Chapter 532
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Chapter 532: Turned into an NPC? (1)
As Luo Ji’s mind raced with countless thoughts, Gawain, bound below, was also dumbfounded.
Just moments ago, he too had received a system notification.
However, the system notification informed him that Luo Ji had accepted his submission.
What was going on?! Such a thing had never happened before!
A sense of alarm began to rise in Gawain’s heart, making him forget his pleading.
He quickly tried to open his system panel with a thought, but there was no response at all.
The unease in his heart grew stronger and stronger, causing Gawain to shriek immediately.
“System?! Where’s the system?!?”
His system panel wouldn’t open, and attempting to return to the real world also yielded no response!
In the past, even if a player was captured and tried to return to the real world, the system would remind them that they were currently in a special state and couldn’t return.
But now, there wasn’t even a flicker of activity!
“I… I’ve become an NPC? Impossible! This is impossible!!”
Overwhelmed by the shock, Gawain began to struggle desperately.
Luo Ji paid him no mind.
With a goblin’s physique, without the appropriate weapons and equipment, it was practically useless in combat.
Any trained human soldier could easily beat it.
Clearly, it was nothing to fear.
As his thoughts raced, the system notification sounded again.
[System Notification: Congratulations, Player ‘Luo Ji’, for winning the support battle!]
[System Notification: Congratulations, Player ‘Luo Ji’, for obtaining item ‘Bronze Treasure Chest x1.’]
[System Notification: Do you wish to activate the ‘Civilization Conqueror’ skill?]
Undoubtedly, the moment Luo Ji accepted Gawain’s submission, the support battle ended.
A series of system notifications immediately popped up.
Luo Ji, of course, chose to activate the ‘Civilization Conqueror’ skill without hesitation.
This was the biggest spoils of war from this support battle!
[System Notification: Target detected as a special civilization. Activating ‘Civilization Conqueror’ skill may cause a certain degree of impact from the target’s special civilization traits on your civilization. Do you wish to proceed?]
Luo Ji clicked to confirm again.
[System Notification: Activating ‘Civilization Conqueror’ skill requires 86 ‘Conquest Points’. Do you confirm the expenditure?]
[System Notification: Player ‘Luo Ji’ confirmed to have met high-difficulty conquest conditions. ‘Conquest Points’ consumption halved.]
[System Notification: Activating ‘Civilization Conqueror’ skill requires 43 ‘Conquest Points’. Do you confirm the expenditure?]
The cost of this goblin civilization made Luo Ji’s eyelid twitch.
He knew that when he previously annexed the orc civilization, it only cost him 60 to 70 conquest points.
Yet, this goblin civilization required 86 points.
However, on second thought, Li Yuanjie’s orc civilization’s internal development and construction were clearly in shambles, practically non-existent.
Its 60 to 70 point price was entirely due to it being a special civilization.
As for this goblin civilization, although it was still in the no-tier rank, with the boost from goblin technology, its internal development and construction were probably on par with bronze-tier players.
It made sense for it to be more expensive than the orc civilization.
Not to mention he successfully got a 50% discount.
He decisively confirmed the skill activation.
[System Notification: ‘Civilization Conqueror’ skill effect activated…]
[System Notification: Target civilization detected to have four cities. Do you wish to spend 8 conquest points to confirm the locations of these four cities? If the player declines, the system will randomly select suitable locations to place these four cities.]
Luo Ji, having no faith in random system placements, decisively spent 8 conquest points.
After his last stat allocation, he had accumulated conquest points for a long time, so he could afford these few points.
A massive map unfolded before his eyes.
Holding the four jigsaw pieces representing the goblin cities, Luo Ji, as usual, first checked the conditions of the four cities.
Undoubtedly, all four cities were quite impressive in scale.
Their productivity and technological capabilities were clearly higher than those of typical human civilizations and far surpassed the orc civilization.
Goblin technology, indeed, was not to be underestimated.
There was an advantage to paying conquest points and manually placing the cities because the system wouldn’t rush him.
He had relatively ample time to think.
Although the support battle here was over, as an allied reinforcement, Luo Ji could only stay here for a maximum of 24 hours, based on the neutral territory’s time.
So, he wasn’t in a hurry at all.
Clicking on one of the city puzzle pieces, the entire city’s three-dimensional image immediately unfolded before Luo Ji’s eyes.
While confirming the city’s resources and various production capacities, he could even confirm the city’s scale and specific layout.
Having spent the money, the service level was indeed different.
After some thought, Luo Ji placed the goblin civilization’s main city, Gaoling City, to the west of his Myriad World Civilization.
He had always felt that the western defense line of his Myriad World Civilization was too weak.
If West Plains City fell, it would lead directly to Mirror City.
Therefore, he had always wanted to build another city in the west.
But alas, the architectural engineering department had limited manpower, and Azure Water Lake City had only just started building its walls.
Ice Bear City and Winter City hadn’t even begun construction.
If he were to ask the architectural engineering department to build another city, Old Director He would probably jump up and fight him.
But now, it was fine; he had simply taken one.
As the main city of a goblin civilization, the scale of Gaoling City was naturally impressive.
Compared to cities like Iron Wall City, West Plains City, and Great Zhou City, it showed no signs of inferiority, even subtly appearing superior.
This made Luo Ji couldn’t help but admire the goblins’ productivity.
To have developed to such an extent even in the no-tier rank was truly remarkable.
Using Gaoling City as the westernmost defense line of his Myriad World Civilization seemed to be a sound choice.
The remaining three cities, in descending order of size, were Hot Sand City, Gear Town, and Black Mountain Town.
Luo Ji, already having a plan in mind, quickly placed Hot Sand City near the entrance to the eastern grasslands.
It perfectly resonated with Wild Horse City, located on the outskirts of the grasslands.
However, it was clearly impossible to connect the territories of the grasslands and the central plains with just one city; there was still a long road in between.
So, Luo Ji placed Black Mountain Town in the middle of this road as a transit station.
This way, he would only need to have people build two more post stations along the roads connecting Iron Wall City to Black Mountain Town and Black Mountain Town to Hot Sand City.
The entire territory would then be seamlessly connected!
As for the remaining Gear Town, Luo Ji placed it somewhat casually in an empty area to the north, filling a vacant spot.
Finally, Luo Ji nodded after confirming the blueprint, indicating his satisfaction.
This arrangement was beautiful.
