After choosing Intermediate Mysticism, Qin Muye casually added 1 Free Attribute Point to Knowledge.
This time, not only had Qin Muye leveled up by 9 levels, but Demon Blood had also been upgraded to Level 8, and he had learned the Basic Pathfinding Skill.
[Basic Pathfinding Skill: Reduces the impact of terrain on movement speed by 10%]
With this, his consumption in terms of movement would be lesser, and it would be even better if he could learn Basic Logistics Skill.
Shadow had risen 3 levels directly, upgrading Basic Understanding of Death, Basic Mysticism, and Basic Magic Power to the Intermediate level.
[Intermediate Understanding of Death: Death System Magic power +2, Magic Value consumption -2]
And he was just 600 Experience Points away from reaching Level 4, which was good news. By now, Shadow's Power Attribute had reached 50 points, which was terrifying.
It must be said that it is no wonder given his hidden Profession's extreme stat distribution.
"My leveling efficiency is just high, I was way behind Demon Blood, but now I've already surpassed him by one level."
Demon Blood and Shadow had only gained ten thousand Experience Points from this battle, but Qin Muye was different; apart from the ten thousand, he also received an additional 65% Experience.
"A Rank 2 Troop is worth 30 Experience Points, which seems quite small now, even a Rank 1 Elite is worth 20 Experience Points." It was simple to calculate, with a total of thirty thousand Experience Points to split among three people, and a thousand Walking Corpses equating to thirty Experience Points each.
After briefly checking his own Points, Qin Muye started to exchange for the Building blueprints he hadn't completed exchanging for before.
This time, however, he prioritized exchanging for the blueprints that would produce food, followed by Wood and Minerals, and Gold Coins was last.
You gotta say, having saved up Points for two rounds, he had really fattened up, allowing him to exchange for all the remaining resource production Building blueprints he hadn't yet acquired.
Then, of course, he went into overtime to learn and construct them all.
As for the basic buildings, he merely followed the industry chain to exchange them, as well as for dwellings, wells, and other building blueprints.
"Wealth makes life enjoyable."
Qin Muye knew the importance of these buildings, that's why he exchanged them all.
Now with Shadow providing strength, there was no need to worry about the upcoming monster siege event; tomorrow morning there would be 400 Frenzy Blood Spirit Monsters born, and with the addition of Frenzy Blood Spirit Monsters, Demon Blood, and Shadow, as long as no Rank 3 Troops show up, there basically shouldn't be any major problems.
Even if Rank 3 Troops did arrive, under Shadow's negative effects, their strength would greatly diminish.
However, he was currently only Rank 1 Champion Level overall, and Rank 2 Troops and Rank 2 Heroes were off the charts, so it was highly unlikely that even Rank 2 Elite Level would be encountered.
Therefore, he was not worried at all.
External troubles were no longer a concern, but the internal ones had to be solved as well.
If next week's event continues to be this dreadful, and he doesn't take advantage of the situation to improve all sorts of infrastructure in his territory, these drawbacks would gradually accumulate and ultimately cost him his life.
"Demon Blood, you should free up 50 training slots for Shadow when the time comes, and let him train the first batch of Elite Spirit Monsters," Qin Muye told Demon Blood.
He then explained to Shadow, "Don't feel it's too few; your exclusive Troop type is likely to be supportive, so just train 50 for now to test the waters. We'll replenish the numbers for you next time when Troop quantities increase. After all, what we need now is frontline strength, your support is indispensable but has to be balanced in proportion."
"However, if the Attributes are good, then I'll ask Demon Blood to make room for you."
Both Demon Blood and Shadow naturally had no objections to Qin Muye's decisions.
Qin Muye's reasoning was sound; without enough Frenzy Blood Spirit Monsters, what would
be the use of having many support-type Troops that couldn't fight?
After returning, Demon Blood went to train troops, while Wicked Word chose 50 Magic Energy Spirit Monsters.
Qin Muye arranged some work and then opened the Bronze Treasure Chest.
[You have opened a Bronze Treasure Chest (Hero), obtained]
[Death Apprentice Magic Book]
[Basic Treasure: Wood Cart]
[Basic Treasure: Golden Bag]
[Basic Treasure: Seed Bag]
[Basic Treasure: Spring Eye]
Five treasures came out, with the first Death Apprentice Magic Book being rather lame, just one level above the Basic Death System Magic Book, which is quite a letdown.
"This Bronze Treasure Chest seems to be worth even less than the previous Black Iron Treasure Chest; just the Undead Mage Certificate and Basic Death Magic Book alone could easily outclass these items."
Qin Muye could only chalk it up to bad luck.
"Maybe next time let Demon Blood or Wicked Word open it? After all, they naturally have 1 point of Luck?" Qin Muye felt he had no luck, so why not let a Spirit Monster do it? Perhaps he could cultivate a high-Luck Spirit Monster to serve as a mascot?
"Well, that's something to consider later,"
In order to research a high-Luck Spirit Monster, he would need a Garden Elf because the ability originated from them.
The remaining four treasures were all resource output types.
The Wood Cart would increase his wood by 10 units daily, and the Golden Bag would give 500
The Seed Bag was more to Qin Muye's liking, as it could produce 100 food seeds each day, even though the types of seeds were random.
The last item, the Spring Eye, increases food by 10 units daily; Qin Muye thought this was most likely just producing clean water, making it the most useless since he exchanged for the Building blueprints of a well, and once he dug a well, why would he worry about water?
After a glance, he tossed them all into the resource warehouse, where they would take effect just by being there. Even a mosquito's leg is still meat, after all; it's not like he would just throw them away.
"Points reset to zero, time to save up resources again, and then upgrade all the buildings to
With two more days to go, according to the rewards for the monsters' siege, the next two waves should bring 40,000 plus 50,000 in resources, a total of 90,000; if really necessary, he could exchange for more from the Points store later.
Once all buildings were at LV3, he would then upgrade his territory to Rank 2.
Currently, he wasn't in a rush to upgrade the Territory Rank.
Of course, even if he wanted to, he couldn't because he was only Level 9, and he needed to be
Level 10 to meet the Rank requirements.
Thinking of levels, he couldn't help but feel puzzled; just how did those people on the leaderboard level up so quickly?
He knew it involved monster grinding, but how exactly?
Keep in mind that in the early stages, once you kill the wild monsters, they're gone, so where
did they find so many wild monsters?
It wasn't about whether they could defeat the monsters but rather the issue with movement and the availability of wild monsters.
If he let Demon Blood hunt monsters all the time, its Level could also be over 30+, but there
just weren't that many monsters available.
That's why Qin Muye found this matter so perplexing.