I Become a Landlady in the Game World
Chapter 146 - 086: New Territory Rankings

Chapter 146: Chapter 086: New Territory Rankings

Blacksmith Shop.

Zhou Bai entered and, for a rarity, saw Harrison not working but rather, staring blankly into space.

When Harrison noticed Zhou Bai’s arrival, he snapped back to reality and asked, "What do you need me to do?"

Zhou Bai didn’t say much, just handed over the blueprint of the Crossbow Carriage, "Can you make this? How many days will it take?"

Harrison looked at the blueprint of the Crossbow Carriage with some surprise. It was the first time he had seen such a weapon, and with just one look, he could tell how powerful it was.

"How many do you need? If it’s fewer than ten, I can complete them within three days," Harrison said.

Three days?

Zhou Bai raised his eyebrows, "Do you know that I’m preparing these for the Territory War?"

"...Yes," Harrison nodded, that’s what he had been thinking about all along!

"Then I’ll leave it to you, make as many as you can!" Zhou Bai said directly. With this Crossbow Carriage, whether it was for attacking or defending, Hope Village wouldn’t have to fear.

"Yes," Harrison nodded in agreement.

After they settled the matter, Zhou Bai didn’t leave but instead looked at Harrison and asked, "What were you just thinking about?"

Harrison was surprised by Zhou Bai’s "concern" and shook his head, "It’s nothing, just some memories from the past."

"If there is anything, just say it. If I can help, I definitely will," Zhou Bai said earnestly.

Harrison’s weapons were of great help to the territory, and Zhou Bai felt she should also put in the effort to help as a gesture of mutual support.

Hearing Zhou Bai’s words, Harrison’s mouth rarely curved into a smile, "Thank you, I will let you know if there’s a need."

"Yes," Zhou Bai didn’t continue and, seeing Harrison’s somewhat unaccustomed smile, couldn’t help but smile as well before promptly leaving the Blacksmith Shop.

Watching Zhou Bai’s departing figure, Harrison began to understand why people like Diana, who hadn’t been in Hope Village for long, had so thoroughly boarded this ship.

Encountering such a territory was a "blessing" for these already dead people.

**

The following two days, the territory entered a phase of stable development.

All the seeds in the farmland had been planted, and the early-developing ones had already begun to sprout.

The Breeding Ground had captured a number of Demon Beast cubs and had started the breeding process.

The construction of roads both within and outside the territory had been completed, spreading out to further regions, with road signs and street lamps being installed along the way.

The Hospital officially opened, with staff on duty during fixed hours every day and someone on call during off-work hours.

The office staff began to work regular hours from 8 am to 5 pm, with each department now fully operational.

Law enforcement patrolled the territory daily to maintain order.

The city gates and watchtowers were manned by soldiers daily.

...

The Commercial Street saw the most noticeable changes, with shops related to clothing, food, housing, and transportation springing up like mushrooms after rain, especially snack shops.

Even with minor variations in taste, in this resource-scarce area, they could be considered perfect replicas.

Indeed, various entertainment-focused stores also began to appear, such as chess and card rooms, billiards halls, and small toys like playing cards and five-in-a-row gradually became more visible.

There was nothing one could imagine that couldn’t be done.

The novel items increased the time residents, who had long been without entertainment, spent playing within the territory, and even the NPCs became somewhat addicted to them.

In their previous lives, they had truly never seen such fascinating novelties, and many NPCs would head straight to the Commercial Street after work, with copper coins clinking rapidly out of their pockets.

Even so, they indulged with great pleasure.

Outside the territory, while the environment had not changed, there was a visibly increased number of Demon Beasts compared to before, and the area was currently dominated by those of Level 15 and below, though occasionally higher-level Demon Beasts could be found outside the territory.

This was within the expectations of the residents of the territory, as Demon Beasts below Level 10 had appeared following the last promotion.

However, after this discovery, the frequency of residents venturing out alone had significantly decreased, with most preferring to travel in groups since this was not just a game and they only had one life.

As a result of the Magic Beast Level increasing, although the number of Residents had grown, their harvest had not decreased but increased instead.

With internal and external factors combined, the territory visibly began to prosper.

In these two days, Zhou Bai, the Lord, saw his account balance climbing steadily.

Thus, the territory welcomed the 33rd day since the advent of the Doomsday Game, which was also the day marking one full month since the last Territory War.

Early in the morning of this day, Zhou Bai had already received a system notification.

[The Territory War truce period has ended, Territory ranking is being refreshed.]

Ranking refresh?

Zhou Bai was somewhat surprised, weren’t the rankings already set?

On the Lord’s panel, the regional ranking was 10th, and the Stan Continent ranking was outside of the top ten thousand, so no data was available, only the relative position could be seen.

The implication now was that the previously set rankings would change.

Thinking about it, it made sense, she was initially ranked 10th because she had taken Overlord Village’s position, and subsequently, it had shown as pending. Later, she saw that the territories ranked behind her had included 3rd Level Villages, totaling up to a couple of dozens.

Clearly, there had been some overtaking on the curves during this period.

This time, with the refreshed rankings, her position was likely to fall.

As Zhou Bai pondered this, she had already braced herself mentally.

Just as Zhou Bai was thinking this way, a new notification quickly appeared on the panel.

[Territory ranking has been assessed completely, the new ranking is based on comprehensive data.]

Zhou Bai immediately checked the new ranking for her territory and, upon seeing it, she was stunned.

[Current Ranking: (Stan Continent Ranking: 9999); (Regional Ranking: 2); (Real-time Data)]

Now, they were on the list!

Especially that second regional ranking.

She had jumped from 10th to 2nd and had not fallen back into the forties as she had imagined. Instead, she had even leapt to second place, looking quite out of place among all the other leading territories that were 3rd Level.

Impressive, her territory.

Though unexpected, Zhou Bai still felt happy about this; it was, after all, a recognition of Hope Village by the system.

At this time, apart from Zhou Bai, the Residents of the territory also saw the ranking change of their belonging territory on the panel, each of them overjoyed.

"Wow! We’re second!"

"Hope Village is really awesome."

"Among a sequence of 3rd Level Villages, only our Hope Village is a 2nd Level, but we still ranked second."

"It means our territory’s overall strength is strong enough!"

"Regional Ranking should refer to the territories from Blue Star, right? This ranking is really good!"

"Yeah! So it says our territory is truly not bad, love it, love it!"

"It’s not enough, we must still strive for first place! Then improve the ranking on Stan Continent."

"As for the Stan Continent ranking, we can only take one step at a time."

"..."

Most of the Residents hadn’t thought so far ahead; in fact, the most important thing for them was too daunting to even contemplate.

Because they had already seen from the Stan Continent territory rankings that among the top fifty, the territories were basically Elf Clan, Beastman Clan, and Dwarf Clan, with only four Human Race territories making the list.

The phrase ’decline of the Human Race’ was very clear to them.

What lay before them was more about survival issues.

Therefore, after a brief moment of joy, everyone doubled their passion towards contributing to the development of the territory, all too aware that the ranking was only temporary. Not to mention other factors, what lay immediately before them was the second impending Territory War, which would be the turning point for whether they would continue to grow stronger or be weakened.

And at this time, indeed, many territories and many people, because of Hope Village’s new ranking, had set their sights on Hope Village!