Chapter 555: Reward

No wonder the difficulty of this mission is so exaggerated.

Give this thing, even if the difficulty were a bit more exaggerated, Su Sheng would still accept it!

Upgrade Expansion Order (Special)

After use, it directly ignores all condition limits and raises the construction limit of the current settlement by one level.

Description: The Empire specially rewards lords with special contributions.

Excited!

Normally, this item is limited to a village‑level settlement when a Tier‑3 guild applies for a base.

Only after reaching Tier‑4 can a guild apply to expand the base into a town.

But with this, Su Sheng can now directly upgrade a village‑level base to town scale.

So exciting!

Of course, using this item when the guild is Tier‑4 is actually the best.

A town can be directly expanded into a Main City!

Only…

A Tier‑4 guild is still a distant dream.

It's been almost half a year; the Recharge System is about to open, Yanhuang is only a Tier‑3 guild, while Su Sheng's guild was founded far ahead.

Waiting until the guild reaches Tier‑4 to use this Expansion Order would probably be too late.

After the New Year, when the Recharge System opens, other capital‑backed guilds will definitely crank up full speed to chase.

Seizing the chance now to widen the advantage is the best choice.

Secondly…

The surplus building materials now can also be put to use.

Not…

Not only are they useful, they're probably still not enough.

Su Sheng feels both pain and joy.

Expanding the town feels great; the infrastructure is far more complete than a village, and now respawn points and Teleport Arrays can be equipped.

It can finally be officially opened for… "making money."

However, the building materials required for a town are countless times more than those for a village.

The surplus materials left after finishing the village would probably only cover a corner of the town.

More manpower and resources are still needed…

It's also a loss; at this stage Yanhuang still leads many others by a wide margin, even though the world lags behind Yanhuang.

There's still time…

By that calculation, if Su Sheng were given a Main City at this stage, he wouldn't even be willing to build it.

The required manpower, resources, and all the building materials make his scalp tingle, right?

"Let's go!"

"Return home at once!"

Su Sheng sweeps his hand dramatically.

At the same time, Su Sheng posts a new announcement in the Guild Channel.

"Everyone, increase the collection speed of building materials."

"On the day the base is completed, the top three on the building‑material contribution leaderboard will each receive ownership of a base shop!"

"It's personal ownership; the higher the rank, the better the shop's location."

"Special note: The Chairman's contributions do not count toward the ranking."

Whoa~

In an instant, the whole guild erupts with excitement.

A base shop, once bustling, will definitely fetch prices no lower than prime locations in second‑tier cities in reality, even comparable to Main City‑level base shops, and can even surpass the prices of real storefronts in first‑tier cities.

As long as the guild can develop, whether Yanhuang can develop now is another matter.

Anyone with eyes open won't hesitate over that question.

"???"

Right then, Huan Jie's message arrived instantly.

At the village stage, there were only a few shops, and a few were given to the Dwarves to maintain supplies.

Yanhuang itself has only a handful of shops.

Su Sheng still wants to give a reward out?

Lin Huan was bewildered.

Being wasteful, but not to this extent, right?

Then Su Sheng directly screenshot the Upgrade Expansion Order and sent it to Huan Jie.

After that… Lin Huan fell silent.

Town… then it's fine.

A town's shops won't be too few.

Only three shops; giving a reward is just a reward, after all.

After all, building a town requires an overwhelming amount of materials.

Collecting normally, who knows how many years and months it will take.

With this reward as an incentive, the other members will probably go crazy, selling their lives.

Consider it a perk for the Yanhuang elders.

Moreover, the building‑material contribution leaderboard basically cannot be rigged.

Base building materials cannot be traded.

If, like today, a large‑scale operation defeats a BOSS and drops building materials, even though Su Sheng didn't pick them up.

Nevertheless, in terms of material contribution, Su Sheng ranks among the top.

Because the source of this batch of materials is a BOSS that the entire guild collectively cleared; after pickup, the material contribution is also allocated according to each member's contribution to that BOSS.

The same principle applies to party runs: even if all the building materials are picked up by a single person, the contribution is still divided based on each member's monster‑killing contribution.

Since everyone is in the same guild, if you just wade in the mud, you naturally get no contribution value.

"Got to thank Huan Jie for the hard work," Su Sheng said in a Private Chat to Lin Huan.

He knows that Huan Jie seemed to have just finished the village base's construction template, and now it has to be torn down and rebuilt, and the village scale and town scale are completely different tiers, so Huan Jie has to work hard again.

If it weren't for Huan Jie, Su Sheng would have been exhausted, or would have had to spend money to hire professionals.

Similar to the original Morning Star base, it cost tens of millions of cash, with a famous design team commissioned to create it.

"Just knew you'd command me; I also need a reward," Lin Huan messaged.

"How about a few shops for you?"

Su Sheng replied instinctively.

"Roll eyes…"

An emote was sent back.

Su Sheng realized it was indeed meaningless; Yanhuang belongs to Su Sheng as well as to Lin Huan, and the public account for Yanhuang is held in Lin Huan's hands,

Su Sheng is the spiritual leader of Yanhuang, a symbolic figure.

But the real "housekeeper"… is Lin Huan!

Similar to the Universe, Shen Wang himself is a banner for the Universe; even if a conglomerate later moves in, the Chairman remains Shen Wang.

"Ahem, then Huan Jie, what reward do you want?"

"……"

Seeing those two words, Su Sheng couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

In his mind, an image subconsciously flashed.

"Not…"

Is this a reward for you or for me?

Of course, Su Sheng naturally wouldn't refuse.

…

…

After returning to the base, Su Sheng immediately used an Upgrade Exploration Order.

Whoosh~

Under the system's great power, the base's area expanded several times outward in both directions.

This commotion instantly blew the Iron Hammer Dwarf King out.

"What are you doing, Explorer?" the Iron Hammer stared blankly at the base, which had expanded an unknown number of times.

"Hehe, by chance, the base upgraded from a village to a town."

"Under Iron Hammer's crown, it's your hard work."

Su Sheng said a little embarrassed.

"Not hard, not hard." The Iron Hammer Dwarf King's eyes lit up as he waved repeatedly.

Construction is, after all, their old trade.

And since they have already pledged to Yanhuang, the better Yanhuang thrives, the more comfortable the Dwarves become.

They're eager for Yanhuang to start building cities right now.

"By the way, these are for you too."

Su Sheng directly handed the blueprint dropped by the horse bandits to the Tie Chui Airen.

As for those materials, they have long been in the base's warehouse.

After saying goodbye to the Dwarf King, Su Sheng went to the village chief's wooden house… which now should be called the town chief's main building.

Territory Stone, town stage.

HP: 1,000,000.

Replace!

Territory Stone (orange), town stage.

HP: 10,000,000.

Su Sheng, satisfied, clapped his hands and glanced at the game time…

Su Sheng then logged off, carrying a bit of anticipation…