A trump card.
The Cloak of Magic!
Chen Yu had obtained the blueprint for this item during his early explorations. Back then, he had purely used it as a means to steal honey.
Of course—
It was also because Chen Yu at that time did not possess the current strength of his camp.
As time went by.
Chen Yu's strength within the cave grew increasingly formidable.
Just as he made up his mind to liberate the slaves of Black City, and was racking his brain at night on how to breach the city, he remembered this almost forgotten item.
The Cloak of Magic!
An absolute trump card for siege warfare.
This cloak possessed a camouflage effect, allowing for a continuous minute of disguise. This meant that for that minute, he was in a state of near invisibility.
One minute was very short.
To trigger its use again, one had to wait for 24 hours.
If it were just this single Cloak of Magic, it would indeed be rather useless. Seizing opportunities to do petty thievery might be acceptable.
Other than that, it would be relatively difficult.
But—
Chen Yu possessed the blueprint.
Possessing the blueprint meant he could endlessly and without restriction craft Cloaks of Magic.
As long as he had enough elemental shards.
He could even possess a stealth army, simply by switching equipment and using it again when the camouflage effect was about to disappear.
Leveraging the stealth state, he could catch them off guard.
The effect would undoubtedly be remarkable.
The little demon floating in the air, looking at hundreds of thinly veiled magical cloaks before her, seemed as if she had been hit by a silence aura, unable to utter a single word for a long time.
It was a trap!
At this moment, this was the only thought in her mind.
She had been full of confidence.
She believed this time it was a surefire victory.
She never expected Chen Yu to possess such a loophole-like item blueprint.
"This isn't right!"
The little demon, unable to hold back, directly shouted into the air.
"How could you get a blueprint for this kind of equipment? Equipment has always been design drafts, single-use consumables."
The little demon was very confused.
Why should Zhao Xin be able to possess blueprints?
She had traversed the cave for countless years, and the equipment design drafts she had obtained could fill a castle, yet she had never acquired a single blueprint.
Not one!
All equipment was crafted on a single-use basis.
This was also why the blacksmith profession existed in the cave.
If everyone possessed equipment blueprints and could mass-produce various equipment, then the blacksmith profession would be ruthlessly eliminated.
Blacksmith forging required time.
And—
They also did not have a hundred percent success rate; sometimes they would even damage materials. Despite this, blacksmiths held a prominent status in the cave.
The reason was simple: the equipment in the cave had to be crafted by their hands.
When the little demon was still a Great Demon King, she employed thousands of blacksmiths to provide equipment and repairs for her army.
Her vast power!
Had never obtained an equipment blueprint, so why could Chen Yu possess it, and moreover, it was for a magical cloak with an equipment effect.
Logically speaking.
When Chen Yu could mass-produce Swift Wind Swords and the Perfect Three-Piece Set for external sale, she was already quite perplexed. However, whether Chen Yu could mass-produce them back then did not affect her, so she did not pay particular attention. wΑp.kanshu伍.net
Now, there was a bet between them!
She had lost.
Lost completely!
She had to admit that mass-producing the Cloak of Magic and repeatedly triggering the camouflage skill effect could indeed be considered a trump card.
If, at that time, she had possessed millions of Cloaks of Magic.
She would not have lost!
Absolutely!
This Chen Yu was clearly a person who existed like a loophole.
He could obtain equipment blueprints, and he also possessed the most scarce resource in the cave: critical hit multipliers for food.
This was too inconceivable!
"How is it, Lady Barbara, do you have anything to say?" Chen Yu smirked at the little demon, his lips curving.
Little demon!
She was too easy to fool.
Having interacted with her for this period, Chen Yu wouldn't say he had completely figured her out, but definitely had a good grasp of her.
She was the type who cared a lot about her reputation.
Especially impulsive.
A little provocation and she would blindly follow you to the end, which was somewhat similar to Xu Nuo; a little mention of her being poor.
She would force herself to eat.
Back then, Chen Yu still viewed the resources she gave him as a fortune, but in his current eyes, it was just pocket change.
Not even a small goal.
Now, he was an absolute millionaire with 20 million gold coins. Converted to resource points, it was 2 trillion.
Trillions.
What a concept?
It was equivalent to the entire GDP of a province outside the trial grounds.
In Chen Yu's hands, it was merely a flick of his wrist to hire a few elemental chefs and have them mass-produce canned goods for him.
Of course—
He didn't have many stocks left.
At a 50x greed critical hit, if fully triggered, he would only have 1000 bottles left, and he still had 10 Fire Fruits that he hadn't used.
Even if used, it would only produce 250 bottles.
Converted to gold coins, it would be over 60 million. Resource points would be 6 trillion.
A small sum.
This was not an exaggeration.
Don't forget, Chen Yu still had thousands of Lava Fruits. Even compared to the rarity of Fire Fruits, Lava Fruits were not that expensive.
But his sheer volume made up for it.
Making just 2000 servings of Lava Fruit canned goods, with critical hits, would yield 100,000 bottles.
If the Greed Critical Hit upgraded.
Even more!
He also possessed equipment blueprints, and mass-producing them for external sale would also bring in huge profits. He had even considered whether selling equipment to city-states would yield higher value.
It's just—
He hadn't done so.
No matter how much he exploited the other survivors in his region, in his eyes, they were still compatriots. Cave natives were outsiders.
He could buy resources from natives.
Sell weapons.
But he would absolutely never do anything that would severely threaten other survivors.
At the very least, he wanted to ensure that the survivors had the ability to survive stably and resist the cave natives before considering whether to sell equipment.
For example, in the future, selling equipment to a certain cave kingdom.
Inciting them to wage war.
Amassing wealth from war.
To truly amass wealth, the biggest profits came from war profiteering. At that time, any resource could be sold at an extremely high value, with equipment and food, these core demand resources, selling for several times higher than usual.
Chen Yu happened to be in abundance of these, wouldn't that mean—
Hoo hoo!
Taking off!!
In fact, these were all things to be done later. His most important task now was to stably develop his own strength and maximize his existing advantages.
For example, developing agriculture.
The cave was short of food, so he planted furiously, using greedy critical hits to obtain food.
"Tsk, I'm truly a genius."
Chen Yu muttered to himself.
Perhaps in the later stages, other kingdoms would have to import grain from him, and the kings of those cave kingdoms would have to act according to his whims.
Just thinking about this made him feel like he was flying to the heavens.