40 Building Materials, Sand Crystal! Zhou Zhou's Arrangement!
"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 Zhou Zhou saw the drop rate of this sandman, he realized something.
This kind of monster did not drop the soldier class change certificate nor the soldier recruitment book.
"I was right. Not all monsters drop military-related items." Zhou Zhou thought.
Then, he placed his hand on the corpse.
A golden notification appeared.
[Do you want to retrieve the loot?]
"Yes!"
The next second.
[Lord Talent Hint: You have obtained these loot — four Mist Cores (Black Iron-Tier), 1 kg of Sand Crystal (Black Iron-Tier), one Sandification Skill Book (Black Iron-Tier Mist Core), one Sand Summoning Skill Book (Black Iron-Tier Elementary Grade)!]
Whoosh.
The loot dropped.
It was relatively small compared to the Desert Fog Lizard and the Black-tailed Fog Scorpion but he didn't think too much about it since there were skill books.
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!]
[Material Description: A special material produced in a desert environment. Incorporating it into building materials will make the building stronger and more stable. It can also stabilize the temperature in the room so that it would not be affected by the temperature change outside.]
The moment Zhou Zhou saw the material, an idea immediately occurred to him.
He had to protect the Sandman even if it was only because of the sand crystal material with its amazing construction effects!
He was even willing 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.
It was not human at all.
Therefore, Zhou Zhou would not feel that he was cruel just because he killed a ball of fog.
"But I only have one 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 nodded after reading it.
It could make a part of his body invincible for a second! That sounded like a pretty slick skill.
The only pity was that he was immune to Black Iron-tier physical damage for only one second. The upper limit was a little low.
Nonetheless, it was only a Black Iron-Tier Elementary Grade skill after all.
Zhou Zhou could not ask for too much.
He learned directly.
Then, he looked at the next skill.
[Skill Name: Summon Sandman]
[Skill Quality: Black Iron-Tier Elementary Grade]
[Skill Description: Summoning-type skill. Controls the sand element and condenses a Black Iron-Tier Elementary Grade Sandman that completely obeys your orders and has simple intelligence to fight for you.]
Zhou Zhou shook his head.
It was a pity.
The effect of Black Iron-Tier Elementary Grade skill was indeed average.
This skill could only summon one sandman. His ring allowed him to summon more advanced sand soldiers!
Moreover, as long as he had enough mental strength, he could summon an unlimited number of them!
The difference between the two was obvious.
However, Zhou Zhou still lapped it up.
In any case, there was no harm in having more skills!
Moreover, after learning it, this skill would be considered his ability.
It could be used without the help of external objects like the ring so he could use it without worry.
He put away the loot and returned to the Lord's wooden house.
Zhou Zhou pondered for some time before he looked up at Bai Yi.
"Tomorrow morning, arrange for 20 members of the scout team to monitor the territory of that unfamiliar human lord!"
"Try to confirm the existence of their Lord. If you find anyone coming out of their territory, arrest them immediately and inform me!"
"Yes, my Lord!" Bai Yi said respectfully.
Zhou Zhou looked at Wu Tu again.
"Tomorrow, I will assign you a Green Bronze-Tier Elementary Grade soldier to guard your scout team. Your mission is to investigate the environment outside the Blazing Sun Desert. It's best if you can make a map. If you 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!" Zhou Zhou was still thinking about Ling'er's lucky situation.
If only he could also encounter a local faction and obtain a large number of jobless subjects like Ling'er!
Then the Sword Shield Soldier Class Change Certificate and Poison Crossbow Soldier Class Change Certificate that he had been holding on to would come in useful.
At that time, his troops would welcome an unprecedented increase!
"Yes, my Lord!" Wu Tu agreed excitedly.
…
Bai Yi and Wu Tu left.
Zhang Cang, who had cleared the monsters nearby and returned, also came over to report the results from his team.
After half a day, they 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 Zhang Cang.
"Make a copy of this map and return it to me. Tomorrow, follow the distribution of the monsters here and find and clean them up. We don't need any other monsters other than our domesticated monsters." Zhou Zhou said.
"Yes, my Lord!" Zhang Cang held the map as if it was a treasure.
With this map, they did not need to look for monsters like headless flies.
Then, Zhou Zhou followed Zhang Cang to retrieve the loot.
Half an hour later, all the loot had been extracted.
Among the 198 monster carcasses, there were 128 Black Iron-Tier Elementary Grade Iron, 46 Black Iron-Tier Intermediate Grade, and 24 Black Iron-Tier Advance Grade corpses!
After extracting the loots, he obtained a total of 632 Black Iron-Tier Mist Cores, 6,800 units of flesh (Black Iron-Tier Elementary, Intermediate and Advance Grade), 299 kg 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, six Black Scorpion Poison Crossbows, 18 Black Iron-Tier Advance Grade "Sand Stealth" books and six Black Iron-Tier Advance Grade "Antidote" formulas!
After Zhou Zhou put away the loot, he went to the Gate of Summoning and used the recruitment books he had just obtained to summon 39 Sword Shield Soldiers and 31 poison crossbow soldiers. He also asked them to report to Bai Yi.
Now, he had 1,108 soldiers under him!
At this moment, Zhao Changshou walked over from afar and arrived in front of Zhou Zhou.
"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.
