Chapter 945 - 546: Return to the Territory, Johnson and Clover

Until all marks within a hundred kilometers are completely inherited.

This took another four or five hours.

The time was already past two in the morning.

All the Golden Circle Marks disappeared.

This meant that the unclaimed territory within a hundred kilometers was fully inherited.

Among the remaining twenty or thirty territories, they inherited twenty-two together.

Because some territories were quite remote.

And some unclaimed territories were sparsely surrounded by other lords.

These were unexpected factors.

As for Zong Shen, he was the simplest and most direct.

He could navigate directly to the destination through the Golden Circle.

This is why he was able to inherit so many unclaimed territories.

This round of inheriting unclaimed territories, he truly gained a bountiful harvest.

Zong Shen’s mindset was consistently good, and he remained calm in the face of this haul.

Jiang Yi was different though.

Even with that somewhat unfair distribution ratio.

She still gained a considerable amount of population and resources.

But she didn’t benefit at all regarding migrating buildings.

This was unavoidable.

If she were to migrate slowly with her three heroes.

Inheriting unclaimed territories would take at least another seven to eight times longer.

Even if Jiang Yi were willing, Zong Shen would never agree to that.

Around three in the morning.

Zong Shen, riding Flying Tiger, first sent Jiang Yi and her two heroes back to their territory.

With Zong Shen’s permission, they each migrated a Tier Three Defense Tower from the unclaimed territory.

As for resources, they had filled up their Storage Grids.

Currently, Warriors and Farmers were all gathered in Zong Shen’s territory.

Later, Jiang Yi would personally lead the Wolf Cavalry Guards, along with ox carts and carriages to Zong Shen’s territory, to transport her own Farmers and Warriors.

This night’s bounty was enough to elevate Jiang Yi’s territory another level.

But for Zong Shen, it didn’t bring such a significant change.

His territory development had long surpassed the village-level standard.

Further advancement would be a very long and difficult process.

It requires waiting until the population reaches a hundred thousand, and the territory expands to Bang City size.

Reaching that point would mean his territory would advance from village-level to Bang State Level.

This is quite a significant threshold.

As for the other lords, it went without saying, no one has it easy.

After all, they all went from nothing to something, from something to good, and from good to excellent.

Every threshold was tough to break through.

Take Jiang Yi now, if she wants to break through to the village-level unit, she still needs a lot of resource and population accumulation.

Just the corresponding territory expansion construction requires massive resources.

Everyone’s development goals are unified, but the progress and difficulty of their developments differ.

This night’s haul, although Zong Shen took the lion’s share, was only an excellent addition at best.

He was already mentally prepared for this.

All the current accumulation lays a solid foundation for future development.

The deeper the accumulation, the sooner the territory can advance to Bang City level.

Once the territory becomes Bang City, both offense and defense, and future development progress will improve again, leaving other lords far behind.

When others are still lingering at the village-level unit.

Zong Shen would already have a Bang City territory with a population exceeding a hundred thousand.

Such an achievement might mean little to Indigenous People.

But among lords, it would be explosive.

In this world, the Matthew effect is vividly reflected.

The strong get stronger, and the weak get weaker.

The same task is always easier for the strong to accomplish.

Becoming a Bang City is one of Zong Shen’s mid-to-short-term development goals.

Achieving this goal would take at least six months to a year.

Of course, this is a conservative estimate.

If his plans go smoothly, plus some other fortunate encounters.

The time for the territory to become Bang City level would only be shorter than anticipated.

Only when the territory becomes Bang City.

Could he truly consider himself to have a firm foothold in this world.

A fortress-type Bang City still has some self-preservation capabilities.

As for the Giant City, that’s a far-off goal.

When the territory becomes a Giant City, it would take at least 5 to 10 years.

And for the Indigenous People’s normal development pace, that’s already considered fast.

Giant City level primarily has two standards.

The first is area, the second is population.

The population must be at least between 20 to 40 million.

The area governed must include the surrounding 3000 to 5000 kilometers.

In other words, when Zong Shen can establish a Giant City, he would command a population of at least several tens of millions.

While dominating a radius of three to four thousand kilometers.

The warriors of all tiers he has would at least be in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

If they are not spread thin across various Bang Cities, having a million warriors is normal.

After sending Jiang Yi back, Zong Shen immediately returned to his own territory.

Now the night was deep.

For this, he specifically woke up the diligent Marie, and went to the living area to call Hoy and another two heroes selected from the refugees.

He had the five of them categorize and organize this harvest.

After all, this time, the migrated Defense Arrow Towers alone numbered over a hundred.

But among them, there were no Tier Four Arrow Towers. Most were Tier One to Tier Three Arrow Towers.

These Arrow Towers will serve as a supplement to the territory’s defense buildings.