Chapter 357: Flower Demon

These past few days, a total of two gems have been dug up.

Both are used to strengthen equipment.

Among them, the 【Flame Gem】 naturally grants weapons fire damage, dealing fire damage, and can even produce flames.

Against attacks: it's quite effective against races vulnerable to fire, such as wooden men, mummies, and vampires.

It's also fairly effective against creatures with feathers, like harpies.

The 【Wind Gem】, on the other hand, grants weapons wind-type effects, which can destabilize the opponent's footing.

It's especially useful against enemies with light body weight.

Such as goblins, kobolds, rat-men, and so on.

It also has a certain effect against flying enemies, like… harpies.

If strengthened onto armor, it can enhance the corresponding attribute effect.

However, there are no good pieces of equipment right now.

There's no use for them for the time being.

Store them away first.

The blacksmiths' main job is to make iron shields.

Now, iron shields have been successfully crafted for everyone.

This way, these women's defense will be stronger, and Zhao Chi can feel more at ease when they charge.

The number of wooden spears has increased to 1,500.

Now they can throw them even more freely.

There are also some spare wooden shields, and those wooden beds have been moved into the wooden houses for use.

The tailors are the most numerous.

Although they've been working overtime, they're still a bit short for now.

So far, only the female militia's full set of leather armor has been completed.

The female workers only have three pieces—leather armor, leather leggings, and leather boots—but at least the vast majority of their bodies are protected.

By tomorrow, the armor for the remaining parts can be slowly added.

Those stockings were naturally made by Zhao Chi.

Once distributed, they raised these women's mood by another 10%.

After all, the super-improved stockings are very expensive.

A pair of stockings worth 2-3 gold coins per person worn on the legs really does make a difference in mood.

Perhaps this could even count as a luxury item?

Their good mood is estimated to last 2-3 days.

Now all the female soldiers have iron spears, iron swords, iron shields, and a full set of leather armor.

All the female workers also have iron swords and iron shields, but their leather armor is missing leather helmets and leather gauntlets.

Overall, the killing power is absolutely sufficient.

With iron shields, the defense is also impressive.

Combined with the stockings' extremely high protection for the lower body, they are now definitely far stronger than during the opening test.

Pushing the door open, the outside was bright as day.

Zhao Chi looked around in wonder.

So this is what a +1000% illumination effect looks like?

The flames of those torches are no longer orange-yellow, but have turned white-yellow instead.

Like one bright lamp after another.

Those torches were slanted into drilled holes in the trees, illuminating large areas nearby.

Even the woods beyond the field of view could be seen clearly.

On the training ground, those women had all finished resting.

Now they were all wearing full sets of leather armor, sitting on the ground and resting.

They were also looking around in all directions, staring in amazement at the unusually bright torches.

In the adjacent buildings.

The lighting inside each building had also noticeably improved.

Those oil lamps were no longer dim, but were slightly dazzling instead.

Although the brightness wasn't as strong as those outside, illuminating the entire room was no problem at all.

Most importantly, these oil lamps were very clean, without that annoying choking smell.

Just these clean oil lamps alone can directly increase the building environment bonus by 10%.

However, those female workers had also stopped their work at this point.

All wearing leather armor and holding weapons, they had gathered outdoors and made combat preparations.

The moment Zhao Chi stepped outside, every woman's gaze turned toward him.

Zhao Chi smiled: "No need to be nervous, there's still 5 minutes left, I'll give you a reminder in a bit."

However… those women weren't nervous at all.

They were excitement and anticipation.