Global Lords: I Have Information System-Chapter 494 - 360: Tournament, Semi-Desert Region

It can be said that beast-type war mounts and professional warhorses each have their own advantages.

The endurance of a warhorse is undeniable, just like now, Pigsy has been running for over two hours and needs a rest.

But the Andalusian warhorse of the Immortal Gun Cavalry actually still has a lot of physical energy left.

Because Pigsy’s top speed is 80~90 kilometers per hour.

Whereas the highest speed of the Andalusian warhorse can reach 100~110 kilometers per hour.

Of course, this data is under relatively good road conditions.

Under different terrains, the war mounts still have different performances.

For example, when entering mountainous and rugged terrain, Pigsy and Black Panther are more agile than warhorses.

At least for now, the Andalusian warhorse can easily keep up with Pigsy’s full speed, and its physical stamina is still very good.

Zong Shen’s actions were swift, and after the entire team was ready, they left the village entrance and returned to that dirt road.

They continued to move at full speed in the direction of Boss Bang.

This left the surrounding lords, who originally wanted to chat after the Minstrel left, disappointed.

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At 5:27 in the evening.

Zong Shen and his team casually found an open space by the roadside to rest.

Since leaving Oka Village, this was their second rest.

Each rest period lasted at least half an hour.

Even with intermittent rests, Pigsy’s endurance was still showing a declining trend.

For this, during the previous rest, Zong Shen directly fed Pigsy a big sip of Moon God Spring Water.

This restored Pigsy’s endurance.

It was indeed a bit strenuous to make Pigsy responsible for long-distance travel.

The surrounding light was noticeably dimmer, making the already overcast weather feel even more oppressive.

The challenges of lords and indigenous people are independent of each other, without conflict; the indigenous people don’t know how the weather appears to be.

Whenever Zong Shen thought about it, he always found it strange.

However, he could understand the arrangement and intention of the Lord System.

At the current stage, it’s necessary to have lords and indigenous people gradually contact, mutually isolated.

Especially in challenges, if intentional isolation isn’t enforced, with indigenous intervention, the challenge would completely change.

After all, the original intention of the challenge is to accelerate the growth of lords, honing them, and at the same time, the rewards after the challenge are an additional way for lords to gain strength.

With the mighty power of the Lord System, it can naturally achieve mutual isolation in challenges.

It is now the eleventh day since landing.

Three days of the Newbie Stage, seven days of the Burrow Challenge, and a new upcoming challenge.

The new challenge will consist of a two-day preparation period, a one-day notification period in advance, followed by a four-day official period.

Basically, it’s a seven-day kill challenge mode every week, and after the end of the third challenge cycle, it will be close to the end of the first month after landing.

Twenty-seven days after the Newbie Stage, the first defense challenge will arrive.

This was information mentioned in the new rules that emerged after the Newbie Stage ended.

Calculating it, that so-called defense challenge happens to be the 30th day of the lords’ landing!

His intuition told Zong Shen that would be a new turning point for the lords.

Its significance is certainly no less than the end of the Newbie Stage.

But what exactly will happen remains unknown.

The Guide System couldn’t even speculate, because the Lord System will make dynamic decisions based on the situation at the time.

This includes the content of each challenge.

Until precursors begin to appear, the Guide Module will know the correct answer.

If the Lord System itself has not yet made a decision, the Guide Module will have no answer.

After all, the Guide Module is essentially a "plugin" of the Lord System.

It doesn’t have information itself; all information comes from the Lord System.

In short, the role of the Guide Module is that of a transporter.

While others take closed-book exams, Zong is taking an open-book exam, and it even has a search function.

Zong Shen stood in place, lost in thought for a while, while Pigsy was rolling on the ground beside him.

With a body like a small truck rolling around, the ground trembled.

Now they are still more than 170 kilometers away from Boss Bang.

This dirt road passes through seven or eight villages, and it’s peaceful along the way.

There was no attack by wild beasts or monsters, and no trace of roving bandits or horse bandits.

This dirt road is a typical route formed by villagers and traveling merchants going back and forth between the villages.

But just because it’s peaceful now doesn’t mean it will remain peaceful at night.

Along the way, Zong Shen encountered many small-scale traveling merchants, and some villagers traveling by foot or ox cart.

At the current pace, they should reach Boss Bang between 8:00 and 9:00 at night.

Zong Shen stretched and relaxed his muscles.

Traveling with Pigsy is comparable to taking a long-distance bus ride on Earth.

In fact, Pigsy’s comfort level is even less than that of a bus.

Starting after 9 a.m. in the morning until now, eight or nine hours had passed, and Zong Shen felt inexplicably fatigued.

In the future, he would still have to find a way to get an aerial mount, or else life in this world would be too difficult.

After resting for half an hour, Zong Shen gave Pigsy another small sip of Moon God Spring to soothe its throat.

It was quickly getting dark, and there were fewer and fewer traveling merchants and travelers on the road.

To the indigenous people, nighttime was not suitable for traveling.

Even traveling merchants knew this truth and would calculate the route and rest points before departure.

Every time night would fall, they would rest at the designated village.

Unless they had a strong guard squad accompanying them, no one would choose to travel at night.

This was not some major trade route or official road; roving bandits were common at night, and those nocturnal grassland wild beasts and monsters often appeared nearby.

"Let’s go; Bang City isn’t far."

"If we hurry, we can reach it in two or three hours."

They rested until about six in the evening, and Zong Shen waved them to move out.

After moving forward for a bit more, a small sign appeared by the roadside.

However, because it was too dark, coupled with Pigsy moving at full speed, he didn’t see what was on the sign clearly.

He merely vaguely saw that something was painted on it.

The group continued forward in the twilight.

After crossing several hundred kilometers, the terrain in the vicinity was still flat.

However, the surrounding lands exhibited clear signs of desertification.

The original climate here was quite good, and the causes of grassland desertification were mainly human-induced.

Excessive grazing and land reclamation for farming are important reasons for grassland desertification.

In the grasslands near Zong Shen Territory, viewed from the sky, it’s like a carpet.

And around here, the desert has taken over two-thirds of the land.

The remaining green land is sparsely distributed around the villages.

Moreover, since entering the 200-kilometer radial range of Bang City, the villages along the route became denser.

Initially, it took fifty or sixty kilometers to encounter a village, but now it’s about twenty to thirty kilometers per village.

This indicates that as they approach the outer perimeter of Bang City, the population density is significantly increasing.

As Zong Shen and his group raced along, sand and dust billowed up behind them.

Both Pigsy and the warhorses were covered in dust, and Wenresa and Luna once again put on their veils.

Fortunately, Zong Shen’s Silver Battle Helmet was fully covering, or else he would have eaten a lot of dust along the way.

After another half hour, they advanced another forty or fifty kilometers.

The desertification here was becoming more severe, and night had completely fallen due to soil erosion.

The formerly compacted dirt road had turned into soft desert sand.

This slowed everyone’s pace.

It was pitch black all around, and they could occasionally see large groups of unknown wild beasts racing past on both sides.

The eyes of these wild beasts reflected a yellowish light, like scattered points of light.

Since entering this semi-desert area, the landscape seemed to have changed!