Chapter 676-Upgrading to Duke
Translator: ryangohsf
Editor: Nora
Just as Ouyang Shuo entered Plymouth Port, a system notification sounded out across the entire world.
“System Notification: Congratulations China Region Lord Qiyue Wuyi for leading the Shanhai City voyage squadron to crossing three big continents and oceans, unparalleled in history. Rewarded 50 thousand merit points, 100 thousand reputation points, and 1 special item, congratulations player!”
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The moment the notification went out, players around the world were astonished.
Till date, after a little over four months, the journey of the Shanhai City voyage squadron was known by the world. Their adventures in Southeast Asia, the Gulf of Aden, and the Mediterranean had all caused huge waves.
Not only Shanhai City, the whole world was paying attention to this unprecedented voyage squadron; they felt envy, jealousy, or even simply awed.
This also opened a huge page in cross ocean travel in the game.
Ouyang Shuo clearly remembered that the one who had gotten this achievement in the last life was the Spanish Invincible Squadron.
History was already slowly changing.
The moment he reached England, Shanhai City officially jumped to the position of the world’s most influential territory. Be it in terms of reputation or speaking rights, they had broken away from the control of the Chinese.
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Ouyang Shuo stood at the bow, a complicated expression on his face.
At this moment, he thought about a lot; everything that happened on this journey flashed across his mind.
The waves he caused at the Spratly Islands, the mysterious dragon island, the life and death battle at Singapore, the bloody night at Somalia, the underwater adventure at Atlantis….
All these events seemed like they had just happened yesterday.
Through this whole journey, Shanhai City had gained so much but also lost too much. The voyage squadron was pretty much brand new, changing a few waves. Tens of thousands of soldiers and sailors were buried in the oceans for the territory’s chase for ocean supremacy.
Only by sailing though the oceans of blood and corpses did the voyage squadron finally achieve such a feat.
The opening of such a great trade route, Xingzhou Prefecture, Friendship City, and Jidian City, the establishment of the Mediterranean Alliance, these were all massive matters.
Whilst Shanhai City had started the flames of war, they had continued to make friends.
The training and development from the blood and flames made this voyage squadron the elites of the elite.
“In the end, we succeeded, didn’t we?” Ouyang Shuo’s expression was one of loneliness, but there was an unusual steel about it. His journey to the position of overlord was far from over, and his heart could not waver even in the slightest.
Zheng He, who was not far away, had a complicated expression when he looked at the straight back of Ouyang Shuo. He sighed, “The journey to being an overlord is always a lonely one.”
At this moment, Zheng He suddenly felt like he understood the Lord.
He understood the loneliness hidden below that determination.
In the end, the Lord was just a 20 odd year-old young man. However, he bore the hopes of millions of people on his shoulders; they hoped he would build a future for them in the wilderness.
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A white light shone in his hand and a scroll appeared; this was the special item awarded to him. It was actually the World Ocean Region Geomancy Map; it had all the geographic information of the various oceans marked.
This map was crucial to Shanhai City’s journey to ruling the seas. With it, they could save a lot of manpower and resources, saving them a lot of precious time.
More importantly, from the 50 thousand merit points, Ouyang Shuo’s total merit points broke the million bottleneck and he had become a duke.
This matter caused a second system notification.
“World Notification: Congratulations China Region Player Qiyue Wuyi for becoming the world’s 1st duke, awarded the title of Shanhai Duke, rewarded 50 thousand reputation points. Additionally, there will be rewards from the imperial city.”
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Such glorious achievements could not be described by words.
If Ouyang Shuo did not recall incorrectly, in his last life, the first duke was only born at the end of the 4th year of Gaia. Which meant that in this life, Ouyang Shuo had achieved that a full year earlier.
Ouyang Shuo’s position as the World’s Best Lord was becoming more and more stable.
With this, he had cleaned out the last obstacle to Shanhai City starting a country. He only needed to quickly upgrade Shanhai City into a capital city.
The current Shanhai City was just a Grade 2 Prefecture. Ouyang Shuo estimated that when he returned, he should be able to smoothly upgrade it to Grade 3 Prefecture.
As for upgrading to capital city, that would probably require some more time.
Without mentioning other aspects, just feeling up the one million population required was a huge problem.
Needless to mention, Gaia would definitely set some upgrade quests.
The difficulty of the quest would surely be much higher than that of upgrading to prefecture as a capital city was a huge jump. The capital city of a player could compete with the system imperial cities.
Of course, all of this would need to wait till he returned to Shanhai City.
As for the title that Gaia gave, after the territory sets up a country, the Lord could set their title. For now, he would be restricted to Shanhai Duke.
