Sure enough, everything needed to be upgraded.
And besides the swimming pool, Ethan also noticed that many red exclamation marks had appeared above the vegetable garden.
[Farm Vegetable Garden: Basic farmland increased to twenty plots, allowing twenty different plants to be grown at the same time. Plant growth speed increases by 50%. Can be upgraded to greenhouse cultivation, allowing crops to ignore severe cold!]
[Small Ranch: Can raise five different types of animals at the same time. Animal growth and reproduction speed increase by 50%.]
[Pet Paradise: Pets are separated from the ranch, allowing your beloved pets to feel the warmth of home even more. At the same time, the pet paradise will also add large aviaries for birds, insect habitats, mount grazing areas, and more.]
After looking through the areas related to plants and animals, Ethan moved his gaze to several other red exclamation marks around the area. Besides the fountain, library, banquet hall, and conference hall, even the dormitory under his feet showed that it could be upgraded.
[Resident Residential Area: Directly transforms the dormitory into a residential complex and provides the supporting facilities needed by residents. Most importantly, every household will have heating.]
[PS: Residents living in this residential area will gain an additional 50% recovery acceleration effect.]
Every single one was an upgrade that made his heart itch.
But with every upgrade, all Ethan could see was countless materials flying away from him.
It was painful just looking at it.
Sigh!
But for the Extreme Cold Night, other things could go without upgrading, but this resident residential area definitely couldn't.
After all, Ethan didn't want a bunch of residents running into his villa, crowding around the heater, sleeping shoulder to shoulder just to escape the freezing cold.
So… upgrading the resident residential area was still very necessary.
First, take a look at the required materials.
[Resident Residential Area Type A: A residential complex with five buildings. Each building contains ten apartments. Each apartment has three rooms, one living room, and one dining room. Every unit comes with its own bathroom and small kitchen, providing residents with large leisure and entertainment spaces, helping increase residents' romance and marriage rates. (Bathrooms and kitchens are fully equipped.) Construction conditions: Stone 20978/5000, Advanced Stone 788/500, Mud 22165/5000, Wood 10033/2000, Advanced Wood 921/200, Vines 1515/100, Glass 367/200, Earth-element Beast Cores 663/150, Fire-element Beast Cores 27/150, Water-element Beast Cores 310/150]
[Resident Residential Area Type B (more space-efficient and can house more residents): A residential complex with ten buildings. Each building contains twenty apartments. Each apartment has two rooms and one living room. Every unit comes with its own bathroom and small kitchen, providing residents with large leisure and entertainment spaces, helping increase residents' romance and marriage rates. (Bathrooms and kitchens are fully equipped.) Construction conditions: Stone 20978/10000, Advanced Stone 788/1000, Mud 22165/10000, Wood 10033/4000, Advanced Wood 921/400, Vines 1515/200, Glass 367/400, Earth-element Beast Cores 663/300, Fire-element Beast Cores 27/300, Water-element Beast Cores 310/300]
"Pff!"
When Ethan saw the upgrade prices for these two residential complexes, he almost spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot.
The material requirement for just one residential complex was actually even higher than upgrading the estate. Forget upgrading it, just looking at these materials already made his heart ache.
And this damn resident residential area was even divided into A and B versions.
Type A, to put it plainly, was a layout with two households per floor, three bedrooms and one living room. The price was cheaper, but obviously fewer people could live there.
Type B, on the other hand, was a layout with four households per floor, two bedrooms and one living room, but the number of residents it could house was almost doubled.
But the material requirements also doubled directly.
At first glance, choosing the Type A resident residential area might seem more suitable. After all, with Ethan's current number of residents, he probably couldn't even fill two buildings. Choosing Type B seemed unnecessary.
But Ethan began considering the Type B residential area.
The main reason was the number of residents it could accommodate.
Although he didn't have many residents for now, judging by the nature of this game, where once someone fails they become someone else's resident, Ethan estimated that he would soon gain a wave of new residents.
And once the resident residential area's style was chosen, it couldn't be changed.
Previously when he upgraded the villa, he had already chosen a dormitory building style once. Later he thought about switching it to Type B, but discovered it couldn't be modified.
But he had just upgraded the estate.
And the next level of the estate would directly become a town. The material requirements for a town could no longer be described as simply "many" or "exaggerated."
They could only be described as outrageous.
So if Ethan wanted to upgrade his estate into a town, it was impossible in the short term.
Therefore… Considering the future housing problem for additional residents, he decided to spend the huge cost and directly build the Type B resident residential area.
He opened the Type B construction requirements again.
Ethan roughly glanced over them. He was still short 222 units of advanced stone. Yesterday he had also lacked some advanced stone, and today the residents finally gathered enough through mining to meet the estate upgrade requirements.
And now it wasn't enough again.
Not only was advanced stone insufficient for building the Type B residential area, glass was also short by 33 units. And the shortage of fire-element beast cores was even more outrageous.
After upgrading the estate, Ethan only had 27 fire-element beast cores left.
Forget upgrading the Type B residential area, even upgrading Type A wasn't enough.
But right at that moment, Ethan suddenly noticed that the number of fire-element beast cores was constantly increasing.
[Fire-element Beast Core +1]
[Fire-element Beast Core +2]
[Fire-element Beast Core…]
'Right!'
Before coming up here, Ethan had arranged for the residents to process the Ice Galls.
He told them to open all the Ice Gall Kings. The meat inside would be used for cooking, and the beast cores would be dug out, cleaned by Cook Four, and placed into the warehouse.
So Ethan could see his fire-element beast cores continuously increasing.
'Looks like fire-element beast cores shouldn't be a problem.'
Now the only things missing were advanced stone and glass.
Ethan thought about it for a moment, then directly took out the Mist Survival Magic Book, figuring it was time to collect a round of interest.
"Hiss!"
Seeing the earth-shaking changes happening to the estate, Mr. White immediately sucked in a breath of cold air.
"Lord Ethan, what kind of magic is this?"
"This is way too amazing."
Mr. White kept sighing in amazement, "In just the blink of an eye, how did your villa completely change like this?"
"It already turned from a two-story villa into a five-story mansion, which is impressive enough. But even your walls and land changed along with it. It's really eye-opening."
"Are you planning to sell the spell for this magic?"
"The price is absolutely negotiable."
"No!"
Ethan refused decisively, "This is my master's secret technique. Don't even think about it."
"That's really a pity," Mr. White sighed, then asked again, "But now that your villa area has expanded so much, do you need my people to help renovate your swimming pool or these dormitory buildings and such? My prices aren't expensive."
"No need! I just cast a large-scale magic earlier and need to rest a bit. I'll renovate it right away."
Ethan naturally knew what Mr. White was thinking.
He was definitely trying to secretly earn some renovation fees from him.
But with a magic book that could upgrade things with just a silent thought, did Ethan still need construction workers?
'Heh!'
'Just wait, let me amaze you once again!'
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