"Match the price!"
Luo Zhengwei snorted coldly and continued to match.
Finally.
The population value also reached its cap, which was 5% of the weaker population side.
435 people!
Before, it was an 87 versus 87 Duel.
Now, the number had directly quintupled, becoming a 435 versus 435 challenger Duel.
The number of soul crystals in the central pool also reached 6960.
Such a large sum of soul crystals made even Luo Zhengwei, an excellent town's Dungeon Lord, swallow his saliva.
His heart was filled with greed for this sum of soul crystals.
Such a large sum of money.
Even for him, it was a considerable fortune, enough to make his heart pound.
One must know.
Light Feather Town currently had over twenty powerful Dungeon Lords.
With so many Dungeon Lords, setting aside who was strong or weak, just sharing the pie of Light Feather Town meant that over 40,000 Adventurers were divided among more than twenty Lords, approximately 1500 Adventurers per Lord per day.
Each Adventurer had five attempts per day.
This meant that a Dungeon territory's daily reception count was 7500 times.
Even calculated at the currently recognized highest death rate of 70%, a Lord would earn approximately over 5000 soul crystals per day.
This number was Luo Zhengwei's daily profit.
However, this profit was only gross profit; it still needed to deduct the daily maintenance costs of the protective shield and the war expenses sponsored to the War Lords.
The Dungeon Lords were responsible for accumulating wealth in the Adventurer World.
Then they funded the War Lords.
Once they reached their level, very few Dungeon Lords would remain independent; they would either be forced to join an alliance and become its cash cow.
Or they would secretly support a relatively powerful War Lord to protect themselves.
The battles between War Lords were constant.
Whoever had a Dungeon Lord with massive funds behind them had an advantage.
Similarly.
If a Dungeon Lord couldn't defeat their opponent in the Adventurer World, they would send their supporting War Lord to the Dark World to attack the opponent's protective shield.
In short, whoever had stronger overall strength had the advantage.
The two were interdependent.
Neither could do without the other.
Unless one side became powerful enough to disregard everything.
In conclusion...
Although Light Feather Town was an excellent town, with a population exceeding 40,000.
The amount of soul crystals that ultimately ended up in Luo Zhengwei's hands was not much; it would be good if he could retain about 1000 per day.
After all, the later the stage, the greater the consumption of war.
Therefore...
Taking out over 3000 soul crystals in one go as a "price increase" chip, Luo Zhengwei felt quite pained; this money was what he had painstakingly saved, hidden from those war fanatics.
But it didn't matter.
Anyway, it would double back in the end.
The thought of earning over 3000 soul crystals in one go from this "Dungeon Duel" made Luo Zhengwei incredibly excited.
The more soul crystals he had, the more confident he would be.
Who would complain about having too much money?
"I didn't expect such a harvest from an emerging town; this is truly fantastic."
Luo Zhengwei admitted.
He had previously looked down on the Lord of this emerging town, thinking he was not worthy of his attention.
Now, seeing the opponent send him so many soul crystals, he would reluctantly defeat him with his strongest Dungeon!
"The bidding phase is over; now it's the phase to determine the Dungeon construction time."
Luo Zhengwei pondered for a moment.
He considered how much time it would take to modify a Dungeon.
Although he had great confidence in his current Dungeons, a "Dungeon Duel" was different from usual.
Normally, building a Dungeon emphasized longevity and the percentage of single-use income from the Dungeon.
But a "Dungeon Duel" was different, because the challengers were Adventurers from the opposing town, and psychologically, they would definitely lean towards their own Dungeon Lord.
Therefore...
He had to make the Adventurers from the opposing town feel more intense pleasure and gain more profit.
Hence.
The Dungeons used in a "Dungeon Duel" focused more on quick engagement, increasing Adventurer profits, and sacrificing Dungeon longevity for the opponent Adventurers' second, third, or even fourth entries.
As long as the profits were sufficient, he wasn't worried that the Adventurers on the other side wouldn't betray their Lord.
At that time, they would surely be unable to resist using all 5 attempts in his Dungeon, playing to their heart's content.
Luo Zhengwei already had an idea in his mind.
"In that case, the data needs to be changed; it will probably take about two days..."
Luo Zhengwei pondered for a moment.
He decided to set the Duel time for three days later; this time was already quite rushed, as normally a Duel could take over ten days to rest and adjust data.
Luo Zhengwei was confident.
The opponent would definitely not be faster than him in this regard.
But just as he was about to press...
The system, however, gave a prompt first, telling him that the opponent had already confirmed the Duel time.
【16:48:52】
This was a countdown, corresponding to tomorrow morning.
"...No, is he sick?"
Luo Zhengwei was stunned for a long time, really wanting to curse out loud.
He had seen rushed.
But never this rushed...
Tomorrow!
Don't you need time to build a Dungeon?
Don't you need to test it?
Doesn't the data need to be re-examined?
He must be crazy!
Luo Zhengwei's hand was raised for a long time, but he didn't press the words "Agree."
He felt that the other side must be crazy.
Did he want to catch him off guard with this method?
Damn it...
Luo Zhengwei really wanted to click agree and confront the other side.
After all, backing down at this point would make him seem cowardly, as if he were the weaker party.
Especially since the system's "Do you agree?" prompt kept sending repeatedly.
It showed that the other party kept clicking on the 'tomorrow morning' time slot, as if afraid he wouldn't see it.
In the Dungeon Lord circle, this was equivalent to mockery.
Any Dungeon Lord with a bit of temper would not tolerate such mockery.
But...
Tomorrow was simply too rushed.
To be on the safe side.
In the end, Luo Zhengwei still chickened out and could only grit his teeth, choosing three days later...
【Time confirmed!】
【As both parties did not agree on the time, according to the weaker party protection clause, the Duel time will be set for three days later. Both Lords, please prepare.】
The last line from the system was like a slap fiercely across Luo Zhengwei's face.
This was tantamount to openly mocking him as the weaker party.
He had always used this method to mock others, but this time, he was mocked in return.
But...
There was nothing he could do.
Who told the other side to be an inexplicable lunatic?
Truly insane!
Who plays a "Duel" like this?
Luo Zhengwei wanted to curse out loud.
But he had nowhere to vent, so he could only vent his anger at the cold system.