Chapter 1224 - 639: The Comeback of San Pang, the Self-Disciplined Farmer

The Territory’s focus for the next few days is the Defense Challenge.

Once the Defense Challenge is done, it’ll put a perfect period at the end of this whole Challenge Month.

In the following months, the Territory can develop freely without being affected by challenges.

Zong Shen will also be able to loosen up a bit, extending his footsteps and influence to more distant places.

Of course, what he arranged before were basically all the big matters.

As for things like new Hero advancement, Talent upgrades, and agricultural Development issues, he plans to push those back for now, at least until he’s almost done digesting the personnel from the Unclaimed Territory in the next two days before dealing with them.

With Salome Lin Yu in charge of Agriculture, Zong Shen is fairly at ease.

The first batch of Sweet Potato Vine cultivation fields is right in the fortress courtyard.

Usually Salome Lin Yu operates in the southwest Industrial Area and northwest Agricultural and Livestock Area of the Territory.

There is an [Intermediate Agricultural Cultivation Workshop] in the Industrial Area, which can carry out seed breeding and rapid cultivation of crops. Today, Salome Lin Yu is in the Workshop cultivating [Paralyzing Vine Seed].

Zong Shen hasn’t had time to give him the corn seeds yet; he’s guessing tomorrow he’ll be going to cultivate corn.

Right now, two of the three High-level technical talents have more or less demonstrated their value.

Only Pharmacist Clarissa Tessa, the High-level Alchemist, has yet to produce any breakthrough results.

Zong Shen asked her to research [Magic Energy Cola], and up to now she hasn’t even produced a single prototype.

You have to know the materials are all ready-made; with [Energy Spring Water] as the base, she only needs to research the flavoring. It’s not like he’s asking her to invent it from scratch.

At the very least she should’ve come up with some test versions for him to try the taste.

But she hasn’t produced anything.

If he’d known earlier, he might as well have had her make Recovery Potions instead!

A High-level Alchemist can completely produce all kinds of High Level Potions.

As long as the herbs are available in the [Market], they can be purchased in bulk. Quite a few Lords who descended into the mountainous areas are putting herbs on consignment sale in exchange for construction resources.

Basically, herbs from Ordinary Quality up to Rare Quality can all be bought.

Zong Shen has already decided: he’ll give Clarissa Tessa one more day.

If the day after tomorrow she still hasn’t managed to produce a test version of [Magic Energy Cola], then he’ll have to sit down and have a proper talk with her.

After all tasks were assigned, the banquet was also more or less coming to an end.

Zong Shen drank a few more cups of wine, and ate some meat and bread.

His Hunger Level reached 100 points, and a Satiated feeling rose from his belly.

The others had also mostly finished eating.

Only Blood Wolf Gujate, Copperbeard·Wine Fire, and Korby were still wolfing down food like a storm.

Just right to let these reckless brutes clear the plates; wasting food is shameful.

The Territory’s agriculture hasn’t really started yet and still can’t achieve self-sufficiency.

All these newly added Population need to be fed.

Zong Shen was the first to leave the table and went straight upstairs to rest.

Even though he had taken a three-hour nap in the Hot Spring Cottage earlier, it still couldn’t completely wipe out his Fatigue. After all, he had basically not slept at all yesterday.

Those fragmented few hours of sleep could only slightly ease the tiredness.

He still needs to honestly get a good, solid sleep.

Recharge his Energy fully, and tomorrow go all out to wipe out the Goblin Tribe!

It’s not just him who’s exhausted: Marie, Hoy, Luna, Wenresa, Korby, Favide, and even Blood Wolf Gujate, Dwarf Uncle, and Tiezi haven’t really rested these past two days.

They stayed up all night; today they absolutely have to go to bed early!

It’s just a bit past eight in the evening right now; early to bed and early to rise is good for the body!

Zong Shen went straight upstairs, leaving the mess in the hall for the others to handle.

He entered his room, swiftly took off his Battle Armor and Equipment, and lay comfortably down on the bed.

By now, the materials, Buildings, and personnel brought back from the Unclaimed Territory have already been preliminarily sorted.

The Treasure Chests that needed opening and the Points that needed redemption are all taken care of.

The tasks for the coming days have also been assigned.

Zong Shen felt incomparably relaxed.

This kind of relaxation is hard to come by.

It’s like you’ve finished all the work at hand and are about to welcome a holiday.

Also like that summer after the college entrance exam.

In this relaxed state, Zong Shen quickly drifted into dreamland.

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The next day, a little after six in the morning.

Zong Shen opened his eyes feeling refreshed and clear-headed.

Yesterday’s Fatigue had completely vanished.

Seven or eight hours of sleep are enough for him to wake up naturally.

After stretching lazily, he turned his head to look to the side.

Luna had already gotten up long ago and should have gone to prepare for today’s Mine relocation mission.

There’s still more than an hour before assembly Time.

Zong Shen estimated that if he washed up, then organized the items he needs to bring, the Time would just about line up.

Today’s combat Tactics are very simple,

Before setting out, the main force will enter the [Pascal Contract’s Large Pocket (Golden)] in advance.

Zong Shen will ride Xiaoheizi, bring the Flying Tiger and the Scorpion-tailed Tiger Squad, and first use [Goblin Bomb] plus Spell Scrolls to directly carry out an aerial carpet-bombing Tactics from above.

He’ll cripple and scatter the large concentrations of goblins so they can’t regroup and form sufficient combat power.

The goblins’ individual combat strength is relatively weak compared to others of the Same Tier.

Mages like Kangnijiya, Tasuya, and Aisha can even ride Scorpion-tailed Tigers to cast attacks from the air.

After the bombing, he’ll find a nearby spot to release the main force from the [Big Pocket] and then sweep up the remaining goblins.