Chapter 796: Village Defense Battle (17)

Zhao Chi lay in the spring water, recalling the day's experiences.

Today could truly be said to be a bountiful harvest.

First, he had used the beastfolk bloodline to improve the over-limit load gene for all the female villagers.

This increased every female villager's load-bearing capacity by 150%, reaching a standard load of 100 kilograms, with a maximum load-bearing that could temporarily reach 300 kilograms.

This would change the equipment structure of the female soldiers.

Second, the territory now had a new bovine subspecies — the Feathered Ox.

Feathered Ox only needed 20 days for a pregnant cow to give birth.

Then another 40 days, and the calf would grow into an adult ox.

Moreover, the male Feathered Ox's body weight had doubled by 100%, reaching as much as 2,000 kilograms.

Its pulling force had also increased by an additional 2 times, reaching 15 to 30 times that of an ordinary person — tremendous work potential.

The female Feathered Ox likewise had doubled body weight, and milk production had increased by 200%, yielding 45 kilograms of milk per day during the lactation period — quite a high yield.

Neither of these two gains today directly raised combat power.

But both were extremely powerful auxiliary gains.

Just as he was thinking, Gu Qing also came to the Carefree Spring.

She pressed close to Zhao Chi and hugged him.

The ultimate soft, warm touch once again enveloped Zhao Chi.

"My lord, how did it feel just now? The taste of a high-ranking female elf noble isn't bad, is it?"

"It was alright."

"Compared with us?"

"No comparison at all. Her body looks fine and is quite normal, but it's too hard."

"Hard?"

"Yes."

"Oh, it's because of that Soft Body gene, isn't it?"

"Right. After being with you all for so long, touching an ordinary woman makes her feel very hard."

"Hehe, then my lord, you should just get closer to us more often."

"No problem."

"My lord, all the work you asked me to try, I've already finished."

Zhao Chi sat up.

Now Gu Qing and the others' load-bearing capacity had greatly increased.

Theoretically speaking, this meant their strength had increased.

But looking at the data, their strength hadn't changed at all.

So all kinds of trials were needed.

Gu Qing said: "Our load-bearing capacity has indeed increased quite a bit, that's no problem. But the throwing distance, including throwing power and destructive force, haven't increased at all."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Understood. The same goes for melee weapons, right?"

"Mm, yes. Melee weapon attack speed, attack power, including blocking ability — none of it has improved."

Attack speed, attack, and blocking were all separate branch attributes, independent of load-bearing.

Although by common sense, these should all be interconnected and impossible to separate individually.

For example, if load-bearing increased, how could strength remain unchanged?

But in fact, it simply hadn't changed.

This was how this world worked — Zhao Chi could feel it was unreasonable, but it was useless.

Zhao Chi asked: "What about stamina consumption?"

"Stamina consumption is the same as before, also deducted according to the load ratio. Everyone is equipped with iron armor, no problem at all, and the impact on speed won't be too serious."

"Very good. Then next we need to make another batch of iron armor sets, and replace all the female soldiers' leather armor.

Right now the territory only has 24 sets of women's iron armor, and they've all been repaired, so their maximum durability has dropped quite a bit.

But there are 100 female soldiers, still short 76 sets.

Iron armor has a long production cycle. If we don't additionally transfer more blacksmiths, it might take many days to finish making them all.

We could also just buy them directly.

But iron armor is rather expensive, and we have no money right now.

It seems we still need a long-term, stable way to make money.

But unfortunately, the craftsmen in the territory are all too low-skilled.

Even with the Experience Fruit and the Goddess Pajamas that can greatly boost professional experience, it still takes time.

After all, even the most senior female craftsman has only just transferred for one month.

That's how it is for a novice lord — the early development is slow, you must be patient and not rush.

Zhao Chi's territory already been established for a full one month.

Although it was many times faster than other lords of the same level, he still felt the development was slow.