Chapter 75: Territory Events II & III

This line was spoken by Dolly.

She had just finished cleaning up the leftovers with Lyle, and now, looking at the tables and chairs, she wasn’t quite sure what to do with them, so she thought she’d come out and ask.

Upon hearing Dolly’s question, Su You was about to reply, but then something suddenly occurred to her, and her expression shifted slightly.

“Just leave them there—it’s a hassle to move them anyway… Sorry, I have something to take care of. I need to head to the tavern for a bit.” As Su You spoke, she started walking toward the tavern.

Dolly wanted to say something else, but seeing Su You’s hurried demeanor, she swallowed her words… After all, it wasn’t anything urgent. She could always bring it up again when the young lady lord had some free time.

Meanwhile, Su You arrived at the tavern, which was empty at this hour.

To confirm her suspicion, Su You opened the tavern’s individual information panel.

Actually, Su You had already checked the tavern’s info before, but she hadn’t expected anything to change, so she’d only glanced at it. Seeing it matched her memory, she hadn’t bothered to look at the other pages.

But in fact, there was another page after the tavern’s main info that Su You had overlooked.

**[Tavern – Interior Furnishings]**

Already placed: Long bar counter x1, round stool x1

Not yet placed: Round stool x4, small square table x2, regular wooden chair x4, double window x2

…

After reading this page, Su You had six comments she wanted to make—

Su You: …

No wonder… So there were still things that hadn’t been set out…

Come to think of it, it was Dolly’s earlier question that gave her the hint, reminding Su You that these buildings also had a “storage” function—though here, the storage could only hold furniture bound to the building.

Bound furniture refers to the exclusive furniture that comes with these buildings. Such furniture can only be placed inside their designated building; if you take it out of the building’s area, it will instantly “disappear” and be automatically stored back in the building’s storage.

Su You rarely used this feature before, since buildings constructed with materials would automatically place their furniture, so it was normal for her not to remember.

Standing there for a few seconds, Su You took a deep breath and then placed all the unplaced items.

As soon as the last piece of furniture was set, she received a notification:

**[Basic furniture placement complete. Once you assign a manager and stock goods appropriate for this building, the tavern can begin normal operations.]**

Su You glanced at the notification, not paying it much mind.

The first thing she did when the notification appeared was open the territory panel.

**Territory Prosperity: 15.9**

**[Tavern construction complete. Territory Prosperity +3]**

…

Good.

Su You was left speechless and a little exasperated at her own oversight.

Now that the territory prosperity had reached 15.9, once the post station was finished tomorrow, it would rise to 19.9… That number left Su You even more speechless.

But getting that last 0.1 prosperity would be easy—she could just build something random.

However, Su You didn’t want to build things at random, since that would waste both materials and territory space.

Her next building goal was the Quest Hall, which required [Planks x10, Stone Bricks x5, Marble Bricks x5].

She had the first two, and as for marble bricks, like stone bricks, they’re synthesized from lower-tier materials—“3 marble = 1 marble brick.”

Conveniently, Su You now had the copper pickaxe needed to mine marble, and she’d already found a marble deposit. Tomorrow, she could go mine marble there, and also check what resources might be in the second inner chamber of the chain cave.

…

Another day passed.

On the fourth night in the game, Su You finally managed to rest on an indoor bed.

Meanwhile, in the territory, as the countdown for a certain building ticked to zero, not only did it reveal its completed form, but it also triggered a brand new territory event.

**II: [Thanks to the post station, merchants and caravans from across the continent will begin visiting the territory. Be sure to prepare enough money or goods to gain greater leverage in trade negotiations.]**

**III: [Thanks to the post station, travelers will also start visiting the territory…]**

When Su You woke up, she immediately noticed the new Territory Event II. She stared at the message for a few seconds, then closed the panel and got up to eat something to restore her hunger.

With no more countdowns to track, Su You had lost her sense of precise time.

The only thing that could still reliably indicate the time was the sunset flower, but its effect was limited—it could only calibrate sunrise and sunset.

As soon as Su You stepped outside, she saw Lake sitting by the central fire, waving at her.

“Good morning, my lord.”

“Morning.” Su You paused and greeted him back.

“Do you have any plans for today, my lord?” Although yesterday’s berry-meat stew didn’t have any special attributes, perhaps because it simply tasted so good, Lake had eaten and slept well, and was now full of energy.

“You can take any of the tasks posted on the bounty board,” Su You said, pointing to it. “Starting today, the tavern will be open. If you need food, you can buy it there from now on.”

Lake had no objections. They’d agreed from the start that only housing would be free—not everything in the territory.

In fact, Lake had heard that in other territories, wanderers had to pay to join.

Not only that, but houses in the territory also cost money.

But their lord had waived the joining fee, and even provided free housing.

In other words, this residential house #2 would be home for the two brothers from now on.

Of course, calling it “free” wasn’t entirely accurate, since they had contributed their labor… For example, though they helped defeat the ghost skeletons, all the loot from those skeletons went to Su You.

And then there was the half black-striped tiger.

It was “half” because the other half belonged to Doya—Lake and Doya had agreed to split it fifty-fifty.

Even though Doya had contributed more, without Lake, she wouldn’t have gotten anything at all.

So a fifty-fifty split was fair.

Neither Doya nor Lake were the type to haggle over every little thing, so it only took a few words to divide up the black-striped tiger’s loot.

(End of Chapter)"

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