Chapter 51

“After all, if she truly lost her temper and rallied the lords to attack you, relocating your territory would only create more trouble.”

“Mm.” Su Yu nodded, though a trace of regret flickered in his heart.

He was practically hoping someone would attack his territory.

The massive influx of experience points and rapid level-ups had already given him a taste of the rewards.

In the Myriad Realms Battlefield,

monster levels emerging from the War Fog are determined by region.

For instance, new lords like Su Yu’s cohort

face only low-level monsters near their territories.

Only as time passes do these monsters’ levels rise gradually.

Clearly, the development speed of Su Yu’s territory

far exceeded that of ordinary territories—by an enormous margin.

Two months had passed.

Sylph and Irodi remained at Level 22.

Meanwhile, Su Yu required three times the experience needed by a hero to level up,

leaving his own level stuck at Level 15.

Unless a large-scale war broke out—or he discovered a Spatial Legend Point

and traveled to regions inhabited by veteran lords,

leveling up would remain extremely difficult.

The distance between successive generations of lords spanned ten thousand li,

making encounters between veteran and new-generation lords in the Myriad Realms Battlefield exceedingly rare.

To meet privately, one simply went to Myriad Realms City.

Want to seize resources?

Any lord powerful enough to launch a ten-thousand-li campaign would hardly covet the meager resources of new lords.

Time slipped by—two months gone in a blink.

Su Yu stood atop a mountain, wind rustling through his hair as he gazed upon his territory, now approaching the scale of a town.

Farmhouses numbered eight thousand,

including one thousand Grade-C wooden houses, raising population capacity by two thousand;

four thousand Grade-B stone houses, raising population capacity by twelve thousand;

and one thousand Grade-A duplexes, raising population capacity by five thousand.

Even mess halls exceeded one thousand units.

Aside from heroes, his territory housed only farmers.

Thus, the farmer population had already surpassed nineteen thousand.

With so many people, cultivated farmland was extensive.

Paved roads formed a grid pattern across the territory.

Fifteen thousand mu of farmland covered ten million square meters—ten square kilometers.

That equaled one thousand territory grids.

Thanks to the installation of water-station pipelines,

farmland no longer clustered solely along the Liuchuanhe River but also spread into densely packed farming-house zones.

Farmland and farmhouses were neatly arranged and orderly.

Su Yu’s Level-3 Lord Crystal had a maximum capacity of only five hundred grids,

forcing much farmland to be built outside the walls.

Fortunately, his city wall was nearing completion,

and even structures built outside—so long as they lay within the wall’s perimeter—remained safe.

Monsters posed no threat to them.

Within a hundred-li radius, land totaled over thirty thousand grids.

Thus, despite constructing numerous buildings, the area inside the walls

still appeared vast and empty when viewed from above.

Moreover, thick War Fog poured inward through gaps in the unfinished wall.

The number of territory buildings was nearing ten thousand, soon to activate the final effect of the Mythic Talent.

Buildings could be freely relocated!

Su Yu squinted slightly, gazing out over his territory,

It was time to construct defensive towers!

“My lord, the iron ore is nearly exhausted!”

In the Myriad Realms Battlefield, the ores in mining zones were renewable resources,

replenishing daily.

Yet even that could not withstand Su Yu’s vast number of farmers extracting them.

“Understood. I know.”

Zhang San withdrew, and Su Yu gazed at the regional planning map on his desk.

He took out a black heart,

pulsing with vigorous energy.

This was the sole remaining reward obtained from the epic-tier leader [Dark Flame Shadow Dragon],

the epic-tier [Shadow Dragon Heart · Power Source], still unused.

As for the [Dark Flame · Spell Comprehension Scroll], it had been used two months ago.

As the farmers’ activity zones expanded,

it was high time to develop the territory’s transportation infrastructure.

Each farmer operated in a different zone daily, relying temporarily on walking.

But long-distance travel remained an arduous task.

Farmers were not troops or heroes—their strength could not increase.

Expecting them to outrun vehicles on foot was no better than wishful dreaming.

Yet, up to this point,

Su Yu had found no talent suitable for technological research.

None of the farmers he had recruited seemed to possess any aptitude for science and technology.

Farmers could indeed undergo job advancement.

They could advance into life professions—such as teachers, chefs, construction workers, and so on.

Upon advancement, they gained a Life Level.

As they worked, they accumulated profession-specific experience,

and raising their Life Level enhanced their corresponding abilities.

For instance, cooking tastier meals or constructing buildings faster.

Since Su Yu’s territory prioritized construction development, over half his farmers had advanced into construction workers.

This also laid groundwork for building numerous defensive towers in the future.

He had unlocked three rare-tier defensive tower blueprints; without construction workers,

ordinary farmers would construct rare-tier buildings at a painfully slow pace.

That was why, even after two months, his rare-tier Obsidian Wall remained unfinished.

And this was already with the physical fitness of Su Yu’s farmers exceeding that of ordinary farmers by many multiples.

If placed on another territory,

constructing a rare-tier wall?

And one spanning a hundred li in radius?

It would likely take several years to complete.

“An epic-tier power source… If only we could build an aerial rail transit system.”

Su Yu held the Dark Dragon’s heart in contemplation; for ordinary transportation, he would deem using such an epic-tier power source a waste.

Yet blueprints for an aerial rail system were rare—something one might encounter by chance but could never reliably obtain.

