[The wolf king has been killed!]
[All affiliated wolves have been afflicted with a fear status for 2 hours!]
[You have leveled up!]
[For being a part of the group to kill the wolf king, you have received, +1 level!]
[You have leveled up!]
The notifications rang out, and everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
"Finally, it died." Someone said.
"Yeah, but boy that was a tough fight." Another echoed.
Verum walked towards the corpse, it was imposing, even in death it looked powerful.
He impaled it's head with a spear, and dug out a fist sized crystal.
[Compact wind crystal]
This crystal was only available if someone dug into a wind wolf's head, since it did not drop as an item, Verum only discovered it when he destroyed a head containing one of them accidentally. Not all wolves ha these, only some of the one's more powerful in magic did, but this was the first time Verum had seen the word 'Compact' in the name.
'Does it have more storage for mana? Or is just more durable?' He wondered, but put that question in the back of his head as he walked towards the actual den.
There was nothing inside it at first glance, but as he walked further, he could see a few cubs huddled here and there, shivering when they saw him, but not daring to make a sound. He ignored them and continued onwards.
At the end of the den, where it was so dark that he needed a torch to see, there was a strange pedestal, with a glowing orb floating slightly above it.
(Image)
Verum reached out, and touched it with his hand, but his hand was repelled by a strange, invisible field, as a panel popped out.
[Core]
[Spawn: Wind Wolf, Alpha Wind Wolf, Wind Wolf King]
[Captured by: N/A]
[Durability: 500000000/500000000]
"Hiss~, that's a lot of durability right there!" Verum exclaimed upon looking at the ungodly amount of durability this thing called 'Core' had.
"Not captured? Hmm... This should work, Right?" He pondered as he brought out a flag from his inventory.
[Capture-gather Dual-purpose flag]
[Capture- The flag captures any unclaimed territory, resource, or special items, and turns them into the property of the Castle Lord. This use destroys the flag]
[Gather- The flag gathers any dropped resources within twenty meters, and transfers them into the nearest storage owned by the Castle Lord, the effect continues until the flag is either destroyed, or taken away. The flag can be set to filter certain items]
'Yup.' Verum looked at the flag in his hand, waved the screen away, and used the flag to touch the orb.
[Would you like to capture the core?]
[Warning! The flag will be destroyed if you choose to do so!]
"Proceed." Verum spoke, and both the flag, and the invisible force field disappeared into particles.
[You have captured a Core!]
[You have claimed the territory, 'Wind Wolf Den'!]
[All wolves are now affiliated with you!]
[You have received: 1x champion summoning token, Guardian beast egg, +1 level]
[You have leveled up!]
[Congratulations to castle lord 'Verum Apeiros Voidborn' for being the first to capture a territory!]
[Congratulations to castle lord 'Verum Apeiros Voidborn' for being the first to capture a hostile territory!]
[Congratulations to castle lord 'Verum Apeiros Voidborn' for being the first to capture a core!]
[You have received: One gold coin, +100 fame]
[You have received: 1x Champion summoning token, Warding totem x4, +200 fame]
[You have received: 1x Random beast unit, Beastpedia, +200 fame]
"Okay... bit more than expected, but it's welcome, not a bad thing at all, at least for now." He said, as he looked at the panel giving information about the territory.
[Territory: Wind Wolf Den]
[Captured by: Castle Lord Verum Apeiros Voidborn]
[Core: Yes]
[Unit: Wind Wolf]
[Leader: Wind Wolf King]
[Current troops: 0]
[Max Capacity: 120 Wind Wolves, 2 Alpha Wind Wolves, 1 Wind Wolf King]
[Resources: N/A]
[Building: N/A]
[Unit training speed: Three days]
[Unit Spawning speed: 2 hours]
[Core]
[Spawn: Wind Wolf, Alpha Wind Wolf, Wind Wolf King]
[Captured by: Verum Apeiros Voidborn]
[Durability: 500000000/500000000]
[Upgrade]
He tapped upgrade.
[Upgrade spawning speed: 1 gold]
[Add spawn: 5 gold, unit scroll]
[Remove spawn: 10 gold]
[Upgrade training speed: 1000 meat, 10 gold]
"Upgrade Spawning speed."
[-1 Gold]
[Unit spawning speed: 110 minutes]
[Upgrade spawning speed: 10 gold]
Verum silently looked at the money he had made by selling various blueprints, and just smirked.
[972 Gold, 49 Silver, 10 Copper]
"Upgrade."
[-10 gold]
"Upgrade."
[-50 gold]
"Upgrade."
[-100 gold]
"Upgrade!"
[-200 gold]
"Upgrade."
[-500 gold]
[111 Gold, 49 Silver, 10 Copper]
[Unit Spawning speed: 30 minutes]
'That looks much better than two hours, at this rate, it will take... little more than five days to get to full power from zero, not bad, but I can upgrade it further, I'm sure she won't mind if take half of the wolves corpses, that should provide about 1100, if they give more than normal, which is quite likely considering that some of them are quite big. Wait, she doesn't really need all that food, does she? I can give her like five to ten of them, and then give her money of dungeon drops, and buy the rest! Yeah let's do that.'
*****
"We're done! Take a rest everyone!" Verum spoke, and all present slumped onto the ground.
"Thank you for your hard work!" It had taken the sixteen of them, aided by ten of Vesi's men, two hours to skin all the wolves, and strip off their meat, leaving the bones behind.
The fur had been kept to the side, along with the fangs and teeth, the few crystals were kept separate, in bags.
Every one was tired, which is why Verum let them be, as he hauled cart after cart loaded with meat into the den, occasionally throwing a piece to the wolf cubs who were no longer afraid.
'Let's hope this was worth the trouble.' Verum opened the panel, and clicked upgrade.