Chapter 261: Counting the Gains
Enlightened, Yaya carefully considered the hints Matthew had given and gained new insights into some things.
Leisurely flapping her wings, Yaya flew over the soldiers and adventurers who were cheering and shouting excitedly.
Looking at the dense crowd of troll captives, Yaya blinked excitedly and began to calculate quickly:
"Daddy, how much did we invest in this battle?"
Matthew stroked her head, landed on the castle wall, placed her on his shoulder, and walked towards the castle under the respectful gazes of the soldiers, smiling as he guided her:
"Just do a simple tally and see if you can calculate all our investments."
A delighted Yaya nodded eagerly, her bright eyes turning slightly as she carefully calculated:
"Just for these 6,000 trolls, we need to pay 300,000 gold coins. That's a huge sum!"
"1,442 adventurers participated in the ambush mission, requiring a total payment of 5,768 gold coins…"
"4,000 military crossbows, 40,000 bolts, totaling 85,000 gold coins."
"10,000 bottles of Vitality Potion, 10,000 bottles of Nutrient Potion, 1,000 bottles of Paralysis Potion, 200 bottles of Acceleration Potion… altogether costing 40,000 gold coins."
"3,500 sets of enchanted equipment as rewards…"
"6 sets of small teleportation magic arrays…"
"1,000 low-tier spell scrolls, 100 mid-tier spell scrolls, 20 high-tier spell scrolls…"
"Military supplies, medical supplies, weapon and equipment wear and tear…"
"…"
Yaya counted all the items Bay Territory had invested in for this battle with her little fingers.
She looked like a cute little steward.
The more she accumulated, the more worried Yaya became about that massive number. Finally, she turned her head anxiously and asked secretly:
"Huh? The total is 506,400 gold coins. Do we have that much money?"
Matthew did not answer directly but pointed to the first batch of troll captives transported back to Bay Town.
Clever Yaya immediately understood his meaning, blinked, and continued calculating seriously:
"We captured a total of 6,425 trolls, of which 6,000 can be recruited…"
"Hehe, in that case, we can earn 50,000 gold coins daily, amounting to 1.5 million gold coins a month!"
An incredibly excited Yaya, swaying her head, calculated eagerly, her eyes turning into the shape of gold coins.
Matthew didn't tell Yaya that, given Bay Territory's current productivity, reaching even half of the theoretical value would be the limit.
However, a daily income of 25,000 gold coins would be enough to support Bay Territory's rapid development needs.
To fully unleash the potential of the troll "volunteers," more automated production lines would need to be built.
This would require a large amount of energy, something Bay Territory currently cannot achieve.
Aside from potion automation, improving factory production capacity and inventing and building automated production lines must also be gradually put on the agenda.
But all this requires one prerequisite: a sufficient energy source.
Elemental Energy Pool!
With an Elemental Energy Pool, it would be equivalent to having a certain degree of unlimited energy source.
The rapid development of the territory would take a critical step forward!
But not now!
Matthew hesitated repeatedly and still felt it was best to wait.
He had now become a Level 7 Arcanist but could only use third-circle spells, unable to ensure the stable operation of the Elemental Energy Pool.
Such a highly valuable and somewhat dangerous thing.
Matthew felt it would be better to postpone it a bit.
After all, not only was Matthew unprepared, but Bay Territory wasn't ready either.
Bay Territory needs more population, more professional talent, more high-tier professionals, and more advanced manufacturing talent.
Matthew, on the other hand, must level up to high-tier as quickly as possible, and only after gaining a deeper understanding and mastery of elemental spells can he build and control the Elemental Energy Pool.
Besides the gains from the troll captives, Matthew's Fate Power had also experienced explosive growth.
A total of 1.82 million Fate Power, reaching an unprecedented peak!
Matthew carefully calculated and discovered something interesting.
When using Fate Power to upgrade levels, specializations, skills, and talents, it usually required consuming a hundred times the Fate Power provided by professionals of the same level.
But Fate Power LV1 was different!
It only required 100,000 Fate Power to upgrade to LV2!
Would it enhance new ways to obtain Fate Power?
Or add more ways to use Fate Power?
Matthew didn't know, but since he had plenty of Fate Power now, he thought it would be worth a small try.
Fate Power (upgrading to the corresponding level requires 100 times the same level's experience):
Divine Specialty - Fate Power LV2 (0/200 million).
Passive: Insight into the essence of all things, displayed in a data form.
Active:
Consumes ten times the target level's Fate Power.
Ability 1: View the target's fate branches.
Ability 2: Modify the target's fate.
Ability 3: Alter the course of events.
Fate Power: 1.7 million.
Ways to obtain:
You can gain corresponding Fate Power by saving or killing all living beings.
Changing factions and fate trajectories can also earn corresponding Fate Power.
The world is ever-changing, and change itself is fate!
"The next upgrade will require 200 million?"
"Sure enough, it's only now that Fate Power is fully activated, but to go further, who knows how long it will take."
Thinking of this, Matthew glanced at the attribute panel.
The changes in soul strength brought by the rapid consecutive upgrades in the Arcanist level would take three months to stabilize.
Until then, Matthew must enhance his power through specialized upgrades and inheritance methods.
One reason for this battle was partly because of this.
Besides this reason, Matthew had two other objectives.
First, to hone the soldiers' combat effectiveness.
An assault battle, a defensive operation, an intense fight, a thrilling chase.
After experiencing these battles, the soldiers.
Whether in terms of experience, combat will, cooperation with each other, or confidence, they would all greatly progress.
The progress in soldiers' combat power will help them better weather the "Conscript" and "Orc Tide."
Second, to enhance Bay Territory's overall mobilization ability.
The deployment of various materials, activation of an unprecedented alert mode, and maintaining steady development and operation even when the army is away from the territory…
Various soft skills can all be refined and enhanced through this battle.
Of course, Matthew also clearly understood that he must bring continuous victories to the territory!
Only through repeated victories.
Can everyone fully acknowledge Bay Territory and willingly support it.