Chapter 513: Minotaur Guards (1/2)
I appeared in the adventurer's inn in Sky City. I immediately went to repair equipment and replenish my potions and magic consumables. In fact, I was way too lazy to make my own Magic Consumables nowadays. My NPC storekeeper, White Fox, had already copied my Rank 10 Cooking skill, so she would purchase cooking material and produce large amounts of Rank 7, Rank 8, and Rank 9 Magic Consumables every day. My shop had become a well-known Magic Consumable vendor, and our prices were stable and fair. Furthermore, whenever someone bought Magic Consumables from my shop, that beautiful NPC would bow toward them and say ”Thank you for your patronage”. At that time, they would be able to peek at this beauty’s snowy white peaks from the gap beneath her collar. As a result, we soon had many happy repeat customers.
”Is there anything I can do for you, master?” White Fox asked as she looked at me.
I stared at her collar before finally saying, ”Nope, I’ll be leaving first…”
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I checked my friend list and saw that Lin Yixin was still online. I sent her a message:
”Yiyi, has your territory refreshed yet?”
”Yeah!” Lin Yixin couldn’t disguise the delight in her voice. She laughed and said, ”I’m in my territory right now, looking at the construction interface. Oh, but I’m in a pickle right now! Even though there aren’t many resource monsters around my territory, I don’t even have the manpower to transport these resources back anyway! This system is being far too miserly with me! How could they only give me 10 Rank 1 Elven Assassins!? Their transport capacity is so lousy! If I have to rely on them, I’ll never be able to develop my city!”
I chuckled: ”Didn’t you go find that girl from Blazing Hot Lips, Stranger of Three Lifetimes? That girl is really lovable. If she happens to have any tools that an elven town can use, she’ll definitely sell it to you…”
Lin Yixin’s voice grew a bit pained: ”I already spoke to Stranger. She said that she’s so poor right now that she can barely keep the gas on. She had troop cards, but they were all for barbarian towns. She didn’t have a single elven troop card, and she had used all of her Resource Bags too. Uhm… Little Cheat, do you have anything good for me?”
I sent her another message: ”That’s hard to say. I need to go check my city’s warehouses first. If I have anything for you, I’ll pay you a visit! There isn’t anyone else in your territory right now, yes?”
”Yeah, it’s only me!”
”Alright, go do what you need to do first!”
”Okay!”
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However, I had absolutely zero interest in them. These Specters had the Hellish Wail ability, which could cure its comrades, but Dark Moon City only had a couple hundred undead troops. Producing Specters wouldn’t move the needle for us. It would be better to save resources and continue ranking up the castle. Once it hit Rank 6, we could start mass-producing Dark Knights, and that was the true path to domination!
Of course, the strongest troops a territory could produce were its Rank 10 troops. However, raising the rank of a territory was a slow and painful task, and I didn’t know when Dark Moon City would become a Rank 10 castle.
Oh well, easy does it, Dark Moon City was already the first player territory to hit Rank 3. Moreover, the production output of Dark Moon City was way higher than Candlelight Shadow’s barbarian city. Our superiority was clear.
I went to find the citylord of Dark Moon City, Dark Knight Udal. He strode up to me and handed me yesterday’s daily revenue report for Dark Moon City.
[City Income]
Teleportation Formation: 1742892 gold
Repair Fees: 1102931 gold
Potion Sales: 749209 gold
[City Expenditure]
Defense Upkeep: 1000000 gold
City Tax: 1500000 gold
[Total Revenue] = 1095032 gold
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Ugh, I finally understood what it meant to be buried under taxes!
We worked so hard to conquer this territory, and I worked even harder to raise Dark Moon City to Rank 3! The city was filled with players who teleported here, shopped here, and repaired their items here, but we only earned 3.5 million gold from them. To make matters worse, we were taxed 1.5 million gold coins right off the bat!
Darn it, and we knew exactly where these taxes would go to, those meaningless things...
However, I was broadminded enough to forgive the developers. I mean, earning 1.1 million gold a day was pretty damn good. Half of it went straight to the guild coffers, and we’d use this money to pay the salaries of our outstanding professional players. They could also exchange their guild contribution points for RMB. I used another portion of those earnings as resources for buying more city defenses and upgrading the castle itself. After that, I was left with about four hundred thousand gold coins every day, and all of this went to the Frost Cloud workshop. For now, all of this cash was kept inside my card. They put me in charge of this city, so those were the breaks. The rest of the girls didn’t really know how to develop a city anyway, so I ended up reaping all the benefits.
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I tasked the city to produce more Dark Insects before I ordered Udal to take his troop of Dark Knights and sweep the surrounding areas free of resource monsters. I only needed to personally deal with these resource monsters if there was a boss among them. If that wasn’t the case, I’d be slowly dying of boredom. It was no fun being stuck in one area.
I took out four 5000x4 Resource Bags and took a look at the cards I had stored. There were two that Lin Yixin could use:
Beautiful Dryad x100: Rank 7 Elf Castle unit, Attack★★★★★★★, Defense★★★★★★, Transport Capacity: 700.