As time passed.
Night fell, and Su Ye finally woke up, looking at the burning campfire.
Su Ye stretched and said, “You’ve worked hard, Talys.” “Your Majesty, this is what I should do,” Talys said with an expressionless face, still wearing that same emotionless look.
Su Ye didn’t say anything else; that was just how Talys’s personality was.
He opened the chat channel and checked his private messages.
Most of them were private messages from spammers, and damn, these messages were the most numerous.
He went through the motions of blocking and deleting them all.
After checking that there were no important messages, he opened his friend chat panel.
Su Ye only had one friend right now, and that was Little Merchant.
“She sent another message.
What is it?
Did she find the Seed of Technology?” Su Ye looked at it with some curiosity.
“Huh?” A trace of surprise and shock appeared in Su Ye’s eyes.
[Little Merchant: Are you interested in a troop refresh recruitment card, Big Shot?] [Little Merchant: Are you not here?
If you’re interested, we can chat privately.] “troop refresh recruitment card?” Su Ye took a deep breath.
Someone had already obtained one of these things?
However, there were billions of Novice Lords in this batch, so it wasn’t strange that someone had obtained such an item given the large base.
How should one describe the troop refresh recruitment card?
For some lords, this item wasn’t as useful as a resource card, but for Su Ye, it was a god-tier card.
Don’t think that no one would sell this; people were selling it.
For ordinary lords, their daily recruitment quota was enough, and sometimes they couldn’t even use it all.
Don’t forget that troops also need to consume food.
It was already quite an achievement for an ordinary lord to be able to maintain their daily troop recruitment expenses.
In fact, most lords couldn’t even sustain the daily expenses of their troops; that was the normal situation.
Therefore, for ordinary lords, this card was not as practical as a high-level food resource card.
They weren’t lacking in troop quantity; they were lacking in supplies—actual, tangible supplies.
[Otherworld Traveler: Are you there?
How much for this thing?
How many do you have?] Su Ye sent the message directly.
On Little Merchant’s side, seeing Su Ye’s message, she immediately abandoned her private chat with another lord.
[Little Merchant: Yes, yes, yes, I’m here, Big Shot.
I have five troop refresh recruitment cards in my hand.
The price is 1000 gold coins each.
What do you think, Big Shot?] Su Ye looked at the message from Little Merchant.
Five troop refresh recruitment cards.
A glint appeared in his eyes.
Five cards.
If he refreshed the Fallen Heaven Sanctuary…
He would be able to get an additional 150 units of Fallen Heaven troops.
[Otherworld Traveler: That works.
I want as many troop refresh recruitment cards as you have.
Please help me save them and acquire more.] Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the message from Su Ye, her eyes turning into gold coin symbols.
[Little Merchant: Of course, no problem, Big Shot.
I’m currently looking for the Seed of Technology you wanted, and I should be able to find it before long.
I’ve requested a trade; please accept it, Big Shot.] [Otherworld Traveler: Good.] Su Ye looked at the trade request that popped up and immediately chose to accept.
He obtained the five troop refresh recruitment cards.
Just as Su Ye was about to close the chat panel, he suddenly remembered that he also needed the Seed of Darkness.
[Otherworld Traveler: By the way, please help me acquire the Seed of Darkness as well.
Price is not an issue.] [Little Merchant: Received!!] In Lin Xiaoxiao’s territory, looking at the 5,000 gold coins that had arrived in her account, she realized that the troop refresh recruitment cards she had acquired for 500 gold coins had yielded a tenfold return.
Being able to earn this money was her ability.
Su Ye didn’t have such extensive connections, and even if he did, it wouldn’t matter; without her, Su Ye wouldn’t have been able to get these troop refresh recruitment cards.
“This guy’s troops are not simple.
Sanctuary?
Legendary?
Or Epic, legend?” Lin Xiaoxiao thought curiously.
Only with troops of this caliber was using a troop refresh recruitment card the most cost-effective.
As for using troop refresh recruitment cards on troops below Sanctuary rank, it was possible, but only if one had enough resources to feed the troops.
Coupled with the gold coins Su Ye had, Lin Xiaoxiao wasn’t stupid; she naturally knew that Su Ye’s troop rank was not low.
But so what?
Every year, a few genius lords emerged among the Novice Lords; it wasn’t anything strange.
“Compared to him, this guy called One Leaf Knows Autumn is a complete moron.
I’m a merchant, do you understand what a merchant is?
And he’s asking for credit, setting up a gambling agreement?
He must have read too many novels, what a fool.” Lin Xiaoxiao looked at another friend chat bar speechlessly.
It kept flashing with messages.
If he wanted to freeload, he should just ask, but a gambling agreement?
Who would gamble with you?
Am I sick?
You have nothing, yet you open your mouth asking for a gambling agreement?
He’s just a lunatic.
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Xiaoxiao directly deleted and blocked One Leaf Knows Autumn.
Get as far away as possible, you lunatic.
In Ye Xiu’s territory.
Ye Xiu looked at the message he had sent to Lin Xiaoxiao, a trace of confusion on his face.
The other party had suddenly stopped talking.
Why?
“In my past life, this person was a famous big merchant and was deeply tied in cooperation with Otherworld Traveler, which allowed that guy to always have enough resources to stay ahead of other Novice Lords.
In this life, there’s no reason I can’t replicate that.” Ye Xiu looked at the chat interface with an ambitious expression.
In the previous life, according to the information he knew, this Little Merchant and Otherworld Traveler formed an alliance from the novice period until the very end.
Their alliance never stopped; instead, it grew bigger and bigger.
What Ye Xiu was thinking was to first win over Little Merchant, then go and handle Otherworld Traveler, turning these two lords with massive resources into his own Vassal Lords.
This way, they could provide him with a continuous stream of nutrients.
After a long while, Ye Xiu looked at his chat interface.
Did the person on the other side fall asleep?
Thinking of this, Ye Xiu tried to send a message, but ended up receiving a system prompt.
[Ding: You have been blocked by Little Merchant.
You cannot trade or chat privately with her!] Ye Xiu’s expression stiffened.
What was going on?
Why was he blocked?
“Didn’t that guy Otherworld Traveler say that when he first met Little Merchant, he used this kind of ‘getting something for nothing’ gambling agreement?
Could it be that guy was just bragging?” Thinking of this, Ye Xiu’s face turned dark.
“That guy?” Ye Xiu rubbed his temples, carefully recalling Otherworld Traveler’s actions—saying things like ‘I don’t love money,’ ‘I’m not interested in money,’ ‘I’m face-blind, I can’t tell who is pretty,’ and ‘The thing I miss most is when I was in school and carefree.’ He was full of hot air; it was very possible that he was just spouting nonsense.
“Ha?” Thinking of this, Ye Xiu laughed in anger.
Seeing that he had been blocked and deleted by Little Merchant and couldn’t chat privately, it meant that during his novice period, he would be unable to complete any transactions with this biggest Merchant Lord of the novice period.
This was not a good thing for him.
But the good news was that she wasn’t the only Merchant Lord.
The bad news was that she was the biggest one in this batch.
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