Troop Refresh Recruitment Card!

As time passed.

Night fell, and Su Ye finally woke up, looking at the burning campfire.

Su Ye stretched. "You've worked hard, Thalys."

"It is my duty, Your Majesty." Thalys said without any change in expression, still wearing that blank, emotionless look.

Su Ye said nothing more. That was simply Thalys's personality. He opened the Chat Channel and checked his private messages.

Most of them were private messages from clip-bros and clip-sis. Damn it, those messages were the most numerous. He blocked and deleted them in one go. Seeing that there was nothing of note in his private messages, he opened the friends chat panel.

Su Ye only had one friend now: Little Merchant.

"She sent another message? What is it? Did she find the Technology Seed?" Su Ye checked curiously.

"Hm?" A trace of surprise and shock appeared in Su Ye's eyes.

[Little Merchant: Boss, are you interested in Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards?]

[Little Merchant: Not around? If you're interested, send me a private message.]

"Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards?" Su Ye took a deep breath. Someone had already gotten their hands on these things?

However, there were billions of Novice Lords in this batch. With such a massive population, it was not strange for someone to obtain something like this.

How should he put it? To some Lords, a Troop Refresh Recruitment Card was not even as useful as a Resource Card. But to Su Ye, it was a god-tier card.

Don't think no one would sell such things. Of course there were sellers. For ordinary Lords, their daily recruitment slots were already enough, and they often could not even use them all.

Do not forget that troops consumed food as well. It was already impressive for an ordinary Lord to maintain the daily recruitment expenses for their troops.

In fact, most Lords could not even sustain their troops' daily expenses. That was the normal situation.

So, to ordinary Lords, this card was far less practical than an Advanced Food Resource Card. They did not lack troop numbers. What they lacked were supplies—real, tangible supplies.

[Otherworld Traveler: Are you there? How much are these? How many do you have?]

Su Ye sent the message directly.

On Little Merchant's side, when she saw Su Ye's message, she immediately abandoned her private chat with another Lord.

[Little Merchant: Yes, yes, yes, I'm here, boss! I have five Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards. The price is 1,000 Gold Coins each. What do you think, boss?]

Su Ye looked at Little Merchant's message. Five Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards. A glint flashed through his eyes. Five cards—if he refreshed the Fallen Heaven Sanctuary—

he would gain another 150 Fallen Heaven troops.

[Otherworld Traveler: Fine. I'll take however many Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards you have. Please reserve them for me and help me buy more.]

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Su Ye's message, and her eyes practically turned into Gold Coin symbols.

[Little Merchant: Of course, no problem, boss. I'm helping you look for the Technology Seed you wanted. I should be able to find it soon. I've sent a trade request, boss. Please accept it.]

[Otherworld Traveler: Okay.]

Su Ye looked at the trade request that popped up and accepted it directly.

The five Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards were in his hands.

Just as Su Ye was about to close the chat panel, he suddenly remembered that he still needed the Dark Seed.

[Otherworld Traveler: Oh, right. Please help me acquire Dark Seeds too. Price is not an issue.]

[Little Merchant: Received!!]

Within Lin Xiaoxiao's territory, she looked at the 5,000 Gold Coins that had arrived in her account. She had spent 500 Gold Coins acquiring the Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards, then sold them for ten times the return.

Her ability to earn that money was her own skill. Su Ye did not have such extensive connections. Even if he knew about it, there was nothing he could do. Without her, Su Ye would not have been able to get these Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards.

"This guy's troops aren't simple. Saint Realm? Legendary? Epic? Mythical?" Lin Xiaoxiao thought curiously. Only troops that started at such tiers made the best use of Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards.

As for troops below the Saint Realm, they could use Troop Refresh Recruitment Cards too, but only if the Lord had enough resources to feed all those troops.

Together with the Gold Coins Su Ye possessed, Lin Xiaoxiao was no fool. Naturally, she knew Su Ye's troop tier was not low. But so what?

Every year, a few gifted Lords emerged among the Novice Lords. It was nothing unusual.

"Compared to him, this guy called Yi Ye Zhi Qiu is just a complete idiot. I'm a merchant, get it? Do you understand what a merchant is? And he wants credit, wants some damned betting agreement. Has he read too many novels? What a moron." Lin Xiaoxiao looked speechlessly at another friend chat window.

Messages kept flashing there. If he wanted to freeload, then just say he wanted to freeload. But a betting agreement? Who was going to bet with him? Was she sick? He had nothing, yet he opened his mouth and demanded a bet?

He was simply insane.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Xiaoxiao directly deleted and blocked Yi Ye Zhi Qiu. Crazy people could stay as far away from her as possible.

Within Ye Xiu's territory.

Ye Xiu looked at the messages he had sent Lin Xiaoxiao, confusion on his face. Why had she suddenly stopped talking?

"This woman was a famous major merchant in my previous life. She even formed a deep partnership with Otherworld Traveler, allowing that guy to always have enough resources to stay ahead of the Novice Lords. There's no reason I can't replicate that this time." Ye Xiu looked at the chat interface with ambition in his eyes.

According to what he had learned in his previous life, Little Merchant and Otherworld Traveler had formed an alliance from their novice period onward. Their alliance had never ended, only grown larger and larger.

Ye Xiu's plan was to win over Little Merchant first, then deal with Otherworld Traveler and turn those two Lords with vast resources into his subordinate Lords.

That way, they could provide him with an endless supply of nourishment.

After a long while, Ye Xiu looked at his chat interface. Had she fallen asleep?

With that thought, Ye Xiu tried sending another message, only to receive a system notification.

[Ding: You have been blocked by Little Merchant. You cannot trade with her or send her private messages!]

Ye Xiu's expression froze. What was going on? Why had he been blocked?

"Didn't Otherworld Traveler say that when he first met Little Merchant, he used this sort of zero-investment betting agreement to rope her in? Was that guy just bullshitting?" Ye Xiu's face darkened at the thought.

"That bastard..." Ye Xiu rubbed his brow, carefully recalling Otherworld Traveler's antics. Things like, "I don't love money, I'm not interested in money," "I'm face-blind and can't tell who's pretty," and "What I miss most is my carefree school days." He was always spouting nonsense. It really was possible that he had been making everything up.

"Hah?" Ye Xiu was so angry that he laughed.

Looking at how Little Merchant had blocked and deleted him, preventing him from sending private messages, Ye Xiu realized that during the Novice Lord period, he would not be able to complete even a single transaction with the biggest Merchant Lord of this batch.

That was not good news for him. The good news was that Little Merchant was not the only Merchant Lord. The bad news was that she was the biggest one in this batch.