365: A production order from the Temple of Giants! The arrogant Rogers!

“Kronos's servant also said that Kronos came for two purposes. The first is to negotiate a planting and purchasing plan for giant rice and giant vegetable fruits with our territory! The specific commercial negotiator is Rogers, the Captain of the Guards to Gaia, the God King!”

The spirit of the territory’s crisp voice rang in Su Lie’s ear: “The second is to come and chat with you as a friend! Their specific arrival time is one hour from now!”

Her voice fell.

A golden, wax-sealed letter was delivered by the spirit of the territory into Su Lie’s hand.

This was a letter with a faint scent of tulips.

And the wax seal on this letter was a silly Titan’s head.

Su Lie had seen this head in the void-shattering ore.

It was Kronos’s true likeness after he transformed into a Titan Giant.

Su Lie first checked the time, seeing that it was already 6:45 PM in the Mist Main World.

He directly instructed the spirit of the territory: “Go call Zhao Jiu, Su Lin, Guang Cai, Zhao Zhi, Liu Bowen, and Hu Youshan over!”

Among these six Vassals,

Liu Bowen was a Salesperson.

Hu Youshan was a diplomat.

Su Lie needed the two of them to negotiate business with Rogers, the Captain of the Guards to Gaia, the God King.

As for Zhao Jiu and Su Lin, who were Commanders, Guang Cai, the Swineherd, and Zhao Zhi, the training instructor, Su Lie intended to use them as “memory extractors” against Kronos.

Whoosh!

Su Lie opened the letter immediately.

He saw that,

After a brief greeting, Kronos outlined Captain of the Guards Rogers’ specific preferences and detailed information about this transaction.

This was a Titan Giant who liked fruit, with an upright and disciplined personality.

Rogers’ main purpose in coming this time was for the long-term supply of giant rice and four types of vegetables and three types of fruit required by the Titan Giants.

The four types of vegetables were mountain pepper, thunder eggplant, ice melon, and green long bean.

If calculated by the plots of land in Su Lie’s territory, only one plant of these four vegetables could be grown in a 100-meter-sided plot.

A single mountain pepper plant normally yielded 10 mountain peppers.

A single thunder eggplant plant normally yielded 10.

A single ice melon plant normally yielded 20.

A single green long bean plant normally yielded 100.

After reading, Su Lie found that mountain peppers were super-large bell peppers, thunder eggplants were super-large eggplants, ice melons were blue, bitter gourd-like vegetables, and green long beans were similar to long beans.

The forms of these four vegetables were all very large.

The three types of fruit were ice lemon, flame pineapple, and thunder pear.

These three fruit trees also could only be planted one per plot.

Each ice lemon tree could produce 100 ice lemons.

Each flame pineapple tree could produce 20 flame pineapples.

Each thunder pear tree could produce 500 thunder pears.

The bottom line given by Gaia, the God King, was a supply once every three days.

Each time, 10 billion grains of giant rice, 100 million of each of the four vegetables, and 100 billion of each of the three fruits were required.

The Giant Temple's requirements were:

giant rice and fruits and vegetables were to be cultivated by Su Lie's side, and they would be repurchased at a price 10% higher than the cost price.

The seeds for the first planting of fruits and vegetables would be provided by the Giant Temple.

The first transaction of fruits and vegetables would be at cost price to offset the cost of the seeds provided by the Giant Temple.

After that,

If seeds were needed, they would be sold at a price of one level 5 monster crystal per seed.

In addition,

The fruits, vegetables, and giant rice traded between the territory and the Giant Temple could only be sold to the Giant Temple and were prohibited from external sale.

After reading, Su Lie made some simple calculations and derived some data conclusions.

He simultaneously arranged for the spirit of the territory to call Su Keqing and the accountant Liu Wenwen to this place, and handed over the previous transaction price of giant rice, along with this letter, to Liu Wenwen and Su Keqing.

