After wandering for an hour.
Su Ye, with Xiao Gu, finally reached the Beastman Secret Realm.
Passing through the entrance of the secret realm, what met his eyes was a dense forest.
Ten Blade Spider detected someone approaching and crawled out from the bushes one after another.
Upon seeing that it was Su Ye, they dispersed again, hiding in the bushes.
This was one of their ways of guarding the secret realm. Once they discovered an unknown target entering the secret realm.
They would mercilessly plunge their poison-coated limbs into the body of the intruder.
Su Ye sat on Xiao Gu's back, directing it to move forward.
He needed to find a suitable location to place the ant nest.
Ideally, it should be in an area with hard soil and few impurities.
After circling the Beastman Secret Realm for a while, Su Ye finally found a suitable place.
The soil was hard, and there were many trees around, which could provide sufficient food for the Crimson Scale Fire Ants.
After choosing the location, Su Ye moved the Ant Queen from Xiao Gu's back and untied the vines that bound it.
Then, he chose to start the construction.
Because the Beastman Secret Realm now belonged to Su Ye, he had the right to use the land within the secret realm.
Of course, if the Beastman Secret Realm was captured by other lords, all the troops inside would lose contact with Su Ye and become wild monsters.
For example, the Blade Spiders stationed here would become wild monsters, the Crimson Scale Fire Ants would become wild monsters, and so on...
“Consuming one million units of Wood, Stone, Iron, and Gold, one Crimson Scale Fire Ant Queen, construction of Crimson Scale Fire Ant Nest successful.”
As the prompt sounded, a small mound began to rise on the empty ground in front of Su Ye.
The Crimson Scale Fire Ant Nest was under construction.
It only took 12 hours.
With Su Ye's 99% cooldown reduction, it could be completed in eight minutes.
The time wasn't long, so Su Ye didn't rush to leave. Instead, he found a place to sit down and watched the ant nest gradually take shape.
Eight minutes passed quickly, and the progress bar at the top of the nest reached its full value.
The Crimson Scale Fire Ant Nest was now complete.
Standing before Su Ye was a small earthen mound with a diameter of three meters.
The size was several times smaller than the one he saw yesterday.
When a large number of Crimson Scale Fire Ants hatched, they would expand their territory. Su Ye didn't have to worry about that.
He checked the nest information, which was as follows:
【Crimson Scale Fire Ant Nest】
Tier: Four
Level: 1
Units: 0/10000
Training Template: Crimson Scale Fire Ant
Training Cost: Gold*50, Food*1
Training Time: Indefinite
Upgrade Requirements: Wood, Stone, Iron, and Gold, 2 million units each, time 16 hours.
The training method of Crimson Scale Fire Ants was a bit special.
Other troops, such as Dragons, Goblins, Centaurs, etc., only required gold to train.
As long as there was enough gold and subsequent food supply, they could constantly train combat units.
But the Crimson Scale Fire Ants were different. They were hatched from ant eggs laid by the Ant Queen.
The number that could be trained depended on the Ant Queen's egg production.
The more ant eggs the Ant Queen laid, the more Crimson Scale Fire Ants would hatch.
Therefore, the digitized training cost of a single Crimson Scale Fire Ant was 50 gold and one unit of food.
Fifty gold wasn't a big problem, but this one unit of food.
Made Su Ye a little worried.
Food was one of the most difficult resources to obtain. Even now, he only had over 60,000 units of food stored, and he was consuming a considerable amount every day.
Training a Crimson Scale Fire Ant required one unit of food, it was undeniably a significant expense.
“I need to find a way to increase food production.” Su Ye thought to himself.
In the Age of Lords, there were many sources of food.
The main source was the daily harvest from the secret realm.
Besides, there was another source that shouldn't be overlooked, which was to plant it yourself.
Even Spirit Fruits could be planted, so naturally, the food consumed by troops could also be planted.
However, obtaining those seeds was a bit difficult.
Su Ye did know of one or two places where he could get food seeds. Besides, the Market would open in a month, and he could also buy seeds from the mysterious merchant.
But the price, it would make you question your existence.
Therefore, Su Ye decided to find some time to visit those places in his memory where he could obtain food seeds and get some seeds back.
A level one ant nest could train 10,000 Crimson Scale Fire Ants. For Su Ye's current situation, he could still afford it.
Without further ado, he started training.
“Consuming 500,000 gold and 10,000 units of food, pre-training 10,000 Crimson Scale Fire Ants.”
As soon as the prompt sounded, the Ant Queen in the ant nest began to lay eggs.
After the ant eggs hatched, they would become Crimson Scale Fire Ants.
After doing all this, Su Ye didn't wait any longer and rode Xiao Gu towards the exit of the Beastman Secret Realm.
When he reached the entrance of the secret realm, Su Ye ordered two Blade Spiders to guard the vicinity of the Crimson Scale Fire Ant Nest.
Don't let other monsters in the secret realm destroy the ant nest.
With everything in place, Su Ye left the Beastman Secret Realm.
He returned to the Star Domain Territory, took a brief rest, and ate some food. Then, Su Ye commanded, continuing yesterday's task.
That was, to explore the surrounding area of the territory.
This time, the two teams changed directions.
Su Ye explored the north, while Eve, Su Qian'er, and Lin Yan Xi's team explored the south.
After the arrangement, everyone started to move forward, inching towards the front.
While Su Ye and his team were busy developing their territory, the outside world had also undergone a drastic change.
The end of the world had been here for nearly ten days.
The first batch of lords, excluding Su Ye, started to appear.
They gradually discovered the usefulness of their territories and began to try building, training troops, occupying secret realms, obtaining more resources, and training more troops.
Everything, just like the previous life, was back on track.
The Age of Lords, after more and more humans became lords, had quietly begun.
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