If I can entrust a portion of the sales to Adventurers, it's not a bad idea.
The Pristine Aegis... perhaps it's a good option. Since their Guild Master wants to meet me, there's no harm in doing so.
Besides that, what intrigued him even more was that the Guild Master's daughter seemed to want to form a contract with his Dungeon!?
"Contract?"
Sean murmured.
Information about contracts surfaced in his mind.
When an Adventurer contracts with a Dungeon, the Lord can invite them in. Adventurers can serve the Lord, perhaps like mercenaries going to the Dark Tide, or helping to solve some troubles. The Lord can also provide items that enhance power to contracted Adventurers.
The relationship between both parties is mutually beneficial.
Of course, there's a prerequisite: the contracted Adventurer must be valuable to the Lord, and the Dungeon the Adventurer wants to contract with must also be valuable in their eyes.
Speaking of Adventurers applying to contract his Dungeon...
Actually... at this moment, Sean checked the large number of messages Adventurers had left him.
Aside from hundreds of complimentary messages, there were about two hundred contract applications.
"These Adventurers all intend to contract."
Flipping through hundreds of contract messages from different Adventurers, Sean started to feel a bit troubled.
There were too many.
Just selecting them would be a considerable challenge.
Currently, he can contract a maximum of 10 Adventurers.
Choosing 10 people from over two hundred, and he would have to check each Adventurer's information himself to pick the best contract candidates.
That's a lot of work.
Just the selection process would waste a lot of Sean's time.
"Looks like I need to find a solution."
Lost in thought.
Soon, Sean came up with some solutions:
Use a small game to screen candidates!
This small game is something he can currently create directly—Plants vs Zombies.
It could also be used to promote his special plants.
No sooner said than done.
Creating Plants vs Zombies is much simpler than creating Stardew Valley, because its constituent elements are quite simple: a lawn, decorative houses, and zombies and plants.
Zombies are such common monsters that they don't even need special customization.
Simply telling the Biocreationists who specialize in creating zombie creatures to add some special skills would suffice, such as the "Uncle Two" who drops his newspaper and enters a berserk state, or the giant zombie that throws small zombies... Most importantly, for Dr. Zomboss who drives a machine, his suggestion to the Biocreationist was to just add some armor to a zombie and it could pass for Dr. Zomboss.
These items were quickly gathered.
It cost over 5,000 soul crystal.
And the most, most, most important things: plants!
The plants commissioned to Sophia a few days ago had long been manufactured.
Although there were only 10 types, it was completely enough.
Sunflower, Peashooter, Wall-nut, Jalapeno, Hypno-shroom, Doom-shroom, Cabbage-pult, Chomper, Corn Thrower, Watermelon Thrower—these 10 types of plants were all Bronze-level, and Sean also took them to Master ghost's residence to replicate a large batch.
5,000 plants of each type!
Enough for a period of time, but what if they were all given away as rewards?
"My Lord, I will live here from now on, please guide me!"
At this moment, looking at Sophia, who stood before him, had already chosen a house in his castle, and was smiling brightly, Sean rubbed his forehead helplessly.
How did things turn out this way?
Yes, Sophia had now directly moved into his territory, as the Lord's exclusive Biocreationist.
As for the cause, it's a long story.
It was when he went to purchase materials for Plants vs. Zombies, he also picked up the plants, and then, as Master Mabuz had said that day, he brought Sophia with him to Master Mabuz's residence, and then... Master Mabuz suddenly took Sophia as his disciple. What was even stranger was that Mabuz actually made Sophia work for him!
Having just become master and disciple, he threw Sophia to him; it was simply inexplicable!
The turn of events completely exceeded Sean's expectations. When he asked for the reason, Mabuz only gave a mysterious smile.
Then he said, "You have too many ideas. These 9 types of plants are all new species, aren't they!
Quite impressive!
With your creativity, if you keep coming to me for replication, I won't even get a good night's sleep.
How about this, I see this girl has good talent, but she's obsessed with plants and has been stuck at Gold-level without advancing. I find it a bit regrettable, much like my former obsession with creating ghosts.
So I plan to take her as a disciple. This way, I can also teach her methods for mass-producing plants, and then she can help me replicate the plants you need.
Moreover, you can be her teacher."
That was the reason!?
Alright, it sounds somewhat reasonable.
In the future, the plants he needed would surely be in the tens of thousands. If he went to Mabuz for replication every time, not only would it be troublesome, but he would also feel a bit embarrassed.
It was just that this sudden apprenticeship caught him off guard.
"Sophia, what replication techniques did Master Mabuz teach you?"
Sean turned to look at Sophia, who was curiously looking around, and asked.
"Oh, oh, My Lord, it's like this: Master taught me a spell called Dream's Fruity, and it's Gold-level! If I fully master this spell, I can, like Master, directly replicate the plants you need in a dream."
Speaking of this, Sophia immediately perked up, saying enthusiastically.
"Dream's Fruity?"
"Yes."
"Can you use it now?"
"I can, but I can only enter a dream for about 10 minutes, and I can only use this spell 10 times a day. Each time, I can only replicate 100 plants for you."
Speaking of this, Sophia looked a bit embarrassed.
Master replicated thousands at a time in just a few seconds; her current level was vastly different.
Sean was also a bit disappointed to hear this, but then he thought that it was already good that she could use it now; it would be fine once she became proficient later.
"Then, My Lord, how many plants do you need?"
Sophia looked at him expectantly and asked.
"Uh, I don't need any right now. Why don't you go practice first?"
Sean said.
Sophia had just arrived; he couldn't just make her start working, could he?
"Alright then."
"Do you have any other instructions?"
"No, you can go rest first."
"Oh."
Then he sent Sophia away.
After she left, he set about combining the items in his hand to create Plants vs Zombies.
Plants vs Zombies is a level-based game, but the maps are mostly unchanged, so it doesn't take up much space, as there are only 5 lawn lanes.
Creating Plants vs Zombies in the form of a Dungeon, one Plants vs Zombies game uses a 200 square meter yard terrain. His remaining 3 kilometers of land could create 15,000 such Dungeons!
It's simply cheap, easy to make, and space-saving Dungeons!
He doesn't even have to directly lay out over ten thousand Plants vs Zombies Dungeons flat on the ground.
He envisioned constructing them in a tower shape, directly connecting these Plants vs Zombies Dungeons vertically—wouldn't that be better!?
No sooner said than done, he'll try building a hundred-story tower first.