Chapter 20: Ouyang Guan

Compared to the peak of yesterday, the number was two hundred fewer!

This was not surprising; after all, casualties in battle are normal, and monsters at night are much stronger than during the day.

There was another reason: at the beginning, they were only clearing out wild monsters near the territory, whose strength was relatively weak, but as the sweeping range expanded, it was easy to encounter powerful monsters.

The 6 Black Iron Realm Magic Crystals in the loot were the best proof.

It meant that the Undead Army last night killed at least three Black Iron Realm monsters!

"The attrition of the Undead Army in battle is not a bad thing, but a good thing!"

Qin Luo didn't feel heartache at all; instead, he was happy to see it, as he could constantly cultivate Black Iron Realm Undead Bone Generals.

And the Black Iron Realm is not the end; there are higher and more powerful realms above it!

Just like that, with a wave of Qin Luo's hand, a full six hundred Undead Skeleton Soldiers surged out of the Undead Graveyard!

The recruitment price of one Undead Skeleton Soldier does not exceed 3 Energy Points!

In this world, where else is there cheaper cannon fodder than Undead units?

Even if the recruitment price of other lords' units is not higher than Qin Luo's, the problem is that Qin Luo can recruit infinitely, or even let the Undead Skeleton Soldiers actively go to their deaths.

But other lords can't; a level-one barracks can only recruit one hundred units a day at most!

They still need to rely on these units to develop and grow; they feel heartache even if one or two die!

After the recruitment ended, Qin Luo subconsciously opened the chat channel.

From the lords' chat, one could obtain some useful information.

Especially content about the Scarlet Moon last night.

When the Scarlet Moon descends, even if players are in the novice protection period, they will be attacked by Dark Race creatures.

But there is one point: these Dark Race creatures cannot break the protection shield.

That is to say, whether or not to engage in battle with Dark Race creatures depends on the lord themselves.

If they know their strength is insufficient, they can completely shrink inside the protection shield and not engage in direct combat.

And after daytime, these dark monsters will automatically disperse.

Of course, actively attacking and eliminating dark monsters can yield a large amount of rewards.

Qin Luo relied on eliminating several waves of dark monsters last night, harvesting a large amount of resources, allowing the number of Undead under his command to break through to three thousand.

In fact, the gap between lords is widened by this bit-by-bit accumulation.

Last night, most ordinary lords chose to avoid battle, which was also a helpless matter; after all, their ordinary units' combat power was too weak.

It was better to choose to preserve strength and hunt some weak monsters during the day, rather than letting the units go to their deaths.

If they were unfortunately wiped out, wouldn't they lose the vital force for development? That would be tragic!

As for those lords who possessed Elite units and stronger units, most chose to engage in direct combat with the dark monsters.

But only a very small number of lords successfully resisted three waves of dark monsters.

From the chat information, Qin Luo also learned one point: yesterday, his territory was not only attacked by Ogres but also by hundreds of Black Magic Pigs.

The reason was that the Goblin lord's territory was destroyed, and the Black Magic Pigs that were originally going to attack the Goblin lord lost their target and turned their guns to choose to attack nearby territories.

And Qin Luo was the closest territory to the Goblin lord's territory, naturally becoming the target of the attack.

"This is indeed a cycle of cause and effect!"

"Fortunately, my strength is strong enough!"

Qin Luo chuckled, then closed the chat channel and opened the forum.

Compared to the previous day, a large number of posts appeared in the forum.

Ninety percent of them were useless posts, and the remaining posts were of some use.

Of course, there were also some essential posts!

Among them, a Transcendental lord summarized the strength and drop rates of some wild monsters, accompanied by a guide for clearing wild monster nests!

These guides are applicable to ordinary lords and are quite useful.

According to this lord's method, if operated properly, one can easily clear an ordinary wild monster nest and minimize casualties.

It's just that for Qin Luo, it's of no use.

In addition, Qin Luo also saw 'Ouyang Guan 389689's' insights on the uses and prices of various resources.

It mentioned the importance of food, which is an essential item for almost all lords, especially as the number of units increases, the demand for food becomes greater.

However, the more units a lord has, the stronger the lord's strength, and the more they can clear surrounding monsters and hunt wild creatures to maintain self-sufficiency in food!

Only a very small number of lords possess gluttonous units that require a large amount of food, so they need to buy food from the market!

Finally, it mentioned that the market price of food should be kept at around 1:5 to be considered reasonable.

That is, 1 Energy Point can buy 5 units of food!

Another is about stone and wood, the two basic resources, but their uses are very extensive, and the development of the territory cannot be separated from these two resources.

However, these two resources have large reserves and are easy to obtain, leading to their very low value.

It also made an estimate of the market price: 1 Energy Point can buy 10 units of stone or wood!

Another is the analysis of rare resources, which are Red Iron, Bronze, Purple Silver, and Adamantite!

"Could this Ouyang Guan be a lord with Transcendental units!?"

"To be able to know so much information about rare resources on the second day!"

Qin Luo clicked his tongue in secret.

Except for Red Iron and Bronze, Qin Luo hadn't even heard of Purple Silver and Adamantite.

Ouyang Guan not only knew them but also had a profound understanding of these resources.

Even, he could write an essential post to share the information he learned with all lords.

Sure enough, there are people beyond people, mountains beyond mountains!

Qin Luo followed the post down.

The upgrading of the territory and barracks will all use these four types of rare resources.

Not only that, including recruiting high-level units, building rare buildings, etc., all require these rare resources.

The post also mentioned that at some stage in the future, the demand for these four types of resources will be as great as stone and wood.

Of course, in the early stages of territory development, especially for ordinary lords, there is no need to use these resources at all, not even Red Iron.

However, those players who possess Rare and Transcendental units have already come into contact with and need to use these rare resources.

Because recruiting Rare or Transcendental units requires mineral resources like Red Iron and Bronze!

Ouyang Guan did not analyze the price of rare resources, just said lightly that the current market price of rare resources is in a stage of being falsely high, and once a lord discovers and mines rare minerals, the price will plummet like basic materials.

Ouyang Guan concluded at the end that with the development of the territory, every resource has a cycle and cannot be prosperous for long.

The early stage requires basic resources like food, stone, and wood; the middle stage requires rare mineral resources, Magic Crystals, etc.; the late stage requires Territory Cores, Barracks Hearts, special building blueprints, etc.

Of course, no matter which resource is in the peak demand period, energy is not only an indispensable important resource for territory buildings but also an important currency for market transactions, which is very important at any time!

The post ends here.

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