Translator: ryangohsff Editor: Nora
Just as Ouyang Shuo was touring Minnan Province, Blood Shadow Alliance had already started to rebuild and move. Everything would probably be done in half a month.
The first batch of their players had already reached the Satellite City. They were all elites and would act as the vanguard to lead the exploration into the underground world.
Ouyang Shuo was also interested in this.
Based on the settings by Gaia, the Lord could lead armies to explore the underground world entrances located in their territory. Ouyang Shuo was really curious about what kind of surprises the mysterious underground world would hide. ************ 4th month, 1st day, Shanhai City.
Ouyang Shuo hurried and completed his tour of Minnan Province and returned to Shanhai City along with the Guards Legion Corps. The Guards Legion Corps had performed extremely well this time, charging a long way to win the battle. They had totally washed off the shame and humiliation of Yongren City.
Huo Qubing’s tactics would give many people headaches in the future.
After upgrading to Capital City, Ouyang Shuo felt that Shanhai City was becoming more prosperous, and there were more merchants and players around.
It really felt and looked like a Capital City.
Returning to Shanhai City, the first thing that Ouyang Shuo announced was to apply to establish the country.
The palace was basically completed and all that was left was to establish the country. Within the main hall, Ouyang Shuo opened the interface and applied for the country establishment, and a System Notification sounded out and started to check for basic requirements.
“System Notification: Checking that Shanhai City meets the requirements…”
“Requirement 1: Main city has become a Capital City, requirement met!”
“Requirement 2: Lord’s class is at least Duke, requirement met!”
When upgrading to Capital City, Ouyang Shuo had obtained 400 thousand merit points. His current points were at 1.46 million, so he was just 540 thousand away from the next Duke class.
“Requirement 3: Lord’s reputation is at least prestigious, requirement met!”
Not to mention prestigious, even the next level famous far and wide was already achieved by Ouyang Shuo. Ouyang Shuo currently had 1.48 million reputation points, which were more than enough.
Who knows whether or not Gaia would release an even higher reputation rank?
“Requirement 4: own at least four Prefectures of land, requirement met!”
Compared to upgrading to Capital City, establishing a country needed one additional Prefecture. If it were not for considering that some provinces had an Imperial City, Gaia might have even set it as having one province.
To some mid and small-sized countries, establishing a country was basically unifying their nation. If not, they would not even meet the requirements for land.
“Requirement 5: Territory population exceeds 10 million, requirement met!”
Gaia had thought it through. If a territory only focused on fighting but not on construction and management, the population would be really little.
Such a territory would not have the ability to establish a country.
Capital City, rank, reputation, land, and population; these were the five basic requirements. Without reaching such standards, one would not even have the rights to apply.
“Requirement 6: territory fate at least at the 2nd stage, requirement met!”
The territory fate dragon was already at the 3rd stage, and Ouyang Shuo had even met the requirements to establish an emperor dynasty.
“Requirement 7: People’s sentiment must at least reach 95 points, requirement met!”
Establishing a country was what all the people in the country strived toward. No matter how strong the country was, it would be useless if its people’s sentiment was not high.
“Requirement 8: Have a country protector god beast, requirement met!”
Little Mo coincidentally evolving into a country protector God beast truly came in the nick of time. If not, Ouyang Shuo could only wait till Little Green evolved once more.
As for prosperity beast Qiyi, he was a special spirit beast and could not become a country protector God beast.
It was quite amusing how Shanhai City used dragons as its symbols and the Lord’s flag and even the fate manifestation was a dragon. Who knew that their first country protector beast would be a Qilin?
However, the dragon race was scarce and Ouyang Shuo did not know if he would have a chance to meet a god dragon in the future. If he could get one to be the country protector god beast, that would be truly majestic.
“Requirement 9: At least own one country establishment treasure, requirement met!”
Long ago during the voyage, Ouyang Shuo’s seal had been unlocked on Dragon Island and became an emperor seal. Not only was the unlocked emperor seal authentic, but it was also the highest grade Country establishment treasure.
One could see that the nine basic requirements were all one harder than another. Even if a territory managed to upgrade to Capital City, if the Lord did not have lucky and fortuitous encounters like Ouyang Shuo, the Lord would not be able to apply to establish the country so soon.
“System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, all requirements met, will you apply to start a dynasty and establish a country?”
“Apply!”
“System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for applying to establish the country, automatically assigning country establishment quests.” … “System Notification: Quests assigned!”
