?42: Chapter 42: Confidence in Expansion 42: Chapter 42: Confidence in Expansion Zhou Tian first addressed the issue of military power.

    Given the current situation of the Beastman Clan, their numbers were relatively few.

    Originally, Zhou Tian planned to resolve this issue after annexing the Skeleton Tribe, but unexpectedly, a sudden turn of events happened.

    Now, not only were their clan members too few, but there was also a need to compete with the undead monsters.

    Zhou Tian must first solve this issue of manpower.

    Only with sufficient military power could Zhou Tian have the capital to battle these undead monsters.

    Acquiring enough military power was not a difficult task.

    As long as he could kill enough NPCs or players, the Blood Moon Lord would usually send new members to their clan. Sёar?h the Novёl?ire.n(e)t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Sitting in Zhou Tian’s position today, as long as he was willing, he wouldn’t need to worry about who made the move.

    As long as he made a plan that allowed his Beastmen to achieve merits, then the military power rewarded would naturally be under his control.

    Under that circumstance, Zhou Tian naturally targeted players once again without hesitation.

    Why target the players?

    Naturally, it was because Zhou Tian had more advantages when battling against players.

    Although it was less troublesome to kill NPCs, considering their strength as a power that had been resisting monsters for so many years, one can imagine how strong they are.

    Zhou Tian had spent considerable efforts to deal with a village in the past.

    Now, with powerful enemies nearby, he had no reason to provoke such opponents.

    Therefore, compared to NPCs, dealing with players became Zhou Tian’s best choice.

    Firstly, Zhou Tian could make use of his ability to bring out the maximum advantage of the monsters’ superior numbers, and if supplemented with an ambush, unless the player was exceptionally powerful, they would seldom stand a chance against Zhou Tian.

    At the same time, players were not as united as NPCs.

    After Zhou Tian dealt with a group of players, although it would provoke revenge, it would not lead to a direct confrontation with the entire player population.

    In this case, Zhou Tian could completely single out a portion of the players as his main target.

    It was easy to find people to target.

    Although in the eyes of the indigenous game world, players were not easily accessible, because of the considerable number of players in the game, if Zhou Tian wanted to find them, he could quickly locate several players who went monster hunting in the Beastman territory.

    As one might expect, Zhou Tian didn’t even need to get involved personally; with just a few small tactics, those players all fell into the hands of his Beastmen.

    Thus, everything proceeded mostly according to Zhou Tian’s plan.

    After defeating a group of players, the guild to which they belonged naturally sought to trouble Zhou Tian.

    However, due to Zhou Tian’s numerous advantages, regardless of the number of people dispatched to their territory, the outcome was always the same – total annihilation.

    However, what surprised Zhou Tian was the peculiar reaction of the players.

    Generally, in a game, if a guild had a feud with a boss, they would organize members to kill the boss, unless the power difference was too significant, or someone else had claimed the monster.

    This way of handling disputes not only united the guild members, but also rewarded them with good equipment from killing the boss.

    However, after just several conflicts with Zhou Tian, to his surprise, the player guild immediately gave up, which forced Zhou Tian to cancel many of his planned actions prematurely.

    After killing those players, Zhou Tian did not expect that the Blood Moon Lord did not reward him with anything else.

    All the merit achieved was exchanged for the maximum military rewards at the Blood Moon Lord’s place.

    When Zhou Tian received those new Beastmen, he understood what was going on, but he was uncertain how to react.

    It was clear from the current situation that the Blood Moon Lord had gotten wind of Zhou Tian’s situation.

    What puzzled Zhou Tian was that even though the Blood Moon Lord might be no stronger than the Lord of Hades, he definitely would not be weaker.

    With the territories of the two cults connected at present, did the Blood Moon Lord believe nothing had happened?

    Or had there been a tacit understanding between the Blood Moon Lord and the Lord of Hades from the beginning, or was Zhou Tian’s situation just a trivial gamble to them?

    No matter which situation, Zhou Tian wasn’t fond of any.

    But at present, with his minimal influence, Zhou Tian was merely a chess piece in a chess game, even if he saw this as a match.

    Instead of trying to become a chess master or overthrow the chess master, he would be better off considering how to expand his own power.

    With that mindset, Zhou Tian began pondering development plans.

    While Zhou Tian’s adaptability might have been poor, given sufficient time to think, his ability to scheme was on the contrary, rather good.

    After absorbing one Skeleton Cave, Zhou Tian’s Beastman Clan had become one of the powerful races in the beginner area.

    Under such circumstances, Zhou Tian was very confident about his expansion plan.

    Without a doubt, while dealing with advanced monsters could be difficult, Zhou Tian felt that none of the monsters in the Novice Village could pose a significant threat to him.

    The main issue was that the intelligence of the monsters near Zhou Tian was too basic.

    Zhou Tian had already done so much, and one would think that these monsters should already be on alert!

    After all, Zhou Tian had already annexed the Skeleton Tribe, an ally.

    So if Zhou Tian got greedy for their territories, there was no way he would spare them.

    Yet even in such circumstances, the monsters near Zhou Tian were still living their daily lives without any concerns, as if everything that Zhou Tian had done had never happened.

    Based on the behavior of the monsters, if Zhou Tian did not provoke them voluntarily, they probably wouldn’t initiate any warfare.