That chubby little fellow Jian Ruiming had scoured the Trading House for two months and still never seen any.

Even the Mysterious Shop rarely stocked items exceeding the developmental pace of the current Lord.

It seemed he’d need to find a spatial teleportation array when he had time.

To make contact with the territories of past Lords.

The development of Su Yu’s territory had already far surpassed what any newly appointed Lord ought to possess.

Even counting back several generations of Lords, few could rival him.

“My Lord.”

Iloti folded her wings and landed.

“Have you located the Metal-Element ore?” Su Yu asked.

Iloti shook her head; after two months, the essential material for constructing the Rare Structure—Sniper Tower, namely Metal-Element ore, remained unfound.

Su Yu lightly furrowed his brow, paused in thought, then said, “Why don’t you take Bai Bai Xiaowei with you and search again?”

“Alright.” Iloti nodded.

……

Had the territory developed to this scale in just two months?

Truth be told, Bai Bai Xiaowei had watched this territory grow, inch by inch, with her own eyes.

Yet she still found it hard to believe.

“Get to work, now!”

She strolled along the smooth stone-paved road, casually greeting the farmers on either side.

“Yes, Young Lady Bai Bai Xiaowei!”

These farmers stood tall and imposing—clearly all Su Yu’s farmers.

Yet they all knew that this 1.5-meter-tall girl before them was the Lord’s friend.

So they treated her with utmost respect.

Bai Bai Xiaowei nodded, satisfied.

She had handed over all gold, copper, silver, and iron mines near her territory to Su Yu.

In exchange, she received an Alliance Pact.

Walking across Su Yu’s territory felt no different from walking across her own.

This delighted her greatly.

Suddenly, a figure descended from the sky.

“Eh? Sister Angel, is something the matter?” Bai Bai Xiaowei’s eyes sparkled as she looked up at Iloti.

“Hmm… Would you like to fly up and take a look?” Iloti asked, expressionless.

“Yes!!”

Bai Bai Xiaowei was thrilled—she’d long wanted to experience flying.

Unfortunately, Iloti had never agreed to let her try.

Never did she expect Iloti to invite her voluntarily this time!

A radiant holy light formed a strap, and Iloti lifted Bai Bai Xiaowei from behind like a chick,

then flapped her six wings and soared into the sky.

……

“Any findings?”

Seeing Iloti enter, Su Yu looked curious—he hadn’t expected her to return so soon.

“Mm.” Iloti nodded and said,

“At a bearing of 37 degrees southwest, 159 kilometers away, there is a Metal-Element ore deposit.”

Hearing this, Su Yu rejoiced inwardly—but before he could even react, Iloti continued her report:

“At a bearing of 39.3 degrees southwest, 177 kilometers away, there is a Life Spring.”

A Life Spring could heal injuries and was extremely rare.

“At a bearing of 77 degrees southeast, 105 kilometers away, there is a Metal-Element ore deposit.”

“At a bearing of 21 degrees southeast, 163 kilometers away, there is a rare-earth mineral deposit…”

Su Yu: “….”

This Bai Bai Xiaowei—

truly was someone extraordinary!

Su Yu was deeply astonished.

The Metal-Element ore deposits Iloti had failed to locate in two months—

Bai Bai Xiaowei found two in a single outing??

This made Su Yu wonder whether Bai Bai Xiaowei might be the illegitimate daughter of the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield itself.

Though Iloti could fly through the skies,

locating resources was no easy task.

First and foremost was the issue of terrain:

Merely seeing a stretch of land gave no clue as to what ores lay beneath it.

Moreover, if Iloti flew too high, the clouds would obstruct her line of sight.

So her field of vision wasn’t especially wide.

Whenever she encountered a suspicious area, she’d still have to descend and inspect it to confirm whether it was a mining site.

Unexpectedly, going out once with that girl Bai Bai Xiaowei… yielded so many gains.

It seemed he ought to take her out for more rounds whenever possible.

“U-um… Iloti, could I ask you a favor?”

Su Yu stood up and smiled ingratiatingly, gently kneading Iloti’s fragrant shoulders.

“Speak.” Iloti’s expression remained impassive.

“Could you—um—could you please go mine that Geng Metal?”

Su Yu forced himself to voice his request, despite the discomfort.

In the Myriad Realms Battlefield, asking a hero to perform a farmer’s labor?

Not even a hero—let alone any troop type—would ever do such a thing.

To them, it was a degradation of their status.

It was like ordering an official to haul manure.

Su Yu only dared broach the question because Iloti’s loyalty stood at a remarkably high 91 points.

He was merely testing the waters.

There was no help for it—the difficulty of mining ore located over one hundred kilometers from Su Yu’s territory

was simply too great.

And that distance was just the straight-line measurement.

If farmers actually had to walk there, no one knew how long it would take,

and transportation posed another major challenge.

The transport technology in Su Yu’s territory remained at the level of pulley-drawn carts.

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But if Iloti agreed to mine it, everything changed.

First, as a hero, she could access the storage space within the Lord’s Crystal.

She could simply place the mined ore directly into that storage space,

thereby eliminating the entire transportation step.

Moreover, her strength was formidable—

a Level-22 Mythic Hero with a staggering 7,200 combat power!

Once she unleashed her energy fully, without exaggeration, she could obliterate an entire city spanning hundreds of li.