Chapter 4: Trading Market! High-Priced Food!

"It seems that the highest quality for initial barracks is Transcendental; as for whether any lord possesses something above Transcendental, it is unknown!"

Qin Luo muttered.

However, although he lagged a bit in barracks, he possessed the Mythical-grade talent Undead Scourge and didn't feel he was much worse than those lords possessing Transcendental troops.

On the chat channel, besides obtaining information about other lords' troop types, some lords utilized their own troop attributes to exert racial advantages and expand connections and resources, like that Dwarf lord!

Compared to the lively scrolling of the World Channel, the number of lords speaking in the Regional Channel could be counted on one hand.

Besides the reason for the small number, it was also because everyone was in the same area, and there was a competitive relationship between them; perhaps meeting meant being enemies.

Naturally, it was not good to speak too much, so as not to expose too much information.

The forum interface allowed posting for communication, discussing strategies, exchanging intelligence, etc. Unlike the chat channel, forum posts could exist forever and could be viewed at any time, unless the poster deleted the post.

Currently, there were very few posts in the forum, basically all lords complaining, and there were no useful tokens.

As for friend private chat, one could add other lords as friends and chat privately, etc.

What made Qin Luo most curious was the Trading Market.

The Trading Market could conduct cross-space transactions; even lords separated by billions of miles could trade.

The universal currency here was Energy Points.

Only, for every transaction, the system would charge a certain handling fee.

The handling fee was determined by the system based on the traded item, generally charging a 10% handling fee of the actual value of the goods.

It had nothing to do with the transaction price set by the lord themselves!

This cut off the idea of some lords finding loopholes, such as an item originally worth ten thousand energy points, where the buyer and seller only set a transaction price of 100 points to avoid high handling fees; this was unfeasible.

In addition, bartering was the same; although no energy points were traded, the system would still charge a certain handling fee based on the value of the goods.

It was worth mentioning that the object paying the handling fee could be selected: paid by the buyer, or paid by the seller, or shared together, with each bearing a certain share.

"With this trading system, many things become much simpler!"

Qin Luo said pleasantly.

He could use the trading system to exchange some things he didn't need for some urgently needed supplies.

For example, wolf meat!

Qin Luo's troop type was Undead Skeleton Soldiers, which didn't need to eat.

As for himself, he couldn't eat much food in a day either.

Therefore, he could exchange these things for the currently urgently needed stone and wood!

Qin Luo opened the trading interface, originally thinking there shouldn't be anything, but who would have thought that it was full of dazzling goods.

【1 unit of stone, exchange for 1 unit of wood or 1 unit of food or 1 Energy Point. Remark: Exchange as much as possible, stone is enough, buyer pays handling fee】

【One piece of Ordinary-grade equipment, selling price 100 Energy Points】

【10 units of wood, selling price 5 Energy Points】

【10 units of stone, exchange for 5 units of food. Remark: I pay the handling fee, please, masters, exchange some food for me!】

【10 units of wild boar meat, selling price 10 Energy Points】

【10 units of beef, selling price 20 Energy Points】

Qin Luo scrolled for a while and found that there were indeed many things in the trading market, but one point was that the prices were very chaotic.

Some lords sold 10 units of stone for 10 Energy Points, while others sold for 5 Energy Points!

Even more outrageous was food; some sold 10 units for 5 Energy Points, while others sold for twenty or thirty Energy Points, with prices differing by several times!

After all, in the early stages of trading, lords couldn't accurately judge the true price of items; only after trading continued for a period of time would the market give an answer.

But one thing was certain: the demand for food was very large.

Anything with food for sale would soon be snapped up, unless the price was outrageously high.

This could also be understood.

After all, in the early stages of development, whether it was the lord themselves or the troops, they all needed to eat.

Therefore, food undoubtedly became a scarce item.

Like Qin Luo's Undead Skeleton Soldiers, those who didn't need food were a very small minority, but Undead Skeletons would consume energy.

Qin Luo just looked at the energy column; it should have been 120 Energy Points, but now only 118 Energy Points remained; the missing 2 points were consumed by the Undead Skeleton Soldiers.

One hundred Undead Skeleton Soldiers consuming 2 Energy Points in such a period of time was acceptable.

If the Undead Skeletons remained motionless, the energy consumed could almost be ignored, but when fighting occurred, the energy consumed would double.

Once the number reached hundreds of thousands or millions, the energy required to maintain the Undead Skeleton Soldiers every day would probably not be a small number.

Looking at it this way, energy was the most important resource for territory development!

Not only could it be used for territory and barracks upgrades, but it was also the universal currency of the trading market, and at the same time, it was the "food" for Undead Skeletons.

"First sell the food and harvest a batch of energy points!"

Qin Luo didn't choose the bartering trading method to obtain stone and wood.

Because the number of lords possessing stone and wood was relatively small.

And the number of lords who could be satisfied with food for stone and wood was even smaller, making it difficult to sell at a price that satisfied Qin Luo.

As for energy points, they were the universal currency after all, so no matter what, they wouldn't be stuck in his hands, and he could buy other items at any time.

The most important point was that every lord had an initial 100 Energy Points, and the territory would produce a certain amount of energy every day.

Therefore, lords might not have food, stone, wood, or other resources, but they definitely had energy points!

【1 unit of Red Wolf meat, selling price 2 Energy Points, total 100 units】

Qin Luo set a relatively reasonable price to test the waters first, and at the same time set it for the buyer to pay the handling fee.

Qin Luo originally thought it would take a long time to sell, but who would have thought that it would be snapped up in less than thirty seconds after being listed.

There were even a bunch of lords who didn't buy it leaving messages under the product link, asking Qin Luo to list more food.

"It seems the price is still too low!"

Qin Luo looked at the messages while silently listing the remaining one hundred units of food.

【1 unit of Red Wolf meat, selling price 3 Energy Points, total 100 units】

However, this time it was not snapped up as imagined, but a large number of lords cursed Qin Luo for being a black-hearted merchant.

After several minutes, less than half of the one hundred units of food were sold.

And every lord who bought wolf meat left messages cursing Qin Luo.

"It seems that selling 1 unit of meat for 3 Energy Points is the limit for lords!"

"Even if lords have an initial capital of 100 Energy Points, they can only buy 33 units of meat!"

Qin Luo pondered.

As for those cursing messages, Qin Luo directly ignored them!

Cursing wouldn't make Qin Luo lose a piece of meat!

Subsequently, Qin Luo silently posted acquisition information, hanging it under the link selling food, so every lord who entered could see it.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 5 =====