Chapter 2: Ordinary Characters

"Two building blueprints, along with a skill book and a troop enhancement book." Qin Muye looked at his backpack. In addition to the blueprints for the farmland and monster workshop, there were also two books named "Basic Magic" and "Monster Experiment Manual," which he found on the second floor of the Mage Tower.

[Basic Magic]

[Learning Requirement: Knowledge 10]

[Increases 5% damage for attack magic]

At first glance, it seemed like a good skill book, and being labeled as basic suggested that the skill could grow.

"This is really becoming a hero."

Qin Muye then opened his personal attributes. With a mere 10 points of knowledge after nine years of compulsory education, it wasn't much, but he had 5 points.

[Lord Level 1 (0/1000)]

[Territory: Mage Tower (Ruined)]

[Health: 100%]

[Magic Points: 0]

[Attack: 0 (Lord's attack can add 10% to the attack of the troops under control)]

[Defense: 0 (Lord's defense can add 10% to the defense of the troops under control)]

[Strength: 0 (Lord's strength can increase the damage of attack magic and enhance the effects and duration of auxiliary magic)]

[Knowledge: 0 (Knowledge affects the Lord's magic point limit, 1 point of knowledge corresponds to 10 points of magic point limit)]

[Lord Talent: Learning Ability (50% additional experience gained when acquiring experience)]

[Lord Skill: Basic Scouting (Temporary)]

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Looking at his attributes, Qin Muye was truly confused this time. Except for health being at 100%, everything else was 0. It felt explosive, and the imagined god-tier talent was absent. It seemed only the 50% experience bonus would be useful from early to late game, but it felt like a somewhat useless limit.

"I overestimated myself." Although Qin Muye was somewhat shocked by his attributes, he didn't think too much about it. After all, it's not something to worry about.

"I can't use Basic Magic. How about the Monster Experiment Manual?"

He knew that his initial troop was a monster, and if he couldn't perform well, at least his troop could. He didn't mind that.

[Monster Experiment Manual]

[Research Requirement: 2nd Tier Territory, Magic Guild/Mage Tower, or related buildings]

[After use, gain technology research for monster attack enhancement, monster defense enhancement, and monster health enhancement]

"Not bad, but the requirements are a bit strict, needing a 2nd tier territory."

As for the subsequent building requirements, Qin Muye didn't care at all. His territory was the Mage Tower, explaining why the troop assigned in the novice gift pack was a monster.

"Let's build the Monster Workshop first, and then I can lead troops to battle." Qin Muye immediately chose to build the Monster Workshop on the second floor.

[Building Monster Workshop, current consumption: 50 units of ore, 50 units of wood, required time: 1 hour]

Seeing the ethereal lights emerging, Qin Muye was a bit excited.

However, the time required for construction surprised him. He thought it would just refresh directly.

"Food has 100 units, including 50 units of white bread and 50 units of clear water. So, does this mean the daily consumption of troops is food?"

"No, apart from troops, I also need to consume food."

Although he was digitized, he still needed food to sustain himself.

"So, even though food is a single resource category, the types must be more complex."

Qin Muye immediately understood the importance of food. First, he went to the supply warehouse, which was a building that came with the territory and was located on the Mage Tower's underground floor.

Here, not only the supply warehouse, but the dried-up magic pool was also built.

Qin Muye scanned the place. The supplies were neatly arranged. At a glance, everything was clear, as there were only bread, clear water, wood, and ore.

"For now, it's still weak. Let's leave it like this. When the supply warehouse expands later, we'll store food separately."

Currently, he could probably store around 5000 units of wood or ore. As for food, it was naturally more.

"No need to worry about water. My Mage Tower is close to the mountains and water. The main thing is staple food. It would have been great if I could exchange 50 units of clear water for white bread."

White bread was different from wood and ore. Qin Muye had checked. 50 units of white bread meant 50 loaves of bread, which was a bit misleading.

"Fortunately, there's a farmland. I need to hurry up."

Qin Muye was about to build a farmland when he suddenly remembered something. Having farmland could indeed yield food, but there was a fatal problem – he had no food seeds.

"So, the first problem I have to face is the food issue? I hope this farmland is as magical as in 'Lord Era,' not requiring seeds. Otherwise, I'll have to go fishing."

He could see that he was basically no different from starting from scratch. Now he could only hope that the monster troop would be powerful. From the time of arrival until now, there had been no good news.

"At this time, in a web novel, the lord in the story should already be leading troops to fight monsters. Here I am still considering food

 issues."

Qin Muye sighed, feeling somewhat helpless.

His start was probably just average.

Leaving the Mage Tower, Qin Muye found that the protective barrier was not small. It not only enveloped the entire Mage Tower but also expanded outward with the Mage Tower as the center, covering a radius of about one kilometer. This was probably the initial territory range.

It was indeed vast, and there were quite a few scattered resources within it.

[Building Farmland, current consumption: 10 units of food, required time: 10 minutes]

Qin Muye checked the specific types of food in the resource panel. The scarce one was not white bread, but clear water. This made him breathe a sigh of relief. It was really intelligent. If there were no loaves of white bread, he would have been furious.

The farmland was not as large as the monster workshop, probably only about 5 square meters. Qin Muye built it to see the situation first. After completion, he could decide what to do next. After all, it's not limited to building only once. He had learned the blueprints, and as long as there were enough resources, he could build as many as he wanted.

Moreover, he wasn't short of water resources. There was a river not far from the Mage Tower.

"Perfect. Let's collect the resources within the territory while waiting for this time. Going out is not a good idea. If I encounter wild monsters, I might be in trouble on the spot." Qin Muye muttered to himself and began to act.

(End of this chapter)