"Your blacksmithing skills are indeed great. You'll probably catch up with your teacher in a few years."
Zhao Changshou stroked his beard and smiled.
"It's just a basic operation. I'm still far from my teacher." Carter Jim reverted to his gnome form and said shyly.
This time, Zhao Changshou did not say anything.
Gibbon Vella was an Extraordinary-tier advance grade master blacksmith! He was indeed far inferior comparatively.
At this moment, Zhou Zhou also came back to his senses.
He looked at Carter Jim with shining eyes, as if he was looking at a treasure.
"In the future, you will be in charge of upgrading and repairing the equipment in our territory. Our soldiers are all wearing the most basic black iron-tier elementary grade equipment."
"Their standard equipment can no longer match their strength. I need you to help them!"
He patted Carter Jim's shoulder, looking like he had entrusted him with an important task.
"I will do my best!" Carter Jim said seriously.
He was akin to a young man who had mastered the skills of a military craftsman.
Even though he was shy, he yearned to follow a virtuous leader and create a great career.
This was also one of the reasons why he came here to train himself!
"I need White silver-tier standard equipment. How many days do you need to produce 10 sets?" Zhou Zhou asked.
"If it doesn't exceed the White silver-tier elementary grade, then I can forge 5 sets a day." Carter Jim said.
"How about intermediate grade?" Zhou Zhou inquired.
The limit of most of his soldiers' potential was the White silver-tier intermediate grade. He hopes for the best equipment for them.
"It's possible to forge 2 sets a day," Carter Jim answered, "but it will be best if I have at least a Green bronze-tier blacksmith building. Then I will definitely be able to forge 4 sets a day."
"We don't have the resources for now," Zhou Zhou shook his head.
Then, he asked for the list of ores and materials needed to upgrade the equipment.
"Pure Iron and fine steel."
Carter Jim replied.
"Forging low-level standard equipment mainly depends on the forger's skills and repeated tempering. There's no need for too complicated ores."
He said shyly, noticing Zhou Zhou's doubtful expression.
Zhou Zhou nodded.
He immediately opened the marketplace and used 10,000 units of black iron-tier elementary grade desert fog lizard meat to buy these two types of ore materials.
The price he set was five units of pure iron or 10 units of steel for every unit of black iron-tier elementary grade desert fog lizard meat!
This price was still very high!
However, there were too many cerulean planet lords so he did not have to worry about not being able to obtain the materials.
At this moment he noticed Ashburn wearing a doubtful expression on his face.
Zhou Zhou asked Zhao Changshou to arrange a place for Carter Jim to stay before he went to Ashburn's side.
"What are you looking at?" He asked Ashburn while patting his shoulder.
"My lord, is he a gnome too?" Ashburn looked at Carter in the distance and couldn't help but ask.
"He's a gnome with the blood of a mountain giant." Zhou Zhou answered.
"A gnome that actually has the bloodline of a mountain giant… I've learned something new." Ashburn sighed, feeling much better.
Zhou Zhou was also very emotional.
What was Carter Jim's Mountain Giant parent thinking?
"Luckily I ran into you. Can you use this?" Zhou Zhou handed the formulas for the Antidote and blood cleansing pill to Ashburn.
Ashburn was already used to seeing new formulas so he wasn't surprised.
He looked at it twice before he quickly shook his head.
"My apologies, my lord. I'm an alchemist. Making some alchemy potions is my limit. This is a potion formula specially prepared for orthodox pharmacists. I can't learn it."
Zhou Zhou was stunned.
He never thought there was a potion Ashburn couldn't learn.
I guess I've also learned something new.
He could only put them away, even though he felt that it was a pity.
He might be able to build a second monster ranch to nurture the black-tailed fog scorpion now that he had origin crystals, and could completely obtain antidotes and blood cleansing pills it.
But having more wasn't really a bad idea!
"My lord, I just made 50 mechanostriders. Would you like to take a look?" Ashburn asked.
"Let's go!" Zhou Zhou immediately said.
Mechanostriders were a very important part of his development plan!
They arrived at the alchemy warehouse that housed a total of 50 neatly arranged mechanostriders, making this place look like an armory.
"Well done." Zhou Zhou could not help but praise Ashburn.
"It's my duty to serve the lord." Ashburn said elegantly.
Zhou Zhou smiled and nodded.
"When you've made 100 mechanostriders, focus on teaching your disciples." He instructed.
"Yes, my lord," Ashburn responded.
Then, he stored the mechanostriders in his spatial ring.
After resting for an hour, Bai Yung and Lu Chong took Nezario for a hunt.
Fearing that his pet dragon could be hurt, or worse, killed, Zhou Zhou sent his 2 strongest soldiers to protect him.
As for Hui Teng, he was heavily invested in his training to advance his sword shield combination skill to a higher tier.
The same could be said to Huang Sai, Qin We and Sun Can.
Even Bai Yung was training to learn the skill taught to him by Lu Chong.
The pressure created by Lu Chong's advancement was finally showing its fangs.
Half an hour later, in the lord's wooden house, Zhou Zhou, who was diving in the world channel, suddenly realized that the two deals he had set up were completed.
He had obtained a total of 60,000 units of stone, 50,000 units of wood, 110,000 units of fine sand, and 80,000 units of metal!
600 mechanostrider crafting materials, 2,000 life potion crafting materials, 800 energy potion crafting materials, 600 golden corpse water crafting materials and 1,200 blood eye crafting materials!
36,000 units of pure iron and 28,000 units of steel!
500 sets of antidotes!
250 sets of blood cleansing pills!
Other than that, he also bought some random materials.
He had trade all 40,000 units of meat, leaving him with a little less than 20,000 units.
Zhou Zhou looked at the materials he had bought, feeling a little emotional.
This was the disadvantage of desert territory.
He had to buy raw materials if he wanted to make something.
He could be completely self-sufficient if he was in a territory rich in resources.
However, he did not blame anyone.
He was already in a much, much better position when compared to the lords who could not even solve their survival problems.
Zhou Zhou found Zhao Changshou again before they jointly looked for Mu Gu together to discuss the construction of the second monster ranch.
Zhao Changshou was pleasantly surprised when he knew that he was going to participate in the construction of a special building.
This was left unnoticed by Zhou Zhou as he waved his right hand.
3,000 units of wood, 3,000 units of fine sand, 3,000 units of metal, 3,000 units of stone ingredients, and 1,000 units of black iron mist core appeared out of thin air.
Then, he took out an origin crystal and handed it to Mu Gu.
"I'll leave the second monster ranch to Elder Zhao and you. The second monster ranch will be used to nurture the black-tailed fog scorpions."
"Can the monster ranch be built by tonight with the 4 of them assist you two?" Zhou Zhou asked.
"No problem." Mu Gu and Zhao Changshou exchanged confirmation nods before replying to Zhou Zhou.
Its current grade would just be a little higher than black iron-tier advance grade even though the monster ranch was a special building.
They were confident that it would be completed before night fell.
Zhou Zhou nodded and left.
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