All People Are Lords: Starting with Heroine Fusion

[Another reminder! Pay close attention! You absolutely must not enter the Fog Wall!]

[I remind you every day, so why are people still running into the Fog Wall?]

[Liu Xun is already lost. The instructors are carrying out an emergency rescue plan.]

[Whatever the reason, if there is any danger, leave the territory world immediately!!]

[Staying alive always comes first! If you run into the Fog Wall, you will lose not only your territory, but your life as well!!]

[Everyone, reply with "Understood"!]

Li Ruanyu had a gentle disposition.

She rarely spoke so sternly.

But something like this would certainly make her angry.

Below was a string of replies from students saying they understood.

Even more of them, however, were asking what exactly had happened.

But Li Ruanyu did not reply again.

Neither did the other instructors.

Liu Xun was a student in Zhao Chi's class, fairly unremarkable and from a poor family.

He usually worked quite hard. Zhao Chi had never expected him to run into the Fog Wall.

Checking the time, he saw that the messages had been sent at 2:17 a.m.

He could not figure out the situation yet.

But he could make a guess: Liu Xun probably had not cleared out the other races during the day.

Then he had been attacked at night.

In his panic, had he still tried to protect his territory, fighting as he retreated until he finally entered the Fog Wall?

Zhao Chi did not know what had happened.

But that guess was probably close to the truth.

Commoners from poor families treasured their starting territories.

Once they retreated, heavy casualties among their subjects, combined with destroyed buildings, would cause the system to deem their territories destroyed.

They would survive, but their territories would be gone.

Commoners did not have spare money to hire professionals to clear away the traces of their old territories, nor could they afford new World Stones.

That was why commoners did everything they could to hold their territories instead of retreating.

Some even "foolishly" threw away their chance to survive.

They could not shoulder all the blame for that.

Although this had nothing to do with Zhao Chi, and he and Liu Xun were not particularly close, Zhao Chi still felt a tightness in his chest.

It had nothing to do with the pair of enormous melons Gu Qing was pressing against him.

He just felt that someone who had been his classmate was now gone, just like that.

Although Li Ruanyu and the others were trying to rescue him, their efforts were almost certainly futile.

Zhao Chi sighed and opened the private group chat.

There were even more messages there.

Dozens of classmates were already awake, constantly discussing the incident.

But even more were discussing other matters.

Shi Juan [Everyone, come help me figure out how to allocate this Orc's stat points! His strength is as high as 7, but his personality traits are timid and sleazy.]

Li Xun [Why has a new camp of another race already spawned on my side? It's a Stone Man camp. Fire-type spirit arts won't work on Stone Men, will they?]

Zheng He [I heard a beast tide arrived outside the wall in the early hours. Has anyone heard anything?]

Some classmates were also selling items or looking to buy things.

Lu Yi [If anyone captures any Elves, you can sell them to me. I'll take them all.]

Tan Wei [Same here, but for human captives.]

Wang Lie [Anyone want a "Stocking Fashion Modification Book"? I'll trade it for a weapon modification book or Goblin captives. Selling it is fine too.]

Stocking Fashion Modification Book?

Zhao Chi immediately clicked on it.

Its information was available to view.

[Stocking Fashion Modification Book]

[Type] Technology

[Grade] Basic

[Description] A basic modification book for stocking fashion. After use, you may choose a modification direction for stockings.

Zhao Chi noticed the word "choose" in the description.

It was a perfectly ordinary word.

But to him, it seemed to glow.

His intuition told him this modification book was very likely to trigger the effect of Transplant Flowers, Connect Jade.

Although this kind of fashion item was useless to Zhao Chi himself,

it would help Gu Qing and the other women.

Fashion items all had bonus stats that could make them stronger, so it was well worth it.

He could buy it.

There was one other problem, though.

This modification book only improved what already existed.

But Zhao Chi's territory had yet to acquire the crafting technology for "stocking fashion."

He would have to buy finished stockings, then modify them for Gu Qing and the others to wear.

That might cost a little more.

The other students had seen it too, and quite a few were interested.

Ji Ya [A Stocking Fashion Modification Book? So it's for fashion items. How much?]

Li Ke [A modification book? Where did you get that? You're pretty lucky. I want it too.]

Wang Lie [Where else? I got it from a treasure chest. Three gold coins, or trade me another modification book.]

Cao Feng [Are you that desperate for money? Three gold coins? It's just a basic modification book.]

Wang Lie [Even a basic modification book takes a professional tailor a long time to research. You're paying to save time. Besides, they go for over three gold coins on the market.]

Cao Feng [Save time, my ass! Does one month of research count as a long time? If it's three gold coins on the market, why wouldn't I just buy it there?]

Ji Ya [Could you lower the price? Would you sell it for two gold coins?]

Cao Feng [Ji Ya, didn't you see that I wanted to buy it? Are you trying to snatch it from me?]

Ji Ya [Brother Cao, I'm really sorry. I didn't see what you said. I won't buy it.]

Wang Lie [Cao Feng, what are you trying to pull? Ji Ya, you don't want it anymore?]

Ji Ya [I... I don't want it anymore.]

Cao Feng [Let's see who fucking dares to buy it!]

Zhao Chi did not get caught up in the argument in the group.

He sent Wang Lie a private message:

[Wang Lie, didn't you say at first that you'd trade it for Goblins? I have some Goblin captives. What's your rate?]

Wang Lie quickly replied:

[How many do you have?]

The market price for Goblins was between 2 and 50 silver coins each, while exceptional ones could sell for gold coins.

The price varied enormously.

The midrange price was around 10 to 15 silver coins.

It mainly depended on their stats and personalities.

If they had nasty personalities and low stats, practically nobody wanted them.

After all, lords had a duty to defend against magical beasts.

And the number of subjects was an important measure of a lord's strength.

The more subjects a lord had, the stronger they were deemed to be, so they would be assigned more magical beasts, which would also be stronger. That made things dangerous.

That was why subjects with low stats were so cheap.

They might even be worth less than a piece of equipment.

Of course, different races were judged by different standards.

One Goblin could not possibly be considered equivalent to one Orc.

Conversely,

if they had good personalities and high stats, everyone would scramble to buy them, and their prices would be many times higher.

That was a given.

Zhao Chi's Goblins were all starting wild monsters, with rather poor stats and unpleasant personalities.

Their price would be a little lower.

Fortunately, he had a Goblin Chieftain to bolster the lot. His stats were higher than those of ordinary Goblins, so he commanded a substantial premium.