach, the only thing they'll get is a pile of crap.
As for the flower key, it would've long been digested.
"Logistics, bring a few people over and pick all the flower keys. Put them into the warehouse."
After giving the order, Ethan turned to the citizens beside him and said, "As for the rest of you, each of you pick one flower and eat it!"
"Yes, Lord."
It was just eating a flower.
Naturally, no one objected to the Lord's order. Ethan himself also picked a white flower.
Not only did it look beautiful, it also had a faint sweet fragrance. Ethan put it into his mouth and took a bite.
Unexpectedly… it was actually quite sweet.
[Flower Key Activated!]
"Alright, the whole army move out."
After everyone finished eating their flower keys, Ethan led them out of the villa gate.
The moment they stepped outside, prompts from all four directions appeared at the same time.
[East: Land of ruins. You can go there to explore underground water sources.]
[West: Gray Ore Mine, produces various ores, including the advanced stones you urgently need.]
[PS: Beneath the Gray Ore Mine lies a maze. Deep inside the maze lives a group of goblins. If you want to obtain more good stuff, you can try entering the goblin maze.]
[South: There is a platinum treasure chest hidden in the forest, but there is also a Demon King Spider with powerful magic attack ability. Proceed with caution.]
[PS: The Demon King Spider has strong reproductive ability. In two days, the forest will turn into a spider nest. You can consider defeating it now, or completely giving up on the southern forest.]
[North: A snow-covered ice field. The snow monsters have chosen a new king and are preparing to migrate elsewhere.]
[PS: If you want to train your troops, now is an excellent opportunity. The snow monsters are equivalent to level two soldiers. You can take this chance to train your army and increase the Lord's command power.]
Ethan glanced over the four directions.
This time, all four were urgent matters.
Water resources were urgently needed, but they could still be temporarily solved through buying and filtering. So although it was pressing, it wasn't something that had to be solved today. Ethan directly moved on to the next direction.
The Gray Ore Mine was definitely a must-go. The manor upgrade only lacked a little over two hundred advanced stones.
He naturally couldn't let a few stones delay upgrading his territory.
This direction had to be arranged.
But it wasn't something that had to be done immediately. It could be pushed back a bit.
Next, in the south was the Demon King Spider. If left alone, that thing would turn the entire forest into a spider nest. That was indeed troublesome.
But the prompt also said it would take two days to turn into a spider nest.
That meant it was still safe within two days, so Ethan decided to push it back as well.
Now only the last direction remained. North.
The territory of the snow monsters. Because they had chosen a new king, they were planning to migrate.
If Ethan missed such a good opportunity to train his troops, it would probably be hard to find such a suitable training ground again in the future.
For the Lord upgrade mission, he decided…
"The whole army move out. Follow me north!"
Ethan raised the Dragon Slaying Saber high in his hand, pointed toward the north, and took the lead.
All the citizens below were fired up and shouted along: "Yes, Lord!"
"Move out!"
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[North Ice Field]
The ice field had already returned to a vast white snowy scene.
The previous avalanche and the battle with the lava octopus had long been buried under the day and night snowfall, leaving no trace at all.
As for the snow monsters, those guys were originally completely white. If they didn't attack on their own, Ethan would really have a hard time spotting them in the snow.
And today, Ethan didn't plan to personally go fight monsters. For him, creatures of this level no longer gave much experience.
It wasn't worth him making a move. So he said to the thirty citizens behind him, "Today, I'm only responsible for leading you in battle."
"During this time, the skills I've provided you and the protective equipment I've given you are already more than enough for you to fight against monsters."
"So when we encounter enemies later, only you will participate in the battle."
"You need to use all your abilities and fight the snow monsters with everything you've got. Don't expect me to step in and help you."
"The only ones who can help you are yourselves!"
"Do you understand?"
"We understand, Lord!"
The citizens raised their weapons together.
And Wood Eight, Stone Six and the other big guys even slammed their silver shining dragon bone blades against their bodies, to boost morale.
Perhaps their high morale felt like a provocation to the natives of this ice field, a large group of snow monsters actually came rumbling out from the side of the snowy mountain. Leading them was an extra large big-headed snow monster, half again as big as the others.
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