Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

Chapter 511 - 344: Tens of Thousands of White-Quality Treasure Chests, What a Windfall!_2

Meanwhile, Zi Liyuan also discovered that after exiting the area shrouded by the black fog, the force that suppressed his life recovery had vanished without a trace.

His life value, which had been eroded by the black fog, began to slowly recover.

"Since that’s the case, the black fog poses no threat to me, I can consider re-entering and farming more treasure chests," he thought.

White treasure chests could only contain white items, and it was a perfect opportunity for him to stockpile a large amount of resources in preparation for upgrading the Lord’s Mansion later on.

Thus, for the next period, Zi Liyuan regrouped all of his Skeleton Warriors and led them back into the midst of the black fog.

He was responsible for slaughtering wildly, while the Skeleton Warriors were in charge of cleaning up after him, a clear division of labor.

That night, Zi Liyuan immersed himself in the black fog, chatting with Xiao Yurou occasionally, and focused on hunting down the spirits with single-minded determination.

After a massive hunt, even the dense black fog became somewhat thinner.

It was fortunate that these spirits didn’t possess a shred of intelligence and could continuously resurrect within the black fog; otherwise, they wouldn’t suffice as prey for Lord Zi’s hunting activities.

When the first rays of sunlight broke through the horizon and shone down, the black fog met its nemesis. It dissipated into smoke under the sunlight and vanished in the blink of an eye, and with it, the spirits inside disappeared without a trace.

"Daylight has come so soon, I haven’t had my fill of killing yet," he lamented.

With over a hundred Level 40 Skeleton Warriors acting as porters, the number of treasure chests they collected throughout the night were all neatly piled up on the territory, forming a small mountain.

He casually summoned a group of Little Skeletons, assigned them to collect various materials, and then Zi Liyuan comfortably sat in his exclusive sedan chair, carried by Skeleton Warriors back into the territory.

"In one night, I must have killed tens of thousands of spirits. Opening chests is also quite the physical labor!"

Gazing at the dense array of treasure chests, Zi Liyuan’s smile twitched, but he began the grand task of lifting the lids.

"I miss the days on Blue Star, where I could open two hundred chests at once," he murmured nostalgically.

With a grunt, he casually opened the nearest ordinary treasure chest (white).

Three white orbs fell to the ground, each containing a card.

"Experience cards, well, that’s decent," he commented.

A white-quality experience card could inject 10,000 experience points into the Lord’s experience pool. Though not much, a mosquito’s leg is still meat, isn’t it?

"Goddess of luck, my wife, bless me with some food resource cards first!"

So many chests, surely it wouldn’t be too much to directly harvest food in the tens of thousands?

One by one, the chests were opened, and cards fell out in threes, quickly accumulating a large pile of cards beside Lord Zi.

[Food Resource Card (White): A single-use item, when used, adds 10 units of general-purpose food (white) to the Lord’s Mansion warehouse!]

After opening a whopping one thousand chests, he obtained three thousand [Food Resource Cards (White)], resulting in thirty thousand units of general-purpose food.

For the first round of trading with the gnolls, there would be no need to go hunting beasts or monsters separately.

Next, he prepared to open the remaining resource cards.

Lumber and stone were in no short supply; he had an abundance of that. Instead, it was the Iron and Copper Ingots that were greatly needed.

Not only were they necessary for upgrading the Lord’s Mansion, but they were also required for forging equipment.

The White Jade Skeleton in the blacksmith’s shop had become capable of crafting iron weapons, which would significantly enhance the Skeleton Warriors’ attack power compared to their bone blades.

Of course, with the remaining nine thousand-plus treasure chests, Zi Liyuan divided them to open three thousand chests for Iron Ingot cards, three thousand for Copper Ingot cards, and three thousand for experience cards.

However, what troubled Zi Liyuan was that each White-quality Iron Ingot card or Copper Ingot card yielded only one metal ingot.

But from this haul, the quantities of Iron (white) and Copper (white) both increased by nine thousand each.

The territory’s experience pool surged by an immense 90,000,000 experience points in one go!

