Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

Chapter 104 The Crispy Rice Stove Kitchen

This is roughly the dynamic balance between the consumption of professionals and the production of alchemists today.

This is also the alchemist's least technically demanding way of operating: buy meat, refine, and sell materials; there are basically no barriers to entry.

No wonder people say that even if an alchemist doesn't learn anything, he'll get rich sooner or later.

Take Wang Hu for example. Before Sui An opened the shop, it was one source stone per day. Blood Moon was an exception, so on average it was only two or three source stones.

But this is a friends and family price!

Sui An, who wasn't very good at math, did some dizzying calculations before being surprised to discover that the alchemists' earnings were a bit off under the blessing of the Level 2 Alchemy Workshop.

Energy consumption -12.5%, material consumption -12.5%.

In theory, Fang Nianman's source energy can produce a maximum of 457 energy bars, consuming 1800 catties of source beast meat.

Her output became 22.86, and she consumed 18 Originium.

Her earnings became approximately 4.86 Originium, a direct increase of about 143%.

However, if it's a level 3 alchemy workshop with a 15% double reduction effect, her profit becomes 6.04 yuan!

It turns out that the direct benefits brought by this building are greater than I thought.

Of course, the above effects are for the alchemist's personal benefit.

For Lord Sui An, the only benefit this building brings is the attribute of reducing material consumption by 15%.

So in the end, Sui An changed Fang Niankai's salary to a piece-rate system, giving her 3 source stones for every 400 energy bars or 20 basic materials she provided.

This treatment was higher than what she could earn through her own normal operations, but with the bonus from the Alchemy Workshop, Sui An also gained additional benefits.

As for refining other materials in the future, that's another matter. She can process the materials according to her own recipes, but the tasks assigned to her must be completed on time.

Now that she had decided to join Sui An's territory, Fang Nian was naturally informed of the stage's ability to restore source energy. If she wanted to use it, she only needed to pay for the source stones. Restoring the source energy of a level 1 alchemist would only require about one source stone.

However, since a level 1 alchemist has limited source energy and spirit, even if she can replenish her source energy in 20 minutes with the Girl Stage, her limited spirit cannot sustain her for two or three long overtime shifts.

After confirming Fang Nian's salary, the profits that the workshop and alchemist brought to Sui An could also be calculated.

The price of 1800 jin of level 1 source beast meat in Jiangcheng is 18 source stones, with the transport team taking a 30% cut.

After being converted into an energy bar, its volume and weight shrink by 10%, and the corresponding commission rate becomes the lowest possible: 5%.

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However, based on the effect of the level 2 workshop, and after calculating the cost reduction blessing of the level 3 workshop, 1800 catties of level 1 source beast meat can produce 470

One energy bar corresponds to a gain of approximately 23.5 Originium.

After Sui An obtained 1800 jin of level 1 source beast meat, after deducting Fang Nian's salary and the 5% commission of the transport team, Sui An's income increased from 12.6 source stones to 19.5 source stones.

Not only is it higher than before, it has even surpassed the Jiangcheng meat purchase price of 18 yuan.

Not only did Sui An profit, but Fang Nian did too.

In fact, Wang Zhen earns more from transporting energy bars than from transporting level 1 or 2 source beast meat, not to mention elemental bodies, which have a lower unit price than meat. This is the significance of refining.

However, all of this is an ideal scenario.

In fact, Fang Nian couldn't eat that much meat. Even if Sui An opened the rift once every five days, the harvest each time would be in the tens of tons.

Therefore, in the short term, the transport team will still occasionally have to help transport meat.

To prevent the source beast meat from piling up and rotting, Sui An even had Fang Si start digging a pit.

Level 4 combat professionals are really fast at digging pits. They cleared out a large enough underground space in just one day. Then, Sui An built a small ice cellar, which was specially set up for Fang Nian's use.

The usable space inside a small cellar is actually less than forty cubic meters. Due to the bizarre shape of the source beasts, it would be quite full if it could hold about thirty tons of meat.

The cooling effect of the Ice Cellar will continuously consume energy, and one or two level 2 green quality cellars are not a significant burden for a level 3 territory.

Sui An slowly put away the notebook in his hand. He was quite satisfied with the result of the alchemist's addition. It was worth all the time he spent rambling on.

It's a pity that Cui Mingming didn't want to come; otherwise, with his level 3 professional strength, he should have been able to digest the source beast meat in his rift much faster.

However, everyone has their own destiny, and who knew that Fang's daughter would awaken the alchemist profession through the alchemy workshop.

