<h4>Chapter 173: Red Dragon Queen’s Blood</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    Li Yi climbed up de Peak and exined his intention to Augustus.


    “I’ve got a cup of dragon blood here. Have that person drink it, and it should restore his body.”


    Augustus showed Li Yi a cup of steaming dragon blood, and the Red Dragon Queen kneeling at his feet immediately trembled.


    A cup of dragon blood was priced at 5,000,000 Gold Coins!


    Li Yi traded the 5,000,000 Gold Coins that he had prepared earlier on.


    System Notification: [You have obtained a cup of dragon blood.]


    Li Yi put the dragon blood away and asked, “Is there any still?”


    “Roar...” The Red Dragon Queen angrily spurted a burst of me at him. Fortunately, Augustus was standing on the side. With just a light tap of his hand, the me was dispersed.


    Augustus shook his head. “The little fellow’s misbehaving. She just threatened me to say that if I take her blood again, she’d fight me.”


    ‘Sure enough, there’s only one cup.’


    Li Yi did not stay any longer. He rubbed the Return City Stone right away and headed back.


    Back in Shattered Frost City, Li Yi opened the small map, pointed his finger at the location of the Casten’s residence, and silently uttered the word, ‘teleport’.


    “Whish...”


    He was instantly in the Casten’s residence.


    The Casten’s special skill, Patrolling, could be used arbitrarily as long as one was within the administrative region of Shattered Frost City. Its cooldown time was 1 minute.


    Li Yi poured out a little dragon blood and had the Casten’s wife feed it to Archiemonde.


    “This... This is?”


    “Let him drink it!” Li Yi did not want to answer her question.


    Archiemonde drank the small amount of dragon blood, and there was an instant effect.


    A red light shed across his face and covered his entire body immediately. The HP figure above his head rose wildly, and it was faster than the stopwatch, causing the Casten’s wife to shriek as she looked on.


    Archiemonde groaned and sat up from the bed.


    In just a few dozen seconds, his HP had recovered to 90,000,000, and the nasty disease that had gued him hadpletely disappeared. He spread his hands and could not believe this was true.


    “This... This... This...”


    Just as Archiemonde was muttering non-stop, Li Yi received a system notification.


    [You have treated the old Casten, Archiemonde. This act of kindness has spread throughout Shattered Frost City, and your current approval rating has reached 95%.]


    “Am Ipletely healed? How... How is this possible?” Archiemonde still could not believe it.


    “Quickly, thank Lord Casten.” The Casten’s wife nudged Archiemonde.


    “Thank you, Lord Casten!” Archiemonde got up and went down on one knee.


    This was the difference between NPCs and yers. The role was immediately reversed. If it was a yer, this would definitely be unbearable. For NPCs, there was no such concern though.


    Li Yi took the Casten’s seal and handed it to Archiemonde.


    Do not misunderstand. He was not pretending to return the position of Casten but was just letting Archiemonde keep the Casten’s seal on his behalf.


    The Casten’ seal was a special item, and it was only effective in Shattered Frost City. This item could not be stored in the inventory but could only be carried-on. Once you died, it would be dropped. (When it was not the besieging period, apart from the Casten, no one could pick it up. When the time was up, it would disappear from the ground and appear in the Casten’s residence.)


    If during the period of siege, Li Yi had the Casten’s seal on him but was not defending the city, then when the other party reached the Casten’s residence, thetter would only need to stay in the ce for 10 minutes, and the Casten’s seal would automatically disappear from Li Yi. At that time, he would automatically be abdicated.


    Keeping the Casten’s seal with him was pointless. The best way was to hand it over to a trusted NPC for safekeeping.


    Archiemonde was an NPC who was most worthy of trust.


    Archiemonde held the Casten’s seal and pledged allegiance to Li Yi.


    Li Yi checked Archiemonde’s loyalty value, and it made him smile.


    [Chief-level Elite, Archiemonde, loyalty value: 100 points.]


    [Chief-level Elite, Leghar, loyalty value: 30 points.]


    The NPCs’ loyalty value was a maximum of 100 points. When it reached 100 points, this meant that unless the Casten that the NPC served abdicated, this NPC would never betray the Casten.


    Even if he was abused, it would not matter; even if his wife was sent to another man, or he was demoted as a ve, he would not be disloyal. 100 points of loyalty value indicated the swearing of allegiance until death.


    At the end of the day, Li Yi had sessfully wooed a talent. As for Leghar, it was not difficult to raise the points. All it took was a little time.


    Li Yi appointed Archiemonde as the Vice Casten of Shattered Frost City and Leghar as the Guard Commander. Archiemonde’s loyalty value would not change, but when Leghar epted the appointment, his loyalty value immediately rose by 10 points.


    “Lord Casten, there’s something I want to inform you about!”


    Archiemonde’sbat value was definitely the strongest among all NPC Castens in the Eastern Continent. This person was innately adventurous. There was once when he entered ck Wind Valley, he was attacked by a man in a ck robe. It was only then he contracted a nasty disease and was confined to bed, bing a good-for-nothing person.


    “Although I don’t know what he did to me, the horror of that person is deeply imprinted in my mind. Lord Casten, when you pass through ck Wind Valley, you must pay attention to that ck-robed person.” Archiemonde recalled the past, and there was a painful look on his face.


    “Thank you.”


    Li Yi nodded.


    The Casten’s residence before him was now owned by Li Yi. The inventory of Shattered Frost City would only be opened under hismand. As for other benefits, they were as plentiful as the hairs on an ox. For example, after he hadpleted the quests issued by the NPCs in Shattered Frost City, he would now acquire a bonus of 20% more EXP than the regr yers.


