At that moment, a young man wearing blue leather armor was standing on a certain mountain peak in the Endless Mainland with his hands behind his back .
In his field of vision, 10 eight-meter-long Black Dragons were frantically hunting a group of gnomes who were running around the mountain.
The Black Dragons that were positioned at the top of the food chain were facing a large number of tricky level four gnomes, yet they viewed those gnomes as if the latter were ants!
Next, the flying Black Dragon roared, shocking all the gnomes!
Within just a few seconds, countless gnomes were killed by the Black Dragon.
In an instant, corpses were everywhere, and thick black blood splashed all over the mountain peak!
The gnome corpses were then collected one by one.
In the end, the young man had gained 239 units of meat, five energy stones, and one mutant crystal.
After collecting the corpses, he smiled and stood on the mountain top to get a view of the endless darkness from atop.
"As expected of an SS-Grade Black Dragon."
Ever since that young man had transmigrated to this world, he had received an SSS-Grade talent: ultimate vessel training.
That talent allowed him to develop all the troops under his command into maturity using the shortest time possible.
Moreover, he had won a SS-Grade Black Dragon in the castle lottery!
Within a couple of days, he had trained the young Black Dragon into an adult!
As it grew, the Black Dragon continued to pass on the SSS-Grade talent: ultimate vessel training and reproduction.
In a few more days, he came to own three SS-Grade adult Black Dragons and seven SS-Grade baby dragons.
The food and other resources harvested by the ten Black Dragons had already filled the castle's warehouse.
He was very astute toward his own strength on that continent, so much so that he laughed when he saw the transaction information of the lord who exchanged food for gold coins and the comments of the other city lords who admired his ability.
Those who could gather so much food must surely be capable in some way, but most of the food the young man received was used to raise his Black Dragons.
However, he had accumulated more than enough food and it was about time to trade them.
The young man was very confident that his Black Dragons would be able to scoff at the world beneath it!
The lord who used gold coins to exchange for food had already shown his presence in front of everyone on the continent, and it was only a stumbling block on his path to growth.
Surpassing that lord and kicking him down from his high pedestal was more than possible.
After all, he already had an SSS-Grade talent and was lucky to get an SS-Grade Black Dragon right from the beginning. Who else could have such luck aside from him?
Furthermore, he had already obtained 400 units of food that day, which was almost enough to surpass the 300 units of food that the so-called Big Shot had obtained two days ago!
He would eventually be the only one who could rule the Endless Continent!
At that moment, a message popped up in his vision.
[Congratulations, you have obtained 50 energy stones and 3 mutant crystals!]
[The Black Dragon Castle has been upgraded to a Level 4 Castle!]
As soon as the castle was upgraded to a concrete castle, an announcement was made in real time.
[Congratulations! The Black Dragon Castle has been upgraded to Level 4!]
As soon as that news was released, everyone in the entire [World Chat Channel] went crazy!
The lords were all surprised!
How was it even possible for someone to advance to level four in just three days!
It was simply terrifying!
News of Su Hao's castle being upgraded to level three the previous day had already caused a storm.
At that time, Su Hao's name—as well as the name of his Holy Light Castle—had already spread far and wide.
At that moment, all the lords were shocked to find out that there was actually another person who was stronger than Su Hao!
[No way! A Black Dragon Castle! That's an SS-Grade troop type! He's so lucky!]
[Yeah! I thought Su Hao was already powerful enough, but I didn't expect Han Yan to upgrade to a level 4 castle even faster than Su Hao!]
[Wait a minute! When did Han Yan even upgrade to a level 3 castle? Why didn't I notice that? How could I have missed the opportunity to be friends with such a powerful figure! It's not too late, is it!]
[I feel like crying! Why did I only draw an E-Class fat blue elf at the start of the game? This isn't fair!"
[Ugh, don't even mention that anymore. My talent and troop type are both E, and my castle is only at level 1…]
[Amazing! Can you share with us how you did it, Han Yan? I wanna be your fan!]
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Han Yan felt even more satisfied when he saw all those comments.
He knew very well that a large amount of food was required during the early stages of development, so he fed everything to his Black Dragon.
That was the only thing holding him back from receiving praise ahead of Su Hao in the [World Chat Channel] and [Trading Channel] a few days ago.
Although the Black Dragon was powerful, the only downside was that it needed a large amount of food to feed.
A Black Dragon's daily food intake would reach more than 20 units, and he had 10 Black Dragons to raise.
For that reason, he had been suppressing his desire to trade for food in the [Trading Channel].
If he did not have that need to restrict himself, his reputation would definitely be at A level where it was impossible to ignore him.
The reason he wanted to exchange a large amount of food for resources was not just for fame and reputation—there was one other important point.
He wanted to bring all the lords together and inspire them to become a citizen of his Black Dragon Castle!
With that, he could be the ruler and leader of the continent—that was his ultimate goal.
At that point, he saved some food for his Black Dragon and put the extra 396 units of food on the [Trading Channel].
He added the name of his castle to the transaction information, and changed the 'price' of the food to one that all the lords would gladly accept.
The purpose of his actions was very simple. He wanted most–ideally all—of the city lords to buy food from him, leading them to rely on him, respect him, and even seek refuge with him!
Moments later, the information in the trading channel was updated again!
[20 units of gnome meat for 1 energy stone]
[20 units of gnome meat in exchange for 1 stack of wood or 1 stack of stone]
[396 units of gnome meat available]
[Black Dragon castle: Han Yan]
As soon as his offer was posted on the [Trading Channel], those who had just been flattering Han Yan were caught by surprise, as were the lords who had just entered the chat area!
They were not just surprised that Han Yan was able to take out so much food at once; they were more surprised at the price-value ratio!
20 units for one energy stone!
20 units of goblin meat for one stack of wood or one stack of stone!
That was a stark contrast to the 'profiteer' who asked for 10,000 gold coins to exchange for a unit of food.
Even though gold coins were useless to them, their gold coins were getting lesser, and it was a good bargain to exchange a small amount of energy stones or wood or stones for 20 units of food
One might even say that the Han Yan had no intention of exchanging resources at all—he was practically giving away his food for free!