Chapter 1754

【But our overall strength definitely far surpasses the Heavenly King Army of Nangu Village】

【Alright】

【Everyone adjust as quickly as possible】

【Prepare for the next battle】

Li Ruanyu's tone was very relaxed.

It seemed their battle against that state-level lord had also gone well.

Although a one-level difference could mean a huge gap in strength.

Within the same level, there were also strong and weak ones.

Too bad Zhao Chi had been pressed for time just now, busy sniping enemies, with no time to observe that state-level lord's combat power.

But it was estimated to be over a million, right?

Even several million was possible.

Although Li Ruanyu and the others were commandery-level lords, they should all be among the stronger tier of commandery-level lords.

Lords of the same level could also have combat power as different as heaven and earth.

For example, the county-level lord Wu Hui from the previous list, whose combat power was only 9,474 points.

Not even ten thousand.

He probably bought quite a few elven captives and quickly converted them into subjects.

Once the population was sufficient, one could indeed advance the territory's level.

But the risk was also greater this way.

First, every faction would levy taxes based on the territory's level.

Even if that weren't the case, the territory's level would still be one of the key factors in how much tax was collected.

Second was the demon beast diversion.

Zhao Chi was still a village-level lord now, and hadn't been assigned any demon beasts to divert.

But Su Qin was town-level; her side had to eliminate a certain number of demon beasts every day.

This could accumulate upgrade experience and also yield demon beast loot — actually not bad.

The premise was being able to win, and the burden not being too heavy.

But if promoted to county-level.

The number of demon beasts to handle daily would definitely be much more, and if one's strength didn't match, it would be a very heavy burden.

Even though the experience and loot would be more, the Sunshiye Society would also be greater.

Even if no one died, equipment durability would definitely take losses, requiring repairs or repurchases, costing a great deal of manpower and resources.

And not having casualties was impossible.

Even losing one veteran would take a very long time to train up again — it wasn't worth it.

Moreover, enemies were inexhaustible.

If one wanted to fight enemies to level up, one could actively take on quests.

This way you could fight enemies, earn rewards, choose your own timing, and carry no burden — why not?

So Zhao Chi truly didn't care either way.

Want to fight? Go take a quest — fight demon beasts, fight the Heavenly King Army, fight werewolves, there are quests for all of them.

It could be said that as long as Zhao Chi wanted to fight, enemies were plentiful.

Endless.

Additionally, forcibly purchasing villagers to advance the territory's level would definitely cause public morale and public security to collapse.

Even if they didn't collapse, they absolutely couldn't be high.

With low public morale, loyalty would be very hard to raise.

It might even drop.

Morale and mood would also be affected.

Morale directly affected combat.

Mood directly affected production.

It truly wasn't worth the loss.

Moreover, if public security was low, there would surely be constant arguments and infighting within.

It would also affect combat and production.

They might even rebel together with the captives.

Truly not worth it.

Otherwise Zhao Chi would have long ago bought captives in massive numbers and been promoted to state or commandery level.

Additionally, there might also be effects during battle.

For example, the Wu Hui from earlier only had 9,474 combat power — completely a weak county-level lord.

Many stronger town-level lords could defeat him.

Everyone was also very willing to seek out such enemies to fight.

First, it gave face to brag about.

A town-level lord defeating a county-level lord — of course that was worth boasting about.

For example, if an elementary school student beat up a middle school student who was mugging people outside, that would absolutely be worth being proud of — at least a month of bragging.

So strong lords one level lower were also very willing to seek out such Gao Jie weak enemies to fight.

Moreover, their enthusiasm for battle was naturally much greater.

What's the point of all this?

Still, this kind of lord has always existed, and always will.

Zhao Chi had no idea what they were thinking — each to their own, he supposed.

So it was no wonder that combat power varied so wildly between tiers.

Among county-level lords, the weaker ones might have several thousand in combat power, while the stronger ones could reach a hundred thousand — both were possible.

But most county-level lords certainly sat in the tens of thousands.

And commandery-level lords were roughly in the range of a hundred-some thousand to several hundred thousand.

There were certainly outliers on either end — commandery-level lords with only a few thousand, or ones with a million — but those were exceptions, not the norm.

Province-level lords were in the millions.

So Li Ruanyu, together with the other squad leaders, could still achieve a swift victory when surrounding a province-level lord.

Town-level lords had a few thousand in combat power, village-level lords had a few hundred.

That was roughly how they were classified.

Each tier differed by roughly a factor of ten.

Of course, this was a very rough generalization.

But it was simple and easy to remember.

At the last gathering, Lu Yi said her combat power was 893, Yang Xiong was 769, Cao Feng was 777 — they all counted as fairly strong village-level lords.

And Wang Lie at 635, Li Xun at 502 — also a passing grade among village-level lords.

Of course, in the same cohort, Wei Li at 1360, Zhou Lue at 1356, Wei Jinlong at 988 — they were even stronger.

They were the cream of the crop.

But they had already been promoted to town-level lords, so among town-level lords they counted as quite weak.

Su Qin had previously been at 1–2 thousand combat power too — also very weak.

Only now was she slowly building it up.

She should count as a mid-tier town-level lord by now — Su Qin's progress was extremely fast.

Geng Zhan, Xiang Yuan, Fu Yi — all also in the two-thousands-plus range — were likewise only on the weaker side of town-level lords.

But it didn't matter; they were all only twenty-one, with plenty of time to accumulate and grow stronger.

As for Zhao Chi…

His 2094 combat power was nothing but a front.

But even as a front, it far surpassed his peers…

The battle was over now.

Wei Li could be told to take those mad corpses and leave.