Chapter 4
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Chapter 4: Turns Out I’m an SSR
He needed quite a few things, and with the ground covered in snow, clearing it would take a while.
During this time, Luo Ji didn’t plan to be idle.
He remembered the reminder in Gao Su’s message, which said to remember to check his attribute panel and develop based on his strengths.
Maintaining his posture standing by the lake, Luo Ji tried to open his attribute panel.
Sure enough, this thing was controlled by thought.
As soon as he thought about it, the attribute panel appeared before him.
When the attribute panel appeared, Luo Ji specifically glanced at the old barbarian man standing next to him.
Clearly, the other party could not see this.
After confirming this, Luo Ji, feeling relieved, began to focus his attention on the attribute panel in front of him.
Information like name, gender, and age didn’t interest him.
The important part was the physical attributes.
After scanning downwards, the information he wanted to know quickly appeared before his eyes…
[Bravery: ★★☆
Intelligence: ★★★☆
Spirit: ★★★☆
Endurance: ★★☆
Leadership: ★★☆☆☆ (Recommended)
Talent: Ruler
Skills: None
Battle Tactics: None
Subordinates: 34 people
Owned Cities: None (No fixed dwelling)]
Important things, Luo Ji habitually looked at twice, first a quick look, then a careful one.
When he saw the part about them having no fixed dwelling at the end, Luo Ji’s expression first froze, then he thoughtfully glanced at the busy people behind him, and a flicker of understanding flashed in his eyes.
It seemed this status wouldn’t change until the settlement was built.
Not dwelling on this point, his attention was more focused on the attributes and talent.
This attribute panel used a star rating system, divided into black stars and white stars.
For Luo Ji, who played a lot of games, this wasn’t unfamiliar.
Clearly, the black stars represented the current strength of his attributes, while the white stars represented the maximum potential growth for that attribute.
It was easy to understand.
His gaze quickly scanned down, and Luo Ji’s attention soon focused on the ‘Leadership’ attribute.
After all, the 5 stars representing the growth potential were too eye-catching!
He couldn’t not see them!
He had no idea he actually had this hidden talent.
After all, as a student in reality, he didn’t seem to have any opportunity to show this kind of talent.
Could his love for strategy games also be influenced by this talent?
Excessively surprised, his breathing involuntarily quickened a bit.
If this growth talent were in a game, he would be an SSR card!
But considering his current ‘Leadership’ strength was only 2 stars, it seemed he was more of a late-game type.
He quickly took two deep breaths, forcibly suppressing the excitement in his heart, and then silently repeated “develop slowly, don’t be reckless” a couple of times.
Finally, he calmed down.
As he gradually got into the zone, a development path quickly formed in his mind.
“‘Endurance’ and ‘Bravery’ only have a maximum growth of 3 stars, so I clearly can’t rely on those.”
“While ‘Leadership’ growth is very high, it will probably take a lot of time to fully develop.”
“This means, in the early stage, focus on ‘Intelligence’ and ‘Spirit,’ and in the later stage, transition to a ‘Leadership’ development path…”
With a general direction in mind, Luo Ji became even calmer in his every movement.
He then shifted his gaze to the final section, talent.
“Ruler…” Silently repeating the name of his talent, Luo Ji could almost swear that this talent was directly related to his 5-star maximum ‘Leadership.’
He tried reaching out a finger and tapping on the words “Ruler.”
A more detailed description of the talent immediately unfolded…
[Ruler: As an excellent ruler, your civilization is rock-solid. All your people have a default loyalty +10. Civilization development speed increases by 20% (10% × 2). The combat power of the army you lead increases by 20% (10% × 2)! (This talent is directly affected by ‘Leadership’)]
“It really is affected by ‘Leadership!’ Originally, the bonus should have been 10%, but I currently have 2 stars in ‘Leadership,’ so it’s multiplied by two.”
“And there’s also this thing called loyalty…”
He couldn’t immediately judge whether this talent was good or not, but as a player who often played strategy games, Luo Ji knew deeply the importance of loyalty and development speed.
The combat power bonus for the army went without saying.
So, overall, it seemed pretty good.
Just as he was thinking this, the people he had asked to find tree vines and stones returned.
Looking at the things they brought back, Luo Ji patted the shoulder of the young barbarian man.
“Good job, you worked hard.”
“It wasn’t hard at all, not hard at all!”
The young barbarian man who had been praised looked a little overwhelmed, showing an excited expression.
Seeing the other party’s happy look, Luo Ji couldn’t help but smile.
However, he also knew that the top priority now was to quickly solve the food problem.
In this icy and snowy weather, it would be best if the people scouting the area and collecting camp materials could find some wild fruits or catch some wild game along the way, but Luo Ji still relied more on the fish in Mirror Lake.
With this thought, he reached out and called over two young barbarian men.
The one he had just praised was clearly among them.
He pointed to the large stone they had carried back and motioned for the two of them to hold the stone and follow him.
Smashing the ice surface by the lake edge didn’t seem very reliable.
He had seen people ice fishing, and they always walked towards the center of the frozen lake.
