Published: February 13, 2025
After Ye Zhongming sent off the Seven Needles, he felt a severe shortage of manpower. He had many ideas waiting to be implemented, but there was no one to carry them out, and he himself was tied up.
He called over Jie Kui and instructed him to take the brothers from the Assault Camp to receive the properties and shops that had been transferred to him by the Alliance of Small Races.
Some of these properties had already been arranged by Ye Zhongming to establish his own weapon and equipment sales points, but that wouldn’t take up too many places. He hadn’t yet thought through what to do with the rest, so for now, he would just stockpile them and wait for the economy of Dark Strip City to gradually recover. He believed there would be a way.
In the following days, he locked himself in his room, frantically crafting various types of equipment. When he was in good spirits and full of energy, he focused on renyi level equipment; when he was in a normal state, he worked on crimson condensation level equipment; and when he needed to rest and relax, he made kegang level equipment.
During this period, the Star-Eye Clan sent over a batch of craftsmen, with a number greater than before. Ye Zhongming naturally knew their intentions—it was merely to cast a wide net and see if they could learn more from him with more people around.
After all, what the Star-Eye Clan valued most was probably Ye Zhongming's equipment manufacturing capabilities.
Ye Zhongming sneered inwardly; he had to be on guard against these people. Did they think they could learn just by observing the manufacturing process?
He used his abilities to handle materials—did they have that? Manufacturing Tarros Red Dwarf equipment required a vast amount of knowledge, and many of the theoretical laws could only be found at the Library Palace aside from what was available with the Tarros Red Dwarfs. Even if they watched it a hundred thousand times, they wouldn’t understand. Was it useful?
Even Ye Zhongming had to first memorize everything, then be taught day and night by the bookkeepers, and finally spend a large sum of money disassembling and assembling high-level equipment just to initially grasp the manufacturing methods, not to mention the countless times he had to forge before reaching his current level.
And this was on top of him being a top-tier glorious artisan as his base profession.
So the Star-Eye Clan’s calculations were bound to come up empty.
Now that they were here, Ye Zhongming naturally wouldn’t be polite and immediately assigned them tasks—some were to process materials, some were responsible for sorting, and some were tasked with organizing. The craftsmen who had followed him before and had decent skills would help Ye Zhongming create some simple blueprints.
After the assignments, the manufacturing efficiency increased significantly.
On the tenth day after Ye Zhongming held a meeting with the small races, half of the female warriors of the red dress guard undergoing evolution began to awaken. It was unclear if it was due to more abundant energy in the sky, but their evolution time was noticeably shorter than it had been on Earth.
Becoming nine-star evolvers was of immense significance for the red dress guard.
After Dai Zhi handed over to Xiao Min, the latter led the remaining half of the red dress guard warriors to begin their evolution.
Ye Zhongming specifically paused his crafting to call these newly evolved female warriors together to explain in detail how they should train after becoming nine-star evolvers.
For these warriors who were the most loyal to him, Ye Zhongming was certainly generous. Not only did he equip them with suitable gear, but he also prepared early training techniques for them. He even provided them with potions from the Long Void Water Clan that could permanently enhance their physical attributes, pushing them to their consumption limits.
As a result, these newly promoted nine-star evolver female warriors all possessed kegang level equipment, and fuleira had broken through to two hundred in just a few days, with that number continuing to increase.