Other Players' Villages

"Player, you have killed a Level 7 mountain boar. You have earned +20 in experience, 1x wild boar meat, 1x wild boar hide."

"Congratulations on reaching Level 10."

Chu Tian sat on the ground, panting heavily. The mountain boar was more difficult to deal with than the wild wolf.

Chu Tian first shot it with a hunting bow, then he drew out the iron sword tied to his waist to fight with the wild boar, finally killing it.

But Hua Mulan, who came hunting with him, could easily slash and kill the low-level beasts near Xia Village with a Han knife, killing a Level 7 mountain boar with just one slash.

There was quite a difference between ordinary players and Special Heroes.

Chu Tian added some more grains and material reserves for the village while he trained.

Beasts could drop meat, animal hide, animal cores, and other materials. Although it was a game, the beast-type monsters did not have the strange setting of dropping equipment, gold coins, and skill books. Only humanoid monsters were able to drop equipment, gold coins, and skill books.

One shouldn't underestimate the materials dropped by beasts. The furs, animal hides, and animal cores dropped by some wild animals were very precious and could be used to exchange for money.

Speaking of trading, Chu Tian thought of the large NPC city nearby. Xia Village was close to Langya City, which was under the jurisdiction of the governor of Xu Prefecture, as well as Donghai and Xiapi. The closest was of course Langya City, which sat upriver of Yi River. Xia Village could use the waterways to trade with Langya City to become more prosperous. The materials earned through hunting could also be sold at Langya City for coins, then the coins could be used to buy goods the village needed.

Totally exhausted, Chu Tian sat on the ground.

Players, heroes, and soldiers all had this hidden attribute of physical strength. After their physical strength was exhausted, they would fall into a weak state with greatly reduced combat power.

Chu Tian opened his panel. The panel at Level 10 seemed to be more impressive.

[Name]: Chu Tian

[Title]: Level 1 Public Officer (of a 20-level ranking system)

[Official Position]: None

[Rank]: 10 

[Experience]: 2/500

[Status]: Weak (50% combat power)

[Command]: 19

[Strength]: 17

[Intellect]: 21

[Politics]: 25

[Equipment]: Iron Spear (Bronze Weapon, Attack Power +1), Commoner (No Attribute)

[Work Method]: None

[Attribute]: None

[Special Arms]: None

Chu Tian saw his attribute, then he compared it to Hua Mulan's attribute, and he felt endlessly depressed.

Alas, there was no harm without comparison.

In Feudal Lord, the point additions worked differently from the other online games Chu Tian had experienced. The previous online games had free additions.

In Feudal Lord, however, a player could only choose the direction of growth. One level up may get 1, 2, or even 3 or 4 attributes, or no attributes at all. What happened depended on the direction the player chose and their luck.

Among the growth directions of Feudal Lord, Commander, Mighty General, Military Officer, Civil Minister, Assassin, and Blacksmith, Chu Tian chose Feudal Lord.

A Feudal Lord had comprehensive attributes. A Commander had high command and low military power. A Mighty General had high military power, low command, and low intelligence. And a Military Officer had high intellect but low military power...

While the Feudal Lord had attributes in all areas, it also had severe drawbacks, which was that the job had no outstanding attributes.

The reason why one couldn't add points freely was to prevent the player from stacking a single attribute. For example, if one stacked Strength to 100 points, then any player could fight with Lu Bu. If a player went crazy, point additions could happen any which way, just like some players played all defense or all dodge.

It was precisely because the system randomly added points in the direction chosen by the player that it could ensure Special Heroes were above the vast majority of players.

Players also had a way to change their fate, which was to obtain additional attributes through treasures.

The price of these treasures which could increase one's attributes was also astronomical since there was more demand than supply. After all, everyone wanted to turn themselves into an all-powerful hero who was a better commander than Zhou Yu, stronger than Lu Bu, more intelligent than Zhuge Liang, and more politically savvy than Xun Yu.

Chu Tian only glanced at his pathetic panel briefly, thinking that after becoming a big feudal lord in the future, he would try to get a treasure to improve his attributes.

More than a dozen hunter-type local soldiers followed Chu Tian and Hua Mulan out to hunt. Together, they could hunt beasts below Level 10.

The beasts near Xia Village were not at a high level, they were generally between Level 1 and Level 20.

"A total of 10x wild boar, 15x wolf meat, 3x venison, 12x rabbit meat, and several kinds of fur."

The group counted their spoils after they hunted for half a day in the nearby forest.

In reality, they couldn't have earned so much in half a day.

It worked differently in the game. Players could not upgrade without refreshing these beasts. Therefore, one hunt could help one earn a lot.

Hua Mulan was already Level 30, and the experience from this hunt was not enough for an upgrade.

"Village Chief, there's a village over there! Weird. It was empty before."

A hunter stood on a rock on the hillside. He pointed to a small village about five miles north of Xia Village.

Chu Tian squinted his eyes. The villages that appeared out of nowhere were likely new villages created by other players.

All players were trapped in the 'Feudal Lord' world. After the initial panic, they could only accept this fact.

Players who liked to take risks or protect themselves with their own strength would choose to become a feudal lord. Players who were timid or who didn't want to become lords would choose to live in the big city of NPC, or even take refuge in NPC forces, such as those who were most popular: Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, or the wealthy ones like Liu Biao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Zhang.

Due to system limitations, the NPC forces had not yet had the ambition to compete in the Central Plains, otherwise, the feudal lords would not have a chance to grow. Who could withstand the attacks of the princes of the Three Kingdoms early on?

Every prefecture's feudal lord was equivalent to a vassal of the prefecture governor. 

Tao Qian was the governor of Xu Prefecture. Tao Qian did not have a

strong presence among the princes of the Three Kingdoms, but in Xu Prefecture, Tao Qian had the biggest army and many cities. He was actually a powerful prince.

A feudal lord could betray his governor, or even unite other princes of the NPC to attack one's own prefecture... In some sense, it was quite exciting.

The princes were united in an interwoven fashion, and with the player lord as a variable, the direction of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty was completely unpredictable.

Could Cao Cao really win the Battle of Guandu? If all the player lords were on Yuan Shao's side, then Prime Minister Cao would be fleeing in defeat.

And there was Liu Bei. Maybe players could make Zhuge Liang join early, and make Liu Bei lose his military advisor.

In addition to players of Eastern Han, NPC forces and players of other cultures could enter Eastern Han at any time.

The protection from borders between cultural zones lasted only one year.

After one year, all cultural zones had free entry.

When Chu Tian saw these other players' villages, he couldn't help but think of things in the future.

He shook his head. He was only a village chief of a Level 1 village. There was no point thinking about anything so distant.

"Let's go back to the village. When I have time, I will go visit that other village. I want to see if we can trade."

Chu Tian led his hunting group back to Xia Village.