The territory expanded again. With the privilege bonus, it reached an astonishing 420 grids.
The scope of the territory was already comparable to that of an ordinary player's level - 4 village.
After reaching the third - level village, most of the functions in the early stage of the game had been unlocked.
Construction workers, defensive buildings, traps, shops, troop nests... While the functions were unlocked, it also meant that there were more things to deal with in the territory.
However, Lincoln was an experienced lord with ten years of gaming experience.
He was very familiar with all the operations of a novice village and quickly arranged the manpower.
Some manpower needed to be to mine the ore sources in the wild, and he also sent some manpower to build the facilities unlocked in the territory.
Fortunately, he had also recruited a batch of new villagers from the hiring shop.
Now, there were more than 300 permanent villagers and more than 800 temporarily - hired laborers in his territory.
In total, there were more than 1000 laborers working hard for the construction of his territory.
The population of the several ore sources in the wild was fully occupied.
Whether it was the gold mines, iron mines, or logging yards, the number of collectors had reached the upper limit of the primary ore sources: 50 people.
Coupled with the special - price collection speed bonus, the mining progress of these ore sources would be extremely amazing.
Of course, villagers were just low - level laborers and could only do simple tasks.
All the defensive buildings and traps could only be completed by construction workers.
After arranging the labor force for mining and logging, Lincoln turned his attention to the new function unlocked by the Lord's Mansion - recruiting construction workers.
Speaking of recruiting construction workers, it was actually not much different from recruiting heroes yesterday.
Heroes had quality levels, and so did construction workers.
Moreover, in the later stage, there would be more new types of workers, such as blacksmiths and alchemists, all of which would have quality levels.
Lincoln looked at the recruitment interface of the Lord's Mansion.
Different from the Hero Tavern, the recruitment interface for construction workers already had a row of construction workers for players to choose from.
At this moment, there were eight suitable candidates arranged on the recruitment interface. Graham (Ordinary), Antoine (Ordinary), Kevin (Ordinary)...
However, they all had one thing in common, which was that they were the most basic white - board construction workers.
Lincoln obviously wasn't satisfied with construction workers of this level.
However, after reaching VIP8, he had 10 free chances to refresh the recruitment interface every day.
Each time he refreshed, a certain amount of lucky value would be accumulated.
As long as the lucky value was high enough, there was a probability of getting high - quality construction workers.
A level - 3 village could recruit 3 construction workers, and a fully - upgraded small village could recruit up to 5 construction workers.
To get a fast start in the early stage, each construction worker had to be used to their fullest potential.
"Refresh!" Lincoln rejected all the construction workers in the first round.
Soon, the second batch of eight construction workers appeared on the interface.
"Ordinary, ordinary, ordinary, Elite, ordinary..." One Elite and seven Ordinary.
[Ding! Lucky value +5!]
Lincoln directly passed them up.
Then, the third batch, the fourth batch, the fifth batch... Each refresh gave Lincoln 5 points of lucky value.
However, the highest - quality construction workers that appeared each time were only of Elite quality. After ten refreshes, the lucky value just reached fifty points.
Lincoln frowned slightly. He wasn't very satisfied with these construction workers. Fortunately, after the 10 free refreshes, he could still refresh once for 1000 gems.
For Lincoln, who still had millions of gems in stock, 1000 gems was nothing. So, he started his crazy spending spree again.
[Ding! Lucky value +5, lucky value +5, lucky value +5...]
As the lucky value got higher and higher, some Rare - quality construction workers gradually appeared.
But Lincoln still wasn't satisfied and kept increasing his lucky value. 100 points, 200 points, 300 points... Until the lucky value accumulated to 995 points.
As Lincoln clicked the button, there was a "ding" sound, and a faint blue light flashed from the recruitment interface.
Lincoln instinctively narrowed his pupils.
The next second, his eyes were fixed on the light source in the center of the screen - Harkins Gran (Master Builder).
Recruitment cost: 100,000 gems.
"Getting a Master - level construction worker with just 1000 points of lucky value?" Lincoln couldn't believe it.
You know, good construction workers had a chance to improve the attributes of buildings.
Master - level construction workers were rare even in the later stages of the game.
"Could it be that because not many people are building defenses now, construction workers are in short supply?"
"If I keep increasing my lucky value now, do I still have a chance to recruit higher - quality construction workers?"
Thinking of this, Lincoln's heart was pounding. The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.
If it weren't for the fact that the cost of each refresh had increased, he would have wanted to refresh another 1000 times!
However, although Lincoln was rich, he wasn't a fool.
The free refresh times would reset at 24:00 every day, and the price would also be reset. Lincoln wasn't in a hurry.
At the rate of increasing 1000 lucky points per day, he would definitely be one of the most advanced players in this game.
If necessary, after selling his company shares, he could recharge hundreds of millions of gems to increase his lucky value.
He didn't hesitate and clicked to recruit! Recruiting a Master - level construction worker for 100,000 gems was a great deal.
With a flash of blue light, a strong man with a shovel in his left hand and a sledgehammer in his right hand, and a full beard on his face, appeared on the screen.
Lincoln clicked on his information to check:
[Name]: Harkins Gran
[Occupation]: Construction Worker (Master - level)
[Characteristics]: 1. Great Strength Creates Miracles (Grade B): After activating the skill, the construction speed increases by 400% for 2 hours (Cooldown time: 8 hours). 2. Careful in the Rough (Grade B, Passive Skill): There is a certain probability of increasing the damage and health of defensive buildings.
...
He had hit the jackpot! A look of joy appeared on Lincoln's face. Harkins' passive skill could actually increase two attributes of defensive buildings.
You know, ordinary Master - level construction workers could only increase one attribute.
It seemed that Harkins was also an outstanding one among Master - level construction workers.
Lincoln didn't waste the remaining free slots. He also recruited two Rare - quality construction workers.
Compared with Master - level construction workers, Rare - quality construction workers were a bit ordinary.
They both had skills to increase the construction speed, but the construction speed could only be increased by 150%, and the cooldown time was as long as 12 hours.
"Better than nothing," Lincoln didn't mind.
If he recruited higher - quality construction workers later, he could fire them or resell their contracts to other players.
As a capitalist in the new era, he was very good at talent management.
"Let me think. Which buildings should I build first in the early stage? Should I use the cross - encirclement formation or the circular formation?"
These were questions that had to be considered before building defensive buildings. T
o be honest, now that the territory had expanded, the funds were sufficient, and there were even plenty of early - stage defensive blueprints.
To use a popular saying: He had never fought such a wealthy battle. So, he was suddenly in a dilemma and felt that any formation would work now.
Just as he was lowering his head in deep thought, a flashing dialog box caught his attention.
When he opened it, he found that it was a message from the Bright Empress he had met yesterday.
[Light of Civilization]: "Little Spender, stop lurking. Come out quickly. Something big has happened! Someone is trying to cause trouble for us!"