Everyone Became Lords: I Became A Base-Building Fanatic - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: At Wits’ End

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Just as Fang Ping was at his wits’ end, constantly checking to see who had traded a large amount of refined iron yesterday, a person began to send him private messages continuously. The number of private messages made him very annoyed.

However, just as he was about to close the private message and search for that person in peace, he accidentally opened the private message. The content of the private message immediately attracted Fang Ping’s attention.

“Greetings, respected and powerful Overlord. Looking at your sales requirements, you should need refined iron very much. I have a lot of refined iron and want to exchange it for food and water. Please contact me if you see this private message.”

Upon seeing this message, Fang Ping instantly perked up. He opened the other party’s private message channel and began sending messages to the other party.

“Hello, I can’t say that I need refined iron very much, but if you have a large amount of refined iron to exchange, I won’t be stingy with meat and clean water. I’ll exchange a large amount of meat and clean water.”

After sending the message, Fang Ping was immersed in waiting for the other party’s reply while continuing to search for the person who had exchanged a large amount of refined iron for food yesterday.

Not long after the message was sent, the other party sent a friend notification.

After Fang Ping pressed ‘agree’, the other party asked a question.

“Hello, are you the powerful novice Overlord who puts up a lot of food and clean water every day?”

Upon seeing this, Fang Ping wanted to say, “None of your business.”

However, since the other party had the refined iron he needed, he endured the urge to curse and replied to them.

“That’s right. I’m the novice Overlord who sells a lot of meat every day, so as long as you have a lot of refined iron, I can exchange a large amount of meat and clean water with you.”

The other party would reply to Fang Ping’s message instantly. It was as if they had kept the chat interface open to look out for his message.

“I do have a lot of refined iron, but if you want to obtain it, you have to agree to one condition.”

Upon seeing the other party’s reply, Fang Ping wished that he could follow the network cable of the virtual interface and find out where the other party’s home was so that he could grab the other party’s collar ruthlessly.

It was hard to say if this person had refined iron, but they actually dared to propose a condition to Fang Ping. Moreover, Fang Ping had to agree to it. This was really not a joke.

However, he could only shout these words in his heart. After all, the other party had the refined iron he needed. He could only trade for the refined iron first. After the novice protection period ended, he would think of a way to obtain the other party’s territory address and teach him a good lesson. He would let them know what the rules were.

“Tell me what your request is first. After all, I can’t agree with your condition if you don’t tell me what it is.”

“If you ask me for the address of my territory or do something else, I won’t agree.”

When the other party saw Fang Ping’s message, he immediately replied.

“It’ll be fine. Don’t worry, it’s just a small request. It won’t go against your personality or will, or endanger your safety.”

At this point, Fang Ping did not take it seriously. In any case, he would first see what the other party’s condition was. If he really could not complete it, he would give up on this transaction. After all, there were countless feudal Overlords in this world. There would always be people who could trade for a large amount of refined iron.

“Then tell me what kind of request you have.”

After sending this message, the other party immediately replied.

“My request is that if you want to obtain refined iron, reduce the exchange price of your meat and clean water by half and give them all to me.”

Looking at this request, Fang Ping’s heart was suddenly filled with tens of thousands of alpacas.

Did the other party ask Fang Ping to reduce his prices by half and exchange his resources for refined iron? Had their brain been kicked by a donkey? It was very normal to bargain, but wasn’t it too much to cut the price by half? Hey!

The enraged Fang Ping was about to reply that it was impossible when he suddenly realized that he was not exchanging at the market price, but at three to four times the market price. Even if the price was cut in half by the other party, there was still a lot of room for profit. Why was he so angry?

Fang Ping, who had come to his senses, immediately eliminated this impossibility and stopped scolding the other party’s ancestors. He re-edited his message and sent it over.

“It’s normal to bargain, but it’s too much to cut the price in half. Can you raise the price a little more?”

When the other party saw Fang Ping’s message, he immediately replied to Fang Ping firmly.

“That’s impossible. If you want to trade refined iron, you have to give me meat and clean water at half the price.”

Fang Ping saw the other party’s firm attitude and gave up struggling. He no longer wanted the other party to raise the price and replied directly.

“Then let’s do it this way. I don’t mind losing money. Let’s consider it a friendship and make a deal.”

Seeing that Fang Ping had relented, the other party immediately replied.

“Sure. I don’t have much refined iron now, but I have Dwarf troops and a refined iron mine that has reached the Rich Ore-Level.”

“The Dwarves don’t have much food now, so they can’t work hard to mine refined iron ore. Therefore, I hope you can trade meat and clean water to me first. When I gather enough refined iron ore, I’ll send it to you or pay you in installments.”

“(There are two photos attached. One is a picture of a refined iron mine, and the other is a picture of a Dwarf.)”

Fang Ping looked at the other party’s reply and the two accompanying photos. He suddenly felt that his intelligence had been insulted.

The other party sent him two photos, whose authenticity could not be determined, and wanted to gain something without risking any of their own goods. Did they think that Fang Ping was stupid and rich?

What a fraud. This person had lied to him. How f*cking infuriating!

“You idiot, do you really think everyone is as stupid as you?!”

“Who would believe such a clumsy scam? If you’re so stupid, don’t come out and lie to others. You f*cking bastard.”

After sending the message, Fang Ping was no longer in the mood to search for the person who had traded large amounts of refined iron for meat and clean water. He immediately closed the Trading Area interface. After cursing angrily a few times, he went upstairs to sleep angrily.

The sun and moon rotated, and time flew by. Soon, it was the fifth day of the novice protection period. There were still two days until the end of the novice protection period. During this period, Fang Ping exchanged all the meat and clean water for various building materials.

The fence had also been upgraded. It had gone beyond the levels of a double-layered fence and an earth wall to reach the level of a stone wall. It could almost defend against the attacks of Level-3 Chaos Ominous Beasts. Coupled with the attributes given by the system and the enhancement of other buildings, it had reached the level where it could resist Level-4 Chaos Ominous Beasts.

Moreover, the attack power of the arrow towers had reached the level where they could hurt Level-3 Chaos Ominous Beasts. Now, everything was ready. Only the first territory test was left.

However, in the past few days, he had not found the person who had exchanged a large amount of refined iron for food and water. He did not know if that person already had enough food and water, but after that day, that person had not gone to his shop to exchange for meat and clean water.

As a result, the equipment of all his Skeleton Soldiers were the same as before. He also had not found any iron ore around his territory. It seemed that there was no iron ore around his territory.

Even if he wanted to mine iron ore, it was impossible for him to forge refined iron.

He could only trade for refined iron in the Trading Area.

However, if he relied on the refined iron from the individual customers, it was impossible to keep up with his consumption of refined iron. Thus, he had to find that novice Overlord with a large amount of refined iron. Otherwise, his development speed would be suppressed.

Despite that, after searching for a long time in the Trading Area, he still could not find the Overlord with a large amount of refined iron. This made him wonder if that Overlord had already been killed.

That was why he could not find any traces of this Overlord in the Trading Area.

Fang Ping had been in a dilemma over this matter for a few days. He watched as the amount of refined iron decreased continuously due to the production of arrows. As a result, he, who had a phobia of insufficient firepower, felt very anxious.