Chapter 210: Not a Village Chief, But a Hamlet Chief

“Yijian, is this village the one that your Green Emperor Alliance manages itself?”

“Yes, it’s also the only one.”

Ye Rong walked side by side with Breeze Clear and Clouds Light. They were high in the sky above Linshui Village, looking down at the village scene.

Even though they gave the order, telling the members of Green Emperor Alliance to try and get the position of Village Chief in the villages near Qingcheng, it turned out that the official system was not that easy to join. Even the smallest Village Chief position was very rare.

After trying, besides Jiafang Yifang, no one else in Green Emperor Alliance became a Village Chief.

He guessed this was closely linked to Jiafang Yifang’s Life Profession as a Civil Engineer. Also, not every village could trigger the quest to smoothly become a Village Chief.

This situation made Jiafang Yifang quite proud in the faction—the only Village Chief and the only Civil Engineer.

Each month, just the pill dividends from Linshui Village could make him earn a lot, filling his pockets. Even though he had to give half to the faction, the pill consumption of thousands of people was not a small number. Added up, it was quite huge—

Including Xuanhu Xiaoyao, Green Emperor Alliance only had three or four Alchemists. And only Xuanhu Xiaoyao could make slightly higher-grade pills, far from enough to supply all members.

So, Jiafang Yifang lived very comfortably. More money let him practice his profession skills, and there was a place and environment for him. Linshui Village was the best spot.

Ye Rong looked out and saw that around Linshui Village, it wasn’t just a stone wall. There were watchtowers and arrow towers too. A faint yellow mist also lingered on the stone wall, vaguely connecting the wall firmly to the ground, making it rooted.

When Jiafang Yifang first took over, Linshui Village was just the lowest Level 3 village, with less than a hundred life-type NPCs. After this time of hard work and building, it had become a Level 1 village. The village area automatically expanded several times around, with lots of empty wasteland appearing.

Hundreds more life-type NPCs also spawned, making Linshui Village much livelier. Even the types of pills sold in the village increased a lot, with several new Fourth-Rank pills available for buyers to choose.

“Let’s go in and see. After I find that person, you can ask him directly what you need. See if he has the authority.”

Breeze Clear and Clouds Light suddenly came to find Ye Rong this time, speaking sincerely. He said he wanted to ask for help, to see if Ye Rong knew any players who got System official positions. Unexpectedly, Green Emperor Alliance had such a person. Ye Rong directly brought him over to find Jiafang Yifang.

“Who goes there! Ahead is Green Emperor Alliance’s Linshui Village! If you want to buy pills, please land your Sword Light and enter the village on foot to buy!”

When Ye Rong and the other got close to the village, several Sword Lights shot out from the watchtowers.

Ye Rong’s face showed a half-smile, not knowing whether to say these members were dutiful or to say they had no eyes and couldn’t recognize people.

He knew why they had this attitude. Not long after Jiafang Yifang became Linshui Village’s Village Chief, players with strange looks kept sneaking into the village, using the excuse of buying pills.

But soon, they found these players lingered in the village without leaving, looking around sneakily.

Twice, some even tried to directly attack and destroy, attempting to break the stone wall. Luckily, they were found in time, stopping such actions.

After that, the defense of Linshui Village was strengthened a lot. Jiafang Yifang even paid out of his own pocket for a patrol team’s salary, letting them protect Linshui Village full-time.

Anyway, Linshui Village’s customers were all Green Emperor Alliance’s own members. Outside players might not even show up once in ten or fifteen days, so it didn’t have much impact.

“Ah? Faction Leader!”

Those Sword Lights braked sharply, realizing the person they yelled at was their own faction leader. They were all scared and quickly changed their expressions, nervously apologizing.

“Hurry and lead me in, notify Jiafang Yifang to come see me.”

Linshui Village was already built quite well. The building layout in the village was orderly, with the village hall being the most noticeable in the center.

Ye Rong brought Breeze Clear and Clouds Light inside. They sat for just a few minutes before hearing hurried footsteps and seeing someone run in.

“Boss! Why did you think of coming to inspect Linshui Village today? I thought you forgot about our Linshui Village!”

Jiafang Yifang ran in excitedly. A few members followed him, all of whom Ye Rong had never seen before.

“How could I… Your Linshui Village is Green Emperor Alliance’s only directly managed village. The faction’s operating funds rely on your pill income dividends. How could I forget!”

