[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-lord-starting-with-heroine-fusion":3,"chapter-global-lord-starting-with-heroine-fusion-global-lord-starting-with-heroine-fusion-chapter-41":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Global Lord: Starting with Heroine Fusion",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2199931,3808,"Chapter 41","global-lord-starting-with-heroine-fusion-chapter-41",41,"\u003Cp>Cao Feng [It's me, Laozi, enough to deal with you two losers. My shadow leopards have been replenished to 30, and there are 5 centaur archers.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lu Yi [Cao Feng, that's enough, say less.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [Zhao Chi, playing dead? Still not coming out, damn it? Waiting for me to send you a duel invitation?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lu Yi [Cao Feng! The Military Academy strictly forbids duels between lord students!]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [This isn't the Military Academy, this is off-campus, it's free, am I right, Class Monitor?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng became more and more excited as he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Next, he sent over a dozen messages in a row.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>All of them were provocative words.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This time he was careful with his wording and wasn't muted by the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So that was what Yang Xiong and Lu Yi were messaging Zhao Chi about earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng's military strength was recovering quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Either he used items, or he bought population from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In any case, he was exerting his \"money power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A duel, of course, was an internal war between two lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The official level didn't encourage it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But if there was a real conflict, one could register for a duel and sign a liability waiver.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi checked the settings.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He had previously set it to \"receive messages, but no notifications.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So he didn't get a prompt for the messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He changed the private chat to normal mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Then sent a message:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Two intern lords dueling? Are you trying to make me laugh? Isn't the entrance test in 4 days? If you want to win the wager, why not just go by the results in 4 days?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As soon as Zhao Chi sent the message, Cao Feng replied immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He didn't know if he had been waiting for Zhao Chi the whole time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [Finally dare to show your face? Fine, everyone in the group saw it, don't go back on your word!]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [I always keep my word.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [Keep your word? Fine, that's best. What's the wager?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [You can propose it, but I'm afraid you'll regret it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [I regret it? Are you not awake? If you lose, sign a vassal agreement with me, I want 20% of all your territory's income for 1 year, dare you?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Fine, you have a \"Race Improvement Book\" you haven't used yet, right? It's too wasteful for you to use this item, let's use this as the wager.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [Who told you that? Which bastard leaked my information?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [If you want to call it a bastard leaking the information, that's not wrong.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [What do you mean?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kong Xiang [Brother Cao, you said it yourself last week.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [...You're the only one with a mouth? Shut up!]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [It's fine, if you don't dare, change it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng [Grass, I don't dare? It's settled, whoever goes back on their word, their whole family dies.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Good, it's settled.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi closed the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just as he closed it, the system made a notification sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Beep! Beep! Beep!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He opened it, and it was Yang Xiong.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yang Xiong [Damn, you really accepted? Just curse him a few times, don't be provoked by him. He has money to buy troops, you're at a disadvantage competing with him.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Don't worry, you focus on training.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yang Xiong [What's the use of me focusing? You're the one competing with him, otherwise... Grass! Let me send you some orcs?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Haha, absolutely not, I appreciate the sentiment, thank you.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yang Xiong [Don't be a hero, try to cancel this wager, we're at a disadvantage.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Understood, hurry up and develop your territory.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yang Xiong [Yeah, you too.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Closed the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Beep! Beep! Beep!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Another message.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This time it was Lu Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lu Yi [Zhao Chi, didn't I tell you not to be impulsive? Why did you engage with him? Why accept the wager? This kind of verbal wager doesn't count, just don't sign a formal agreement with him.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Yeah, thanks for the reminder, I have a sense of proportion.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lu Yi [What sense of proportion do you have? His family is rich, didn't you see he bought 30 shadow leopards? And 5 centaur archers, maybe he'll buy more.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [I understand, thanks for the reminder, I'll be careful.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lu Yi [Why do I feel like you didn't take my words seriously at all?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [How could that be? I'm not an impulsive person, you know that.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lu Yi [...That's true, anyway, don't get carried away.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Understood, thank you, Class Monitor.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lu Yi [You're welcome, don't call me Class Monitor, just call me by my name.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi [Okay Lu Yi, keep developing.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lu Yi [Yeah, let's both keep going.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Closed the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was finally quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi wasn't impulsive.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He had carefully studied the family situations of those around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>On one hand, to understand this world better, on the other, to understand his own situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Especially since Cao Feng often looked for trouble, Zhao Chi had learned more details.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Cao Feng's family was rich, and Cao Feng could be said to be the Yang Xiong of his family, ranked low and not valued.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Him having shadow leopard bloodlines, plus the \"Race Improvement Book,\" should be the limit of the resources he could obtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, his cousins and siblings were also in fierce competition with each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The pressure on the older generations to fight against beasts was also immense, requiring a lot of resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi had judged through other analyses that Cao Feng had strength, but not too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That was why he decided to accept the wager.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, the \"Race Improvement Book\" was too tempting.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi went out.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He saw that the 10 new women were all wearing clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the clothes on Gu Qing and the others were gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Instead, they had become short shirts and shorts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It must have been Gu Qing and the female soldiers who gave their clothes to the new villagers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This way, everyone had clothes to wear.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhao Chi asked these new villagers about their work intentions.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Only 2 had clear intentions, the rest followed Zhao Chi's arrangements.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Soon, Zhao Chi transferred 4 female carpenters, 1 female militia, and 5 female construction workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Construction workers could be transferred at will.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The job attributes were the same as others.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Occupation] Construction Worker\u003C\u002Fp>",1087,"2026-06-17T05:38:40.016Z","2026-06-17T09:01:25.454Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","89ef59e53b1c47e0fc911c8aab6bf18817f31aec5eaa01cd5054739640df9524","global-lord-starting-with-heroine-fusion-chapter-42","global-lord-starting-with-heroine-fusion-chapter-40",515,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-lord-starting-with-heroine-fusion-cover.jpg"]