Chapter 116 Pnting Devil’s Root

  The battle was over.

  The soldiers and adventurers tio keep themselves busy.

  They had to clear the trees and shrubs around the camp to create an open buffer zohout any cover.

  Everyone worked diligently, knowing that the better the camp was built, the safer they would be.

  Troll Valley was full of danger, with trolls and even mid to high-level magical creatures roaming everywhere.

  This ogre camp would be a safe haven for everyoo rest areat if needed.

  After dealing with the troll corpses, Old Vilge Chief Field approached the mysterious and powerful are master for advid received the order to build the camp.

  “With the way the lord is nurturing us, our territory will surely produce more spellcasters iure!”

  “There will be people as powerful as the are master!”

  Suppressing his excitement, Field ahe people to haul over the trees felled by the female ogres.

  Old Vilge Chief Field expertly gave orders, cutting the trees of various sizes, trimming off the excess branches, and stag them ly.

  He also marked the boundaries for expanding the camp, leading people to dig a small trench to outlihe stru zone.

  He handed over the digging work to the eager Jifan.

  The female ogres, who had just finished chopping down all the rge trees in the designated area and enjoyed a satisfying meal of salted fish,

  saw the hundreds of captured, crippled trolls and quickly became docile.

  Being alive and having food—life was already pretty good!

  So, when Jifan approached with a rge bag of bck bread, he easily led away 40 female ogres.

  They were to dig a trench around the entire camp as part of the foundation for the defensive walls.

  The chubby ogre cubs followed along as well, and Jifan pyfully hahem a bunch of tools, using food to ehem to start "huffing and puffing" as they learned.

  “Work! Trade for bread!”

  This became the ogres' new rallying cry!

  Although the female ogres’ work was rough and unrefiheir serious attitude was unmistakable.

  To Old Vilge Chief Field, this was a very positive sign, and he couldn’t help but think to himself:

  “Kobolds are great, but they’re too small and only do light work. These ogres, oher hand…”

  Hearing this, Alice couldn't help but twitch the er of her mouth:

  “As expected, it’s not just the lord of Bay Territory who’s extraordinary; even the professionals and soldiers here are strange.”

  “Normally, adventurers would run the moment they see ogres!”

  “Who would go after them, defeat them, capture them, and then force them to work for them?”

  “And which territory’s soldiers would willingly marto dangerous forests and elimihreats before they could grow?”

  Just as she was thinking this, Alice heard her teammates eagerly ask:

  “Captain, while the trolls are scattered, shouldn’t we go on the offensive?”

  “Yeah, every captured troll is worth 50 gold s…”

  “We could use patrol duty as an excuse, head out, and finish off those fleeing trolls nearby…”

  “Exactly, this opportunity won’t st long—if we don’t act quickly, the trolls will escape…”

  “…”

  Looking at her team, who were itg to hunt trolls, Alice suddenly realized.

  What kind of normal adventurers would actively chase down trolls in a dangerous, dark forest?

  If none of them were normal, then there was nothing strange about it!

  Having thought it through, Alice chuckled to herself and led her team out on a “patrol.”

  While everyone else outside was busy, Matthew, inside his tent, was carefully examining the devil’s root in his hand.

  Its gray-brown skin was slightly wrinkled.

  More than ten long roots covered its surface.

  After peeling back the skin, the interior revealed grayish-white flesh.

  Both in appearand texture, it looked nearly identical to the devil’s root Matthew knew.

  However, in this world, its value was much higher.

  After careful observation, the data dispy clearly provided enough information.

  Devil’s Root, Basic Magit.

  ption Effect: Removes low-level toxins, restores vitality/mana.

  Potion Usage: Basitidote, restoration potion, recovery potion, nutrient supplemec.

  Habit Analysis: Prefers sunlight, thrives on excrement as fertilizer, requires earth element replenishment for rooting and growth.

  Pnting Requirements: Bury it 2 meters underground, 1 square meter of root, replenish about 1 kilogram of fertilizer per month, clear surface growth and add more fertilizer every three months.

  Normal Yield: 300 pounds per acre every six months.

  Market Price: 50 silver s per pound!

  Matthew raised an eyebrow in pleasant surprise, pying with the devil’s root in his hand, hardly able to believe it:

  “Devil’s root has a wide range of uses. It be eaten directly or used as an ingredient for potions…”

  “The key is that it be grown in rge quantities?”

  “With a potential annual yield of 600 pounds per acre, it could increase even more iure!”

  “This is some valuable stuff!”

  Matthew immediately thought about expanding the produ of devil’s root on a rge scale.

  In fact, if he established a special produ base, devil’s root could bee another pilr of his overseas industry!

  A yield of 600 pounds per acre could gee 300 gold s in revenue.

  For others, pnting devil’s root underground might be a major hassle.

  Both pnting and harvesting would require signifit manpower and resources.

  But things were different in Bay Territory—obedient kobolds meant there were virtually no bor or material costs.

  Perhaps the only expense would be the ption of earth elements to replenish the devil’s root.

  With 300 gold s in value, the profit could easily reach 250 gold s!

  An acre of nd could gee 250 gold s annually!

  What about ten acres?

  What about a hundred acres?

  The untapped wilderness surrounding Bay Territory stretched for millions of acres!

  Most importantly, devil’s root wasn’t like alchemical potions ical items—it didn’t rely heavily on the market or sales els.

  Even if it couldn’t be sold, turning it into a nutrient supplement for the territory’s professionals would still be incredibly valuable.

  Moreover, what Matthew valued most was using it to build reserves, providira meals for the children ierritory, and nurturing more professionals!

  Recruiting talent could indeed help the territrow quickly.

  But only by cultivating homegrown talent, stantly geing fresh blood, could the territory develop healthily and steadily!

  In his past life, Matthew had suffered from a ck of stable foundations.

  He had been on par with his enemies in terms of strength, but his unstable foundation caused him to lose everything.

  This time, Matthew was determio y a strong foundation and maintain perfect trol over his eerritory!

  What you hold in your hand is what truly belongs to you!

  Once his strength was firmly established, he would settle the score with them all!

  FAL