Chapter 9

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At the same time, several militiamen placed roasted meat and dew from the Holy Healing Spring on the third-floor wooden table.

Su Hao walked up and prepared to eat.

The militiamen did not dare to delay a second longer and nodded before hurrying downstairs to continue the construction.

By that point, the Holy Light Bugs would frequently come back to his territory with food for the militia.

The castle that was originally a thatched cottage now had an obvious ‘production line’.

The Holy Light Bugs hunted for food outside and brought them back for the militia, while the militia’s loyalty was maintained at a good level and they were actively building.

Sturdy buildings could protect the castle and their castle lord better.

On the other hand, Su Hao could also exchange food for gold coins. When the business mode started, he could purchase even more resources.

A set of good development routes was clearly not available on the entire continent at present.

The castle lords within that area were probably unable to pass the first production line mission—sending their troops out to hunt. The non-completion led to the lack of progress and development, because the endless continent was a foreign world that was even larger than earth.

Every citizen would first have their own territory, and in the darkness outside the territory were countless monsters and magical beasts. At the same time, there was also the inevitable Eternal Night!

Furthermore, the castle lords had all sorts of random types of troops.

There were humans, dwarves, elves, dragons…

There were also half-beasts, spirits, half-dragons…

However, most of the castle lords were randomly assigned mid- to low-level troops.

Only a small number of lucky castle lords were randomly assigned to high-level, top-level troops.

For example, Qin Shuang’s White Unicorn was an A-Grade troop.

As for Su Hao’s Holy Light Bugs, they could be considered as SSS-Grade!

Even though the Holy Light Bugs were an SS-Grade troop type, they were the only one of their troop type and no one on the entire continent had them!

The SS-Grade Holy Light Bugs, had the ability to divide and devour without limit. They also had the buff of ‘uniqueness’.

They had the ability to surpass God-level soldiers, which meant they were SSS-level soldiers!

Their existence surpassed all the ordinary troops on the entire continent!

Out of the two billion castle lords in existence, he was the only one who could own an SS-Grade Holy Light Bug!

One could imagine that his ability at that time was something that no one in the entire continent could surpass!

He knew that when he saw all the messages in his [Friend Messages].

He discovered that the remark in the chat box at the top was:

[White Unicorn]

That was an A-Grade troop.

Curious, he clicked on it and found that it was another boring topic—he was asked why he stored all those gold coins, so he decided to just exit the chat.

Furthermore, he did not have the patience to look at the chat box below, so he rejected all the friend requests at once and deleted them.

After all, to him, there was no need to make any friends in the early stages of development.

When other lords approached them in the early stages, it was obvious that they were doing it for the sake of benefits, making it impossible to tell whether they were an enemy or a friend.

He had already finished his lunch, so he stood up and walked out of the castle.

He saw that the two arrow towers standing in the far end in front of his castle were obviously much stronger than before.

The arrow tower, which had been firing one arrow per second earlier, was now firing more.

His militia’s building ability was very strong indeed.

In just one morning, the two arrow towers in front of the castle had been upgraded to level two.

About 503 stacks of wood and other resources had been used.

Originally, the arrow could only fire once per second and each arrow only dealt 10 HP.

On the other hand, the level two arrow tower could fire two arrows in a second, and the damage of each arrow had already increased to 20 HP.

A wild beast with 500 HP would require 50 seconds of attack from the arrow tower, but for the same 500 HP beast, the level two tower could fire two arrows at once, and each arrow’s attack power would be twice the original. If it shot two arrows at once, it would be four times the original. Therefore, he only needed 12.5 seconds to kill a beast with 500 HP.

His combat strength had increased by four times!

If a level two arrow tower was already quite strong, one could already imagine how strong a higher-level tower was.

Upon seeing that, Su Hao felt even more confident to face the invading darkness in a few days.

In addition, he projected that his castle would be upgraded in the next two days.

He immediately opened his personal information to check the current situation.

[Holy Light Castle: Level 2]

[Energy stones: 19]

[Mutant crystals: 2]

[To upgrade to level three, 30 energy stones and 2 mutant crystals are required.]

He was only short of 11 energy stones.

And according to the Holy Light Bug’s combat ability, 11 energy stones would only take a day at most.

When he thought of that, he walked to the Holy Light Spring to take a look.

At that moment, thousands of Holy Light Bugs were already healed. Once healed, they would fly back into the darkness automatically.

A golden light flashed in the darkness, and the Holy Light Bugs soon disappeared.

…

The next day, Su Hao woke up to collect the corpses of wild beasts as usual.

The number of wild beast corpses outside the castle was increasing day by day!

He had collected 413 units of meat, 41 pieces of fur, 16 energy stones, and 0 mutant crystals.

Everything was just as he had expected, and it would only take a day at most to level up.

The next second, a message popped up in su Hao’s vision!

[35 energy stones and 2 mutant crystals have been accumulated.]

[You’ve met the upgrade requirements. 30 energy stones, 2 mutant crystals.]

[Do you want to upgrade the castle?]

[Yes/No]

“Yes.” Su Hao replied.

[Upgrade successful!]

[5 energy stones and 0 mutant crystals left.]

[Current Castle Level: Level 3]

[To upgrade to Level 4, 50 energy stones and 4 mutant crystals are required!]

Then, a red light flickered.

Su Hao saw that the wooden castle in front of him had now turned into red diamonds.

The roof and the walls were all made of red bricks.

The height and the other furnishings were the same.

The only difference was that the wooden stakes had been turned into stone bricks, and the castle had become a little sturdier.

Upon seeing that, Su Hao read the last line and understood that the castle’s level-ups were getting harder and harder.

However, he was not worried because the Holy Light Bugs’ development speed would definitely be much quicker than the increase in the difficulty of upgrading the castle.

At that moment!

Nearly 10,000 holy light bugs suddenly fell from the sky!

They hurriedly flapped their broken wings, let out a bitter cry, and immediately flew into the Holy Healing Spring!

At the sight of that, Su Hao’s eyes drooped and a trace of coldness flashed within his expression!

The situation was looking bad.

More and more Holy Light Bugs were getting injured.

Only a few thousand of them were injured the last time around, but that number had increased to more than 10,000!