Chapter 142: Chapter 134: Wildly Gathering Favorability_2

Inside the house, the large pot, the liquefied gas, and the pressure cooker were all in use, yet it was still too busy to handle.

There was no way around it; too many people were eating.

This made Xiu’Er, who cheerfully offered hospitality, quite troubled.

Fortunately, Xiu’Er could solve it; the simplest way was to barbecue the meat.

Everyone pitched in, set up a huge bonfire, and began roasting meat.

Xiu’Er provided her specially prepared seasoning for the roasting, and of course, she got hands-on herself.

Amidst the various sizes of bonfires, her graceful figure was bustling around.

The first piece of roasted Fierce Beast Meat, naturally, was given to the only Witch here, the Black Soul Crow.

His status was the most honorable.

The Witch, Black Soul Crow, was initially reserved; with his strength, Fierce Beast Meat was not rare, so he just tasted it modestly.

“This taste!”

Without another word, the Witch, Black Soul Crow, began devouring it in large bites.

Image? Is there a need to care about it!

The Witch relies on strength, not appearance.

Beep: The Witch, Black Soul Crow’s goodwill towards you has increased by 1.

Xiu’Er was momentarily stunned and turned her head, quickly understanding upon seeing the Witch, Black Soul Crow’s satisfied expression while eating.

No need to say more; Xiu’Er indeed has divine skills, plus a willingness to put in the effort. Since she learned cooking skills, she surpassed others in a short time.

It’s as if she opened Pandora’s magic box, preparing various delicious dishes for Xiu’Er in endless variations.

Xiu’Er’s good appetite every day was enough to prove everything.

It was indeed wise to have Xiu’Er learn cooking.

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Soon, the roasted meat was distributed.

With one bite, the eyes of the Combat squinted, it was so delicious, truly worthy of Fierce Beast Meat.

The vast majority of the Combat present had no opportunity to eat Fierce Beast Meat.

“If only I had known sooner, I’d have bought some Fierce Beast Meat to eat.” Said a Combat, with mouth full of grease, cheerfully reflecting.

Beep: The Combat in front of you’s goodwill has increased by 1.

Fierce Beast Meat is expensive, not worth buying just to eat, but occasionally buying some is affordable.

This reflection was really from his heart.

“Hehe, Fierce Beast Meat doesn’t taste this good.” Someone spoke up, immediately gaining agreement from several Combat.

The Combat who spoke were undoubtedly the strongest among everyone, all top-level Level 60 Combat, and only with their strength and wealth had they tasted Fierce Beast Meat, more than once or twice.

“I see!” The other Combat suddenly realized, eating more fiercely.

“Haha! Don’t worry about eating, there’s plenty.” Seeing this, Xiu’Er felt even happier.

Happiness can sometimes be just that simple.

Moreover, Fierce Beast Meat could also help everyone recover quickly.

Consequently, Xiu’Er received repeated goodwill notifications.

Soon, two other Witches arrived late.

Even without an enemy, the reward was still given, and Xiu’Er invited them to eat Fierce Beast Meat without hesitation.

Sure enough, Xiu’Er’s secret roasted seasoning easily won over the two Witches.

However, at first, they were quite pretentious; under Xiu’Er’s enthusiasm, they reluctantly tasted a bit, mainly because the Witch, Black Soul Crow, was also there.

Otherwise, mingling with a group of Combat would be beneath them!

The result was that upon tasting, they nearly bit their tongues. How could it taste so good? They were so shocked that they couldn’t care about their image and started eating ravenously.

Subsequently, they each gave Xiu’Er two points of goodwill, doubling the expected amount.

All the Witches and Combats had a satisfying feast, eating until their faces were glowing.

Especially the Combat, whose previous extreme consumption of Blood Qi to perform Blood Qi Slash was completely restored.

More than that, each one was flushed with redness, clearly having eaten too much and unable to digest.

Soon, each of them was holding their distended bellies, panting where they sat.

As a member of the Tribe, reaching the Combat level, they could be said to live without worries about food and clothing, but they had never eaten such delicious food.

At this moment, each of them showed a comfortable, satisfied expression.

“Perhaps only the Martial Artists from the Central Plains, and those Cultivators, can have such delicious food.” The three Witches, sitting together, chatted and marveled.

They also ate quite a bit, but at least not to the point of being unable to stand with protruding bellies.

More than a thousand people ate quite a lot of Fierce Beast Meat, but Xiu’Er didn’t mind, happiness was what mattered.

