True Kings Are Always Lonely

Turning back, the four Spartan Warriors were still locked in combat with the wild boars.

Dilios's fighting spirit had not diminished. He threw the spear in his right hand, and it pierced straight through a wild boar's head with a shrill whistle.

Then, without even looking at it,

he turned and charged at the last remaining wild boar.

Bang!

Dilios leaped up and kicked down the wild boar that was trying to flee.

Two Spartan Warriors stepped forward at the right moment to finish it off, killing the wild boar.

The battle had been wild and open, yet their coordination was seamless.

Huang Yu's blood boiled as he watched.

The Lord gained 62 experience and 3 Soul Crystals!

The Lord gained 54 experience and 2 Soul Crystals!

The Lord gained 50 experience and 2 Soul Crystals!

A flash of light, visible only to Huang Yu, swept past.

Abundant energy surged into his body.

Huang Yu's one-piece abs were broken apart into eight distinct blocks.

He clenched and waved his fist, feeling the changes in his body.

Huang Yu felt that one punch from him could make Tyson beg him not to die...

He opened the Lord panel, where the LV1 beside his level had changed to LV2.

"Lord!"

Dragging a wild boar several times larger than himself into the village,

Dilios excitedly said to Huang Yu,

"I think I've become stronger!"

Oh?

Hearing Dilios's words, Huang Yu's heart stirred, and he brought up the other man's information panel.

Spartan Hero: Dilios

Level: LV2

Loyalty: 100 (Absolutely Loyal)

Potential: Saint Domain (Upgradeable to LV69)

Class: Spartan Berserker

Skills: Spartan Rage, Spartan Combat Skills, Spartan Battle Formation...

He had actually leveled up too!

Huang Yu looked at the other four Spartan Warriors.

As expected, all four Spartan Warriors had neatly risen to LV2 as well.

It was probably because they had been killing monsters above their level...

"Not bad!"

Huang Yu nodded and said,

"Keep fighting, my warriors!"

"Battle will make us even stronger!"

"By your command, Lord!"

Upon hearing the order to fight, Dilios became unusually excited.

He once again led the four Spartan Warriors into the forest.

Before long,

the roars of their battle rang out from the forest.

Along with the dying shrieks of monsters.

On Huang Yu's end, notifications for experience and Soul Crystals also kept arriving.

There were an enormous number of monsters in the forest.

The five Spartan Warriors barely stopped fighting.

Under Dilios's leadership, they feared neither pain nor exhaustion.

They became killing machines, slaughtering the monsters near the village.

More and more monster corpses were dragged into the village.

The two Gatherers were busy beyond measure.

Food, leather, and materials were continuously sent to the wooden house.

The number of Soul Crystals in Huang Yu's account also exceeded twenty!

He entered the wooden house.

The wooden crates used to store supplies were already packed full.

Quite a bit of food and materials had been placed on the ground.

Huang Yu took inventory.

Food alone amounted to one hundred and twenty units, enough to feed the territory's current population for ten days!

And it was all meat, not the coarse grain bread from the Chaos Mall.

Looking at the piled-up supplies, Huang Yu felt a happy sort of trouble.

There were no refrigerators here.

Meat would spoil after two days.

And the Chaos Mall only accepted Soul Crystals for purchases; it did not buy back supplies...

Buy back?

An idea struck Huang Yu, and he thought of the trading platform.

Both were food that cost one Soul Crystal per portion.

Would other Lords choose coarse grain or meat?

Of course they would eat meat!

Meat was delicious and could provide more protein and fat.

It was far more worthwhile than multigrain bread!

Besides, they did not necessarily have to buy it with Soul Crystals!

The Chaos Mall only accepted Soul Crystals, but the trading platform allowed bartering!

Huang Yu could completely make other Lords work for him.

He could trade his food for construction materials such as wood and stone from other Lords.

Although the gains would only be short-term, if he could maintain his lead through this in the early stages, his later development would only become faster.

With that thought, Huang Yu immediately opened a personal shop on the trading platform.

He then uploaded a full one hundred portions of food through the Fire Seed, specifically marking them as meat.

After that, he set the price information:

Fresh Meat

Unit Price: 1 Soul Crystal / 20 units of wood / 10 units of stone

Quantity: 100 units

Knowing that most people were currently on the World Channel, Huang Yu also used his once-a-day speaking opportunity to post an ad there.

Notice: Universe Shop officially opens today. Current product: 100 units of fresh meat. Fair prices, first come, first served!

As soon as the ad was posted,

the World Channel immediately became lively.

Someone is already selling supplies at this stage... Holy crap, it's meat!

The price of meat is actually the same as coarse grain bread—one Soul Crystal!

I just lost two citizens catching a chicken, and after slaughtering it, I only got 3 units of meat...

Someone died just trying to catch a chicken upstairs?

A whole 100 units of meat—how many monsters did that take to kill?

Soul Crystals are too precious. I'd rather trade wood; I just cut down quite a few trees.

What a scam! He's practically a black-hearted merchant. It takes double the wood and stone to trade for one unit of meat!

The War of Ten Thousand Races had only just begun, and many Lords had not even accepted the reality of being transported here.

The vast majority were still at the stage of chopping trees and breaking stones to level up.

Very few dared to risk going outside to kill wild monsters.

Then someone suddenly brought out so much food.

It made many people extremely envious.

This was not merely a symbol of wealth, but also proof of Huang Yu's strength.

However...

After the initial shock, more and more voices in the World Channel began criticizing Huang Yu.

In the Chaos Mall, one Soul Crystal could only buy 1 unit of food, 10 units of wood, or 5 units of stone.

Although Huang Yu also sold one piece of meat for just one Soul Crystal,

bartering for it required double the wood and stone.

Many people expressed dissatisfaction over this.

Others were simply trying to morally blackmail him.

They believed Huang Yu should sell food cheaply, or even offer it for free, to the human faction.

That way, he could help humanity overcome this crisis together.

Some even suggested collecting the surplus resources in the Lords' hands for centralized allocation.

Then that person's message was buried beneath everyone else's comments...

Huang Yu never took other people's accusations to heart.

If he really gave away food for free, he would only attract even more curses.

Food was limited, after all. People did not fear scarcity; they feared unfairness.

Those who could not get any would always stir up trouble.

Without paying a certain price, they would never understand that there was no such thing as a free lunch.

As for whether he would be boycotted together, Huang Yu was not worried in the slightest.

If billions of people could truly unite completely,

humanity would have flown out of the Milky Way back when they were still on Blue Star...

With better goods and the best market, there was no need to fear that he could not sell what he had!

Sure enough.

Not long after he sent the message, a string of notifications came from the trading platform and friend requests.

The 100 units of meat were snatched up completely.

Huang Yu received 25 Soul Crystals, 700 units of wood, and 400 units of stone.

These materials were stored on the trading platform and could be consumed directly when needed.

Finally, Huang Yu opened his friend list and cleared the 99...9+ friend requests with a single tap.

True kings were always lonely. They did not need friends!