After all, the water in the center of the lake was deeper, and there should be more fish in deeper water.
“Right here.”
Considering safety, Luo Ji didn’t plan to take his two people all the way to the center of the lake.
After walking about a dozen meters from the shore, he stopped at a spot that looked about right.
“You guys use the stone to smash a hole here…”
Luo Ji said, gesturing with his hand.
“While one of you is smashing, the other watch carefully next to them. Be careful not to fall in.”
His simple words of concern could make these two people feel overwhelmed with gratitude, which made Luo Ji’s mood subtle and complex.
“This must be the effect of the default loyalty +10, right? It seems the loyalty of my tribal members to me is very high.”
After giving instructions for this task, Luo Ji didn’t plan to stay here long.
Smashing an ice hole was just the first step in catching fish. Besides that, they needed to make some fishing tools.
He certainly wasn’t going to be foolish enough to make a stone spear to stab fish.
The lake water was so deep, that was simply unrealistic.
So, he wanted to use those thin, long tree vines to make something similar to a fishing net.
He didn’t know if his 5-star maximum ‘Leadership’ was having an effect, but Luo Ji was now giving orders quite smoothly.
He had the old barbarian man, who had been following him, call over three nimble-fingered women.
He planned to assign the job of weaving the fishing net to these three.
Luo Ji had certainly never woven a fishing net before, but even if he hadn’t eaten pork, hadn’t he seen a pig run?
Using a branch as a pen, he drew on the snow.
The overall structure was simple.
The main thing was that they couldn’t make a fishing net that was too complicated or too detailed right now since they didn’t have the skills or the conditions.
They could only copy the basic idea and make a simple one to use for now.
After giving instructions for weaving the fishing net, Luo Ji reached out and called over a few of the younger children in the tribe.
He told these children to dig around in the snowy ground nearby and see if they could dig up some earthworms or insects to use as bait.
Scattering some bait down would be much more reliable than just throwing a fishing net and foolishly waiting for a silly fish to come by itself.
After basically assigning all the tasks that needed to be done, Luo Ji let out a long breath, organized the thoughts in his mind, and couldn’t help but lament the lack of manpower.
Originally, 34 people seemed quite a lot, but after assigning all these tasks, it suddenly felt a bit stretched.
“Population growth is also a big problem…”
While thinking about the population growth problem, Luo Ji found a cleared spot and sat down.
After picking up a wooden stick, he sorted through the stones they had brought back for a while, and finally picked out a relatively flat and long, and also sharper stone to start demonstrating.
A stone spear, simply put, was made by tying a sharpened stone to a wooden stick. The sharpening could be done slowly.
Luo Ji planned to make one or two stone spears first to practice and also to improve the combat power of their tribe.
Originally, Luo Ji’s idea was to try tying them with those tree vines, as it didn’t seem like there would be ropes in this era.
However, the idea was grand, but reality was harsh as he couldn’t tie them at all!
Even the thinnest tree vines were as thick as his finger.
When tied on, if he let go, the stone spear would be crooked.
How could he rely on this thing to fight?
However, luckily, his current 3-star ‘Intelligence’ wasn’t just for show.
His mind quickly turned, and he soon thought of a method.
He asked the old barbarian man for a thin animal hide.
This animal hide was very tough, and it took him a lot of effort to tear it into strips.
After tying it onto the stone spear firmly, the system’s notification sound immediately rang out in his mind…
[System notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’ for successfully crafting a ‘Crude Stone Spear’. You have gained 5 civilization points and 3 military points.]
[System notification: Congratulations to player ‘Luo Ji’s civilization for entering the ‘Stone Age’. You have gained 500 civilization points.]
However, at this moment, the continuous system notification sounds couldn’t make him shift his attention away from the stone spear.
Holding the stone spear he had made with his own hands, Luo Ji felt his heart beating wildly.
“Holy cow, I only made one stone spear, what’s with this intense feeling of accomplishment?!”
“Ahhh!! Things made by hand are really different from things made by clicking the mouse twice!!”
The look of wild joy on his face was completely unmasked, he was almost laughing out loud like an idiot.
He hadn’t even been this happy when he was officially accepted into university with a scholarship!
Unable to resist, he swung it a few times.
Even Luo Ji, whose ‘Bravery’ was only 2 stars, felt a sense of powerful momentum swinging this stone spear now.
At the same time, the tribal members who had been paying attention to what their chief was doing now looked at him with eyes full of reverence, which greatly satisfied Luo Ji’s ego.
For a moment, he was full of energy.
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect.
With the experience of making this stone spear, in no time at all, he made a stone axe.
Compared to the sense of accomplishment that surged from his heart when the stone axe was completed, the 5 civilization points and 3 military points from the system notification were simply insignificant!
Just as he was preparing to maintain this momentum and make a few more weapons to improve the combat power of his tribal members, the young barbarian man whom he had identified as having scouting talent came running back with a panicked expression.
“Ch-Chief! This is bad! We ran into people from another tribe outside, and they want to steal the prey we caught! It looks like a fight is about to start!”
