Qi Ji checked the current resource reserves:
-- Soul Crystals: 566. Mental Strength: 3914 points. Material Essence: 1769 portions. First Order Gray Essence Souls: 336 one-star, 25 two-star, 6 three-star. --
There were not many Soul Crystals left.
There was a slight surplus of Soul Essence.
Qi Ji wanted to increase the city's adventurer reception capacity as much as possible before the City Opening. He immediately took out 36 Common Zombie Essence Souls and quickly sold them at a net average price of 15 Soul Crystals, recovering 548 Soul Crystals through the trading market.
He immediately upgraded both the "Second Mercenary House" and the "Essence Soul Altar" to Second Order.
This consumed another 1,000 Soul Crystals, 600 Material Essence, and 300 Mental Strength.
Miracle City now had two Second Order Mercenary Houses, able to recruit up to 60 Second Order Mercenaries, or up to 300 First Order Mercenaries at a ratio of one to five.
The Second Order Essence Soul Altar was also extremely useful. Not only did it add capacity for 30 Adventurers and 50 Contract Adventurer slots, it also gained the crucial function of reorganizing Life Souls.
In other words.
With a Second Order Altar.
Life Souls could be reorganized or replaced at any time.
Quite a few Contract Adventurers urgently needed this function.
Qi Ji set a rule: every time someone renewed a contract or reorganized their Life Soul, the Adventurer not only had to provide their own Soul Essence, but also had to pay at least 100 Contribution Points as a ritual fee.
This would not only let him harvest another round of profits from the Adventurers, but also reclaim Contribution Points, ensuring the scarcity and value of Miracle City's Contribution Points.
At present.
There were 150 available Adventurer contracts.
Only 15 Adventurers had