“Right, since food is so scarce, why don’t I trade food for magic crystals. Look at my dumb brain!”
Bai Yu’s small brain had a eureka moment.
Since magic crystals weren’t extremely rare, trading it would be perfect for those lords who lacked food. But spirit cores were different as they were a high level resource that only dropped from level 5 and higher monsters (maybe).
Bai Yu guessed that not many people would have spirit cores, and those that had it were all those who managed to summon OP units, so they naturally wouldn’t lack food.
[Krabby Patty initiated a trade!]
[1 food, in exchange for 40 wood or 20 stone or 1 magic crystal.]
[Remaining stock: 1800.]
One food for one magic crystal, very reasonable right?
Yep, super reasonable.
Bai Yu callously nodded.
As soon as Bai Yu’s trade listing went up on the trading hub, it once again stirred up a huge commotion.
[Qiao Biyao]: “Big boss, I’m a girl, please raise me!”
[IKUN]: “With the lights off, I can do it too…”
[Liqun]: “It’s him, it’s him, it’s him! Krabby Patty boss is back again!”
[Zaun Pianist]: “I’m now very curious what Krabby Patty boss’ unit type is, it can’t be Mr. Krabs, right?”
[Keyboard Beethoven]: “Previous commenter, we have some fate. I’m going to blindly guess, Krabby Patty boss definitely has some large sized unit. Only large units can be so strong!”
[Plane Plane]: “No shit Sherlock. If it wasn’t some large unit, do you think it would be some stinky crab?”
…
Very quickly, Bai Yu also received the system’s notification that someone had started trading. It was just that this time was a lot slower than before, requiring nearly ten minutes before it was all traded.
Bai Yu got a ton of friend requests, so much that the 999+ indicator became just three red dots.
It was just like when a TikTok comment popped off in her previous world. As Bai Yu had come to this new world alone without any acquaintances or family members, she unhesitantly hit the reject all button.
You’ve got to be kidding me, who wants to add you guys!
1800 food, it must be a lot of resources!
Bai Yu checked the trading history. In total, she gained a ton of wood, a ton of stone, and 300 magic crystals.
This was her biggest haul yet!
Bai Yu was ecstatic. For now, the Bone Throne special building still couldn’t be built because she didn’t have enough spirit cores. She could only wait until nighttime to continue hunting high level mobs again.
But she had more than enough to upgrade the castle. The resources in Bai Yu’s storage warehouse had already reached a staggering 34k wood and 17k stone.
Whereas the upgrade cost for the castle was only 10k wood and 5k stone. She had way more than enough.
Based on what happened from the previous upgrades, Bai Yu assumed she could probably also upgrade the castle twice this time. But Bai Yu needed to reserve some resources for building the Bone Throne, so she could only upgrade the castle once for now.
[Castle Level: lv 7]
[Health: 50k (Invincible)]
[Territory Size: 5000m Radius]
[Abilities: Within the territory, the castle lord has the ability to see everything as well as the ability to dismantle and move items from the storage.]
[Special Buildings: Girl’s Closet]
[Upgrade Requirements: 12k Wood, 6k Stone]
As expected, Bai Yu still had enough resources left to upgrade the castle again, but she didn’t do so. Usually, the easier something was to upgrade, the more useless it was. As far as she could tell, only lv 3, lv 6, lv 9, every three levels, would unlock a special building. But when will this castle finally be maxed out?
No way this went all the way up to lv 100.
“Arthur!”
“From now on, your main job is to hunt high level monsters and level up. While you’re at it, take a look if there are any other native forces around. You can just leave the hunting to the other undeads.”
Bai Yu said to Arthur. Arthur bowed in response.
“Yes, your majesty.”
Then the remaining 444 undead units were split into three groups. Two groups of 100 undeads were assigned to mine rocks and chop trees, led by a few lv 4 high spectres.
The other 200 or so undeads continued hunting. But the undeads that went to gather stone and wood were all those summoned by Bai Yu, and were all level 1s.
This way, the high level undeads and those undeads that were able to level up could continue hunting for experience. Bai Yu made use of this little detail.
Bai Yu had already noticed from the world chat that she wasn’t the only one selling food. Among which, lords like Fire Spirit and Ultraman Son In Law were also continuously selling food.
Aside from a few other lords who matched Bai Yu’s prices, lords have already started dropping the price of their food. But it was just a few small listings right now, those selling in bulk like Bai Yu weren’t affected yet.
The demand for food was gradually slowing down. Even though Bai Yu’s castle had been continuously leveling up and her territory constantly expanding, she had to admit that the nearby wild animals were nearly all hunted. Wuwuwu…
Even though she had unlimited labor, but the wild animals had a limit.
That was why Bai Yu ultimately decided to start assigning some undeads to go chop trees and mine rocks. It was infinite labor after all.
Dang it. Even if zombies were dumb as hell and couldn’t land the last hit for experience, digging some rocks and chopping some trees shouldn’t be a problem, right?
Arthur flew above the castle, hunting down the nearby wild animals. As the wild animals around the castle grew scarcer and scarer, Arthur used its aerial advantage to fly even farther out.
Eventually, Arthur left the territory’s range. At this time, Arthur spotted a group of green humanoid creatures below. It figured that they must be some native forces, so without hesitation, it dove down and unleashed a blast of dragon breath on the green humanoids.
The green humanoids were unable to dodge and were frozen by the dragon breath, dying.
Only a mage looking green humanoid with a staff managed to barely dodge to the side with a teleport spell.
It shot a fireball from its hand at Arthur.
Boom!
Once the smoke cleared, Arthur was completely unharmed.
[Passive Skill: Elemental Magic Immunity]
With its magic dispelled, the green humanoid creature tried to run, but Arthur landed before this magic user and let out a roar.
A massive shockwave carrying the overwhelming pressure of a dragon erupted, making the green humanoid magic user directly collapse to its knees in fear.
“Don’t… don’t kill me!”
Arthur ignored its plea. Clearly this creature was familiar with the area surrounding the castle, so Arthur directly grabbed the creature with its front claws and took off.
At this time, in the castle, Bai Yu suddenly received a string of system messages.
[Your units killed a Level 5 Goblin Warrior, Gained 30 Experience Points.]
[Your units killed a Level 4 Goblin Warrior, Gained 25 Experience Points.]
…
A string of system messages appeared.
“Goblin?”