Chapter 2738: Trade and Advancement (40)

The moment he stepped into the carpentry shop, squad leader Li Zhu came up to greet him.

"My lord has come to inspect the work?"

Zhao Chi laughed and said, "When have I ever inspected anything? I'm here to work too."

Li Zhu laughed and said, "Are you here to make wooden carts, or to make holy staves?"

"Neither. This time I'm here to make spiritual staves — the latest super-improved tech. It'll be unlocked in a moment."

"Spiritual staves?" Li Zhu quickly asked, "Will we also be making them regularly from now on, to equip the sisters of the female soldiers?"

"Correct."

"I see… Understood. Once you unlock it, my lord, tell me, and I'll arrange some sisters to specialize in practicing the crafting of spiritual staves."

"Good, thank you for your hard work."

"What hard work have I done… It's you who's worked hard, my lord."

Qi Yue said, "You're about to enter special training mode. I heard from Feng Xiu and Ding Dang that it's very grueling, so you'll indeed have a tough stretch ahead."

Li Zhu laughed and said, "Haha, I've heard about it too. And we've already entered special training mode — it's really that hard. That's exactly why we admire you so much, my lord. We truly have no idea how you managed to persevere through it."

Zhao Chi asked, "How have you arranged things? Give me a brief rundown."

Li Zhu nodded:

"Alright!

"Our entire carpentry team has a total of 500 people.

"Currently we've been split into two squads — one squad specializes in wooden carts, and one squad specializes in practicing holy staves.

"The wooden cart squad is smaller, at 200 people. Holy staves are weapons after all, and the consumption might be high, so the number is larger, at 300 people.

"If we add spiritual staves later on, then we'll have to split into 3 squads.

"In that case, we'll divide it as 100 people for the wooden cart squad, and 200 people each for the holy staves and spiritual staves.

"Do you need any adjustments, my lord?"

The carpentry work didn't require much beforehand, so the headcount was only 500.

Most of the time, they made tools and furniture.

They also made some super-improved wooden carts.

But they hadn't gone through special training, so the efficiency of making super-improved wooden carts was very low, and the quality was mostly inferior.

Low quality was still usable — the stats were just a bit lower — but it was still much stronger than ordinary wooden carts.

Besides that, the carpenters also had to make lumber for Fang Li's construction team, which could speed up building. This was also a relatively large portion of their work.

Previously, carpentry had been lukewarm.

In the future, it might also become one of the pillar professions.

Zhao Chi shook his head: "No need to adjust. Just go ahead with your proportions."

Li Zhu nodded: "Understood, my lord. Will you be improving it out right away? Then I'll go notify them now."

"That's right. It'll be done very soon."

"Understood. I'm off."

After Li Zhu left, Zhao Chi went over to his own workbench.

In the carpentry shop there was a workbench reserved exclusively for Zhao Chi. He didn't come often, but Li Zhu and the others had cleaned it spotlessly — very tidy.

"Qi Yue, it's our turn."

Qi Yue said sweetly, "Yes, my lord. Please come in."

He directly activated the full set of spiritual stave blueprints.

Light flickered on and off.

【Congratulations. Your territory has mastered the crafting technique for 「Spiritual Stave」】

Right after that, crafting and improving.

Now that he had quite a bit of Tier-3 Light Feather Wood, he could try to get it right in one go.

Zhao Chi first activated 1 Quick-Work Talisman, and tried crafting with ordinary wood.

Success!

【Name】 Spiritual Stave

【Quality】 Standard

【Durability】 20

【Stats】 Spiritual Power +10, damage-type and continuous-type spiritual technique effects +5%

The base stats were the same as the holy stave's.

Only the +5% effect afterward was different.

The appearance was also very similar to the holy stave's.

Only the details had some differences — after all, they were both wooden-stave-type equipment, and overall they were very similar.

He continued crafting, making a few more.

Zhao Chi crafted and took notes at the same time, quickly memorizing the steps and key points.

Then, he crafted with Tier-3 wood.

He failed a few times.

Then he successfully made an inferior one…

That didn't matter.

It was for the sake of improvement anyway.

【Please choose an improvement direction】

【Staff Improvement Points】50

【I. General Category】

"1. Spiritual Power +5" 10 points

"2. Spiritual Recovery 20%" 5 points

"3. Durability +10" 2 points

【II. Damage Category】

"4. Effect +10%" 10 points

"5. Spiritual Cost -10%" 5 points

"6. Range +10%" 2 points

【III. Duration Category】

"7. Effect +10%" 10 points

"8. Spiritual Cost -10%" 5 points

"9. Duration +15%" 2 points

The staff's improvement options are somewhat similar to the holy staff's, but there are still some differences.

The general category is the same, so this can be skipped.

The differences are below.

The holy staff's improvement options are healing and protection categories; the staff's are damage and duration categories.

The damage category covers all kinds of spiritual techniques that directly harm enemies.

For example, Fireball, Sea of Fire, Ice Spike, Lei Guang, Meteor, and so on.

Simple and direct, dealing damage quickly.