CHAPTER 455: CHAPTER 423: EXAGGERATED HARVEST

In front of the fortress, the battlefield is dotted with blue and white glimmers rising from the ground.

These glimmers, like luminous microorganisms, swarm together and fly towards the sky.

Following these glimmers down to the ground.

It is these foes, clad in blue and white armor fallen on the ground, that produce these glimmers.

Those enemies slain by Captain Horn’s soldiers are transformed into blue and white dots of light, returning to the embrace of the world.

Meanwhile, the enemies felled by Kane and his soldiers can only sink into the ground, leaving grey ashes to signify their existence.

Perhaps, they might also leave behind their precious riches within the ashes.

Kane watches Kreya and Longbei approaching him.

He stepped forward to meet them.

Spreading his arms, he hugged Kreya: "Well done, everyone. A great victory."

The soldiers under their command were gathering the spoils of war from various parts of the battlefield.

"By the way, let’s identify the spoils we obtained earlier together first."

Watching these soldiers continuously come and place the collected spoils next to them.

Kreya also took out the spoils of war they conquered from five camps in a day and night from her space equipment and piled them in front of Kane.

Kane looked at the pile of spoils in front of him and the magic equipment being continuously delivered, showing a happy but helpless smile.

Wondering if he could have imagined last year that he would one day assess equipment until he felt sick.

However, complaints are just complaints; the identification still needs to be done.

Kane directly sat where he was and began identifying the spoils of war before him.

"Trash." Kane said, throwing a piece of copper greaves behind him.

Kreya caught it behind him and tossed it into the space reserved for consolidating equipment for processing.

Lilulu tirelessly continued to receive the collected gold coins with Youyou.

Meizike naturally continued his duties, healing the wounded soldiers.

Longbei, on the other hand, was busy securing the superb equipment nearby.

Everyone worked together, forming a swift manual assembly line, quickly sorting and organizing the piled equipment.

Time passed like this until the sun was nearly setting beyond the hills.

The already orange-yellow sky now seemed ablaze in shades of red and yellow.

Finally, Kane and the others collected all the spoils of war.

Kreya and the others had attacked and captured 5 camps in succession, with over 10,000 defending soldiers combined.

While on the main battlefield, due to the number of Horn’s soldiers, Kane and the others, including their soldiers, managed to eliminate close to 4,000 people.

Their gains this time were enormous.

Lazy to count the outstanding copper equipment, anyway, there’s definitely plenty, roughly up to a hundred pieces.

As for the exceptional silver equipment, there were a dozen pieces.

However, they’re all minor masterpieces, none could replace the equipment Kreya and the others currently wear.

Countless copper materials.

All around one could see piles of copper materials, blank magic stones were inserted, extracting the energy.

Following were the silver materials.

Kane calculated simply, roughly providing him 6 silver magic stones.

Just spent 5 silver magic stones yesterday, and got 6 more today.

Still uncertain what skills he was lacking.

Wondering if this could count as a blissful annoyance.

Finally came the Mist Coins, seeing Lilulu rolling happily on the ground, one could tell their quantity must be considerable.

A total of 400 coins acquired.

Looking at such a pile of Mist Coins, Kane can’t help but feel thrilled.

Now, it’s not a matter of the wallet being full or not, it’s almost bursting.

The gains from this dungeon are far more exaggerated than Kane imagined.

After finally sorting through all their gains, Kane stood up and stretched: "Finally done, so tired."

"Getting sick from collecting equipment," Longbei couldn’t help saying.

But he immediately added: "Getting sick can become a habit, this feeling is quite nice, I suggest having more, I want to see my own limits."

No one paid attention to Longbei; they got up and headed towards the fortress.

One can see many soldiers forming a patrol team nearby.

Horn’s three lieutenants each led a team of 1,000 people towards the five occupied camps.

They needed to recruit all the soldiers from each camp and arrange for the camp commanders.

As for Kane’s soldiers, they were dismissed to rest.

Seeing Kane and the others finally done with their tasks, Captain Horn, who had waited for a long time at the fortress gate, approached them.

"Captain Kane, thank you for your contribution, though small, please accept this gift," Horn said, handing Kane a small iron plate from his hand.

"What is this thing?" Kane asked, looking at the iron plate in his hand.

