Ethan hurriedly opened his magic book and checked the warehouse.
[Inside the villa, the warehouse can be opened directly through the magic book. Once you leave the territory's range, the magic book can only show the contents of the backpack and cannot display items stored in the warehouse.]
The number of earth-type beast cores in the warehouse had actually increased by another 225.
Ethan was overjoyed. Looks like this round of upgrades he'd given his residents had really paid off.
They could finally hunt monsters on their own, and in pretty good numbers too. In one go, they'd managed to get over two hundred beast cores. That meant at least a hundred monsters had been killed to get that many cores. Not bad, not bad at all.
But then, Ethan suddenly thought of something and quickly asked the residents who had come out to welcome him, "That's not right!"
"Hunter Five, don't you guys only have one slide skill?"
"And you can only use slide once a day. How did you deal with so many monsters?"
"Reporting to the lord."
Hunter Five and the others scratched their heads a little awkwardly and said, "Actually, most of the beast cores weren't obtained by us. Our group only got a little over twenty cores, and even then, it was through everyone working together. Two people even got injured before we managed to get that many cores."
"Are the injured ones okay?", Ethan asked immediately.
He'd already lost one resident today. There absolutely couldn't be any more population loss.
"They're fine, just superficial wounds," Hunter Five said gratefully, "The doctor miss has already treated them. They should be fully recovered in a couple of days."
"Mm, that's good," Ethan finally let out a breath of relief, "Then who got the remaining hundred-plus beast cores?"
At this moment,
Stone Six and the others finally raised their hands high and said, "Reporting to the lord, we got those!"
"Oh?", Ethan turned his head and looked at Stone Six with some confusion, "How did you get them?"
"After all, you're only ten people. At most, you could use slide five more times than Hunter Five's group. Even if you really pushed it, that's only ten goblins. Even if every single one dropped an earth-type beast core, that'd only be twenty or so at best, right?"
"Hehe!"
Stone Six gave a simple, honest grin and said, "Lord, it was kind of a coincidence, really."
"At the time, I just happened to really need to pee, so I was looking for a place to take care of business. Who would've thought I'd spot a green-hatted guy sneaking up from underground."
"I panicked and sprayed him in the face with my pee… cough! cough! no, that's not it!"
"I mean, I panicked and grabbed my big cleaver and chopped him!"
"But I'd only just finished dismantling the goblin's corpse…"
"Good grief! Another goblin popped its head out of the ground."
"Without saying a word, I chopped that one too."
"And then I realized…"
"It was like these goblins could never be chopped clean."
"So later on, I just called everyone over. We all chopped goblin heads together, chopping and chopping and chopping, until no more goblins popped out."
"That's how we ended up with so many beast cores."
'So that is it.'
Ethan finally understood. The reason Stone Six and the others could kill so many goblins was purely luck.
Otherwise, with their current trash-tier combat strength, facing a huge group of goblins, who would wipe out whom would still be hard to say.
There was no way they could normally chop down over a hundred like cutting radishes.
"Not bad! Not bad!"
Ethan nodded repeatedly, delighted, "Cook Four, pass down the order. Tonight, we're adding extra dishes for our warriors."
"Yes, Lord!"
Cook Four responded.
Only then did Ethan take out the beast cores from the warehouse, dump all the plant ash into the mud, and produce 9,900 portions of advanced mud. After that, he upgraded the farm.
[-200 Advanced Mud, -10 Earth-type Beast Cores]
[Mist Farm upgraded to Level 2. Can plant 10 types of crops.]
[Mist Farm: Now has 10 plots of farmland. Each plot can plant one type of crop. Crops grow faster within this farm. Currently can plant up to 10 different crops. Upgrade to Level 3 requirements: Advanced Mud 9700/1000, Earth-type Beast Cores 223/50]
Ethan took a glance. The materials needed to upgrade the farm to Level 3 didn't seem like much.
He might as well upgrade again.
[Upgrade!]
[-1000 Advanced Mud, -50 Earth-type Beast Cores]
[Mist Farm upgraded to Level 3. Can plant 50 types of crops!]
[Mist Farm consecutive upgrade achieved. Gained Plant Double Growth reward.]
[Mist Farm: Now has 50 plots of farmland. Each plot can plant one type of crop. Crops grow faster within this farm! Currently can plant up to 50 different crops. Upgrade to Level 4 requirements: Advanced Mud 8700/2000, Earth-type Beast Cores 173/100 (Special Effect: Plant growth speed +100%)]
"Oh? I even got a bonus reward. That's pretty nice."
Seeing this reward, Ethan's urge to keep upgrading flared up, but unfortunately, there weren't many earth-type beast cores left. He still needed to run another round of lord lending tonight. Tomorrow was the Extreme Cold Night.
He had to make sure that as many players in District 7 survived as possible.
So… Ethan decided to stop here for today.
"Logistics!"
Before dinner, Ethan called Logistics over and said, "Before I left this morning, I asked you to have people prepare a grave. Is it ready?"
"Reporting to the lord, it's already prepared."
After speaking, Logistics raised her hand and had four team members carry out a stretcher. On it were the belongings and remains of Resident No. 39, who had sacrificed his life when Ethan attacked the mud monsters.
"Everyone follow. We're heading to the cemetery to pay tribute to the fallen warrior."
"Yes, Lord!"
To show respect for the deceased, Ethan also dismounted from the bone horse. He handed the reins in his hand to Logistics.
As for the scarecrow head he was holding, the guy who had originally been barely hanging on suddenly lit up when he saw Logistics, ["I want a hug from Miss Logistics too."]
Of course, the scarecrow's voice could only be heard inside Ethan's head.
Ethan hadn't wanted to bother with it, but seeing how its head had been flattened and the rest of its body had become pitifully shattered after several battles, he could only stuff its big head into Logistics' hands and say, "Logistics, help me hold onto this."
"If you have time after dinner, help weave a body for this guy."
"Uh…"
Logistics blushed slightly and said, "Well, Lord, I think my craftsmanship isn't as good as Cook Four's. How about I let Cook Four help weave it?"
["No! I don't want Cook Four. I only want Miss Logistics!"]
The scarecrow screamed like a lunatic inside Ethan's head. Ethan rolled his eyes at it speechlessly and said, "It's fine. I think your skills are pretty good. Look how well you've trimmed the flowers and plants in the garden. You do it."
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