Ye Rong coughed lightly twice. Actually, he really did forget about Linshui Village and Jiafang Yifang, the only Village Chief. If Breeze Clear and Clouds Light hadn’t mentioned it today, he didn’t know when he would have come to see this village for the first time.

“Boss, I must report to you properly. Our Linshui Village’s development is changing rapidly, improving fast…”

Jiafang Yifang’s face glowed red, excitedly talking nonstop.

It turned out that when Linshui Village became a Level 1 village, his official position changed again. It already went from Village Chief to Hamlet Chief, and his power increased somewhat. Of course, the pill dividend ratio was still the same as before, only ten percent. But he now held power of life and death over all life-type NPCs in the village—

Not like ordinary players who kill a life-type NPC, and it respawns moments later, with the player just losing Karma Points for nothing.

His power of life and death meant he could frame an NPC with a crime, directly making that life-type NPC disappear from the Far Shore database, never respawning again.

Also, Jiafang Yifang gained the right to issue quests, able to issue various quests in the name of Hamlet Chief.

Actually, these quests were also sent to him by the System Deity, and he just passed them on. He didn’t have the power to set or change them himself.

But as the quest issuer, he always had various conveniences. He could tell Green Emperor Alliance members all the quest details when they came to take the quest. When they completed the quest and claimed rewards, he always tried to pick the best ones.

Anyway, these quest rewards ultimately flowed back to Green Emperor Alliance.

“I didn’t expect you to build Linshui Village so fast. Strive to upgrade it to a Level 1 town soon!”

Ye Rong nodded repeatedly. This Hamlet Chief was quite useful besides providing the faction with a funds source.

“This is Huashan’s Breeze Clear and Clouds Light. He has something he wants to ask. See if you can help.”

“Excuse me, Brother Jiafang, I have a Chengdu Governor quest. It asks me to kill demons and protect the people’s safety. I clearly already killed enough of the required monsters, but I can’t hand it in and finish the quest. It says I still lack the Village Chief’s clear proof. I looked for those NPC Village Chiefs, but they completely ignored me. They said there were no such monsters near their villages. I wonder if Hamlet Chief can issue me such a proof, so I can go back and turn in the Governor quest.”

Breeze Clear and Clouds Light explained the whole story, saying what he wanted Jiafang Yifang to help with. Then he looked at him with an eager, urgent expression, very nervous.

It seemed the rewards for this Governor quest were very rich, or very important to him, otherwise he wouldn’t be like this.

“This is simple! Since you’re Boss’s friend, I’ll issue you the proof right away, just stamp it with my Hamlet Chief seal. Other quests I might not help with, but for quests related to the official system, I have no problem!”

Jiafang Yifang waved his hand boldly, pulling out a round red gold seal from his chest. He wrote two lines swiftly on a white paper and stamped it hard. You could feel that this red gold seal, not even a First-Rank Magic Treasure, contained a strange Strength. The white paper faintly had a golden light flash, then hide within.

“Thank you, thank you! Yijian, I really must thank you this time. In the future, whatever you need, even if it’s through mountains of knives or seas of fire, I won’t refuse!”

Breeze Clear and Clouds Light also knew who to thank. If Ye Rong hadn’t brought him, how could Jiafang Yifang possibly issue him the proof letter? Finding a Village Chief Player really wasn’t easy, especially for a lone player like him with no faction backing.

“No problem, just a small thing. By the way, Lao Feng, how was that annoying Dry Flame Sword Embryo quest you had last time?”

Ye Rong waved his hand. Towards lone experts like Breeze Clear and Clouds Light, he always tried very hard to be friendly, hiding thoughts of pulling them into Green Emperor Alliance. But since he wasn’t even willing to join Huashan’s faction, it showed he wasn’t someone who liked faction activities by nature, so he didn’t bring it up urgently.

“I just finished it not long ago. Finally got the Dry Flame Blazing Sword!”

Breeze Clear and Clouds Light showed a slight smile. Such time-consuming quests were annoying, but when finally completed and receiving the quest reward, looking at the reward in hand still made him happy.

The Sixth-Rank Dry Flame Blazing Sword was already one of the strongest Flying Swords in the whole Huashan currently.

“The stats are average, but I deliberately chose this model. It’s the most suitable for me.”

Breeze Clear and Clouds Light turned his wrist, a blazing fire-like Flying Sword with golden-red flames shining was set to display mode, letting others see its stats in detail.