Chapter 341 It's Time for the Next Expedition
The current kingdom is indeed very powerful in terms of scale, but it is still somewhat different from the kingdom that most people know.
Because the entire kingdom can actually be regarded as an efficient war machine.
Most of the lords, subjects, captives, slaves, and followers basically only work around two industries - resource collection and hunting extraction.
Even some seemingly unrelated industries are also centered around these two things.
For example, the alchemy industry. Today's alchemy industry produces either weapons or related equipment for resource collection. Other types are not to say that there are no, but they are very rare.
Although there have been some industries that produce daily necessities and even clothing before, their scale is very small.
From the perspective of a normal kingdom, such a kingdom is actually deformed.
However, the lord's kingdom is obviously different from a normal kingdom.
The subjects can all be regarded as the lord's private soldiers, and they do not have too many self-needs, not to mention the areas of life and entertainment. Although the lords have such needs, in the gradually formed upward channel and involution atmosphere, compared to enjoying life, they are more willing to work hard to improve their strength.
To some extent, this "abnormal" state also ensures the efficiency of the kingdom's expansion and development.
Therefore, when Shen Fei saw the entertainment industry project in Li Tingyu's hand, he was still a little worried.
If many lords, and even some lords, also start to entertain and enjoy after get off work, the speed of development will inevitably be affected. The current Dark Night Kingdom is at most invincible in this world, and the future risks are not small.
However, it seems that Shen Fei's reaction has been anticipated. Li Tingyu just smiled and handed over another document.
This document comes from Sheng Xin's guess.
That's right, it's a guess about the next step of the lord system.
"The Slow Growth Period of Lords"
Shen Fei raised his eyebrows.
The content of this document is very simple, that is, it is believed that after the lord reaches level 10 or above, its growth will fall into an extremely slow stage, just like a game, which often upgrades very quickly in the early stage, and can upgrade several levels in an hour, but later, it may be difficult to upgrade another level in a few days or months.
Sheng Xin believes that the growth of the lord is the same.
She listed many reasons in this report.
The most important point is that the ways for lords to improve their strength are actually very limited. Although they can quickly improve through extraction, they lack the way of cultivation. Even some elixirs and resources that are very useful to the people in the territory cannot play a big role for the lords, because even if they take them, they can only absorb a small part of these resources in a similar way to extraction, and waste more parts or convert them into source crystals.
This means that once there are not enough enemies, the lord's growth in level will be ended.
For example, in the Great Wilderness World, even if there is a land of death, it is difficult to give birth to a lord above level twelve. The reason why Shen Fei said that he had the opportunity to become level thirteen is that he had to take all the land of death in the entire Great Wilderness World alone. It is possible to achieve it.
After that, Shen Fei's upgrade speed will also slow down.
The result of this is that the lords will spend more time and more energy on things other than improvement.
Maybe it is the growth of their own people, maybe it is planting, maybe it is focusing on the practice of skills, or it may be power.
This is bound to affect the ecology of the kingdom.
After all, the kingdom is centered around these tens of thousands of lords.
After reading this intelligence speculation and analysis, Shen Fei finally understood why Li Tingyu would give such a suggestion.
Since the lords must be idle, they must have some entertainment and relaxation methods.
Nowadays, this high-intensity gathering and hunting are destined to not be able to continue.
Continuing to use the game as an example, it is a game with enough time. After the initial rhythm, it is necessary to have a certain attainment in "daily leisure", otherwise, either rush for success or gradually lose patience.
"Promote it appropriately, and try not to affect the people first." Shen Fei put down the file in his hand, thinking, "Speaking of which, although most of the people have wisdom no less than that of humans, they are still affected by their own nature, which is not exactly the same as the lords, so it is actually difficult for the entire kingdom to have entertainment activities covering all the people."
Take his own people as an example.
So far, there are not many interstellar superhumans who are interested in music. The few who are, it seems, are because of their awakened psychic characteristics, which are related to sound waves.
In the final analysis, interstellar superhumans are designed for war from a genetic level.
Their bodies, their cultivation paths, their loyalty.
The holy angels are not much better. This race has abandoned most of their own emotions and instead condensed them into a sacred belief as a whole. From a human perspective, it is actually difficult to understand what this divine race's cognition of the "Lord" is all about.
Even Shen Fei, the "Lord", could not understand it.
After all, he did not play tricks in front of the holy angels, deliberately pretending to be a "Lord", nor could he be omniscient and omnipotent. He also did not have the core ideas of Buddhism and Taoism, which was very different from the beliefs that were known on Earth in the past.
As for the other subjects of the kingdom, there are probably only a few subjects such as "mages" and "martial artists" who have similar interests and hobbies to the lords.
Shen Fei still remembers Kong Xin's "fighting humans". Although they are also humans, the obsession and pursuit of muscles, exercise, and fighting are really incomprehensible to ordinary lords.
In other words, even if entertainment activities are promoted and the lords' life enjoyment is relaxed, it will not affect the efforts of the subjects for a while, because this can only be regarded as a "noble activity".
So, Shen Fei finally agreed.
With the last document resolved, he brought Li Tingyu to the musical theater. This building was not a versatile building, and not all buildings in the territory were versatile buildings. After all, such buildings would not be of much use when the territory needed to be moved out.
After enjoying the music from the wizard world, Shen Fei returned to his residence contentedly.
Although the size of the lord's mansion today is no less than that of the palace, its style is actually closer to modernity. It is not as heavy as that of ancient times, but very simple, or "low-key luxury".
