Chapter 201 200 My Years as a Village Chief in the Game

Chapter 201 200.My Years as a Village Chief in the Game
“Thank you all warriors for choosing to join the Administrative Division of the Earl of Cadman’s Domain, and on behalf of the entire ruling system under the Lord Earl’s command, I would like to welcome you all.”

In the open space at the back of the mansion where the Administration Office was located, Baroness Miriam, who was the Scarlet Consul, was lecturing the dozen or so “new” Administration players. From the players’ point of view, this was more akin to a “career quest guide” CG.

The Baroness had learned a whole set of speech techniques from Lord Murphy and studied them carefully, and now they were put to use.

The few veteran players who were watching were also whispering.

“I say, the welfare of this administrative profession is so good… 20 gold for a psychic microphone plugin is given away for free! It’s also giving away four Spiritual Energy Official Packs and a personal carrier on long-term loan from the Administration Division. Shit! Still giving out special fashions?”

The leader, Big Pigeon, leaned on his Family Guardian cane and watched with envy and jealousy as the new players clumsily put the plug-ins into the arithmetic beads.

He had already changed his job to a blood torturer, and he spat to the “old administrative player” beside him, who was all risky and half-hung, “We didn’t have this before:

“We didn’t get this treatment before! And what happened to your four guards? We didn’t have any yesterday, are you trying to follow the example of Daisuke Ka and make a beautiful guard?”

“Aiya, you also said it’s a special benefit for a special profession.”

Half-hanging brother waved his hand with a dejected face, and then explained in a low voice to the several fellows around him:

“I received a mission as soon as I came online today, saying that the development team adjusted the planning and positioning of the administrative profession, because the administrative profession has to spend time dealing with territorial affairs every day, it will definitely affect the improvement of personal strength, so the Earl Lord ordered to give us special care.

Now, as long as the administrative profession reaches the rank of ‘Acting Village Chief’, two veterans can be borrowed from the Special Defense Department of the Kardman People’s Army as security personnel.

Brother I can second four because of my official position.

Maxim that white-haired vampire knows his stuff, half of the men and women in the veterans are at my disposal, but I need to pay them a salary of five gold coins per person per week.

I asked him about it, Maxim said that the adventurer’s guild has just been established and can’t spare the manpower, he said that after President Natalie’s side settles down in a while, we administrative professions will be able to recruit some retired veteran hunters from the witch hunters to be private guards.

I’m guessing that there might even be a special channel for ‘elite recruitment’ at that meeting.

Tsk, taking four elite NPCs out to fight monsters, it’s exciting just thinking about it!”

“Acting village chief? So the next level of the administrative profession is the official village chief?”

Good Pigeon asked with a false sense of humor:

“What about you passing the Black Iron Trial?”

“You’ve chosen the administrative profession, but you still have to go through the Black Iron Trials! That’s a challenge reserved for your combat profession.”

Full Risk Half Hanging skimmed his lips and said:
“I just read the newly released detailed explanation of the administrative career system, to put it simply, our career system doesn’t rely on fighting monsters and upgrading, it’s a weekly inspection by the territory’s administrative office to test the results of your work, and as long as you meet the standard for four consecutive times, you can upgrade your career rank once.

If you think about it, I’m a camp supervisor who spends at least 4 hours a day dealing with official business, and I’ll only be busier when my position is upgraded in the future.

I personally estimate that once the administrative position is raised to ‘Acting Mayor’, players will have very little time to practice their personal strength.

So this career system is obviously reserved for those players who don’t like to fight and kill and prefer to play strategy games.

The number of guards that an official village mayor can second is 4, with an accompanying special recruitment field, which allows you to freely recruit NPCs to serve as the village mayor’s defense officers, and by the administrative rank of an official town mayor, your personal guards alone will have a complement of 12 guards plus two special recruitments, which is 12 heavily armed veterans capable of forming three combat squads.

Put in a copy are considered a small boss.

If you can also recruit awesome wild elite NPCs to be your defense officers, that means a town mayor is a small army himself when he travels.

If the battle takes place in the area you manage, the mayor and the town mayor have the right to temporarily recruit a certain number of militia members.

You guys are going the quality route, while we’re going the quantity route of being in charge of the big picture.

You should understand if I say this, right?”

