Chapter 78

Such flawless, world-toppling beauty — the faintest trace of worry on that face would wring anyone's heart.

Su Yu did not notice the shift in mindset among his territory’s two Mythic heroes.

He immediately used the blueprints he had just obtained.

【Your Lord Crystal has unlocked a new construction ability: Advanced · Spirit Field.】

【Your Lord Crystal has unlocked a new construction ability: Advanced · Cloud Ladder.】

Su Yu summoned Zhang San.

“Today, one group will clear Spirit Fields; another group will build Cloud Ladders.”

“The rest—devote everything to constructing Laser Towers!”

With that, he handed a large sack of KBBF crystals to Zhang San.

“Yes, my lord!” Zhang San extended both hands and accepted it with reverence.

“Right, take this Golden Nugget fertilizer and pour it onto the Experience Tree.”

Su Yu produced a small mountain of Golden Nuggets.

Zhang San immediately called the farmers over to begin moving them.

“Off you go. Have Xiao Xiao Mei come see me.”

“Understood, my lord.”

Zhang San bowed and withdrew respectfully.

A short while later, a woman with a graceful figure, dressed in an apron, walked over.

She was Xiao Xiao Mei, head chef of Never Fell.

She was specifically responsible for the lord and heroes’ meals.

“Xiao Xiao Mei, learn this recipe.”

Su Yu handed over the Advanced · Recipe.

“Many thanks, my lord.” Xiao Xiao Mei’s eyes smiled. She accepted the recipe, curtsied, and took her leave.

Watching Xiao Xiao Mei’s retreating figure,

Su Yu stroked his chin lightly.

Among the resources Ye Ye Liyana had sent back was one Advanced · Refinement Stone.

Unfortunately, his Cloud Heaven Demonic Flame Bow was Epic grade.

To enhance its power, he would need an Epic-grade Refinement Stone.

“Forget it, let’s use it on this thing.”

Su Yu drew a dragon-horn dagger from his waist.

It was a dagger he had previously ground from the horn of the Demonic Flame Dark Dragon.

It had no grade, possessing only sharpness.

Very handy for suicide.

An Advanced Refinement Stone could refine any weapon or equipment of Advanced grade or below.

【Refinement successful. Refinement level +1.】

【Dragon-Horn Dagger +1】

【Unranked】

【Description: A sharp dragon horn. After refinement, it seems even sharper.】

Without blacksmithing skills, it was impossible to forge grade-bearing equipment recognized by the Myriad Realms Battlefield.

Su Yu did not expect the dragon-horn dagger to do much.

As long as it was sharp enough to slit a throat for suicide, that would suffice.

【Congratulations, your level has risen to 20. All attributes have increased.】

After eating the Experience Fruit, his level rose to 20.

In the Myriad Realms Battlefield, every 10 levels marked a watershed.

Advancing further beyond level 20 required an enormous amount of experience.

At the very least, the resources near a new lord’s territory were insufficient to push one’s level much past 20.

Sylph and Iloti had only reached level 22 by slaying Mythic-grade Void Beasts.

Su Yu was in no hurry regarding his level.

The number of his buildings kept growing, and his territory’s strength kept increasing.

He felt very secure.

After sorting through the resources Ye Ye Liyana had sent back,

Su Yu gazed at the territory energy stored in the Lord Crystal,

his eyes alight with a smile.

He was desperately short on territory energy.

Ten million territory energy—what should he spend it on first?

“Upgrade~!”

Su Yu made an immediate decision and spent 2.8 million territory energy,

taking the territory’s farmhouses—

6,000 C-grade wooden huts,

and 4,000 B-grade stone houses—

and upgrading them all into A-grade duplex homes!

Including the previous 1,000 duplex homes,

The territory's duplex houses reached 11,000 units!

One duplex house provides a population cap increase of 5.

The territory's population cap surged to 55,010!

"Recruit!"

As new-generation lords develop their territories, the Peasant Recruitment Orders sold in the Trade House

have become more and more expensive, costing roughly several hundred territory energy per token.

But Su Yu could not afford to worry about that now.

Territory population means productivity.

The sooner you recruit, the better your development.

