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"Well, I won't say much more."

Anse spread his hands, his expression fearless, but when he remembered the scene when they had encountered the rangers, he frowned—

"Renata, you were right about something being off with those soldiers. I already lost the comparison when I first compared them to the Royal Court's elite."

Renata nodded, feeling that her brother wasn't beyond hope yet.

Soldiers of such strength were significant even in the Royal Court, and being surrounded by a group of them was enough for an average Extraordinary Rank to understand what pain was.

Could these soldiers appearing in a borderland, so insufficient in resources and power, be the secret weapon newly developed by the Lancaster Duchy?

Anse pondered.

As the most unique among the Nine Dukes, the Lancaster Duchy worked more as a reserve armory for the Yibel Federation rather than as a duchy.

In other duchies, where the Knight Class wasn't numerous, in Lancaster, they were as common as hairs on a cow and each one was brave, capable, and skilled in battle.

It wasn't unusual for any new professions to appear in a nation filled with a vast amount of mid to low-end military force, especially since this duchy was highly martial.

Renata quietly peeked through the gap in the carriage curtain. This was the outskirts of Titan Town, and the outer circle of the town was being constructed energetically.

Wooden boards reading "Titan Town Second Ring Phase 1/Phase 2/Phase 3" were everywhere.

Long before the public testing started, Lancaster had already begun planning for town expansion.

Loads of building materials and the highly paid civil mages from the Mage Academy were continuously collaborating with players on infrastructure work.

And indeed, as they worked together, both sides seemed naturally attuned in the field of construction, achieving progress at an astonishing rate.

It was quite funny that Jiu Yue Heavy Industries, which had always been known for not focusing on heavy industry, produced mostly light industrial products.

The tools needed for construction, such as axes, saws, shovels, and even construction pushcarts and manual mixers, have recently become the flagship products of Jiu Yue Heavy Industries.

Especially after the public testing of "The Gate to the Underworld," which fermented a good reputation and attracted a large influx of new players, these items sold very well.

The first players who acted as laborers, after building up the town's infrastructure, earned sufficient funds early on, then reinvested in purchasing equipment, spending Demon Crystal coins to switch professions, and then starting their own adventure.

To ensure the smooth implementation of this whole process, there are huge numbers of Huge Hoofed Deers between Titan Town and the Twisted Jungle.

These small deers at LV1 and adult deers at just LV2-3 provided an ideal leveling target for players just entering the game.

Typically, a team of two or three players could hunt the Huge Hoofed Deer relatively easily, earning experience points, and after completing the Lord Mansion's collection quest, they even received an extra batch of experience points.

The resources collected would then flow to the industrial area and be transformed into various products for secondary output.

Some would be directly traded externally, while another part would cycle back into the player community.

For instance, some very thrifty players would grind monsters all day and, at night, in pitch-darkness, apply fertilizer and farm in their own agricultural fields in the farm sector until they ran out of energy.

The fertilizer came from the industrial sector's production of Huge Hoofed Deer materials.

The world of the Huge Hoofed Deer had been conquered!

Of course, many players also lamented having to compete with the locals for tasks every day; it was quite miserable.

Perhaps because the players were too hardworking, many of the locals who participated in the town construction also began to work overtime like crazy.

This forced the Lord Mansion to issue a decree, mandating that the working hours for the residents of the domain should not exceed nine hours.

In fact, on the continent, the physical strength of most Humans exceeded that of players in reality; a nine-hour workday was enough to meet the normal needs of territory development.

Kael did not want to see his people become worn out from overwork; it was pointless—they weren't problem-free players.

Those players who frantically earned money, when their energy points repeatedly fell below a certain limit, could potentially suffer a sudden death debuff, similar to real life, playing for realism.

But the issue was that when players suffered the sudden death debuff, they merely had to slit their throats and close and reopen their eyes to return to life, able to refresh their energy points and continue working; it wasn't so easy for the locals to rise again once they fell.

Of course, all of this, in the eyes of the Tulip Chamber of Commerce caravan, looked quite different.

It was lively!

When Anse and Renata looked out the window, their first reaction was just that.
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They weren't the type to always hole up in their family, clutching tightly to commands, nor were they afraid to go out to trade and learn about the latest product trends like some of their kin.

They had been to many places, and the border domains with special products were targets of their procurement, but none were as lively as Lancaster.

They watched as a batch of new players, full of enthusiasm, streamed out of the town, holding either new or old construction tools, and someone at the front shouted loudly: