First Great Conscription!

Name: Mercenary Hall

Level: Tier 1

Quality: Orange

Function: Unlocks mercenary permissions. You can currently register as a mercenary and accept mercenary missions in the hall. A Tier 1 Mercenary Hall can only accept Tier 1 missions.

Note: Raising the mercenary level allows you to accept more missions. Upgrading the Mercenary Hall raises the maximum level. To raise your mercenary level, you must complete mercenary missions and then use the corresponding mercenary points.

Fang Yuan built the Mercenary Hall inside the main city.

By checking the Mercenary Hall's attribute panel, he learned that it was a mission building.

However, it differed from the missions unlocked by tokens.

The parties issuing missions through the Mercenary Hall were the various lords.

Likewise, the parties accepting the missions were also lords.

All missions accepted through the Mercenary Hall were protected by contractual rules.

As long as the mission objective was achieved, all rewards would be delivered automatically.

There was no possibility of anyone refusing to pay.

At the same time, the Mercenary Hall itself was an Orange Building.

It also served to screen the lords who joined.

Basically, any lord who could register as a mercenary would not be weak.

That was why, whenever the various lords encountered troublesome matters, they chose to hire other lords for help through the Mercenary Hall.

After studying it for a while, Fang Yuan quickly found the entrance to the Mercenary Hall.

Once these functional buildings were constructed, they could all be accessed through the Lord's Mark.

As a newly registered mercenary, Fang Yuan discovered after entering that there were very few missions he could accept.

Missions with better rewards required a mercenary level of at least Tier 5.

And to raise his mercenary level, aside from upgrading the Mercenary Hall,

he also had to keep completing missions and earning mercenary points.

A Tier 1 mercenary needed 20 points to advance to Tier 2.

A single Tier 1 mission only awarded one point.

That meant he had to complete 20 missions!

The crucial point was that there were pitifully few Tier 1 missions in the Mercenary Hall.

"It looks like I won't be able to use it for now. But when I have the time and energy later, I can grind some missions in the Mercenary Hall."

"I'll try to raise my mercenary level as quickly as possible."

"After all, looking at the high-level war missions later on, the reward for a single mission is at least a million gold coins. Some missions even pay in Orange Equipment."

"It's just a pity that the requirements are too high."

With that thought, Fang Yuan was about to leave and continue upgrading his buildings.

But then he suddenly remembered that someone had told him earlier

that a lord had posted a bounty on him in the Mercenary Hall.

They wanted to hire someone to kill him.

Fang Yuan thought to himself, I wonder if I can find that mission.

Fang Yuan used the search function of the Lord's Mark.

He unexpectedly found the bounty mission very quickly.

Bounty Target: Fang Yuan

Strength: Tier 2 Lord

Region: Suspected Northern Territory

Bounty Issuer: Wei Xu of the Gandor Branch Alliance of the Artisan Alliance

Credit Rating: Five Stars

Bounty Reward: 500,000 gold coins, 300 complete Red Quality Origin Crystals

Mission Requirement: Break through the target's territory and kill the target.

Mission Status: Accepted

Acceptor: Brother Ming

Mission Progress: Searching the Gloomy Forest in the Northern Territory. Target not found.

Seeing the mission's specific information,

a trace of viciousness appeared in Fang Yuan's eyes.

"The Artisan Alliance!"

"So it really was them."

"I never expected the corpse of a mere Shadow Demon Wolf to bring me a deadly calamity."

"I never imagined they would act so ruthlessly and go straight for my life!"

"To think that I'm only a low-level lord, while they—"

"They're clearly old hands in the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield."

"No wonder people often said back on Blue Star that, in the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield, human lords were often more dangerous than wild monsters."

"Sometimes, you could even bring a deadly calamity upon yourself without knowing what you had done."

And moreover!

Fang Yuan looked at the mission progress.

The Gloomy Forest in the Northern Territory—that was exactly where he was.

He was simply located in the northeastern part of the Gloomy Forest, deep within the forest.

His opponent had not found him yet.

But clearly, since they had dared to accept this mission, they had surely made preparations.

Although the Gloomy Forest was vast and dangerous, if his opponent had high-tier troops,

finding him was only a matter of time.

At that thought, Fang Yuan suddenly felt a surge of danger.

"The danger is closing in step by step."

