Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

The most annoying thing is, I can only train Skeleton Warriors for job changes, none of the archers, knights, mages, and whatnot are available.

Even more annoying, there are only ten slots available for each training session, and anything over that has to queue up.

The absolute worst, after completing the training and job-changing into a Skeleton Warrior, all they get is a bone knife in their hand with no other changes; there’s not a single piece of additional equipment.

[Skeleton Warrior (White)] (Can evolve into Elite)

[Level]: LV1 (0/100)

[Profession]: Warrior (Can continue to change)

[Attributes]: Physical Damage 3, Physical Defense 0, Magic Resistance 0, Hit Points 30.

[Skill]: Hack

The Physical Damage increased by 2 points, Hit Points by 10 points, and I gained a new skill "Hack", plus the level was unlocked, making leveling up possible.

When Zi Liyuan opened the experience pool in the Lord’s interface, he found that it contained only a paltry 1069 experience points.

Checking the experience acquisition records, it was from killing stone men and wild wolves.

Ordinary monsters below First Order are worth 1 experience point each, First Order common monsters are 10 points, and First Order BOSS monsters start at 1000 experience points.

Lord Zi had slain a First Order stone man BOSS, hence the one thousand experience points.

Testing with a Skeleton Warrior, I dumped 100 experience points to level it up to LV2, with Physical Damage +2, Hit Points +20, and no other changes; moreover, the experience consumed to reach LV3 still remained at 100 points.

So he experimented with a single Skeleton Warrior, pouring all 1000 experience points from the Lord’s Mansion’s experience pool into it.

This Skeleton Warrior’s level shot straight up to LV10.

[Skeleton Warrior (White): LV10, Physical Damage 21, Hit Points 210, Skill: Hack]

A plain Skeleton Warrior with no skill bonuses from Zi Liyuan might not be much, but it’s better than nothing.

At the very least, with these attributes, it could go toe-to-toe with a LV5 stone man.

Lord Zi wasn’t too demanding about his cannon fodder Skeletons.

So next, he let a constant stream of Little Skeletons enter the barracks to transform into Skeleton Warriors, then had this LV10 Skeleton Warrior lead them to scout the forest.

The source for green-quality stone materials had already been found, but the source for green-quality timber had yet to be discovered.

The Lord’s Mansion needed both of these green materials for upgrading, so they had to be gathered as soon as possible.

He certainly didn’t want to sleep in a drafty straw hut every day.

After sending off the Skeleton Warrior, Zi Liyuan began inspecting the slaughterhouse.

This thing is basically a dissection workshop, designed for dissecting prey, stripping out food, Crystal Cores, and other materials like fur, teeth, bones, etc.

Food, of course, doesn’t need much saying; for undead territories, there’s not much demand for it, but it’s still necessary to stockpile some as other kinds of living troops or talents might be recruited in the future.

Crystal Cores, on the other hand, are a source of energy; typically, one out of every ten ordinary monsters will produce one. The Crystal Core from an ordinary monster can be fed into the Lord’s Mansion’s energy pool, and each core is worth about 10 energy points, whereas a BOSS monster’s Crystal Core is worth even more.

The remaining materials can be used to create other byproducts such as clothing and weapons.

In the Sea of Realms, apart from BOSSes, monsters only drop materials.

If you want to arm your troops, weapons and armor are things that the Lord must figure out how to obtain themselves.

Like the Skeletons summoned by Lord Zi on Blue Star, which came equipped with weapons and armor, but once they came to the Sea of Realms, they were left with nothing but bones, not even a shard of a bone knife.

So, the slaughterhouse is quite an important material production workshop, and for this purpose, Zi Liyuan conjured two more Skeletons, Nos. eleven and twelve, with the skill Primary Butchery Intelligence.

Professional tasks should indeed be handled by professional Undead, right? It’s not just more efficient, but can also reduce material wastage, no?

Finally, Zi Liyuan accessed the most important facility—the Trading Market.