Good Dove’s eyes rounded as he listened, and he exclaimed:
“Holy shit!
We’re playing Witcher 3 and you’re playing Horseback Riding and Slashing! How can we play this game?
If the administrative players have a high level and then clash with the combat players, they don’t even need to fight, they can just wave their hands and let their guards exterminate us.”

“Actually, it’s not as outrageous as you say, the development team must have considered the career balance, which gives you such an unbelievable benefit.”

All Risks Half Hanging shook his head and said:
“Choosing the administrative profession basically declares saying bye bye to strength and intensity, a sufficiently powerful assassin can take care of high-level administrative players, and the administrative division only covers one-third of the equipment and cultivation costs that your guards spend.

This means you have to spend your own money to raise them, and if you don’t treat your guards well they might even mutiny.

We have to trust the devs on this one.
But we’re players, it’s only 3 days after we die, we just need to re-recruit the guards at an extra cost.

If I had to say, I’d guess this probably represents the devs’ attempts at gameplay experimentation and breakthroughs.

Some people like melee, some people like group fights, and in a crowded situation, leaving the choice to the player is a good way to handle it.

And barring that, the administrative profession isn’t completely unbeatable.”

The half-hung brother shrugged and said:

“If there’s enough energy, it’s possible to balance administrative rank with personal strength, and regarding administrative professions challenging the Black Iron Trial, it seems like you can bring a guard to assist in the battle oh~ being regarded as one’s summon.

But if the guard is seriously injured or hangs up, it means you fail the challenge and have to pay a large amount of pension, in short, it’s very real, you just know it, right?
And most importantly, haven’t you forgotten that there’s more to the Black Iron Trial than just challenging the elites? It’s okay for me to take my time brushing the black iron monsters, it’s just a matter of unlocking potential and honing my skills, and going to the brink of death is just a way to get faster.”

“F*ck, this is too much for the Administrative Profession.”

Pigeon Treasure was still indignant.

But the college student with a jumpy mind quickly thought of another thing, he looked around and came over to lower his voice to the fully insured half-hanging and said thievishly:
“Say it’s an escort, but how far can you order them? Older brother fine shilly-shallying chant.”

“I know what you want to ask.”

All Risks Half Hanging A middle-aged man in his forties hadn’t seen any scenes before? How could he not understand the implication of Pigeon Treasure’s words?

He revealed a smile that all men understand, shook his head and whispered:

“But you’re overthinking it.

You don’t know that the NPCs in this game are very sneaky, if I dare to make any excessive requests, I might be reported to Maxim by the guards, and then be ‘double-regulated’ by the administrative division, which would be a shame.

They are only defending me, not serving me.

However, I am now very skeptical, this game is not only the main NPCs have goodwill settings, it seems that all NPCs have independent goodwill calculation.

So it’s not like you can’t open silver if you can actually get your guards to full favorability. Ahem, but it’s not necessary, right?”

“Well, it really isn’t necessary! Who’s in the mood to lick their bodyguards when the main NPCs can’t even lick them. If it’s a specially recruited elite NPC with a proven track record it’s still worth licking, just forget about the ordinary ones.”

Pigeon Treasure nodded in deep thought.

Duchess Miriam’s lecture at the front was also just about over, and a few of her assistants took over the rest of the work, leading a dozen or so administrative players to another house.

There they were left to pick the positions they were each interested in.

Good Dove went over to take a look, and then was surprised to find that the career paths of these young players all started directly from the title of “Acting Village Chief”.

However, there weren’t too many positions for them to choose from, basically in the five collective farms that were about to be constructed in Baron Lim’s domain, and some basic positions in Scarlet Castle.

“Huh, why are your arithmetic pearls this color?”

Pigeon Treasure quickly discovered a second difference.

The arithmetic treasure beads of combat players like him activated in a slight red color, but the treasure beads of the administrative players were a light green color, and after discussing it with the two younger players from the same school who had been PY’d by Badger, he was shocked to find out that it wasn’t just that the color of the treasure beads was different, but that the character interfaces of the people’s administrative players were all specially made!

In addition to all the functions of combat players, they also have an additional “territory management” interface, which can directly display a series of NPC information and an overview of the territory within the purview of each administrative player.

“Damn, I’m regretting this.”

Pigeon Treasure scratched his head and sighed:
“Didn’t catch up with the good times ah, in fact, Good Pigeon I think I’m also quite suitable to be a village chief, is it still too late for me to transfer now?

I still have a spare occupation bar.”

