In addition, a shipping bin was also set up.
Because there was no town, a seed vending machine, like a regular vending machine, was placed.
He didn't create other map sections, including towns, because he simply lacked the materials and mental energy to construct them.
Just the initial farm alone exhausted all of his mental energy and drained all of his soul crystals.
"I'm poor! I need to make money quickly!"
Lord Card (A display item of Lord power, obtained after becoming a Lord).
Holder: Lu Xuan
Race: Human
Lord Level: Black Iron Lower (Upper, Middle, Lower)
Title: Novice Lord
Mental Energy: 2 / 150
soul crystal: 6
Emotion Crystal: 0
Current Dungeons Owned: 1 (Stardew Valley · Initial Version)
Territory Area: 2000 / 3000 square meters
Mental energy is the core power for constructing Dungeons and also an indicator for categorizing Lord levels.
soul crystals are resources used to obtain elements related to creating Dungeons, such as wooden houses, seeds, tools, Dungeon rewards, and other materials.
Generally, simple materials can be created directly with mental energy, but complex materials require purchasing soul crystals from other Lords.
For example, the various seeds in Star Dew Valley, which don't exist in this world, were created by him.
Some powerful Lords can directly create complex materials with mental energy.
However, seeds are not complex materials, and he can also create them, but it's a bit tiring, and he can't create many.
There are only a dozen types, but that's enough.
At his current Lord level, his territory is only 3000 square meters, so the area of the Dungeon he creates cannot exceed this region.
But currently, he has exhausted his power after only building one thousand square meters, so he can only see how much profit this initial Star Dew Valley of over one thousand square meters can bring.
How Star Dew Valley Dungeon will be improved later also depends on the profits.
"It must succeed! Otherwise… I'll have to sell my ass to other Lords to pay off debts, boo hoo hoo…"
Lu Xuan silently sweated for his first Dungeon, praying inwardly.
Thinking of how the other party looked at his handsome face with a hungry gaze when he borrowed money, he suddenly felt a chill and shivered.
Before Adventurers arrived, Lu Xuan would enter a state of slumber.
As a Lord, he can now recover mental energy just by sleeping, without even needing food.
If a Lord's mental energy is depleted, it means they are about to die, to completely disappear.
Maintaining the Dungeon's operation also consumes mental energy, so most of the time, if there is no stable mental energy income, Dungeon Lords will choose to enter a state of slumber.
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Ye Yuan.
A short-haired girl with brown hair.
A rapier was tucked at her waist, and the petite girl, standing at one meter fifty-six, insisted on acting cool, holding her head high, with a very serious expression on her cute little face.
She was 19 this year and had been an Adventurer for a year, hailing from a fantasy world.
Ye Yuan was not her real name; it was just a nickname Adventurers in this Dungeon connection zone would customarily give themselves.
Being in a foreign land, it was still necessary to hide one's identity to avoid trouble and being hunted back to one's own world, which would be disastrous.
Today, as usual, she went to the bulletin board in the center of the square to take a look.
To see if any new Dungeons had appeared.
She was an Adventurer keen on exploring new Dungeons, and also a novice Adventurer who had just arrived, so her level wasn't high.
She was definitely not looking for a new Dungeon today because she had died over 20 times in a Black Iron Dungeon yesterday and couldn't stand it anymore, so she came to find an easy target.
Definitely not! (Serious face)
With a leap of thought, she arrived in front of the bulletin board.
There were many Adventurers checking the board at the moment, and she managed to squeeze in with the advantage of her petite stature, but could only see a corner of the huge bulletin board.
Among them, she immediately spotted a very special promotional slogan.
It was completely different from how other Lords advertised their Dungeons.
"Simple? Farming? Development? Star Dew Valley?"
She could understand each word separately, but when combined in this slogan, she couldn't figure out what it meant for a long time.
Dungeon → Simple (Wrong)
Dungeon → Difficult (Correct)
In the Adventurers' minds, Dungeons were synonymous with difficulty; how could the word 'simple' appear in relation to a Dungeon?
Impossible, absolutely impossible. It must be using 'simple' as a pretense to trick new Adventurers like them into suffering.
She wouldn't fall for it!
Then, she shifted her gaze, searching for other new Lords' slogans around her.
"…the most difficult…"
"…the most difficult in history…"
"…if you're strong, come and try…"
Looking at each slogan, Ye Yuan's brows furrowed higher and higher, until she finally took a sharp breath.
"Who did these damn Lords learn from? What are they trying to do by making Dungeons so difficult? Are they even playing?!"
Ye Yuan complained discontentedly.
Her words made the surrounding Adventurers nod in agreement; they had suffered from these increasingly difficult Dungeons for a long time.
To be honest, if it weren't for the rewards from Dungeons being useful to them as Adventurers, and there being no other way to obtain Dungeon rewards, these Dungeons wouldn't even be worth entering!
They had completely lost their fun and were nothing but torment.
But they could only complain. Current Lords were all imitating the Dungeon of a Supreme King-level Lord. It was said that the King-level Lord named Miyazaki became famous by starting with extremely difficult Dungeons and eventually ascended to the Supreme King-level.
Therefore… the trend of making Dungeons difficult has become irreversible in recent years.
If a Lord achieved the path of a King through this, then other small Lords would certainly follow the established path. After all, soul crystals don't come from thin air, so why not learn from successful cases?
The current situation is that 99% of Dungeons are developing towards becoming increasingly difficult, tormenting Adventurers as if they were not human.
Moreover, even when Adventurers suggest that the difficulty is too high, the Lords don't change it.
They just say: Oh, if the difficulty is high, why don't you look for your own problems? Can't you just improve your strength?
To this, Adventurers had nothing to say, and they completely gave up on communicating with Lords.
This led to a huge communication gap between Adventurers and Lords, and the environment completely became stagnant.
Scanning the bulletin board, filled with the word "difficult," Ye Yuan finally sighed and prepared to leave. She had been abused just yesterday and really couldn't muster the interest to be abused for another day.
High-difficulty Dungeons require too much skill. Is there an easier Dungeon!?
Suddenly, she saw that promotional slogan again.
Stardew Valley, easy.
Could it be?
"Why not go and see!"
Ye Yuan was intrigued. Since she hadn't found any interesting Dungeons anyway, she might as well go and see if this slogan was lying.
Noting down the address below the slogan, she headed towards her destination.