Chapter 529: Absolutely Safe Territory

With the wooden treasure chest in hand, the new territory could be considered fully cleared.

The system also sent a notification:

【You have eradicated the ogre camp. Your territory range can be expanded by 100 square meters. Please choose a territory.】

【1. Taoyuan Village】

【2. Penglai Village】

So there was a choice after all.

Zhao Chi chose Penglai Village.

【Congratulations, Penglai Village's territory range has been expanded by 100 square meters.】

Just like before, it was also an increase of 100 square meters.

It couldn't be seen with the naked eye.

When he had spare strength in a few days, Zhao Chi planned to take the initiative and link up with other magical beast camps.

That would be a real war, and the territory range would increase even more.

But that was a matter for later; he'd talk about it later.

What he could do now was carefully explore the specific resources in each area.

For example, the locations of iron ore, coal mines, and stone quarries.

He only needed to scout out the locations; the reserves didn't actually need to be scouted.

Because all beginner territories came with default quantity ranges.

Normal iron ore reserves were around 3000 units, coal around 2000 units, and stone around 10000 units.

Each unit of iron ore was roughly 1 basket, which could be smelted into 1 iron ingot.

For crafting a normal one-handed weapon, basically 1-2 iron ingots were enough.

Two-handed weapons only needed 2-5.

But shields and armor required a lot more.

Overall, a shield plus a full set of iron armor required about 30 iron ingots.

Of course, light armor needed less, and heavy armor more.

In other words, the iron ore of a normal territory could equip about 100 soldiers with full sets of armor and weapons.

But this was only in theory.

After all, construction also needed iron.

All kinds of tools also needed iron.

So most civilian lords in the early stages relied mainly on leather armor, at most crafting an iron shield.

But Zhao Chi's territory had an additional 80% resource bonus, so it was a bit more affluent.

Later, when the territory expanded, newly appearing resources would also increase by 80%.

This kind of territory bonus was always present.

The default coal reserve was 2000 units; Zhao Chi's territory should have 3600 units.

Zhao Chi didn't need coal for the moment.

After all, it was summer now; there was no need for heating.

Wood would do for cooking and smelting.

But when he started making steel later, he would need coal.