Chapter 5

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Su Hao saw all these comments, he lowered his gaze slightly and smiled faintly.

Everything was exactly what he had expected.

After his castle was upgraded and the [Regional Announcement] was made public, the location of his territory as well as his name would be exposed to the eyes of the lords.

In the best case scenario, other lords would come to expand their territory.

In the worst case scenario, the other lords would give him trouble.

Whatever the outcome was, Su Hao could not care less.

After all, he was no longer afraid of the other lords’ sneak attacks and strategies.

He knew that no one could defeat his Holy Light Bugs.

As long as a lord came and attacked his territory, they would only be handing over their own bricks and tiles to his territory.

He welcomed them highly, of course.

At that point, he began opening his [Friend Messages].

Sure enough, just as he had expected, it did not take long for at least a million castle lords to add him as a friend.

However, he rejected all of them.

In his opinion, there was no need to add friends in the early stages of castle development.

After all, no one acknowledged anyone as superior just yet. In a situation where resources were scarce, everyone was selfish and had thoughts only on plundering others. No one could be of genuine help to each other for the time being.

They could always do so later when everyone’s strengths were about the same and a conflict of interest arose.

…

As time passed, the thousands of Holy Light Bugs had multiplied to the tens of thousands!

The next day, the castle’s courtyard was filled with a large number of wild monster corpses.

The harvest was several times more than the previous day!

When Su Hao saw that, he believed that his bugs would soon have the ability to resist the invading darkness.

As usual, Su Hao collected and butchered the corpses of monsters and beasts that had been collected since the previous day. In total, he obtained nearly 265 units of food, as well as various kinds of fur and fangs.

As a level zero lord, his storage capacity was about 100 units.

Thus, 265 units of food was a surplus for Su Hao.

He kept 100 units of food for himself, and put the remaining 165 units of food on the [Trading Channel], like he did the previous day.

The exchange price remained the same.

[One unit of food for 5000 gold]

[165 units of food available]

This time, Su Hao added two more pieces of information, which surprised all the lords who saw the transaction information. They wondered why another person was about to exchange gold coins with them again that day.

Could it be the idiot from the previous day?

In an instant, the chat room descended into chaos as the lords all made their opinions known.

[Hey, are you that idiot who exchanged food for gold coins yesterday? Tell us if you are, Big Shot!]

[You’re not an idiot, Mr. Big Shot! You’re my guardian!]

[Are you treating me like this because you know I don’t have gold coins? My heart hurts!]

[165 units of food now? This is crazy! What kind of troop does this Big Shot have that he’d get so much food when it’s only the second day?]

[Absolutely terrifying! I haven’t even managed to kill a wild beast, but someone else is already progressing so quickly?]

Three seconds later, the outcome was just as Su Hao expected.

All the food he had on offer was snatched up moments after they were posted on the [Trading Channel]!

[Lost one unit of food, gained 5000 gold.]

[Lost two units of food, gained 10,000 gold]

…

After the transaction, his 165 units of food had turned into a total of 825,000 gold coins.

A few seconds later, the comments section immediately took a different direction.

[Has the world gone crazy?!]

[165 units of food were all snatched up in three seconds?]

[Do people have eight hands or something? Or have they all mastered some instakill kind of ability?]

[I’m crying right now! I wouldn’t have thrown the gold coins away if I knew earlier! I’m done for!]

[I haven’t eaten anything all day! I’m so hungry!]

[I found some wild grass to eat…]

[I’ve already eaten all the wild grass available in my place!]

[My troop type is a wild rabbit. They’ll be killed by large wild beasts once I send them out, and it’s a pain to develop them! I’m starving to death here!]

[F*ck! He can only post one comment a day, so he’ll only release food once. If we want to find out whether there’d be more tomorrow? We just have to sit and wait!]

[Anyone who could obtain 165 units of food in such a short period of time would definitely have insanely strong troops!]

…

As night fell, the Blood Moon hung high in the sky.

Countless monsters, magical beasts, and wild beasts were roaring in the dark corners of the world.

More than two billion castle lords were trembling in the protection of their territory, as there was only one day left until the invasion of darkness that happened once every seven days.

They had to think of a way to deal with it!

At the same time, the announcement in the [World Chat Channel] had also changed.

[The invasion of darkness that happens once every seven days is about to begin. Is everyone ready?]

[Special Announcement: the invasion of darkness will begin in six days!]

[After six days, the darkness will invade and the horde of beasts will come!]

[Those who have successfully defended against the invasion of darkness and the monster horde will receive one lottery ticket!]