Chapter 10
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Chapter 10: Project Development
Stretching hard, Luo Ji shifted his attention to his attribute panel.
His attribute panel hadn’t changed much, but after this whole day, due to discovering a natural wonder and earning 1,000 civilization points, followed by triggering a bunch of development achievements, he had quite a few civilization points.
Looking at it, he actually had over 1,900 points!
“Right, I remember I seemed to have learned a skill earlier, called Inspire Morale or something…”
Luo Ji muttered to himself as his gaze moved downwards.
“Ah, there it is.”
[Inspire Morale (Active): Upon activation, overall morale is increased by 10% (5% × 2) through simple words and actions! (This talent is directly affected by ‘Leadership’)]
The skill description was simple and clear, but the problem was it didn’t explain what increasing morale was useful for.
It was already dark, so it wasn’t convenient to test it now.
He simply put it aside for the time being and started to check the large pile of various points he had gained earlier.
Five project options were added directly to the top of the entire attribute panel, displayed as ‘Military,’ ‘Culture,’ ‘Industry,’ ‘Production,’ and ‘Medical.’
He casually clicked into ‘Military.’ At the very top, it directly showed that he currently has 11 military points, and below that was something like a skill tree.
The top row showed two icons.
Luo Ji clicked on each one to confirm the content.
These two icons were…
[Weapon Sharpening (Level 0): Success rate of sharpening weapons increases by 10%, efficiency increases by 10%, weapon quality increases by 20%.]
[Campaign Against Barbarians (Level 0): When fighting against barbarian tribes of primitive civilizations, overall combat power of friendly forces increases by 15%.]
Luo Ji tried clicking the ‘Weapon Sharpening’ icon, and immediately, the system notification sounded.
[System notification: Do you want to spend 10 military points and 100 civilization points to upgrade ‘Weapon Sharpening’ to Level 1?]
Hearing this notification, Luo Ji instantly understood.
“So that’s it.”
“If civilization points are the currency of this game, then these military points, culture points, etc., should be skill points!”
“To upgrade skills in different areas, you need to gain different skill points through different civilization developments!”
Having figured out the system mechanism, Luo Ji decisively refused the upgrade for now.
He only had 11 military points, and upgrading required 10 points.
This meant that after upgrading the ‘Weapon Sharpening’ project, he might not be able to upgrade the other project for a while.
At a time like this, he had to consider carefully.
From the panel alone, ‘Weapon Sharpening’ should be used to strengthen weapons.
With a success rate, it meant there was also a possibility of failure, and the sharpening process clearly also took time.
But after weapon quality is increased, it would clearly improve power to a certain extent and also make them more durable.
Looking at the ‘Campaign Against Barbarians’ skill again, the effect was quite direct.
Upgrading it would likely take effect immediately, and the boost in combat power was very straightforward.
But the drawback was that as civilization developed, once the hostile forces were no longer barbarian tribes, this skill would basically become useless, and the skill points invested in it would naturally not be recovered.
Each had its own advantages, and each had its own development path.
However, Luo Ji was currently eager to increase his strength, and increasing the tribal population was also an urgent matter.
Choosing ‘Weapon Sharpening’ would clearly slow down his pace. Thus, he already had a conclusion.
[System notification: Do you want to spend 10 military points and 100 civilization points to upgrade ‘Campaign Against Barbarians’ to Level 1?]
“Yes.”
He silently said in his heart. The skill icon for ‘Campaign Against Barbarians’ immediately lit up, and the level already showed as 1.
Afterward, Luo Ji didn’t stay long on this page and quickly switched to the ‘Culture’ panel.
If he remembered correctly, he had gained quite a few culture points.
This was indeed the case as he currently had a full 22 culture points.
However, what made him feel awkward was that there was only one development project in this section, and it seemed to be of little use…
[Surname System (Level 0): Each person with a formal name has a 3% chance daily to contribute 1 culture point.]
Holy cow, this skill was a typical case of self-production and self-consumption.
Although the 3% chance was quite subtle, it should still achieve a considerable effect once the tribal population grew.
But the question was, what was the point of him spending culture points to have his tribal people produce them themselves every day?
Forget it, it didn’t matter.
Anyway, he has 22 culture points, might as well use them.
In the end, he still upgraded ‘Surname System’ to Level 1, and kept the remaining 12 culture points.
Upgrading to Level 2 required 50 culture points, plus 500 civilization points, which probably wouldn’t be achievable anytime soon.
As for the subsequent ‘Industry and Production’ projects, they were in the predicament of insufficient points.
Industry points were only 2, and production points were 3, but upgrading to Level 1 for both required 10 points…
He felt a slight, inexplicable stomachache, but also made a small new discovery.
He noticed that the fishery icon in the production options now showed 1 production point.
This reminded Luo Ji of the earlier system notification that his first carp catch had increased ‘Fishery Development’ progress by +1.
It seemed these projects could be upgraded through activities like fishing or discovering new fish species.
This made Luo Ji sigh in relief.
At least there was more than one way to upgrade.
As for the last ‘Medical’ option, he has exactly 10 points, and there were two medical projects displayed.
[Medical Hygiene (Level 0): Cleaning wounds, reducing the chance of infection or inflammation by 10%.]
[Wound Treatment (Level 0): Simple application of medicine and bandaging of wounds, increasing wound recovery speed by 10%.]
Very good, very clear.
Luo Ji didn’t need to hesitate on this one.
He decisively chose ‘Medical Hygiene.’
He wasn’t afraid of slow recovery, what he was afraid of were wounds getting infected or inflamed.
After all, in this era, if that happened, there was a high possibility of it costing a person’s life!
After confirming the various development projects, Luo Ji couldn’t help but yawn.
A wave of sleepiness immediately swept over him.
After all, he had been tired all day.
After greeting the person responsible for the night watch, he slowly walked into his tent.
Without the light from the fire outside, the inside of the tent was basically pitch black and he couldn’t see anything.
Luo Ji, who was extremely sleepy, fumbled for the thick animal hide spread on the ground and lay down to sleep.
Half-asleep, a system notification sounded in his mind…
[System notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ whose civilization development has temporarily come to an end. Do you want to choose to log out? If you confirm logging out, it will only cost 100 civilization points during the novice protection period. Under normal circumstances, it costs 500 civilization points.]
Hearing this notification, Luo Ji became a little more awake.
The temptation to return to the civilized world made him feel a surge of desire, but as a person with a relatively rational mind, he quickly remembered Gao Su’s reminder from before.
Both logging out and logging in required consuming civilization points.
It cost 100 points to log out during the novice protection period, which meant 200 points for a round trip.
Under normal circumstances, a round trip actually cost 1,000 points?!
This was too dark, wasn’t it?
It was a good thing he discovered a natural wonder today and earned 1,000 civilization points.
Otherwise, based on the point-earning efficiency of a normal novice, after developing a few projects, he would basically be back to square one!
At this moment, Luo Ji finally understood why Gao Su had said that novices were very short on civilization points, and he was clearly quite lucky.
Thinking of this, he already made his decision.
“I can’t afford to log out…”
