Chapter 511: Artisan

He fiddled with the Dwarf King's Ring for a while; Su Sheng still doesn't know how to use it, hasn't selected an option, and can't equip it yet.

However, Su Sheng guesses that it's most likely to be handed directly to the Tie Chui Airen.

Now that he has a base, he'll later go to Wutong Town to look for them.

Su Sheng has long wanted to find the dwarves, but various matters have delayed him, and he hasn't gone yet.

Once the guild gets enough manpower, he'll return to Wutong Town to check.

First, take a walk around the base...

There's nothing much to see, so Su Sheng arrived in front of the village chief's wooden house.

As the Yanhuang Guild Leader, Su Sheng has full permissions.

He checked the base management; the village chief's wooden house can be moved once, but Su Sheng hasn't decided how to layout the base yet, so he leaves it for now...

Regarding base layout, Su Sheng really isn't sure; let Huan Jie handle it.

Huan Jie is the Deputy President; Su Sheng only needs to grant authority, and Huan Jie will have the corresponding base permissions.

He looked at the village chief's wooden house notice board; quests have started to refresh.

A dazzling array.

Now that he's idle, let's do a quest.

Su Sheng casually picked a quest.

"Clear the bandit camp."

The newborn land easily attracts bandits' attention.

A few bandit camps have appeared near the base; eliminate these bandits!

It can protect the base's safety and also harvest some materials from the bandit camps.

Target bandit camps: 0/5

Material reward: 500 wood, 500 stone.

Don't say anything, just accept the quest!

Set out!

The quest coordinates are near the base, not far.

Su Sheng flipped onto his mount and set off; in four or five minutes he reached the first destination.

To be safe, Su Sheng stayed in Mounted State, hand on his Gun Shield, proceeding cautiously inside.

After all, he's alone, and the monsters near the base are a bit high level, so better be careful; he has a lot of items on him... don't be careless and lose Jingzhou.

The Dwarf King's Ring, plus the earlier orange blueprint... Siege Puppet (Chapter 188), all these are on him; dropping them would be a loss.

Since he's building the base, Su Sheng thinks these items might be useful, so he keeps them on him for now.

Otherwise, traveling back and forth to the Main City is far; Su Sheng doesn't want to run repeatedly.

To travel conveniently, he must build a Teleport Array.

But the village seems not qualified to build a Teleport Array; it needs to become a town first... unless he obtains extra building blueprints.

After the facilities are built, there will be warehouse storage.

He can also invite NPCs to open a pharmacy or similar supply shop; of course, items must be bought with game currency.

The village can collect some tax revenue, so later he won't need to shuttle to the Main City for supplies.

Once the town is built and the Teleport Array is activated, travel becomes much easier.

Su Sheng has already encountered the first wave of bandit monsters.

Fortunately, he can handle them; the Normal Monsters are level 55, about a dozen per camp, the humanoid monsters in tattered Leather Armor are stronger, but not unbeatable.

With Suanni's help, it's fairly easy.

Worth noting, during this time Suanni also caught up to Su Sheng's level, reaching level 50, thanks to Su Sheng sharing monster‑kill experience equally.

If Suanni hadn't taken half the experience, Su Sheng might already be level 53+ now.

Some quest‑reward experience can't be split with pets; only monster‑kill experience can be shared.

Otherwise, Su Sheng thought, if Suanni's level speeds up to 60, he can ride himself and the wild horse can retire.

After clearing these Normal Monsters, a level 57‑59 Elite Monster will appear in the camp; a bit tougher but not a problem for Su Sheng.

He still handles it easily.

Thus, after completing two or three quests, Su Sheng...

Yanhuang's main force... a massive 13,000‑plus troops, arrived in this area.

Looking at the simple wooden fence before him...

Is this our Yanhuang base?

The manpower has arrived!

Lin Huan immediately began assigning tasks.

The core is: gather various materials! Harvesting, monster‑farming, the village chief's cottage notice‑board quests...

Over 13,000 people are organized neatly!

Seeing this, Su Sheng couldn't help feeling emotional; without Huan Jie, he estimates he'd be exhausted.

But a new problem arises...

Yanhuang does have some secondary‑class players—cooks, tailors, blacksmiths...

But the artisan secondary class is truly few, some just for fun; the core remains combat classes.

Material gathering speed has increased, but without enough artisans, construction speed can't improve.

According to Lin Huan's plan, the first structures to build are the City Gate and the city wall.

A village‑level base can construct a simple stone wall.

But according to Yanhuang's roughly ten craftsmen… even the hobbyist craftsmen count, the minimum is two days of gameplay, which is just too long.

The other things haven't been built yet.

In the end, forced to, Su Sheng painfully spent a lot of Gold Coins to hire a hundred NPC craftsmen from the system.

Very expensive!

One hundred Gold Coins per craftsman! And that's the daily price!

One hundred NPC craftsmen cost ten thousand Gold Coins per day, though over the past half‑month the Gold Coin rate has kept dropping.

Now the price is still 60r per Gold Coin.

Ten thousand Gold Coins per day! 60W!

Su Sheng feels a heart‑ache so intense he can't breathe.

No…

Now we have to go find the Tie Chui Airen!

Su Sheng furrows his brow and immediately prepares to set off.

Then Su Sheng briefs Lin Huan on a few matters and immediately crafts a Return City Scroll.

He then takes the Dwarf King Ring, passes through the Teleport Array, arrives at Zhuque City, flips onto a horse and heads straight for the dwarf mine.

Meanwhile.

Baihu Main City.

The senior members of the two guilds sit together.

"Qiancheng Head, what do you say?"

Ye Tianzi looks at the young master Qiancheng.

"What does your Imperial Dynasty think?" the young master Qiancheng retorts.

"Form an alliance!"

Ye Tianzi says lightly.

"Hm?" the young master Qiancheng looks at Ye Tianzi with surprise: "Ye Tianzi Chairman, are you scared of Yanhuang?"

"You Qiancheng Muxue aren't either?" Ye Tianzi says with a half‑smile: "The first to run away wasn't our Imperial Dynasty."

"You…" Qiancheng Muxue's expression stiffens.

"Alright, since this is cooperation, let's be calm and even‑handed," Azalea says lightly from the side.

"Enough idle talk; Yanhuang is now a Tier‑3 guild, to put it bluntly, its wings have hardened."

"Our Imperial Dynasty and you Qiancheng Muxue haven't founded a guild, and we're already far behind."

"If we keep going like this, both our families will only keep being crushed by Yanhuang, unable to turn the tide!"

"Your grudge with Yanhuang, Qiancheng Muxue, is heavier than ours, so the enemy's enemy is a friend; given that, why don't we join forces?" Ye Tianzi glances at Azalea.

Tsk tsk… the former Chief of the Ten Halls Yanluo of the Assassin Alliance.

The scholar meets his end, Azalea dances alongside…