Guo Binglin lowered his head and cupped his hands once more. "Your Highness! This subordinate has discovered the whereabouts of another small city."
At this, Zhao Fu's furrowed brows relaxed, and a faint smile appeared on his face as he questioned him in detail.
Great Qin had already captured the Orc City in the Terror Forest. For an ordinary settlement to advance into a major town, it required three small cities and six small towns—a condition far more difficult than before. The three small cities alone would not be easily conquered.
Zhao Fu had long ordered people to search for news of other small cities. Small cities were certainly even rarer than system main cities, because most regions had no small cities at all. A small city could already be considered a war machine; the City Lord Seal it condensed possessed incomparably immense power and was enough to establish dominance over a region.
For instance, the Orc City in the Terror Forest occupied one side, standing in opposition to three other system main cities.
If a region contained four system main cities, it was basically impossible for there to be a small city as well. Nearly all resources and fortune would be divided among those four system main cities. Only regions with three or two system main cities might possibly have a small city.
Small cities were generally dominated by non-human races. If they were indigenous inhabitants, they would basically be system city lords. As for foreign races such as the Xiongnu, Khitans, and Tibetans, their starting conditions were the same as players', or even later, so city-level villages would not appear among them for the time being.
After questioning Guo Binglin in detail, Zhao Fu learned that this was a Kobold small city located two regions away from the