Chapter 2: Tribal Title Battle!

(Translator’s Note: It seems I’ve made a little oopsie. Old Ye is Wang Qi’s username and Good People is actually supposed to be translated as Liang Min, probably. We’ll just say that Good People is his in game username..)

Opening the world channel, sure enough, it exploded.

“Who is this Old Ye? So fast in reaching the second level!”

“It must be an ESports pro because I’ve only just set up the National Court! He’s that fast? I don’t believe it.”

“Has to be. I’ve only just figured out how to play this game, I’ve built nothing.”

Good People sent a message, “Which brother has extra wood? I can exchange for stone.”

Skyblade laughed, “Here, trade with me.”

Good People seemed to have not noticed his name and actually replied with a, “Thank you brother, you are very kind!”

This game had a trading system, so long as both sides added eachother as friends, you could talk remotely and work out a trade. Very convenient.

Good People, also known as Liang Min, was a soft young scholar of about twenty. At this time he had only just built the National Court, and had not yet started building other facilities.

After adding friends with Skyblade, a conversation request was immediately sent.

Liang Min naturally couldn’t wait to get through.

On the other end of the screen, the person had a shocking scar on his face, as if he had just been injured.

Liang Min did not care about the other person’s appearance but asked, “Hello, big brother, you have extra wood, right?”

The corners of the Skyblade’s mouth twitched slightly, and he sneered, “Naturally,” and then sent over the number of resources he currently had.

[Wood:358k]

[Stone:245k]

[Iron Ore:104k]

[Crystal:0]

“Wow! Big brother, that’s a lot of resources you have.”

“That’s for sure. Taking life after life.”

“What does big brother mean?” Liang Min said, scratching his head in confusion.

“Little kid, don’t you recognize me? Take a good look at what my name is.” Skyblade laughed at him.

When Liang Min heard this, his heart suddenly jumped and a bad feeling surfaced.

Just now he really did not pay much attention to the other party’s name, hearing him say so, quickly clicked on the other party’s profile.

[Name: Skyblade Smile]

[Tribe: Red]

[Country Name:xxx]

[Country Number:xxx]

(Translator’s Note: Author, your system sucks and mine makes much more sense..)

At the bottom there was a small string of characters marked:

[You have already used the Skyfire skill on him and it may not be cast again within a short period of time.]

Seeing this, Liang Min’s face instantly changed, crying, “Brother, I really did not mean to, it was just a cheap move and I accidentally clicked on you…… so…… forget it, please?”

Skyblade laughed, pointing to the scar on his face. He roared, “You know how this scar came about? I had no resources and so, I, the country’s head, personally went through the mists to collect some. If not for a good-hearted old man, I would have been buried outside. I tell you, this matter is not over!”

Snap!

Liang Min closed the conversation quickly and took a deep breath to calm down.

[Player (Skyblade Smile) has added you to the enemies list, please be careful in the near future!]

The next moment he was anxious like an ant-hill attacked, his mouth was chanting, “It’s over, it’s over!”

……

The cavalry had finished collecting and was returning at a fast speed.

Wang Qi traded a little resources with one person, then received the notification that it was completed.

In less than a moment, the sound of horses stomping came from afar.

Hundreds of cavalry appeared at the intersection of the mists and the inner boundary with heavy stones dragging on the backs of the war horses, the generals in high spirits.

None of them were a bit tired at all.

Soon, cavalry commanders came before Wang Qi.

“Lord Wang Qi, this mission has been successfully completed!”

In the next moment, the stone resource board in the upper right corner skyrocketed.

[Stones + 506k]

[Stones:508k]

At this moment, Fang Bo also came over.

“Lord Wang Qi, this humble servant has just upgraded the National Court to level 2.”

Sure enough, the next moment, a familiar banner from before reappeared above his head.

Congratulations to player (Old Ye) for successfully reaching Level 2 State House and gaining the title of Elite Player!

Old Ye was naturally Wang Qi’s nickname, a name that had accompanied him for countless years in the past, and when he arrived here, he naturally couldn’t give it up.

But after ten seconds had passed, the banner hadn’t disappeared, but suddenly changed the text flowing on it.

Congratulations to the player (Old Ye) for first unlocking the pet and gaining the title of Pet Master!

At this moment, in the world channel

“Holy shit! This god Old Ye again…”

“Can anyone tell me what a pet is and why I don’t have the option here?”

“According to my analysis, this Old Ye is a basement dweller.”

“Agreed!”

“This guy actually got the first pet too!”

“When will he get a machine gun eh?”

(Translator’s Note: Majority of these are just untranslatable without knowing Chinese gaming culture so I made them up.)

…

“What pet? Since when did I get one of those?” Wang Qi turned to look at Fang Bo, puzzled.

Fang Bo moved a small step to the left, and a strange creature with a snow-white body looked at Wang Qi with innocent eyes.

“Lord, I don’t know where this pet came from,” explained Bo Fang.

At that moment, the snow-white creature suddenly squealed with joy as if it had discovered candy and pounced towards Wang Qi.