He asked the two of them to calculate the basic planting cost of these resources and to write a basic cost price list according to the price of Su Lie's first transaction with Kronos.

Additionally, they were to write another price list according to the requested prices.

Before long,

Zhao Jiu, Su Lin, Guang Cai, Zhao Zhi, Liu Bowen, and Hu Youshan, the six Vassals, arrived together on the first floor of the Great Joy Tower.

At this time, the accountant Liu Wenwen and Su Keqing had already completed their task and handed three price lists to Su Lie.

Su Lie placed the tables on the table.

He said to Liu Bowen and Hu Youshan: “You two go and connect with Keqing and Liu Wenwen regarding the territory’s planting information and sacrifice consumption!”

“Yes!”

After the four received their orders,

Su Keqing took them to the Planting Area.

Su Lie then looked at the four of Zhao Jiu, and he asked with a smile: “Do you all remember the Dragon Slaying Art?”

“This... we do!”

Zhao Jiu and the others exchanged glances, a glimmer of eagerness flashing in their eyes.

Su Lie smiled happily upon hearing this: “Go to the Storage Area! There’s a printer there that can connect to your thoughts! Print out all the Dragon Slaying Art you have in your memories!”

“Yes!”

The four hurried to the Storage Area after hearing this.

Subsequently,

Su Lie then arranged for Su Liya to prepare some fruits and refreshments, and for Lin Lu to assist.

Only then did he look at the form in his hand.

Based on the data provided in Kronos’s letter, it could be calculated that:

Each giant rice plant yielded 5 grains. According to the 10,000-fold harvest sacrifice effect in the Planting Area, the territory needed to plant 200,000 giant rice stalks to sacrifice 10 billion grains of giant rice in one go.

The sacrifice cost price for giant rice alone would be 2.2 billion monster crystals.

Calculated at the price of Su Lie’s first transaction with Kronos,

Su Lie's external cost price was 5.5 trillion monster crystals.

100 million mountain peppers required planting 1,000 mountain pepper trees to produce such fruit. The sacrifice cost price was 1.1 million monster crystals, and the external cost price was 11 billion monster crystals.

thunder eggplant was the same as mountain pepper, also requiring 1,000 thunder eggplant trees to yield 100 million thunder eggplant fruits. The sacrifice cost was the same as mountain pepper.

100 million ice melon fruits required planting 500 ice melon trees. The sacrifice cost price was 550,000 monster crystals, and the external cost price was 5.5 billion monster crystals.

100 million green long beans required planting 100 green long bean plants. The sacrifice cost was 110,000 monster crystals, and the external cost price was 1.1 billion monster crystals.

100 billion ice lemons required planting 100,000 ice lemon trees. The sacrifice cost price was 110 million monster crystals, and the external cost price was 1.1 trillion monster crystals.

100 billion flame pineapples required planting 500,000 pineapple trees. The sacrifice cost price was 550 million monster crystals, and the external cost price was 5.5 trillion monster crystals.

100 billion thunder pears required planting 200,000 thunder pear trees. The sacrifice cost price was 220 billion monster crystals, and the external cost price was 220 billion monster crystals.

From this, it can be calculated that:

The total actual cost price of subsequent transaction orders with the Giant Temple was 893.86 million monster crystals, plus 8,800 monster crystals for the sacrifice needed to cultivate the fruits.

Su Lie’s total external cost price was 12.3486 trillion monster crystals.

According to the subsequent transaction price information provided by Kronos, it could reach 13.58346 trillion monster crystals.

This was a price 10% higher than the cost price.

And subsequent seed resources would no longer need to be purchased.

Su Lie's side could fully cultivate and grow them simultaneously.

However,

To quickly complete the planting and harvesting of fruits,

Calculated by the current total planting area of 600,000 plots in the Planting Area,

The territory simply could not complete this transaction.

Because whether it was ice lemon trees or flame pineapple trees,

Or thunder pear trees,

Once planted, they occupy a permanent spot.

