【Territory successfully established!】
【Territory Level: Lv.1】
【Shield: 100/100】
【Territory Core Health Points: 100/100】
【Prosperity: 50】
【Territory Range: 15×15 meters】
Wu Yao had no patience to wait for the shield to fully form. She had already rushed through the door the moment the cabin appeared.
The inside of the cabin was even emptier than she had imagined. The four walls were completely bare, the wooden surfaces giving off a unique, pleasant fragrance.
The floor was made of the same material, with barely any visible seams between the planks.
There were no partitions inside, allowing her to take in the entire space at a single glance.
There was no bed, no chairs, and no lighting fixtures. Only the moonlight filtering through the transparent crystal in the roof cast a small, silvery-white patch of light on the floor, just enough for her to make out the room's layout.
Standing against the wall on the left was a simple, rustic wooden chest, about half her height, with intricate runes carved onto its lid.
On the right was a table made of a strange material. Its surface was smooth as a mirror, and its color was neither wood nor metal, but a faint, cold grey.
Aside from these, there was nothing else.
Having spent years building things from scratch, Wu Yao was perfectly fine with this. She had gradually grown accustomed to the stingy style of the developers.
She walked over to the wooden chest, and the runes on the lid lit up the moment she touched them.
【Safe: Bound to player Wu Yao. Indestructible, unmovable.】
【Current Capacity: 50 slots】
【Friendly Tip: The Safe and Inventory do not share space. Items stored inside the Safe are absolutely secure.】
【Upgrade Requirement: Territory Level ≥ 2】
What reassuring words. Unfortunately, she currently had nothing but a pile of junk.
Wu Yao turned toward the Workbench.
【Workbench: Craft infrastructure】
【Current Functions: Basic Processing, Equipment Repair, Facility Construction】
【Upgrade Requirements: Territory Level ≥ 2, Uses ≥ 100】
Wu Yao examined them one by one. Basic Processing could process various raw materials. By inputting raw materials and consuming a certain amount of energy or mana, it would automatically produce finished products. For example, wood could be processed into wooden planks or refined wood, while stone could be processed into stone bricks or stone slabs.
Equipment Repair was exactly what it sounded like—restoring the durability of equipment. However, it could currently only repair up to Fine-grade equipment.
Facility Construction included not only the various facilities inside the cabin but also different buildings within the territory. In the building preview, she could see the construction requirements and required materials. Looking at the basic structures like farmlands, orchards, and pastures, Wu Yao's heart fluttered with excitement.
Unfortunately, she didn't have a single one of the required materials. A single plot of farmland required 10 pieces of wood and 1 seed, with a maximum limit of 10 farmlands.
In addition to wood, orchards and pastures required stone, fruit trees, livestock, and other things, which were all out of reach for her current empty pockets.
She could always go outside to chop wood, but what about seeds?
She did have 10 Moonlight Grass seeds, but it would be such a waste to use magical seeds on ordinary farmland.
How could such a massive game not even have an in-game shop!
Wu Yao scratched her head. Whatever, she would just chop some trees first.
Before chopping trees, she might as well claim her quest rewards.
【Rewards Obtained: EXP +200, Common Robe ×1, Basic Material Pack ×10, Silver Coin ×20, Territory System Unlocked】
A new 【Territory】 icon appeared on her menu interface, and her experience bar shot up by a chunk. She opened the Basic Material Packs first and got 10 stones—extremely ordinary.
【Common Robe: Mana +1, Mana Recovery Rate +5%】
She had been wearing the default white shirt and black pants since she started playing. She finally had some decent gear!
【New Quest Issued!】
【Chapter 1: Gaining a Foothold】
【Main Quest 1-1: Territory Foundation】
【Recommended Level: Lv.5】
【Quest Objective: Upgrade the Territory Cabin to Lv.2. Upgrading requires Mana Crystal ×50, Any Common Ore ×200, Iron Ingot ×100, Refined Wood ×200, Elemental Core ×1】
【Quest Rewards: EXP +1000, Territory upgraded to Lv.2, [Territory Residents] System unlocked】
Wu Yao glanced over the required materials and immediately equipped her robe first. Compared to the long list of materials needed for the main quest, she preferred tangible rewards.
The robe was entirely black, made of some unknown material that felt soft and smooth to the touch. Only the cuffs and collar were embroidered with simple silver moon patterns, joined together by a short silver chain clasp, with no other redundant designs.
Once she put on the robe, she finally looked a bit like a witch. Stepping onto the threshold, she gazed at the barren territory that belonged to her, feeling in high spirits.
Her territory was currently empty with nothing to manage, so she simply went outside to chop trees.
Under the moonlight, the twisted tree trunks outside the territory took on eerie shapes, resembling countless hunched figures bowing in worship. In the distance, a few faint, eerie red lights flickered and vanished.
Time to chop trees!
But here lay the problem: did she have any woodcutting equipment?
Could her melee weapons, the 【Steel Dagger】 and 【Witch Hunter's Longsword】, chop trees?
She took a few steps back to steady herself, and a fireball shot from her hand, accurately striking a tree trunk.
Don't ask—ever since she got magic, she wanted to try using it on everything she saw.
Unlike the scene she had expected, the moment the fire contacted the bark, the greyish-black substances seemed to have met their natural nemesis, receding at a visible rate to reveal the pale wood underneath.
The hanging fibrous roots writhed frantically in the flames, letting out shrill noises like the wails of some creature before turning into ash and dispersing.
【Successfully purified a corrupted Moon-Silver Wood tree】
【Gained the gratitude of the Moon-Silver Wood, harvested Moon-Silver Wood ×3】
Wu Yao blinked, looking at the three neatly shaped pieces of wood that had appeared out of thin air on the ground. The cuts were smooth, the wood was dense, and a faint silver glow flowed across their surfaces.
You're telling me that if I set a tree on fire, it actually thanks me?
She picked up a piece and weighed it in her hand. It was slightly heavier than ordinary wood and felt like jade to the touch.
The tree had already returned to normal. With the greyish-black color gone, its trunk shimmered with a silvery glow similar to moonlight.
A tiny bud had swelled on the bare branch, a tender, fresh silver-white that glowed faintly under the moon.
“That actually works?” Wu Yao grinned happily and cast another Fireball.
The second tree trembled in the flames. The greyish-black color receded, the fibrous roots burned away, and another three pieces of wood dropped to the ground.
The only downside was that her mana was only 147, and she could only recover 7 mana points per minute. The efficiency was simply too low.
How could she reduce her mana consumption or increase her tree-burning efficiency?
Rate on N.U.
