[Trading Channel]
As soon as he opened the Magic Book, Ethan saw a pile of transaction messages.
After signing the Lord Loan Contract, the system would automatically collect the loan payments. These payments would then be stored in the Trading Channel as mail, waiting for the lord to collect them.
This way, you could see what the players had obtained.
[Altizimo, Skill Book Rental Interest: 15 portions of Rock Goat Meat]
[Altizimo, Tool Rental Interest: 20 units of Stone]
[Void_Reaper, Skill Book Rental Interest: 2 portions of Thousand-Legged Centipede Meat]
[Rinji, Skill Book Rental Interest: Mummy Dry Corpse Legs, 2 pieces of Mummy Burial Cloth]
[Rinji, Tool Rental Interest: 10 units of Wood]
[Drake, Skill Book Rental Interest: 5 portions of Fruit Tree Monkey Meat]
[Drake…]
Watching the countless interest payments clinking into his pocket,
Ethan felt that this was probably the first time tonight he had experienced happiness. After all, he had spent so many materials earlier. How could that not make his heart ache?
Compared to spending money, nothing makes people happier than watching money pour into their pockets.
'Unless you're filthy rich, who doesn't start waiting for the next payday the very day after receiving their salary?'
'It's just that…'
Ethan felt a bit puzzled, 'What exactly are the players in Region Seven doing?'
'Did they go dig up graves?'
'Otherwise how did someone get mummy corpses and mummy burial cloths? What am I supposed to do with that stuff?'
'And that so-called thousand-legged centipede meat… that is just disgusting.'
Fortunately, most players were still killing normal monsters.
Aside from a few who got things like Stinger Dragonflies or Berserk Beetles, basically Bear Grylls' favorites, the majority were turtles, rabbits, rock goats, lions, tigers, and other normal animals.
However, among them there was one player who obtained something rather strange.
[Liam, Skill Book Rental Interest: 20 portions of Orc Knight Meat]
The monster's name was Orc Knight, which meant this orc probably wasn't as simple as an ordinary monster.
A knight usually represents an army or some force behind it.
He opened [Orc Knight Meat] and took a look.
The meat had already been automatically sliced by the system into neat pieces of pork belly, so Ethan couldn't really tell anything from it.
Forget it. When soldiers come, send generals; when water rises, build a dam.
Worrying about it now was useless.
But these ingredients weren't the main point. What Ethan really wanted were two important materials: advanced stone and quartz sand.
"Collect All!"
"Count the quantity of Advanced Stone and Quartz Sand."
[Advanced Stone +334]
[Quartz Sand +67]
Although the quantities weren't much, it was finally enough.
But quartz sand still needed to be processed in the alchemy furnace, which would take some time.
However, right at that moment, a thought suddenly popped into Ethan's mind. Since the alchemy furnace could refine all things, could he directly exchange quartz sand for glass through equivalent exchange?
'Let's try it.'
[Cursed Alchemy Formula: (boli)67 = kuvi3 + uiykua67 + jkufl4000 + 67]
Ethan quickly drew an alchemy array on the rooftop.
Immediately the array flashed with golden light.
The 67 portions of quartz sand and the 3 dead branches he threw into the array instantly transformed into 67 portions of glass.
He raised his hand and directly stored the glass into his backpack.
Sure enough, it worked.
'Looks like as long as the formula is correct, almost anything can be exchanged through equivalent value.'
Of course, the prerequisite was whether you had enough energy. Ethan's current energy value was around 10,000, which meant the items he exchanged couldn't exceed that amount.
Converted into the quantity of glass and quartz, it was about ten groups, around 200 pieces.
If the amount exchanged at once exceeded 200 quartz sand, Ethan might fail because his energy would run out. But if it stayed within two hundred, all he needed to do was calculate the required materials. Such as the number of dead branches needed when refining quartz sand in the alchemy furnace.
Then he could exchange them directly.
This method saved time and increased efficiency, but it also consumed Ethan's energy.
In other words… Alchemy was basically a way of trading energy for time.
"Glass?"
Mr. White looked at the glass appearing in the alchemy array with surprise. He was startled and said, "Lord Ethan, what are you doing?"
"Whether it's magic or alchemy, it always follows one principle," Ethan said with a mysterious expression, "That is the principle of equivalent exchange. And what I'm doing now is naturally preparing materials to renovate the dormitories."
"So profound. I don't quite understand it, but it sounds impressive."
Mr. White nodded seriously, then quietly repeated Ethan's words to himself.
For some reason, he felt that this sentence carried some very important meaning.
Even if it didn't matter, that was fine. Because once Ethan became famous, whether it was something he said or even nonsense he spouted would become valuable.
At that time, he could publish a book of Ethan's famous quotes and maybe make a fortune.
'Anyway, better write it down first.'
"Mr. White, watch carefully!"
Ethan took out a spell and cast a dazzling incantation.
The description of this spell clearly stated that it had no actual damage ability. Its only function was to look cool.
Using it here was simply perfect.
Immediately after that, a burst of intense white light flashed.
At the same time, Ethan silently thought, 'Upgrade Resident Residential Area Type B'.
[Resident Residential Area Type B Upgraded: Stone −10000, Advanced Stone −1000, Mud −10000, Wood −4000, Advanced Wood −400, Vines −200, Glass −400, Earth-element Beast Cores −300, Fire-element Beast Cores −300, Water-element Beast Cores −300]
In the next second—
"Ah! My eyes!"
Mr. White cried out miserably.
Ethan saw him tightly covering his two titanium alloy dog eyes and asked with some concern, "You didn't get blinded, did you?"
"N-no… I'm not blind, it just flashed too hard and hurts a bit."
Mr. White covered his eyes and took quite a while to recover.
But when he finally opened his eyes again, he finally understood what real eye pain felt like.
Because… the crude dormitory building they had been standing on had now turned into a luxurious five-story building.
And not just one.
Around the building he was standing on, nine more buildings had suddenly appeared. Including the one under his feet, there were now ten buildings in total.
'These ten buildings grew from the ground in the blink of an eye, appearing right in front of me?'
'Isn't it… a little too dreamlike?'
"This can't be my hallucination, right?", Mr. White said in disbelief.
Ethan just smiled and said, "Mr. White, why don't we go down and take a look? I don't know what this new residential area looks like either. Let's go check it out together."
"Oh, s-sure!"
Mr. White was so shocked he almost didn't know what to say.
After speaking, Ethan jumped from the rooftop toward the terrace on the fifth floor.
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