When Sean awoke from his sleep, two days had already passed.
In two days, he had absorbed a full ten thousand emotional crystals.
Good news: He was finally no longer a Black Iron, but a Bronze-level Lord!
[Lord Card]
[Holder: Sean]
[Race: Human]
[Lord Level: Bronze Low-tier]
[Mental Strength: 1008 / 1100]
[soul crystal: 38076]
[Emotional Crystal: 15321]
[Current Dungeons Owned: 10 (Stardew Valley · Initial Version, Stardew Valley No. 02 ... No. 10)]
[Usable Territory Area: 3 km / 20 km]
Now that his strength was achieved, he could begin upgrading the Dungeons!
As long as he possessed one Bronze-Level Underground City, he would be a true Bronze-level Lord!
So, according to the plan he had thought of earlier, he would first close the Dungeons!
After all, he wasn't creating a new Bronze-Level Dungeon's, but upgrading the Stardew Valley Dungeon, so the Adventurers active inside would definitely be affected; he would kick them out first.
He timed it perfectly, and just as all the Adventurers in the 10 Dungeons had exited, Sean unhesitatingly closed the entrance teleportation array.
In the teleportation room.
The dozen or so Adventurers who had originally rushed into the teleportation array with excited expressions were instantly dumbfounded.
"Holy crap, why is the teleportation array closed?"
"Is it broken?"
"No way, man, I'm devastated! I waited a day and a night, didn't close my eyes for a moment, and now it's broken? Are you kidding me!?"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. How could the teleportation array here be broken! This is a Dungeon's teleportation array! I've never heard of a teleportation array connected to a Dungeon being broken!"
"Then what's going on!? Did something happen to the Dungeon?"
"You better say something good, what are we going to play if something happens to this Dungeon?"
"Exactly, if you can't speak properly, shut up!"
"I'm just guessing, why are you guys so anxious? Did you eat shit?"
"You—"
"..."
Due to the sudden closure of the teleportation array, the hundreds of Adventurers standing there became noisy.
The sudden, silent closure of the teleportation array made the Adventurers panic.
They were genuinely worried that something had happened to the Dungeon in front of them.
In this tense atmosphere, someone suddenly shouted, "Look, there are words displayed on the crystal!"
Hearing this, everyone's gaze turned to the large crystal stone.
It was the crystal normally used to project the situation inside the Stardew Valley Dungeon, and now a line of text was written on it.
[Due to the Dungeon's upgrade, the Dungeon will be closed for a period of time. We apologize for any inconvenience.]
Seeing this line of text immediately put everyone at ease.
"Phew, so it's an upgrade, I thought something bad happened."
"Yeah, it scared me to death."
"Exactly, exactly..."
"..."
Suddenly, the atmosphere in the hall instantly relaxed, and some Adventurers who had been tense now smiled.
Soon, they started discussing again.
"Stardew Valley upgrades so frequently, it's only been three days since the last upgrade, right?"
"Yeah, is the Dungeon going to add some interesting content again!?"
"Possibly, last time a huge area was added, have you all explored it?"
"Not yet, still early. Currently, I'm still mining, only down to over 40 levels."
"Holy crap, that's awesome, you're already over 40 levels, I'm only over 20!"
"How are you so slow?"
"Sigh, my backpack is too small. Every time I go down a few levels, my backpack gets full."
"Don't you have a backpack?"
"Buy a backpack? Buy what backpack?"
"Didn't you know that Pierre's General Store sells backpacks? Buying one can expand your backpack space to hold more things."
"Holy crap, I really didn't know! So you can expand backpack space!"
"Hmph, now you know, right?"
"Brother, thank you so much for telling me such important information. Come on, I'll treat you to a meal!"
"No problem, no problem."
Just as these two were about to leave, they noticed that none of the people around them intended to leave.
Immediately, one of them asked an Adventurer nearby.
"Brother, the Dungeon is closed, aren't you guys planning to leave?"
"Leave?"
"Yeah, the Dungeon is closed, we definitely have to leave, aren't you leaving?"
The other party didn't reply but looked around. The two who were planning to leave followed his gaze.
They saw some Adventurers directly sitting on the ground and eating, and some Adventurers even took out a blanket from their bags and slept on the spot.
And there were quite a few Adventurers doing this around them.
Everyone was experienced and well-prepared, planning to wait right there for the Dungeon to open, not wanting to miss the best entry timing.
Seeing this scene, the two suddenly understood.
Leave? Why leave? It would be difficult to get back in if they left here.
Immediately, the two also gave up the idea of going out to eat and squatted down on the spot to hold their positions.
However, soon, the two couldn't stand it anymore because they hadn't prepared anything to eat.
Helplessly, they could only leave.
...
In the territory castle.
After sending out the announcement, Sean began to upgrade the Dungeon.
He placed all the Sunflowers that had been waiting for a long time into the Dungeons, over 4000, averaging 400 Sunflowers in each Dungeon.
These Sunflowers would be hidden within the Sunflower seeds in the Dungeon, and Adventurers who were lucky enough to grow them would have the chance to take them.
It could be said that these Sunflowers were entirely rewards for the Adventurers, requiring no soul crystal payment at all.
He was simply the best Lord ever!
If it were in other Dungeons, Adventurers who obtained such items inside would have to pay a fee to take them out.
This was a method adopted by all other Dungeons.
The Lords of other Dungeons also spent soul crystal to create some rewards, so it was very necessary to recover some soul crystal from the Adventurers as compensation for the cost.
And Sean could give them to Adventurers for free, also because these Sunflowers only cost him one thousand soul crystal; the cost was not high, so they could serve as rewards set to attract Adventurers.
Another reason was that the Adventurers coming to his Dungeon were too enthusiastic; there were hundreds of messages every day, and the soul crystal converted from just these messages was a lot.
These Adventurers were afraid he wouldn't earn enough soul crystal and would go out of business on the spot.
However, this situation was impossible; now his basic daily income of soul crystal was over six or seven thousand.
This didn't even include the income from items sold daily by the trading company.
It was at least over ten thousand a day.
How could it go out of business?
After placing all the Bronze Sunflowers into the 10 Dungeons, he could clearly feel some changes occurring in the Dungeons.
They were filled with a warm, sunny aura.
The sunlight in Stardew Valley became warmer and more abundant, and even the vitality of the flowers, plants, and trees inside became more vigorous.