Chapter 256
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Chapter 256: Just in Time
After a round of commendations and rewards, Luo Ji no longer sent Guo Jia and Guo Zhen back to the front line.
Instead, he had them go to West Plains City to take charge.
This time, the incident of West Plains City being breached by a Bronze tier player within half a day had sounded an alarm for him.
He had originally thought that with him personally overseeing the rear, he could provide support to West Plains City at any time, which should have been foolproof.
However, West Plains City was still breached.
These Bronze tier players were not to be underestimated when they got serious, and he could not be careless.
After arranging all the matters at hand, Luo Ji took a sip of tea and somewhat recovered his thoughts, remembering the Golden Treasure Chest he had obtained earlier.
Looking at the Golden Treasure Chest, his mood became somewhat complex.
After a soft sigh, he chose to open it directly.
Accompanied by a surge of golden light, the system’s notification sound echoed in his mind.
[System notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for obtaining the Gold-tier item ‘Declaration of War (Total War)’]
Listening to the system’s notification and looking at the Gold-tier item called ‘Declaration of War’ in his inventory, a trace of surprise appeared on Luo Ji’s face, and then he suddenly let out a sinister laugh.
“Just in time!”
As mentioned before, pvp wars were divided into 2 modes: invasion mode and war mode.
War mode was further divided into normal war mode and total war mode.
Normal war mode referred to 2 players leading armies of equal scale to battle on a randomly or pre-selected map.
Total war mode, on the other hand, would merge the civilizations of both players into the same world.
With both players owning cities and fortresses, a truly comprehensive war would be waged.
However, war mode could not be initiated casually, and it required the consumption of corresponding items, namely a Declaration of War!
In conjunction with the existence of these 2 modes, Declarations of War were also divided into Silver-tier and Gold-tier types.
A Silver-tier Declaration of War could only initiate normal war mode, while a Gold-tier Declaration of War could initiate total war mode!
These 2 modes each had their advantages.
For example, normal war mode commonly occurred in civilization wars among high-tier players.
When a powerful civilization player wanted to invade another powerful civilization but was unsure of the opponent’s strength and couldn’t make up their mind, they would choose to consume a Silver-tier Declaration of War to initiate a normal war mode.
This was a way to confirm the opponent’s troop composition and tactics.
As for total war mode, to use an idiom from their gaming community, it was a “grudge match”—a kind of war between two sides with deep animosity, where it was a fight to the death.
In such cases, a Gold-tier Declaration of War would be consumed to initiate a total war against that player, to fight to the death!
By the way, due to the strategic value of Declarations of War, this item was extremely sought after.
A single Silver-tier Declaration of War alone had a market price of over a million Civilization Points, and it would be instantly snatched up the moment it was listed on the auction house.
As for Gold-tier Declarations of War, they rarely appeared in the auction house at all.
After all, for such consumable strategic items, besides having the money to buy them, you also had to be lucky enough to open them from a chest.
Sometimes, even with money, you couldn’t necessarily buy them.
It was precisely for this reason that low-tier players, even if they had one, wouldn’t use it.
Spending a Silver-tier Declaration of War worth over a million Civilization Points to fight an invasion battle that would probably only earn 200,000 to 300,000, or even less?
Wouldn’t that be crazy?
Of course, if there was a mortal enemy, that was a different matter.
“Whew—”
Luo Ji exhaled a long breath, his mind racing.
In this invasion battle, he had killed a fierce general under Zhou Dongnan and almost completely annihilated 5,000 of the opponent’s troops.
Using Wang Luzong’s total troop strength as a reference, Luo Ji concluded that after this battle, Zhou Dongnan was almost certainly severely weakened.
This was an opportunity to kill him!
Once successful, after he had successively killed two Bronze tier players, the players of the ‘Zongheng Tianxia’ alliance would have to reconsider their own capabilities if they wanted to move against him!
With this thought, Luo Ji decisively opened his friends list and sent a message to Ye Qingxuan.
“Qingxuan, there’s something I need your help with.”
“What is it?”
Ye Qingxuan’s reply came quickly.
“I need to purchase food.”
“How much?”
“As much as you have!”
Luo Ji replied very directly, but Ye Qingxuan frowned.
According to her understanding, Luo Ji’s civilization should have always developed very steadily.
A sudden shortage of food or needing some emergency relief was not uncommon, but to say “as much as you have” all at once, and to her, that was a big problem.
After all, based on the food production of her tens of thousands of acres of colorful terraced fields, “as much as you have?”
Did he know what kind of number that would be?
Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan decisively replied.
“What happened?”
Luo Ji did not hide the matter from her, because this time, he needed Ye Qingxuan’s full support.
Thus, after explaining the entire situation to her, Luo Ji decisively stated.
“I plan to reduce the number of people in the food production industry and greatly expand my military strength and build city walls.”
“However, this reallocation will almost certainly lead to a food supply shortage within my civilization.”
“Therefore, I hope you can supply me with enough food!”
To put it bluntly, Luo Ji hoped that Ye Qingxuan, who owned colorful terraced fields and had rich resources backed by a large mountain, could become his granary!
After instantly understanding Luo Ji’s meaning, Ye Qingxuan instead became a little worried.
“Won’t directly launching a total war be too risky?”
“Don’t worry, in this invasion battle, the opponent had 5,000 troops completely annihilated by me.”
“He is already severely weakened.”
“I am just going to deliver the final blow to him, eliminating future troubles!”
Seeing this message, Ye Qingxuan took a deep breath, and her expression became resolute.
“Okay, however much food you need, I will give you, until all the granaries in your cities are overflowing! Besides that, do you want copper ingots?”
“Of course I do! Did you find copper ore resources?”
Luo Ji’s eyes quickly flashed with joy upon seeing the words “copper ingots.”
Although he now had three copper mines, the process from mining to refining and then smelting into bronze took a lot of time.
If he could directly trade for ready-made copper ingots, it would undoubtedly be a huge boon for him, who was now racing against time!
“No, I just sold two ballistas a while ago.”
“That player had copper ingots, so I had him pay with copper ingots.”
