Chapter 37: Don't Open Treasure Chests if You're Unlucky!

Chapter 37: Don't Open Treasure Chests if You're Unlucky!

After choosing Intermediate Mystic Arts, Qin Muye casually added one free attribute point to Knowledge.

This time, not only did Qin Muye level up to 9, but Magical Blood also leveled up to 8. He learned the skill Basic Pathfinding.

[Basic Pathfinding: Reduces the impact of terrain on movement by 10%]

With this skill, his movement costs would be further reduced. If he could learn Basic Logistics in the future, it would be even better.

As for Evil Language Sprite, it directly gained 3 levels, upgrading Basic Death Understanding, Basic Mystic Arts, and Basic Magic to Intermediate.

[Intermediate Death Understanding: Death magic power +2, mana consumption -2]

And it was only 600 experience points away from reaching level 4, which was good news.

Evil Language Sprite's strength attribute had now reached 50 points, making it formidable.

Truly, it lived up to being a hidden class with maximum attribute allocation.

"My leveling efficiency is really fast. Originally, I lagged behind Magical Blood, but now I've surpassed him by a level."

Magical Blood and Evil Language Sprite only gained 10,000 experience points in this battle, but Qin Muye, in addition to the 10,000 points, also received an extra 65% experience.

"A 2nd Tier unit is worth 30 points of experience. It's a bit low, even the 1st Tier elite is worth 20 points of experience." No need to calculate, dividing the total experience points among the three, each walking corpse was worth 30 experience points.

After a brief look at his points, Qin Muye began exchanging the building blueprints he hadn't completed before.

This time, he prioritized blueprints that increased food production, followed by wood and ore, and finally gold coins.

Surprisingly, he had accumulated two waves of points, essentially fattening him up. He could now exchange all the remaining resource production blueprints.

Then, he worked overtime to learn and construct them all.

Regarding basic buildings, he followed the industrial chain from top to bottom, also exchanging blueprints for dwellings, wells, and other structures.

"Stash away your wealth, and people will live in peace."

Qin Muye understood the importance of these buildings, so he exchanged all of them. With Evil Language Sprite now present, the monster siege event tomorrow would likely be manageable. With 400 Bloodlust monsters appearing, combined with Magical Blood and Evil Language Sprite, there shouldn't be major issues as long as 3rd Tier units didn't show up.

Even if there were 3rd Tier units, under the negative effects from Evil Language Sprite, their strength would significantly drop.

However, he was currently only at the 1st Tier Champion level, and facing 2nd Tier units and heroes was already pushing it. The probability of encountering 2nd Tier elite units or heroes was quite low.

So, he wasn't worried at all.

External threats were no longer a concern, but internal issues had to be addressed.

If the activities in the next week continued to be troublesome, he would need to take advantage of this opportunity to perfect all the basic infrastructure in his territory. Otherwise, these shortcomings would gradually accumulate and eventually cost him his life.

"Magical Blood, make 50 training slots available for Evil Language Sprite and let him train the first batch of elite monsters."

Qin Muye instructed Magical Blood, then explained to Evil Language Sprite, "Don't complain about the number. Your exclusive units are likely support-type. Train 50 as a trial, and when the next batch of units increases, we'll add more. Right now, what we need is direct combat strength. Your support is indispensable, but we also need a certain ratio to focus on frontline power."

"But if your attributes are good, we'll make room for you later."

Both Magical Blood and Evil Language Sprite had no objections to Qin Muye's decision.

Qin Muye's reasoning was sound. Without a sufficient number of Bloodlust monsters, having more support-type units wouldn't be useful, especially if they couldn't engage in combat.

After returning, Magical Blood went to train units, and Evil Language Sprite went to select 50 Bloodmagic Spirits.

After arranging their tasks, Qin Muye opened the Bronze Treasure Chest.

[You've opened the Bronze Treasure Chest (Hero) and obtained:]

[Death Apprentice Magic Book]

[Basic Artifact: Wooden Cart]

[Basic Artifact: Gold Pouch]

[Basic Artifact: Seed Bag]

[Basic Artifact: Spring Eye]

He obtained five items. The Death Apprentice Magic Book was quite disappointing, being essentially an upgraded version of the Basic Death Magic Book. It felt like he had bad luck.

"The value of this Bronze Treasure Chest seems lower than the previous Iron Treasure Chest. Just the Necromancer transfer certificate and Basic Death Magic Book could overshadow these items."

Qin Muye could only attribute this to his own bad luck.

"Next time, maybe let Magical Blood or Evil Language Sprite open it? After all, they naturally have 1 point of luck." Qin Muye felt he lacked luck, so why not let the monsters open it? Perhaps they could cultivate a high-luck monster as a mascot?

"Well, let's leave that for later."

Regarding the high-luck monster research, he needed a Garden Elf. After all, this ability came from the Garden Elf.

The remaining four artifacts were all resource-producing types.

The Wooden Cart increased wood production by 10 units per day, the Gold Pouch provided 500 gold coins, the Seed Bag produced 100 food seeds daily (though the seeds were random), and the Spring Eye increased food production by 10 units per day. Qin Muye considered the Spring Eye somewhat useless, as he had already exchanged a blueprint for a well, ensuring a water supply.

After a brief glance, he stored all the items in the resource warehouse. After all, they would take effect just by being there, and a small gain was still a gain.

"Zero out the points, accumulate some more resources, and then upgrade all the buildings to Level 3. With the rewards from the next two monster siege events, I should have around 40,000 plus 50,000 resources. If needed, I can exchange some in the point shop."

"Once all buildings are at Level 3, I'll upgrade the territory to the 2nd Tier."

At the moment, Qin Muye didn't feel an urgent need to upgrade the territory's tier. Of course, he wanted to, but currently, he was only level 9. He needed to reach level 10 to satisfy the tier upgrade requirement.

Thinking about levels, Qin Muye couldn't help feeling a bit strange. How were those people on the leaderboard leveling up so quickly? They could easily achieve such efficiency.

He knew they were grinding monsters, but how were they doing it?

It wasn't a matter of whether they could defeat the monsters; it was about mobility and the availability of monsters.

If Magical Blood were to kill monsters all day, Qin Muye could easily reach level 30+. However, there weren't that many monsters.

This made Qin Muye puzzled.

(End of this chapter)