Heaven is on my side; no further explanation is needed!

They collected the last batch of payment brought by Wang Zhen, mainly the profits from the remaining pile of Ice Crystal Giants, and the money from October 30th.

400 Originium per day.

According to Wang Zhen and the others, the exposed dark crystal iron ore on the surface of the cave can be mined about ten more times, and then they will have to try to dig downwards.

At a frequency of once every ten days, the surface ore of the cave will be completely mined out in about a year.

Even if the ore runs out, the large number of source beasts and source energy plants in the secret realm are still a huge potential source of profit. They are just waiting for Sui An's territory to become large enough so that the secret realm dimensional gate can be incorporated into the territory. At that time, development will be much easier.

"Another 3247 Originium!"

Sui An glanced at the core of his territory. There had been no blood moon for the past three days, probably because it was the end of the month or the beginning of the new month. Usually, the intervals around this time are longer, ranging from five or six days to three or four days.

"From now on, we need to reserve about two thousand as a minimum energy reserve. One thousand is not enough at all. If we use Sword Star a few more times, we will exceed the limit."

"I have 1200 available Originium. Let's use 540 to pull a big pity and see how the kitchen blueprint looks."

[Basic Source Material *172]

[Lightning Stone*1] [Pine Crystal Stone*1] [Everlasting Flame*2] [Pure Water Spirit Core*2]

[Oz's Lightning Statue *1] [Guoba's Stove Kitchen *1]

A frantic click, and 180 draws were completed in the blink of an eye.

Sui An no longer cared about the result; he considered it money spent on materials. 540 Originium and so many blue core materials—what more could he ask for?

Open the newly produced architectural blueprint.

[Building Name]: Guoba's Kitchen [Building Type]: Standalone Building [Building Level]: Level 1 (can be upgraded to Level 3)

[Building Quality]: Blue [Building Effect]: When certain chefs make source food in this building, they will receive a blessing effect: the positive buff effect of source food is increased by 10%, the duration of the positive buff effect of source food is extended by 10%, and if the source recipe is not unlocked, there is a small chance that the source recipe can be learned on its own.

This building can be bound to a professional chef, with a maximum of one chef bound at a time. The bound target can be controlled by the builder. For each level that this building is upgraded, the overall effect of the basic blessing increases by 25%. This blessing effect is constant and does not consume energy.

【额外消耗】：无【製造需求】：常燃火种（3/1）、基础源质材料（230/30）、1级源石（1473/6）

【升级需求】：常燃火种（3/1）、基础源质材料（230/30）、2级源石（239/6）、

Territory Core Level (Iv2)

"Just as I expected, it's still the familiar percentage-based model, except this time there's no increase in skill insights, but instead, there's a low probability of learning recipes?"

"Isn't this a bit too overpowered? A life skill automatically learns its own job recipes?"

"If you know how to cook some rare foods, wouldn't there be a chance that you can directly figure it out on your own? That effect is even more overpowered than increasing skill comprehension, right?"

Sui An was somewhat surprised, as he did not recall ever hearing of anyone being able to comprehend the blueprints or recipes corresponding to their profession.

"No, it doesn't seem that buggy. It seems that you have to be the one making this kind of energy food, which means you have to know how to make it."

"But is it possible to create your own recipes?"

Sui An suddenly had this idea and couldn't wait to have Uncle Wang try it out. However, there were already two level-four professionals in the territory, as well as a level-one alchemist. If another level-three chef came, it might cause a bigger rift and would be somewhat uncontrollable.

"Unless, we switch Erhu or Huzi, we should wait for Aunt Zhao and the others to discuss it."

After putting away the kitchen blueprints, Sui An looked at his elemental statue. More than two months later, his first blue building was finally fully completed.

His third insightful effect also surprised Sui An.

[Burst Mode: The statue unlocks Burst Mode. When actively activated, the cooldown of the initial attack module is reduced to 30% for 10 minutes. After the effect ends, there is a 30-minute cooldown. It cannot be activated simultaneously with other Enlightenment effects.]

"With a 10-minute burst mode and a cooldown of about one second, plus the launch time, it averages one shot every two seconds. In 10 minutes, that's 300 lightning missiles. Three of them would be worth 1000 Originium in 10 minutes."

Soon, Sui An discovered the blind spot: this mode only lasts for ten minutes.

Ten minutes is not enough to sustain me in a complete defense of a rift; I have never encountered a rift lasting less than fifteen minutes.

