Chapter 13: Building a Small Arsenal
Editor: Atlas Studios
As Fang Ping squeezed the Skeleton Soldier to the limit, time passed quickly. Soon, the sun set in the west and dusk fell. Under the orange-red sunlight, Fang Ping, who was sitting in the Shadow Dragon Villa, suddenly felt a warm current suddenly appear in his body, slowly strengthening it.
However, Fang Ping was already used to it. He knew that he had leveled up again, so he opened the attribute panel given to him by the Myriad Races Battlefield.
[Fang Ping]
[Overlord Level: Level-0 (Can be upgraded)]
[Materials: Spirit Stones 20/20]
[Strength Level: Level-2 (All Attributes +1)]
[Territory Buildings: Unknown House (All Attributes +1)]
[Two Arrow Towers (Speed +3)]
[Fence (Sturdiness +1)]
After looking at the words "can be upgraded" written at the back of the Overlord Level, as well as the 20 Spirit Stones required to upgrade, Fang Ping understood why the words "can be upgraded" had not appeared before.
Previously, he did not have 20 Spirit Stones at all. Now, after a day of crazy hunting, not only had his strength increased, but he had also obtained 20 Spirit Stones from decomposing beast corpses.
However, upgrading the Undead Summoning Spell also required 20 Spirit Stones. Which one should he upgrade first?
Fang Ping thought about it for a while but could not come up with anything. He decided to open up and see the changes that would occur after upgrading his Overlord Level. He would observe what effect it had before making a decision.
[Overlord Level: Level-0 (Can be upgraded)]
[Materials needed for upgrade: Spirit Stone (20/20)]
[Post-Upgrade: The area of the territory will double, and the defense of the buildings will increase by 20% of their current level.]
Looking at the effect of upgrading his Overlord Level, Fang Ping stroked his stubble and thought for a moment. He had an answer in his heart and decided to upgrade the Undead Summoning Spell first.
After all, what he needed the most at this stage was manpower. The increase in the size of his territory was useless to him. He would only waste 20 Spirit Stones for nothing.
Moreover, the increase in defense was simply too low compared to that of the attributes given by the system. It only increased the defense of the buildings by 20% of their current level. However, 20% of Level-0 was useless to increase the defense of his current buildings.
If he had the Spirit Stones to increase his Overlord Level, it was better to use them to increase the level of the wall.
After Fang Ping made up his mind to upgrade the Undead Summoning Spell, he opened the upgrade interface of the Undead Summoning Spell and clicked to upgrade it.
A few seconds later, the interface changed. It showed that the Undead Summoning Spell had been successfully upgraded.
[Undead Summoning Spell]
[Level: Level-2]
[Upgrade Requirements: Spirit Stone 0/30, Unknown Fruit 0/1]
[Post-Upgrade: Thirty additional Skeleton Soldiers, summoning probability of Skeleton Dog increased, summoning probability of other races increased…]
In the upgrade requirements, not only did the number of Spirit Stones increase, but an Unknown Fruit also appeared. Fang Ping's mentality collapsed immediately.
"F*ck you, f*cking Myriad Races Battlefield. Even you called it an Unknown Fruit. Where do you want me to find it so that I can upgrade the spell? Are you kidding me? F*ck!"
Infuriated, Fang Ping closed the Undead Summoning Spell upgrade interface and stopped looking at the annoying upgrade conditions.
Then, he opened his shop in the Trading Area and put all the meat and clean water he had obtained today to trade. For half of the materials, he set it such that people could only trade refined iron for them. As for the rest of the materials, others could continue to trade wood, stone, coal, and mithril for them.
When the people who were lurking in the shop's message board saw Fang Ping put up meat and clean water again, they exploded instantly like hot oil meeting cold water.
"F*ck, the big shot has put up meat and clean water. Furthermore, the quantity is about the same as yesterday.
"Is this a newbie Overlord or not? It's only been two days and they're already so strong. Do you want us useless people to live?!"
"That's right, that's right. Such a powerful new Overlord is about the strong as those Overlord who have passed the territory test three times, right?
"Is he the reincarnation of a god? Is he that powerful?"
"Such a powerful Overlord. In that case, his troops must be at the Mythical-level without a doubt. He will definitely be able to pass the first territory test."
With a few words of flattery from these people, the meat and clean water that could be exchanged with ordinary resources like wood in the shop were sold out in half a minute. Even half of the meat and clean water that could only be exchanged with refined iron were sold out.
However, among these people who were trading with refined iron, none of them was the person from yesterday who only used refined iron to trade. All of them only used a small amount of refined iron to trade. Furthermore, they only traded one or two units of refined iron for meat and clean water. They had probably obtained this refined iron from others. They didn't have refined iron or soldiers that could produce refined iron.
Faced with such a situation, Fang Ping was not in the mood to pay attention to those novice Overlords who kept sending him private messages, wanting to cozy up to him and seek protection. Instead, he was thinking about where he could get so much refined iron if he could not find that person. After all, he wanted to build a small arsenal and update his hardworking and capable Skeleton Soldiers with powerful equipment.
He could not possibly go out of his territory to find iron ore and let the Skeleton Soldiers mine iron ore for their own equipment.
In that case, a portion of the Skeleton Soldiers would have to work in mining and forging every day. This would consume manpower for him, who lacked manpower at the current stage, and it would also reduce the number of goods he received from his transactions. It was not worth it.
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