Chapter 119

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Chapter 119: Rapid Development

On the seventh day of the invasion, the system notification announcing the end of the invasion battle sounded in his mind.

Luo Ji wasn’t too surprised.

With two consecutive defeats, Zhou Kai’s archer unit had suffered over 50% casualties.

Continuing the fight would be too irrational.

Retreating promptly and preserving his remaining forces was the wise choice.

[System Notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for achieving victory]

[System Notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for obtaining item ‘Silver Treasure Chest x1’]

“A silver treasure chest?”

Luo Ji sighed faintly.

He felt he had won quite thoroughly, but from the looks of it, this level of victory apparently wasn’t enough to earn a gold treasure chest.

In any case, he first put up his truce token.

After doing so, Luo Ji opened his backpack and looked at the silver treasure chest.

He didn’t have many thoughts about it.

With a relatively relaxed mood, he tapped it, and the treasure chest immediately opened.

[System Notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for obtaining Black Iron-grade item ‘Cultivation (Skill Book)’]

Upon hearing the system notification, Luo Ji directly rolled his eyes.

Opening a Black Iron-grade item from a Silver Treasure Chest meant his luck had run out.

Looking at the skill effect, it was a passive skill that increased farming efficiency by 20%.

There was nothing much to say.

Black Iron-grade skill books weren’t rare anyway.

He simply found a farmer who had performed relatively well in the agricultural department recently and applied it to him.

Compared to this, he still hadn’t completely settled the arrangement for the over two hundred people from the Barbarian Bear Tribe.

Luo Ji spent several days just on personnel registration and deployment to determine each person’s talent and potential.

At that moment, he clearly realized the system’s brilliance.

Being able to view the attribute panels of their subordinates was definitely a major advantage for players.

A person’s talents, potential, or specialties were basically clear at a glance just by opening their attribute panel.

However, after these past few days, Luo Ji suddenly discovered that this wasn’t an advantage for players, but an advantage for beginners.

The key lay in the number of people!

Beginner civilization tribes had small populations, so with just a little time, one could easily go through every tribe member’s attribute panel without any pressure.

But as a civilization’s population gradually grew, when your subordinate population went from dozens to hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, could you still go through them one by one?

This was where the system was ingenious.

It didn’t explicitly state that only beginners could view the attribute panels of their subordinates, but it implicitly restricted experienced players.

If you had the time and energy to go through thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people one by one, you were welcome to do so.

But the question was, who had that much free time?

After a great deal of effort, the over two hundred newly added individuals were finally settled.

Almost all departments throughout the tribe had increased their workforce to some extent.

Additionally, the patrol team, which had previously been unable to be formed due to limited tribal manpower, was now established thanks to this population boom.

Luo Ji also took the opportunity to expand his military strength.

The entire Mirror Tribe had entered a state of rapid development.

Maintaining this state of rapid development, half a month quietly passed.

Inside the Chief’s tent, Luo Ji toyed with a fist sized stone in his hand, a thoughtful look occasionally flashing in his eyes.

Luo Jin discovered this stone by chance while scouting terrain and refining maps outside, and then brought back by Liu Chuan of the scout team.

It was clearly not an ordinary stone, but if one had to say what was different, it was that the entire stone emitted a metallic luster!

After Luo Ji’s repeated confirmation, he could now be certain that the metallic looking stone in his hand was likely a copper ore.

In other words, Luo Jin had found a copper vein!

Glancing at the map spread out before him, Luo Ji slowly spoke.

“There’s a barbarian tribe near the mountains where this ore was discovered, right?”

“Yes, Chief.”

As he spoke, Liu Chuan pointed to a spot on the map.

“It’s roughly in this location, almost right against that mountain range.”

“Have they discovered these copper ores?”

“They should have, as these copper ores are quite noticeable under sunlight, but your subordinate believes they probably don’t know what these copper ores are for.”

Let alone those barbarians, even Liu Chuan himself and Luo Jin, who discovered this ore, didn’t know what it was for.

He had only just learned the name ‘copper ore’ from Luo Ji and was now repeating it.

This result didn’t surprise Luo Ji. He himself hadn’t even figured out bronze casting yet, let alone the natives of this era?

“What about their numbers? How many people are in that tribe?”

“Fifty to sixty people.”

Luo Ji’s heart settled.

“Then let’s take it.”

Currently, the Mirror Tribe’s population has reached over four hundred people.

In the ancient era, this number could already be considered enormous.

A small tribe with only fifty to sixty people was no longer taken seriously by Luo Ji.

“Guo Jia…”

Guo Jia was the formal name A’Lu had given himself.

When Luo Ji first heard the name, he couldn’t help but spit out some water.

A’Lu, with a 5-star intelligence limit, had unknowingly named himself after a historical ‘ghost talent.’

It truly felt wonderfully subtle.

By the way, the younger brother was named Guo Jia, while the elder brother Savage Bear’s name was Guo Zhen.

Luo Ji glanced at Guo Jia, who was sitting below, holding a pottery cup in his hands with an expression of fondness.

Luo Ji rolled his eyes.

These pottery pieces were something he had developed some time ago, and for this, he had specifically gone offline to check information and researched the firing methods.

The pottery successfully made in the end quickly became important daily utensils for the citizens of the Mirror Tribe and gained widespread popularity.

It also triggered a ‘Pottery Making’ project.

Luo Ji himself felt rather indifferent toward these pottery pieces.

He had seen many beautiful pottery items, and the ones made by their tribe could only be described as functional.

As for their appearance, they had a very picasso-esque abstract style…

Guo Jia, holding the pottery cup, remained calm about being suddenly called.

After half a month, he had already grown accustomed to Luo Ji’s occasional sudden questions.

He simply assumed their Chief was testing him again, so he took a sip of water to moisten his throat first…

Unexpectedly, watching the calm Guo Jia drink water, Luo Ji, sitting in the main seat, curved his lips into a subtle, mischievous smile.

“Guo Jia, you will lead the people to conquer this tribe.”

“Pffft— Huh?!”