The treasure chest was opened.
What greeted his eyes were several tokens.
[Rooster Token: Upon use, this item will grant 50 egg-laying roosters and 50 egg-laying hens.]
"Your roosters lay eggs?"
Chen Yu, holding the token, looked back in utter astonishment.
"My King, is something amiss?" Sensing Chen Yu's gaze, Kurozure swallowed nervously, craned his neck, and his expression was tinged with a hint of probing.
???
Of course, something was amiss. In all his years, he had never heard of roosters laying eggs. The only time he'd seen it was in a Spring Festival Gala skit.
Egg-laying rooster, the fighter jet among roosters, Oh yeah~
"Cough~"
The little demoness, with her arms crossed, coughed. Chen Yu followed the sound and saw her winking and gesturing at him.
"Don't look so ignorant."
"Chickens are bistriphroditic. Both males and females can lay eggs."
What the heck?
The little demoness's explanation in his mind left Chen Yu stunned for a full half-minute.
After a long while,
He slowly lowered his head to look at the token on his phone again.
Cave chickens were bistriphroditic.
One word: Amazing!
After slightly calming his shock, Chen Yu proceeded to open the other boxes. He found as many as 35 Rooster Tokens.
This was equivalent to 3,500 chickens.
The quantity was considerable.
Using these chickens to support an entire city-state was clearly unrealistic. However, given enough time, Chen Yu was confident he could establish a sizable chicken farm.
"Eh?!"
Suddenly, Chen Yu frowned at the token in his hand.
Chickens are food, right?
He wondered if his Greed Crit would have any effect.
Let's try!
Licking his lips, Chen Yu crushed the token with force.
[Ding, you have used the Rooster Token.]
[Cave Reminder: Egg-laying Roosters +50.]
[Cave Reminder: Egg-laying Hens +50.]
[Ding, the Foodie's Greed is triggered, triggering a 50x food greed critical hit.]
[Greed Crit: Egg-laying Roosters +2500.]
[Greed Crit: Egg-laying Hens +2500.]
Holy cow!!!
In the instant of astonishment, Chen Yu subconsciously scanned the tent. He suddenly realized a very serious problem.
The tent was too small!
Bang!
A loud noise echoed.
Countless bewildered chickens descended from the sky.
A total of 5,000 chickens.
One could imagine what a magnificent spectacle that was.
The entire chieftain's tent was packed to the brim with 5,000 chickens, packed so tightly that not even a sliver of space could be found between them. A chicken even perched on Chen Yu's head, pecking at it incessantly.
In that very moment, a scream erupted from the tent.
"Yaaah!!!!"
The little demoness Barbara shrieked, kicking the chickens surrounding her with all her limbs, her face a mask of uncontrollable fear.
Whoosh!
A burst of flame erupted.
Deep purple flames were instantly flung from the demoness Barbara's hand. The chickens gathered around her were incinerated upon contact.
However—
Her flames did not prove very effective. Before long, chickens piled up around her again, clucking and crowing.
"Get away!"
Demoness Barbara yelled with wide eyes. It was Sona who, seeing her state, sighed softly and snapped her fingers, enveloping herself and Barbara in a protective barrier.
"They're chickens, what are you afraid of?"
Chen Yu, noticing this, showed a look of surprise and then casually grabbed a chicken from above his head and threw it towards Demoness Barbara.
"Scram!!! Are you trying to die!"
A shout, almost cracking in pitch, came from Barbara. Fortunately, Sona's barrier blocked the thrown chicken.
Even so,
Barbara was so frightened that she instinctively cowered behind Sona.
"Don't scare her, she's afraid of animals with sharp beaks," Sona's gentle whisper came, her hand gently stroking Barbara's head to soothe her agitated emotions.
"My apologies."
Hearing Sona's words, Chen Yu's eyes also showed remorse.
He could understand.
Some people were naturally afraid of sharp-beaked animals, just as some feared creatures with many legs, and some suffered from trypophobia. These were all reasonable phenomena.
Even Chen Yu was quite surprised that the great demoness Barbara was afraid of sharp beaks.
"Go, go, go, get up there."
Knowing Barbara's fear, Chen Yu also restrained his playful mood, constantly driving the chickens outside. Kurozure and the others, like screaming chickens, were perceptive enough to help.
Alas—
The numbers were simply too great.
"Chen Yu, keeping these chickens is a problem," Sona whispered softly, holding Barbara's small head. Chen Yu, looking at the tent full of chickens, couldn't help but feel a headache.
He had, in fact, been trying it out of curiosity and hadn't expected to actually trigger a critical hit.
If he had mastered spatial magic and could construct a teleportation array to directly transport these chickens back to the city-state, that would have been fine.
As it stood, dealing with such a large batch of chickens and driving them back to the camp would be far too time-consuming.
"Then let's slaughter them," Chen Yu murmured. Kurozure and the others were about to act when Chen Yu stopped them. "No one moves. Let me personally administer their punishment."
Swish!
The resplendent, multicolored sword was grasped in Chen Yu's hand, its dazzling radiance stunning both the people and the chickens within the tent.
"The Five-Colored Sword!"
The moment Clark saw the blade, his eyes widened.
He was a swordsman.
A wandering swordsman of the Black Obsidian realm.
He considered himself quite successful, his own sword being a blade of the Black Obsidian realm. However, a sword of the Color tier was something he dared not even dream of.
The exorbitant price was one factor, but more importantly, its rarity.
Weapons of the Color tier required the use of five-colored stones as core materials for forging. Obtaining five-colored stones was incredibly difficult. Unlike gold, silver, or copper, even Black Obsidian had its own mines.
Five-colored stones, however, required years of accumulation.
This resulted in many powerful individuals in the Color tier being unable to possess a single piece of equipment from that tier, not due to a lack of funds, but simply because they were too rare to be acquired.
Such a rare treasure, however, appeared in the hands of someone at the peak of the Bronze tier.
Even more outrageous—
He was using this divine weapon to kill chickens!!!
If anyone else were to obtain a weapon of the five-colored tier, they would either revere it or protect it dearly, perhaps not even using it unless absolutely necessary.
Killing chickens!
Chen Yu was using it to kill chickens!
Perhaps, for the Five-Colored Sword, this was also a rather novel experience.
[Cave Reminder: Chicken Meat +1.]
[Greed Crit: Chicken Meat +50.]
[Cave Reminder: Chicken Meat +1.]
[Greed Crit: Chicken Meat +47.]
...
Clark stared intently as Chen Yu slaughtered his way through the flock of chickens. With every sword strike, his heart bled a little.
Using such a divine weapon to kill chickens was a complete desecration of the Five-Colored Sword.
"Hmph..."
After a long silence, Clark found himself unable to calm his inner turmoil. In the end, all he could do was grit his teeth and exclaim in his heart.
"What a waste of good resources!"