The same night, at his room Jamie was checking out his social media .

He now had 200 thousand followers on C gram and decided to post a photo that he could easily find on the in game media .

He captured an image of himself next to the goblin chieftain who was pinned to a tree, this would make quite the impression he thought.

Right after posting it, he refreshed the feed and saw that it had already gained thousands of likes and comments.

User dontdow7 commented

“Just who is the monster here, you or the goblin”

User fakboi12 commented

“ mah guy bloodvenerable is on a league of his own “

In short, he was quite happy to see that most of the comments were positive.

And quite unhappy to see the negative ones that said “3 players have already updated their villages to medium grade, BloodVenerable isn’t as good as we thought “

What he feared had happened, his first and second place rewards for upgrading were already taken .

And quite honestly, just being able to keep up with those guys was impressive enough since he was on his own .

Those dudes could hire thousands of players to do their bidding and conquer, build or destroy.

Unless he gains control of the family there was no way he could keep up with them, knowledge of future events wasn’t going to be enough.

He suddenly remembered the conversation that took place in the secret passage few hours ago ...

“Why do you want all of us to relocate there if the place is home to bandits and outlanders “

He wanted Cara and the others to lose the golden village progression and start over in the hills next to the city known as Agastria . The only city in the empire who had access to the sea.

“ I chose the continent of Atmilda who is surrounded by islands and waters .

Most would call me dumb but I did it because I am looking far ahead “

They all started to pay attention, the maids who didn’t understand anything included .

“ Sure enough the empires are prosperous and most would try their luck there .

Hell, even a bug like Till managed to gain a golden village order by assisting the empire but I dont want to serve them .

I want to conquer them which is why I view things differently! “

“ Conquer the empire? But you told you only have around 14 soldiers as of now “

“ The sea my friend... the sea ! “

They all stared at him weirdly, was he dumb ?

“ Do you know why the British empire of the ancient times conquered the freaking world? It was because a single warship of theirs could bust a fucking city .

And do you know why the Ottoman empire was the only empire large enough to rival the British, because they forcibly took control of the Mediterranean sea and took Costantinopolis ( currently known as Istanbul ) from the greeks and they went as far as entering the doors of Europe.

The answer to that is the sea, the one to own the seas owns the world “

He continued to break it down in a way that even they could understand.

“ Lets say you locate in the hills behind Agastria, since you hold the high ground by the time the bandits spot your location you would be strong enough to fend them off . And whenever you pick fights , I can send you support from the sea .

Just imagine freaking warships spreading terror to those surrounding cities without even coming close to them .

They could just bombard them with cannons and destroy their walls and buildings”

They started to understand the logic behind it, Jamie intended to help them conquer Agastria and posses the only trading port in the empire .

“ And whats to say the empire wont take Agastria again ? “

“ They can try, I will just send war ships again and re take it .

They would just lose resources and manpower for nothing, the empire has no ships only trading ships that cant attack “

The empire wasn’t dumb, they would know that they cant occupy Agastria and will try to negotiate a deal with them .

“ Once taking the city, you will go swear loyalty to the empire and promise them our support from the seas and offer them trading deals . In that way they will maintain their dignity and gain something out of nothing, everything will be at a balance . That my friends is politics, its not for little minds “

Jamie spared no words to belittle them, he had to make them understand why he gives the orders and they obey to prevent them from thinking they could go far on their own .

He made them understand that even if they decide not to hand Agastria to him, he could just bust the city with his future warships whenever he felt like it .

And such tactics had surely worked, their faces were ugly just imagining it .

“ So I still have to hand them some gold to buy the necessary things and maybe the beast den orders to assist them “

He did not need them anyway .

“Lets see what’s happening on CTube , did my previous video win any gold “

What he saw was shocking , his first upload

“ How to Solo a dire wolf dungeon “ had gotten 10 million views and gained him 20 gold coins , his subscribers count was nearing 500 thousand.

Everyone in the comments was going insane, the tactics he had been using had greatly helped people learn how to fight against wild beasts .

Even though there were players ahead of him, everyone knew that they were ahead because of money .

Jamie was currently the most famous and the most loved player, and to maintain this reputation of his he decided to upload another video .

He trimmed the Lizardman village raid video and titled it :

“ How to Raid a lizardman village “

Gaining 20 gold from Ctube alone was good enough to help him rival those rich kids, he had to continue this .

In the video description he wrote .