Who could fault it when each [Experience Card (White)] added a hefty 10,000 experience points? With nine thousand cards charged up, that was indeed a significant windfall!

"We won’t be short on experience points for a while now, so I can afford to produce a few more Skeleton Warriors and Skeleton Archers," he decided.

After opening over ten thousand treasure chests all morning, Lord Zi promptly hopped into his sedan chair and, accompanied by a band of Skeleton Minions, carried the full thirty thousand units of food towards the Stone Mountain Range.

It was time to trade with the gnolls.

He hoped those big gnolls had plenty of fine ore in their possession.

He had finally upgraded to a LV4 Lord’s Mansion, only lacking 200 fine Iron Ingots (green).

The large troop entered the Stone Mountains majestically, and along the way, they didn’t encounter any foolish monsters; instead, they saw the hardworking Skeleton Collection Squad tirelessly mining stone materials.

The Little Skeletons, working tirelessly 24 hours a day, might be a bit inefficient, but they put in a lot of hours!

Such employees are great to have!

The group marched grandly to the iron mines and saw a crude camp made of piled-up stones.

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A bunch of gnolls were busy working within the camp, with two teams of twelve each patrolling and guarding their tribesfolk around the perimeter.

Upon seeing the large team of skeletons approaching, the gnolls working in the camp immediately panicked.

However, with some comforting from a team of gnolls, the commotion quickly ceased, and they swiftly resumed building the camp.

The Gnoll Priest from yesterday came forward again, accompanied by the same squad and little blonde dog from yesterday, to stand before Zi Liyuan.

"Lord Zi, you’ve finally arrived. We’ve brought out most of the ores; I wonder if you find them satisfactory."

Looking at the impressive Skeleton troop, especially the row of twenty LV40 Skeleton Warriors following behind Zi Liyuan, the Gnoll Priest immediately lowered his posture and even bent his back.

Without strength, the prouder one is, the faster they die.

Gnolls, being a lower-class species, deeply understand the law of survival.

The priest gestured for his fellow gnolls to come forward and set down baskets of ores on the ground for Zi Liyuan to inspect.

Hundreds of baskets of ore, sorted by quality and type.

Zi Liyuan immediately looked toward the higher quality ores.

Ordinary iron ore, ordinary copper ore, fine iron ore, fine copper ore; 25 baskets of each kind, with each basket able to smelt about 10 units of metal ingots.

Pretty good, even better than what Lord Zi had anticipated.

And judging by the situation of these gnolls, there must be plenty more ore in their tribe.

After all, they hadn’t brought out any gold ore.

That’s to be expected, as gold ore is more valuable. This first transaction was, after all, just a test by these gnolls.

Nevertheless, it’s no issue. After all, when gold ore is needed, there will still be some time, and by then, these gnolls will most likely be entirely convinced.

"Very good, let’s exchange according to the ratio we set yesterday.

Ordinary iron ore, one for five units of food;

Ordinary copper ore, one for ten units of food;

What about the exchange ratio for fine iron ore and fine copper ore?

This time, I’ve brought a full 30,000 units of food."

He pointed toward the Skeleton troop behind him, especially as the skeletons set down the food they had brought, the gnolls’ eyes on the other side lit up greedily.

It was clear that this gnoll tribe, hiding in the depths of the mines, simply did not have enough food for them to eat their fill.

"Respected Lord Zi, for fine ore, we can exchange it for five times the amount," the priest said with a smile on his face.

These ores were usually sold secretly to wandering merchants, who would always drastically underpay them.

Although they knew fine ores were more valuable, they had no way to smelt them into ingots, so they couldn’t sell them at a high price.

"Agreed!"

Zi Liyuan nodded satisfactorily. Fine ores in this period, even if these gnolls asked for ten times the price, he would still find a way to acquire them. It was a trade sure to bring profit without loss.

"I brought 30,000 units of food this time. It seems you have more ore that you haven’t brought out. How about using the remaining 7,500 units of food to get me some more fine Iron Ores?"

The one hundred baskets of ore here, once taken, only accounted for 22,500 units of food.

He certainly didn’t plan to haul the food back, so he straightforwardly made his request.

"Very well, Lord Zi, please wait a moment."