It was impossible to dig up the trees and replant them.

They would grow long-term in the Planting Area and continuously bring large profits to the territory through sacrifices.

The three fruit trees alone occupied 800,000 plots.

Not to mention vegetables and giant rice.

Moreover,

The Planting Area currently also cultivated a large number of cash crops.

It was also impossible to completely clear out areas to prepare for this transaction.

Now there was only one solution.

That was to upgrade the Planting Area.

“I can only wait until tomorrow! The 1,000 space fragments submitted yesterday have all been used up! Today’s haven’t been submitted yet!”

Su Lie sighed softly.

Upgrading the Planting Area required 10 units of god-tier quality space material and 10 units of rule fragments.

Currently, Su Lie had as many as 5 million rule fragments in his hand.

But only 2 units of space fragments remained.

The Little Skeleton in the void-shattering ore was continuously mining space fragments by using the absolute defensive power of the guardian brooch.

They only came out once a day.

It was impossible to call out to them from outside the cave.

Because the interior of the void-shattering ore was riddled with space cracks, it was impossible to transmit sound or Spirit.

Even a Territory God like Su Liya could not precisely penetrate her power into the complex and unpredictable void-shattering ore.

So, they could only wait.

After a while,

Zhao Jiu and the others walked out, holding four thick books.

These were the Dragon Slaying Art they had just bound, which also included various knowledge they had learned.

After they each recounted, Su Lie gained a deep understanding of these four books.

Subsequently,

He read and discussed them in detail with the others.

Time passed bit by bit.

After one hour,

Kronos, along with Captain of the Guards Rogers, arrived outside Su Lie's territory.

Su Lie walked out with the Salesperson Liu Bowen and the diplomat Hu Youshan.

The two had already learned about the basic situation of the territory’s Planting Area and the data from Su Lie’s first transaction with Kronos.

They were confident about this negotiation.

“Kronos! Hello! Welcome!”

Su Lie eagerly shook Kronos’s hand.

Kronos said enthusiastically: “Good brother! There’s no need to be polite between us! Come! Come! Come! Let me introduce you, this is Rogers, the Captain of the Guards to Gaia, the God King, and also the Chief Quartermaster of our Giant Temple!”

“Hello! Lord Rogers!”

Su Lie extended a hand of friendship.

Rogers held his head high with arrogance. He glanced at Su Lie, nodded slightly, and adopted an overbearing posture: “Hello! Survivor!”

His words were stiff, completely devoid of warmth.

This made Liu Bowen and Hu Youshan, who were beside Su Lie, exchange glances.

“This guy is tough to deal with!”

A thought arose in their minds.

Kronos immediately showed anger upon seeing this: “Rogers! This Su Lie is my close friend! How dare you treat my friend like this?”

“Lord Kronos! I am here as a representative of the Giant Temple, not as a servant!”

Rogers responded arrogantly and coldly: “According to normal procedure, these orders should have been given to the Hals clan to complete! It is because of your personal selfish desires that Gaia, the God King, allowed these orders to be supplied by this inferior, insect-like Survivor!”

“We have already made huge concessions!”

“And the Temple has the right to look down on everything!”

“You must remember, this is out of respect for you!”

“Our positions are not equal!”

“If this Survivor doesn’t even understand this point, I advise you not to be friends with him!”

He glared at Kronos without backing down.

His gaze fell on Su Lie.

At this moment, Hu Youshan used his Talent, saying eagerly: “Your Highness Kronos! Lord Rogers! This is not the place to talk. Please come to the territory for a discussion!”

“My lord has already prepared everything to entertain both of you!”

As the voice sounded,

Kronos smiled slightly, nodding at Hu Youshan.

Before he could speak,

Rogers glared down at Hu Youshan and said coldly: “You scoundrel! What is your status? How dare a lowly Vassal make decisions for his master? An insect like you has no right to speak to me!”