MC's career as foreign lord

The dougong-style architecture overhead was the real challenge, especially with those six upturned eaves. Zhou Ren was a bit stumped.

At times like this, he really wanted modular packs for Chinese or Oriental architecture, but those didn't exist. He could only use small stones and wooden steps as substitutes.

But after spending some time creating it (specifically referencing the video by Village Head Mingyue), he excitedly ran to the roof of another building to take a look and discovered the effect was surprisingly good?

Next up was the table, which wasn't a big problem. He placed four wooden steps upside down, creating a square, hollow, but stable tea table. Zhou Ren sat on the chair for a while, feeling it was quite nice!

But the pavilion did take up quite a bit of time. The sky was gradually turning dark, and the wind was picking up. However, recently, the wilderness seemed unusually quiet. Even the mercenaries' missions seemed to have decreased!

So Zhou Ren didn't hear any screams from monsters or humans. It seemed Locke could finally get a good night's sleep these days.

At this moment, he saw Mossa slowly approaching and bringing him good news. "Jim's evolution is almost halfway done; it should be soon!"

"That's a good thing, I suppose!" Zhou Ren said. "What about the mushrooms? Have they been planted?"

Mossa nodded. "According to your instructions, we've cleared out a new mushroom field next to the tree farm and planted fifteen brown mushrooms and ten red mushrooms!"

"That's good. Remember to harvest them later!" Zhou Ren said. "Let's go back now! Tomorrow, we need to make tea and check out that house over there…"

He suddenly thought of something and asked, "How should we dig the tunnel so it officially connects to the underground passage? Or should we just dig straight through tomorrow?"

"Master, I will take care of this tonight. You just need to wait and take over tomorrow!" Mossa replied.

"That's great! Let's go back and rest. Your mysterious stew is in the special box; you know where it is!" Zhou Ren waved his hand and walked directly towards the house.

This place felt more like a home now, rather than some special, strange place. Sooner or later, he would fill the vast wilderness with buildings, forests, farms, and games. Who said MC couldn't develop a modern industry?

As Zhou Ren drifted off to sleep and Mossa headed to the mine with a pickaxe, a clear buzzing sound echoed from the town!

"That guy Locke… advanced?" Anna lay in a house, lifting her enormous head and nudging Shia, who was resting beside her!

"Shia! Princess? Hey!" A loud voice appeared next to Shia's ear, waking her from her light meditation. She squinted her eyes. "What's wrong, Anna? Are the wilderness green dragons attacking?"

Anna shook her head, her silver head speaking rapidly like a booming bell. "Not at all! It's Locke who leveled up. As the local administrator, aren't you going to congratulate him?"

"Oh, right!" Shia nodded, busily getting up. Her noble clothes had already been transformed into a starlight mage robe by the magic wand. She shook Anna.

"Don't sleep, you lazy dragon. Come with me to attend the ceremony! I wonder what the city lord will think?" Shia said.

"Who cares what they think?" Anna rolled over on a pile of gold coins. "You go; I'm not going!"

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The town was a bit livelier. Locke's advancement and his mission were issued almost simultaneously, so even with several important figures from the town present, he wasn't really happy.

After the simple celebration ended, only a few people remained in the church. Locke asked, somewhat puzzled, "Where is Her Highness Anna?"

"Anna said that since she's no longer the administrator, she doesn't need to attend our lazy meetings!" Shia said. "Whatever, let's begin! I didn't attend the later meetings in Val City either. Let's see what Harfalie has to say!"

Everyone knew the city lord's name, but few dared to address him like Shia. Locke couldn't help but smooth things over. "Ahem! Let me start with the city lord's orders!"

"Val City will send over a dozen intermediate-level professionals and three advanced-level professionals to Pine Leaf Town. From now on, Pine Leaf Town will be the front line against the invasion!"

"The front line?" Father Havali seemed to understand something. He gripped his staff tightly. "What about the other towns?"

