Chapter 173: Privilege Enhancement, Daily Settlement and Upgrade |
Qin Ziwen took out the dark red card.
He silently recited "use" in his heart.
The card shattered, transforming into countless red light points that merged into his body.
【Function Activated: Level 2 Node】
【Authority has been upgraded. Current Authority: Level 3 Authority (1/8)】
【Level 2 Node: Can establish three space nodes outside the Home. Through a one-way passage inside the Home, you can directly travel to the node area. Bidirectional travel is not currently supported. Once set, a node cannot be changed for 7 days.】
【Your authority has been upgraded, gaining the Challenge function.】
【Your authority has been upgraded. Those with authority lower than Level 3 cannot use Insight on your possessions.】
【Your authority has been upgraded. Those with authority lower than Level 3 cannot Challenge you.】
If the Safe House is the shield for a Home Master when they leave home, then the Challenge is the spear that can pierce that shield.
A thought suddenly occurred to Qin Ziwen. If someone obtained Level 2 Authority in the future, thinking they had an invincible turtle shell with the Safe House, and he just tossed a challenge at them, wouldn't the world become quiet?
At the same time, the voice of the daily settlement sounded in his mind.
"Detected authority upgrade. Daily Settlement can be upgraded and optimized. Proceed with optimization?"
The voice of the Daily Settlement came to his mind.
Qin Ziwen asked in his heart, "What are the benefits after optimization?"
Soon, a light screen appeared before his eyes.
【After optimization, Daily Settlement → Weekly Settlement. Scores can be accumulated. Event lines are optimized. Low-level cards can be stacked. Probability of obtaining high-quality cards is increased.】
Qin Ziwen pondered and continued asking, "If after optimization, I feel the rewards are not good, can I negatively optimize back?"
The Daily Settlement seemed to stutter for a moment.
It continued repeating the question: "Proceed with optimization?"
After thinking, Qin Ziwen agreed, "Alright, optimize."
He went outside. His younger brother was about to rest. Qin Ziwen waved him over.
"Brother." Qin Ziwu quickly ran over. "What's up?"
"Close your eyes, turn around."
"Oh." Qin Ziwu closed his eyes and obediently turned around.
Qin Ziwen took out an Enhancement Card and slapped it on his back. "You've been enhanced."
The Enhancement Card transformed into countless green light points that merged into his body.
Qin Ziwu's body shuddered. He felt it...
That brand-new vitality, erupting from the depths of his bone marrow, from the very core of every inch of his muscles.
He clenched his fist and extended his arm. At this moment, he truly and deeply felt the immense gap in power that had existed between his own body before and those of his elder brother, Instructor Du, and Cao Biansheng.
This was simply not a level achievable through mere exercise. This was pure, innate talent, representing the physical limit of a natural human individual.
"Alright, just know it yourself. Remember to get familiar with the strength," Qin Ziwen instructed him.
Qin Ziwu turned around, nodding vigorously, his face still wearing an inescapable look of surprise. "Mhm, mhm!"
Now, his team had roughly four Xiang Yu's, possibly even slightly surpassing him in certain aspects.
Hmm... that's not quite right either. Xiang Yu was strong not only in constitution but also in his close-quarters combat techniques.
They still needed to keep practicing that. However, with the Celestial Star Arrow Gallery and the Martial Training Ground present, improving proficiency in archery and long weapons wasn't slow.
"Master, are these two bows newly acquired? They are good bows. No wonder everyone says grassland longbows are good. They are just a bit heavy; ordinary people probably couldn't even draw them." Du Yu was playing with the two newly acquired grassland longbows.
Judging by their appearance, these longbows were well-maintained. Their previous owner must have cherished them quite a bit.
The bow body used multiple layers of materials like ox horn, sinew, and wood. Du Yu gave a light pull, feeling the tension and elasticity were excellent.
He slowly returned the bowstring to its resting position and then took out the dozen or so heavy arrows that came with the quiver. These were also part of the spoils from the same trade. Otherwise, having bows without arrows would just be like having firewood sticks.
"These arrows are heavy." Du Yu gently hefted one. The arrow's length was close to one meter, with a pure iron, triangular arrowhead. Paired with the earlier longbow, he estimated it could pierce light armor at a hundred paces and heavy armor at thirty paces.
It's a pity the Hunting Ladder task requires weapons to be self-forged.
Otherwise, using heavy bows would make things much easier. Making a single bow takes too long. It's too late to make bows now, but forging several shorter throwing spears shouldn't be a problem.
Thinking of this, Du Yu couldn't help but want to go to the Blacksmith again.
Seeing his intention, Qin Ziwen nodded. "You go ahead."
After Du Yu left, Qin Ziwen picked up a longbow and went to the Celestial Star Arrow Gallery to try it out. He found the draw weight required by the longbow was several times that of the compound bow, at least 150 pounds.
But for him, it was still easy. After several attempts, he discovered that this longbow far surpassed the 50-pound compound bow in both armor penetration and range.
The advantage of the compound bow lies in its higher accuracy at medium and close distances, and it's less strenuous.
However, for him now, the longbow was more suitable.
Having bows, he needed to make arrows as soon as possible.
Subsequently, Qin Ziwen used the Micro Blank Expansion Card to make minor adjustments to the internal space of the Home, creating a blank 30*30 area.
"Use Level 1 Moso Bamboo Forest."
Light flashed. When the light dissipated, a large area of ground ahead had sunken down, like a funnel-shaped depression. The closer to the center, the thicker and taller the Moso Bamboo became; the closer to the edges, the shorter and thinner it was.
Looking out, this lush, vibrant Moso Bamboo Forest, with its varying heights and thicknesses, was filled with an intense aura of life.
"It's just... why is the ground sunken like this?" Qin Ziwen was both amused and exasperated, but he guessed the reason. Mature Moso Bamboo is very tall, reaching five or six stories high. His Home was currently only five meters tall.
If it couldn't expand upward, it could only find a way to expand downward.
That's how this strange terrain was formed.
"It's fine, we'll use it for now." Qin Ziwen silently comforted himself. When the Home's height increased in the future, he could find a way to level out this depression.
Then, Qin Ziwen summoned Jia Liangcai and asked him to organize people to plan the harvesting of the Moso Bamboo Forest in batches. Bamboo suitable for spear shafts in terms of thickness should be directly cut and made into spear shafts. Bamboo suitable for arrows should be cut for arrows. Young bamboo should be left to grow. If there were bamboo shoots, they could pick some. He was feeling a bit like having stir-fried bamboo shoots with pork.
Upon receiving the request, Jia Liangcai nodded in acknowledgment.
Only then did Qin Ziwen feel how comforting it was to have a sincere and capable Steward.
He didn't need to do everything himself. He only needed to give a general direction, and the details would naturally be handled by someone else.