“Don’t think too much, Good Dove.”

The little player in front of him named [Tourist Scholar Little King] grinned and said rather dejectedly:

“You don’t have an administrative specialty, you can’t do this line of work.”

“Right, right, right, you’d better keep doing your promising job as a Big Head Soldier, don’t come to steal my brothers’ rice bowls.” The [Tourist Scholar Xiao Li] next to him added.

The [Tour Scholar Little Sun] next to him even more nodded his head repeatedly.

Look at the name of these three guys know, the three of them is a travel scholar Zhou’s “dormitory brother and sister”, are the Department of Geology’s good buddies, according to unreliable gossip that these three guys seem to have chased the Department of Geology’s department of flowers, but only Zhou a person succeeded, but it seems to be not something to be proud of!
Anyway, Pigeon Treasure was so pissed off by these guys’ back-to-back blows that even his vampire fangs were pierced out, but he quickly controlled it and asked in an odd tone again:

“But how come only the three of you are here? Didn’t Badger say that all six of you in the dormitory filled out applications?”

“Hey, don’t mention it, the remaining two trashy snacks filled out their applications randomly last time, and as a result, they undoubtedly failed to be selected, and are now hugging and crying in the dormitory.”

Little Wang, the traveling scholar, said with a grimace:

“A week a thousand times urged and instructed them to pay attention to heart, the result is still did not stop those two goods to die, after seeing our brother three to get the helmet before regret, want to re-fill but has been locked information. If you don’t pass the first application, you’ll have to wait two months before you can apply again.

Not that I’m saying, this ghost game is really strict in this regard.”

“Yeah, although Fat is usually cheeky, he’s really strict when it comes to his work.”

Pigeon Treasure nodded with deep feeling and asked again:
“So where are the three ‘lords’ going to serve?”

“Forward Camp, the NPCs said that we have to ‘intern’ for ten days before we’ll be assigned a specific place to go.”

Little Sun, the traveling scholar, snatched the answer:

“We’re going to help the several supervisors in the current camp to establish the ruling system of the territory, and there’s also a strange ‘administrative points’ that can be used to unlock new titles as well as various benefits.”

“Can you three do that?”

Good Dove couldn’t help but worry and said:
“If you can’t complete the task you guys are going to be penalized administratively.”

“What are you afraid of?”

The tallest and most flirtatious traveling scholar Xiao Li hugged his arms and said with confidence:
“The three of us have taken Human Resource Management, although we haven’t practiced it yet, but managing a group of NPCs isn’t just a matter of having a hand in it?”

“Uh, I think you guys should not be so optimistic.”

The fully insured half-hanger who was about to leave after completing the formalities couldn’t help but remind him:
“Didn’t Xiao Zhou remind you guys? The NPCs in this game are basically the same as real people, and they have all the problems that real people have, such as laziness, groping for fish, or unclean hands, and so on, so you’ll know if you go and work for a day by yourselves.

It’s not an easy job to be honest.”

“Brother Half-hanging, give us some experience.”

The three newcomers went over to ask the veteran players of the administrative profession for advice, that is, they didn’t have a box of cigarettes in their hands, otherwise they would have helped to light them up.

Brother Half-hanging wasn’t shy about imparting his experience, he just doubted that these youngsters could listen.

Finally, simply very directly said:

“Nothing to see more information, such as prison management ah, concentration camp memoirs ah kind of”

“Holy shit! This is so anti-human, isn’t it?”

Xiao Wang was creeped out, and as a result, the half-hanging brother shook his head and said:

“You’ll see for yourself when you start the mission, the setting over here is magical medieval ah! 90% of the people in Transylvania are illiterate, it’s hard for them to even communicate effectively, they have rude and aggressive personalities, and if they weren’t bound by their work credits they’d be able to fight over some strange and bizarre things.

It’s not like we’re over there, where any worker can write his own name, so you’ll have to use more effective methods to manage them better.

Of course that’s all I’m saying.

If you think you can motivate them to do their jobs with true feelings and ideals, remember to give me a shout so I can come and observe.

Let’s go.

Let’s have tea together if you have time.”

After saying that, with a greeting, Full Risk Semi-Hanging swaggered away on her own windy hunting colt under the escort of four female guards, leaving a group of student party members staring at each other from the same spot.

“Go, go, go, go. Pick out a guard for your buddy! To pick two good looking ones to play as a raising game.”

