Chapter 216: The Ruirance

  Ohe pn was set, it was time to follow through with it.

  Over the few days, Yaya enthusiastically dove into building the breeding area.

  Under her and, Bobo and the murlocs became busy.

  They cleared out any dangerous creatures from the breeding area to reduce the threat to the mudfish.

  Using the murloatural ability to burrow into the mud, and Bay Territory’s durable fishis, they artificially structed a barrier in the mud.

  Sino one sold mudfish, Bay Territory couldn’t buy them even with money.

  Yaya chose a simple and direct method: have the remaining murlocs catch the mudfish themselves.

  Faced with this challenging task, Bobo felt the weight of his responsibility and came up with an idea.

  He made sure the murlocs were well-fed, so they wouldn’t be tempted to eat the skinny, fleshless mudfish.

  Ohey were stuffed, the murlocs weren’t ied in the mudfish anymore.

  After half a day of work, each murloly caught four or five mudfish.

  But after adding them all together, they mao collect two or three huhousand mudfish, which were pced in the breeding area.

  Acc to Yaya’s estimate, in about five more days, the mudfish breeding area would be fully built.

  After that, Yaya could start building the fry nursery and the bckfish breeding area.

  Now that she had something to do, Yaya was extremely happy and eic, watg the murlocs scurrying around and shoutiedly, never feeling bored.

  The stru of the breeding area in Misty S rogressing at full steam.

  Meanwhile, the excavation of the ruins had reached its final stages.

  May 28th

  Bright sunlight shone on Misty S.

  Although it couldn’t dispel all the mist, it allowed everyoo see the long-lost sun.

  The warm wind blew gently, bringing a damp and stuffy feeling.

  In the usually busy ruins camp, today was unusually quiet.

  Over a thousand adventurers stood on the walls, eagerly waiting.

  Most of the “soldiers” were also resting today, with only a small number finishing the final task.

  They were digging through the st few meters beh the pit of the ruins!

  Uhe soft, muddy surface, the deeper they dug, the harder the soil became, making the work easier.

  Basket after basket of soil was hauled up.

  This soil wasn’t discarded; it would be turned into solid rocks by the half-elemental giants of the Carlisle family.

  These rocks would be used to expand the murloc camp and the ruins camp.

  Many nobles scoffed at Bay Territory’s eborate efforts.

  In their eyes, even if the underground ruins were rge, they could only be developed for ten years at most.

  They saw o spend so much manpower and resources expanding the ruins camp and the murloc castle.

  Nobles who hadn’t witnessed Bay Territory’s dispy of power believed the managers of Bay Territory were fools.

  These nobles gathered oher side of the wall, f small groups among familiar families.

  As the ruirance was about to be revealed, the family representatives chatted among themselves.

  “Throwing money around so carelessly—no matter how much support the Ser Family provides, it’ll all be wasted.”

  “Exactly, they’re even paying wages to these oners—it’s ughable.”

  “They’ve spent thousands of gold s, enough to hire or bribe a few high-level adventurers. What’s the point of pleasing these peasants?”

  “Given how clueless they seem, wheart expl the ruins, should we...”

  “Heh heh, if we unite a few families, no matter how strong Bay Territory’s soldiers are, they ’t fight everyo once.”

  “But remember, the Carlisle family hasn’t fought in years. Maybe their soldiers aren’t as good as they used to be.”

  “That’s possible. Otherwise, how could the Carlisle family lose to such a backwater territory?”

  “Besides, with Bay Territory’s methods, who’s to say they’ll even notiything?”

  “Hahaha, true. Carlisle’s share might be safe, but we could certainly iate over Bay Territory’s share…”

  “...”

  Although familiar with the foolishness of noble circles, Brown almost burst out ughing after overhearing this.

  Nearby, Haas familiarizing himself with his neon, saw the nobles and their eager adventurers and snickered.

  “These people always think they’re special. I ’t wait to see them csh with Bay Territory.”

  “With their usual arrogahey’re bound to butt heads sooner or ter.”

  Rubbing his stiff face, Brown stifled a ugh and said quietly:

  “Aerday, Bay Territory brought in their heavy infantry. These fools think there’s no danger down there…”

  Recallierday’s fleeting se, Hawk gnced over at Beelzebub.

  This barbarian warrior, who had easily defeated both him and Brown together, seemed even more intimidating.

  Beelzebub had gotten stronger!

  Hawk shook his head helplessly, then calmly sat down, watg the eager nobles and saying slowly:

  “Bay Territory might know more than we do…”

  “These fools don’t even sider that if there was no danger down there, why would Bay Territory let such a juicy prize go?”

  “They’re ting oo be on fodder!”

  Rexing his breathing, Brown thought back to Vist Larry’s instrus and said calmly:

  “Keep an eye on Bay Territory’s movements. We won’t get involved with these idiots.”

  Oall stoform, Matthew silently observed the se below, gng at the nobles.

  Yaya, who had been scribbling away, suddenly stopped and squi the ground, curiously saying:

  “Huh? There’s actually a scary lizard down there?”

  Matthew looked down and saw the once-bck soil colpse, revealing a deep, dark hole.

  The excavators, who had successfully breached the ruins, cheered in delight.

  From that dark hole, Matthew sensed faint movement.

  At that moment, Matthew noticed the restless nobles, who could no longer tain themselves.

  They gathered at the walls, their adveeams to desd using the -operated elevators fixed along the wall.

  Their goal was simple: to quickly gather first-hand information about the underground ruins.

  Ohey uood the types of monsters and how to hunt them, they could prepare in advance.

  To be fair, their pn was somewhat reasonable.

  Although arrogant, they had a bit of justification for it.

  FAL