"They were once the subjects of the Sand Emperor?" Zhou Zhou looked at the sandman's corpse in surprise.
He looked at the emperor of sand's spatial ring on his right hand thinking that he was really fated with this Emperor of Sand.
However, when he saw the loots of this sandman, he realized something.
This kind of monster did not drop the soldier class change certificate nor the soldier recruitment book.
'I guess not all monsters drop military-related items.' he thought.
Then, he brought the corpse into his spatial ring before retrieving the loots.
The next second, a notification appeared in front of him.
[Lord Talent Hint: You have obtained these loots — 4 mist cores (black iron-tier), 1 kg of sand crystal, 1 sandification skill book, 1 sand summoning skill book (black iron-tier elementary grade)!]
Whoosh.
The loots dropped.
It was relatively small compared to the desert fog lizard and the black-tailed fog scorpion.
Zhou Zhou began to check the loots.
First, was a type of sand crystal that he had never seen before.
It was a yellow prismatic crystal the size of a fingernail.
It felt cold to the touch.
[Material Name: Sand Crystal]
[Material Grade: Black iron-tier]
[Material Effect: Iron-grade building materials produced in the desert can be added to other building materials, increasing the defense of completed buildings by 50%, earthquake resistance by 50%, and the effect of warm buildings in winter and cool buildings in summer by one point!]
The moment Zhou Zhou saw the material, an idea immediately occurred to him.
He had to groom the sandman even if it was only because of the sand crystal material with its amazing construction effects!
The protection and comfort of his territory's buildings was enough for him to build a monster ranch for the sandman.
He had no choice, the temperature difference between day and night in the desert was huge, more than 20 degrees celsius!
If they wanted to live well in such an environment, sand crystals that could warm the room in winter and cool it in summer were simply too important to them.
As for cruelty…
He had no such concept.
Even though the sandman's name had the word 'man' in it, they were essentially just desert elemental monsters condensed from the scarlet fog.
To put it bluntly, it was just a ball of fog.
The name sandman was simply because it had similar limbs to humans.
And even if it was human, he wouldn't hesitate to reap out its promotion energy and loots.
If they would blame anyone, the Supreme Will was a perfect target.
It was the one who forcefully brought them here in the first place.
"But I only have 1 origin crystal left. I cannot use it randomly. It might be used to upgrade the territory in the future after all."
"It would not be too late to build a sandman's monster ranch when I have more origin crystals."
Zhou Zhou thought.
He kept the sand crystal and looked at the next item.
[Skill Name: Sand Form]
[Skill Quality: Black iron-tier elementary grade]
[Skill Description: Sandify a part of the body for 1 second. Immune to black iron-tier physical damage. After 1 second, the sandified part of the body will return to its original state.]
Zhou Zhou kept it aside after reading it.
It was only a black iron-tier elementary grade skill; it wouldn't even be of help to any of his soldiers.
Then, he looked at the next skill.
He flung it aside in his spatial ring after taking a glance at it.
Bringing his consciousness out of the spatial ring, he said to Hui Teng.
"Have Man Nao give you the location of the unfamiliar human lord's territory. Tomorrow morning, you'll confirm the existence of their lord."
"If you find anyone coming out of their territory, capture them immediately and inform me!"
"Yes, my lord!" Hui Teng said respectfully.
Zhou Zhou looked at Man Nao and Wu Tu again.
"Tomorrow, the both of you would investigate the environment outside the blazing sun desert. It's best if Wu Tu can make a map."
"If you both discover an area where there are local forces, such as the territory of the Aurora Kingdom… Focus on that area immediately. Let's try to investigate the situation there first!"
Only by understanding the affairs of this world could he tread carefully to avoid provoking a force he has no chance against.
"Yes, my lord!" Man Nao and Wu Tu agreed.
…
Man Nao, Wu Tu and Hui Teng left.
Bai Yung reported the result of Nezario's hunt while the dragon lay beside him.
After half a day, the young dragon had killed a total of 132 desert fog lizards and 66 black-tailed fog scorpions!
These monsters were all scattered throughout the entire blazing sun desert.
They only found so many after searching for more than half a day.
Zhou Zhou handed the map that Wu Tu had given him to Bai Yung.
"Make a copy of this map and return it to me. If by tomorrow Nezario hasn't advanced, you'll follow the distribution of the monsters here and have him clean them up."
He said.
"Yes, my lord!" Bai Yung took the map.
With this map, they did not need to look for monsters like headless flies.
Then, Zhou Zhou took in the remains of the killed monsters into his spatial ring.
6 minutes later, all the loots were extracted.
Among the 198 monster carcasses, there were 128 black iron-tier elementary grade, 46 black iron-tier intermediate grade, and 24 black iron-tier advance grade corpses!
After extracting the loots, he obtained the following.
632 black iron-tier mist cores.
6,800 units of flesh (black iron-tier elementary, intermediate and advance grade).
299kg water bag.
66 portions of black-tailed fog scorpion's poison sacs (black iron-tier elementary, intermediate and advance grade).
66 bottles of antidotes (black iron-tier elementary, intermediate and advance grade).
113 sword shield soldier class change certificates.
39 sword shield soldier recruitment books.
99 poison crossbowmen class change certificates.
31 poison crossbowmen recruitment books.
6 black scorpion poison crossbows.
18 black iron-tier advance grade 'sand stealth' books.
6 black iron-tier advance grade 'antidote' formulas.
And Nezario finally advanced to the intermediate grade green bronze-tier with 8,686 promotion energy to his name.
A soldier below the empire tier would've already become a Green bronze-tier advance grade fighter with just 7,000 promotion energy.
After Zhou Zhou put away the loot, he went to the gate of summoning together with Nezario.
Melting the summoned soldiers and leaving just enough flesh for Zhou Zhou to retrieve their loots, Nezario absorbed their promotion energy, bringing his to 9,316.
He was short of 4,700 promotion energy to grace the advance grade of green bronze-tier.
"Although you're strong, but you should train on how to release larger amount of flames," patting the head of the lava dragon, Zhou Zhou said.
Roar!
Nezario roared, expressing his acknowledgement of Zhou Zhou's words.
"That's good," Zhou Zhou smiled as he left the gate of summoning.
Before Zhou Zhou could enter his lord's house, Zhao Changshou walked over from afar and arrived in front of him.
"I've something to report, my lord! The second monster ranch is complete!"
There was a happy smile on his face.
He participated in the construction of this special building and felt that he had benefited greatly!
He could vaguely feel that he was going to become a White platinum-tier advance grade architect soon.
"Let's go take a look." Zhou Zhou immediately said.
Zhao Changshou smiled and nodded as the two of them walked towards the new monster ranch.
Nezario walked into the lord's house to have his rest.
..
Zhou Zhou and Zhao Changshou arrived at the second monster ranch in no time.
This monster ranch was beside the desert fog lizard monster ranch.
It was exactly the same as the monster ranch beside it, be it in terms of the architectural style or size.
The only difference was…
This monster range held black-tailed fog scorpions!
"Thank you both for your hard work."
Zhou Zhou was very satisfied.
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