Although construction is complete, there is still some time before the city opens. The territory has already built a Trading Hall. It's worth taking some time to browse the market, as you might find something useful.
First, open the communication area. The thousand-person newbie group is still lively.
However, most of the content isn't very substantial. Mostly complaints, grievances, and requests for help.
Being a new Lord is really not easy. They rack their brains every day fighting wits and courage with Adventurers, and also have to be wary of threats from Dark Kind and monsters. As a result, the group's 'misery-selling Tournament' has become a daily staple.
Quinn still has 11 zombie soul essences left.
In the Secret Realm of the Doomsday Frenzy, there are many ordinary zombies, and the drop rate for soul essence is quite high.
The deployment of this type of monster has zero cost, but extracting the soul essence will consume 1 point of Quinn's mental power.
1 point of consumption. It's nothing.
It is expected that the production of ordinary zombie soul essence will be extremely high in the future, and the territory has no immediate threats, so there's no need to treat this small amount of soul essence as a treasure.
Quinn pondered slightly.
He listed the 11 ordinary zombie soul essences on the trading area.
[Ordinary Zombie Soul Essence]: A first-tier soul essence, also known as gray quality soul essence or common quality soul essence.
However, soul essences of the same tier also have obvious differences in quality, which can be divided by star rating, such as one-star gray soul essence, two-star gray soul essence, three-star gray soul essence, etc.
The higher the star rating.
The better the quality of the soul essence.
Generally, the highest level is five stars.
Quinn's zombie soul essence is just a one-star common soul essence. Based on the price data collected from recent lurking, the price of this quality soul essence in the Lord's market is 7-15 soul crystals.
So, what is a suitable price to list them at?
It's true that zombie soul essence is the lowest-grade gray soul essence.
But Quinn believes his soul essence has two major advantages.
Firstly, ordinary zombie soul essence comes with numerous monster templates, with dozens of different zombie templates, such as Riot-Gear Zombie, worker zombie, firefighter zombie, etc.
During the process of creating monsters or building mercenaries, different forms can be selected based on actual circumstances.
At least among first-tier units that are equally weak in combat, they are more practical.
Secondly, zombie soul essence is a completely new soul essence. This alone has considerable value, and it's also a good option for various Lords to purchase and use to lure Adventurers.
Then let's list them at 15 crystals! Quinn listed all the zombie soul essences.
Regardless of whether they sell, it's a test of the market and a sample for future large-scale shipments.
After completing the listing, he started browsing the goods in the trading area.
Although it's a trading area for new Lords, there are quite a variety of goods, among which the most common are various monster soul essences.
[Goblin Soldier Soul Essence]: one-star gray soul essence, price 9 soul crystals.
[Skeleton Archer Soul Essence]: one-star gray soul essence, price 12 soul crystals.
[Kobold Hunter Soul Essence]: two-star gray soul essence, price 20 soul crystals.
[...]
Quinn wasn't very interested in soul essences.
He then looked at other trading items.
There were food, materials, recipes, equipment, blueprints, etc.
He was most interested in blueprints.
[Blueprint: Skeleton Barracks], first-tier special blueprint, price 2400 soul crystals.
[Blueprint: Mercenary Enhancement Camp], first-tier special blueprint, price 2000 soul crystals.
[Blueprint: Primary Barrier Tower], first-tier special building, price 3200 soul crystals.
[...]
Expensive!
Too expensive!
Even the cheapest first-tier special building blueprints cost over a thousand soul crystals, and the more practical facilities, especially those that can protect the Underground City, basically start at three thousand.
His current financial situation completely prevents him from buying them!
Quinn could only feast his eyes for now, and just as he was browsing various trading information and Lord complaints.
[Ding, Lord 0340 purchased 11 Zombie Soul Essence, you have obtained 165 soul crystals!]
What's going on?
They were all bought out!
Quinn momentarily wondered if the price was too cheap.
He quickly extracted the soul crystals from the trading market.
[Soul crystals +162]
Why are there 3 less? It's the trading market's handling fee!