“Special thanks to the guy who sold me the poison worms, I chose not to hide such tactics as to show you that being poor is not an excuse. You dont need to hire other players to achieve things, you can conquer on your own .

Dont let people look down on you, be a conquerer and look down on them “

He felt cringe just looking at that text paragraph but he was a bit of a celebrity now and knew that people would get inspired even if he posted a video about him taking a dump .

Since he had only subscribed to the channel called CON- Conquest online news, only uploads from that channel appeared on his feed .

Their newest upload was titled :

“ The 10 Royals “

He clicked on it and saw that the channel host Orteo, had invited 2 girls and a guy in this show episode.

One of the girls was tall and pretty, she had blood red hair and black eyes .

She looked like one of those girls from vampire novels, even her lipstick was red .

The girl next to her was short and nerdy, her hair was ginger and she had glasses on . As for the dude, he looked like your average Joe down the street , nothing too significant about him except for the fact that he was looking angrily at the vampire like woman .

“ Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Conquest Online News , today our main topic are the 10 royals .

As you know, the fans have already selected their favourite players and created fan clubs for them, the current top players right now judging by the votes in the forum are :

1: BloodVenerable, 2:Tina Flair, 3:Arnold Brandt , 4:Xing Tian , 5:Ivan Nogomov 6:Luke Soros 7:Yuuki Haruka , 8:OneKill ,

9: Svenson 10:HeadlessJon

You may recognise the first 7 as the 7 holders of the legendary village orders, so before we proceeded to discuss about them let us first talk of the last 3 “

Jamie was quite happy that he had gotten first place, no matter what one would say being liked is a good feeling .

He was also very interested in learning about his rivals and their strengths .

“ Lets start with the one in the 10th place, HeadlessJon . As you can tell by his freaky name he is freaky in playing the game “

The host proceeded to explain how he acted as a mere servant to the bandit leader and single handedly manipulated a fight between the bandit fortress and 4 neighbouring villages .

What made this even crazier is that he streamed the whole thing, many people heard of him which made him famous but the actions he took were shady and bloody hence why he was in last place .

“ Rumour has it that he currently occupies 3 bandit fortresses and has a force of 90 bandits, 30 in each fortress “

The host also continued to talk about the 9th place Svenson, who had spawned in unknown territory near the sea and had joined a pirate crew .

In less than a week he murdered the pirate captain and vice captain while they were drunk and sleeping and forcibly took possession of the ship , he would post daily clips of him plundering villages and ships .

Jamie was interested on him but seeing as he wasn’t in Atmilda ( he could tell just by looking at the water), he was going to ignore him .

As for the one in the 8th place, One Kill, the guy had joined the Green Serpents mercenary group and posted clips of himself doing missions .

By what was being shown Jamie was sure that he had just become popular due to his looks, he was truly handsome .

“ Let us now proceed to discuss about the top 7 of the 10 royals , to hold a debate we have invited today Alissia , the founder of the BloodKin clan, also known as the number one fan club of player BloodVenerable “

“ Holy shit this hot babe is my fan ? “

Jamie’s ego at that moment was quite massive, he was truly enjoying himself .

The host also introduced the nerd girl as Amelia Thompson, founder of the “ Fiery Sisters “ , a fan club of the holder of second place known as Tina Flair .

And the last guy was , not surprisingly, named Joe Preston , founder of “ The Arrows “ fan club of Arnold Brandt.

“ There are many other fan club representatives we would have wanted to invite but it was impossible due to how far they are located , I hope you will be understanding “

“ We are enough “ said Alissia proudly.

The other two simply nodded in agreement, to think fan clubs were this proud.... Jamie was learning something new everyday .

“ There have been many raiding uploads this week, but the ones who got the most viewing were :

— How to solo a dire wolf dungeon by BloodVenerable

— How to kill a frost troll by Tina Flair and

— How to kill a wolf pack without losing a single soldier by Arnold Brandt.

The last two were the only ones of out of the top 7 to complete these raids with the assistance of less than 50 players .

With the exception of BloodVenerable of course who is been known to only ride solo and who broke C tube with only one video upload.

Alissia cut in right when the host wanted to continue talking .

“ Hah, I am surprised how they take pride in supporting people who hire other players, unlike our lord and master who needs no-one but his majestic self “

** Lord and Master? TF **

Jamie had no idea that real world had already gotten this weird .

As for the other 2 club founders, they were angrily looking at Alissia with the intent to ‘kill’ .