“Hehe!” Shi Hao ran up to Feng Tianhao and moved his body back and forth for a long time. He didn’t say anything and just deliberately disturbing Feng Tianhao’s appetite.

Witnessing this, Feng Tianhao immediately knew that Shi Hao must’ve picked up something good. He asked, “Stop flaunting, just tell me now. Might as well take it out and let me see what it is.”

Shi Hao sent a screenshot to Feng Tianhao.

[Skill Name: Powerful Attack (melee)]

[Skill Grade: D]

[Skill Type: Active, consume energy]

[Skill Effect Increase the power of the next attack]

Feng Tianhao’s eyes suddenly beamed. Oh my God! This was a skill favored by a knight.

Knights have the highest melee attack output. But a knight’s resistance wasn’t as remarkable as a fighter’s, it wasn’t bad. A knight’s trait was high attack and good flexibility, and they must have quick movement. They could hit others, but others won’t be able to hit them. This was what it meant to become a knight!

The main reason why Feng Tianhao chose knight as his occupation was because he trusted his own operating technique.

“I’ve played it enough, now I’m giving it to you!” Shi Hao threw the skill book of Powerful Attack to Feng Tianhao. Feng Tianhao immediately used the skill book.

After that, Feng Tianhao hurriedly took a look at his skills.

[Skill Name: Powerful Attack (melee)]

[Skill Grade: D]

[Skill Type: Active, 5 MP]

[Weapon Restriction: Melee]

[Current Level and Mastery: Level 1, 0/100]

[Skill Effect Increase the power of the next attack]

Thinking about it carefully, Feng Tianhao’s current Energy was 15 points. He could use Powerful Attack thrice in a row. This move could be said to be a trump card in the crucial moment.

Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao returned from another rewarding journey. Their smiles were as bright as the light. 

The next morning, the weather was very pleasant.

Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao had initially wanted to depart and find the bandits’ leader to settle an account as they examined if they could get some other skill books ‘in passing’. For this reason, they intentionally didn’t destroy the base. In any case, they could destroy the base if they want to. But there was no need to rush.

However, it was a pity that Wang Fu informed them that it would take quite a long time for the bandits’ leader⸺an elite monster⸺to respawn. Ordinary monsters would regenerate in 1 day, while elite monsters in 2 days, and bosses in 3 days.

Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao have no choice but to look for the leader tomorrow and give in to their rotten luck. Nevertheless, it has been the third day since the village was built, which has passed half of the five days safety time limit given by the system. Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao won’t have time to enjoy the pleasures of life. With their current strength, they might not be able to sustain the violent attack of the bandits with the whole nest coming out. Even if Feng Tianhao was strong, he wouldn’t be able to finish off a group of elite monsters by himself. He won’t be able to do so even after two days have passed.

By this time, Wang Fu mentioned the matter about the village on the side. “Village chiefs, the food and water supply are almost used up with the increase of the village’s population. In fact, I could have arranged for the soldiers to gather food and water yesterday. However, considering that there are still some new recruits who need to get trained, I set aside the mission of gathering for now. The amount of the gathered foods and water would be far from enough to make up for the consumption, anyway. At any rate, all the new recruits were already in their places after training for several nights in a row. They’re competent enough to be assigned the job of gathering food and water to maintain the living needs of the villagers.”  

Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao nodded as they slowly ate breakfast in the game.

Actually, Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao weren’t really concerned about these matters. They were trivial, and it can’t be better to let the refined Wang Fu handle them. As a matter of fact, fighting was the most enjoyable for players like Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao. They didn’t go into «Kingdom» to deal with trivial government administrations. Moreover, the system had undoubtedly given them a competent administrative assistant. The most important thing was! Within the game, a force was the foundation. Not having a force meant not having authority.

Wang Fu added, “Yesterday, when the soldiers went out of the village to train themselves, they found iron ores in the mountain. However, there’s an elite monster blocking the road. It’s troubling them a lot. If we want to build a pathway to gather the iron ores in the future, someone has to get rid of that troublesome guy. Currently, only the village chiefs of our village possess the ability to do so. If you two don’t have any more business to take care of, you might as well go and take a look in person.”

Wang Fu had thought it over very thoughtfully, because the system granted greater intelligence for some NPCs. These NPCs also knew a lot about the world, some even better than the players. This applied to Wang Fu. Hence, the loyal Wang Fu knew that his village chiefs won’t die and their fighting strength was enough to defend themselves, thus he dared to advise them to try it out. 

Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao weren’t really concerned about the iron ore for the time being. The village problem hasn’t been settled down, so gathering the iron ore wasn’t urgent for now. Rather, they were more concerned about the elite monster. They were aware of it after experiencing it once. There was a great probability of an elite monster dropping skill books after it was defeated. Skill book was a treasure, making them can’t help but to go check it out.

“Let’s go!” Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao seek the place according to the mark Wang Fu left on the map and arrived at the roadway. As a matter of fact, the phrase ‘one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies’ could be applied here. That was because Wang Fu said that the elite monster was a black tiger called Shifting Tiger.

Shifting Tiger resembled the bandit’s leader, where they were both level 5 elite monsters. Their similar traits were high Attack and low Defense. However, Shifting Tiger was a lot more powerful than the bandit’s leader! The tiger has 48 Attack points and 30 Defense points. Even Shi Hao wouldn’t be able to break its defense. Hence, he was bound to lose against Shifting Tiger.

On the contrary, Feng Tianhao would be able to fight, but he could only make a mistake once.

Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao approached the enemy carefully. They obviously wouldn’t just rush into action. They only kept observing the tiger, thinking of finding out its true color.

After a long time had passed, Shi Hao whispered to Feng Tianhao, “Little Hao, we’ve been staring at this black tiger for some while. I had a hunch that this Shifting Tiger seems to be stronger than the bandit’s leader. What should we do next: going back, or going back?

After learning the lesson from last time, Shi Hao became more cautious. He was aware that his ability to discern the enemy’s strength wasn’t as good as Feng Tianhao. Feng Tianhao’s combat awareness was much more reliable than his.

Feng Tianhao responded, “This Shifting Tiger is too strong to be trifled with. Let’s go back first. We should hurriedly raise our level to level 6 for now, then come back and see if we could fight it.” 

Although Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao had always shared the experience they earned with the soldiers from the very start when the village had been built, they went to kill a group of bandits by themselves afterward and got enough experience to level up. If nothing else, their level would surely rise to level 6 today.

Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao walked out of the roadway, then proceeded to annihilate some ordinary monsters in another place. But then, before long, Shi Hao and Feng Tianhao were stopped by an uncle. 

“Hey! Young lads, come over here quickly. My name is Li Yi, I want to ask about something important.” A brawny man with a dark complexion, lumpy skin, and tall stature took a large stride forward, then asked heartily, “Do you know the place where there is a black tiger guarding it around here?”