This Strange Three Kingdoms Game Is Too Brutal 9

Chapter 9: Harvest
2024-07-15
Chapter 9: Harvest

Before the brutal boss battle.

Hang Yu received death notifications from several players in the lord’s hall.

[Player “Zhajiangmian” has died, Magic Stone Fragments +14, Deep Abyss Essence Energy +100!]
[Player “Ning Caichen II” has died, Magic Stone Fragments +20, Thorny Wild Rabbit’s Poisonous Spines +2, Thorny Wild Rabbit Meat +2, Deep Abyss Essence Energy +100!]
[Player “One Sword from the West” has died, Magic Stone Fragments +31, Green Giant Frog’s Slime +4, Deep Abyss Essence Energy +150!]
[……]

Hang Yu: “Huh, players are biting the dust? This is faster than I imagined!”

Xiaoba said: “Master, although the mutated creatures near the Territory are only level 1-2, they are enough to cost the lives of inexperienced players with weak initial strengths!”

Thankfully, it was players who died.

Otherwise, the losses would be too great!

Hang Yu couldn’t help but exclaim: “Our human race’s unit types are relatively cheap, but each one costs a whopping 20 Abyssal Crystals, the few Abyssal Crystals I brought simply can’t withstand the consumption during the map exploration process.”

Now it’s good.

No need to be careful.

No need to walk on eggshells.

Players’ lives are practically worthless, just use their lives to pave the way!

This guarantees extremely high exploration efficiency while generating substantial returns!

The experience points and levels dropped by dead players are generally no more than twenty percent; if the remaining Essence Energy is insufficient, then however much they have is dropped. Additionally, they will lose all their Magic Stone assets, and there’s a twenty percent chance that items in their backpack will also drop.

What surprised Hang Yu the most was.

Under the enhancement bonus of his hidden talent.

For every point of Essence Energy a player drops, the Territory gains 5 Essence Energy!

This is more than just profit.

It’s simply insanely profitable!

“For the growth of the Territory, players should die a few more times.” Xiaoba said coldly and ruthlessly.

Hang Yu laughed: “I didn’t expect you, Xiaoba, to have the potential to become a heartless capitalist!”

“The Master’s interests are absolute.”

Hang Yu: “In the early stages, we still need to exercise restraint and not excessively exploit them. Even when slaughtering pigs, you have to fatten them up first. These few players are too poor; there’s not much fat to be trimmed.”

Players’ resurrection has a resurrection time set.

At first glance, this seems to affect efficiency and income, but this isn’t the case.

First, if death and resurrection are too frequent in a short period of time, it could potentially damage the players’ mental and spiritual well-being. Therefore, setting a daily maximum death limit or increasing the death interval in the early stages is a protective mechanism for the players, and it’s also for sustainable overexploitation.

Secondly, players can pay a not-too-expensive amount of contribution points to resurrect immediately, and obtaining contribution points requires manual labor—gathering materials for the Territory or completing tasks. Only by constantly recycling contribution points, keeping players strapped for cash, will players work harder.

In the long run.

Repeated frequent deaths.

Will inevitably consume a large number of contribution points.

They will then find ways to complete tasks to earn more contribution points.

Territory efficiency will not only not decrease but can be greatly improved.

As long as Hang Yu masters the rhythm and scale of issuing and recycling contribution points, he can not only command players to work for him, but can also easily obtain materials and use tasks to direct players to carry out various actions.

Xiaoba summarized: “Master, the resources currently recovered are a total of 450 points of Essence Energy, 65 Magic Stone Fragments, 4 portions of Green Giant Frog Slime, 2 portions of Thorny Wild Rabbit Poisonous Spines, and 2 portions of Thorny Wild Rabbit Meat.”

Essence Energy reserves can strengthen oneself.

They can also be used to cultivate soldiers or for other consumption.

Of course, they can also be given to players in the form of task rewards.

When players take on tasks for rewards, and repeatedly die in high-difficulty tasks, Hang Yu obtains a large amount of income from their deaths. Apart from using some for himself or Territory construction, he continues to distribute the remaining portion through tasks…This forms a closed loop, a perpetual motion machine!

As for the 110 Magic Stone Fragments, there’s nothing much to say. 100 Magic Stone Fragments can be synthesized into 1 Abyssal Magic Stone, and 10 Abyssal Magic Stones can be refined into 1 Abyssal Crystal.

Players have a 10x drop rate and still only get this many Magic Stones!

It shows that Abyssal Crystals are very valuable.

Recruiting units is very expensive!

In the early stages, it would be extremely difficult to start without investment or loans, unless the lord themselves belongs to a very strong race and can manually grind monsters to complete initial accumulation.

But Hang Yu, as a human race starting at a low level, is too weak and shouldn’t venture out before his strength grows. This is why he’s been staying put in the Territory.

Although this Magic Stone income is insignificant, as the players’ strength increases in the future, the monsters they hunt become more powerful, or the number of players becomes larger, the income generated will be unimaginable.

