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Everyone was complaining in different ways.
Ethan just raised his brows. He wasn't worried.
Whether he could get into the top three, he wasn't sure, but getting into the top hundred was definitely not a problem.
His only task tonight was to upgrade the villa, sleep well, and wait for tomorrow's ranking.
After a delightful dinner, Ethan reopened the [Upgrade Tree] and checked the villa material list.
[Two-Story Villa Upgrade Requirements: Advanced stone 337/200, Mud 1655/1000, Advanced wood 337/100, Vines 528/200, Glass 14/20, Earth Element Beast Core 26/10, Fire Element Beast Core 17/5, Water Element Beast Core 16/5]
All the main materials were already fully collected, and even more than enough.
Only glass hadn't been refined yet.
But Ethan had collected 1000 portions of quartz sand. If he turned all of it into glass, he would have a thousand pieces of glass.
Thinking of that, he quickly tossed four pieces of charcoal into the alchemy furnace and started it up.
Once it was running, he added 6 portions of quartz sand.
The furnace could refine 100 portions of quartz sand per hour.
But since Ethan urgently needed glass, he put in only 6 portions first, so it would take around four minutes to finish.
After these 6 portions were done, he would add the remaining 94 portions to refine.
This way he wouldn't waste charcoal.
Very soon, the glass was ready.
Ethan chose upgrade decisively.
[Advanced Stone -200, Mud -1000, Advanced Wood -100, Vines -200, Glass -20, Earth Element Beast Core -10, Fire Element Beast Core -5, Water Element Beast Core -5]
[Villa under construction, please wait…]
Golden light flashed inside the stone house.
The next moment, Ethan saw his stone house completely disassemble in the darkness.
Yes. It disassembled.
Pieces drifted upward, turning into countless white light particles that scattered and vanished.
Seeing this, Ethan increasingly felt that this game world was likely created by a higher dimensional existence compared to Earth.
Because with the technology on Earth, whether a warlord or even a whole nation, no one could achieve something like this.
As the stone house disappeared… Ethan stood in the night, watching the area around him flicker with dots of golden light again.
The lights gathered, and his house began forming like Tetris blocks, appearing from nothing and assembling piece by piece.
First came the wooden floor, then the walls made of stone and mud, and even wooden doors and glass windows, all forming automatically.
Even though Ethan stood right on the ground, the moment golden light flashed under his feet, the light brown wooden floor spread beneath him silently. He felt nothing at all.
Everything was bizarre yet strangely reasonable.
Ethan tapped the wooden floor with his toes, hearing the tap-tap sound.
'It seems this is a real wooden floor, not an illusion.'
In the blink of an eye, his villa had fully assembled itself.
It was a two-story building, each floor around a little over a hundred square meters, with a spiral staircase in the southeast corner leading to the second floor.
Ethan walked up to the second floor to check.
The second floor had the same area as the first.
But one-third of it had been turned into a small terrace. Half of the remaining space was a room and a bathroom, spacious and comfortable.
Even his original bed from the stone house had been transferred here.
The bed's style had changed too.
The old retro carved wooden bed had become a simple modern bed.
And the original roughly 2 meters by 2 meters bed had become a 2 by 3 meter bed.
Three people could sleep under one quilt without feeling crowded!
Ethan stepped onto the terrace, like a king inspecting his tiny kingdom.
At the same time, he noticed that the mist within a ten-meter radius outside the villa had receded.
Standing on the terrace, he could see a small garden outside the villa. It was empty, but there was already a visible outline of a swimming pool, though there was no water yet.
On the other side was a plowed plot of land, with soil lined in neat rows.
"It seemed this is meant for planting vegetables or flowers."
But beyond the villa's outermost area was only darkness.
"There isn't even a fence."
"What is going on?"
No fence meant that if he went out at night, wouldn't monsters attack?
At this moment, a flash of golden light.
[Two-Story Villa construction complete!]
And the moment the system announced completion, a pile of exclamation marks appeared in front of him.
Even around the villa's outer border, a ring of small red exclamation marks appeared.
"Could it be…"
Ethan's heart sank.
The villa he built was just a hollow shell, and everything else needed to be built by himself?
Ethan was startled. He stared at a red exclamation mark.
Sure enough.
[Fence: Build level 1 defensive fence. Requirements: Thorns 0/100 (Alternative: Poison thorns 190/100)]
[Swimming pool: Build a basic condensation pool, gathers 100 L of water per hour, not drinkable, not filterable! Requirements: Advanced stone 680/100, mud 655/200, water beast core 11/5, earth beast core 16/2, fire beast core 12/1]
[Mist farm: Build 2 plots of farmland. Each plot can grow one type of crop. Crops grown here gain accelerated growth. Currently can plant 2 types. Upgrade to level 2 requires: Advanced mud 0/200, earth beast core 16/10]
[Pet park: Build level 1 pet park, can house three pets. Pets living here gain accelerated growth. Requirements: Advanced wood 237/100, resin 333/50, earth beast core 16/10]
Just the garden alone could hold so many structures.
But seeing the required materials made Ethan's heart ache.
He had worked so hard to gather these materials, and building everything would send him straight back to the Stone Age, right?
Phew, the rest wasn't urgent.
Ethan looked at the mist outside the villa, listening to the monster howls and restless footsteps within it.
He suspected something might happen tonight.
Especially now that the beginner protection period had ended, whatever the monsters in the mist did at night wouldn't be surprising.
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