[A glorious victory, you gained 16,500 experience points]
[After looting, you obtained]
[Common Resources: 10,000 units of wood, 10,000 units of ore, 10,000 units of food]
[Special Resources: 1,000 units of mercury, 1,000 units of gems, 1,000 units of crystal, 1,000 units of sulfur]
[Gold coins ×100,000]
[Points ×10,000]
[Your level has increased to LV6]
[You gained 1 free attribute point]
[Choose one skill from the following three]
[1. Primary Mysticism (Recovers 10% of magic power per day)]
[2. Primary Navigation (Increases sea mobility by 50%)]
[3. Primary Soul Summoning (10% of enemy troops killed in battle turn into skeleton soldiers under your command)]
[Your level has increased to LV7]
[You gained 1 free attribute point]
[Choose one skill from the following three]
[1. Primary Pathfinding (Reduces the impact of terrain on movement by 10%)]
[2. Primary Offense (Increases damage of melee attacks by 10%)]
[3. Primary Magic (Increases magical attack damage by 5%)]
Well, this doesn't go well with Primary Magic, and it shows up again.
At level 7, he directly chose Primary Magic, as he didn't feel the need for the other two. Then, he felt the magic power surging in his body, and that was it.
As for the remaining Primary Magic skill book, he could only keep it for now. Whether to sell it later or give it to other heroes would be decided later.
What troubled Qin Muye the most was the skill at level 6. He really wanted both Primary Mysticism and Primary Soul Summoning.
Especially Primary Soul Summoning – after learning it, in large-scale extermination activities against living beings, he could gain a large number of laborers by turning 10% of the killed creatures into his own skeleton soldiers.
But the problem was, he wouldn't need it in the short term. The monsters around him were undead, and the creatures in Monster Siege were also undead. So, Soul Summoning wouldn't be useful for now.
As for Mysticism, it improved a lot from when heroes were invincible every day. Now, instead of recovering 2 points every day, it was 10%, which was quite good for him as a magic power enthusiast. However, he valued the skill itself more.
Wisdom, Mysticism, and Magic – they seemed to be a set of skills. After thinking about it, he ultimately chose Primary Mysticism over Primary Soul Summoning.
There would be other chances in the future, so no need to worry about it now.
[Lord/Scholar LV7 (5685/10000)]
[Hero: Blood Magic · Boiling Blood Monster LV7 (570/10000)]
This time, not only did Qin Muye level up twice in a row, but even Blood Magic went from level 5 to level 7, with Qin Muye surpassing him in experience.
Blood Magic also learned two new skills: Primary Defense and Primary Resistance.
[Primary Defense: Reduces physical attack damage taken by 5%]
[Primary Resistance: Reduces debuffs and magic damage taken by 5%]
The former increased physical defense, and the latter increased magical defense. They were quite good skills, especially since these skills could stack on the creatures. Although the effect of Primary Resistance was only 5%, it reduced damage and resisted negative magic effects, making it quite practical.
But it was still only 5%, which seemed a bit low.
However, it was not the time to think about these things. Qin Muye quickly spent the resources on hand to turn them into strength.
He recruited all the remaining 142 magical creatures, spending 14,200 gold coins. Ten thousand gold coins were instantly gone, which was a bit painful. Then, he spent 1,000 units of stone to upgrade the training ground to level 2.
[Training Ground LV2: Common creatures can enter for training and evolve into elite creatures after a certain period]
[Current capacity for common creatures: 0/400, hero 0/2]
Time was consumed, but the creature capacity and hero capacity doubled. This meant that joint training and individual training were now possible.
Then, he quickly spent the remaining 85,800 points on various resource and basic building blueprints. For example, he needed residences since he now had 660 creatures, and the wizard tower couldn't accommodate them.
Buildings such as a tailor shop, lumberyard, and mill were necessary. After buying them, Qin Muye made a rough estimate and started construction on all the buildings.
13,000 points turned into 26 building blueprints. The first time building resources didn't cost much, but he still had to pay for upgrades. For example, the blacksmith shop and iron mine, which he had already upgraded to level 2, had improved effects, and they were now in full swing.
Among the 659 creatures, 400 newly recruited magical creatures were sent for training. The remaining 259 creatures, including the boiling blood monsters and magical creatures, were assigned to various important buildings to work and produce resources.
To have enough resources, he needed 8 hours a day; otherwise, resource production would decrease or even disappear.
This time, Qin Muye also used healing while training with the 400 magical creatures and continued his research on magical creatures.
With Primary Mysticism and Primary Wisdom, Qin Muye felt that he might be able to break through the magical creatures from the 1st to the 2nd tier.
"Alas, after training, I still need to spend money on equipment," Qin Muye sighed. He still had 85,800 gold coins on hand, which was enough to equip each magical creature with standard equipment. However, the problem was that these were probably transitional equipment. Handling things later would be troublesome.
But in the end, he gritted his teeth and equipped the remaining 459 magical creatures with a set each. The future could be dealt with later; the main thing now was to survive.
If there were 2,000+ skeleton soldiers coming tomorrow, it would be a bit troublesome. They were too numerous.
And there were still the day after tomorrow and the day after the day after tomorrow. According to this doubling trend, he would have to face 8,000 skeleton soldiers on the day after the day after tomorrow, which would be difficult to deal with.
But there was still hope. If all 659 magical creatures were transformed into boiling blood monsters, there would still be a chance, but it would be in the future.
Qin Muye had already felt the impending food crisis. One boiling blood warrior magical creature consumed 9 units of food per day, and it had to be hearty meals. On the other hand, magical creatures only needed 6 units of food per day, but the 659 creatures still required 4,254 units of food, which was a huge expense.
Luckily, the rewards had been plentiful these days. Combined with the rapid clearing of farmland and the formation of a virtuous cycle of food harvesting, he could barely maintain a balance with a little surplus.
Qin Muye estimated that unless he accelerated his expansion
and increased the farmland, with the current situation, he could only support around 700 magical creatures at most, not counting boiling blood monsters.
So, he exchanged all of them for basic building blueprints and resource building blueprints, because once the training of the boiling blood monsters was complete, his small territory would fall into a shortage of food after the monster siege event ended.
"I need a hero for management," Qin Muye sighed when he thought of these things. He was not cut out for administrative affairs.
(End of this chapter)