Indeed, this was an opportunity to exchange resources with all the practice Lords within the new Realm Territory No. 99’s novice area!

In the end, Zi Liyuan and other trainee Lords like him who had just entered the Sea of Realms hadn’t yet set foot on the true Battlefield of Ten Thousand Tribes, but were instead on a battlefield for civil wars among the Human Race!

The place they were located in was a newly formed new district within the Sea of Realms, where the same race would generate 100 such areas each year, giving birth to a hundred great Lords.

What Zi Liyuan needed to do was to compete with all humans within the Blue Star universe for control over this district.

Once he became a great Lord and had control over this territory, his domain would merge into the first layer of the ruling area where the Blue Star Humans lived in the Realm Territory.

And how extensive was a great Lord’s territory?

200,000 square kilometers!

Moreover, humans from the same planet entered the same arena area.

That is to say, all Blue Star Humans had entered Realm Territory No. 99.

And the trading market allowed him to exchange resources with Blue Star Humans and even help each other!

If one didn’t want to aid the enemy and let humans from other planets gain resources, they would have to use the Sea of Realms communication channel to trade instead.

But to activate the Sea of Realms communication channel, first one had to upgrade the Lord’s Mansion to Level 1.

Upon opening the trading market interface, three different panels appeared.

One was the item sales panel, which had four slots where one could place up to four kinds of items, with each item having a daily stack limit of 1000 and sales ending once sold out, refreshing at midnight every day.

Whether the items were sold for Spirit Crystals or exchanged for resources was left for the Lord to adjust.

Spirit Crystals served as the unified currency in the Sea of Realms, which could be used not only as money but also as energy.

The second panel was the purchase board where Lords could request various resources they needed and set a bid price for the desired resources. If someone agreed to the price, the transaction would be made automatically.

However, using the trading market wasn’t free; each transaction required a 10% tax to the Sea of Realms!

The tax could be paid with resources or with Spirit Crystals, depending on one’s choice.

If one couldn’t afford the tax, then congratulations, the Sea of Realms would simply downgrade your Lord’s Mansion and use the resources intended for upgrading the mansion to offset the tax.

If the Lord’s Mansion was reduced to Level 0 and the tax still wasn’t paid, then congratulations, the Lord would go bankrupt, their territory would be reclaimed by the Sea of Realms as unowned land, and the Lord would become a wanderer or a mercenary. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Of course, the bankruptcy of a Lord was still a rare event, usually only happening to gamblers who bet everything away and lost even their last piece of underwear.

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Zi Liyuan immediately put up goods for sale in the interface: Timber (white) x1000 and Stone (white) x1000, filling up two slots to a total of four thousand resources.

The price was set for barter only, exchanging at a rate of 100 to 1 for Fine Timber (green) and Fine Stone (green).

The last panel was the product display panel, which showed all the items put up for sale in the whole of Realm Territory No. 99.

When Zi Liyuan checked the merchandise, he saw that many items were already for sale; after all, it took few resources to set up a trading market.

Yet, the quantities of other sellers’ goods weren’t large, only just over a hundred at best, unlike his which directly filled four slots with a total of four thousand materials.

Simply clicking on a product showed the name of the seller and a number, but without a Level 1 Lord’s Mansion to open the Sea of Realms communication channel, there was no way to contact them now.

As Zi Liyuan browsed through the products, most of them were common goods, mainly timber, stone, and food, with few other items.

What caught Zi Liyuan’s attention the most were several blueprints, such as watchtower blueprints and weapon schematics.

Although they were the least sophisticated blueprints, they were extremely helpful for early development.

However, the resources that others wanted to exchange for these items were not insignificant—all fine quality green items, and currently no one could afford them.

But to Zi Liyuan, these things were just that, nothing special.

Lords of the Undead, summoning Lords, and beast-controlling Lords had too great an advantage in the early stages, and thus they didn’t have much demand for defensive structures and weapon and armor blueprints.