After searching the Chaos Mall for half a day.
In the end, Huang Yu spent 2,000 Soul Crystals.
He purchased a set of ordinary building blueprints—the Steel Mill.
Steel Mill: Tier-One Ordinary Building
Introduction: Requires 20 subjects to operate. Each day, it can smelt 2,000 units of Iron Ore into 1,000 units of Fine Iron!
Note: Upgrading to Tier Two requires 35 Soul Crystals, 280 units of timber, 210 units of stone, and 40 units of Fine Iron!
The Steel Mill's blueprints cost far more than those for a Steel Furnace.
But its cost-effectiveness was also much higher.
2,000 Soul Crystals were enough to buy 13 Steel Furnaces.
But thirteen Tier-One Steel Furnaces could only smelt a total of 650 units of Fine Iron per day.
Meanwhile, a Tier-One Steel Mill could smelt 1,000 units of Fine Iron per day!
The money had been well spent.
Of course...
If he could get a discount, that would be even better.
Seeing that he had enough Soul Crystals and materials.
After the Steel Mill was completed.
Huang Yu immediately upgraded it to Tier Two.
Steel Mill: Tier-Two Ordinary Building
Introduction: Requires 40 subjects to operate. Each day, it can smelt 4,000 units of Iron Ore into 2,000 units of Fine Iron!
Note: Upgrading to Tier Three requires a Tier-Three Fire Seed, as well as 350 Soul Crystals, 1,800 units of timber, 2,000 units of stone, and 400 units of Fine Iron!
After upgrading the Steel Mill.
Huang Yu had returned to square one overnight.
The Soul Crystals in his hands were almost gone...
But this was only temporary.
The materials from last night were almost completely consumed by the Blue Mountain Workshop.
A large batch of equipment would be produced soon.
Besides, there were Dilios and forty-four Spartan Warriors...
Speak of the devil, and he appeared.
Just then, Huang Yu suddenly received several notifications.
The lord gained 56 experience and 7 Soul Crystals! The lord gained 42 experience and 5 Soul Crystals! The lord gained 86 experience and 11 Soul Crystals!
Listening to the faint hissing coming from the forest.
And hearing the notifications.
Huang Yu knew.
The Spartan Warriors had found the migrating Giant Lizards!
On the forest battlefield.
The Spartan Warriors had not recklessly engaged the Giant Lizard herd head-on.
Instead, they had split into several small teams.
Under Dilios's command, they intercepted, drove back, and scattered the massive Giant Lizard population.
Relying on their understanding of the terrain and their superb combat skills.
Not long after the battle began.
More than a dozen Giant Lizard corpses were already lying on the ground.
The surviving Giant Lizards were like headless flies, manipulated by the Spartan Warriors as they fled wildly through the forest.
They had already been poorly adapted to the forest environment.
Now, under the Spartan Warriors' deliberate misdirection, they were even more panicked and helpless, taking one step after another toward death.
Relying on their enormous bodies.
The Giant Lizards could barely be considered top-tier predators on the grasslands.
But in the densely wooded forest.
Their massive size instead restricted their vision and movements.
All they could do was rage helplessly at the agile Spartan Warriors.
Whoosh!
Dilios threw a javelin.
Although its landing point was not as precise as a Spartan Javelin Thrower's.
Relying on his enormous strength advantage.
The javelin Dilios threw still pierced the neck of a Giant Lizard nearly twenty meters long.
"Roar!"
The Giant Lizard cried out in pain and charged toward Dilios.
Its massive body crushed the shrubs along the way.
Spurred on by pain and fury, the Giant Lizard displayed strength befitting its size.
Bang!
With a loud crash.
Dilios nimbly dodged the Giant Lizard's charge.
But the Giant Lizard, blinded by rage, had no intention of stopping.
It slammed headfirst into a tree that took two people to encircle.
Amid a creaking sound, the tree snapped in half.
Meanwhile, Dilios's figure rapidly closed in under the cover of the fallen tree.
Smack!
The Giant Lizard's supple, slender tail was like an iron whip.
It lashed about wildly, effortlessly smashing the trees around it to pieces.
Even Dilios had no confidence in withstanding a single strike from the Giant Lizard's tail.
Its strength was evident.
However.
The difference between prey and hunter was revealed.
Sometimes, it was not merely a matter of strength, but also technique!
Relying on his superb combat skills.
Dilios easily dodged the Giant Lizard's chaotic attacks.
Holding a longsword, he moved around the Giant Lizard.
Within the space of a few breaths, he left a dense pattern of wounds across its body.
He also chopped off all four of the Giant Lizard's limbs.
Pfft!
The Giant Lizard wailed as it collapsed to the ground, despairingly watching Dilios stab his longsword into it.
Suddenly!
A bone-chilling sense of danger swept over him.
Without hesitation, Dilios pulled back and dodged.
The next moment.
A deep-red, football-sized sphere of searing heat landed where Dilios had just been standing.
Boom!
With a thunderous blast.
The deep-red sphere exploded violently.
It tore the Giant Lizard's head and body apart.
It also released a scorching wave of heat.
Blood, tree trunks, and soil flew in all directions.
When the explosion subsided.
A deep pit had appeared where the sphere had landed.
The soil inside was scorched black.
Dilios dropped the Excellent Quality round shield he had held before him. It was still hot enough to burn his hand.
The shield had just protected him from the explosion of the deep-red sphere.
Now, it was covered in cracks.
It was essentially ruined.
Dilios looked toward the direction from which the fireball had come.
It was a Giant Lizard more than ten meters long.
Although it was smaller than the Giant Lizards Dilios had encountered earlier.
The danger it gave him was unprecedented!
This Giant Lizard looked markedly different from ordinary Giant Lizards.
The scales around its neck were dark red.
Every so often, it exhaled gray smoke flecked with sparks.
Clearly, the spell just now had originated from it.
Clop, clop, clop...
Seeing that its attack had not only failed to kill Dilios but had instead blasted off its companion's head.
The Giant Lizard was furious.
It slowly walked toward Dilios, the gray smoke between its nostrils growing denser.
Its golden slit pupils radiated a faint pressure.
"Demonized wild monster!"
Dilios was extremely wary.
He knew that the Giant Lizard before him was definitely above Level 20!
Because it was demonized.
It also possessed a powerful magical attack.
If he was caught off guard.
Even as a Hero Unit.
He would be blasted into shattered charcoal!
"Roar!!!"
The Demonized Giant Lizard opened its horrifying maw.
The dark-red scales around its neck flashed repeatedly.
A scorching energy gathered in the Demonized Giant Lizard's mouth.
A moment later.
A dense red sphere took shape. The Demonized Giant Lizard spat it out, sending it hurtling toward Dilios at incredible speed.
The moment the Demonized Giant Lizard opened its mouth, Dilios had already retreated.
Before the sphere hit the ground, he narrowly escaped the blast radius.
Boom!!!
Several large trees were blown to pieces.
Another pit two or three meters deep appeared in the ground.
The Demonized Giant Lizard furiously charged through the flying leaves and soil.
After looking around.
It discovered that its enemy had vanished.
"Hiss, hiss~"
A forked dark-red tongue darted out repeatedly.
The Demonized Giant Lizard searched its surroundings for the enemy's scent.
However.
The Demonized Giant Lizard suddenly shuddered and raised its head.
Why were there so many similar scents around it?
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