Chapter 17

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Puny rat people, they are simply courting death!”

Little Strong was the first to jump into the rat people’s scattered formation.

The slave rats had always been timid. When they saw a blue-black, strong monster with sharp horns slaughtering their former companions, they all dropped their weapons and fled in panic.

One demon defeated the rat people troops at the front.

“Demon!”

“It’s a demon!”

The numerous slave rats did not play the role of vanguards and meat shields as expected. Instead, they caused chaos in the form of a chain collapse.

“Damn it!”

The rat warrior chief slashed down a fleeing rat and asked for the opinion of the rat engineer.

“Should we retreat?”

“The demon Lord who accepted the traitor is more powerful than we imagined!”

The engineer put away his long-barreled rifle, the muzzle of which was still emitting green smoke.

The rat warrior who was in charge of holding the rifle quickly took it.

The engineer turned around. “This demon is too powerful. My shots can’t even cause any serious damage.”

“Retreat! Wait for the army to come back and attack!”

Just as the engineer was about to leave, a few dark blue figures appeared in front of him.

After calculating the speed of the rat army’s march, Little Smart’s ambush at the target location had been a perfect success.

The few mouse men did not expect the enemy to appear so quickly in front of them.

The rat people’s leaders were very decisive, directly kneeling and begging for mercy.

Little Smart was indifferent.

“Master’s orders are to destroy them all!”

The few rat engineers and warrior leaders at the core were killed on the spot.

They only left behind a few last words that were of a harmless threat.

They said that the clan gods and the power of the continent would destroy you invaders sooner or later.

With the leader destroyed, the ratfolk army completely collapsed.

“Filthy and powerless creatures should be burned by the flames of Hell and turned into ashes!”

Liang flew into the air, spreading the flames of death.

Her bright red pupils reflected the image of the final wails of the rat people.

The demons did not have much sympathy to begin with. In addition, they had to be loyal to Joey’s orders, so they began to mercilessly kill the rat people. Anyway, it was said that was a disastrous number of rat people.

Unfortunately, the number of the demon troops was too small. Even with the help of the slaves and rat servants that they had taken in before, they could not kill all these thousands of rats.

There were always a few that escaped the net.

On the other side, Joey, who was sitting comfortably in the Lord’s residence, also received the news of a great victory from the system notification.

[ Defeated the Rat Army ]

[ Slightly increased reputation on the continent ]

[ Obtained energy stones… ]

[ Obtained refined iron… ]

[ Obtained Demon crystals… ]

[ Obtained leather armor… ]

[ Obtained machete… ]

..

[ Exp obtained ]

[ Congratulations, you have leveled up! ]

Joey was Level 4!

It was a massive gain, a complete victory!

“No wonder we are talking about making money from the war!”

Joey had won this battle very easily.

But the harvest was not small at all.

Succubus Liang and yellow-eyed Little Smart had already leveled up to level-7.

The other demons also had the combat strength of levels 5 or 6.

With this kind of strength, they could already split the hunting party into three teams. These three teams could already clear out wild monsters within their area of influence.

Level 6 elite wild monsters could no longer even be considered a threat.

They had hundreds of units of just refined iron alone, not to mention a large amount of food, wood, stones and other basic materials. Unfortunately, it was still too little.

If the territory wanted to upgrade to a town, it needed a total of 10,000 units of refined iron.

All sorts of ordinary rat weapons and equipment were useless to Joey. All of them were suddenly displayed on the market, and this caused a stir.

[ Where did big brother Joey get so many weapons and equipment? ]

[ I think he’s just a workshop. So many people are supporting him! ]

[ Rubbish. We’ve already transmigrated to the infinite continent. Who would be so stupid as to work for others?! The natural choice would be to claim hegemony! ]

[ I’ve never heard of anyone who can forge equipment. These hundreds of all kinds of worn-out equipment must have been looted! Has Joey already started a war with the local forces? ]

[ I’m still playing a farming and cultivation game. They’ve already started an all-out war. F*ck! ]

[ A bunch of trash equipment. What’s the use of all these?! ]

[ Trash. Don’t tell me there are really people who would buy them? ]

[ I think even scavengers would look down on these items! ]

[ Enough! ]

[ Still, looking down on trash equipment? What level are you guys? ]

[ At least we can increase our combat power with these. The only way to increase our combat power now is to recruit more soldiers. How can we afford to raise them without this equipment? ]

[ Right, right, right. It’s not like we can only buy one piece of equipment. One set. Which one of us doesn’t have a group of soldiers under us? Everyone has one set of equipment. Then, we can’t look down on the increase in our combat power! ]

[ If you look down on it, then don’t buy it! Anyway, I’ll buy it quickly! ]

[ Haha, I deliberately lied to you idiots just now to waste my time. I’ve already bought twenty sets of equipment myself! ]

[ F*ck! ]

[ It’s already sold out! ]

[ F*ck, there’s a traitor! ]

..

After a series of transactions, Joey obtained a large amount of food and materials. He had accumulated enough wood and stones to level up. The rest of the profits were given to Liz to help her build a blacksmith shop.

She hoped that she could build a blacksmith shop as soon as possible and improve her strength as soon as possible.

When the Beast Tide arrived, no matter how powerful Joey was, it would be impossible for him to fly over and find her.

“Don’t worry, Boss. My Mountain Fortress is easy to defend and hard to attack. Nothing will happen to it!”

Liz was very happy that Boss Joey was so concerned about her.

“Besides, I have a lot of help. Every day, I hire a full quota of recruits. Even if our combat strength is not enough, we still have quite a number of people!”

Although these dwarves were more like workers than soldiers, they did not have to go hunting and gathering food every day. Instead, they focused on forging and building their homes.

The dwarves were also very happy. Their skills were improving very quickly. The level of their artisan skills had basically surpassed their combat level.

“Her Highness Liz doesn’t need us to fight. We have wine and meat every day. We can also work to our heart’s content. It’s so blissful!”

These dwarves faced the fire every day, and their emotions were as passionate as the fire, simply wishing to go to work every day. Working was as much fun to them as drinking.

Joey was also very happy about this phenomenon.

Although there were some concerns about Liz’s lack of combat power, but the more Lolly’s combat power was insufficient, the more she would have to rely on him.

He hoped that Liz would be able to forge a large amount of equipment before the Beast Tide arrived. That way, they would definitely be able to earn a large sum of money from the tide.

Facing the first wave of danger, Joey believed that every Lord would be willing to sacrifice everything in exchange for the possibility of surviving.

After all, if they were to die, there would be nothing left of them.

And at that time, not only would Joey be able to earn a large sum of money, but selling a large number of weapons and equipment to help the lords tide over their difficulties would also earn him a lot of fame and reputation.

He could obtain both fame and fortune at the same thing.

Joey could not help but laugh.

Was the path of hegemony really that difficult?