The whale is me? (Seeking collection and follow-up reading)

Sentries and Archers are Two Star troops, and Mu Yuan hasn't evolved troops of this star level yet.

When he tried it briefly, the feedback he received was:

"5 units, the same requirement as evolving Skeleton Soldiers and Great Slimes. This means the evolved troops are very likely to be Rare One Star."

Mu Yuan wasn't too surprised.

This was because the advanced troops for Sentries and Archers were Rare One Star, and both were highly favored by Lords everywhere, being extremely practical troops.

He just didn't know what skills the troops he personally evolved would gain.

He'd see then.

"Tomorrow... I'll have enough Evolution Points before going to sleep tomorrow. I'll know once I try it then."

"And with my current Evolution Point output, I can evolve several Rare troops in a day. Next, it will quickly be the era of a Rare grade explosion."

The corners of his mouth curled up, and he was in a good mood.

Those Whale Players and Game Second Generations had considerable power now, and it wasn't impossible for them to capture Remnant Soul recruitment points or have a small chance of dropping Rare Remnants from underdeveloped Rare Monsters.

But how could that compare to him lying down and watching his Rare combat power increase rapidly?

No, he wasn't completely lying down; he still had to move his fingers to bestow Evolution Power upon the troops.

That was very hard work.

Indeed, he owed his current success entirely to his own efforts.

Evolution was for tomorrow. Even if Mu Yuan was eager and impatient, he couldn't use a Blue-Green Modifier to change his Evolution Points to 999+. He had to wait patiently.

He had more important things to do.

Construction.

Ten Miracle Blueprints shimmering with faint white light and one radiating faint green light were laid out before him, slightly suspended.

Mu Yuan lightly tapped one of them.

"Prompt: Do you want to use the Miracle Blueprint: Arrow Tower?"

"Prompt: As the current Heaven Chosen does not yet possess complete Lord authority, remote construction of Miracle Buildings is not possible, construction speed is relatively slow, damaged buildings cannot be repaired, etc..."

"Prompt: Do you want to use?"

New players were, after all, only quasi-Lords.

But as long as the Miracle Building could be constructed, these flaws were just minor issues. Unlike Ranger Players, even if they obtained a Miracle Blueprint, they couldn't use it – they didn't own any territory of their own.

And Mu Yuan's territory...

Was the not-so-large piece of land before him that could be viewed from a God's perspective.

His area was relatively open, and he couldn't find a particularly suitable place to build an Arrow Tower, but because his territory was small, no matter where the Arrow Tower was placed, the surrounding area would be within its range.

"Then this spot it is."

Holding the Arrow Tower blueprint, Mu Yuan walked to a slightly elevated area that indicated it was suitable for construction.

Click, build.

Just like in a real-time strategy game, a silhouette of an Arrow Tower, woven and constructed from light and shadow, appeared on the ground before him.

[Hint: Arrow Tower (Common Grade) is under construction. Please input materials in a timely manner.]

[Arrow Tower]
[Required Materials: Wood 0/100, Stone 0/100, Soul Sand 0/500g.]

Hmm, these building materials also require manual delivery.

Well, he was just an intern Lord after all.

Fortunately, these materials weren't hard to find. Wood could be easily chopped from the surrounding forest, and for Stone, he could just have Undead Bone find a Giant Stone, smash it, and then have the Skeleton Soldiers pick up the pieces.

This was the power of Miracle Blueprints. The materials only needed to roughly match; science was completely irrelevant.

What mattered were the rules of the Eternal World.

Materials + Blueprint == Building. This was the rule of Miracle Blueprints.

The Soul Sand had already been put in. Undead Bone had collected quite a bit of Wood and Stone before, and after Duo Lai arrived at the Territories, the pile of 'junk' within the Territories had visibly increased.

"Goochi? Goochi goochi!"

"Don't worry, your treasures haven't disappeared. They've just changed form to continue accompanying you. Look, isn't this tall tower in front of you shiny?"

The Arrow Tower under construction flowed with light and shadow, slowly transforming from illusory to real from bottom to top, filling in little by little.

