Chapter 1939

A 50% reduction in food intake is actually quite a lot.

Put another way, the same amount of food can sustain twice as many soldiers.

Correspondingly, the recovery speed of those four stats—life, stamina, energy, and spiritual power—drops by 20%.

That's a bit of a problem.

But the thing is… Su Qin has Zhao Chi, who can send her elves to soak in the Carefree Spring.

The Carefree Spring boosts the recovery speed of all bodily states by 275%, and stamina recovery gets an extra 125% on top.

That alone completely cancels out the fasting penalty.

So it does work out, actually.

And Su Qin's race is the standard elf, so any captured elves she takes in would inherit this gene too.

In other words… if all 17,000 elves in Zhao Chi's territory this time are taken in by Su Qin, those 17,000 elves would also gain this "Fasting" skill.

Add in the several thousand elves already in Su Qin's territory, and that's enough food saved for at least 10,000 elves.

And the numbers will only keep growing from there.

This gene seems pretty useful?

But after a careful analysis, Zhao Chi still felt it wasn't useful.

Because 10,000 elves' worth of food is only equivalent to 1,000 Taoyuan women's food intake.

Zhao Chi can easily provide that.

There's no need to take an extra hit to recovery speed.

Even if the Carefree Spring's effect cancels it out, wouldn't it be even stronger without the penalty in the first place?

And Zhao Chi isn't short on food—there's more than he can eat, so much that he has to sell off large quantities.

Why bother?

Better to let those elves return to a normal food intake and normal recovery speed.

Spending a little more food to boost combat power is still well worth it.