<h4>Chapter 41: Kobolds</h4>


    Trantor: MrVoltaire Editor: Mowls123


    A few hourster, Zhao Fu arrived at Nankou City in the private jet. There was then a private car to take Zhao Fu and the others to a high-ss district.


    The high-ss district that Zhao Fu was taken to was one of the Ying family’s assets. Not only was the scenery around it quite good, but the security was also quite high as well. There were a couple thousand people living here, and all of them had the Ying family’s bloodline. Of course, these people were not from the main branch of the Ying family – those who were from the main branch lived in an even better ce.


    Here, Zhao Fu met his maternal grandparents. After they hugged him and cried for a while, they asked him why he hadn’t returned to live with them.


    Zhao Fu was grateful that he was able to see his maternal grandparents. As for why he hadn’t returned to live with them, it was because he didn’t want to be a burden to anyone. They were getting to be quite old, and Zhao Fu was unfamiliar with his other rtives on that side of the family. His maternal rtives were quite cold towards him, so he was not very interested in staying in contact with them.


    Afterwards, Zhao Fu was given his own house. It was about 100 square meters in area and luxuriously decorated. There were all sorts of electronic appliances, and it was clear just how wealthy the Ying family was.


    After turning on his brand-newputer, Zhao Fu went onto the Heaven Awaken World forum out of habit to see if there was any news. Right now, the other powers were developing slowly because creating a massive enterprise was something that took many months and years and could not be done in an instant.


    Because the regions were all separated, many of the powerful families were fragmented and separated into different ces. As such, they established guilds to recruit normal people. Of course, these normal people could not be disciplined and controlled like in the military because who would want to do such a thing after living infort in the real world?


    Moreover, after yers died, the penalties were incredibly onerous. yers lost all of their levels and equipment upon death, and they would not be able to enter the Heaven Awaken World for 10 days. Those who were not Lords would also randomly spawn in another ce. Essentially, the yers that guilds recruited were not very reliable and very few became elites that were nurtured by therge families.


    Apart from therge and powerful families, there were also ordinary people who were doing quite well. After all, it was not just therge families that had great ambitions – chaotic times often produced heroes, and every person, regardless of birth, could be someone great. Even ordinary people who were not fromrge families were able to rise above the masses.


    “Gu Jun led hundreds of yers to take down a mountain stronghold with 1,000 people!”


    “Liu Xiuming took hundreds of people to destroy 3 Ounder Viges!”


    “Jiang Changshui received the recognition of a vige and became the Vige Chief of Sanjiang Vige, obtaining 600 vigers!”


    After looking through these threads, Zhao Fu once again returned to the Heaven Awaken World. Compared to the real world, Zhao Fu felt a greater sense of belonging in the Heaven Awaken World.


    After returning to the Heaven Awaken World and thinking about everything he had read on the forum, Zhao Fu felt a sense of pressure. He realized he could not be careless and started to carry out a census.


    Right now, the Great Qin Vige had 1,340 people, and there were 4 other Human Viges, 3 Goblin Viges, and 1 Gnome Vige.


    After these few days, those viges had gradually recovered. The 4 other Human Viges collectively had 524 people, the 3 Goblin Viges had 410 Goblins, and the Gnome Vige had 189 Gnomes.


    Zhao Fu went to the different viges and chose some more people to be Great Qin Soldiers. Now, there were 930 Great Qin soldiers, 150 Goblin soldiers, and 100 Gnome soldiers for a total of 1,180 soldiers.


    However, Ounders could also change their professions into Great Qin Soldier. There was no limit to how many Great Qin Soldiers there could be, nor were there any race requirements. It was just that each vige had a military limit, and any additional soldier would not receive that vige’s stats.


    As such, all 1,180 soldiers were Great Qin Soldiers, and they received the stat bonuses from their professions. 35 of them were responsible for exploring the passages, 245 were responsible for protecting the vige, and Zhao Fu led the other 900.


    Zhao Fu led these 900 Soldiers and explored the region outside of the surrounding 20-kilometer radius. Things were much more convenient now with horses, but only a minority of them knew how to ride. As such, most of the soldiers still walked – after all, there were only 200 Cavalrymen.


    Right now, Zhao Fu was riding Little ck, the ck Forest Horse King, at the front of the army while Little Grey walked beside them and sniffed around.


    Suddenly, Little Grey discovered something. It howled before running forwards, and Zhao Fu followed behind it on Little ck.


    After a while, they discovered an Intermediate Vige on a in. It was an Ounder Vige, and the beings that lived there had the head of a dog and the body of a human, looking quite like Kobolds.


    It was a Kobold Vige and had roughly 1,000 Kobolds. There were 700 Kobold soldiers and the remaining 300 were all elderly, women, or children.


    The Kobold soldiers either held sabers or spears. Zhao Fu did not dare to get too close to observe because it was possible that their noses would be as sensitive as a normal dog’s.


    1,000 Kobolds was quite arge force. If there were only 500 or 600 Kobolds, they could wait until night time to ambush the vige.


    “What should we do?”


    Zhao Fu suddenly thought of something and looked over at Little Grey. Little Grey, who hadpleted its task and was lying down to rest, suddenly felt a chill and turned to see Zhao Fu looking at it with an evil look. Immediately, Little Grey felt like running away.


    This time, Zhao Fu didn’t have to do anything. Little ck bit Little Grey’s tail as revenge for the bullying from before. How could it give up a chance to take revenge?


    Little Grey turned around and howled to tell Little ck to let go. Little Grey knew from his shameless owner’s look that he was having wicked thoughts.


    Little ck also whinnied as it held on and seemed to smile as it revealed its white teeth. It seemed to be saying, “ _Heheh, the one who’s going to suffer is you, not me; I’m just being a good and obedient boy!”_


    Little Grey was incredibly furious and turned to bite Little ck, that shameless horse. However, Little ck held on and constantly dodged.


    Zhao Fu couldn’t help but lightlyugh and said, “Alright, you can both stop!”


    In actuality, Zhao Fu didn’t want to make Little Grey do anything likest time. Rather, it was because he remembered how much of an advantage Little Grey’s sensitive nose was!


    However, an advantage could be turned into a disadvantage if abused. The Kobolds most likely had sensitive noses too, so Zhao Fu thought about how to make use of this. Zhao Fu took his soldiers back to the Great Qin Vige so that they wouldn’t inadvertently alert the Kobold Vige.


    After returning to the Great Qin Vige, Zhao Fu gave the order for everyone to work on one thing: to collect chilis and then dry them over a stove before crushing them into powder. Zhao Fu and his soldiers prepared a few hundred kilograms of chili powder before confidently going back to the Kobold Vige.