Chapter 148: Breakthrough’s Progress Value Ceiling

Chapter 145 – Breaking through the upper limit of progress value

Soon a simple but fair contract was completed under the negotiation of both parties, and the signing was completed under Owen’s witness.

The finalized contract was signed by Maya, and her pinky thumb also pressed her handprint, since then the contract was reached, once both sides violated it, they would pay a huge price.

Little Thumb did not ask Owen to sign the contract, because it is not realistic, unless desperate or too weak, otherwise no nobleman will be brainwashed to sign the contract.

The size of the town of Akita was nothing in the empire, the problem was that the other side had a legendary powerhouse loyal to it, and its background was even more unfathomable, for which Little Thumb was still very self-aware, so he had no objections to Maya signing it on his behalf.

Then Little Thumb asked for the only inn in the territory, Owen gave.

The only inn that allows outsiders to live is important and unimportant, the important thing is that it can help the territory manage outsiders and prevent them from messing around.

The reason it wasn’t important was because there were many tactics that couldn’t be prevented by soldiers alone with the inn staff.

Ninjas could certainly do the job, but there was no need for them, as the Black Hand was the most specialized in that area.

Of course, the inn wasn’t a free gift, after all, the building alone was worth a lot of money even without the land, not to mention the many furnishings and drinks inside, so Little Thumb came up with the usual payoff for the Black Hand, information.

Compared to the imperfect intelligence network of the Witches of the North, the Black Hand is much more professional, and the degree of infiltration of the imperial borders is quite high, so even though what he took out was just ordinary intelligence, it allowed Owen to have a fairly good understanding of the overall situation of the imperial borders.

“The Black Hand really lives up to its name, this intelligence is really professional.” Owen stroked his chin and watched the thick pile of intelligence constantly turning over in Maya’s hands, not feeling any loss on this transaction.

“Master, do we need to stop the Black Hand’s forces from entering Green Shade Town?” After comparing it with the information she had and not finding any problems, Maya put down the information in her hand and said to Owen.

Maya didn’t have much control over Green Shade Town, where it was mainly in the hands of the Goblin General and Emmy, but she knew the special nature of Green Shade Town, which was why she asked this question.

“There’s no need to purposely stop them, as long as they don’t mess up, let them go.” Considering the Black Hand’s specialization in infiltration and intelligence, there was no point in taking precautions, instead, it would easily cause the other party to pay excessive attention, so Owen said indifferently.

“Understood master.” Maya nodded, but that didn’t mean she would let anyone enter Green Shade Town, except for adventurers with non-humans, if the Black Hand wanted to put their hands inside, they had to pay a sufficient price.

Owen didn’t know what Maya was thinking, but he really didn’t care much about it, because whether it was Akita Town or Green Shade Town, as long as it was exposed, the value of its existence would only be used to attract other people’s attention, it was just so ho.

As long as the progress value kept recovering, any construction would be a monotonous behavior that kept repeating itself to Owen, not very meaningful.

Owen’s purpose was not to be a powerful lord or to rule a country, but to wait, to wait for the progress value to break through the upper limit, to wait for the day when he would become incomparably powerful.

For this reason he didn’t care about the loss of one or two territories, even if everything he had at the moment was destroyed, to Owen it was just a do-over.

Building territories really didn’t have much meaning other than to maintain a high level of living, pass the time, and make himself less lonely.

In fact, if Owen hadn’t realized that the progress value cap breakthrough was more or less related to the development of the territory, he would have been able to live in seclusion, and wouldn’t have needed to worry about food and drink at all anyway, so he didn’t place as much importance on the territory as Maya thought he did.

Next Owen would restart the dungeon project, create a new base, and even set his sights on further afield.

The Empire was not the first choice, just from some of the information provided by Maya, Amelia, and the Black Hand, the water in the Empire was too deep for him to grasp, even if he built a legendary warrior like Char. Legendary forces only have the qualification to enter a certain circle, in this circle still belongs to the newborn, because all the forces that have a few cards have the ability to exterminate the legend, this is the root of their ability to establish a foothold for a long time.

A legendary warrior in the district can only make Owen be taken a little seriously, other than that, unless he can be productive, but unfortunately, he can’t do that right now.

While Owen was preparing the next stage of his plan, Little Thumb had already taken over the inn.

As one of the five fingers, Little Thumb of course won’t only bring Harvey alone, in fact, as early as a month ago, there were people entering Akita Town one after another, and this time, he even brought a lot of manpower, so he quickly took control of the inn.

Little Thumb did not replace the hotel staff, firstly, he can see that these hotel staff are ordinary people, have not received any training, and secondly, let him bring all the manpower to do odd jobs is too wasteful, but also easy to cause suspicion, so in addition to inserting a few people, most of them remain the same.

Before the hotel was built, it was considered to be used as an intelligence point, so besides the cellar, there were more underground spaces, and these were all opened to Little Thumb without any concealment.

Little Thumb didn’t avoid using these places, on the contrary, he readily set up the intelligence center in the hotel’s underground space.

“Lord Little Thumb, shall we establish another stronghold?” Because of wearing his sins and being familiar with the situation in the Northlands, Harvey had already turned from a person awaiting punishment into an elite person under Little Thumb, and at this time, with a look of loyalty, he proposed that, after all, this was not a stronghold that the Black Hand himself had established, but was given by someone else, and the sense of security was not enough.

“There is no need.” Little Thumb was personally categorizing the intelligence collected by his men, and rejected Harvey’s proposal without even thinking about it.

The reason was simple, he knew the other party couldn’t see it.

Although they had only met once, and the main target of the negotiation was not the other party, Little Thumb was still keenly aware of which Hydra III’s heart was so high and proud.

In the other party’s eyes, not to mention a Black Hand’s stronghold, even the entire Akita Town, the other party did not really care about it.

This was simply incomprehensible, and it was even more difficult to know where the other party’s backbone came from, but Little Thumb didn’t think that his senses could be wrong, that was a monster that looked gentle, but inwardly was incredibly haughty.

Placing the sorted information on a shelf to the side, Little Thumb pulled out a mark from his pocket, a mark of a clenched fist with only the pinky extended.

Harvey first froze, then made a fist with his left hand and extended his pinky, the center of the fist towards his heart, then stood aside with a serious expression.

Without hesitation, the little thumb stood up and then pressed the mark on a side wall, and in the blink of an eye, complex magical patterns spread out to cover the proper wall with the mark as the core, and were penetrating towards the wall.

When the magic pattern was thoroughly integrated, only an inconspicuous palm mark was left on the wall.

This was a special mark that only the five fingers possessed, and it also represented that the little thumb used this place as its own intelligence center.

Although the intelligence center was not irreplaceable, it still had a different meaning, which showed how Little Thumb valued this place.

Almost at the same time, Owen’s system that hadn’t moved for a long time was like eating a small blue pill that suddenly rose up, immediately breaking through the original upper limit, with a progress value of up to forty, and the game that originally couldn’t be fully opened was also unfolded for most of the game.

(End of chapter)