Congratulations Your Newbie Village has been upgraded to a Trainee Village The chance of obtaining superior classes is slightly increased Raid bosses spawning in your area have a slight chance of spawning as a Tier II Raid Boss at Lvl 30 Dungeons in your area will become active more frequently spewing out waves of monsters This cannot be prevented
Due to your Tribulation remaining the Tribulation has been strengthened Be careful of your impending tribulation
Due to being the first Trainee Village on your world the Soul Skill of Your Village Chieftain has been strengthened The skill level will be reset but all of the gains shall be retained
Due to being the first Trainee Village in your Zone you have become Earth’s Nexus Seed for this Zone 32 Searching for appropriate matching Village
Match found Village is first Trainee Village in zone in world and third in your batch of Worlds Nexus portal has been founded near the center of your Trainee Village In 7 days the portal between your and your sister village has opened
Warning in 21 days a Lvl 35 Raid Boss will randomly spawn on either your or their world Good luck
Sam’s glare towards Ceth deepened But then he snorted and left the smithy heading towards the village center
Daniel owed them all an explanation for this
Randidly glanced around at the students listening to the professor’s lecture This was the 3rd lecture they sat through and honestly most of it was trash More hurtful than helpful although not in any permanent way The 1st professor had recommended gathering as much PP as you could and then spending it all at once to increase the effectiveness of the stat gains
The third professor had speculated on the source of the system and whether god was involved
It was only the 2nd professor of the day a small greek man who Randidly found fascinating
Why He had asked Is this happening
The classroom had remained silent and the professor had continued And I’m not talking the technical details of why but the larger scheme Why Why has this system’ been installed on our planet Why are we pushed towards killing monsters growing stronger and gaining classes There is no such thing as a free lunch What are we losing
A student raised his hand Our humanity We are becoming desensitized to the value of life
The professor waved that answer away Technically correct but you are thinking that humanity is the center of the universe It is clearly not Anyone else
Money
Resources Precious metals
Control Randidly spoke softly but his voice resonated strangely carrying over the other whispers
The professor gave him a long look Control over what
Randidly shrugged After a pause the professor continued to talk moving on to the resemblance to RPGs and what that could possibly mean about the why
Randidly and Tessa went on to the next lecture
After lunch Tessa stood her hands nervously smoothing her hair I need to go Oh but I wanted to ask
She squirmed a bit looking at him and he simply waited Then she said There there’s a concert tonight I have enough tokens to buy us tickets if if you want to go with me
Randidly waved his hand Don’t bother
She visibly wilted Oh then I should really
Ah Tess that’s not what I meant Randidly scratched his head awkwardly uncomfortable at making her upset Even if he wasn’t interested in her now he still had fond memories of their time together He didn’t want to hurt her I uh was given these So you don’t need to buy tickets
He produced the backstage passes and her eyes widened into saucers Shrugging he offered them to her
She held her hands up Oh wow No you keep them I wouldn’t want to lose them at work How how did you get these again
Randidly coughed into his hand For sewing
Sewing
Yes Is it really that strange I can sew
She burst out laughing No It’s strange that sewing can get these I didn’t even know they existed where did you well nevermind I need to get to work Meet outside my building at 8 pm
Randidly nodded and then watched as she smiled at him over her shoulder and left
Bemused at her timid attempts at flirting he turned and walked towards the nearby job crier and swiftly obtained a job on a farm It was apparently how Franksburg supported itself with cutting edge vertical farms but still Randidly was relieved to find an activity he recognized
At least this he had experience with
Chapter 68
Daniel raised his hands helpless a smug Nul standing behind him I didn’t know How was I supposed to know Nul wouldn’t say
You had a theory however Regina Northwind said folding her arms across her chest That something would change if you upgraded the village And you did it without consulting any of us
I yes Daniel visibly deflated in front of the older woman looking frazzled
At any rate Donny said slowly glancing around at them all Decklan was out handling a recently spawned Tier I Raid Boss but the rest of the important people were here Dozer and Annie who had become head of the Archers Regina and Sam’s furious form standing behind her in support Mrs Hamilton and her assistant Ptolemy and Glendel the representatives of their mages and finally Donny himself Glendel it has only been a half hour but what can you tell me about the situation
Glendel closed his eyes and felt the whispers of his bound ghosts Although the Spirit Caller could only manage a finite amount it did not seem like Glendel had that restrictions The spirits floated everywhere giving them an almost perfect picture of what was happening in the surrounding 20 miles
After a few seconds his eyes opened Looks like incidence of Raid Bosses has tripled there is already one directly between us and Turtletown and it looks like another is forming to the south along the route between us and Franksburg Both the dungeons have exploded like volcanos the monsters are numerous but they are still only Lvl 12 or 13 We will take the monster horde from one and looks like most will be soaked up by Turtle Keep and their infinite bullets
Donny rubbed his head Even in the best case it likely wouldn’t be for a few days more before the caravan to Franksburg returned But still I move that Dozer and Annie head to the south to remove the Raid Boss from the route to Franksburg Immediately
Seconded Said Mrs Hamilton
Thirded and Passed Said Daniel with a sigh
Dozer nodded and immediately stood Annie sighing theatrically and following him
Monster incidence is also up generally both in level a little and quantity a lot Glendel added
Donny just rubbed his forehead
Regina frowned and then spoke Samuel what is our perimeter like
Well Ms Northwind Sam said with an uncharacteristic bow Likely quite secure The monsters have never had much success coming up over the mountains and we have small teams on rotation to watch out for such incursions The Arena built up the valley to the North converted very well into a small fort Really the only weakness is the road that leads directly through the Mountains to the NCC village and the new farming expansion down to the South following the valley
Thank you for you analysis Samuel Regina said with a smile
Anytime He replied his smiled widening
Mrs Hamilton rolled her eyes and then said I move for Sam’s men and 4 Numeral squads to move to the Southern Farming expansion and clear the area of trees as quickly as possible Extending the area double as far as the expansion was planned and clearing ground for a fort
Seconded Ptolemy said after a small hesitation
The rest of the table was silent Every few days they held short bouts between the squads If the lower won they switched places If they lost they stayed the same Excluding the irregulars they now had 30 full time squads on call who lived ate trained and fought together 4 single digit squads were 40 of their best men with an average level of just short of 20
I’m not sure if I get a vote but I think it should happen and immediately That’s the direction of the dungeon that will hit us hardest They will arrive in a little over 6 hours Glendel gave Regina a nervous look