MC's career as foreign lord

Due to the existence of certain crises, he did not continue his research into industry. Instead, he properly handled government affairs and spent some quality time communicating with the two people by his side.

It wasn't until news of a strange, large building in the territory reached him that Zhou Ren was drawn to it. During the initial surveys, both soldiers and residents clearly remembered that there hadn't been any buildings in that dense forest.

Before monsters became prevalent, there had been a witch's hut and some shallow forest swamps, but Zhou Ren had ordered them all to be removed. After all, both slimes and witches were considered special monsters that shouldn't be seen by the public.

But now, while he was still in his office dealing with the accumulated affairs of the territory, someone told him about this. Of course, he became interested.

After all, doing these things every day wasn't ideal. The research into the industrial system, although not stagnant, was yielding meager results. His nuclear power plant, his jetpack, and his mining gun hadn't even been made yet.

However, the real reason for the appearance of this mansion was still his previous genuine need for life itself.

After waking up in Amana, he had a conversation with the goddess for a short time, but the meaning within was exceptionally profound.

"The electric current was terrifying. At that moment, I felt like I had lost all hope for life. All the vitality in my body was completely destroyed, and even my soul felt shaken!"

It should be known that Amanata was not just anyone. She was a true goddess. Even though she had fallen from her position, she still possessed the most important core of a god: a divine body.

"Did it really have such terrifying power?" Zhou Ren sighed. "I wonder if you think there's any way to deal with such an attack?"

"There is no defense against this attack. What it truly embodies is complete destruction upon contact. Its true rule should originate from the utter destruction attribute brought about by electricity!" Amanata shook her head, eventually thinking of a solution.

"Perhaps the only way is for another god to use different rules to counteract it, completely annihilating the destructive attribute on it!"

Saying this was the same as saying that there were no gods in the world, so the price to pay for projecting the power of a god was naturally imaginable.

"That really is a dangerous thing. I think we need to pause the research on high-voltage wires for a while and plant more rubber trees to ensure that every wire is covered in rubber!"

Zhou Ren felt lingering fear. Ordinary wires only needed one layer of rubber, and stripping the wires wouldn't cause any electrical transmission. But high-voltage wires needed three layers of rubber, which meant that even with the territory's productivity and the speed of the Tree of Life, it would take more than half a month to grow all the rubber to maturity and harvest it repeatedly.

He thought that after completing this Woodland Mansion mission, he would make an extraction machine to make good use of those repeatedly cut rubber trees, squeezing out every last bit of rubber. Perhaps that could be considered worthy of his own efforts and the cultivation of others?

That's right, he had already judged the true nature of this building. This was not a special woodland building, or a house built privately in violation of regulations, but a special building, the Woodland Mansion, which had finally emerged after a period of time and the continuous development of rules.

He had also speculated before that special buildings like Woodland Mansions and Underwater Temples probably needed to go through certain rule permissions and tests to emerge.

After all, ordinary Woodland Mansions weren't scary; what was scary were the pillagers that could spawn inside and the small totems they carried.

These things, called Vex Totems, were the true upper limit of the rules, which meant that the territory might have real high-level business in the future, such as... selling lives!

After all, the monsters in such a Woodland Mansion should respawn infinitely, and since he had an entire skeleton army, he naturally wasn't afraid of any small clusters of monsters. A simple barrage of attacks could easily eliminate them.

That's right, since the dwarves had taken over most of the territory's mining and excavation work, he had reorganized the skeletons. After experiencing all sorts of special tools and nourishment, these skeletons were no longer the same as before.

They possessed strengthened bones, a fearless will, and truly terrifying proficiency in operating any tools in the territory. Although there were only 50 of them, they were indeed a terrifying and exquisite unit.

And they had been quite idle recently. Besides staying in the coal mine to entertain themselves, they only trained with Jim, continuing to improve their bodies, gain more strength, and take another step towards becoming legendary.

But their limit was there. No matter how one thought about it, they had no way to advance to the legendary level and could only stay in the quasi-legendary position. The main reason was that they lacked what a true legendary powerhouse needed: something called wisdom.

This thing didn't appear often, but it did exist. Only with wisdom could one truly become a top legendary powerhouse, and not just a tool or blade in the hands of others.

Zhou Ren had always thought this way, and naturally he said so. These legendary skeletons had no way to truly become legendary powerhouses, and he was also very helpless. If he really cultivated them, he would have a terrifying army no less than any force on the continent.

But it should be enough now. At least, under the command of all kinds of tools, these 50 skeletons, once deployed, could crush any army on the continent. He had that confidence.

And now, it would be better to organize people to go and take a look at that Woodland Mansion. Not many were needed, just their old crew would be fine.

Similarly, he also planned to take a wind turbine over there and build an entrance that only they could freely enter and exit, while others naturally couldn't enter or exit casually.

Putting undefended high-voltage wires around and setting up warning signs next to them, if anyone still ran into them, then besides some unlucky people, there would only be some malicious people with ulterior motives.

