Chapter 20: Intermediate Beast Tamer

  Three days passed, and the population of Yang Tian Village finally broke through 2,000. The number of A-level ordinary NPCs reached 72, with six people serving as apprentices in various industries. Although their levels had already been raised high enough, due to the lack of scholars, they were unable to build a primary private school, so they also failed to grasp primary life skills.

  The remaining 66 were all soldiers, including 24 sixth-grade soldiers, 20 fifth-grade soldiers, 13 at the peak of fourth grade, and the last eight were newly transferred new recruits. Many of those sixth-grade soldiers had already reached the conditions for mastering high-level skills, but unfortunately, they could not build a high-level martial arts hall yet.

  And B-class qualifications are even more numerous, reaching 147 people, all of whom have been converted to soldiers. Among them, there are 13 sixth-grade soldiers, 57 fifth-grade soldiers, and 52 fourth-grade soldiers at the top. These fourth-grade soldiers at the top only need to reach an intelligence value of 50 to smoothly grasp primary skills and become fifth-grade soldiers.

  In these three days, Yang Tian obtained two S-level NPCs, Wu Yong and Sun Meng. He sent Wu Yong to the blacksmith's shop, while Sun Meng was transferred to a soldier and planned to cultivate into a martial general. In the early stages of the game, martial generals were the most practical.

  These special NPCs have refreshed three in the past few days, and surprisingly, one is a senior miner and one is a junior lumberjack, with A-level qualifications, their functions are no different from those of farmers. Another special NPC makes people wonder what to think, it's actually an intermediate animal trainer...

  Is there a beast tamer profession in the game? Anyway, Yang Tian had never heard of it in his previous life. He knew there were horse breeders, herders, pigeon farmers... and many other professions related to wild beasts, but he had never heard of a beast tamer profession.

  But seeing the attributes of this intermediate beast tamer, Yang Tian knew he had made a profit...

  Name: Meng De

  Qualification: A

  Occupation: Intermediate Beast Tamer Reputation: 0

  Identity: Villager of White Cloud Village

  Merit: 0

  Loyalty: 79

  Rank: 0th rank (0%)

  Commander: 3 Military Power: 2 Intelligence: 7 Politics: 2

  Specialties: Beast Taming, Enclosure Construction

  Innate Skill: Basic Taming: Communicate with beasts and tame them. Usage Condition: Beast Cage.

  Equipment: None

  Beast Pen: Captive beasts can be tamed in the beast pen, with a success rate related to the Beast Tamer's profession level. The taming process takes 1 day. The beast pen can hold up to 1000 wild beasts and cannot be upgraded. Building requirements: 5000 stone materials, 10000 wood materials, 20000 copper coins.

  The materials needed to build this special building are really expensive, and I estimate that most people were intimidated at the beginning. However, for Yang Tian now, these resources are not too much. Yang Tian also sighed about the luck and misfortune of the owner of the third village under heaven, wondering when he could build the special building with rewards.

  However, Munde's skills are innate skills, which means that his skills cannot be taught, and people without talent also can't comprehend. This further increases the value of this beast tamer.

  The taming of beasts is different from the surrender of NPCs. Beasts all have a basic level, such as the tiger's basic level being 60 and the wolf's basic level being 30. After these beasts are tamed, their levels will only fall back to their basic level and not drop to zero.

  It is easier to kill a beast than to capture it.

  However, Yang Tian immediately ordered the construction of a beast enclosure. Every day, Wu Ma's troops had an additional task, which was to bring back the stunned beasts to the village. For now, they were mainly wolves and bears, mid-level wild beasts that Yang Tian didn't look down on. As for animals like wild oxen, once the village reached level two and built a breeding ground, it would be easy to capture them.

  These days, Wang Lao's level finally rose to 8th grade:

  Name: Wang Liusheng

  Qualification: SS

  Occupation: None Fame: 75

  Identity: Deputy Village Head of White Cloud Village

  Merit: 0

  Loyalty: 85

  Rank: 8th (42%)

  Commander: 3 Military Power: 2 Intelligence: 25 Politics: 90

  Specialty: Territory Management

  Skill: Persuasion: Increase the daily refresh number of vagrants by 10%, and increase the probability of special attribute NPC appearance by 1%.

  Motivation: Increase villager work enthusiasm, increase villager work efficiency by 10% within territory.

  Equipment: None

  In terms of resources, although the price advantage of the previous few days is gone, the harvest is still huge. Yang Tian has now accumulated more than 6 million units of various raw materials and over 2 million copper coins. These are all guarantees for rapid development in the future. Moreover, once the weapon prices fall and the raw material prices rise, such a rich return will not be possible.

  However, not a single grain of food was collected. Although White Cloud Village now has nearly sixty mid-level fishing boats, and with Wang Lao's political attribute bonus, each boat can harvest 10 units of food per day. But for a population that has already exceeded two thousand, this amount of food is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket. In response to this, Wang Lao had no choice but to arrange for a large number of people to go out and collect wild fruits. However, the efficiency of collecting wild fruits was very low, with each villager only able to collect about 3-4 units of food per day. Moreover, the growth cycle of wild fruits is the same as that of grains, which is one month. If Yang Tian's territory wasn't relatively large, it's estimated that there would be no more wild fruits to pick by now. Even so, White Cloud Village's wild fruits could only support 1000 people for four or five days! And the over 5,000 units of grain brought back from Hei Yun Mountain Village could only last two days at most.

  Yang Tianchen now wanted to shout at the sky: Oh Heaven! Just grant me a few more butchers, I can withstand them!

  Butchers can lead villagers to collect killed beasts, novice butchers can lead ten villagers to work, each villager can harvest 10 units of food per day, and the butcher himself can harvest 100 units of food. It can be said that butchers are the fastest source of food in the entire game, provided that there are so many wild beasts to kill in the territory. To know that a sheep can only provide one unit of food, and a wild cow can only provide five units of food. Moreover, only pigs, cows, sheep, and rabbits can obtain food, while beasts like tigers need to rely on hunters. Butchers can only skin them but cannot get one unit of food.

  The butcher is temporarily gone, and Yang Tian doesn't dare to upgrade the village, so there aren't many other things to do. Every day's tasks are basically fixed. In the morning, he lets Wu Ma lead a large team to brush up on their levels in the campsite, while he and Da Niu go to find the bandit camp's bad luck and recruit some people to increase the village's population at the same time. In the afternoon, he leads nearly 40 A-level NPCs with the highest rank to ambush and kill the bandits, while the remaining NPCs are still led by Wu Ma to brush up on their levels in the campsite, and catch wild beasts at the same time. However, all of them only bring back twenty or thirty heads a day, and it's unknown when they can fill up the beast pen.