“Quest 1 – Tame Barbarians of the Four Corners: Territory at least has four system recognized foreign races.”
Gaia really knew how to pick on people.
The first quest was truly a test of a country. One could say that it looked easy but was truly difficult.
Even Shanhai City only had the mountain barbarians, the Li Race on Qiongzhou Island, and the Gaoshan Race on Yizhou Island.
They still lacked one.
As the nomad tribes in Lianzhou Basin were too small in number and were not an important part of history, they could not be considered.
This was a problem for Ouyang Shuo.
How would he be able to find a recognized race in such a short amount of time and also recruit them? Ouyang Shuo thought about the Qiang Race in the Shu Lands, but it was a long distance away.
“Let’s solve this one in the future!”
Ouyang Shuo shook his head as he knew that the quests for establishing the country would be much harder than any upgrade quest.
“Quest 2 – Breakthrough: Territory must obtain a technological breakthrough, develop a new weapon, and obtain a new technology to welcome the birth of the new dynasty.”
“….”
Ouyang Shuo’s face was covered with black lines. Why was this second quest a 3-in-1? Why did he feel that Gaia was being more of a cheat?
What technology breakthrough? Ouyang Shuo temporarily did not understand.
In terms of new weapons and equipment, the Z1 Type Warship being researched by the Shipbuilding Division was taking shape.
It seems like he needed to rush them.
The last one was a new technology, and this was the hardest. With Gaia’s requirements, the currently available technologies in the wilderness would not be counted. One must either reinvent one or find an uncommon one.
“Quest 3 – Congratulations from Everywhere: Have at least 50 Lords congratulating you when you establish the country. Friendly Tip: not restricted to players and can also be NPCs, also not restricted to just within the country.”
There were no less than a hundred Lords in China wilderness. Based on Gaia’s requirements, he needed more than half of the Lords in the region to congratulate Shanhai City.
If it were before Silver Hand had appeared, Ouyang Shuo would feel confident about this.
But after Silver Hand messed everything up, the wilderness was now in total chaos. Ouyang Shuo was not sure how many Lords would come in the end.
He probably would not have high hopes about Yanhuang Alliance, and it was good enough if they did not send any bombs.
Ouyang Shuo did a rough estimation, apart from his three allies in Feng Qiuhuang, Gong Chengshi, and Wufu, he could invite around 15 of the 20 Lords in Jiangchuan Province.
Next would be Chuanbei City-State and Xiangnan City-State. Ouyang Shuo was confident to get around 18 of them, whilst the rest were uncertain factors.
Amongst the NPC powers, West Chu would probably come. Out of the nine system imperial cities, Xianyang and Luoyang would probably send their envoys over if nothing went wrong.
Originally, Quanzhou looked certain, but they probably would not anymore.
That was probably it within China. Summing all of them up, it was 39. Ouyang Shuo was starting to regret taking down Minnan Province. If not, it would not be difficult to gather 50 Lords.
But with Gaia’s personality, Ouyang Shuo believed that the number 50 was calculated. If Minnan Province was still there, it would probably be raised to 60 to 70.
Gaia would not give Ouyang Shuo chances.
Hence, Ouyang Shuo could only turn overseas. If it were not for Silver Hand, using the huge influence of the voyage traveling trade route, Ouyang Shuo even had confidence to gather 50 foreign Lords.
Thinking about that, Ouyang Shuo was filled with feelings of vengeance toward Silver Hand.
‘Wait for it, there will be a day where I’ll break your hand.’ Ouyang Shuo thought.
As for overseas, William, Henry, and the like would probably not come. Kalia, on the other hand, would probably come over.
The other Lords in the Mediterranean Ocean were hard to predict. Ouyang Shuo did not know how many of them were members of Silver Hand and were controlled by them.
Those that were certain were only two to three.
Next would be ASEAN, especially those few states that traded with Shanhai City. Of them, there would be three to four who would come over.
If one considered that, he was still lacking four to five people.
Ouyang Shuo was not too worried. During this period of time, the Honglu Temple could still do some work. As long as they worked hard, they could dig away at some members of Silver Hand.
It was unavoidable to pay a little price.
“System Notification: Only by completing the three Country establishing quests can one establish a dynasty.”
Ouyang Shuo felt like it was expected and there was nothing unexpected. Strictly speaking, Gaia had a reason for designing the three quests, and they all were all to help ensure a country was prepared.
