[Worship Value has reached 10,000. Reward obtained from "Mastering the Art of Showing Off": 10 Hell Tyrannosaurus Dogs.]
[PS: Remember to give the Hell Tyrannosaurus a good living environment. Then every three months, you'll have a new batch of Hell Tyrannosaurus cubs!]
'Hell Tyrannosaurus Dogs?'
'What kind of thing is that? A tyrannosaurus is a tyrannosaurus, a dog is a dog. How did this turn into some Hell Tyrannosaurus Dog?'
[System Notice: Since Hell Tyrannosaurus Dogs are living creatures, they cannot be stored in the warehouse. They have already been delivered to your small ranch. Please collect them in time.]
'They've arrived?'
'I'll go take a look later.'
Ethan plopped down on the wooden sofa of the territory and decided to deal with the heating coat for the players first. After that he would go down and check out the Hell Tyrannosaurus Dogs, just in case the players froze to death.
Ninety sets of self-heating coats required a total of 360 high-grade beast hides, 540 strands of Water Ghost Azure Silk, and 450 fire-element beast cores.
Ethan glanced at the warehouse.
[High-grade Beast Hide 1826/1, Hemp Thread 482/2 (Water Ghost Azure Silk 3832/2), Fire-element Beast Core 251/2]
Everything else was enough.
Only the fire-element beast cores were still short.
And for some reason, the number of fire-element beast cores had actually stopped increasing.
"Emmm!"
Originally, Ethan had planned to go downstairs and ask the citizens whether all the Ice Gall Kings had already been opened.
That might explain why the fire-element beast cores had stopped increasing.
But after thinking about it again, why should he be the one providing all the materials? These were clearly equipment prepared for the players. It was about time those players bled a little themselves.
After calculating the remaining materials, the supplies he currently had left were just enough to produce fifty sets of self-heating coats.
"Craft fifty sets of self-heating coats."
[Self-heating Fur Coat +50, Self-heating Insoles +50, Self-heating Gloves +50]
[High-grade Beast Hide -200, Water Ghost Azure Silk -300, Fire-element Beast Core -250]
Very soon, fifty sets of self-heating coats appeared inside Ethan's warehouse.
Ethan personally listed them on the trading channel. This time he didn't bother with renting. He directly exchanged them for materials.
After all, his materials had just taken a huge hit because of the territory upgrade. Renting might allow him to catch bigger fish over time, but it wasn't coatable for a situation like this where he urgently needed materials. So he might as well just ask for materials directly.
Once he obtained the materials, if there were still some players who truly couldn't produce them, he could always start up high-interest loans for them.
[Self-heating three-piece set: exchange for 500 Ice Galls]
[Self-heating three-piece set: exchange for 10 Fire-element Beast Cores (or 10 beast cores of any element)]
[Self-heating three-piece set: exchange for 200 wood (or 300 stone)]
[Self-heating three-piece set: exchange for 20 high-grade wood (or 30 high-grade stone)]
[Self-heating three-piece set: exchange for 100 quartz sand]
[Self-heating three-piece set…]
Ethan listed nearly ten different exchange options, allowing him to squeeze materials out of players from various terrains as much as possible.
After finishing all this, Ethan followed his usual routine and shouted in the regional channel, ["Winter clothes stocked. If you want them, grab them now. First come, first served. Late arrivals pay more."]
["Stocked! Stocked! Finally stocked!"], Player A immediately replied.
["Finally. Damn it, I feel like my hands and feet are about to freeze off,"] Player B sent a runny-nose emoji, ["I'm going to check if there's any winter gear I can afford first!"]
["The guy above, I checked already."]
Player C sent a crying emoji, ["Can't afford any of it at all! Wuuu~ Big boss is selling them so expensive."]
["Trash. You've been around this long and you can't even take out 200 wood?"], Player D mocked, ["It's honestly not easy for someone like you to have survived until now!"]
["Hey you upstairs, did you just go eat shit in the toilet? Why's your mouth so foul!"]
["That's exactly what I'm saying about you. So what! Look at the big boss, he directly put out fifty sets of self-heating coats in one go. One set includes a coat, a pair of gloves, and a pair of insoles. That's full-body warmth,"] Player D continued complaining, ["Do you really think 200 wood is expensive?"]
["It's not that it's expensive, but everyone's situation is different. I just don't have wood or ore here. What am I supposed to do?"]
["Where do you live? How can you possibly have nothing?"], Player E asked.
["I live on a cliff. Aside from a few fruit trees, there's only insects and birds here,"] Player C sighed, ["I can't just cut down the fruit trees, right? Otherwise I'd really starve to death."]
["Then why don't you go down the cliff to find food? If you stay up there sooner or later you'll starve,"] Player F asked.
["You think I don't want to?"], Player C said helplessly, ["The bottom of the cliff is full of these giant bugs several meters long. They're this disgusting yellowish-brown color and they spit out some kind of slime. It's absolutely revolting! Last time I saw a big bird two or three meters long flying low. It got shot down by the slime those bugs spat and was swallowed immediately. Do you think I dare go down there?"]
["You're really unlucky then,"], Player F sighed, ["By the way, how did you survive until now?"]
["I rely on the fruit from those few trees and trade them with everyone for some food and drink. That's how I've managed to hold on,"] Player C said, ["But I don't know how much longer I can last. Though living on the cliff isn't all bad. At least there aren't any monsters here. And I planted some vegetables earlier. They should have been ready to harvest in a few days. Who knew it would suddenly start snowing."]
["What a miserable woman."]
Player B @Ethan said, ["Big boss, even though I also think your heating three-piece set is already very cheap, a lot of players still can't afford it. Could you do something like before, maybe offer loans or something, at least let us survive first!"]
["Sure!"]
After hearing this, Ethan first glanced at the clothes he had listed.
Most of them had already been sold. Only fifteen sets were left without any trades. Stone and wood had been traded first, while three sets of the high-grade material options were still left. Most of the remaining ones were the beast-core exchanges.
It was probably because many players still didn't know that Ice Galls contained beast cores.
So they simply had no beast cores to trade.
Because of this, Ethan decided to list the Lord Contracts and said, ["Next I'll put up a batch of loan three-piece sets. But there's only one requirement. Tonight every person must catch 800 Ice Galls to repay it."]
["But big boss, wasn't the previous trade price only 500?"], Player H said speechlessly, ["Why did it suddenly increase now? And by three hundred at that!"]
Ethan smiled, ["You can choose not to take it."]
["Then I'll freeze to death!"], Player H sent a laughing-with-tears emoji.
["Yeah! Big boss, isn't that a bit ruthless?"]
["Everyone's already short on food and clothes, and you're still squeezing people like this. Isn't that going too far?"]
["Since you know you'll freeze to death without clothes, then tell me, if one night of hard work can buy your life, is it worth it?"] After saying that, Ethan added another sentence directly, ["Anyone who keeps spouting nonsense gets blocked."]
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