Chapter 100: Go Seek Your Fortune!
"Exploration Mission: Explore Troll Valley. For every recorded mineral deposit, resource point, troll camp, or terraiure, you'll receive the corresponding bounty!"
"Small vein: Reward of 100 gold s, and enjoy 5% of the profits for 10 years."
"Medium vein: Reward of 500 gold s, and enjoy 3% of the profits for 20 years."
"Large vein: Reward of 3,000 gold s, and enjoy 1% of the profits for 50 years."
"Discovery of basic magical materials or pnt resources: Reward of 5 gold s, and enjoy 5% of the profits for 10 years."
"Discovery of intermediate magical materials or pnt resources..."
"Discovery of..."
"Terrain exploration: Troll Valley is divided into 1ions."
"For each region, the first 10 pieces of information collected."
"Report information using the unication spell; locations will be assigned based on the reported information, duplicate information will be deducted, and new information firmed."
"Each region's bounty—1,000 gold s!"
"Discovery of small (under 10) troll camps: Reward of 5 gold s!"
"Discovery of medium (under 50) troll camps: Reward of 50 gold s!"
"Discovery e (under 500) troll camps: Reward of 1,000 gold s!"
"Discovery of a troll tribe (over 1,000): Reward of 3,000 gold s!"
"Alright, folks, go to Troll Valley and seek your fortune!"
Waving to the crowd, Alice finished announg the lord's new adventurer guide auro her adventuring party amid cheers of excitement.
Holding her newly acquired ented crossbow, Alice recalled the lord's eager attitude, amazed at his vast wealth. Fag the curious gazes of her teammates, she cleared her throat and said:
"The 500-gold bounty will be split among the 30 of us."
Seeing the smiles oeam member's face, Aliced at the plex expression on Chris's fad shared her long-sidered pn:
"Also, I'm pnning to officially establish our adventuring team. After splitting the money, anyone who wants to stay with me do so."
"Our focus will be on Troll Valley, where there will be even more wealth!"
"Of course, sidering the dangers of Troll Valley, you must be at least Level 5 to join the exploration."
"Those below Level 5 will tio train and adventure iskirts of the Dark Forest."
"..."
As Alice spoke fidently, the initially joyful adventurers began to eain different thoughts.
While the excited adventurers prepared to delve deeper into Troll Valley, Bay Vilge was making its own moves.
Lumberyard workers led the way.
They felled trees that blocked the path.
Nearly 2,000 kobolds followed behind them, w busily.
Some cleared stumps, some swept away brambles, others removed fallen leaves, and still more brought gravel from afar, paving the road.
The keen-eyed adventurers quickly realized what was happening, with a trace of disbelief in their eyes:
"Are they building a road to Troll Valley?"
Adventurers who had withe lord's graures became even more excited, diving headfirst into the depths of the Dark Forest with dreams of striking it rich.
"Ding! Your hired adventurer has killed a forest wolf, earning you 15 experience points!"
"Ding! Your hired adventurer has killed a forest wolf leader, earning you 50 experience points!"
"Ding..."
The pleasant sound of experience points notifications echoed tinuously in Matthew's ears. As he watched the increasing experience points, he stroked his thoughtfully:
"The territory's expansion is on track, and the accumution of living supplies is steadily improving."
"The potential for the territory's growth depends oher the adventurers locate that ine."
Ihe reason he had ied so much to guide adveo help him develop Troll Valley...
Was to locate the open-pit ine near "Steel " in the valley from his memories.
On the surface, he had been direg the kobolds to dig waterways and build roads, but iy, they had already beguly mining iron.
Just having mountains of iron ore wouldn't fetch a good price.
But if the open-pit ine in Troll Valley could be found, bining the two would unlock the real growth potential of the territory.
To prepare for the uping "Orsught," Matthew had to accelerate the development of the territory.
This was also why he led the soldiers to proactively strike and elimihe main force of the troll tribe.
With enough steel, the territory could fe better ons and equipment for the soldiers, produce more heavy crossbows, and begin mass training and building an army!
However, Matthew wasn't in a rush.
Without enough strength to protect it, even the best-developed territory would be just a gift for others.
This brought him back to the inal question—how to improve his bat strength as much as possible without leveling up.
"How I vert these 40,000-plus experience points into skill or specialty experience points, or even attribute points?"
Searg his memory, Matthew actually found two methods!
Cheg the time, Matthew left the study and handed a rge stack of Are knowledge test papers to a still-drowsy Rebecca:
"Give these to Lianna and tell her I'll check them tonight."
The groggy little fool nodded bnkly, pig up Yaya in her arms as she wobbled off to another room. Mattheorried she might fall asleep halfway there.
Soon, Steward Ralph returned.
His presence had grown stronger, and his every movement exuded a faint aura of authority.
Matthew was surprised to find that Ralph had reached Level 5, just oep away from being a mid-tier professional.
It seemed that the rapid development of the territory had brought Ralph some unique insights.
As usual, Ralph reported on the progress of the expansion, the stockpiling of supplies, and the stru of houses for the batch of settlers.
Finally, he handed over the materials list Adamsmith had delivered yesterday, carefully reminding:
"Mr. Adamsmith mentiohat someone has taken notice of him."
Matthew raised an eyebrow, quickly uanding why. Adamsmith had been selling a rge number of blood-replenishing potions, and even uhe Ser Family's had still attracted attention.
Ihis was the reality!
However, Mattherepared for this. As he reviewed the basic materials, his eyes fell on 50 earth elemental crystals, and a bolt of inspiration struck!
He vaguely remembered hearing a story, a topic of banter among pyers.
In the first two months of the game, a pyer with extraordinary luck had actally joined an au of reli Blood Moon City.
During that au, the pyer spent 100 gold s to buy a pile of golem parts.
It turned out that while dismantling the golem parts, the pyer found a treasure worth tens of thousands of gold s—a legendary earth elemental crystal!
"Besides the intrinsic value of the legendary earth elemental crystal, it has a crucial use—building aal energy pool to power a mage tower!"
Matthew's heart skipped a beat. He calcuted the time and realized it was only two days away.
"Should I leave the territory? Would that give the mastermind an opportunity?"
Matthew ched his fists—he had to go!
"I 't live in fear forever, and there might be an opportunity…"
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