Hearing Lina mention a larger Half-elf village, Chen Yu’s expression stirred. “You mean, about ten kilometers away, there’s an even larger Half-elf village?”
Lina nodded. “Yes! But I heard it’s not peaceful there either. This whole area is under the control of the Goblin Kingdom, and many intelligent races have a very hard life.”
Chen Yu was a bit puzzled. “Aren’t Goblins a very weak race? Why are you being bullied by them?”
Lina said bitterly, “Goblins are weak, but they can reproduce! Their population is especially large; we are no match for them at all.”
“I understand.”
Chen Yu kept this in mind. It seemed his first goal would be this Goblin Kingdom.
Conquering this Goblin Kingdom would allow him to gain a large amount of territory and unlock more Dungeons.
After a while longer, the Adventurer team returned, carrying many things. It seemed they had a good harvest this time.
Only a dozen or so of them remained, indicating some casualties during the battle.
But that didn't matter. The deceased Adventurers simply returned to the Adventurer World, and rewards were still distributed.
Adventurer souls would also reappear in the tavern; they just needed to spend more soul crystals to revive them.
“Lord, Lord, look!”
Bai Feifei presented a bag like a treasure, placing it before Chen Yu.
Chen Yu looked and found it was a bag full of magic crystals.
“Wow, so many! How many monsters did you kill?”
“We can’t remember, we just killed Dark Creatures whenever we saw them. And we also found that Goblin Tribe, but unfortunately, it got dark, and it was time to rest.”
Bai Feifei said regretfully.
Adventurers value rest highly; overtime is impossible. When it’s time to sleep, they sleep.
“Then tomorrow I’ll issue the quest to conquer the Goblin Tribe. Thank you all for your hard work today.
Since you exceeded the mission's expectations, as a token of my gratitude, I will award you based on the system's activity ranking. The highest-ranked will receive 1000 happy coins and 200 contribution points.”
When the system summons a batch of Adventurers, there will be a separate scoreboard.
How much effort and activity each Adventurer puts in during this period will be converted into a numerical ranking.
This also prevents anyone from slacking off.
Tiered rewards can motivate Adventurers more.
Although the original plan was 300 happy coins per person, and 100 contribution points for the top few who contributed the most, today's harvest clearly exceeded expectations. The Adventurers did a lot, so it was only right to give them a bit more.
Chen Yu glanced at the leaderboard and was surprised to find that Bai Feifei was ranked first.
Wu Yue and Li Ruopu followed.
He hadn't expected that these three Adventurers, randomly drawn by the system, would be so dedicated to his territory.
Especially when Chen Yu learned that Bai Feifei had even formed a Da Xia Fan Group, he was incredibly surprised.
After the rewards were distributed, the Adventurer team did not linger for long and quickly left.
They were rushing back to rest and sleep.
Chen Yu booked the quest to conquer the Goblin Tribe with them for tomorrow, specifying that it would be a short-term quest with a four-hour limit.
Now that the location was known, it was estimated that it could be conquered within four hours.
The Adventurers were surprised but still happy to come, because a short-term quest meant that after completing it and returning, they would still have time to use up their Dungeon attempts.
However, the Dungeon Lord would be at a loss.
Because soul crystals were genuinely consumed, it was like paying a full day's wage for half a day's work.
But it didn't matter. What Chen Yu cared about was the development of his territory. The reputation of Great Xia Nevernight City would gradually grow, and then the more Dungeons he could build, the more he would earn.
There was no need to care about these small losses.
After the Adventurer team left, the vast castle became somewhat desolate again.
However, with Lina and Effie, the two Half-elf girls, today, it felt a bit more lively.
“Now there are four “Happy Playing Cards” Dungeons, which are enough for now, and I don’t need to manage them. During my free time, I need to construct some other Dungeons.”
Chen Yu pondered.
In his mind, there was a blueprint for a Dungeon empire.
The “Happy Playing Cards” Dungeon was where this empire would produce currency, allowing every Adventurer who came to play to directly exhaust their attempts and receive 2500 happy coins.
However, when the number of happy coins reached a certain level, problems would arise.
For instance, if some people had hundreds of thousands of happy coins, then within the same card room, everyone would feel that exchanging daily attempts for 2500 happy coins was meaningless.
The game would lose its fun.
Once the game lost its fun, Adventurers wouldn't earn food and wouldn't come anymore.
Therefore, Chen Yu needed to give these happy coins other value, making them circulate throughout his entire Dungeon empire as a virtual currency.
This place could produce happy coins, and other places could consume happy coins.
For example, some popular online games are very pay-to-win.
Chen Yu would have Adventurers spend happy coins, which would stabilize the value of happy coins.
“But what should the next game be?”
Chen Yu was a bit troubled.
There were many popular games in his previous life; any one of them could attract Adventurers.
However, creating a large-scale production would require a lot of time and effort.
“The new Dungeon must be combat-oriented. That way, it can be useful for both farming monster bestiaries in the future and for Contract Adventurer to comprehend skills within the Dungeon.”
Chen Yu pondered for a long time.
Finally, he chose a theme he liked very much in his previous life: Resident Evil.
On one hand, Resident Evil is a post-apocalyptic theme set in a modern background, which alone is enough to attract those unsophisticated Adventurers.
Then, the virus evolution in Resident Evil is quite diverse, making it easier for Contract Adventurer to comprehend skill books and increasing their success rate.
Furthermore, the monster bestiary in Resident Evil is quite grim. During combat, when the Adventurer team transforms, just the scare factor alone could terrify the opponents.
Finally, and most insignificantly, compared to other Dungeons, Resident Evil was relatively easier to create, at least in the early stages.
Chen Yu did not intend to follow the game's plot but planned to use the movie plot of Resident Evil 1 as the starting point for the novice mode.
As for the research facility, Chen Yu had designed it himself when he was a game designer, so creating an underground research base similar to the Hive was relatively simple.
And the zombies inside could be stylized, copied, and pasted to fill the entire lab.
This way, the most basic novice mode would be completed.
As for other modes later, Chen Yu could gradually update and improve them.