This pattern either involves a surprise attack or an outbreak of power in the latter half of the rift.

However, when engaging in assault battles, I mostly choose the charge-up mode, while the pressure of the rift is mainly concentrated in the initial stage.

"Whatever, something new is better than nothing~"

All the newly acquired materials were used up, and the three elemental statues were upgraded to level three and the transformation was completed. The alchemy workshop was also upgraded to level three.

Sui An didn't intend to keep the two extra pure water spirit cores; instead, he used them to build a level 2 stage and placed it at the entrance.

This item's healing effect has a cooldown period. Once used, the cooldown is 12 hours, which means that you will lose your healing abilities within 12 hours. Therefore, the number of stages is still very useful for Sui An.

As for the kitchen blueprint I just got, I happen to have three pieces of materials on hand, which will make it a level 3 item. However, this item is very resource-intensive; a level 3 item requires 90 basic materials, just like the Alchemy Workshop.

"Make it first. Even if we don't have a professional chef, it should still be useful for cooking for ourselves."

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To the right of the alchemy workshop, a building with blue bricks and red tiles quietly appeared. Compared to the alchemy workshop, it was a 6*4*3 meter building.

A rectangular building.

The overall style of the kitchen is very similar to the Chinese architecture of my previous life.

"Xiao Anzi, what kind of building have you come up with this time?" Erhu heard the noise and poked his head out to look behind him.

"You'll see when I take you there~" Sui An walked around the erhu room, and the two of them slowly walked towards the back.

The brother and sister living on the back side had also poked their heads out, clearly curious as well.

"This style... I feel like I've seen it somewhere before. It looks even older than the old-world style."

Erhu stood outside the wall, looking at the kitchen with amazement.

Sui An understood what Erhu meant: Jiangcheng was built on the ruins of an ancient city from the old world, and many residential buildings and other buildings for people's livelihood have been preserved.

If we have to talk about the old-world style, it's roughly equivalent to the Republican era in Sui An's previous life. Most of the buildings were still made of blue bricks and red tiles, and some were similar to the precast cement slabs poured with concrete in the previous life, but they were still very rare.

The tallest building Sui An had ever seen was only seven stories; most buildings were three or four stories high.

So it's normal that Erhu thinks the kitchen has a somewhat old-fashioned style.

Sui An pushed open the single door made of mahogany; the window on the wall next to the door seemed to be a skylight made of seashells.

Upon opening the door, the first thing you see is a long wooden table, paired with wooden stools of varying lengths, with wooden tables and cabinets placed against the walls on both sides.

On the inner side against the wall, there is a device that looks like a wood-fired oven.

On the innermost side, there is a very traditional stove, and three iron pots of progressively larger size have been installed from the outside in.

"Is this the kitchen?" Since Sui An had already given the alchemy workshop to Fang Nian, Erhu was too embarrassed to go in and take a look.

But Erhu didn't care about the new building; he just kept touching and fiddling with it.

Sui An rolled his eyes at him: "These three big pots are right here. If you can't guess them, I'll really admire you~"

"Hey, these days everyone uses electric stoves, and ordinary people don't dare to go out into the wild to chop firewood. Isn't it normal for me to have some hesitation about this old-fashioned wood-fired stove?"

Erhu tried to turn to the north side of the stove to see if it was a wood-burning stove, but found that the back of the stove and the wall were connected.

"The firewood storage area is outside? That's a bit inhumane. What if it rains?!"

"What are you thinking? Isn't this the control panel?" Sui An pointed to the rightmost wall, where there was a light screen.

"This is a building on my territory. How could it possibly need firewood for energy? It must be an energy-powered stove, just shaped like a wood-fired stove."

Erhu leaned closer: "Can't this be used by professional chefs?"

Sui An casually opened the control panel, which, in addition to some general functions, also had options such as temperature control for the three stoves.

"It can be used, but you won't get the job benefits."

"That's great. At least we don't have to squat on those little stools to eat anymore. That table should be able to seat seven or eight people without any problem."

"Then let's move all our pots and pans over here, as well as water buckets and wooden sheds, so it will be more convenient to boil water in the future."

"Sure~"

Erhu nodded, looking at Wang Hu staring blankly at the stove: "Hu Zi, what's wrong?"

Erhu still hasn't realized that there is a professional chef in his family's circle, but Wang Hu is different; he immediately thought of his father.

In addition, Sui'an's buildings all have unique buff effects, and are basically standard buildings for professions.