The Lord trading market has a set of operating rules to facilitate efficient transactions and prevent Lords from raising prices to disrupt the market.
All sold goods are charged a fee of 1% of the total price per hour. Quinn's 11 zombie soul essences were listed for nearly 2 hours, so a fee of 3 soul crystals was charged regardless of whether they were sold.
"If they can sell for 15 soul crystals? Then I can get rich by selling zombies in the future!"
Just as Quinn was thinking, he received another private message from a Lord.
The sender was the buyer who had just bought out all the zombie soul essences.
Lord 0340: "Friend, do you have any stock of this kind of zombie soul essence? If so, I'd like to buy some more."
Quinn had no stock left, but he didn't say so directly.
"My territory has plenty of this kind of soul essence, but I don't lack soul crystals right now, so I don't want to sell."
Let's feint first!
Lord 0340: "To be honest, I recently need to attack a fire-attributed alien stronghold and require a large number of basic combat units with high enough fire resistance. If you are willing to sell, I am very sincere and also accept bartering!"
So that's how it is.
Among the many ordinary zombies, there are several types with particularly high fire resistance.
For example, firefighter zombies, bio-hazard suit zombies, etc.
This explains why the other party was willing to pay a high price.
Quinn then replied: "What can you offer? I'll decide after I see it!"
Lord 0340 immediately displayed several items, including some decent materials and equipment. It was clear that the other party's rank was not low, but these things were useless to Quinn at the moment.
Until the end. The other party took out a blueprint.
[Adventurer's Inn]: first-tier special building, construction cost: 300 soul crystals, 150 mental power, 150 first-tier material essence.
This is good!
Adventurer's Inn is a common special building.
Its function is very simple: it can increase the territory capacity by 100 at once.
In addition, the inn can provide overnight service for Adventurers, allowing Adventurers to stay overnight in the territory and recover their energy as usual.
The inn brings at least two major benefits to Adventurers and the territory.
For Adventurers, they can stay overnight in the territory, so they don't have to queue to enter the city.
For the Underground City, Adventurers staying in the territory make it more convenient to recruit them at any time and start various activities.
As an example, when the territory is threatened by external forces, a mercenary team can be quickly assembled to resist.
In addition, building various service facilities in the territory can not only provide Adventurers with a better experience but also recover some contribution points, thus making the territory's contribution points more valuable and maintaining stable value.
Lord 0340 offered: "This blueprint of mine can be exchanged for at least 120 zombie soul essences!"
At 15 crystals each.
Worth 1800 soul crystals.
This blueprint is indeed worth this price.
Quinn directly cut the price in half: "120 is impossible, I can offer a maximum of 60 for exchange?"
"What? 60!"
"Forget it if it doesn't work."
Quinn was confident that his need for the inn was not as great as the other party's need for soul essence, so he had to firmly control the initiative.
Lord 0340: "The value of this blueprint will not be lower than any 100 one-star gray soul essences, no matter what."
Finally, after repeated back and forth.
After some bargaining.
Quinn promised to exchange 85 zombie soul essences for the inn blueprint in Lord 0340's hand, but the transaction would take about two days to complete. The other party accepted this condition.
This deal is very cost-effective.
It's not difficult to clear the Doomsday Frenzy novice instance.
Each clear has at least a 50% chance of dropping ordinary zombie soul essence.
With the current scale and growth rate of the territory, it is conservatively estimated that 100 ordinary zombie soul essences can be produced every day. Even if 50 of them are successfully recovered, it will only take less than two days.
The cost of zombie soul essence is low. There will definitely be no shortage in the future.
It seems that "zombie export" will become an important foreign trade pillar and core competitiveness for Miracle City in the future!
Thinking of this, Quinn was even more excited.
He couldn't wait to let the Adventurers in immediately.
Let these hard-working oxen grind the secret realms and drop soul essences for him.
At this time, the Chaos Tide had returned, and there were still fifteen minutes until Miracle City opened. He wondered how much fun and surprise these Adventurers would bring him today.
And the new batch of 'cattle, sheep, and leeks', are ready to go. Arriving soon!