Moreover, Fierce Beast Meat wasn’t easy to digest; none of them even finished a whole Fierce Poison Rock Python.

On the contrary, the continuously emerging goodwill made Xiu’Er feel like she had gained.

Finally, Xiu’Er checked and, remarkably, with all the previous ones, there were over a hundred with goodwill above sixty.

Once goodwill exceeds sixty, recruitment could be attempted, although the success rate was not high.

Indeed, those with goodwill reaching sixty were all Level 30 Basic Combat; the higher the strength, the harder it is to gain their goodwill.

Moreover, the higher the goodwill, the more difficult and cumbersome the tasks to increase goodwill.

More than a hundred Combat, even if they were Basic Combat, combining for a Blood Qi Slash could seriously injure, if not kill, a Level 80 Fierce Beast.

So Xiu’Er was tempted.

Xiu’Er also had to leave within a month, with no time to increase goodwill. Shouldn’t she recruit now?

As for the sixty goodwill, low success rate?

Hehe!

Xiu’Er called up the system panel, chose recruitment, and all those with goodwill over sixty had the recruitment option.

Xiu’Er opted to recruit them all.

After choosing, some of the Combat in the courtyard had a change in expression, clearly receiving the notification.

Glancing around, it was noticeable that most were hesitating, probably due to having eaten well today, and the one recruiting them was Level 80, otherwise, with only sixty-something goodwill, they wouldn’t need to think twice.

“Everyone, if you’re willing to join me, I won’t say anything else, not only will there be abundant Fierce Beast Meat in the future, but death compensation will be increased tenfold.” Xiu’Er then revealed her trump card.

As expected, instantly, the Combat expressions changed drastically.

Each one showed an incredulous expression.

“Really?” Someone inquired.

“Haha! I may not be a good person, but I have no problem with honesty, and it can be added to the contract.” Xiu’Er laughed, knowing it was a success.

Sure enough, like her guess, these NPCs have some autonomy, otherwise Big Soldier wouldn’t have feared being retained and directly increased goodwill to one hundred percent at first.

Beep: Recruit rules modified, death compensation increased tenfold, and daily sufficient Fierce Beast Meat ensured, agree?

Beep: Your modification may greatly increase the recruitment success rate.

Beep: Warning, modifying the contract must be executed, otherwise loyalty will drop significantly, leading to defection and other behaviors.

Xiu’Er smiled and didn’t rush to agree but made a modification, changing the daily sufficient Fierce Beast Meat to monthly salary, enough to buy daily Fierce Beast Meat.

This was a solid decision, without worry about a lack of Fierce Beast Meat.

Beep: Current Basic Combat has chosen to agree to recruitment, and goodwill +10.

Beep: Current Basic Combat has chosen to agree to recruitment, and goodwill +8.

Beep: Current Basic Combat…!

Continuous notifications sounded, and remarkably, there wasn’t a single failure.

Beep: Recruiting npcs, unlike slaves, has extremely high difficulty in increasing goodwill to 100%, and also requires occupying skill bars, your skill bar is insufficient, will you forfeit?

Tip 1: Insufficient skill bars make it impossible to fully grasp their loyalty and other related information.

Tip 2: Since skill bars are insufficient, forfeiting doesn’t reset goodwill, but those forfeited may autonomously drop goodwill.

“Don’t forfeit.” Naturally, Xiu’Er made the choice.

Beep: Congratulations, you have obtained over a hundred basic soldiers from the Witch Dao Lineage, Combat, fulfilling hidden conditions, triggering corresponding tasks at some Witches with special identities.

“Seems interesting.” Xiu’Er scratched her head.

Beep: The Intermediate Combat in front of you’s goodwill has increased by 12, reaching sixty, requesting recruitment, requiring a new contract, agree?

Beep: The Intermediate Combat in front of you’s goodwill has increased by 8, reaching sixty, requesting recruitment, requiring a new contract, agree?

…!

Xiu’Er was stunned; they’re all tempted!

Overjoyed, she naturally chose to agree to all.

In the end, goodness gracious, a total of two hundred and thirty-three Combat joined her, including sixteen Intermediate Combat.

This greatly delighted Xiu’Er.

With this, she had a good starting point.

Hehe!

Xiu’Er directly went to the warehouse, checking, there weren’t many Steel Knives, couldn’t equip all of them, immediately taking out sixteen Steel Knives.