Listening to the prompt, Asher was ecstatic and found out that this was the way of earning coins. Like how in the game, the skills are learned through the currency earned by completing tasks.
Here the task is to kill these monsters and beasts. After finding out about this big source of income, how could Asher ignore it?
[Ding! You have killed a first-order ordinary creature and gained 1 gold coin.]
[Ding! You have killed a first-order ordinary creature and gained 1 gold coin.]
[Ding! You have killed a first-order ordinary creature and gained 1 gold coin.] x 3
[…]
In this dense forest, there are many first-order ordinary creatures and these weak herbivores have no fighting power.
These Howling Birds will sometimes call for other beasts, but it was the same as giving Asher tons of gold in one fell swoop.
Some creatures like Wolves have a certain attack ability, and although their sharp teeth are enough to grind rocks to powder, they can't do any significant damage to Asher's overlord body.
Even if he is only at the first-order level, he has inherited the mantle of Ainz Ooal Gown. With his racial class and attributes, Asher's strength is now almost comparable to third-order or tier-3 and above.
Ordinary and low-level monsters like wolves aren't even worth mentioning in his eyes.
After several hours of hard effort, Asher finally earned up to 42 gold coins, which can be said to be a big harvest.
Now that he has a certain capital, he decided to go back to the altar and prepare to summon some subordinates.
…
[Undead Workers]: Tier-1 Ordinary troops. - Cost: 5 Gold Coins.
Undead Workers are creatures of the dead that have come back to the land of the living after death without any high wisdom. They only follow a single order of working around and aren't suitable for combat.
Specialty: Production and buildings
…
[Combatant]: Tier-1 Elite Summons (Temporary) – Cost: 100 Gold Coins.
Randomly summons a combatant character with strong combat power, and the level differs according to the summoner's level.
Specialty: High Combat Power
…
Asher's own strength is enough for now and he doesn't have a hundred gold coins at the moment.
At this stage, labor and productivity are more important, so Asher directly spent 25 gold coins to summon 5 Undead Workers.
A circular portal appeared above the altar and five skeletons walked out from it.
The five undead workers drudged on their knees and even with the lack of wisdom, they recognized their lord.
These undead workers aren't like low-level skeletons that are only effectively walking-moving bones but have good enough stats.
Asher opened up their status panel.
…
[Undead Worker]: HP: 2 MP: 15 Vitality: 15 Attack: 2 Defense: 2 Agility: 1 Resistance: 1
Skills: Gather Lvl 2, Build Lvl 2, Hunt Lvl 1 (Weak)
[Loyalty]: 100% (Trait of Overlord's influence)
[Fatigue]: 0% (Undead Trait)
[Hunger]: 0% (Undead Trait)
…
Although the strength is relatively low and isn't suitable for combat, if he used the control technique to control these five to cooperate with each other to work hard, then it won't be difficult to beat three strong humans.
Except for that, they are good at gathering and building, which has the general meaning of workers and is very important for territory construction.
If you have played RPG games, then you can consider them as builders that don't mainly participate in combat.
"Take this food, and cut them neatly."
Asher took out dozens of first-order monster beasts that he had hunted and the five undead workers that had received the order began to process the food.
Why is he preparing the food? It's naturally for trade.
He doesn't need food doesn't mean that others are also the same. He is undead but not all the players will be undead. So, here comes the chance to earn money.
Asher opened the status panel and firstly he went to check some information in the chat section. But… before he could do that, he was surprised to find that the number of players in the 'Evil' faction had changed.
A few hours ago, the numbers of players were six million, but now it has decreased to five million and ninety-nine thousand.
In just a few hours thousands of evil players were eliminated?
This was too surprising. Asher soon found some chat records.
"Damn it! My altar was destroyed by giant insects."
"Help, I was discovered by humans, and now I'm being hunted and killed, who can help me, I don't want to die!"
"I'm trapped in a desert, and there's nothing to eat here. I'm dying of hunger. Can someone have mercy and give me something to eat?"
"…"
Looking at these records, Asher also got the gist of the situation. Among these thousand evil players who have been eliminated, some were attacked by a monster or discovered by the warrior players and some were in bad places.
It's not surprising for a thousand players to be eliminated in a few hours and when the protection period ends, this number will keep on increasing.
Being an evil lord with a weak starting point is definitely not easy.
Asher was fortunate that he didn't get any outrageous place as his base and the place where he was born was generally desolate with good resources.
After a little thinking, he didn't delve much and did what he was here for.
"Delicious meat for sale – 5 Gold coins per unit. If you want to buy, hurry up to the trading area."
As soon as Asher sent out this message, the chat area immediately boiled up and countless evil lords scolded him for being a profiteer.
Undead Workers were fast in their job and Asher had already put up 30 units of food for sale, which was an overwhelming amount for these newbie lords.
After all, only a few hours had passed and these lords had to settle down and they still had to figure out the strategy to handle monsters.
At most, the lords were only able to collect some wood, stone, and other materials that were easy to find, and near the fruits, they could only find monsters lurking around.
Under the strange monsters with a ferocious figures, these lords didn't dare to put their life at stake and the lords who were brave to earn their food were few.
Such lords are worth the respect.
But… even if they know, many lords are still berating Asher's action as a profiteer due to his high 5 gold coins.
God, that's too expensive when many lords don't even have one gold coin.
So, many people were protesting in the chat to boycott this sale, but…
Asher wasn't worried as almost instantly, thirty units of first-order ordinary creatures were gone.
[The transaction is successful. You got 5 gold coins!]
[The transaction is successful. You got 5 gold coins!] x 10
[…]
[All your items are sold out!]