Jiang Hao no longer cared about the stunned city lord of Jinling City and immediately opened his attribute panel.
He noticed a new bonus from the title "King's Warrior" in his attribute stats. His Intelligence stat had indeed increased by 50,000 points per level, and his Strength and Agility had also increased at each level. Furthermore, the points from the "Heart of Immortality" had been added to all attributes and were now displayed on his attribute panel.
At this moment, his total strength was incredibly high, and his agility was almost the same. His intelligence, in particular, had reached an exceptionally high level. His total attributes were more than dozens of times higher than before he joined the killing battlefield.
With his current agility and attack speed of over a thousand times per second, if he were to pull that legendary monster again, it probably wouldn't even give it a chance to attack other players.
The city lord of Jinling City had also recovered from his shock. He looked at the eight warriors present one by one, and unsurprisingly, their main attributes all had a bonus of 50,000. He immediately became incoherent again.
"Four stars...four stars, four stars..."
"Okay, okay, stop repeating yourself! My dad already told you before that you hung the wrong banner, but you're still stubbornly denying it!"
The city lord of Jinling ignored Jiang Hao's joke about being born rich, grabbed his wrist, and led him to the stone railing. He asked in a low voice, "Brother, are you interested in becoming the city lord?"
Jiang Hao was clearly taken aback, never expecting the city lord of Jinling City to say the same thing again.
"No, I don't want to, I'm not interested. No way!"
"Then why did you enter the Spirit Ruins?"
"Of course, it's to farm equipment and sell it for money!"
"Money? What money? The kind of currency from your world?"
"Yeah, what else?"
"Believe me, soon your world's currency will be worthless, while the gold coins in the Spirit Ruins will become the universal currency of your world, and everyone will flock to it."
This was the second time the city lord of Jinling City had spoken of the changes in the future world, and his words were extremely sincere, as if he had already witnessed them firsthand.
This made Jiang Hao hesitate again.
"Alright, even if we take a step back and say you become the city lord, countless pieces of equipment will continuously fill your inventory. Then you can sell them however you want, so why bother fighting for them yourself?"
Jiang Hao immediately became interested, grabbed the hand of the City Lord of Jinling City, and said, "Tell me in detail!"
When the city lord of Jinling saw that Jiang Hao had finally shown interest, his not-so-old face broke into a bright smile.
"Once you become the city lord, the entire area where the main city is located will be yours. Within your territory, you'll receive a commission for everything players do: killing monsters, entering dungeons, completing quests, buying and selling equipment, and so on. Take players entering dungeons, for example..."
Jiang Hao swallowed hard, then put his arm around the Jinling City Lord's shoulder and asked, "What will happen if we enter the dungeon?"
"When players enter the dungeon, the city lord will receive a share of all the rewards, and the rewards will be even more generous than those of the players. Do you like it, you little rascal?"
Wow, isn't this just like the landlords of ancient times? They don't do a single penny of work themselves; they just lie around while a large group of farmers work hard and hand over cartloads of grain.
Jiang Hao's breathing quickened, his face flushed, and he looked directly into the eyes of the City Lord of Jinling City, asking, "Really?"
"Why would I lie to you? And that's not all! A player like you, after becoming a city lord, can also run dungeons that are only open to city lords. As long as you can clear them, you'll get rewards far exceeding those of regular dungeons. Furthermore, your territory will gain an additional dungeon, bringing you a steady stream of income. Besides..."
How can one become a city lord?
He finally got it! The city lord of Jinling was overjoyed and wept inwardly, but he remained outwardly calm.
"Simple! You are now a four-star King Warrior. All you need is a city-building order and 50 million gold coins. Moreover, after building the city, you will not be subject to the control of any power."
Jiang Hao immediately felt discouraged. But he still asked, unwilling to give up, "Where can I get City Building Tokens? Where can I get gold coins?"
"You should have a city-building token on you; all you need is enough gold coins. Actually, gold coins are easy to obtain. Have you forgotten about the Black Dragon Palace?"
Jiang Hao knew the Black Dragon Palace, of course. The first time he entered with tens of thousands of sows, he immediately gained over 100,000 gold coins. However, it would take a while to accumulate 50 million, but it was not impossible.
However, the city lord of Jinling City said that he had the city-building order, which is a bit of an injustice to an innocent person.
When did he ever see the city-building decree?
Jiang Hao looked at the city lord of Jinling City with an innocent expression.
“I know you haven’t seen the City Building Token, but it’s definitely on you. I’ve been analyzing the reason for the Skeleton Army’s retreat these past few days. I’ve finally come to a conclusion: if they had the City Building Token, they definitely wouldn’t have retreated. So, the City Building Token must have been obtained by your summoned creature. Why don’t you ask your little skeleton summoned creature? I suspect the City Building Token is on it.”
Yes, Jiang Hao really wanted to ask Little Skeleton. What exactly happened after he was teleported away that day? Why was Little Skeleton suddenly killed when he logged back in?
It's currently recuperating in the summoning space, and it'll probably be a year before it fully recovers. Why even ask?!
Jiang Hao was suddenly in a predicament.
Seeing Jiang Hao's troubled expression, the city lord of Jinling City immediately became nervous and asked, "What's wrong? Does it not have any on it either?"
"No, he's currently in the summoning space, so I can't summon him out."
"Then why don't you just go in?"
Jiang Hao looked at the City Lord of Jinling City as if he were an idiot.
"That's a summoning space! I'm not a summoned creature, how am I supposed to go in? Are you going to shove me in there? Or are you going to kill me, turn me into your summoned creature, and make you ask it questions?"
Jiang Hao glanced at the city lord of Jinling City and said again, "Do you think you'll still be able to speak after you become a summoned creature?"
The city lord of Jinling suddenly felt a chill. He shrank back and quickly said, "Soul link, soul link, brother!"
Yes!
It was as if a ray of sunlight shone on Jiang Hao's head, making him suddenly realize the truth.
Jiang Hao clapped his hands and shouted at the city lord of Jinling City, "How come I didn't think of that? How come you're so smart?"
The city lord of Jinling immediately beamed and said smugly, "That's right, but don't you think about who gave you that skill book! Let me tell you, the Soul Link skill has many wonderful uses, you'll have plenty to do with it."
You know what, even just the ability to create clones made Jiang Hao realize how powerful this skill is. If it were upgraded, who knows what kind of incredible effects it would have?
Jiang Hao looked at the city lord of Jinling City, and a feeling of gratitude rose in his heart.
Although his cooperation with the city lord of Jinling was based on mutual needs, he ultimately gained a huge advantage.
In the blink of an eye, the skeletal roc flew to Jiang Hao's side. He was about to enter the summoning space to find out what was going on.
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