Chapter 1037: Chapter 243: Expanding by Two Cavalry Divisions

In fact, when it comes to prostitution, Lin Rui isn’t particularly morally squeamish; it’s just another way women might utilize some of their physical advantages.

Men can benefit from their physical strength, so there’s no reason women shouldn’t benefit from their physiological advantages.

As long as it doesn’t involve coercion, it’s not a major issue, at most a concern for public order.

The key is that the Golden Pansy Domain needs population growth, and prostitution would affect the birth rate, so Lin Rui simply banned it.

As for how men influenced by sadomasochism fulfill their needs, Lin Rui could only say, "Get moving!"

The gender ratio in the domain is not skewed; due to the influx of vampire ladies and elf ladies, there are even slightly more women than men.

The Golden Pansy Domain is not a closed territory; daily affairs give the residents plenty of opportunities to interact with others, leading to numerous encounters.

Lin Rui feels like he’s playing the role of both father and mother, worrying not only about the territory’s marriage rate but also about the residents’ enthusiasm for romance.

After ruling out the Valkyrie, another confident item from Yurik, the Heroic Spirit Soul, was also not chosen by Lin Rui.

[Heroic Spirit Soul: Special Item: Warrior bloodline, flowing hero souls; Heroic Spirit Soul, inspiring courage; Heroic Spirit Soul, carrying undying faith. Upon use, it can summon a specified Heroic Spirit-level unit (summon limit not exceeding Tier Six).]

This item can directly recruit specified Heroic Spirit-level units, such as Golden Pansy Knights, which in theory, Lin Rui would be very pleased with.

However, on the contrary, the cost-effectiveness of this item is extremely low.

With the Realm of Transformation, all soldiers in the Golden Pansy Domain will gradually advance to the Heroic Spirit level, and combined with the Imperial Decree: Phoenix Cry Oracle of the territory’s Wutong, the advanced soldiers will have more traits and stronger combat power.

Lin Rui can fully afford to buy more cost-effective low-tier knights and train them from scratch.

This also led to Valkyrie’s White Wolf Knights not being selected by Lin Rui, even though they are Yurik’s core troop type and the core of its Celestial Kingdom Armament.

Among them, the knights are at least Heroic Spirit level, and many Knight Commanders are Lord-level or even Catastrophe-level, yet they were completely ignored by Lin Rui, which nearly drove Yurik crazy.

The things Lin Rui sells, he really wants, but the things he sells, Lin Rui is almost completely uninterested in.

How could he not be going mad?

He couldn’t possibly sell Mythical Artifacts, could he? Those are too rare, and he wouldn’t trade them for some Epic Potions.

He could only bring out various specialties, faithful and devout warriors, items for internal affairs development, and youths trained rigorously, like Spartan Warriors.

This coincidentally hit the mark!

With his barbaric nature, there isn’t much need for him to develop his territory; his Divine Kingdom is right there in a warm treehouse, and everyone’s contributing.

So, he sold a batch of precious Territorial Essences because the Barbarian Race doesn’t need civilization development; sometimes barbarism itself is strength.

Territorial Essence (Medium) *10, which he acquired as spoils of war, considering he fought so many wars, obtaining such items is normal.

As a member of the Barbarian Race, even if he developed his internal affairs, he wouldn’t need so many.

So he sold Lin Rui 300 Territorial Essences, 100 small ones, and 10 medium ones in one go.

This not only settled his debt to Lin Rui at once but also forced Lin Rui to use a vast amount of wealth to purchase his items.

Territorial Essence has always been a high-value item, and the territory hadn’t yet spared any small ones, highlighting its value.

One small Territorial Essence can yield 20 cycles of benefits, equating to a solid 140 days, nearly half a year.

Besides the Territorial Essence, Lin Rui finally acquired the high-talent residents he had longed for.

[Rare Recruitment Scroll: Battle Order Monastery Devotee: Yurik’s followers are barbaric and fierce, embodying strength, glory, and courage. They are brave and fearless, ruthless and cold, despising weakness and cowardice, intrigue and trickery, believing that only through war can human potential be fully realized. These devout followers constantly hone themselves like Spartan Warriors, ever ready to respond to Yurik’s call and sacrifice for his wars.]

Initially, Yurik didn’t pay attention to these followers and casually put up 5,000.

However, the moment he set the price, Lin Rui bought them all out.

Yurik realized his 10,000 Spirit Crystal Coin price was too low and immediately marked them up to 50,000 Spirit Crystal Coins.

To be fair, this price is already extremely inflated; even a Tier Three Giant Dragon hatchling only sells for 100,000 Spirit Crystal Coins.

The Yurik Battle Order Monastery followers have good talent, but they were only unconverted ordinary people who underwent the most stringent training from a young age, unlocking their potential.

Not to mention the cost of injecting them with extraordinary abilities or converting their professions.

Even if they all successfully converted, they would theoretically only have Heroic Spirit or Lord-level strength, not much higher.

White Wolf Knights are selected from these Battle Order Monastery Devotees.

He didn’t expect Lin Rui to not take a single White Wolf Knight but to sweep up all the reserve knights.

He put out another 5,000 recruitment scrolls, and Lin Rui once again bought them all without hesitation.

50,000 Spirit Crystal Coins, which was the price Lin Rui originally paid for Tier Five Epic-level Su Xi.