CHAPTER 59: CHAPTER 21: MILITARY IN ITS PRIME

The function of the Fishman Camp is very similar to establishing a resource collection point in the territory itself. Every day, 100 Little Fishmen will collect fish from the lake as food and then kill all the Wild Monsters inside and outside the lake, collecting the treasures that drop.

Lin Rui was more evil than other Lords, not only taking the food and war spoils collected by the Little Fishmen, but not sparing even the Little Fishmen themselves, wanting to squeeze out all of their value, slaying monsters for treasures.

In this manner, the scale of the Fishman Camp was insufficient; just one hundred Little Fishmen could explode a few hundred Realm Coins? So he planned to enhance this construction blueprint.

Due to the afternoon’s planned territory exploration, Lin Rui decided to put all his wealth into acquiring resources.

He injected fifty thousand Realm Coins and four thousand food units into the store to purchase gems.

After this wave of investment, the territory resources were only left with 14856 Realm Coins and 3676 food.

The four thousand units of food were rapidly emptied. Lin Rui waited another dozen minutes and finally purchased 99 gems.

Lin Rui took the gems and closed the market trading interface, glancing before closing at the store’s follower count of 145829.

Enhancing the Fishman Camp requires 1000 of various resources and 100 gems. A single sacrifice made the already poor territory even worse, as the gems were finally reduced to zero, and the food fell to 2676.

But having spent so much, the territory genuinely became prosperous, initially only possessing a dilapidated city hall amidst ruins, but now dotted with village houses, grain silos, and divinely radiant buildings, bustling with development, showing an image of thriving growth.

Within the territory alone, there are around twenty new buildings, looking pleasingly organized. Everyone could see something named hope blooming on this land.

By the shores of the distant lake, Lin Rui planned for the enhanced Little Fishman Camp.

Three farmers investing 12 hours to build this Little Fishman Camp, as this enhanced camp consumed over 2000 of various resources, spanning three to four acres, surrounded by branch-constructed fences, with many Little Fishmen wooden cabins inside, and the camp produces 1000 Little Fishmen daily.

It’s a pity the territory is mountain-backed rather than ocean-backed; otherwise, Lin Rui could let the sea monsters know who the true Sea King is.

However, the lake within the territory is over 100 kilometers wide, considered a shimmering large lake, not comparable to a national scenic spot like Dongting Lake, but similar in size to lakes like Weishan Lake.

Even more crucially, with the expansion of the territory, Lin Rui has the possibility of converting this lake into an inner lake within his territory, exclusively controlling it.

It will be even more convenient to develop then.

However, currently, the territory’s resources are depleted; after building the enhanced Fishman Camp, consuming over two thousand of various resources, all resources are nearly exhausted.

Lin Rui must go out to explore and collect resources, or else tomorrow the territory will have to abruptly halt its development.

Before leaving, Lin Rui arranged for the fishermen to take out the fertile feed exploded by the Fishman Hero, spilling over a thousand pounds once in the lake, fertilizing the fish, then ensuring that the store’s funds were slowly acquiring gems, and confidently setting aside territory construction, assembling his entire army, intending to explore the ruins and see what’s inside.

The army of the Golden Pansy Domain is now very strong, including nine Knights, two Priest Woodland Fairies, two Casters Lin Rui and Audrey, and six permanent Summoned Creatures, which are Elite-level Water Elemental Battle Dancer, Elite-level Undead Summoned Creature Snow White, Vampire Gentleman, Excellence Level Summoned Creature Grand General, Fur Ball, and Makabaka.

There are nineteen elites at the Excellence Level and above alone.

Regardless of quality, merely this quantity is enough to make other Lords despair, unable to catch up.

But it’s not over; at the ruins entrance, Audrey finally brought out his Undead Army.

Worrying about causing fear among the people, this Undead Army has always stayed at the territory’s outskirts, including one squad of zombies and one squad of Skeleton Warriors.

The army composition of "Era of Civilization" is twelve people per squad, one hundred twenty people per company, one thousand two hundred people per battalion, twelve thousand people per division, one hundred twenty thousand people per army corps, and beyond this, there’s no fixed composition. Three hundred thousand or thirty thousand could be an army group, as long as the hero can command them.

Lin Rui couldn’t yet fathom an army corps scale, but he could dream of a Division size of twelve thousand cavalrymen.

After all, the territory now has nine Knights, the Golden Pansy Family’s first Cavalry Division is established... emmmm, at a thousandth.

Undead aren’t renowned for single-unit power, so this squad of zombies and Skeleton Warriors are Tier Zero Ordinary units.

Audrey’s Commander Value is 45, able to command 450 of such ordinary units, but she must reserve some Commander Value to ensure summoning with Trait Key of the Spirit Realm.

[Key of the Spirit Realm · Elite-level Trait: The existence of the Moonlight Apostle is the key to unlocking the Undead World. Every moment wandering Undead hopes to enter the world of the living through her anchor point. Each point of Soul Strength attracts one randomly ranked Undead daily to accept her contract, summoning without cost. (The strongest Attribute Value cannot surpass the Moon Apostle’s Soul Strength limit.)]

The greatest feature of this trait is its instability; with bad luck, all she finds are Skeleton Soldiers.