Just now also shouted that he did not want to do administrative career live whole quite good this will obviously interested up.

He got his own assigned docile old horse from the small yard next to the administrative district, and rode on it with style, and kicked the horse’s belly very skillfully, which seemed to be a guy with good riding skills in reality.

Live whole quite good for horses also have research.

He looked at his own crotch old horse, and then looked at the side of the touch you poor that obviously more powerful hunter colt suddenly some envy, no matter from which point of view, witch hunters with secret techniques to domesticate the war horse is indeed to be too much than the ordinary walking horse majestic.

“What? Want it?”

Touch Your Poor quickly noticed his good friend’s gaze, he grinned and said:
“It’s fine to brush up on the reputation of the Adventurer’s Guild, you can buy it when you get to respect, or find a way to get a hidden profession or something that will occasionally reward carriers.”

“Ch, I’ll have one too and soon!”

Live Whole Pretty Good said with a shrug and a subtle smile:
“My career quest says that as long as my strength can successfully complete it, I can obtain a warhorse from Baron Lim for transportation, but where is this Baron Lim’s collar? I haven’t opened this map yet.”

“Oh, it’s in the north.”

Touch Your Poor shared the map for his good friend and pointed to the north of Scarlet Fortress and said:

“It’s about an hour’s distance by horseback, but it’s poor and broken over there, and I passed my previous Black Iron Trial near there. Is your quest making you the village chief? How many people are in charge?”

“No, it’s the construction of a collective farm.”

Live Whole Quite Well took a closer look at his first task and said:
“At the end of the ten-day internship at the camp, if I perform well I can be transferred to ‘Acting Farm Supervisor’, with a minimum management quota of 500 people, and I can appoint a range of positions within the farm while I’m Acting Supervisor.

Hiss.
This game has so much freedom!

I looked at the quest content, and to summarize, it’s life and death, just like Emperor of the Land, and it even assigns me ‘Discipline Quotas’!
10 every three days, and you can ask the farmhouse militia to physically punish or even confine specific NPCs.

The first two months food is provided by the Scarlet Fortress Administration Office and the Batasin Chamber of Commerce, but after that it’s up to the farmstead to take care of its own profits and losses, why do I feel like I’m playing a business-type game.”

They talked and laughed as they headed out of the city, but just as they entered the advance camp, they regretted it after living a whole quite well.

He shook his head with a pensive face on his horse and said:
“No way! Two secondment slots for guards won’t cut it! The platoon does have it, but I definitely have militia protection both in the camp and on the farm side, so security is not a problem. If I want to maximize my resources, then as a manager, what I need most now is not guards but assistants.

Secretaries, to be precise!
There must be two assistants who are resourceful enough to be able to help me shoulder some of the stress of the job, or else the truth is that I don’t need to play this game if I’m doing it myself.

Let’s go!
Go back.

I’m going to ask Baroness Miriam if she can lend me two of their interns, I just saw some kids in the courtyard taking classes.

The NPCs are also apparently training people in management.

Heck, when you think about it like that, the details of this game are so realistically done that it really isn’t any different in detail from a territory in a hundred different places.”

“But why do you need an assistant in the game? The literacy rate of the people here is so low, I struggle to communicate with them sometimes.”

Touch You Poor suggested saying:
“How about finding them in reality? Call two of those female secretaries you use so well in your company who are always around you into the game, it’s a big deal to pay an extra share of money.”

“Well, that makes sense!”

Live whole quite good nodded deeply thought, still riding a horse it immediately offline, the whole character immediately fell towards the ground and was touched by your poor eyes and hands quickly grabbed. A few minutes later he came back on line, gestured an OK gesture to his good friend and said:
“got it done, in the secretary department called four to fill out the application, I two you two, are graduated from the management professional high school students beautiful girl, is my carefully selected yo, but they two that extra payroll money you out.”

“Fuck! What do I need an assistant for? I’m a combat professional ah.”

Touch Your Poor covered his face and screamed:

“I can’t even handle a Sister Pomegranate, let alone your professional level awesome secretaries, don’t let them come! I’m having fun, don’t give me a hard time you.”

“Nonsense! I have to stay away from a woman of Niu Shihuang’s level, let alone you.”

Live whole quite well rolled his eyes and said:
“Don’t worry, these two are very well-behaved, if they dare to find trouble for you intentionally you give me a report, deduct their wages oh~”

(End of chapter)