CIATB Chapter 1116 Looting
Chapter 1116 Looting
A/N: Belated Happy Lunar New Year everyone!
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First of all, there were hundreds of monsters they were used to and therefore knew a lot. For example, after months of trial and error (and a lot of serendipity), they found unexpected uses for some body parts of common monsters.
For example, the ubiquitous gnomos, which were large green rodent-like critters with short tails. They were weak, yes, but their fecundity dwarfed that of the goblins'.
First of all, the Gnomos' tails moved a lot even after death—like decapitated worms—and they could be used as distractions when they were fighting humans.
They were also excellent fishing baits…
Then… at some point, someone accidentally found a special fungus in the monster's skin. After some study, they found that it seemed to have a symbiotic relationship with the gnomos' body.
After a bit more re
Soon, they found more people who were still alive among the enemies. One of them was Tout himself, still miraculously alive. He apparently ordered nearby slaves to cover for him with their own bodies— all while he desperately dug the soil so he could melsh better with the ground.
He unsurprisingly got his token on, though no one was really interested in that one except to sell.
Althea was wondering how much it would sell for. From what she gathered, a Village Token could sell at a minimum of 1000 gold—and this was the absolute worst type of village that had low chances of surviving a mob without the injection of funds. However, depending on its quality and resources, this price could go up to about 10,000 or even more.
If she were to assess Alterra's Token though—just for thought—it would definitely be at least several times of that.
Garan remained outside with the soldiers to make sure everything was handled well and without accidents, while Althea watched as the corpses of the monsters passed through the threshold, cart by cart, to various industries like meat sellers, tanners, and teams that specialized in butchering monster bodies.
Speaking of which, she took a look at her stats. She also took a look at her loot as well as her stats.
There had been a lot of notifications, but there were so many enemies that she hadn't taken note. There wasn't a 'see history' feature in the system, which was a pity, but thankfully she had an eidetic memory and she could take this time to absorb her rewards.
First, she recalled the rewards from the war against Resso Village, which was a decent amount of gold from the territory and the new slaves. It wasn't much, considering it was a village, only several hundred gold and tens of thousands of silver.
As for population, they received nearly 9 thousand new people from Resso alone, though not everyone was on this side of the territory. By estimate, there should still be a thousand or two unaccounted for and still in Resso Village.
The allied territories were also not punished by the system so Alterra didn't get anything from them.
The ones they captured would be manually set as prisoners of war, as mentioned prior, but she honestly wasn't too excited for them.
If she was just a little heartless, she'd have let all of these people die instead. However, she hadn't gotten into enough danger and felt enough threat to go down that hole quite yet.
Fortunately... the reward for turning into a Town was much more satisfying.