Aethelgard: The Survival Game (Chloe) novel Chapter 72

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Following her rule of checking the most impressive item first, Chloe opened the rare tutorial.

[Basic Arcane Hydro-Electric Conversion Engineering: A manuscript jointly researched, tested, and refined by several notoriously lazy mages who poured their hearts into making life easier.

[Quality: Legendary

Attributes: Basic Tutorial/ Knowledge Fragment/ Spatial Fragment/ Condensed Specialized Insight/ House Design, Plumbing and Utilities Engineering/ Arcane Automation/ Core Arcane University Knowledge.

After learning, you will understand how to construct an Automated Arcane House using magic, design structural layout through elemental manipulation, and create more convenient systems for electricity and water usage. Includes Arcane Automated Bathing Design, automated arcane cleaner, cooking machine, and more.

The mages’ stance: If magic can’t improve daily life, then it serves no purpose.

Detected: You possess an Adaptive House Expansion Blueprint. Link established. Acquired knowledge will be automatically integrated into house design.]

Chloe stared at the description, her eyes lighting up.

An Automated Arcane House.

Her mind immediately jumped to the spotless bathroom in the home of the witch Shana Blackwood.

In this wilderness survival nightmare she was stuck in, what she wanted most right now was a clean, private bathroom.

If magic could replace plumbing, maybe she could finally get a flush toilet.

When Chloe had browsed the Trading Post before, flush toilets had been cheap. Most players lacked plumbing systems, water resources weren’t abundant enough to support them. A few units of materials were enough to trade for one.

But now, after reading this manuscript from an unknown player, Chloe realized something.

The beginner phase really was a safe home base.

It was the perfect time to stockpile resources at the lowest possible cost.

She glanced over the rest of the chest’s contents.

Rabbit meat, rabbit fur, and rabbit hide were standard basic materials.

The 0.34 fl oz of rabbit blood was somewhat unusual, with properties that allowed it to be used as an alchemical or medicinal ingredient.

The Rabbit Fur Insulation Design was a rare blueprint.

[Rabbit Fur Insulation Design: After use, allows the creation of insulating layers using specialized techniques with fur, enabling a house to remain warm even at -292 F.

[Quality: Rare

Requirement: Crafting Table

Materials: Varies based on house size; requires corresponding amounts of rabbit fur.

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[Adaptive House Expansion Blueprint detected. Integration complete.]

What truly caught Chloe’s attention, though, was the Seed Storage Gourd.

[Seed Storage Gourd: A special gourd made from an unknown material, infused with an extremely high concentration of vitality. Can store an unlimited number of seeds.

[Seeds stored inside have a chance to gain a ‘Vitality’ buff, increasing resistance to Corruption and accelerating growth wh planted.

[Quality: Special

[Attributes: Storage Space/ High Vitality/ Blessing/ Vitality Alchemical Construct]

Without hesitation, Chloe dumped every seed she had into the gourd.

Then, she looked at the final item. The golden chest had yielded fewer materials, but every one of them was high quality.

[Vitality Core: A crystallized core formed from the intense survival instincts of a mutant beast after enduring countless life and-death struggles.

[Quality: Epic

[Attributes: Vitality/ Vitality Element Concentration/ Energy Core/ Nourishing Material/ Magical Alchemical Ingredient]

*****

‘An Epic material. Definitely valuable, Chloe thought.

She carefully stored the Vitality Core away.

She lowered her fishing line again and continued reading the manuscript in her hands, hoping to learn more about the early-stage player experience.

Meanwhile, her interface chimed constantly as players came and went, trading through her snow canopy.

The snowfall today was especially brutal. At around 3 F, many unprepared or underdeveloped players could barely move, let alone fight.

Snowy conditions offered rewards related to cold resistance, but not everyone could continue monsters in such extreme weather.

treasure

fishing or hunt

More players had their shelters destroyed by Snow Yetis and were forced out into the freezing wilderness with barely any clothing. Survival was becoming increasingly difficult.

Crafting-focused players could produce cold-resistant gear, but they were limited by energy and Crafting Table time. The items were high quality, but still couldn’t fill the market gap.

Snow canopies, as an expansion structure, had skyrocketed in value.

Chloe hadn’t checked her trading interface while fishing.

Now that she had finished off the monster, she skimmed through it and sorted the higher-value offers.

Some players offered fully upgraded bathroom blueprints along with large quantities of materials. Others offered bulk food or basic arcane materials.

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She was tempted by the bathroom designs.

But in the end, her two snow canopies were traded for 300 units of Basic Glass Panes, 80 units of Rare Sulfur-Crystal wooden logs, and a total of 25 Cubic Yard Soil Plots.

The Sulfur Crystal had come from a player named NobleScalper.

Chloe needed large quantities of Sulfur-Crystal, but most players only had small, scattered amounts. One had five, anoth had ten. Trading piece by piece was exhausting.

Trading with NobleScalper allowed her to acquire bulk materials quickly. The price was slightly higher, but it saved hera great deal of time and effort.

She suspected Noble Scalper had access to a network of advanced clients.

Back in the modern world, he would have been a very capable businessman.

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