As for the remaining three items, they are all materials.

The slime and poisonous spines are materials mainly used to make equipment, props, or consumables. In addition, they can also be used in the Territory Core for conversion, thus obtaining basic materials for Territory construction.

These two materials aren’t very useful.

Hang Yu put them into the Territory Core.

[You converted “Green Giant Frog Slime” ×4, “Thorny Wild Rabbit Poisonous Spines” ×2, obtaining “Tier 1 Ordinary Material Essence” ×6!]

This “Material Essence” is the basic material needed for Territory construction, generally only obtainable through material conversion. Tier 1 materials can be converted into Tier 1 essence, Tier 2 materials into Tier 2 essence, and so on.

This amount of material.

Is far from enough!

Hang Yu summoned the Lord Panel.

The 【Territory Construction】 option has sub-options such as 【Building Construction】 and 【Building Upgrade】.

Hang Yu opened Building Construction, and saw various initial human race buildings listed before him.

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【Territory Canteen】, Construction Cost 100 Abyssal Crystals, 200 portions of Tier 1 Material Essence, Current Buildable Quantity 0/2.
【Refinement Workshop】, Construction Cost 400 Abyssal Crystals, 500 portions of Tier 1 Material Essence, Current Buildable Quantity 0/1.
【Alchemy Workshop】, Construction Cost 300 Abyssal Crystals, 400 portions of Tier 1 Material Essence, Current Buildable Quantity 0/1.
…………
【Trading Hall】, Construction Cost 200 Abyssal Crystals, 500 portions of Tier 1 Material Essence, Current Buildable Quantity 0/1.
【Abyss Barracks】, Construction Cost 500 Abyssal Crystals, 2000 portions of Tier 1 Material Essence, Current Buildable Quantity 4/4.
【Constellation Teleportation Station】, Construction Cost 3000 Abyssal Crystals, 10000 portions of Tier 1 Material Essence, Current Buildable Quantity 0/1.
————

The human race Territory has sixteen basic buildings that can cover all the basic needs of the Territory, including food, drink, shelter, production, manufacturing, and skill learning. Just pay the corresponding cost to build them.

Each building in the Abyssal Lord’s Territory has special abilities.

In addition to these basic buildings, special building blueprints and other exclusive building blueprints of other races can be obtained during map exploration or battles with other lords, enriching the Territory’s unit types and strength.

Whether it is building buildings.

Or upgrading existing buildings.

Large amounts of funds and materials are required.

Hang Yu currently has enough funds, but the main shortage is Material Essence, which is why he issued collection tasks to have players hunt monsters to obtain materials.

At this time.

Hang Yu noticed.

Players like Black Pupil Sharp Brother, Ye Li Meng, and Chi Mei Wang Liang were performing exceptionally well. They not only successfully hunted a large number of monsters but also successively leveled up to level 2, then teaming up to challenge the Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken.

Hang Yu burst into laughter.

The Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken is a level 3 elite monster.

Players really lack awareness of the dangers of the Abyssal World!

The strength assessment of Abyssal creatures mainly has two standards: level and rank.

Constellation divides Abyssal creatures into ten rank levels. Even if the levels are the same, monsters will show a huge difference in strength due to different ranks.

There are many names for the ten rank levels.

For the players to better understand, Hang Yu asked Xiaoba to redefine the monster ranks, from low to high, as: Normal, Elite, Commander, Hegemon, Monarch, Emperor, Dominator, Epic, Legendary, Mythical, and Unknowable.

Although the Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken is only a level 3 elite, its strength is absolutely no less than that of level 8 or 9 normal monsters. With the players’ current strength, there is almost no possibility of victory.

As expected!

[Player “Black Pupil Sharp Brother” has died, Magic Stone Fragments +140, Essence Energy +250, Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken Feathers +6, Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken Meat +8!]
[Player “Crazy Slashing Down the Street” has died, Magic Stone Fragments +122, Essence Energy +250, Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken Feathers +9, Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken Meat +4!]
[Player “Chi Mei Wang Liang” has died, Magic Stone Fragments +117, Essence Energy +250, Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken Feathers +8, Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken Meat +5!]
[……]
[Player “Ye Li Meng” has died, Magic Stone Fragments +125, Essence Energy +250, Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken Feathers +7, Serpent-tailed Fire Chicken Meat +6!]

“Eight players have all died!” Xiaoba reported: “Congratulations, Master, you have obtained 2000 points of reserved Essence Energy, plus 1123 Magic Stone Fragments, 63 portions of materials, and 41 portions of food.”

Good.

It’s a bumper harvest.

The total income is now 2450 points of Essence Energy and 1188 Magic Stone Fragments.

Hang Yu first converted all the materials. Currently, the Territory has 69 portions of Material Essence.

He said with satisfaction: “It’s only been about eight hours since the game started. At this rate, various supporting facilities will soon be built. This development speed is incredibly fast. With these players who love to die, how can I not succeed!”
(End of Chapter)

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