When truly building a country, the title would best be a single word; if not, one would know that it was a random lousy country without any skill or power. A country’s fate would even be affected because of a single title.
The title of a country, a Lord in China could choose from the Spring Autumn Warring States Period, or he could set one themselves. As for how to do all this, Ouyang Shuo would have to seek advice from Jiangshang and Xiao He.
That was because simply using the title of other countries was something that would cause an uproar.
When upgrading to duke, the 50 thousand reputation point reward had also caused his total reputation points to break the million mark and successfully upgraded to Well Known Around the World.
A system notification sounded out in his ear.
“System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, reputation points broke past 1 million, upgrading to Well Known Around the World, awarded the title Overlord, congratulations player!”
Overlord: raises the good impression of historical people by 55%, raises success rate of recruiting historical people, raises success rate of recruiting historical people from other countries by 20%.
Compared to the Mighty Lord title, these stats were not only a huge raise, but it also increased the chances of recruiting overseas historical people, befitting of the description of being well-known around the world.
If the current Ouyang Shuo went to persuade Alvaro, it would probably be much easier.
His reputation reaching the 6th stage meant that he had already reached the limit. Gaia had not set any settings further up, so he would need to wait till the system update.
It seemed like Gaia had not expected an abnormal player like Ouyang Shuo, who would break past the one million reputation point mark in just the 3rd year.
Even until the 5th year of the last life, no one had accomplished this.
Ouyang Shuo’s actions could be called unprecedented.
In all likelihood, no one would be able to come close.
Luckily, breaking the reputation upper limit did not have a notification. If not, three consecutive notifications would be truly too eye catching.
Being too high-profile would make one hated.
Making use of this chance, Ouyang Shuo took a look at his stats.
【Name】: Qiyue Wuyi
【Territory】: Nanjiang Governor-General House
【Occupation】General (sub-occupation)
【Title】: Overlord (-), Barbarian King (-)
【combat strength】:Dark Gold
【Merit】: 1.01million/2million
【Rank】: Duke (Shanhai Duke)
【Reputation】: 1.03 million/??? Well Known around the World
Primordial Energy: –
【Body Structure】: 45
【Comprehension】: 38
【Luck】: 22
【Charm】: 15
【Command】: 85
【Force】: 80
【Intelligence】: 45
【Political】: 70
【Talent】: Wargod (Permanently increase combat power by 20%)
Talent: Ice (attacks have an icy effect)
【Speciality】: Magic God Possession (Raise combat power by 200% for 30 minutes, followed by a period of added weakness)
Specialty: Way of the King (raise sensory abilities and gives birth to the aura of a king)
【internal Art】: Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique (layer 11/12)
【Technique】: Tianmo Spear Code (Mastery through comprehension), Killing Sword Sword Manual (Mastery through comprehension)
Movement Skill: Floating Ghost Shadow (Mastery through comprehension)
【Art of War】: “Liu Tao” (Wu Tao Volume)
【Skills】: –
【Mount】: Little Green (God beast subspecies)
Special Mount: Dolphin mimicry flying device
【Equipment】: Tianmo Spear (High grade god weapon), Chixiao Sword (god weapon)
Armor: Dragon War set: Twin Dragons Swallow the Heavens Armor, Cloud Dragon Nine Pattern War Boots
Cape: –
Accessories: Emperor Seal (God rank), purple magnetic ohlite (royal family specific)
【Unique Items】: Yin Yang Copper Coin, group revival scroll, black dragon skeleton, fire element dragon crystal.
Apart from the rank and title, Ouyang Shuo’s other stats had experience a huge change. Be it basic data, equipment, cultivation technique, and more, all were all changed.
Even his weakness, the luck stat, had started to catch up.
The dragon and phoenix pendant Ouyang Shuo had given to Song Jia before going out to sea. The purple magnetic ohlite that he had gotten at Atlantis filled up the void left by the pendant.
After going out to sea, Little Green finally recognized Ouyang Shuo as its master and became his personal mount, replacing Qingdian.
Ouyang Shuo’s mimicry flying device was also listed. With that, one could see that Gaia did not only treat living organisms as mounts.
After this voyage, Ouyang Shuo’s storage bag had a new collection of special and weird items.
Plymouth Port, Harbor.
The successive system notifications had disrupted the welcoming ceremony that William had planned.
Of course, his smile became even brighter. Even the cold Annie could not help but take a look at Ouyang Shuo. At such a stage, such achievements were simply too eye-catching.
“Lianzhou Lord, no, now it’s the Shanhai Duke, welcome!”