Duo Lai stared with wide eyes at the Arrow Tower flowing with light and shadow before it. After its limited brain capacity processed the information, it realized... it seemed to be true.

It then hopped away, still goochi-goochiing.

[Arrow Tower: Currently 1.2% built, construction ongoing...]

Mu Yuan instructed Undead Bone to take the Skeleton Soldiers and the Transportation Captain Duo Lai outside the Territories to collect various Wood and Stone materials.

He himself proceeded to place buildings like the Sentry Tower, Warehouse, and Dwelling one by one.

The materials required for these three were also just Wood, Stone, and Soul Sand. Even though the constructed Dwelling included quite a few items inside, it didn't matter; the remaining materials would be supplemented by the Miracle Blueprint.

"Among these buildings, the Arrow Tower is the most expensive to build, but it's not that expensive... well, of course, that's because I just received the Association's welfare subsidy."

"But the Mage Tower I'm about to build..."

[Mage Tower (Rare Grade)]
[Description: A defensive building that can attack enemies on its own without requiring troops to be stationed inside. It can launch Spell Missiles with automatic tracking effects. Additionally, the Mage Tower has basic research capabilities and can produce a small number of items. This latter function requires Arcane Arts professionals with specialized knowledge to be stationed inside to be usable.]
[Required Materials: Wood 0/500; Stone 0/500; Iron 0/200; Soul Crystal 0/5; Black Iron Stone 0/100; Elemental Orb 0/1.]

Mu Yuan: "..."

This is a bit too expensive!

He tried throwing the remnants of the previous Ruined Tower into it, and it did fill some of the gaps, but only a little.

"Putting aside basic materials like Wood, I'm still short 4.5 Soul Crystal Coins, 60 units of Black Iron Stone, and the most expensive Elemental Orb."

Black Iron Stone, Elemental Orb, Mu Yuan had never even heard of these materials before, but it didn't matter. His authority on the Tai Xuan Forum had been upgraded, allowing him to access many slightly more advanced materials.

After a flurry of searching, he quickly found the results.

Black Iron Stone is a Common Grade item, usually used as building material or equipment material, often found in wild ore veins.

Elemental Orb is a Rare Grade material that can also be used as an accessory to enhance the power of one's Arcane Arts. This treasure can be obtained through various channels such as conquering powerful Monster camps, purifying Filth Roots, killing powerful Monsters, exploring treasure spots rich in elements, and so on.

However, it's only a chance to obtain it.

If Mu Yuan relied solely on fighting Monsters and exploring by himself, this precious Mage Tower Blueprint would likely gather dust in the Warehouse for a long time.

Fortunately, he had a massive trading platform behind him.

Rare items that couldn't be bought with Soul Sand? He could directly exchange them with Contribution Points. He still had a full three thousand Contribution Points.

His Great Lord Mu wasn't short on money; he could buy all these materials in minutes.

Mu Yuan entered the Tai Xuan Covenant platform and did a quick search.

Three thousand Contribution Points were indeed worth a lot.

Among them, one hundred Contribution Points could be exchanged for 1 Soul Crystal Coin.

Even relatively common White Grade Miracle Blueprints were only worth two to three hundred points.

Some cheaper Rare Troop Remnant Souls could be bought for less than two hundred Contribution Points.

Of course, even if these newcomers could buy Rare Grade items, they couldn't send them to their Territories through a medium, unless the Rare items were extracted from their own Territories, in which case they could be sent back.

It was precisely because of these restrictions that Civilian Players had a slight chance to compete with various Whale Players and Game Second Generations. He had to give a thumbs up to the rules of the Eternal World here.

Uh, wait a minute.

Just as Mu Yuan opened the item interface for the Elemental Orb, his expression suddenly froze.

If he remembered correctly, this Elemental Orb seemed, perhaps, probably... was a Rare Grade item!

He could afford it, yes, but he couldn't send it into the Eternal World.

Am I the Whale Player myself?

"It seems the Elemental Orb can only be obtained by fighting and searching for it myself."

Thinking this, Mu Yuan spread out the rough map he had drawn, pondering where the most likely place to find someone with an Elemental Orb would be.