I am the one running the game

Chapter 546: The tribe was destitute and had to find a way out on its own
"That's not right..." Hui watched as Lu Xingshi finished chewing all the three-in-one bronzes and successfully condensed the fifth blood pattern. A look of confusion appeared on his face.

Not to mention too much, just look at the treasures that Lu Xingshi had eaten, from the elemental refined copper to the magic shadow copper and spiritual copper compensated by the royal court to the later three-in-one bronze. The number is so large that how come there are only five blood veins? There should be at least seven or eight blood veins.

He shared his doubts with Lu Xingshi.

"It's just a minor problem. It may be because my bloodline is stronger."

"After all, the highest level of blood concentration is only perfect, not that my blood concentration is only perfect." Lu Xingshi certainly knew why.

He needs too much experience to upgrade, so it becomes more and more difficult to upgrade as time goes by.

However, his level up is at least equivalent to others' level up of ten. With his current strength, even a bronze-blooded person who is extremely suitable for the totem warrior profession in terms of physique and willpower, even one with nine blood veins, is no match for him.

For example, people like Shi and Ni could be knocked down by him with three punches. Even if he fought ten people at once, he could easily kill three or five of them and then run away.

However, he only has five patterns. When he reaches the ninth pattern, he can single-handedly challenge all the nine-pattern totem warriors in the entire Bronze King's Court. It is estimated that only the Bronze Witch King can pose a threat to him.

The witches within the range of the totem are very powerful, not to mention the Bronze Wizard King who has become a great wizard.

Therefore, if Lu Xingshi only had nine blood lines, he would probably be no match for the Bronze Witch King. He has half a pound of scrap iron, while the other party has eight ounces of gold. However, Lu Xingshi has an advantage, that is, if he cannot defeat the other party, he can run away and then harass the other party repeatedly.

Of course, this premise is that Lu Xingshi uses his physique and will alone. If he adds his own bloodline ability and the witch's totem spells, and really waits until the ninth blood pattern, even if Lu Xingshi cannot become a great witch, he can still hurt the Bronze Witch King.

The only drawback is that without spending money, his growth rate will be very slow, and the more time passes, the more resources he will need to spend.

It is a pity that natural treasures like elemental refined copper and magic shadow copper can only be swallowed once. Currently, the most useful thing for him is three-in-one bronze. Because this thing belongs to the smelted bronze type, there is no upper limit to its consumption. At most, it will gradually fail to keep up with Lu Xingshi's pace as his strength increases.

Fortunately, Lu Xingshi has achieved three-in-one bronze freedom.

He sent a batch to the warehouse, and Lord Bodhi began to analyze them and then reproduced them. Now Lu Xingshi has no shortage of these things and can use them as snacks.

It was fine when he had four blood veins, but after he ate too much, the enhancements to him were minimal. At most, it could only serve as an upgrade to the level of his bronze body. For example, the enhancements to his three attributes, namely, his bloodline ability, physique, and will, had basically reached their limits.

This thing also has a strengthening limit.

Improvement is different from strengthening. Improvement is the progress of increasing the level, while strengthening is the enhancement on the original level.

As for providing it to the Bronze Tree Tribe in the future, there is no rush. When he is about to go to the Golden King's Court to take action, he will take a batch and leave them behind. The number should not be too large, just the right amount, so as not to arouse jealousy.

Large-scale supply will have to wait until Lu Xingshi becomes strong enough. He understands that a man is guilty even if he is innocent but has a treasure in his possession.

Of course, this common man was not him, but the Tongshu tribe itself. The Tongshu tribe was indeed poor and weak.

"Look at Yue. After he changed into the Glow Bloodline, he was able to kill twelve totem warriors with the same nine patterns by himself. Is this something a normal totem warrior can do?" Seeing Hui's hesitation, Lu Xingshi used Yue as a shield.

"You mean, the glow blood in him is the same as your bronze blood, both of which are of a concentration beyond perfection?" Hui asked suspiciously.

"Yes, how else can you explain it? If he was fighting one against two or one against five, it would be fine, but he can still win when fighting one against twelve. What else could this be but the concentration of his blood?" said Lu Xingshi.

The fact that the Yue could burst out with such powerful fighting power was indeed beyond Lu Xingshi's expectation.

Therefore, he also developed a strong interest in the Glow Bloodline, and planned to use the Glow Bloodline as a strengthening material when he synthesized the three bloodlines of gold, silver and bronze to see if he could get additional enhancement.

"Okay, you convinced me." Hui knew that there must be some water in what Lu Xingshi said, but he didn't intend to delve into it.

Maybe there is something hidden, but Lu Xingshi's intention to stay here is not like Yue Heke and his son at all, and he doesn't look like he wants to leave.

"How can it be said that I have convinced you? It is clearly the truth. If you don't believe me, let's fight."

"Don't think that I only have five blood lines now. But if I encounter a totem warrior with nine blood lines, I can kill him with three punches." Lu Xingshi slightly revealed his fighting power.

When Hui heard this, a gleam of light flashed in her eyes: "Really???"

There was excitement in his tone. Based on his understanding of Lu Xingshi, he knew that he would not talk nonsense in this regard.