He also wanted to give these opportunists a little surprise, otherwise, the territory would always be calm and peaceful, as if they thought they were easy to bully.

"Master, will things like buildings suddenly appearing on the territory happen again in the future?" Mossa asked with a slight unease. After all, this affects the entire territory's order and future. If this isn't thoroughly investigated, who knows what might happen in the future.

Zhou Ren nodded, but after thinking about it, he shook his head again. He didn't know if new modules would be added in the future, and new modules would naturally bring new things, so he couldn't say for sure or guarantee it.

However, he could clarify this matter from another perspective, "At least you should know that these things coming to us are a good thing, not a bad thing!"

His words made Mossa thoughtful. The lich hadn't realized that he had been completely fooled by his master.

"Then I will have people continue to monitor the situation here. If anything unfavorable happens, I will report to you immediately!" Mossa said. He felt that his master seemed a little too excited today. It shouldn't be something that would make him so excited.

Zhou Ren looked at him with a smile, "Judging from your appearance, you, Jim, and Sandru should have already tested the resurrection ability of undead creatures after obtaining territory authority, right?"

"You are indeed insightful!" Mossa nodded.

As liches, skeletons, and undead, they possess extremely high intelligence, which naturally leads to extremely high combat power. At least before they possessed the special buff that allowed them to resurrect on the territory, they would not abandon their own advantages. Moreover, they would use their bodies to make certain judgments to see if what Zhou Ren said was true.

It seemed that they had already undergone testing and successfully resurrected as before on the territory. Whether it was the cursed Mossa or Sandru, who had turned into a handsome man, both were like this. Now, the two of them remove their black cloaks and walk on the woodland, everyone would think they were standard elves or humans, and would not think they were some evil liches.

Of course, the territory never judges people's goodness or badness based on various identities. This is the only thing, because there are many skeletons serving the people on the territory. Although they are not a symbol of justice on the mainland, they are just right and do not have any negative impact.

At least the ordinary people on the territory have become accustomed to these stuttering skeletons appearing on the territory and doing some strange things. They basically represent the will of the lord and let them know that the lord has such a group of skeletons.

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However, things don't always go as planned. Just as Zhou Ren was preparing to continue his work, he discovered that the woodland seemed to have become a bit noisy. Then, he saw a pair of monsters slowly advancing towards his territory. No, the place they were advancing towards was not the territory, but the villager mob spawner.

"If even woodland mansions are being spawned, then it means that raiders, or various ultimate monsters, have appeared!" Zhou Ren said.

Thinking about it this way, it seemed quite reasonable. After all, those raiders weren't idiots. If they hadn't just spawned, who would directly attack such a large gathering area? Even if those raiders didn't seem to have much intelligence, they still had a lot of combat power.

"Let the skeletons gather first and kill all these raiders for me!" Zhou Ren shook his head. There was nothing to say. He just observed the number of raiders to see if there were any Evokers among them.

Evokers, a type of raider who likes to cast spells and can summon some strange raiding tools and items. They also often exist in woodland mansions, but they usually cluster together with Vindicators.

None of this is important. The most important thing is that they have, and must have, one characteristic, which is that they will drop a special item upon death, named Totem of Undying.

That's right, this is the one thing that all players need to acquire the most after version 1.14, which is the special item called Totem of Undying. It only has one function.

That is, a player holding the Totem of Undying will have the death energy on their body absorbed by the Totem of Undying at the moment of death, and then fed back to the player, giving them a chance to resurrect.

In short, the effect of this Totem of Undying is only one, which is to absorb power and resurrect when attacked. This resurrection ignores any means of death and is not limited to any death location. You only need to hold it in your hand to have it.

Moreover, at the moment of resurrection, you will also have temporary invincibility and be restored to normal health. This is undoubtedly good news for those who like to fight in teams.

After all, in a battle of the same level or even a higher level, if you have one more life than your opponent, you can use some strange fighting methods and powerful fighting skills, because you don't cherish your life.

And the opponent will inevitably be cautious, and being cautious in such a life-and-death struggle usually means ruin and death.

But after having a Totem of Undying, you even have a chance to trade your life for the opponent's cursed death, because the setting of the Totem of Undying never looks at how you died, it only focuses on the resurrection time point after your death.

In this special state, you can often get some unexpected operations that you can't do normally, such as a lich. He can completely claim that his phylactery is hidden very well, and then use some of his special combat skills to trade his life for the opponent's life.

And if you are bored, you can also do a more outrageous operation. Their own territory is the right to unlimited resurrection, doesn't this mean that they can resurrect many times in a row, exchanging their one life for countless lives of others?

Zhou Ren was silent. In that case, even if a legend comes in the future, there is no need to be afraid. There are not few legendary combat powers on his territory, and there are also many people who can exchange their lives for a legend. Find two liches to self-destruct continuously, and then continue to perform corpse explosion with their remaining corpses.

"Hiss..." Zhou Ren shook his head. This is not a particularly good habit, after all, no matter from what aspect, this fighting method is too brutal and inhumane.

But it can be considered a direction, and he recorded it.