"All destroyed. The defense line is retreating, controlled by the Druid Council!" Shia said. "The Silvermoon Empire doesn't have a Tree of Life in the Northwind Wilderness, so once a town is destroyed, we won't have another chance until new runestones arrive!"

Locke continued, looking at Shia. "Princess, the Empire hopes you will lead these people. A legendary-level elder will arrive in Pine Leaf Town soon!"

"Harfalie has a lot of official prestige!" Shia said. "He didn't personally deliver this order?"

She was an Elven princess, and her every move represented the dignity of the Silvermoon Empire. In Shia's view, this action was disrespectful to the Empire!

A beam of light floated down from the scroll, revealing the figure of City Lord Harfalie. "I apologize, Princess. My mandate is over. From tomorrow, a new advanced-level professional will take over as City Lord of Val City. Your orders come from the Empire's Elder Council; I have no right to interfere!"

Although he said that, everyone knew that legends had special privileges in the Empire. The Elder Council was full of legends, and each person had the right to act independently. This sentence was just giving Shia a way out.

Moreover, his mandate was over, which meant he had become a legend. The Empire didn't have much control over legends!

Shia silently clenched her fist. The Elder Council was really going too far. Even at this time, they didn't forget to give her a warning. Was royal power so frightening to them?

Underground, Mossa withdrew his gaze. "It's not royal power that's scary, but the consequences of unchecked power of the Empress!"

He remembered the Crown War. Wasn't every one caused by the Empress's willfulness? "The Elven race can't withstand another civil war!"

He looked up at the sky. "Corellon doesn't care, but the gods are all watching!"

"Why think so much? I'm not an elf anymore!" He smiled self-deprecatingly and raised the pickaxe in his hand. The underground of that house was just ahead. The tunnel needed to be built a little more conveniently.

Meanwhile, the meeting overhead continued. Locke explained their current situation. "We're the only ones left in the entire Northwind Wilderness who haven't been cleared out. I heard the big guys behind those wilderness monsters are very unhappy!"

Now that the time has come, they basically all know the forces behind these monsters. A green dragon that failed in a struggle came to this wilderness a long time ago.

Some say it was a failure of legendary destiny, others say it was the work of a divine aberration. In short, this is a dragon close to the legendary level, or perhaps even a legendary dragon. No one knows what it will become when it goes mad.

"In this month and a half, our tasks will become more and more arduous. I hope everyone is mentally prepared!" Locke said.

Brown raised his head, "Elder, I don't ask and dare not ask. I want to know, who are those three high-level professionals?"

Locke nodded. Brown's words just happened to ask what he was going to say next, "They are a priest from the Silver Moon Church, a grand knight from Val City, and a bloodline warlock from the Empire!"

"Which elder is it?" Shia asked bluntly. She also wanted to see who the leader of the elders' group was this time.

She guessed that this assistance probably also came with assessment conditions related to Zhou Ren. She wanted to know which old fellow it was this time!

"The Wind Caller—Archdruid O'Halloran Morninglight!" As Locke's words fell, Shia's eyes flickered slightly, "Teacher?"

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"Good morning, Jim!" Zhou Ren passed by Jim's position. This silver-light skeleton seemed to have regained a little bit of consciousness during the evolution, and actually turned his head and nodded slightly.

"It seems that Jim is recovering quickly!" Zhou Ren said to Mesa, "Will he be completely recovered tomorrow?"

Mesa nodded, "If there are no accidents, it should be. Your magic power here is abundant, and you don't need too many materials for promotion. This will save him a lot of time."

"That's pretty good!" Zhou Ren said, "The weather seems pretty good this morning! It shouldn't rain, we can consider making the tea first!"

"Master, according to the plan, you should go to receive the house in the town today!" Mesa reminded.

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Zhou Ren nodded indifferently, "I haven't forgotten, I'll go in the afternoon! Let's prepare the tea first in the morning!"

He asked Mesa to put out the materials and tools first. Anyway, there is a synthesis guide, so he is not afraid of any major problems. As for himself, he ran happily to the aerial farm to harvest tea leaves!

