Chapter 28: I Can Teleport Now?!
"A residential area," Pixia repeated, her tiny wings buzzing with a mixture of excitement and academic anxiety. She floated over to a newly manifested map table, a piece of furniture that had appeared during the library merger, and began pointing at it with a tiny, twig-like finger.
"The initial resource cost will be...substantial, my Lord. Extremely substantial."
Ragnar leaned over the table, studying the glowing map of his new, massive domain. It was huge. The unification had joined his two-floor dungeon with Pixia’s three-story library, turning it into a sprawling, five-level underground maze that seemed to go on forever.
"Give me the bad news first, Pixia," Ragnar said, crossing his arms. "How much is this monster city going to cost me?"
"To create the basic facilities for a self-sustaining population of our core subordinate types," Pixia began, pulling up glowing numbers in the air next to her, "we will need a Slime Spawning Pool, Goblin Warrens, Kobold Kennels, and an Orc Barracks. The combined DP cost for the construction of these facilities is approximately 500 DP."
Ragnar winced. His new DP cap was 200. He didn’t have that kind of magical cash on hand.
"And the CP cost, my Lord," she continued, her voice growing smaller, "to populate these facilities with the initial breeding stock... at least one hundred of each species... would be... significant."
Ragnar did the math in his head. 100 slimes at 1 CP each. 100 Goblins at 5 CP. 100 Kobolds at 10 CP. That was over 1,500 CP. And that wasn’t even counting the Orcs. It was a king’s ransom.
"So, you’re telling me that to get free monsters later, I have to spend every point I have now, and then some?" Ragnar said, a vein pulsing in his temple. "That sounds like a terrible deal. It’s like one of those free-to-play mobile games. ’Pay $100 now for 10 free gems a month!’ It’s a scam!"