"But my main city has only just reached Level 4."

"I've only just escaped the status of a Novice Lord."

"Once these high-level lords discover me,"

"when the fighting starts, even with a Golden Hero,"

"I'm afraid my losses will still be considerable. Most importantly, Lilith would be exposed."

"One must know that on the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield, killing a hero allowed one to obtain the corresponding curio."

"Lilith is a Golden Hero. Once she was discovered, the other lords would know that she possessed a Golden Curio."

"The value of a Golden Curio was enough to make an alliance launch an annexation war."

"Once I was exposed, the danger would increase countless times over."

"And a mere Level 4 main city simply couldn't protect Lilith."

"As the saying went, possessing a treasure was itself a crime, and wealth moved the heart."

"For the weak to possess a rare treasure was simply courting death."

"So!"

"The only way to save myself was to keep growing stronger."

"Strong enough to deter every lord harboring ill intentions."

With that thought, Fang Yuan decisively exited the entrance to the Mercenary Hall.

"While the enemy hasn't appeared yet,"

"I need to hurry and upgrade the main city's buildings."

Upgrading a Level 3 Purple Building to Level 4 required 30,000 gold coins and resources.

The main Purple Buildings in Fang Yuan's city were the Wolf Hunter Camp, Flame Mage Camp, Glimmering Magic Tower, and Barbarian Axe Thrower Camp.

These required a total of 120,000 gold coins and resources.

In addition, upgrading an Orange Building to Level 4 required 90,000 gold coins and resources.

The Resource Point in Stone Spring Village also required 150,000 gold coins and resources to advance from Level 3 to Level 4.

These were all major expenses. Altogether, they required a full 360,000 gold coins and resources.

Seeing that figure, Fang Yuan drew in a sharp breath.

"That's so many resources and gold coins. If I hadn't swindled the other lords,"

"I really wouldn't have been able to gather them in a short time."

"High-level buildings are useful, but their consumption is truly enormous."

Although Fang Yuan felt a pang of heartache, when he thought of the increase in combat power brought by the Purple Buildings,

he gritted his teeth and upgraded all of them to Level 4 in one go.

"Ding! Consumed 30,000 gold coins and resources. Wolf Hunter Camp upgraded to Level 4. Attack +10, Skill Level +1, Prosperity +500."

"Ding! Consumed 30,000 gold coins and resources. Flame Mage Camp upgraded to Level 4. Spell Power +10, Skill Level +1, Prosperity +500."

"Ding! Consumed 150,000 gold coins and resources. Stone Spring Village Resource Point upgraded to Level 4. Prosperity +1,000, Gold Coin Output +50,000, Resource Output +50,000, Purple Tier 1 Mobilization Order Output +10."

"Ding! Consumed 40,000 gold coins and resources. Mercenary Hall upgraded to Level 4. Maximum Mercenary Level +1, Mercenary Mission Permission Level +1, Prosperity +1,000."

Including the 200 Prosperity gained from upgrading the Hero Altar and Hunter Camp this time,

his total Prosperity increased by 8,200 points.

However, he was still quite a distance from the 30,000 points required for the next upgrade.

Fang Yuan calculated silently.

"To reach 30,000 Prosperity quickly, I'll need at least several more Orange Buildings."

"But I can't obtain Orange Buildings for now."

"First, I'll take down the military station right in front of me."

"A military territory like a military station—especially judging from the strength of the half-orcs—"

"the quality of this military station won't be low. There's a good chance it will be an Orange Military Territory."

"The Prosperity it provides will be extraordinary."

"Once I take the military station, the Prosperity should be enough for the upgrade."

Fang Yuan thought so.

"But before attacking, I need to conscript troops."

"I didn't have money before, but now I do. This time, when attacking the military station, I must ensure complete annihilation."

"I absolutely can't leave behind any future trouble!"

"My Level 4 city now has a population of 6,000."

"This time, I need to conscript at least 5,000 people."

"That means 1,000 units of Purple Soldiers."

"At 500 gold coins and food per Purple Soldier,"

"that will consume 500,000 gold coins and food."

Seeing that figure, Fang Yuan's heart trembled slightly.

"That's a lot!"

But compared with the gains after taking the military station,

it would all be worth it!

Immediately afterward, Fang Yuan opened the three barracks.

He began his first great conscription!