"Of course, you can give it a try." Lu Xingshi said in a low voice.

"Come with me." Hui believed in Lu Xingshi, but she still couldn't help getting excited.

Of course he knew what it meant to have a five-pattern totem warrior with the combat power of nine patterns. After reaching the ninth pattern, perhaps he would be another leap forward.

The two came to a recently excavated tunnel at the rear of the tribe where blood copper beetles were raised.

Hui directly cast a single-target defense totem spell on herself, and then said: "Come on, let's do it." "I will use the strength of nine patterns." Lu Xingshi did not intend to use his full strength, his combat power was not just the ordinary nine patterns.

So as long as you can achieve the goal of telling the truth, it's fine.

Before Hui could finish his words, Lu Xingshi's fist had already hit him. Caught off guard, Hui was knocked flying and smashed into the wall. The single-target defensive totem spell on his body collapsed.

"Hui, are you okay?" Lu Xingshi went over to help Hui up. Hui was fine, and her face was full of smiles.

"You kid, are not bad. You do have the power of Nine Patterns. Fortunately, you held back and didn't use your full strength. Otherwise, if this punch had hit me, you would have immediately become the only witch of the Copper Tree Tribe." Hui patted the dust off his body, unable to stop smiling.

Holding back on strength meant that Lu Xingshi did not use his full strength, which meant that what he said was true.

With his single-target defensive totem spell, he could indeed block a full-strength attack from a Nine-Pattern Totem Warrior once, but it was broken by just one punch from Lu Xingshi. This means that even if Lu Xingshi didn't use much strength, fighting one against three was not a problem.

As for why it is not one against ten, after all, the combat effectiveness of a totem warrior cannot be considered only by strength, there are other comprehensive considerations.

After the test, the two left the pit and dismissed the people who had come. The noise just now was quite loud and would definitely attract the attention of the tribal members.

"We in the Copper Tree Tribe cannot afford to support you. I'm afraid there won't be many treasures we can provide you in the future. You can only rely on yourself."

"If you hadn't offended so many people in the royal court, you would have grown faster if you had become an envoy of the royal court." Hui sighed, his tone helpless.

After his joy faded, he gradually realized that the Tongshu Tribe was too poor and there was no way they could cultivate Lu Xingshi, who was like a bottomless pit, to the ninth level.

The fact that the royal court was able to obtain so many resources to supply Lu Xingshi was actually due to their own actions, otherwise all they could provide was a batch of elemental refined copper.

"I'm the one who bankrupted the tribe. If those two batches of treasures were used to develop the tribe, the tribe would be at least ten times stronger than it is now." Lu Xingshi still knew what was good for him.

The Tongshu Tribe has been doing its utmost to support its own monetization potential. The current stalemate must be caused by him, not by the tribe's lack of effort.

He couldn't monopolize all the resources and then scold those tribal members who couldn't even have a few sips of soup for not working hard.

"I will find the subsequent resources myself. When I reach the ninth level, I will lead the entire tribe to develop." Lu Xingshi said sincerely.

"Hahaha, forget about developing it. The population of our tribe is too small. We can't develop in a short period of time." Hui laughed.

"Is the war going to start again?" Lu Xingshi frowned and asked.

He guessed it from Hui's tone.

"I have predicted it and it is very likely." Hui couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know exactly when it will happen, but it must be related to the 'treasure loss' incident in the royal court."

"Plus, with the deaths of twelve Nine-Marked Royal Court envoys and the Snake Spirit Royal Court's spies, the Golden Royal Court may already be preparing to make a move."

Recently, the Bronze Court has been suffering losses, which gave the Golden Court the impression that it was weakened by internal strife. This was a good opportunity to take action.

As for whether this is the Bronze King Court showing weakness to the enemy, let’s finish the fight first and talk about it later.

There is no strategy in wars nowadays. You just use the mouse to circle the soldiers and then attack them.

If you can beat them, continue attacking. If you can’t, just retreat.

There was no idea of ​​war reparations. At most, they would launch a sneak attack or arrange for people to go to the rear of the royal court to carry out small actions to cause damage. However, this kind of behavior was not carried out many times, and most of the time it was based on head-on confrontation.

The reason is very simple, because there is no way to persuade the enemy to surrender due to blood differences. Either kill the enemy on the battlefield, or break the source totem after victory and make the enemy a slave.

In terms of a sense of belonging, there is blood ties as a bond, so the number of traitors is relatively small, and betrayers are also rare.

Being able to place a spy of the same bloodline into the other side's royal court is a brainwashing at the king's level, and is more of a control by some means.

"Is it really impossible to evade the royal court's call?" Lu Xingshi's expression was gloomy. He was definitely not within the scope of the call, but that did not represent the other members.

If half of them were taken away, there would only be a hundred people left in the Tongshu Tribe.

"Part of your compensation should be exempted, but it's unrealistic not to go. Let's say fifty people." Hui said after a long silence.

Naturally, Lu Xingshi’s compensation was not just the original batch of resources. There were also some implicit exemptions, such as conscription, but it could only be used once.

(End of this chapter)