    In addition, he also got to learn four kinds of Casten’s special skills, namely, Patrolling, Thousands of Men and Horses, Assemble, and Impregnable Fortress.


    Patrolling was the most practical and could be used at any time. The other three special skills belonged to the category of war skill. They could not be used during normal days and was only permitted to be activated during a siege and when defending the city.


    The special skill of Thousands of Men and Horses was Leghar’s unique skill, which was to summon an army of NPCs to assist in battle. However, it was different from the Thousands of Men and Horses used by the yers. The NPC soldiers summoned by the yers were of the same level as the yers and only 100 men could be summoned at one time. Only one summoning was allowed in one battle.


    Assemble could only be used during a siege for the defense of the city, and its effect was to gather the scattered NPC forces around the Casten.


    Impregnable Fortress was the Casten’s special passive skill. It would reduce damage by 60% and was only effective when defending the city.


    Due to the promotion, the authority acquired was greater. The funds in the vault of Shattered Frost City amounted to 41,000,000 Gold Coins, and as the Casten, he could directly take out 10% of the funds as his own annual sry.


    Of course, although the money could be drawn out any time, he was only allowed to withdraw once a year. If he were to make a withdrawal now, he could only take 4,100,000, which was a great loss.


    The entire city currently had tax relief, but Li Yi issued a separate order to increase the tax revenue of Kelly the profiteer to 30%.


    NPCs who could reinforce equipment were very rare, and Kelly was no exception. Among the NPCs who could reinforce equipment within a hundred miles from Shattered Frost City, there was only one here. How could her business be bad? It could be said that she alone ounted for one-third of the total ie of the entire city.


    Adjusting taxes was also a field to be mastered; too low, and it would not be advantageous; too high, and it would force the NPCs away. Kelly’s tax tolerance limit was neither too much nor too low. It was just nice at 30%.


    After settling the tax revenue, Li Yi set out to create his own force.


    Executive Officer (civil servant): Pretty Good Mood.


    Soldier Captain: Tall and Mighty, Little Elf from the Magical Realm, Fire Ice, and Ye Yingbing.


    The Casten could directly appoint yers to serve as subordinate officials.This was true to the saying that when a man achieved the Dao, his poultry and dogs will rise to Heaven as well ¹ . Applying this on the appointing and dismissing of official positions was quite appropriate.


    However, there was a vast difference between yers who were appointed and yers who were promoted to the ranks through Official Position Points. The main contrast was stability. yers who were promoted through Official Position Points would not be affected regardless of who the Casten was. Of course, if the Casten specially targeted that person, then thetter would be very miserable as there would absolutely be no room of development and advancement for him or her. In a word, whoever became the Casten first would be the boss.


    The was only one civil servant under the Casten, which was Executive Officer, who could also use a war skill called Galvanize. The effect of it was restoring the army’s HP by 50% while increasing the army’s damage by 50% for 30 seconds. The cooldown time was half an hour.


    The duty of the appointed soldier captain was the same as when Li Yi was the soldier captain. The only difference was that they probably could not advance their official position by themselves.


    There were eight positions for soldier captain, but after careful consideration, Li Yi decided to retain four NPC soldier captains. The reason was very simple. Even the mostpetent yers could not bepared with the NPCs as yers would go offline but not the NPCs. Even if they were killed, they would respawn after a short time.


    There was still more than half a cup of dragon blood left in hand. This was an exceptionally rare item. Only when the likes of Archiemonde, this kind of important NPC of the Eastern Continent was sick, could it be bought from Augustus.


    In fact, Archiemonde’s disease was exactly the same as Margaret the ck boss in the ck and white bosses. All of them were cursed by someone from the Cursing Sect. To lift the curse, there were at least dozens of methods that were feasible, but Li Yi chose the one that was most beneficial to him.


    Not only could the Red Dragon Queen’s blood dispel all curses, but it was also one of the super rare materials for apothecary. However, Li Yi’s apothecary level had not reached Advanced Level yet, so he could not refine for now and could only stash it away first, reserving it for future refining into an extremely precious potion that could permanently increase Attribute Points.


    Li Yi was busy for three whole days and did nothing else but settle all the Casten’s distribution work.


    The official page was still in chaos debating on Dark Wing’s prowess if it was well-deserved or veritable. The momentum was so strong that Li Yi could not help but shake his head and smile when he saw that.


    ‘Just go on doubting. One day, I’ll shut y’all up!’


    Li Yi went on the road alone. His target location – de Frost Canyon in the Western Continent.


    He had learned the Novice-Level Frost Arrow Crafting Tome, but he currentlycked two kinds of materials from the Western Continent. He could not get them from the Eastern Continent, so he could only go to the Western Continent to loot them himself.


    de Frost Canyon was a Level 40 to 50 farming zone, and there was a 10-man dungeon there. With Li Yi’s current strength, even if he could not farm all of the monsters, soloing monsterlings was not an issue to him.


    After thest war, there was a gradual increase in the number of yers from the two continents guarding at the edge. Li Yi rode on Ice Toad King and leaped over the Abyssal Canyon Crevice. He was immediately discovered by dozens of Western Continent yers, and they began chasing him.


    “Whish-tch-bish-psh...”


    Li Yi’s Powered-Up Arrow was released, and it went through the body of five Western Continent yers, killing 4 people in one-shot and obtaining 4 points of Honor Value.


    Li Yi used Camouge to break away from the battle, ride on Crimson Tiger King, and sped off.


    “F*ck me, it’s Dark Wing!”


    “Pursue!”


    Those Western Continent yers who were still alive got up on their horses and chased after him...


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