The two holy angel maids, Peony and Jasmine, had already arranged everything in the room. Whether it was the breeze in the air, the soft bed, or the soft light, every detail was a manifestation of extreme enjoyment.
Although he was worried that the lords would be immersed in enjoyment, he had no such worries for himself. After all, he clearly understood what he wanted.
All this in front of him could only be regarded as a little embellishment.
"The moonlight seems to be brighter tonight." Shen Fei looked at the moonlight pouring in from the window, and he realized, "The moon has also been upgraded."
Early after the opening of this legendary special building "Star Core", there were nights and days in the small world.
He could even see many wizards greedily absorbing the essence of the moonlight in this kingdom of God, which was purer and more powerful than their world.
However, Shen Fei was actually concerned about another thing.
Even this building was upgraded, which means that the territory has already completed more than half of the upgrade at the level of level seven.
After all, compared with other legendary buildings, this "moon" is not that important. Although it is also constantly improving the foundation of the territory and even the entire small world, it is ultimately a subtle change. Even the forging department does not use moonlight to temper equipment now.
Now, the upgrade of each building in the territory is entrusted to Li Tingyu. In the past two months, the kingdom has built more than 100 cities and bronze altars. He also has more than 100 gold treasure chests and three diamond treasure chests. He kept all the diamond treasure chests to see if there will be any changes after accumulating ten, and all the gold treasure chests were opened, of which 50 were time acceleration props.
The reason for this choice is naturally to accelerate the upgrade of the territory.
Since Shen Fei has decided to settle in the Great Wilderness World for a period of time, he naturally has to increase the growth efficiency during this period. Building upgrades mean resource upgrades, which also means that the upper limit of the strength of the people and heroes in the territory can be greatly improved.
This is more effective than adding some new buildings and new backgrounds that have no decisive significance.
Other top lords will inevitably make the same choice after reaching a certain level. Shen Fei's buildings are actually far superior to other top lords. After all, he has a time acceleration area and can withstand more buildings without being dragged down.
As for the other fifty or so gold treasure chests, he mostly chose heroes and seal cards, and even equipment, after all, it can improve the combat power of the people and heroes.
On the contrary, the number of extraordinary plants that he initially valued was not very large.
Although Su Su's talent is here, with the medicinal simulation function after the Wan Yao Ling Tan was upgraded to level 7, and the small world planting efficiency after the construction of the life force ecosystem, the current territory's demand for extraordinary plants has actually decreased to a certain extent.
Unless it is a legendary extraordinary plant, or the level of the epic extraordinary plant is further improved, otherwise, the number and variety of epic plants alone can no longer help the territory.
This was not expected at the beginning.
On the contrary, the demand for mineral buildings has continued to increase with the rapid upgrading of the alchemy industry and weapons and equipment, so if he can get ten more gold treasure chests next time, Shen Fei will choose mineral buildings.
When the Great Wilderness World is completely conquered and the next world is entered, how powerful will the Dark Night Kingdom be?
Shen Fei is full of expectations for this.
"Draw the curtains and take a rest."
After giving a faint instruction, the Lord of the World closed his eyes in the center of this increasingly wide small world.
In fact, although the Great Wilderness World is large, it is not that large.
When the Dark Night Kingdom built more than 300 cities in total and all kingdoms built 500 cities in total, the land of the entire Great Wilderness World was finally occupied.
Under the high-pressure control of the Dark Night Kingdom, all cities were built in a perfect hexagonal shape, and the distance between each city was exactly one thousand kilometers.
Don't underestimate this point. According to calculations, compared with the messy construction of cities, this extreme city-building mode can at least double the total number of cities built!
This is also one of the reasons why Shen Fei generously gave up more than 200 altars.
He was confident that even so, the number of treasure chests he could obtain from the Great Wilderness World was still the undisputed largest in the first world of the Journey of the Heavens.
What's more, there is the ocean that occupies about 40% of the area.
He wants to take all the quotas for more than 400 cities on the sea.
The method is also very simple, just build an island.
For the Dark Night Kingdom, it is not a difficult task.
It only needs some large alchemy devices similar to floating islands to easily complete it.
And this is nine months after coming to the Great Wilderness World.
"The races in the sea have united together, and they don't seem to have given up." Li Tingyu was reporting to Shen Fei, "However, there are many places of death in the ocean, and there are far more monsters and fierce beasts than on the ground. This seems to be a real treasure."
"But we don't have much time to waste here." Shen Fei was very calm, "Sedimentation is sedimentation, and if you insist on digesting everything and then climbing, the efficiency will be lower."
"Yes." Li Tingyu replied.
"How long will it take to upgrade the Lord's Mansion to level eight?" Shen Fei asked again.
"If you use the time acceleration props to force the promotion, it will consume a lot, but it is almost over, and it will only take another half a month." Li Tingyu replied.
She didn't have much expression at the moment. When talking about business, Shen Fei's style has always been serious.
Half a month is enough.
This is also the result of the intelligence department. Sheng Xin combined with the think tank to calculate that after the first world of the Zhutian Journey ends, the general top lord’s lord’s mansion is about level eight.
It will not be higher.
After all, after reaching level seven, the upgrade time of the building has increased by three times.
Even if the double building upgrade quota is opened, for the top lords, the most needed upgrade is still the time acceleration props, and at this level, the lord’s consumption is undoubtedly more than three times.
Level eight is the limit.
Even for Shen Fei, it is the same, after all, he has so many buildings.
"It's time for the next journey." Shen Fei said slowly.