The aerial garden is still only half finished. Fortunately, Zhou Ren's obsessive-compulsive disorder has been almost cured by his group of bad friends, otherwise he really couldn't bear it. Now, let's just barely bear it!

The mushroom tree on top of the aerial farm has been cleaned up by Mesa. It seems that knowing that there may not be time to plant here again in the future, he also cleaned up all the puddles, leaving only the flat ground and the fierce sound of the wind.

However, the tea garden still looks the same. Under the enclosure of the wooden fence, it is lush and verdant, and it is obviously already mature. Each tea tree is half a person tall.

Moreover, unlike the newly mature tea trees, the tea leaves that are now bearing fruit actually look a bit more deep and dark, so that it is easier to distinguish between mature and immature tea trees.

Of course, now Zhou Ren has mature tea leaves in his hands, so he doesn't need to use anything else to ripen them. He quickly started picking them.

The picking rules for tea leaves are very interesting. Each picking can yield 1-4 tea leaves and broken tea leaves. This number is constant within the range of 1-4, and cannot be changed with the enchantment of luck.

In other words, this is a game where the lucky and the unlucky compete for luck.

If you are lucky, you get four leaves each time, which is 320 tea leaves plus 320 broken tea leaves. If you are extremely unlucky, you only get one leaf each time, which is only 80 tea leaves plus 80 broken tea leaves. It seems very unstable.

Zhou Ren's luck was not too bad. He got 255 tea leaves plus 114 broken tea leaves, which can be said to be a small lucky one!

Nine broken tea leaves can be combined into one tea leaf, so Zhou Ren simply combined them. Now he has 266 tea leaves.

Making tea bags for Tea Wind requires a lot of tea leaves, but Zhou Ren is not going back, but ran to the river.

Because in addition to tea leaves, there is also a very important tool, which is the tea set.

In Tea Wind, tea sets are divided into teacups, teapots, and water jugs. Teacups have various materials, wooden, stone, glass, white porcelain, and purple clay, while water jugs also have stone jugs, iron jugs, white porcelain, and purple clay. There are fewer teapots, only white porcelain and purple clay.

The best quality is of course purple clay. Zhou Ren is going to make a set of purple clay tools. Of course, except for the teacup.

The teacup is different from the other two tools. Although high-level teacups can enhance the effect of drinking tea, they come at the cost of sacrificing usage time, so sometimes low-level teacups may be more useful.

But purple clay still has to be made. Not only must it be made, but it must be made more. If you have to go out later, you have to bring a few more to feel at ease.

This is also the reason why Zhou Ren came to the river. There is clay and gravel here. The production of purple clay requires clay, gravel, and red sand. We can talk about synthesis later, as for now—he has to go into the river again!

"Now I urgently need an underwater quick dig!" Zhou Ren complained. Although he has the knack, he still needs to go underwater to dig things occasionally. The sluggishness, the feel, and the painful efficiency are really annoying.

He needs to take the time to dig something underground, but the mine is not a good place after all. He also knows the so-called Underdark, the terrifying area buried tens of thousands of meters underground. Who knows what kind of terror is hidden there!

But since the aboleth has been defeated here, he still has some confidence. As long as it is not a large monster raid, there will be no problems here!

After digging about two groups of gravel and clay, Zhou Ren embarked on the return journey. For the time being, he only needs to use so many materials.

He didn't expect that this river was not only unexpectedly large but also unexpectedly deep. The materials inside have not decreased at all after being dug so much by himself, but he hasn't seen much sand. It seems that there is really not much sand in this river.

Zhou Ren glanced at the opposite side. Compared to the desolate wilderness here, the opposite side is really a dense forest. He will explore it when he has time to see if he can find good things!

Arriving at the pavilion in the backyard, Mesa had already taken the initiative to move things out, and also built the two houses that Zhou Ren had planned. Seeing Zhou Ren coming, he quickly bowed, "Master, everything is ready!"

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