All People Are Lords: Starting with Heroine Fusion

There wasn't much of a smell.

Besides, Gu Qing and the others were beautiful. A little stink was no big deal.

Chapter 34: Boosting Virility

After weighing it carefully, Zhao Chi made up his mind.

He decided to choose between movement speed and defense.

Peach Haven Humans had good stats across the board, and their natural movement speed was already high.

Increasing movement speed would certainly make combat much smoother.

But in terms of safety and reliability in head-on combat, defense was still the better choice.

Besides, legs and feet were harder to defend than other parts of the body.

After all, they were farthest from the torso.

Shields were best suited to protecting the upper body.

If the stockings also increased defense, they could raise overall protection to another level.

And even with high movement speed, injuries to the legs or feet would still slow them down.

He would improve defense this time.

Next time, he could develop another version that increased movement speed.

He could have the women switch stockings to suit different situations.

For traveling, they would wear the ones that increased movement speed.

For combat, they would wear the ones that increased defense.

Different stockings for different jobs.

This time, he would increase defense first.

Zhao Chi began the upgrade:

The current upgrade meets the conditions for "Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade." Transfer data?

He clicked transfer.

Please select the transfer target.

He selected option 2, defense.

Please select the transfer effect.

He transferred the 2 allocation points from cleanliness to the 5 allocation points in defense, changing the defense allocation to:

[2. Defense +10%] 2 points

First upgrade data transfer: restrictions removed. Success rate: 100%. Confirm?

If Zhao Chi had more money, he would definitely have bought a higher-grade upgrade manual better suited to his needs for the data transfer.

But he didn't.

Nor did he intend to wait.

So many things, so many opportunities, disappeared while people kept waiting.

Confessing your feelings, for instance.

Or being good to your parents.

He clicked confirm.

Then he assigned all the allocation points to defense.

[Your upgrade is as follows:]

[2. Defense +10%] ×5

[Confirm?]

He confirmed again.

For an instant, he felt as though something had appeared in his territory.

It was as if a thin veil had settled over the surroundings.

But when he looked closely, there was nothing there.

A system notification arrived:

[Congratulations! Your territory has mastered the "Ultra-Silky Type" stocking upgrade technology.]

Huh?

Zhao Chi stared at the system notification, a little surprised.

Wasn't this supposed to increase defense? What did silkiness have to do with it?

Had he increased the wrong stat?

Zhao Chi hurriedly opened the technology interface.

Within it, he found the clothing category.

At last, under women's clothing, he found the upgrade technology he had just unlocked.

He clicked to view it:

[Upgrade] Ultra-Silky Type

[Base item] Stockings

[Stats] Defense +50%

[Description] Greatly increases the silkiness of stockings, allowing them to deflect a large number of enemy attacks.

"...So that's how it works."

Zhao Chi didn't know what to say.

So that was what silkiness meant.

As long as the stat was right, that was all that mattered.

It seemed those women's tender legs would become iron legs from now on.

Zhao Chi let out a relieved breath and closed the system.

His territory had yet to unlock the technology for making stockings.

He would need to buy a batch of stockings and then upgrade them.

Or he could get it all done in one go and buy the stocking production blueprint outright.

But he had no money right now.

He needed to find a way to earn some and get Gu Qing and the female soldiers equipped before the Academy's test.

Afterward, he could occasionally sell some using this upgrade technology. That should earn him a bit of money, too.

But he would have to keep it within reasonable limits.

Otherwise, jealousy might lead someone to stab him in the back.

Especially his competitors.

He would have to be even more careful of competitors from the nobility.

Trading 21 Goblins for an incredibly powerful upgrade technology had been well worth it.

Zhao Chi felt full of motivation.

He had spent a little time on this, but Tang Ruan and the other five women hadn't slacked off at all.

They chopped at the trees with all their strength, the blows landing with thud after thud.

Every swing of their axes carried tremendous force.

The impacts sent the leaves rustling wildly.

Wood chips flew everywhere.

Their slender arms delivered immense power.

They could rival those Orcs.

And these women were only 1.65 meters tall, much shorter than the 1.9-meter Orcs.

That allowed them to cut lower on the trunks.

The resulting logs would be a little longer, too.

Zhao Chi grabbed an axe as well and joined them in felling trees.

Before long, noon arrived.

The women had all worked hard and were now exhausted.

Naturally, the morning's yield was quite good.

With plenty of energy during the day, they were highly efficient at all kinds of work.

They had already cleared a patch of land, so they could build the barracks after lunch.

Nine new sets of cloth shirts and trousers had been made, and the women had already changed into them.

Their skin was covered.

But their shapely figures were still plain to see.

Seven women were still essentially naked, but they should all have new clothes to wear that afternoon.

Then they would work a little overtime that evening to make cloth shoes for everyone.

Starting tomorrow, they could begin making leather armor.

They had made 18 new axes, enough for their needs.

Next, they would make some woodcutting cleavers, tool hammers, shovels, pickaxes, and the like, and begin making weapons tomorrow as well.