A few hours later, Zhao Fu dug about ten meters underground and found a large hole that was nearly 100 meters wide. There were many smaller holes in the walls of the hole, and it looked like a room. However, because of the chain reaction from the large cracks, a third of the hole had collapsed.
Zhao Fu also found some Gnomes cowering in fear. He led a group of people down, and the Gnomes obediently put down their weapons and knelt on the ground, expressing their willingness to surrender.
"Esteemed sir, we're very grateful that you accepted our surrender and came to save us," a few elderly Gnomes said gratefully as they knelt on the ground.
At first, Zhao Fu was quite displeased with these elderly Gnomes, but he decided to let it go. Since they were now his subjects, he did not pursue the matter any further and said, "You may all rise!"
Seeing that Zhao Fu was not angry and did not forgive them for refusing to surrender, the Gnomes let out a sigh of relief and stood up.
Zhao Fu was quite interested, and he immediately went to the Gnome Barracks to take a look. He found that the Gnome Barracks only had two Profession Change Stone Steles.
One was [Gnome Crossbowmen]: F grade Military, Description: Gnomes who use crossbows as their main weapon, Effect: Receives skill [Crossbow Control].
The other made Zhao Fu feel quite happy.
[Gnome Mechanics Scholar]: E grade Military, Description: Gnomes who are proficient in mechanics, Effect: Receives skill [Machinery Research].
This profession was a profession that was prepared for large-scale mechanical weapons. Zhao Fu had always wanted to create a cold weapon with great destructive power, which was the Ballista.
Ballistae's destructive power was more than ten times that of ordinary bows and arrows, and they were incredibly powerful. Ordinary people could only retreat when faced with them. However, even though Zhao Fu wanted to make them, all complex things in the Heaven Awaken World required blueprints. Even if he found the method to create ballistae in the real world, he would not be able to replicate it in the Heaven Awaken World.
This problem was solved with the Gnome Mechanics Scholar profession. Of course, apart from ballistae, Zhao Fu could also research other large-scale cold weapons. However, it was a pity that the limit for the Gnome Mechanics Scholar profession was only five.
After looking at the Barracks, Zhao Fu went to the Storehouse. There was some food and some copper coins, but there were no silver coins. With the Village's size, it was impossible to kill creatures that would drop silver coins.
After walking out, Zhao Fu looked at the 100-meter wide hole and said, "We can't live here anymore. Let's move it up; I can provide some basic protection."
Hearing Zhao Fu's words, the elderly Gnomes happily agreed. How could they refuse the protection of someone who was many times more powerful than them?
At that moment, Zhao Fu went to the Village Hall and looked at the white cube floating in the air. He stretched out his hand, and two options popped up: [Destroy] and [Relocate].
Destroying a village would give the player 10% of the village's current EXP. However, after destroying a village, the player would obtain a broken City Heart, which was now the Rubik's Cube floating in the air. It could not be used, and could only be used to upgrade other villages.
After destroying a Village, a Gnome Fu would receive 10% of White Ruins City Core. and white Gnome City, a Fu would would receive Village. After all, 30 Silver Ruins City Cores could raise a Silver Village to Gold grade.
There were no limits to this method, and no one knew how high a Village could be raised. However, it was certain that the higher a Village went, the more difficult it would be. For example, if a Gold grade Village wanted to become a Legendary grade Village, it would require 120 Gold grade Ruins City Cores and a Legendary grade item.
This was incredibly difficult, as Gold grade Villages were not cabbages. How could there be so many of them? As such, most people could only raise a Village to Gold grade. It was simply impossible to raise a Village to Legendary or above.
If one chose to Relocate, they would receive 10% of the Village's EXP. They could also use the City Core once, but the Village's EXP would return to zero. For example, if an Advanced Village was relocated, it would become a Basic Village, and if an Advanced Town was relocated, it would become a Basic Town.
Right now, the Gnome Village was only a Basic Village, so there was no need to worry. As such, Zhao Fu chose to Relocate.
The City Core gave off a faint white light that covered the entire Village, and some of the basic structures started to disappear.
"System announcement! Qin Village has obtained 120 EXP. "
Soon, Qin Village had obtained 1,000 or so EXP, and it was only 3,000 or so away from becoming an Intermediate Village. Zhao Fu looked at the City Core, which no longer gave off a white light, and it just silently floated there.
Zhao Fu took it and looked at it.
[City Core]: Grade: White, Race Restriction: Gnome
Humans could not use other races' City Cores, and similarly, other races could not use Human Race's City Cores. At the same time, if a Village was occupied by another race, it would not spawn new residents. As such, the Villages that Zhao Fu had conquered were all given to the corresponding races.
Zhao Fu threw the City Core to a few elderly Gnomes and told them to find a place near Qin Village to rebuild the Village.
After leaving the large hole, Zhao Fu and Bai Qi once again went to the large crack and looked at it.
This large crack was 17 meters long and 50 meters deep. Because it was too deep, the sunlight couldn't reach the bottom, and it was quite dark. However, they could faintly see that there seemed to be a path made of bricks, and it was quite neat.
"How does it feel?" Zhao Fu asked as he frowned.
Bai Qi replied with a serious expression, "Your Majesty! I feel that this crack isn't simple at all. "
Hearing this, Zhao Fu thought for a moment. The large crack was so close to Qin Village, and if he didn't investigate it first, he wouldn't be able to react in time if there was any danger. Zhao Fu couldn't leave a bomb that could explode at any moment by his side, or else he wouldn't be able to sleep at night. As such, he said, "I want to go down and see what's down there."
Bai Qi said worriedly, "Your Majesty! Let me go down with you. "
Zhao Fu nodded and called for people to prepare ropes and torches before slowly climbing down.
An hour or so later, Zhao Fu and Bai Qi reached the bottom of the large crack and found that the bottom was quite extraordinary. There was a 10 meter wide, 4 meter tall path made of bricks.
It was quite dark here, so Zhao Fu and Bai Qi lit torches and walked forwards. As they walked, their surroundings became darker and darker, and they couldn't even see their own fingers. It was deathly silent, and the atmosphere became quite strange.
Suddenly!
Creak, creak, creak sounded out in the darkness. Zhao Fu shone his torch on the source of the sound, and he found that it was a Skeleton Swordsman with a blue tongue of flame and a rusty sword in his hand was shakily standing up.
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