This iron plate was a triangular piece made from unknown metal, with a simple symbol drawn on it.

Facing Kane’s question, Horn did not explain, but continued, "Now we’ve established our foothold, we can begin to expand outward. Captain Kane, you and your soldiers are free to attack the camps on the map."

Then he quietly approached Kane’s ear and whispered, "This object is a guiding token for wild camps. Input magic power and follow it, it won’t disappoint you."

"I have many important matters to attend to, so I must take my leave."

After speaking, Horn waved his hand and walked towards the fortress command with the two messengers beside him.

Watching Horn’s departing figure, Kane picked up the triangular iron plate and examined it carefully.

Next to him, Longbei approached curiously asking, "What is this thing?"

"Recruitment tool."

"Recruitment tool?"

"Yes."

Though Kane answered, Longbei still didn’t understand.

But Kreya thought of something and asked, "The wild camps?"

"Yes."

Wild camps are recruitment camps hidden in the dungeon, where you can recruit troops that defy common sense - they are either very strong or have special abilities.

Anyway, they provide aid for Kane’s war, and certainly won’t hurt.

"Would Captain Horn provide such a tool?" Kreya asked doubtfully.

Kreya had repeatedly reviewed the dungeon’s data herself.

Her mother’s information was very detailed.

If establishing a foothold could get a token for the wild camps, it would certainly be in the data.

Nonetheless, wild camps are extremely rare.

This dungeon covers a massive area, no explorer would randomly explore step by step throughout the whole dungeon.

Wild camps don’t have fixed locations each time, they are distributed randomly.

To recruit soldiers from wild camps, you need not only battle merits but also mist coins.

But, you get what you pay for, as the data clearly states, don’t pass up any wild camp, recruitment is definitely worthwhile.

If Horn provides such tools, the data wouldn’t possibly omit it, as it’s very important.

Otherwise, many explorers would pass the dungeon without encountering a single wild camp.

"I don’t know, maybe some condition was met," Kane couldn’t solve this issue, so he could only think this way.

"Enough, let’s not worry about it, it’s not a bad thing anyway, let’s go, I’m exhausted." Longbei loudly reminded everyone nearby.

Kane and the others returned to their residence, the soldiers around had already arranged their patrols and guards, reducing their worries.

Kane sat by the table, looking out from the nearby window, observing the entire fortress lit brightly, much busier than last night.

Since there was no place to cook in the room, Kane and the others weren’t keen to join the soldiers’ mess hall for communal meals.

Thus, Kreya directly took out prepared food stored in a golden pocket.

Convenient and quick, without losing any deliciousness.

After finishing the meal.

Kane sat in the chair asking, "Shouldn’t the number of camps we’ve occupied suffice? The tavern should be open, right?"

Though it appeared he was asking everyone present, he was only asking Kreya.

Only the two of them diligently read through all the dungeon’s data and memorized it.

Well, Meizike also seriously reviewed it, but from his character, whether he read it all or not, he seldom provided feedback.

Longbei, typically, only reads half or just the crucial parts.

As for Lilu, it’s futile to expect.

Maybe Lilu had read and remembered it, but unless she wants to, she won’t recall.

As it stands, it seems only Longbei failed to remember.

Forget it, stone-headed, can’t expect too much in this regard.

Faced with Kane’s question, Kreya nodded.

"Given the current extent of our territory, the tavern should already be constructed."

Upon hearing Kreya’s words, a once-drowsy Longbei suddenly opened his eyes asking, "Tavern? Where is the tavern?"

Seeing him like this, Kane shook his head, directly tossed the dungeon data from the space equipment at him: "See for yourself, told you to read the intelligence properly, always being lazy."

The so-called tavern, much like games Kane had played, is used to recruit high-level commanders or heroes, to help manage soldiers.

Since not every explorer leads troops, most are just good at handling their own team, even managing themselves is an achievement.

These characters appear in taverns of various camps and settlements, where they can be recruited using battle merits and currency.

These commanders and heroes, aside from leading soldiers, have decent strength.

"Should we recruit some subordinates?" Kane was unsure.

"Yes, we’ll recruit. Our troops will grow, so it’ll be hard to command then."

Hearing Kreya, Kane nodded, as she handled the troop-leading matters.