Chen Yu spent the rest of the day working overtime to create CGs.
By the time he finished these two CGs, it was already dark.
The Adventurers had all returned and handed over their daily gains to Chen Yu. Looking at the dazzling array of rewards in the warehouse, Chen Yu couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
“You're really hardworking! Don't you guys know how to slack off at work?”
While feeling emotional, Chen Yu tallied the profits.
The harvest of soul crystals was abundant.
A portion of them had already been consumed to upgrade the Adventurer Spirits' levels, making hunting more convenient.
The remaining soul crystals were all here.
“This batch of soul crystals obtained later is clearly of better quality. Most of them have reached Level 3. How can there be so many Common ★★★★★ soul crystals here?”
Although he didn't obtain a single Excellent quality soul crystal, having so many Common ★★★★★ was still quite good.
After an inventory, Chen Yu immediately performed another wave of upgrades.
First, he used low-quality but Level 3 soul crystals to upgrade all Adventurer Spirits to Level 4.
Then, he used slightly higher quality soul crystals to upgrade the quality of the Adventurer Spirits as well.
Finally, the 40 Adventurer Spirits in the Adventurer's Tavern uniformly reached Level 4, and their quality uniformly reached Common ★★★★★.
Their combat power index reached 40 points.
With such a combat power index, they were already capable of venturing deeper into the forest to search for higher-level and better-quality magical beasts.
As for the wind-attribute soul crystal, Chen Yu didn't use it.
Instead, he saved it for the Contract Adventurer he was about to recruit. Contract Adventurer were like his own people, permanent residents, so naturally, the good stuff should be saved for them first.
Even if Li Ruoshu didn't come, Chen Yu would recruit others.
The Half-elf Swordsman also received an upgrade, with his level and quality consistent with the Adventurer Spirits.
After finishing all these things, Chen Yu finally had time to go to the blacksmith's shop to check the equipment.
“Currently, I have very few materials, only the most basic iron ingots. The equipment that can be forged...”
【Iron Sword: Common ★】 Attack +1.
Note: Can be enhanced with soul crystals to increase equipment level, or enchanted with rare magical substances to grant additional attributes.
【Iron Armor: Common ★】 Defense +1.
Note: Can be enhanced with soul crystals...
Chen Yu pondered for a moment.
These pieces of equipment forged from iron ingots were basically identical in style, all increasing combat power by 1 point.
An Adventurer's equipment slots totaled 11, namely: Weapon, Upper Garment, Shoulder, Pants, Belt, Shoes, Bracer, Bracelet, Ring, Necklace, and Magical Accessory.
Generally speaking, a full set of Common ★ equipment could provide 11 points of combat power.
However, bracelets, rings, necklaces, and magical accessories were all special equipment that the blacksmith's shop could not forge, requiring blueprints.
Therefore, an ordinary blacksmith's shop could only provide 7 points of combat power.
After being strengthened by the remaining Level 3 soul crystals in Chen Yu's hand, they could provide a total increase of 21 points.
This way, the Half-elf Swordsman's combat power directly reached 61 points, a value already sufficient to handle many small-scale incidents currently.
Unfortunately, the iron ingots and soul crystals on hand were only enough for two sets of equipment, not enough to equip the remaining 40 Adventurer Spirits.
Chen Yu also had to save a bit for the future Contract Adventurer.
“Although I can use soul crystals to purchase iron ingots, or even higher-level steel ingots and refined iron ingots, and also purchase some soul crystals from other Dungeon Lords, the price is too expensive. My current territory construction still needs to use them, so using soul crystals in such places would be too wasteful.”
After checking the auction house and pondering for a moment, Chen Yu gave up on this idea.
“Forget it, I only have a little over 2000 soul crystals in total. Let's upgrade all these buildings to Level 2 first.”
This was Chen Yu's total gain for the day, the remaining amount of soul crystals after deducting expenses.
Currently, in the territory, the Castle, Adventurer's Tavern, and five “Happy Playing Cards” Dungeons had been upgraded to Level 2.
Among the remaining buildings, there were still five “Happy Playing Cards” Dungeons and four Resident Evil Dungeons that had not been upgraded. As for the warehouse and teleportation array, there was no need to upgrade them.
Although the four good fields could be upgraded to spiritual fields, the soul crystal consumption was extremely large. Those were for planting expensive medicinal herbs.
“Upgrading 9 Dungeons will cost a total of 1800, which means I'll only have 200 soul crystals left.”
Chen Yu temporarily kept these 200 soul crystals unused.
He would use them tomorrow to activate the protective shield of the newly acquired territory.
After completing all of this, Chen Yu glanced at the sky; it was already dark.
In the Resident Evil Dungeon, the queue of people gradually dwindled.
Chen Yu then issued an announcement, declaring maintenance.
And uploaded the two CGs in order.
After eating dinner and returning, Chen Yu closed the Dungeon.
Then, the version update could proceed.
In the Resident Evil Dungeon's entry interface, Chen Yu reconfigured content such as 【Newbie Mode】, 【Normal Mode】, 【Nightmare Mode】, 【Endless Roguelike Mode】, and 【Versus Mode】.
Of course, the latter three modes Chen Yu had not yet created.
They would require some time.
When Adventurers entered the selection, these options were grayed out. Currently, they could only choose Newbie Mode and Normal Mode, and Normal Mode also required passing Newbie Mode to enter.
The reason for releasing them early was also to keep the Adventurers in suspense.
After the interface settings were complete, Chen Yu began to merge the Normal Mode he had prepared in the system with the current Newbie Mode.
This process would take some time.
Chen Yu could only patiently combine them little by little.
During this period, what Chen Yu didn't notice was that someone in the Dungeon Lord chat interface was already discussing Sun Haoran's death.
“Holy crap, man, are you serious? That guy Sun Haoran is dead?”
The Dungeon Lord who sent the message replied, “To be honest, I don't quite believe it either, but this was indeed sent to me by Sun Haoran before he died.
He said that a group of terrifying canine monsters had rushed into his territory. These canine monsters were extremely powerful in combat and were organized and intelligent.
According to him, these canine monsters don't exist in any racial bestiary, so they must have been Adventurers transformed by that Dungeon Lord.”
“You mean... Sun Haoran went to fleece someone else but failed and died instead?”
“Yes, because I can't contact him now, so... I hope the Dungeon Lords near Sun Haoran's territory can go and check.
Sun Haoran is my brother. If he's dead, I'll definitely avenge him. As long as you're willing to help me, I'll definitely give you sufficient compensation.”