“How dare you! Protect the lord!]

The cavalrymen, as if they were in a heated conflict, came to Wang Qi and pointed their weapons at the creature.

The snow-white creature was instantly frightened with its hair standing up. It stayed in place with its body trembling incessantly.

“Ugh!”

Wang Qi sighed and signaled the cavalrymen in front to put down their weapons, while he himself came to its side.

Squatting down and slowly stroking it, Wang Qi could feel it was still trembling slightly, so he said softly, “It’s okay, it’s okay!”

The words had some effect because in less than a moment, the snow-white creature returned to its previous happiness.

It quickly climbed onto his shoulders to which Wang Qi did not drive it away.

Through a short time of understanding, Wang Qi also understand that it did not have malicious intent.

As to where it came from, that was something that needed to be understood later.

“You don’t have a name yet, do you?” Wang Qi turned his head sideways to look at it.

Squeak~

It barked a few times and gestured hard with its short paws.

Wang Qi smiled “In that case, let’s call you Xiao Zi from now on!”

It squeaked again and jumped happily a few times, seemingly very satisfied with the name.

….

Wang Qi opened the game panel and began to look up at the pet glossary.

Although he liked Xiao Zi a lot, he also had to find out its identity. In this war strategy game, there were too many things to beware of.

Soon, a picture that matched the description caught his eye.

The creature on top of the picture was almost identical to Zi, and Wang Qi couldn’t help but and look down.

[Snow Elf]

[One of ten rare creatures. Only obtainable randomly.]

[Rarity: ☆☆☆☆☆]

[Skill: Recruit the Ice Folk (Cooldown 3 days.)]

Wang Qi searched again for ice folk and new information was presented.

[Ice Folk]

[A special human species recruited by snow elves. They can build ice houses and store food.]

“That’s a good human race!” Wang Qi nodded his head and said inwardly.

Originally he planned to build a granary, but now these Ice Folk just solved his problem.

Plus, the harvesting time for the farmlands were also coming up.

Wang Qi and Fang Bo came to the place where the farmlands were.

What was worth mentioning was that since he upgraded the National Court, the environment had changed drastically.

There were cavalry patrolling nearby from time to time, just like a good city.

Not to mention several farmers were on top of the farms, picking crops and so on.

There were all kinds of food, rice, vegetables and various crops.

Because the granary had not yet been built, there were piles high with all kinds of food.

Wang Qi looked at Xiao Zi, “Come on, now you need to make an effort!”

Xiao Zi shook its little head, little paws moving dumbly forward a little, then a beam of flowing light flew out.

Swoosh!

The stream of light landed on top of an open space and transformed into five Ice Folk, who stood side by side in a row.

Pak! Pak!

As soon as the Ice Folk appeared, they immediately used their ice hammers and ice picks to chisel up open space behind them.

In the blink of an eye, a dozen-meter high exquisite ice house appeared.

[Achievement Unlocked: Ice House!]

[Reward: Wood 300k, stone 300k, iron ore 300k, crystal 10k.]

“If I had known it was so easy to get resources, I wouldn’t have told the soldiers to go collect outside.” Wang Qi looked at the sudden surge of resources and couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.

The soldiers were his only army, and two days later the protection period will end. He had to get more men to protect himself.

Now that he had enough resources, Wang Qi immediately recruited another 500 infantry, 500 bowmen and 500 artillery.

His total soldiers had reached 2000, his strength came to 10,000+.

He opened the world ranking. His ranking was just in the thousands, not even on the main list. While the strength of first place had reached a terrifying 100,000+.

(Translator’s Note: Keep in mind this is assumed to be out of billions.)

After checking several people’s profile panels, Wang Qi was enlightened, “It’s the red tribe..”

As he expected, the top 100 on the world ranking were almost all in the red tribe.

After all, the red tribe had a unique advantage in terms of military strength, naturally they would rise to the top in the early game.

Their resources, however, were much less than the other tribes. More soldiers consumed more.

Wang Qi did not regret choosing the blue tribe, because this game was like a long steady war and the blue tribe’s research bonus would be effective in later stages.

As for now, he didn’t even meet the requirements to unlock the research institute.

But others simply did not think long-term, in their mind the early establishment of a good advantage was more important.

Wang Qi couldn’t deny that but he thought his idea was better.

Suddenly, the familiar voice from before rang out from the air again.

[Inner Tribe Title Battle!]

[Highest Title: Tribal Chief (Command the entire tribe. Bonus: Combat power +50%, resource production +50%, research time reduced by 5%)]

Under Tribal Chief were three generals, respectively: the infantry general, the archery general, the cavalry general.

[Infantry General (Infantry attack power +20%, resource production +10%)]

[Archery General (Archer attack power +20%, resource production +10%)]

[Cavalry General (Cavalry attack power +20%, resource production +10%)]

After that, there were five guardians: Sword, spear, stick, sword and fan.

[Become a guardian and you will get the corresponding weapons!]

[This title battle will officially start in two days so please be prepared, Kingdom Lord!]