A New Broom Sweeps Clean

"Stop daydreaming." Xiao Yu threw cold water on their enthusiasm.

"Although a Monster Force can theoretically be upgraded to Kingdom, it's just in theory. Not to mention the massive resources needed in the upgrade process or the need to fight with other Monster Forces to seize the territory, the fact that this Goblin Camp is located near a newbie village has doomed it to never be upgraded.

"Because the Mud Horde is close to a newbie village, the upper limit of this Camp is level 1, and it can't be upgraded to the second level of Fortress. After all, the system can't allow a strong Monster Force to appear near a newbie village. So basically, we can only be a level 1 Camp now. If we want to continue upgrading, we must go to other areas."

There was something else that Xiao Yu had not told them. It was not easy for a Monster Force to move from a low-level map to a high-level one, as it would be hard to lead a group of low-level monsters to fight for territory with high-level monsters.

In fact, 40% of dead Monster Forces were destroyed or annexed when fighting with other Monster Forces.

But he did not need to tell this to the two irrelevant people in front of him.

"Alright, time to figure out what to do next."

First of all, he needed to get some followers to keep up appearances. The Fertility Room could be used to produce small Goblins, one for 60 Food, and occupying 1 Population. Xiao Yu clicked and produced 20 of them immediately. After that, the food reserve was reduced by more than half.

"Go outside and see if there's any change."

Killer Codename 38 rushed back in and yelled, "Wow, there are so many small Goblins out there."

Xiao Yu nodded. It seemed that his memory was not wrong.

Small Goblins could become Goblin Warriors, Goblin Scouts, or Goblin Slaves through training. There were two ways of training. One was to build a Goblin Military Camp, which required 150 Wood and 50 Stone, and they could be trained in batches. However, they had too few resources now, which obviously could not be wasted.

The other way was to recruit a Goblin Trainer, who could train the small Goblins one by one. Of course, this way was a little bit slower as it took half an hour to train one. But there was still plenty of time, so he would be better off recruiting a Goblin Trainer.

He spent 15 Gold and 100 Food to recruit a Goblin Trainer.

A fat Goblin in leather armor appeared in the tent. "Chief, Goblin Trainer Stoker has come to report."

"Very good. Go outside and train all those small Goblins to Goblin Slaves."

"Yes, Chief." Stoker walked away.

"What should I build next?" Xiao Yu checked the list of buildings. As it was a level 1 camp, there were very limited types of buildings that he could build. Besides the existing buildings, there were three kinds of buildings that could be built now.

Goblin Shrine: The place where one prays to the gods to obtain Oracle (sacrifice is needed). The prayer has a chance to learn new spells in the process of praying. Construction price: 125 Wood and 100 Stone.

Campfire: Attract a certain number of wandering monsters to join the campsite every day. Need to pay an extra recruitment fee. Construction price: 100 Wood.

Tower: Primary defensive building, can improve the field of vision. A maximum of three Goblin Scouts can enter. Increases their attack range by 20 yards. Construction price: 50 Wood. Construction limit (4).

"Build one Goblin Shrine, one Campfire, and one Tower, then."

Of course, he had to wait for the small Goblins to complete their training first.

Although he had become the chief of the Camp, Xiao Yu did not care much about it. To be honest, such a low-level Camp had no future. It may be destroyed by the players one day, and hence could only be used as his stepping stone. Therefore, it was better to improve his own strength than waste resources on improving the overall Combat Effectiveness of the Camp. This way, he would benefit more even if he ran away someday.

He was only a Rare Elite now, and his Combat Effectiveness was slightly higher than that of normal small monsters. Even Adventurers of the same level could easily kill him alone. Hence, his first task was to upgrade his Mode to Elite Mode.

There was nothing more important than personal strength for a wild monster.

It took 100 Reputation Points to upgrade from Normal Monster Mode to Rare Elite, but it required 300 Reputation Points to upgrade from Rare Elite to Elite Mode. The gap was very big.

As he could obtain new spells from the Goblin Shrine, he surely wanted to build it. But Xiao Yu was confused. Generally speaking, the one praying should be able to obtain new divine spells instead of spells from the shrine. But why was this shrine different? And which gods did these Goblins believe in?

Anyway, he would know when the shrine was built.

In the afternoon, the Goblin Trainer successfully trained all 30 small Goblins into Goblin Slaves. He walked out of the Chief's Tent and watched the funny scene of a group of naked Goblin Slaves with only small sticks in their hands.

"Boys, I know that in the past, the atmosphere in our camp was very relaxed, and everyone had nothing to do. It was this attitude that led to this morning's tragedy. I'm the Chief now, and those days will never return. From today onwards, we will be the strongest Monster Force in Night Whisper Forest. So let's start by building a shrine to please our gods!"

Under Xiao Yu's command, the Goblin Slaves began to work lazily. Some were carrying Stone and the others were transporting Wood. But the efficiency was low due to their natural laziness.

Looking at the construction progress, they had only built 10% in half an hour. Damn, it would probably take a whole day to build all three buildings. That was not good, he had to find a way to improve their efficiency.

All of a sudden, he remembered something that he had seen before.

Goblin Overseer: Special unit, with skill—Flogging. Causes 1 point of damage to a Goblin Slave, and improves his work efficiency by 100%, lasting for 5 minutes.

Recruitment price: 5 Gold, 75 Food. Occupies 2 Population. Recruitment building—Chief's Tent.

All right. Xiao Yu recruited four Goblin Overseers in one go. Soon, four fierce Goblins with whips appeared in the tent.

Xiao Yu looked at the four Goblins and snorted. "Listen, those goblins outside are too lazy. The shrine has not been built after such a long time. I'm very pissed. Now go out and teach them how to work. If not, I'll kill you and present you to the gods as sacrifices. Do you understand?"

Goblins were a race that typically bullied the weak and feared the strong. Hearing this, the four Goblin Overseers immediately shuddered. "Don't worry, Chief, we promise to finish the task." Then they ran out quickly.

The Goblin Overseers lashed with their whips, and the efficiency of the Goblin Slaves increased a lot.

Xiao Yu looked at the busy scene. That was the camp he was picturing.