I have an Apocalypse City-Chapter 976 - 977 Human Main City_1

Chapter 976: Chapter 977 Human Main City_1

Chapter 976: Chapter 977 Human Main City_1

Song Jian, riding a unicorn, slowly descended in front of the castle gate. Due to the unicorn’s surrender, the wild beast army it led directly disbanded, and all the beasts scattered and fled; they all ran toward the wilderness and forests, with not a single one daring to return to the castle.

By this time, the castle gate had already been breached, and Song Jian rode the unicorn slowly inside.

System: “You have discovered a human castle. Do you wish to conquer it as your main city?”

Conquer!

The entire castle was suddenly enveloped in white light, as if a giant hand was controlling it. All the buildings that had been destroyed or damaged began to slowly restore to their original state; the ruined castle was instantly rejuvenated.

At the same time, a semi-transparent screen popped up in front of Song Jian, displaying the attributes of the entire castle.

Xiluo Castle[Tier 1]

Buildings owned: City Lord Mansion Level 1 (earns 200 gold coins per day); City Wall Level 1 (defense rating 500 points); Watchtower Level 1 (provides 5 spearmen for recruitment per day); Resource Warehouse Level 1 (increases ordinary resources by 10 units per day).

This human main city was rather rudimentary, but the announcement of Song Jian’s conquest shook all the other examinees.

“How is it possible so quickly? It’s been three days, and we haven’t even located the main city of the underground campaign; why did he find the human main city as soon as he entered the game?”

“Is it a coincidence or just good luck? The human campaign discovered the main city so early, and there were no soldiers guarding the city; why was it conquered so easily?”

“Damn it, we also need to speed up. Everyone, abandon the resource points and start exploring the map quickly, and find the main city of the Hell campaign as soon as possible!”

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If Song Jian were only powerful as an individual, the examinees from other factions would not have taken it so seriously, because this Assessment World relies on armies, not personal martial strength. They didn’t believe Song Jian, alone, could defeat an army of tens or even hundreds of thousands.

But if the opponent had found and conquered the main city first, then the power of the human faction would rapidly develop, something that the other competitors could not accept.

Song Jian had no idea that his announcement of occupying the human main city would cause such a great shock. He was just feeling that this rudimentary human main city required too many resources to develop. Just rebuilding a gate would cost five hundred units of lumber and eight hundred units of stone. If he relied only on the ten units of resources accumulated daily from the resource warehouse and the two resource points he owned, it would take at least more than a month to reconstruct the gate.

However, rebuilding just the gate was not enough. There were too many buildings in the castle that needed construction and upgrades. If the resources couldn’t keep up, this main city would only become a burden.

“Recruit some soldiers first, then explore the surrounding environment!” Song Jian thought to himself.

In the main city, there was only one place to recruit soldiers – the Watchtower, which could recruit 5 spearmen a day at a cost of a hundred gold coins each. Song Jian recruited them all at once.

In the next moment, soldiers clad in leather armor, holding sharp spears, stepped out of the watchtower. They were only of average adult height and weight and didn’t look very imposing, but they seemed to have excellent discipline. Upon exiting the watchtower, they automatically fell into a line.

“At your command, my lord!” the five spearmen shouted in unison.

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“The morale isn’t bad!” Song Jian nodded. It was only then that he realized how precious the lucky gem the elf had given him was, as maintaining high morale was clearly no easy task.

“Spearmen: Attack 6, Defense 4, Skill: Phalanx Stab”

After reviewing the attributes of the spearmen, Song Jian finally nodded in satisfaction, “Not bad, they do look like soldiers now.”

Song Jian rode the unicorn, leading the five spearmen, and walked toward the castle gate, “Let’s first explore the surrounding area and try to discover as many resource points as possible…”

A gust of wind whipped through, and a gigantic shadow appeared in the sky. The unicorn seemed to sense a threat, becoming somewhat agitated. It snorted loudly and continuously pawed the ground with its hind hooves.

“Black Dragon!” Song Jian squinted his eyes towards the sky. It was an adult Black Dragon, its body measuring over ten meters in length, scales shimmering with a metallic luster. Its flight path was headed deep into the Elf Mountains, where the Flower Elf had said the Black Demon King resided;

“Didn’t the Flower Elf say that the Black Demon King occupying the Elf Mountains was an old, and injured Black Dragon?” Song Jian’s brow furrowed. The Elf Mountains were too close to the human city where he was located. Once the opportunity arose, he was definitely going to take out that Black Dragon; otherwise, it would pose too great a threat to his city;

“Nevermind that for now, let’s explore the surrounding area first…,” Song Jian secretly thought.

Choosing a direction at random, Song Jian led five riflemen forward to explore. After only a few hundred meters, he stumbled upon a large mill situated beside a riverbank.

Surrounding the mill were vast swathes of farmland being cultivated, with a group of farmers wielding wooden pitchforks laboring in the fields;

System: You have discovered a mill guarded by a large group of farmers. Do you wish to attack them?

A mill can produce food, an indispensable resource if one wishes to build an army.

“Attack!” Song Jian ordered the five riflemen;

Quickly, the riflemen formed a sharp vanguard and charged towards the laboring farmers.

Seeing the riflemen coming, the group of farmers brandished their wooden pitchforks to meet them. They outnumbered the riflemen by several times and swiftly encircled them, ready for battle to erupt at any moment;

“Kill, kill, kill!”

The riflemen roared in anger, taking the initiative to attack. Their spears easily pierced through the bodies of the unarmed farmers, blood splattering everywhere. Soon, one after another, the farmers were slain, and Song Jian’s combat information panel was filled with cascading battle notifications;

System: Your rifleman has killed a frail farmer, gaining 2 combat experience points;

System: Your rifleman has killed a robust farmer, gaining 5 combat experience points;

System: An angry farmer attacked your rifleman with a pitchfork, inflicting 2 points of damage and causing a loss of 1 health point;

System: Under the military might of your troops, the morale of the farmers dropped by 1 point;

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Song Jian did not participate in the fight. He simply watched quietly from a distance, for with the mutated unicorn as his mount, all his troops received a 15% increase in attack, a 10% increase in defense, plus +2 to attack speed, and +1 to marching speed.

With the bolstering effects of the mutated unicorn mount, along with keeping a “high morale” state, even though there were only five riflemen, they continuously overwhelmed the enemy throughout the battle.

After killing more than a dozen farmers, the remaining farmers finally let out a cry of terror and began to scatter and flee;

System: Your army has routed these farmers, achieving a resounding victory;

System: You have gained 650 gold coins, obtained 200 units of food;

System: You have found an unguarded mill. Do you wish to continue the occupation?

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