One must understand, if it were anyone else,

territory buildings have a cap — a level 3 crystal allows only 500 buildings.

There is simply no way to expand population to Su Yu's level in the early stages.

Moreover, they would still need to balance the numbers of troops and peasants,

unable to use the entire population just to recruit peasants for production and development.

After all, once peasants are recruited, you cannot simply discard them on a whim.

If they have committed no offense and you order their execution, the entire territory's loyalty will likely plummet!

Recruiting peasants in large numbers is only feasible if your territory is exceptionally safe, with no nearby threats, or under the protection of a major power.

Take Bai Bai Xiaowei, for instance — she focuses solely on development and construction.

So, an enormous peasant workforce and the massive productivity it brings, the way Su Yu has it,

is, for a new-generation lord,

utterly insane!

Using the Peasant Recruitment Orders that the little fatty Jian Ruiming had previously sent,

and spending another 2.4 million territory energy to sweep a wave of Peasant Recruitment Orders from the Trade House,

Su Yu successfully recruited 26,000 peasants.

Following the positions planned out for the territory, they chose what they were skilled at and each performed their own duties.

"Feels good. Leveled up to a tier-3 lord crystal today, can expand the farmhouses now."

"Heh, I reached that a week ago. Already have 200 farmhouses now, population cap of 410."

“Hmph, soon enough I'll catch up to you.”

Xu Ting: “What are you two so smug about? If not for the great Su Yu, who would have invested in your territory energy?”

“Hehe, class president, it's just that the territory's developing so fast it feels good inside.”

“Speaking of which, we really have to thank Su Yu.”

“Otherwise, with ordinary troops and ordinary heroes like ours, wanting to reach a level-3 lord crystal would take until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.”

“A level-3 lord crystal gives 2,000 territory energy a day — what a rush!”

“Now we're eating well and drinking fine, and whenever I see those new lords on the forum I just want to laugh.”

“Haha, they're still living in primitive society.”

“By the way, summer's almost here. Do you have enough grain stored up?”

“Plenty, plenty. If not, just buy it with trade goods.”

“You want to buy food with trade goods in summer? Isn't that pure fantasy?”

“It'll probably be so expensive you'd have to sell your underpants.”

With nothing to do, Su Yu opened the class group chat and took a look.

Seeing the topic of summer,

he thought of Jian Ruiming, who was going all out on agriculture.

He wondered how much grain that little fatty had stockpiled.

Su Yu had also stockpiled a great deal of grain.

His territory had tens of thousands of mu of farmland; the grain from planting and harvesting was simply a colossal amount.

With the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield's “Spring’s Vitality” blessing, in spring you could typically harvest a wave of grain every month.

However, Su Yu only planned to sell a portion in summer, saving the rest to sell in autumn and winter.

In winter, grain prices would surely hit their peak.

The Four Vitalities of the Ten Thousand Realms Battlefield, apart from Spring's Vitality, were utterly merciless.

A single spring had to store enough grain for an entire year — for a new territory, that was extraordinarily difficult.

Su Yu recalled Bai Bai Xiaowei's talent, “Eternal Spring,”

and the corner of his mouth couldn't help curling up.

It seemed he was about to make a huge fortune.

If things went well, his territory might no longer be short on territory energy.

Several days later,

Su Yu spent 1.76 million territory energy to upgrade the 100 newly built Rare Laser Towers in his territory to level 10,

then entered the TW simulation match queue.

“Holy shit, ‘Never Fall’ is back!”

“Moonfall is online!”

“Is he about to fight another veteran lord?!”

Even Su Yu's classmates in the class group were watching this with great excitement.

Moonfall's influence over all the new lords had reached an utterly exaggerated level.

“Online! Ah!”

Ma Ma Kusi practically launched himself out of his chair.

He hurriedly sent a message to his good friend:

“Brother Bao, Moonfall is online!”

Bao Bao Yuan, a well-known TW commentator.

Years earlier he had owed Ma Ma Kusi a favor and agreed to commentate one match for him.

But this was just a new lord — was it really worth calling on him?

Bao Bao Yuan curled his lip, feeling it was beneath him,

but for the sake of their past friendship,

he still replied with a single word: “Fine.”